A Random MP3 Trilogy
After Deerhunter‘s Microcastle leaked, I only listened to it a few times and put it away. I rarely listen to advanced copies because I hate getting used to an album when it is not the final, finished product and I don’t want to be too tired of an album by the time I can suggest a link to buy it to you blog readers. But since I’m told that Microcastle is now available on itunes, I decided to start digging into it hard. Together with the Weird Era Cont companion album floating around on the interwebs, the two make for an epic triumph (Although I’ve been trying to save getting deep into Weird Era until it gets more fall/winter to get the full experience as intended). All weekend long at the beach house, we had a daily, serious Microcastle jam session. It was sort of like a religious experience.
It has been brought to my attention that we have been “kinda riding their jock a bit” lately, but I say we haven’t been riding their jock enough. Right now, not only is Deerhunter the best band in this city, but they may be this entire continent’s best band of the last two years as soon as this thing drops for real. You haters out there need to get on the bandwagon. My fav song from Microcastle:
Deerhunter : Micocastle : Nothing Ever Happened
These days I get a ton of promo emails to check out tracks or artists, and while I do my best to give them all a legitimate shot, often that isn’t the case. But persistence combined with great music is hard to ignore, and I finally started looking deep into the mp3s sent to me from an act called Immuzikation. Alfredo Lapuz Jr. is an Athens, Ga based musician who is involved with the acts Collective Efforts and Velveteen Pink, and most notably to me, does blog song mash-ups under the name Immuzikation. I’m a sucker for both a clever mash-up and savvy use of aggregators, and he is a master of both. Here’s a little something by him combining Santogold with Atlanta exile Treasure Fingers:
(BONUS: get a remix of a song by The Death Set from Treasure Fingers here)
And while we’re talking aggregators, I decided for the final track on this trilogy, I would go randomly grab the number one hottest track on elbows.ws and see if it was cool. It turned out to be a band I’ve never heard of from Brooklyn, Ny called School Of Seven Bells doing a song called “Conjur”. They are the newest project from Secret Machines‘ Benjamin Curtis. Their debut album, Alpinisms, is due out at the end of October. The song itself turned out to be pretty sweet and I’m looking forward to listening to their album. See, the blogosphere’s wonders never cease:
School Of Seven Bells : Conjur
- Posted by Davy Minor on September 4, 2008 at 4:01 am
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