A Random Mp3 Trilogy: Santogold, Here We Go Magic, Dan Deacon

I only got hooked on the Santogold album a few weeks ago when I came back to it researching for my lists. Now I’ve been jamming it pretty hard lately. Seems like a perfect time for this track to show up all over the web, a Three 6 Mafia remix of “Shove It”. Get Krunked up:


Santogold : Shove It (Three 6 Mafia remix featuring Project Pat)

Buy Santogold

Santogold myspace




The hype floodgates has been let loose and everyone is saying that Here We go Magic is going to be the greatest band of 2009. HWGM is the new moniker of Luke Temple, who is a Brooklyn musician I have enjoyed previously to this. The huge wave of webby love this act is getting makes me want to be skeptical, but so far all I have heard is this track and it is pretty good:

Here We Go Magic : Tunnelvision

Here We Go Magic website





Dan Deacon @ Eyedrum (1/7/08)

The new upcoming Dan Deacon record coming out March 24 is entitled Bromst, an acronym for the Brooklyn Masonic Temple where he recently unveiled the new tunes. I can’t wait because I am a huge fan of him so far. Judging upon this first song from it that is sweeping across the blogosphere, it sounds like he is just getting better and better:

Dan Deacon : Get Older

Dan Deacon myspace

A Random MP3 Trilogy


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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

Pre-order Microcastle here

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:

Santogold – Unstoppable + Treasure Fingers - Come True Tonight (Dub Mix) = I’ve Got to Be True (Immuzikation Blend)

(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

What The Hell Am I Listening to?!?

I love my eMusic account and I raided it for some recently released albums that I had not hit yet. Turns out that there were some sassy ladies waiting. Currently, they’ve got my attention in the headphones.

Santogold (Brooklyn, NY)

Santi White emerges as Santogold on her full-length debut of the same name. The revolving door of producers to appear on the release serve up indie-dub-punk with a side of 80’s sheen. Additionally, this former A&R rep for Epic made sure that she had help with the writing behind each track as well. This combination makes it easy for many of the songs to be winners. However, this method of production also detracts from the album holistically – at times it feels like listening to a lot of singles. Santogold showcases versatile vocal styles and perhaps I’m only impressed more by how many genres get crammed into several jams. This is one of those albums you’ll get caught bumpin when you think you’re alone and you’re doing the stupid dance you made up to your favorite track. It’ll be ok, though. You caught that friend listening to Barry Manilow that one time.

Santogold : Santogold : L.E.S. Artistes

Santogold : Santogold : Lights Out

Buy Santogold here

Santogold Myspace

The Long Blondes (Sheffield, England)

The Long Blondes return with Couples, their sophomore follow-up to the blazing Someone to Drive You Home. Kate and Co. are definitely stretching their legs and, despite a shorter album, offer greater extremes and richer textures than before. I’m rewarded by continued listens (the rule) and that’s just dandy because the first time I heard it (the exception) I wanted to run back to “Giddy Stratospheres.” At the moment, the tracks are more hit than miss. However, I’m not near declaring it better than their previous effort. We’ll see how time treats this album through the summer months. Don’t worry, Kate. I still have a crush on you.

The Long Blondes : Couples : Erin O’Connor

The Long Blondes : Couples : I’m Going to Hell

Buy Couples here

The Long Blondes Myspace

Monday Mash-Up

March is going to be a crazy month here at Ohmpark. This week, I’m heading down to South Florida to catch Langerado. As soon as i get back from that next week, I’m flying to Austin to catch SXSW. Before coming back from that, I’m heading out to Savannah for some post-St.Patrick’s Day partying. Between all of that, postings here may get a bit erratic, but barring uncooperative Internet or getting arrested for public intoxication, I should have some hardcore coverage of the events as they happen. As soon as all of that is over, we are going to begin working on an entirely new and different layout for the site that is going to be really cool. Thanks for reading Ohmpark, and spread the word!

The Morning State album, You Know People I Know People, that they had to re-record after issues with their former label is finally seeing a release date on May 3rd. Here’s the new single:

Morning State : You Know People I Know People : Oh Yeah

Outkast‘s Andre 3000 is planning on putting out a solo album this year.

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