My Bloody Muxtape

I've been lazy and haven't been on here for while. However it's certainly not reflective of not finding any great new music.

You might have heard of www.muxtape.com. Basically the 2008 version of the mixtape.

I've put together a batch of mostly new but some old favourite tracks that you can find here: www.nudedeejays.muxtape.com

It starts of a bit soft with tracks by Shocking Pinks, Lykke Li, Band of Horses & Mobius Band.

Then takes a turn and heads off in a disco direction in the form by Hercules & Love Affair, Studio & !!!.

It's not a reflection of a real Nude DJ set. More whats-on-my-headphones-at-the-moment .

Hope you like it.

AND WE PROMISE TO DO A PROPER MIXTAPE SOON!

M83 - Album Out Now

Beautiful, washed out video for "Graveyard Girl" off M83's new album, Saturdays = Youth.

THE PRESETS

It's been a while since I've said this without imitating a fluro teeny-bopper, but - The Presets are awesome... This attitude was greatly helped by the set I saw them play at V Festival in Sydney last weekend (I've put a photo I took from the fest above). It has fully renewed my respect for the Sydney-based twosome. Their set started off with their usual songs off BEAMS which everyone has heard the Presets play numerous times over the past couple of years... But then they started to delve into some of their new songs, and it could have been the drugs and alcohol, but I really, really enjoyed it.

After this experience, I am really looking forward to getting their new album APOCALYPSO which is due for release on April 12th (you can pre-order a copy here). The first single off the album "My People" was quite similar to some of their earlier banging songs, but others e.g. "This Boy's In Love", "Yippiyo Ay" and "If I Know You" are totally different. These songs have the feel of 80s and 90s new wave dance acts like Depeche Mode, New Order, Underworld and The Crystal Method, and this I believe is such a better way to show their musical talent.

It's sometimes easy to forget when brilliant musicians are actually brilliant when their fan-base is predominantly undesirable. It's a lot easier to take the easy road and just dismiss them as another one of "those" acts. But everyone forgets that The Presets are so talented and pretty much created a genre in indie-dance in Australia and in turn The World, and deserve to cash in on their popularity... But enough of that, the new stuff that is coming from the creative brains of Kim Moyes and Julian Hamilton is making blood travel to my crotch and I can't wait to listen to the whole album when it comes out next week.. It's posted on their myspace now for those who can't wait. Below I have posted "If I Know You" and an awesome remix of "This Boy's In Love" - enjoy

The Presets - If I Know You (YSI)

The Presets - This Boy's In Love (Lifelike remix) (YSI)


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Hercules and Love Affair

Hercules and Love Affair; newly poised DFA darlings and trad disco aficionados have released their debut LP across the land.

Their albm, self titled and draped in grand stylings, brings original disco sounds back to a scene full of neu electronic imitations. With one foot firmly in in the disco camp, and the other in 90's house, this album is brimming with diamond studded bass grooves and features Antony of Antony & The Johnsons on several cuts including leading single, "Blind". We've been playing this out since picking it up some time ago.

Apparently the name is a reference that even the most tough, seemingly unbreakable creatures are as susceptible to broken hearts as any.

Hercules and Love Affair - Blind
Hercules and Love Affair - Raise Me Up

Hercules & Love Affair Myspace

Home Video

Most definitely one of my standout albums for 2006 was Home Video's, No Certain Night or Morning. It was a shudderingly and intensely good debut offering from the NY duo. Dark soundscapes and brilliantly textured songs of haunted, dark places filled my earphones.

I was even lucky to catch a live performance of them at the Basement sometime in early 2007.

Commonly compared to Thom Yorke & Radiohead, Home Video have a similar vocal style and a shared propensity to create stunning, intense and sometimes macabre but strangely uplifting music.

They have risen in 2008 to release a new single called "I Can Make you Feel It" which follows in similar directions and is equally compelling, dark and impressive.

Home Video - I Can Make You Feel It

Home Video Myspace

Magistrates

Magistrates, out of Essex UK, are another new band currently making me giddy.

Fusing their indie guitar stylings with falsetto vocals a la Prince or.......Justin Timberlake, Magistrates would have the girls swooning with their smooth-and-we-know-it groove and undoubtedly sexy sound that is made for the "mind, feet and hips."

With maybe just a hint of Klaxons, particularly during parts of their song The Inbetweens, they are another UK indie band on the rise and playing support to touring heavyweights despite them having no record or EP to show.....yet.

Highly recommending this lot.

Magistrates - Inbetweens

The Virgins

Not to be confused with the band of the same name from Sweden, The Virgins combine Strokes-esque indie cool with a funk groove and recently made a splash at Austin's SXSW music festival as well as finding their way in to the pages (and hearts) of a number of media outlets including hype bible NME.

I'm digging the catchy guitar pop and hipster swagger of songs like "Rich Girls", and "Love is Colder than Death" off their debut self titled which you can buy here.

The Virgins - Love is Colder than Death

THE TWELVES

Well, it certainly has been a busy couple of months, and because of this it seems as though i haven't made a post in fucking ages. So why not get back into the swing of things with a celebration of my favourite disco-electro producers at the moment; The Twelves.

Brazilians João Miguel and Luciano Oliveira make up the duo, who were relatively unknown until the middle of last year, when they completed a remix for Londoner M.I.A. This put them on the map, and since then they have been making a name for themselves in the electro scene all over the world, completing remixes for various big name artists such as Yelle, Thieves Like Us, Black Kids and even Kylie Minogue. Their biggest success was a remix which was included on New Young Pony Club's single "Get Lucky" and was very well received with rave reviews all over the net.

I have included two of their remixes below which I believe are great examples of The Twelves sound. You can tell they take influence from successful French electro artists such as Justice and Daft Punk but have a distinct disco feel to their songs which seems to be getting more and more popular with labels such as DFA pushing the genre. They also have a live aspect to their act, where they use laptops, synths and samplers to create their own remixes on the fly, so I have also included a video of them doing their NYPC remix plus a Radiohead remix live.

Most of The Twelves tracks are available for free download from their Myspace, and the NYPC remix is available for purchase here.

Erlend Oye - Sudden Rush (The Twelves Remix) (YSI)

Asobi Seksu - Thursday (The Twelves Remix) (YSI)

Black Kids

New video for Black Kids track "I'm not going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You". This featured on their free downloadable EP Wizard of Ahhhs and is the first single off their July 7 released album.

Happy Easter! Hope the Easter Bunny is good to you...

Pnau vs Breakbot

Photo: Ryan McGinley

This little ditty has been released to the internerd ahead of a tour that both acts will be appearing at on April 11 in Sydney at the Enmore Theatre.

Tour dates as follows:

Apr 3 2008 9:00P	The Great Northern	Byron Bay, New South Wales
Apr 4 2008 8:00P	The Met	Brisbane, Queensland
Apr 5 2008 8:00P	Coolongatta Hotel	Gold Coast, Queensland
Apr 9 2008 8:00P	Recactory Hall, University of Canberra	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Apr 10 2008 8:00P	Wollongong University Bar	Wollongong, New South Wales
Apr 11 2008 8:00P	Enmore Theatre	Sydney, New South Wales
Apr 12 2008 8:00P	Panthers Newcastle	Newcastle, New South Wales

Pnau, known widely as one of Australia's most prolific dance producers will be showcasing their latest self titled album release in live format, backed by one of our favouritest-ever French electro producers in Breakbot, who we blogged here.

The result? A signature cut up electro groover over a cute little kiddie choir chorus that is pure joy packaged in an mp3.

Pnau - Baby (Breakbot Remix)

Pnau Myspace
Breakbot Myspace