Friday, December 26, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Your Twenties
What happens when the guitarist from Metronomy goes off and does a side project? This amazing slice of catchy guitar pop. That's what. My personal current favourite endorphin inducer. You can buy this on 7" at Pure Groove if you wanna wanna. or buy it for me for christmas!
Your Twenties - Caught Wheel
Your Twenties Myspace
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
M83 - Album Out Now
Beautiful, washed out video for "Graveyard Girl" off M83's new album, Saturdays = Youth.
Monday, April 7, 2008
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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Monday, March 31, 2008
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
Saturday, March 29, 2008
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
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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
