How can Jay-Z still seriously deny that he has stolen the sample of his 1999 major hit “Big Pimpin’” from Abdel Halim Hafez 1957 song “Khosara Khosara”? The case will go on, since Abdel’s son continues it. The original is nevertheless actually pretty funky for an arab piece of pop-music of the late 50s. Right on!
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That this band’s still alive is a good sign: London Chamber-Pop Mini-Orchestra The Irrepressibles has launched the video to the first single - “Arrow” - of their upcoming album “Nude,” being released in fall 2012. The video shows male models Theo Stacey and Jordan Hunt wrestling before both discover their own mild side and was discovered and chorepgraphed by the bands’ singer Jamie McDermott. Meanwhile the sound of “Arrow” features more electronics and allows even synthesizers to find their place in the usually more acoustics-based music of The Irrepressibles. It will show how the album is going to sound and how the bands’ sound has evolved.
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Astonishing and beautiful air sculpturing by japanese artist Yasuaki Onishi - all just with the help of melting glue, plastic sheets and cardboard boxes (which are removed after finalizing the process). With these materials Onishi creates a monumental, mountainous form that appears to float inside of Rice University Art Gallery.
Something amusing for the weekend.
The video shows Madness as car mechanics larking about in their workshop, and in their normal suits driving around in their “Maddiemobile” - a white 1959 model Morris Minor. The members of fellow ska/pop group Fun Boy Three make a brief appearance, trying (and failing) to hitch a ride to their home town of Coventry, which the A 45 mentioned in the song passes through.
It has been claimedthat the video was an influence on U2’s video for „Sweetest Thing“ in 1998
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New video for Hot Chip’s first official single “Night & Day” (since the first released track “Flutes” only was a teaser for internet and clubs). Funnily enough the video doesn’t only feature appearances of Reggie Watts and Terence Stamp but also is one of the most dada clips I’ve seen lately - directed by Peter Serafinowicz.
Also check out the remixes by The 2 Bears (Joe Goddard’s side project) feat. grime artist Trim, Dusky and Daphni aka Caribou.
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If you had enough of indie music for the rest of your life, you and I are soul mates. So I can understand repulsive reactions to this post because even if you’re signed to marvellous Warp Records as an indie-band - you still remain a shit ass indie band (although The Hundreds In The Hands definitely have their moments and don’t necessarily suck as hard as countless other bands in this genre). However, this is not what counts, because now all eyes are on british Doom-Techno specialist Andy Stott. He remixed “Keep It Low” by aforementioned indie-outfit and gave the song his habitual apocalyptical mood but fascinatingly enough managed to keep the songs’ identity recognizable. The video was directed by The Hundreds In The Hands’ own Jason Friedman.
Pitchfork says: „minimal, bass-bleeding hip-hop beats that signaled a future for what Timbaland started at the beginning of the century“.
Collaborations always bring a certain risk with them. However, they also can work, as TNGHT - the work between beat-wizard Hudson Mohawke and super-producer Lunice - shows. Their first mutual release will be the eponymous EP, released via Warp on July 20th on vinyl and digitally.
Here’s another song of the new album “Nootropics” by Baltimore’s finest Lower Dens, on tour throughout Europe this month. From all the fabulous pieces on this longplayer I think it’s amongst my top 3.
The new album of Animal Collective is coming this fall. It’s going to be called “Centipede Hz” and here’s a first cryptic trailer to it.
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