maandag 29 maart 2010

Ki-Tsu-Né.


One of the delightful traditions in musicland are the Kitsuné Maison Compilations.
The important French Kitsuné label uses to make a compilation every half year,...less or more.
So the 9th version, Kitsuné Maison 9, will be released on April 26th, 2010. It's also called the "Petit Bateau edition or The Cotton Issue".

The Kitsuné Maison compilations are generally seen as a good indication of the musicians and bands who'll going to make it in the near feature.
That's why it's quite important four young musicians to be included in the selective Kitsuné list.
Many musiclovers will check them out if they're on one of Kitsuné's compilations.
Not all the bands are new or still need to make it, like Crookers.

So what has Kitsuné Maison 9 to offer? I'll give some highlights:

Feldberg - Dreamin':



Silver Columns - Brow Beaten:



And these:




For the rest there are some great artists like Fenech-Soler, Penguin Prison, Two Door Cinema Club (& Lifelike), Yelle, The Twelves, Yuksek, Jamaica, Washed Out and others.
To summarize the compilation you can listen to de minimix by JBAG:



Tracklist:

01 Washed Out - Belong
02 Gambble & Burke - Let’s Go Together
03 Penguin Prison - Animal Animal
04 Jamaica - Short And Entertaining
05 Crookers Feat Yelle - Cooler Couleur
06 Jupiter - Vox Populi (Lifelike Treatment)
07 Yuksek - Supermenz (We’re Not)
08 Fenech-Soler - Stop And Stare
09 Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work (The Twelves Remix)
10 Logo - La Vie Moderne
11 Silver Columns - Brow Beaten
12 Holy Ghost! - Say My Name
13 Hurts - Wonderful Life (Arthur Baker Remix Kitsuné Edit)
14 Gypsy & The Cat - Time To Wander (Joan Of Arc Remix)
15 Feldberg - Dreamin
16 Your Nature - Forward Motion
17 The Good Natured - Your Body Is A Machine (Zebra + Snake Remix)
18 Monarchy - The Phoenix Alive (The Octans Edit)

The Phoenix remixed.


Monarchy = AWESOME
The Phoenix alive = the best song I've heard in months.
Kris Menace = one of the best remix musicians out there.
Enjoy.



Download:

Monarchy - The Phoenix Alive (Kris Menace Remix) mp3

zaterdag 27 maart 2010

Bunny Lake is missing.


Bunny Lake is a electro-pop trio from Vienna, Austria, the members are Suzy On The Rocks, Christian Fuchs and Dr. Nachtstrom.
They remind me a bit of the the Belgian electro gods Nid & Sancy but also Terry Poison or Soldout are comparable.

Their new album, The Beautiful Fall is released on March 19. If you like electro and disco this is something for you!
The LP sounds very funky, it's the sort of energetic hyper disco music that succeeds to send our bums to the dance floor.

The rythms almost never slow down and the beats are awesome.
I'm a bit lazy today, so I'll only focus on one song, Ganz Wien first of all it's sung in German and secondly it's about drugs, quite a nice ode to their home-city.

Tracklist:

01 - Swallow the Darkness
02 - Into the Future
03 - Army of Lovers
04 - 1994
05 - Charlotte Goodbye
06 - The Last Days of Disco
07 - Hello Anita
08 - Hit the Ground With Me
09 - Resurrection Girls
10 - Ganz Wien
11 - When the Night Begins







MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/bunnylakeworld

donderdag 25 maart 2010

Silence is gold.


I'm a huge fan of shoegaze, but not that much of progressive rock.
However the French band, Les Discrets (originally called Enfance) managed to create a fusion between shoegaze and metal, and this combination is awesome! However it's really more shoegaze than metal.

Les Discrets
will release their début album, Les Dernières Pensées De Septembre, on 29 March.

Their shoegaze is aboslutely fantastic, it contains very strong walls of sound and the explosive power of their guitars just amazes me. Moreover, this brilliant band sings also in French. I've never heard shoegaze in French and I must say that I really like it!

Their style is really unique and I like every song of their wonderful album. Of course it's created in a very tense and dark atmosphere. The guitars deliver a battle of music and ambient waves.


However some songs are quite different. Like Sur Le Quais, it's almost acoustic and way calmer than the rest, it's almost folk!
And also the title track, Les Dernières Pensées De Septembre, is calmer, you can hear a beautiful singing together with some soft rock drums and guitars.
Also the last song, Une Matinée d'Hiver, starts quite slow but in the middle it transforms into a true shoegaze masterpiece.

I'm in love with this band, they've created something that goes beyond my imagination. If you're a shoegazer like me, you should definitely get the album!

Tracklist:

01 - L’ Envol des Corbeaux
02 - L’ Échappée
03 - Les feuilles de l’ olivier
04 - Song for Mountains
05 - Sur les Quais
06 - Effet de Nuit (Song composed for Phest)
07 - Septembre et ses dernières Pensées
08 - Chanson d’Automne
09 - Svipdagr & Freyja
10 - Une Matinée d’ Hiver







Dowload

Les Discrets - Song For Mountains mp4

Elizabeth.


Lissie (Maurus) is a young indie-folk singer/song-writer from Illinois. She's very able to make it this year, Lissie just released her début EP, Why You Runnin' in the end of 2009 and her single Everywhere I Go is hyped by RCRD.LBL.
She's now touring in the US and UK, her first album will appear in the summer.
As you can hear, she has an amazing voice, and a creative mind to generate beautiful songs.

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