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After recovering from an infamous car crash, Iceland’s Steed Lord is heading off on their first American tour. And they’re ready in full force. To celebrate they sent out this remix by DJ Barletta…
Steed Lord - “It’s What U Do 2 Me” (DJ Barletta remix)
Here’s a taste of what you can expect:
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In New York for a DJ set, K.I.M. from The Presets took a moment to talk to me about The Presets, their work ethic, his time as a Raver, and In & Out burger.
What were you doing in London?
We were touring. We did a couple of weeks in the UK, did some dates in Europe, we shot a video in Paris, so it was just kind of a 3 week tour over there. [The video] was for “Talk Like That”. Right now we’re getting the first edit back and sort of making all the initial changes.
How long did it take to shoot it?
Probably about 24 hours. We were only there for a couple of hours but most of it was this girl just going crazy and I think she was there about 24 hours. The guys directing it was Jonas&François who did the D.A.N.C.E. video for Justice and did the Kanye one but it’s not animated.
The art design in a few of your videos sort of relate to the art design on your album covers. I was wondering if you have a particular person that you always go to for that? Or is it different people that worked on it?
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A friend of our’s Mario Orduno from San Diego just informed us that his awesome club night in San Diego is coming to San Francisco, we’re very stoked and decided to have a free entry to some of our SF fans, Read below for details and a little background written by none other than Mario himself.
This Thursday, July 24, San Diego’s most raucous club night, Skull Kontrol comes to The Knockout in San Francisco. Skull Kontrol was started in early 2006 by Mario Orduno (Art Fag Recordings) in a tiny San Diego bar called Live Wire. He soon brought in his two pals from the punk band The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, Charles Rowell and Brandon Welchez. Every Thursday since, this maximum capacity sweat fest pulses to everything from Cock Sparrer to ‘88 LA gangster rap to early 60s hard hitting girl group rave ups. All loud and all over the place.
DJs Mario Orduno, Brandon Welchez and Sir Charles bring the chaotic night to San Francisco with two rad bands in tow. The Muslims (SD) and Crocodiles (SD) are playing live. The Modern Lovers are reformed and they’re called The Muslims. These nerdy looking punks are buzzing up the blogs and record labels from coast to coast and fresh off a triumphant 10 day New York stint. See them before they are huge in a year. Crocodiles mix Black Flag, Suicide and Spacemen 3 into a sketchy dancy, mess. New 7″ single is out in one month and available on their Myspace for pre-order.
Big Stereo is giving two pairs of tix away. Send a myspace message to BigStereo’s MySpace with Skull Kontrol San Francisco as the subject and leave your name. Don’t miss this party!!
FREE STUFF!!! I love free stuff and the lovely people at Cornerstone love to give it. We have 4 vinyl copies of UNKLE’s new album “End Titles… Stories for Film” as well as 4 CDs which come in a limited edition packaging that is only available in the US thru UNKLE’s site.
To win sign up for our monthly newsletter at our special low rate of $39.99 or, in spirit of their X-Files theme song, just tell us a scary story. I’ll pick the two best scary stories for the prize of 1 vinyl and 1 CD. I’ll give the remaining prizes at random.
Don’t forget to provide your email address so I can contact you, just enter it in the slot that says “Mail” when posting a comment and it won’t be published. I’ll contact the winner by Wednesday, August 6th.
FYI, the album is digitally available thru iTunes
Our friend The Twelves is no stranger to this site — we’ve posted their remixes of Asobi Seksu, M.I.A., Erlend Øye, NYPC, Kylie, Yelle and Theatre of Disco… and let’s not forget the most popular mixtape we’ve posted in recent times. So yeah, no strangers.
A step away from the remixes, the duo emailed us early last week two original tracks they’ve been shopping around. “When You Talk” and “Works For Me” are both top notch and the quality production we’ve come to expect from the Twelves — total pro work here. The 12’s Luciano qualified the tracks by stating, “the vocals were home-recorded (by us) so its not 100 percent.” But I gotta say I rather enjoy the vox as is and hope they don’t evolve too much from these demos.
Keep an eye out for new remixes of The BPA and The Virgins, which are both in the works. And let’s hope an original album isn’t too far in the future.
Little Pictures album “Owl + Owl” has been getting much love in my stereo the past week. Perfect DIY pop that reminds me a bit of the Blow or Tender Forever. One of those rare albums that I could post anything from… all the tracks are real gems.
“I Wish I Could Keep You” makes me think of someone special which makes this song ten times better than it actually is… which is not saying the song is bad of course, but rather when you tie a song to a person it becomes specific and dimensional in a way it wasn’t before. Or something.
Little Pictures - “I Wish I Could Keep You”
We posted the video to “This House Can Fit Us All” a little while ago (check it out if you haven’t already). Shaun Slaughter on IHEARTCOMIX says this song will be huge of “Young Folks” proportions — while I’m not good at making predictions, I do agree there is the potential for this song to be epic. It’s cute, simple, youthful and carefree… definitely a winning formula. With the correct trendy film/tv show/commercial push this song could reach the level of “Such Great Heights”…
Laff at yrself… Fanboy/Fangirl. Funny shit. Best part is the Larry Tee echo.
Travis posted Lismore’s “More” back in April which I loved. I love the Penelope’s vocal on this track in the fashion of Spektrum (RIP) and NYPC. Well here we have AC Slater’s remix which emphazes the urgency in her pleads and has me jumping and screaming for her to get more. Both of them are really good, I just can’t decide which one I like better or if I do… ugh its like Sophie’s Choice.
Spruce Lee and KATO (whose mixtape I posted a month back) have just sent me their remix of girls by Walter Meego and its pretty darn fine.
Walter Meego – Girls (Spruce lee and Kato remix)
Spruce also finished this remix of Catcall which I’m absolutely loving right now.
This email landed in the inbox this morning from The Golden Filter:
“We’re super new. and somewhat secretive…”
I’m kinda over the market-your-band-as-a-mystery formula — hey it worked well for Fake Blood and Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya, but I dunno… So I almost hit delete but gave the track a second and thank god. Golden Filter is an appropriate name because it sounds like the song has gone through a golden filter once or twice:
The Golden Filter - “Solid Gold”
Interested in hearing more from these guys. More interested in the secret not being kept. The vox sound familiar, no? Guesses in the comments.
