Looking through my Moleskine the other day, I ran across a page that wasn't my own handwriting. It said "reverendvanessa.blogspot.com YOUR NEW MYSPACE DEFAULT --- I NEED A ROOMMATE!" Slowly, I began to remember a hazy Monday night at XV, and this girl with a camera who took my picture. I looked up the website today. It turns out her photography is really quite nice.**
Sure, documenting last nights' parties in a blog is nothing new, but it's fun to stumble across a mystery photoblog and see pictures of tons of people I know (it IS Portland though, and Portland hipsters at that. I shouldn't be too surprised.) There isn't much content yet, but I promise to come back if a) she keeps posting rad photography and b) posts that picture of me that she took.
I've been putting off buying tickets to M.I.A. so that they would sell out and I could use that as an excuse for not going. That was until today, when I did my daily check of Rye Rye's myspace page to find that she would be opening the M.I.A. show @ the Roseland on May 23. I will now officially refer to this day as D-day, a day when something truly significant will happen.
let me please add that if you are not there, you are officially square.
I was in such a rush to get to work yesterday. I didn't even have a chance to listen to the stack of records I bought. Lame. But I had already heard them through the blogsphere. Anyways... I got a couple amazing records. One being 'Dirty South And Paul Harris feat. Rudy - Better Day'. Featuring the most epic John Dahlbäck remix. I think this song is going to be huge in the scene that doesn't exist in Portland. To bad. This would be a good summer sing along anthem for everyone to wash off the winter funk. I love happy music and sunshine. I think I might be getting really close to finding a better day. Dirty South And Paul Harris feat. Rudy - Better Day (John Dahlback Remix) Heres another present from way back in 2005. If you don't know who this guy is... then I cant tell you. john dahlback-i hear you www.johndahlback.com
This is an awful name for a song. I mean first of all it could allude to millions of different things, but also it really offers no indication of what you are about to get yourself into. Luckily with MSTRKRFT's 'Bounce' they have tapped N.O.R.E. and (personal faves) Thunderheist to clarify exactly what to do with that measly one syllable...party.
-in which we discuss: Success where others have failed.
Let me preface this by saying, The Juan Maclean do not need to be remixed. Given the nature of their tunes, this is inevitable, but with all the fleshed out blips and beeps in their under-two-to-over-fourteen minute songs, they've pretty much covered every which way to interpret Indie/Disco House/Electronica.
In the Happy House 12" single we see a couple attempts at shortening the track by the likes of Lee Douglas and Prince Language (whose can be heard by clicking his name). Where these remixes fail however is in offering a new perspective on the track. Though titled (Prince Language dub mix) I fail to see any dub influence beyond that which the track itself offers. Lee Douglas comes a little closer, mixing in a way that creates a sort of frantic nature from a track that is fairly mellow albeit totally dancey. His remix, however, fails to give significance to the vocals, using them as a sort of add on rather than justification as on the originals next to 13 minutes.
The original begins in true DFA fashion, bass accompanied by cow-bell esque bongos which lead into hand claps to keep the beat. Keys give the track a real 70's feel and provide a countdown to the 'launching into space'. Between bass, keys and claps we have essentially 3 beats going that could become boring if not for the addition of said cow-bell and vocals to remind us that this track is "Excellent". Though the remixes offer A.D.D. friendly versions of Happy House, cutting at least 4 minutes from the original, they fail in letting the respective mixes flesh out any one of the three beats, leaving the track haphazard where it was originally so focused.
Sometimes I find it hard to find a balance. My life too full of empty pockets and tired vodka breathe? I take April off drinking. I am spending hours on hours watching The Wire on my couch? Time to take April off smoking. Too many pictures on my blog and not enough words? Time to scatter brain some thoughts and post some new music. Words: It would not be too thin of a limb to climb onto to say that this is one of the buzziest artists around. Composed of Simian’s Simon Lord and The Wiseguys’ Theo Keating it's hot blog house at its finest, buzzy electro and bleepy 8-bit. I also keep running into the words like "melodramatic", "personal", "supernatural" and "tormented" associated with the group but I would rather disregard that as a bunch of self built hype bullshit. MusicThe Black Ghosts-I Want Nothing- Words: I can't mention buzziest bands around without also bringing up H&A and their brand new single. MusicHercules & Love Affair-You Belong (Riton Remix)-
This blog is for fun. It is about talking about everything and nothing. It is not to be taken terribly seriously, though sometimes it will be terribly serious. Sometimes it will be about things we all care about, sometimes it will be very personal.
Music is for sampling only--if you like it, support the artist and buy it on vinyl or go dance with us at the show. If you are the owner of a sound file, and would like it removed, email me here
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