Tiga - Ciao! 2009

RELEASE: Tiga - Ciao
ARTIST : Tiga
ALBUM : Ciao
GENRE : Dance
DATE : 25-04-2009

Track List
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01.Beep Beep Beep [03:50]
02.Mind Dimension [04:37]
03.Shoes [03:48]
04.What You Need [05:38]
05.Luxury [05:40]
06.Sex O'Clock [04:05]
07.Overtime [06:11]
08.Turn the Night on [03:15]
09.Speak, Memory [03:41]
10.Gentle Giant [06:08]
11.Love Don't Dance Here Anymore [10:38]
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57:31 min

Body Language Vol. 6 - Mixed by Junior Boys

When rumors started floating around the interwebs that Canadian electropopsters Junior Boys were about to take charge of the latest Body Language mix on Get Physical, a few eyebrows were raised. First establishing itself as a self-promotional vehicle for the label’s own artists (M.A.N.D.Y., DJ T.), the series, with the likes of Jesse Rose (fidget house), Dixon (deep house) and Château Flight (Italo-tinged house), started to get slightly more cutting-edge, all-encompassing, and thus more engaging, in recent months. No wonder fans were afraid of seeing it suddenly turn into Another Late Night-type select-first-mix-later collection with nothing else but amateurs at the helms.

See, very few people—yours truly included—seem to be aware of the fact Junior Boys are not only accomplished studio maestros in their own rights, but actual DJs in their spare time. Matt Didemus has his own residency in a Berlin club, apparently, while Jeremy Greenspan is not afraid of showing his DJing skills alongside collaborators such as Morgan Geist. Consequently, it turns out their take on the famous series is a surprisingly convincing affair that shows an innate sense of dynamics, progression, and even, at times, drama. The album’s opening tracks make for a perfect entry into their sonic world, especially when Supermayer’s ‘Saturndays’ gets pumped up by the DJ Hell remix of Chelonis R. Jones’ ‘Deer in the Headlights’, thus allowing Junior boys to revisit Get Physical’s recent yet neglected past (the Radio Slave remix of ‘Deer…’ got all the attention 18 months ago even though the Hell remix is the one that truly enhanced the original) while showing us they perfectly understand the dance floor’s imperatives.

Elsewhere, baroque yet irreproachable transitions are aplenty, like the way, at the album’s core, Gui.tar’s hippie house leaves place to Stereo Image’s Hot-Chip-lite electro-pop, then to Matthew Dear’s best Talking Head cold funk impersonation on ‘You Know What I Would Do’ and Pushé’s disco-ish digital and cheesy moves. Even more telling is their end-of-album combination: after a string of slo-mo numbers (including a brand new contemplative and plaintive composition from the Boys themselves), Chloé’s acclaimed ‘Be Kind to Me’, which remains one of the most creepy and haunting track you’ll get to hear these days, is weirdly yet effectively juxtaposed with Bill Nelson’s cheerful and high-spirited 1982 instrumental ‘When your Dream of Perfect Beauty Comes True’. Therein lies Junior Boys’ DJing craft: their attention floats with concerting ease from one corner of their discothèque and from one mood to the other, from one epoch to one emotion, without ever sounding like they’re suffering from any sort of attention deficit and without ever leaving us feeling disoriented or confused.

In the end, then, listening to Junior Boys DJing is a surprisingly fulfilling affair, especially after seeing them in concert. On the outdoor Sonar stage last June, Junior Boys live, unfortunately, was nothing short of excruciating: the mixing board was obviously fucked, machines sounded definitely out of synch, Greenspan’s vocals were anemic at best, and the duo’s own aura of melancholia left place to two slightly out-of-shape guys and their banal technical difficulties. For future public displays of talents, maybe it’d be better if they stuck to turntables, considering how candidly good they are here. Truth be told, their artistry was always designed for more private surroundings anyway and is supposed to be appreciated under anything that is not the burning Catalan sun. After two confessional and intimate electronic pop albums best suited for emo-tinged, alone-in-bedroom moments, who knew Junior Boys had it in them to actually recreate the elusive feeling of dancing in your head with your own heart as a partner on a DJ mix? Now that is some unexpected body language I wouldn’t mind hearing them speak more often.

-residentadvisor

TRACKLIST:

01 Sorcerer - Surfing At Midnight (Prins Thomas Miks)
02 Supermayer - Saturndays
03 Chelonis R. Jones - Deer In The Headlights (DJ Hell Remix)
04 Love Nine – Feedback
05 Kreon & Lemos Feat. Feeboy - Fola
06 Kelley Polar - Rosenband (Magic Tim's Instrumental Version)
07 Steadycam - In The Moog For Love
08 Radio Slave - Screaming Hands (Cosmo Vitelli Radioaktivitat Remix)
09 Studio - Life's A Beach! (Todd Terje Beach House Mix)
10 Gui.tar - Love Started To Shine
11 Stereo Image - Dark Chapter
12 Matthew Dear - You Know What I Would Do
13 Pushé - Don't Take Your Love Away
14 Visage - I'm Still Searching
15 Junior Boys - No Kinda Man
16 Rework - Love Love Love Yeah (Chloé Remix)
17 f0st3r - bl3w r0d30 d3m0
18 Chloé - Be Kind To Me
19 Bill Nelson - When Your Dream Of Perfect Beauty Comes True

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Madeleine Peyroux - Live in Paris Mar, 09 2009

| 01. bare bones [04:31]
| 02. river of tears [05:19]
| 03. damn the circumstances [04:34]
| 04. i must be saved [05:23]
| 05. our lady of pigalle [05:37]
| 06. you can't do me [05:21]
| 07. instead [05:16]
| 08. band intro [00:36]
| 09. dance me to the end of love [04:59]

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Burial & Four Tet

.date 2009
.style Electronic
.label Text Records
.cat.no. TEXT06
.source Vinyl
.type Single
.quality VBRkbps 44.1hz Joint-Stereo
.size 25,5 MB

Black sleeve, Black centre label, no info - very few copies! That's
pretty much all you need to know about this twelve, read much further
into this review and you stand every chance of missing out on bagging
what is already the most hyped-up and in-demand 12" of the year so far.
But what does it sound like? Well, very good indeed is the quick answer.
'Wolf Cub' actually sounds pretty much exactly as you would imagine a
Four Tet/Burial hook-up to sound, merging Kieran Hebden's refined
Gamelan style sculptures with crushing woodblock percussion that would
sound like an incorrigible Burial ripoff until you remember that, err,
it is Burial! Sick sick tune. Over on the flipside things get a little
stranger, with "Moth" delivering a kind of dour 4/4 variation that
actually sounds like neither artist, making use of squashed club sounds
with an almost claustrophobic feel. Alien, brilliant music unlike
anything else you'll hear this year - hurry or there'll be tears!
Essential Purchase.

Note: not a brilliant pressing and the b side in particular has more
surface noise than usual. I cleaned it up as best I could without
affecting the sound quality.

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01 Wolf Cub 09:01
02 Moth 09:03

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LOCAL HIP HOP!

Its been awhile since i posted due to taking off a week for SXSW and then trying to catch up in grad school has worn me out... But I heard these guys and had to post it!

I usually look down on most dallas based hip hop because most of it has no soul and zero creativity. I almost skipped over these guys aswell but the name caught my eye: AwkQuarius
I don't know much about Pikahsso & Tahiti of AwkQuarius, besides they are local musicians/film makers. I Can't believe i missed these guys at SXSW! Their videos are funny and the music is so SMOOVE..........Check out these music Videos:






Download the Jam;
AwkQuarius - Let's Hit the Town

AwkQuarius Links:
Myspace
Blog
Youtube

-Dyno