Asphalt Jungle
“Freakin TIme”
Let’s cleanse our pallets mid-week courtesy of Beat Electric with a little Keith Benson joint from the hot n’ sexy 70’s. Go ahead…try and sit still for this one.
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Posts tagged "funk"
Champagne For Dinner
“Don’t Call This Destiny”
Here is some awesome weirdness I stumbled upon today. Love that 80’s synth funk.
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Vekroid
“Featherskull” (feat. Betamaxx)
Yes… I am a sucker for a good beat and Featherkull certainlty delivers. It’s the sax melody that really brings it home for me though with that touch of late 80’s/early90’s mainstream Rn’B. It’s like some department store mall-walking sound set filtered through Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions.
Vektroid mashes “…computer games and other sounds reminiscent of the late 90s era internet style…” into a sprawling instrumental, outer space themed, narrative entitled STARCALC. Featherskull is part of a companion set of EP’s that are available to all who purchase STARCALC available 5/13, check bandcamp for the deets.
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Bewilderbeast
“Want 2 Ride”
Bewilderbeast dropped the U Know EP on Monday. Get it…but only if you like dope poolside summer jams.
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Clubglove
“Moxxy”
Brooklyn’s? Clubglove says that this was …”recorded over two days in my living room listening to Washed Out and Jeremy Lee“…Lo-fi-ness aside…there is a lot of charm here, and a lot of potential.
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Siriusmo
“High Together”
Bits of classic funk with modern electro touches = awesome. Check ‘em here.
Thanks to PhotoSynth for the tip. Also, I will be contributing music I find to PhotoSynth’s already awesome tumblr, so check em out.
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“No Disguise”
Games (a.k.a. Ford & Lopatin)
Cut, paste, dance…repeat.
Seriously, how good is this tune? It’s got soo much soul and the right amount of funk.
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Atlas Genius
“Back Seat”
I predict I will be into this cut for a while.
Can data predict hits?
My friends at social music analytics company Next Big Sound think so. They wrote a post about trend data on this song, and how the numbers predict it’s hot enough to hype. I’ve thought a lot about this, and how a lot of services are working on predictive analytics that might take the music biz in the direction of Moneyball. On the one hand, it seems that they’re simply interpreting wildly far-flung play stats that grow organically on their own. If it worked, we’d likely see more home-grown success stories. But on the other, my jaded side thinks that what’s more likely is that these sorts of analytics only reenforce the industry status quo. The players with the money will always dominate the playlists because they have the PR power to get their artists up on P4K, Vevo, Spin, Rolling Stone and the like on a regular basis.
What do you think?
This Adelaide, Australian band’s new Through the Glass EP comes out on June 12th.
Alpine
“Gasoline”
I was all over last years “Hands”, a slick-funk pop gem that introduced me to the fantastic Australian band Hands.
This week Alpine returned with the first single, “Gasoline”, a slow summer afternoon groove, from their forthcoming debut LP A Is For Alpine, out August 10th on Ivy League Records.
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James Brown
“Living In America”
What better way to celebrate our independence than with the Godfather of Soul, James Brown.
Little known fact: 4 of the top 5 highest grossing sports movies of all time are the first four Rocky Movies…a real american story.
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