This past Monday, some friends and I were driving home from Toronto after celebrating both Labor Day and Labour Day weekends. It was a lovely weekend full of early fall city exploring, the distillery district (complete with a super awesome art gallery), reliving our childhood via Centreville on Centre Island, Japanese Izakaya’s, accidentally crashing birthday parties, new friends, old friends and other things of that nature.
On the way home, I was happy to realize that it was Hipster Runoff’s turn at Blog Radio on the Sirius XMU, but especially love blog radio because I get to hear tons of tunes that I would never have heard otherwise, many of which I snipe and post as my own. And I enjoy Carles’ biting/ridiculous commentary (for me, it is hilarious to listen to and kind of annoying to read). He played lots of good tunes as usual (I tend to find his playlists the most up my alley of all the blog radio kids, but I do love them all), but this was definitely my favorite of the set. I’m chalking up the fact that I hadn’t heard this track to me not fully realizing how to explore my musical tastes until starting this blog. Erlend Oye’s The Whitest Boy Alive + Fred Falke = musical schwing. This might be the least boring/dragging on 8+ minute tune you will ever listen to, provided you haven’t listened to it before, in which case it will be in a tie with itself for the least boring/dragging on 8+ minute tune you have ever heard.
Hey – I remember that trip.
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sounds like The Presets! : )
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Fred Falke is my homeboy. Thanks for the jam.
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first time i ever heard this in like 2007 it became a favourite song and after listening to it 1000 + times since haha its my favourite 12” of all time, absolutly beautiful. fred falke is an amazing man
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Although Fred Falke is a remix master I have to say the original is king in this instance, I would recommend listening to all of whitest boy alive’s work they are incredible
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