Posts tagged with french horn rebellion

09/19/2010

French Horn Rebellion – Moment (Young Empires Remix)

As I write to you from 35,000 feet in the air, let’s first take a moment to thank technology for making air travel a whole lot less boring. They could probably charge anything they wanted for in-flight wifi and I would probably still pay it. Now let’s take another moment to talk about how much we like everything Young Empires does, which hasn’t been a ton at this point, but the future looks promising. In this case, it’s remixing French Horn Rebellion, who has also struck our fancy in the past. When I first heard this remix, I knew there was something oddly familiar about it, but I couldn’t quite figure out what it was. And then it struck me. This tune has a very similar feel to one of my favorite tunes from Broken Social Scene’s Forgiveness Rock Record, the beautiful “All is All”. I’m curious to hear this French Horn Rebellion album. I feel like I don’t exactly know what to expect, so I’m hoping it’s ace. Until then, give this one a listen.

French Horn Rebellion – Moment (Young Empires Remix)

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05/19/2010

One Year Anniversary “Blogwave Summer” Mixtape!

Happy birthday to us! It’s officially our one year birthday and we couldn’t be happier with how things have transpired over the last year, especially the past few months. While straining my brain trying to come up with the perfect way to celebrate, it came to me almost by accident. Since we’ve never done any sort of mixtape, we asked a bunch of our favorite blogs to each submit a track that reminds them of summer. Then, I mixed them all together (sort of, having never done any sort of audio editing in mah life) and the end result is the “Blogwave Summer” mixtape! It was an interesting project because everyone has a different definition of the perfect summer tune, but there’s a great mix of upbeat and chill that all flows together in the end. The mere fact that I was able to do this is a testament to how far we’ve come this past year , so I’m really happy with how it all came together. I mean it’s no Mondo Boys Weird Summer mixtape, but it holds its own. Oh, and thanks to j-town, whose FANTASTIC image I borrowed for the mixtape artwork.

Here’s the full track list, as well as which blog contributed which track in [brackets]. My eternal thanks to all of the blogs who participated, you are all super rad. And make sure to check them out too if you are not already a reader. Thanks to the ON (Original Ninja) The Music Ninja, you can click on any blog names in the image below to get to their respective sites, so do it! Oh yeah, and since this is our anniversary, I took the liberty to throw not one but two fantastic tracks into the mix.

I’ve provided the file in a couple of different ways. You can download it below as one continuous mp3 file, or you can download it as separate tracks (which will sound exactly the same as the single file when played in succession). You can also stream the whole thing right here in the audio player below if you want a sneak preview, but your best bet is probably to download the zip file. Plus the zip file includes a front and back cover which lists all the songs and blogs that contribute them, so that is nice to have. The whole thing runs at about 1:18, so press play and let the summer tunes take you away.

Download the zip file

Download the single mp3 file

Thanks again to everyone for reading this past year, and let’s see if we can’t make the next year even better.

And here’s a bonus tune that I’ve posted before that JUST missed the cut for this mixtape, but that I listen to almost daily because it’s just SO farking happy. I’m sure it will only get even more play as the days get warmer. I also chose this song because, to quote Mr. Shooter McGavin, “Even though only one of you will become my colleague, all of you…are now my friends.”

Hooray for Earth – Surrounded by Your Friends

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04/13/2010

priors – what you need (hey champ remix)

Today we present to you a track that was discovered thanks to Norm, one of our loyal readers. He first informed me of the fantastic Hey Champ mixtape Winner’s Circle way back some time at the end of last year. And I immediately downlaoded it and then forgot about it, and recently rediscovered it when my friend Megan told me about Hey Champ, who she’d met at Princeton while in college. So I gave it a listen or 20, and it’s basically an hour of non-stop high energy fun. The best part is, the whole thing can be downloaded for free by going to this page on their website. We like free stuff.

And in an extremely timely bit of action, the band has released two of the tracks from their upcoming album as a free download. You can listen in the widget below or click to download.

Their remix of this track by French band Priors rocks my socks off. Hey Champ sped up the track a bit, added a great little riff throughout that sounds half synth and half string section, and did some pretty cool stuff with the vocals. Do you love this one as much as I do?

Priors – What You Need (Hey Champ remix)

And since I dig this mixtape so very much, I’ve included another track below that I have a feeling you may enjoy. This ones got a little funkier quasi-disco feel to it, if you’re into that.

Database vs. French Horn Rebellion – Beaches & Friends (Hey Champ remix)

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