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Well ladies and gents, our friend Gigamesh, who you may remember from the classic hits Lykke Li – Little Bit (Gigamesh Remix) and Radiohead – Everything in its Right Place (Gigamesh Remix), among so many others, is in the process of making the move from Minneapolis to Miami, and what better way to commemorate such a huge life change than with a mixtape? And lucky for us, he’s offered up his Moving Cities mixtape to us to share with all of our loyal readers! It starts out a little playful (remember folks, this mixtape is all about moving out and moving on), but it doesn’t take long before it spirals into a funky, soulful, disco-infused party with an old school flavor that cannot be denied. And what’s even more, we even get a taste of “Back Again”, an unreleased Gigamesh track!
Give it a listen below, and if you dig it as much as I do, you can download it by clicking right here!
And here’s the full tracklist, just in case:
[Intro: So Long, Farewell]
Faze Action – Moving Cities
Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix)
Gigamesh – Back Again [unreleased track]
Gigamesh – It’s So Intense
Jimmy Edgar – Hot, Raw, Sex
Midnight Star – Midas Touch (Bassapella)
Social Disco Club – Acid Town
Liquid Liquid – Optimo
Voltage – All Night (Azari & III Remix)
Marching Band – Another Day (Gigamesh Remix)
Estate – Dancing Time
MC Shy-D – Shake It (Gigamesh Edit)
Barry White – Change (Gigamesh Edit)
And if you still haven’t gotten your Gigamesh fix, check out this CLASSIXX remix he put together a while back. Pretty fantastic.
CLASSIXX – I’ll Get You (Gigamesh Remix)
happy dance party friday. since the office is closed on monday, there is even more reason to dance today. on that note, not one, but TWO remixes of one of my favorite tunes, “little bit” by the lovely lykke li. the original version of this song was actually the fourth song ever posted here on dailybeatz way back in may, can you believe it? and i heard a pretty cool remix at a show a few months back and have been meaning to look around for it, and just remembered today to find it. while i have no idea if i found the remix i was looking for, i did find some cool versions by gigamesh (whose excellent radiohead remix has been posted here before) and cansei de ser sexy, more commonly known as CSS.
the gigamesh remix has much of the same style as their radiohead remix. that is, the song stays pretty much untouched, but there are really nice beats laid over the song, and a song that was already excellent, though not necessarily danceable, is now danceable, and you dont feel like youve lost what you originally loved about the song. as for the css version, the music from the original has been almost completely stripped out of the song and its given a fresh and sometimes dirty electronic treatment. their take is much more of a departure from the original, but its so bright and fun that you dont even care, especially around the chorus, and its got the same CSS sound that so many of us know and love. im curious to see which version the dailybeatz readers prefer, so let me know. and in case you were wondering, i still have a mad crush on lykke li.
lykke li – little bit (gigamesh remix)
lykke li – little bit (CSS remix)
well this sure was an exciting weekend. thursday night i went to see mstrkrft at the crofoot, one of my favorite venues (if not for the bouncer mentioned below). the opener was grand dad crunk who was pretty excellent. my favorite was when he dropped “little bit” by lykke li over a crazy beat. i dont know who he is, but apparently he is zozzys brother. and apparently everyone in the metro detroit area except myself knows who zozzy is. mstrkrft was rockin as well. they drank a lot on stage and took several pulls of mr. beam. i dont know what else to say other than that. the crofoot is really the best place to take pictures because the stage sort of juts out a little, and the balcony goes all the way to the back of the stage, so you can take some excellent shots where you essentially get the perspective of the performers and get the entire crowd in the shot as well. but only if you make it out alive with your pictures.
things were going fine until just before we left, i decided to hit up the balcony for a few more shots. i got some great ones and just as i took the last shot, the bouncer on the stage shined up his flashlight and told me to stop taking pics, which i did. figured id just take off and go on my way. but as i got to the bottom of the stairs from the balcony, i realized the bouncer had made his way through the entire crowd and was waiting for me at the bottom of the steps, at which point he demanded that i “delete every f***ing picture of that f***ing camera right now”. real nicelike, because clearly i was being raucous and unruly [aside: is it inherent for all bouncers to be on power trips?]. so i did, and was pissed, and left, because i had some crazy good pics. ive since replayed the scenario hundreds of times in my head. had i known he would be waiting for me i would have removed the memory card or took a different exit out of the place (i think theres a back staircase as well). or had i not been caught so off guard, i would have argued with him until he kicked me out, since i was leaving anyway. but, we live and we learn, and that is why i will be trying to get a photo pass to every show from now on, including this past weekends bassnectar show that you will see and hear about later this week (check out the facebook page for a sneak peek at some of the pics. 90% of them are average but i think about 10% are good).
on to the latest in my ever continuing series of new songs that are now old news. this time, its from one of my favorite bands that only has one album out, yeasayer. ive loved their “all hour cymbals” album for quite some time now, but it wasnt until i saw them at bonnaroo (pictured above) this summer that i really “got it” and understood what a weird and unique group they were. i saw them at pitchfork later in the summer which was also great, but theres just something about being in one of those big bonnaroo tents in the middle of the night that adds to the eerieness and excitement of their performances.
i was pretty effin pumped to learn that a new album “odd blood” would be released in 2009, and that they were releasing a free single that very day to whet our appetites. the song is called “ambling alp” and its got just about everything that i love about yeasayer but with a much happier sound than what i think of when i think about “all hour cymbals” (although thats definitely got its happy moments as well). and most of all, its got that unique je ne sais quoi that i seem to find so often with yeasayer, all over a pretty cool tribal sounding beat. definitely among my most anticipated releases of 2010.
yeasayer – ambling alp
well kids, its happened. the twilight phenomenon has officially taken over the indie music world. as im sure many of you know by now, the next movie in the twilight series, new moon, is being released later this year and along with the release of the movie is the release of the soundtrack which is strangely full of many of our favorite artists like grizzly bear, muse, sea wolf, editors, lykke li, bon iver, and yes, even thom yorke. while im pretty tired of how twilight has taken over the world, i think the fact that we get some new tracks from all of these great artists is enough even to make perpetually bitchy looking twilight star kristin stewart smile.
the song sounds like classic thom yorke. pretty dark and pretty electronic. fortunately, i like this song way more than the last new thom yorke song i heard, the hollow earth. i have a feeling that most of the soundtrack is going to have this really dark feel about it, and i guess it will expose the teenybopper twilight fanatics to some of the excellent music thats out there, which i guess is a good thing, assuming that any shows of these acts are 18+. this intolerance of youngers is perhaps rooted in my seeing “where the wild things are” this past friday with tons of little children in the theater, and from my passion pit experience at lollapalooza. sorry kids.
thom yorke – hearing damage
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im pretty excited about todays tune. i figured that lots of people might be reading today because many of us had a long weekend, and now we are back at work and searching for any distraction we can find. and i think this site, if not anything credible or entertaining, can at the very least be considered a distraction, no? so i figured this song might be a great distraction, and you might actually like it. the funny thing about this track is that i actually got the album a few months ago, listened to it once, really enjoyed it, and then completely forgot about it until about 2 weeks ago when i heard this song at grahams house as part of a j alexander mix and rediscovered it and boy am i glad i did.
the tune is “the girl and the robot” by norwegian dj duo royksopp. you may remember them from those geico caveman commercials a few years back. you know, the campaign where you enjoyed the first few commercials, then with each new commercial you hated it more and more. and then you heard that they were going to do a caveman tv show based on the commercials and really hated them. and then the show flopped, much to your chagrin. well, their song “remind me” was featured in one of those commercials, the one where the caveman is walking through an airport. while that is a great song, its very elevator music-y (in a good way though), and if thats your only exposure to this group, you will be very pleasantly surprised by their latest album “junior”. not only does it have block rockin beats, but it features some great scandinavian female vocalists such as my girl lykke li, karen dreijer andersson (aka fever ray and lead singer of the knife), and anneli drecker, another norwegian songstress who often tours with royksopp as their vocalist.
todays track features swedish sensation robyn on vocals and its kind of an awesome performance. damn gina, this girl has a great voice, especially for this genre. while you may remember her from pop hits such as “show me love” back in the day, she seems to have become pretty popular among the indie crowd after releasing some new material over the past few years as well in an interesting turn of events. this might be my favorite dance song of the year thus far. its especially enjoyable to enjoy the contrast when listening to the album between this song and the song that precedes it, the uber-fun opener “happy up here”.
royksopp – the girl and the robot
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one month in the books kids. as of today weve brought you exactly (actually a few more than) 30 totally awesome songs and plan on bringing you at least a few more over the coming days, weeks, years, centuries and millenia (right? not milleniums?). its sort of like making a mix tape every single week, except i dont have to worry about the songs fitting together in any sort of way. except if theres a theme week which there will be very very soon. then they will all fit together in some way. and that will be cohesive and good.
what is also exciting about today is that the lollapalooza schedule was released. im a bit disappointed in the schedule because out of the 6 headliners, i really only wanted to see two: kings of leon and depeche mode. and of course because i have no luck when it comes to festival scheduling, they are both playing at the same time on the first night. im definitely seeing depeche mode since i just saw kings of leon a few months back, but its still a little upsetting. other notable conflicts are fleet foxes vs crystal castles (crystal castles wins as i havent seen them), thievery corporation vs decemberists (likely gonna choose decemberists), lykke li vs tv on the radio, and silversun pickups vs mstrkrft vs band of horses. all in all not nearly as bad as bonnaroo conflicts.
today were going to bring you the quasi flamenco track “bad education” from nebraskan foot percussionists tilly and the wall. this was the first song id heard by them and instantly loved the foot stomping and clapping percussion and thought it fit well with the music of this song but i later found out that they dont even have a drummer and instead use tap dancer jamie pressnall for percussion. how cool is that? whats also interesting is that several of their members came from various conor oberst projects. and sorry bright eyes, but i think i like them just a little bit more. im kind of in love with the beat in this song and it would be sweet even if it was played on drums and not with metal bottomed shoes, but those make it even better.
tilly and the wall – bad education
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today, were going to slow things down a little bit with some of the musical stylings of the ambiguously pronouncable lykke li. i originally thought it was pronounced “likely”, but now after hearing a few others say it, im pretty sure its more like “licky lee”, but i digress. besides loving her tunes, shes also kind of smokin hot. without knowing anything about her and conducting a quick image search, her semi-mod style might lead you to believe that she was a late 1960s femme fatale (does she remind anyone else a tiny bit of nico or is it just me?) but this swedish songstress is only in her early 20s. which means that theres still a chance for me, which rocks. i havent caught her live yet but will be seeing her at lollapalooza this year, hopefully from the front row, hopefully somehow tricking her into pulling me up on stage and making out with me in front of everyone. so far ive only figured out how to be in the front row, still working on the rest. if anyones done this before, id appreciate any suggestions. from what i hear, shes got a hip sway that rivals the best of them. her debut album was, i think, cowritten with bjorn yttling of peter bjorn and john, and im pretty sure that the little kids singing along on her song “breaking it up” are the exact same children singing along in pbjs “nothing to worry about”. if its not the same kids in both songs, they are at the very least second cousins.
how would i describe this song using only s words (ill take swords for $500, alex)? sultry, soulful, seductive, swedish, sexy. in fact, this song may be the sexiest song of 2008. i have to admit, most of the time im the kind of person who hears and pays attention to the music in songs first and foremost. its probably why i dont know the words to most songs, even the ones that everyone in the world ever knows the words to when they all sing along at the bar. but its pretty tough to listen to this song without getting all hot and bothered by the lyrics. she manages to seem completely naive and vulnerable, but in reality shes the one thats completely in control. not wanting to make the first move, but throwing herself at you. when she sings “and for you i keep my legs apart and forget about my tainted heart” in that soft swedish voice, its pretty tough not to be a little bit in love with her. if you still arent enamored, just check out any of her music videos.
lykke li – little bit
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