A chiptune cover of Kraftwerk — Lukem, I think you were talking about this before. Here’s a bonus chiptune, one of my favourites:
8-Bit Rockers - Russian Kowboy
Stop me before I get going on the Rob Hubbard mp3s… ;)
A quickie pointing-at-other-places post –
be sure to check out the extensive MP3 collection over at Palms Out Sounds’ post where they offer copies of the original tunes sampled by Daft Punk over the years. Some great selection.
Also: there’s a new JD Twitch / Optimo DJ set mix up at Allez-Allez: described as ‘an incredible mix that ranges from heavy soul to psych garage and french lounge to hot stepping jazz’. Give it a listen…
So, just bought some tickets for this — Zeigeist, Samuraj Cities, Consequenses, and Juvelen playing at the Village as part of The Absolut Swedish Festival. Should be a good laugh!
Good mate Wooder is tagging along, looking to see Samuraj Cities — me, I’m looking forward to some Zeigeist:
Very Knife-ish Swedish electro-pop — apparently the stage show is quite a spectacle, too. Plenty of tickets left…
philip sherburne: The easy way:
when I interviewed Klaxons’ Jamie Reynolds (lovely chap, by the way, even if he talks a mile a minute–total interviewer’s nightmare), and we got on to talking about pop, he confessed something interesting. Not just that he envisioned Klaxons strictly as a pop band, aiming to reach the greatest mass of people possible, but that he had studied the manual as well: that’s right, The Manual: How to Have a Number 1 the Easy Way, by the KLF’s Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, in which they prescribe their foolproof plan for landing a single in the UK charts. “I literally read that book and put it into practice,” said Reynolds when I talked to him. “I took direct instructions from it, if you like. Get yourself a studio, get a groove going, sing some absolute nonsense over the top, but a breakbeat behind, it and you’re away! That’s what I did! That’s genuinely it. I read that, I noted down the golden rules of pop, and applied that to what we’re doing and made sure that that always applies to everything we do. That way, we always come out with a sort of catchy hit number.” You wonder why more peoplep don’t do it, I said, and he agreed. “This is it! It depends whether or not you want to be a pop band, we said we wanted to be a subversive pop, and for our structure, I’m following the golden rules every step of the way.”
Some original krautrock hypnotic sounds:
and some similar-but-released-last-week noises in a more introspective indie style:
