My Excuse
August 30th, 2007 JustinShe’s here! The reason I won’t be at Electric Picnic this year has finally arrived, and she’s lovely ;)
a sea anemone cocktail, followed by oyster liqueurs
Western Songs
August 27th, 2007 JustinA few years back, D*I*R*T*Y sound system used to put up RealAudio streams of some great DJ sets, including this one:
Air - Western Songs (Paris, May 2003)
I think it was recorded just after Air collaborated with Alessandro Baricco, an Italian author, on City Reading (Tre Storie Western). It’s a great set — laid back country, mostly, with some gems and a few tongue-in-cheek choices in the mix. I transcoded it to MP3, which is what you can download above. This guy took the trouble of finding the track listing; here it is:
- Air and Baricco - Bird
- Lee Hazlewood - My Autumn’s Done Come
- Gram Parsons - Brass Buttons
- Elton John - Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy
- Bob Dylan - Final Theme (on ‘Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid’)
- Dolly Parton - Jolene
- Harry Nilsson - Everybody’s Talkin’
- Air - Wonder Milky Bitch
- Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
- Sebastien Tellier - Fantino
- Brigitte Fontaine - Eternelle
- Bob Dylan - As I Went Out One Morning
- Johnny Cash - Desperado
- Deliverance soundtrack - Dueling Banjos
- Eagles - I Wish You Peace
Enjoy!
Over here
August 23rd, 2007 Justin
Welcome to the new home of Undersea Community — hopefully it’ll be a bit more flexible than Wordpress.com was. look — tags! built-in player! woo!
2000007
August 21st, 2007 underseacommunityGreat new tune from the new Modeselektor album, “Happy Birthday”:
Modeselektor - 2000007 (Featuring TTC)
TTC v Modeselektor — always brilliant. Modeselektor are playing Dublin in November. Check the live set in that post…
bonus:
Quick Italo post
August 20th, 2007 underseacommunityApparently Dan Deacon was just brilliant. I’m on contractions-watch, so no gigs for me!
Anyway, I’m going back through the CBS.nu Top 100, listening to lots of great italo. Haven’t seen this 1984 slice of tune posted around, but it definitely deserves listening — enjoy:
Jo Squillo Eletrix - Avventurieri
(includes a little free bonus chat from I-F at the end!)
Dan Deacon
August 16th, 2007 underseacommunityDon Rosco informs me that Dan Deacon, absurdist kiddycore electro guy from Baltimore, is playing tomorrow night at Crawdaddy in Dublin. Sounds like it’d be mental:
Dan Deacon - Wham City (thanks to ÜberDrivel)
Modeselektor
August 15th, 2007 underseacommunityThere’s an excellent Modeselektor live set over at magooo; apparently they’ll be playing in the Tivoli in Dublin, November 1st….
Rollerball
August 15th, 2007 underseacommunity
Quick bit of futuristic-pervy-funk, from the Rollerball soundtrack by Andre Previn:
Jimmy again
August 14th, 2007 underseacommunityThe other day, I posted a link to “Jimmy”, the best track off M.I.A.’s new album, Bollywood-meets-disco style:
turns out it’s a cover. DJ Bwyse at Talking in Stereo brings the original:
Bappi Lahiri, Chorus, Kishore Kumar, Nandu Bhende, Parvati K - Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja
LCD Soundsystem adding another night
August 13th, 2007 underseacommunityWhile accordian-wielding Canadians continue to be the inexplicable flavour of the year in Dublin, LCD Soundsystem are pulling a few less punters; their Oct 20 gig at Tripod still has tickets left at Ticketbastard. Go on, you know you want to. It also looks like they’re adding a second night at the Temple Bar Music Centre on Friday the 19th…
RIP Lee
August 7th, 2007 jmason23
RIP Lee Hazlewood; that renal cancer got him in the end.
You can still download “Some Velvet Morning” from my post from last year, and here’s another:
The Human League
August 3rd, 2007 jmason23I just picked up The Human League’s first two albums, “Reproduction” and “Travelogue”, brilliant pioneering synth-pop from the band’s original line-up in 1979 and 1980:
The Human League - Zero As A Limit
This tune has cropped up in the odd Ladytron DJ set:
The Human League - Empire State Human
This one contains the synth bassline that Joakim’s remix of Cajuan’s “Raven” sampled earlier this year:
M.I.A. - Jimmy
August 2nd, 2007 jmason23I’m loving this new track from the freshly-leaked upcoming M.I.A. album, “Kala” (upload via wongie’s music world) — Bollywood disco!
Of Montreal
August 2nd, 2007 jmason23Of Montreal played Crawdaddy in Dublin last night. It was a good gig, in a packed venue full of happy fans singing along (especially the bunch from Waterford!); the Nokia branding didn’t really suit though, and the sound could have done with a bit more volume, but hey.
Still, they played a blazing version of ‘The Past is a Grotesque Animal’, worth it for that alone:
Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal
It was only when I saw them live that I realised how much of a Bowie thing they have, making these live covers pretty apt:
Of Montreal - Moonage Daydream (live)
Of Montreal - Suffragette City (live)
(They went for a Kinks cover for the encore this time)
Mind you, I should have read Pitchfork before I went, then I’d have realised that they have a new EP out and bought that instead of 2005’s “Sunlandic Twins” album. :( ah well, time to fork out for the MP3s!
