Cornelius

Ugh. Late nights during exams are not so much the good. Oh wait, actually they're totally worth it.

This is for the dude with the mask at Foamo

CORNELIUS from borntofilm on Vimeo.

If only I had a mask, I could be a superstar DJ too. Also, why aren't shows here like that? I do really have to go to Europe to see good electro with people who know something about what they're hearing? Stuff like this:

I'm A Rope (Yuksek Remix) - Tommy Sparks

or kinda funky disco-esque tunes like this new Cut Copy remix:

Far Away (Damn Arms Remix) - Cut Copy

are hard to come by here. Maybe I should move to New York. Or Toronto...only for the wider music scene. Ideally people here would get their collective musical shit together and stop wiling out on crappy tunes, promoting a negative Montreal electro/house reputation...

Until then,
Enjoy

FOAMO @ Coda

Hey hey everyone looks like we're gettin lucky this season, first with Designer Drugs last weekend, FOAMO tomorrow (Friday) at Coda and Surkin on December 13th. The Montreal Mirror interviewed Foamo this week, check it out, got some nice background info on the dude.

Hot damn these are gonna be awesome shows. But please, leave the scarves at home.

Hold Me Down (FOAMO Remix) - Primary 1

Cross The Dancefloor (Designer Drugs Remix) - Treasure Fingers

Ghetto Obsession (Straaatch Rmx) - Surkin

See ya there!

Examcrunch, a new electro cereal from NslL!

When Calvin Harris came to Montreal, I didn't go. I didn't go because I thought he would just perform live and not do anything I haven't already heard on his album.

Oh but what a fool I realize I was after hearing his essential mix, which is apparently what he played at his Canadian shows. Download and tracklist here. Its an amazing mix, blending heavy electro house, disco, and prog house. The first song is all it took to hook me, highly recommended.

Bearries is a group outta Chicago dropping both heavy grinding beats and simple, almost experimental, electronic jams. Good both for dancing and zoning out.

Explorer One - Bearries

Jaws - Bearries

And finally, Yuksek came out with an awesome podcast recently, which is apparently a mixtape for Fabric promoting a recent show. In any case you gotta have it!

YUKSEK - Fabric podcast 200908

The individual tracks and the mix as a whole are well worthy of the repeat button.

Enjoy.

DMCA or something

Well apparently the man deleted my last post for some copyright thing. C'mon, really, property rights laws? Doesn't everyone know that they're just a figment of the liberal media? heh

Aaaaanyway a friend of mine fooled me into watching this just as I will dupe you into loving it:

Pretty dumb but whatever.

Synth-punk?

Another new band for you all, Late Of The Pier a 'glam-techno' synth-punk new-age conglomeration from England (as they usually are). Their album 'Fantasy Black Channel' is quite original in a retro way, using some sounds and progressions reminiscent of the Talking Heads and Frank Zappa. But as with most bands these days, they tend to escape accurate description. In any case here's what you want:

Focker - Late Of The Pier

Bathroom Gurgle - Late Of The Pier

And here's a something more of our usual fare:

Bathroom Gurgle (Tronik Youth Remix) - Late Of The Pier

Louis Vuitton (Database Remix) - Larry Tee

go run around outside while its still nice

Nights Out

for some reason this post got deleted. here it is again in all its glory



This group Metronomy released their album 'Nights Out' about a month ago to rave blogosphere acclaim. The name rang a bell, but I just put them off as another British electronic-pop group...Until I actually heard their music that is, and realized that I had seen them at Montreal's Meg festival in August and had a great time.



I highly recommend that you actually buy 'Nights Out' cuz its a brilliant album. Here's a little teaser, one of my favorites:

Heartbreaker - Metronomy

Breakbot, one of our favorite producers, remixed 'A Thing for Me' from 'Nights Out' with his usual piano and funky bass sound and made it better than the original, imho:

A Thing For Me (Breakbot's B-LIVE Miami Mix) - Metronomy

And for something quite different but definitely worth mentioning, Van She has released another banger, this time remixing Maximum Joy from Shinichi Osawa's 'The One'

Maximum Joy (Van She Remix) - Shinichi Osawa

You gotta love it

enjoy

Too drunk to go out

While I recognize D.I.M. as a great DJ, as of late he hasn't been on the top of my list especially after his lackluster performance here in MTL some months ago. However, it seems that he has released some new tracks with a kind of sound and style quite different than what we are used to hearing from him (especially in 'Out of the Blue'). Check 'em out:

Sunglasses At Night (D.I.M. Remix) - Tiga & Zyntherius

Out of the Blue (D.I.M. Remix) - Darmstadt

Another group seemingly making a 'comeback' of sorts and one of my favorites, Van She Tech, has remixed Utah Saints to great success, bringing us a great upbeat track:

Something Good (Van She Tech Remix) - UTAH SAINTS

As usual, enjoy.

Broken foot music

for the record, this is the third time on the same leg.

Got two new-ish tunes for y'all, one by the ever-great Acid Girls, demonstrating their penchant for what one could call 'dark disco'

The Don (Acid Girls Grey Disco Remix) - Sisters Of Transistors

and a new track from the much-loved Computer Club along with his fellow southerner Le Castle Vania.

The Messiah - Le Castle Vania + Computer Club


Here's a funny video we found around on the interwebs (edit: video changed to something actually funny



quite entertaining. Its by one of the dudes who brought us Dan Deacon's visuals, JIMMY JOE ROCHE. Maybe more on these crazy guys later.

enjoy, keep your headphones pumped.

Workin' for the weekend

Here's a little mini-post to get you pumped for what looks to be a rainy weekend. Thank you, giant hurricane and SUVs.
Some of these tunes are from Crookers Essential Mix, which I highly recommend if you don't have it already.

Il Cattivo Plus THUNDER - Crookers

Let Me Back Up (Crookers Tetsujin Remix)- Don Rimini

Fuckingham Palace (Modeselektor Remix) - Alter Ego

Hey, and here's a little prog-house to balance things out. Check out Deadmau5, he also has a great Essential Mix.

Cherry Twist (Deadmau5 Remix) - The Crystal Method

Merrymaking At My Place (Deadmau5 Remix) - Calvin Harris

Hi Friend - Deadmau5 ft. Flipside

enjoy.

Things to viddy

Here at NslL we like to provide a wide range of media. To follow up the previous post, here are some videos that have caught my eye on the interwebs.

First we have the video for Ocelot's remix of Robyn's Be Mine, featured last time.

great song, gets me pumped every time.

I saw over at Iheartcomix an internet tv channel by DEMONBABIES that features old cartoons, movie previews, shows, mini-docs and original works. There's a lot of really weird stuff on there, and its fit for hours of entertainment.

www.mogulus.com/demonbabies

Tune in and enjoy