One of my favourite tracks off Friendly Fire‘s latest album Pala gets an awesome geeky gamer treatment done. It’s goofy as shit and I love it. And that babe, oh my… Directed by David Lewandowski.

Oh and as an extra little treat, here’s the awesome remix by Tensnake which is due out around the end of the month. Can’t bloody wait!

Figured the gif would go nicely with the song I’ve been repeating a fair bit. Hermitude are doing are a decent east coast tour through November and December. Hmmm… I better mark that down somewhere…

Continuing with the bikes/Warren Fu theme… “The Bike Song” is also off Ronson’s Record Collection and directed by Warren Fu.

Video is directed by Warren Fu. “Bang Bang Bang” is off Mark Ronson’s latest release Record Collection.

Cut Copy – Where I’m Going

God damn, it’s such an upbeat tune! There’s a hint of psychedelica there too, but then when you’re on Modular that can happen…  Sadly we’re gonna have to wait till early next year before the album gets a release. Still, they avoided the sophmore album blues with the cracker that was In Ghost Colours. Here’s hoping they’ll drop a new track or two at Parklife later on this year…

Janelle Monáe, oh my… The Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) EP that this track is off is a about 2 – 3 years old now but it still sounds so damn fresh…

Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball...

Yep that’s right, yours truly has a gig on this Sunday at the Fringe as a part of the St Kilda Festival wind-down. So come down for a laugh if your loved ones let you… Better yet, why don’t the both of you do!

Jump for joy because it’s the end of week and you’ve earned the right cut loose. This week see’s a me indulging a bit on my love of emotional shoegazing psychedelic tribal synth pop house music. yes, as you may have gathered, that isn’t really genre… Anyway, this week’s faves and download links are after the jump.

Gypsy & The Cat – Jona Vark

“Her name is Jona. Jona Vark…”

Ah, some more indie synth pop goodness! After listening to this track I can definitely feel a bit of Empire Of The Sun (the guitar riff = a little bit of ‘We Are The People’), M83, anything from a John Hughes movie, but a lot more Fleetwood Mac. Yes, I like Fleetwood Mac. Not just like, probably love. There I said it… There are definitely elements of ‘Little Lies’ and ‘Dreams’ in this track, especially in the chorus.

While most of the major blogs, Mark Ronson on his East Village radio show and even the late DJ AM were all over the local duo from the middle of last year, they’ve only now started to get a little more radio airplay and more importantly, gotten themselves ingrained into me! Head over to their MySpace and give the rest of their stuff a listen. Hanging out big time for this LP release…

Caribou – Odessa

Now this is an interesting bit of music, quirky and haunting at the same time. It’s fairly heavily layered, so you’re ears will have fun deciphering all the sounds here.  I swear when I first heard the vocals in this track I thought that perhaps Erlend Øye of Kings of Convenience and the Whitest Boy Alive fame had contributed. So if you like that kind of minimal-esque type of chill-house you’ll probably like this latest offering from Caribou.

Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours (Featuring IRFANE)

Unadulterated disco pop funk fun! When you hear this track you can’t help but bounce and boogey. If you’re a fan of the works of Shazam, Cassian, The Twelves etc., I think you’ll did this track.

The Jezabels – Hurt Me

“C’mon evil hurt me, hurt me, hurt me…”

Wow. What a track. Powerful and achingly beautiful at the same time. The track sucks you in with Hayley’s haunting vocals/lyrics, complemented by the frenetic drumming and strumming from band members Sam and Nik respectively, intertwined with Heather’s graceful piano work. Don’t forget to add a bit of reverb and swooping strings for effect during the bridge and chorus.

Throw all of this together and you get a rolling wall of big sound that builds and builds till it smacks you right in the face and just like that, disappears as quickly as it arrives. I’m not surprised to see that the Arcade Fire are listed as an influence to the Jezabels on their MySpace page.

Might as well add the music video here since it was just released last month:

Unfortunately there appears to be no Victorian shows lined up in the near future but if you are in Queensland or NSW you can catch them this month at the Playground Weekend festival February 21st or at the Enmore Theatre on the 24th supporting Placebo.

Yeasayer – Ambling Alp

A nice pysch-alt-electro-pop ditty here from NY group Yeasayer. Like any good song (or at least the ones that I like anyway…), it’s instantly catchy and just downright fun. The little synth solo breakdown at the end is just freakin’ awesome!

Douster – King Of Africa

Yes, this track has been floating around the interwebz for a while now, and yes, Douster is no n00b to the scene. These “weekly” posts however are purely an avenue for me to write about the songs that I like at a moment in time and why they got me hooked that first time.

So pretentious rant aside (hehe!), this track features some great sampling from the Lion King’s opening, the powerful ‘Circle of Life’. What you’re left in store for is five minutes of catchy, fun afro-funk-house. I could see this being a nifty opener to a set or bridge/tone shift for all you wheels of steel traders… Speaking of which, Douster is playing at the Espy on February 20th for us local kids wanting to catch him in the act.

So that’s it! Another week done and only one more away till Classixx are in town… Did I mention that I CAN’T FUCKIN’ WAIT TO SEE CLASSIXX?!?!

Have a good weekend folks and we’ll see ya next week where I guess I could try and make it a lovers themed tunage… Or a happy new year to all the chinky readers out there haha! Peace out!

Triple J’s Craig Schuftan presents a time-travelling adventure in sound. Imagine Girl Talk with a copy of Marshall McLuhan‘s ‘The Mechanical Bride’ in one hand and a key to the Triple J vinyl library in the other. Click the link below and find out why Zan Rowe is calling this “cultural theory you can dance to”. Link to the mixtape and a few other 80s related rambles and plugs after the jump.

Craig Schuftan’s 80MPH Stolen Plutonium Megamixxx

If you aren’t blessed with the pleasure of listening to Triple J during the day it’s well worth visiting their site and checking out Craig’s ‘Acceptable in the 80s‘ page and check out the vodcasts.I think the blurb from the site sums everything up nicely.

Musing on the future of music in 1986, former Van Halen singer and 80s party dude David Lee Roth was certain of nothing, except that the art of tomorrow would be nothing like the art of today. “It won’t be like anything we’re familiar with, I know that”. So, why, now that we live in the future, does everything look and sound a bit like it’s from 1986? Has the fabric of time been altered somehow? Have we run out of new ideas? Or does our new-found fondness for synth-pop and shoulder pads have some deeper significance?

To find out, author and Triple J culture guy Craig Schuftan dons a pair of stupid 80s sunglasses, soups up his sports car with one of those flux capacitor things, and risks further damage to the space-time continuum by travelling back to the origin point of the current crisis – the 1980s. There, he finds himself in a strange world – a world where people listen to futuristic robot-pop while spending money they don’t have on ridiculous clothes so as to take their minds off the impending apocalypse. Yes, all very strange – and yet at the same time, eerily familiar…

Really, really cool stuff. I might even head up to Sydney and check out the 80s exhibition over at the Powerhouse Museum. Looks pretty rad. That’d be the right lingo to use in this thread right?

Love the silky smooth dance pop goodness that extrudes from this latest release from Infusion. The track is off the group’s album “All Night Sun Light” which is slated for a physical release on January 26th, 2010. The good news is the album is out on iTunes and Beatport with extra goodies so wander on over to either and have a listen.

Also fresh in the mailbox is a remix of the track from D. Ramirez so enjoy!

Infusion – Try It On (D. Ramirez Knight Rider Club Remix Edit)