Also check out the first tune leaked from the album by Tom, “Up All Night”

And back on Mike Giant – somebody wrote over his piece and Mike is calling for street justice!!

Giant One from Sean Desmond on Vimeo.

Official music video for Foster The People‘s track ‘Helena Beat’ off their debut album Torches. Video is directed by Ace Norton.

The music video which you can see below is directed by Tim Erem. The track itself can be grabbed off the duo’s Get Rich or High Trying EP.

Wonder what Ladyhawke is up to these days?

Essential Mix – Mark Ronson (07-01-2007) (192)

Tracklist after the jump.

Mark Ronson – Intro
Mark Ronson feat. Dirt McGirt & Tiggers – Toxic
Three 6 Mafia – Stay Fly
Coldplay – God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Mark Ronson feat. The Daptone Horns – God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Billy Bragg – A New England (Version Blend)
The Jam – Pretty Green
Mark Ronson feat. Santo Gold – Pretty Green
Chaka Khan – Acid Drop/I Feel For You
Bag Raiders – Christina 3-6 Drop
K.W. Griff – Respect
Aaron Lacrate feat. Spank Rock & Amanda Blank – Blow
T.I. – What You Know (Low B Remix)
The Pack – Vans (DJ Eli Remix)
Justin Timberlake feat. T.I – My Love (2nd Nature Remix)
Busta Rhymes feat. Rick James – In The Ghetto (DJ Eleven Remix)
Beck – Nausea
Notorious B.I.G. – Nasty Boy (Version Blend)
Lil’ Wayne – Show Me What You Got (Remix)
Lily Allen – Stop There (Freestyle)
Dangerdoom feat. Talib Kweli – Old School Rules
Ghostface Killah feat. Amy Winehouse – You Know I’m No Good
The Roots – Thought At Work (Original)
Nas – Hip Hop Is Dead
The Charlatans – The Only One I Know
Mark Ronson feat. Robbie Williams – The Only One I Know
Mark Ronson feat. Ghostface & Nate Dogg – Ooh Wee (Version Blend)
Mark Ronson feat. Alex Greenwald – Just
Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up Look Sharp
Thom Yorke – Black Swan
The Game feat. 50 Cent – Hate It Or Love It (Version Blend)
Jackson 5 – I Want You Back (Version Blend)
The Strokes – Someday
Rhymefest – Devil’s Pie
Regina Spektor – Fidelity
The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? (Version Blend)
The Smiths – Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
Mark Ronson feat. Daniel Merriweather – Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
The Go! Team – Ladyflash
CSS – Let’s Make Love and Listen To Death From Above (Spank Rock Remix)
Petey Pablo – Fire
The Futureheads – Skip To The End
Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc (DJ Eli Remix)
The Rapture – Whoo! Alright-Yeah… Uh Huh
Peter, Bjorn & John – Young Folks
The Specials – Gangsters
Lily Allen – Knock Em Out
Sons & Daughters – Dance Me In (JD Twitch & The Truffle Club’s Optimo Mix)
Robbie Williams – Lovelight (Soulwax Ravelight Voc)
Cassie – Me & U (DJ Eli Remix)
Domino – Everyone Else Is Boring
Boney M – Sunny
Mark Ronson feat. Ghostface & Nate Dogg – Ooh Wee
Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold

Anyway this video is directed by Johan Söderberg and the whole style direction I can’t help but feel a Lady Gaga-esque vibe to it…

One of my favourite songs of last year finally has a music video! This track is also off Foster The People‘s debut EP of the same name.

The Go Team‘s latest pop gem of their forthcoming album Rolling Blackouts featuring the vocals of Best Coast‘s Bethany Cosentino. Video is directed by James Slater.

What we’ve got this time is an amazingly beautiful video directed and edited by David Altobelli. The track is off Sia’s latest release We Are Born.

Cee Lo Green – Fuck You (Official Video) from acs92003 on Vimeo.

O-fficial. Much <3 and post break up hatred from Cee Lo and us at PTP :D

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!

While it doesn’t officially get announced till tomorrow, here’s a short list of the artists I heard Vijay rattle off earlier on Triple J:

• Vampire Weekend
• Tegan & Sara
• Spoon
• Silverchair
• Grinspoon
• Empire Of The Sun
• British India
• Lisa Mitchell
• Kisschasy
• Miami Horror
• Bag Raiders
• Kid Koala presents The Slew (live)
• Muph & Plutonic
• Killaqueenz
• Funkoars
• Illy
• Jonathan Boulet
• Ajax
• Yacht Club DJs

I’ll add to this as more names come to light, or you could wait for tomorrow’s announcement… So onto the dates:

Saturday 1st May – GTM Bendigo, Bendigo’s Prince of Wales Showground
Sunday 2nd May – GTM Townsville, Murray Sports Complex – Townsville Cricket Grounds
Saturday 8th May – GTM Maitland, Maitland Showground
Sunday 9th May – GTM Canberra, The Meadows, University of Canberra
Saturday 15th May – GTM Bunbury, Pat Usher Foreshore Reserve

If it was good enough for Yeezy to blog about, I guess I can too… Video is directed by Special Problems who have done videos for the likes of Midnight Juggernauts, Cut Off Your Hands, Wolfmother and Tame Impala.

Jonathan Boulet‘s self-titled debut LP is also the feature album on Triple J this week and demonstrates how much of a wunderkind he is having wrote, recorded, produced and played every note of the album’s uplifting folk pop sound. Did I mention Modular have snapped him up as well? Not too bad for a bright-eyed 21 year old from Sydney’s northwest.

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?

Monster of a mixtape here from the boys from N.A.S.A. which was originally a limited gift for big spending CLOT customers. That was the middle of this year and thankfully now us masses can now enjoy it also. Tons of mashups here plus a wide variety of tracks chosen across multiple genres so there’s definitely something for everyone. Tracklist and download link after the jump.

N.A.S.A. – Tanning On The Moon Mixtape

Tracklist:

01. Tanning On The Moon Intro
02. Eric B. & Rakin – Juicy ( Eli Escobar vs N.A.S.A. Short Edit)
03. N.A.S.A. – It’s NASA Collage
04. N.A.S.A. – Samba Soul (Ape Sh!T Brothers Remix)
05. N.A.S.A. – Strange Enough (Mr. Oizo Remix)
06. Kanye West vs MGMT – Electric Feel vs Touch the Sky (DJ Zegon Mash Up)
07. Knight Rider vs A Volta (N.A.S.A. Mash Up)
08. A Skillz & Krafty Kuts – Happiness
09. Eric B. & Rakin – I Know Got Soul (Acapella)
10. Jesse Rose – Well Now
11. Amanda Blank – Might Like You Better
12. M.I.A – 10 dollar
13. The Count & Sinden – Hardcore Girl (feat. Rye Rye)
14. Holly Ghost! – Hold On
15. La Bionda – Wanna Be Your Lover
16. Theme From S’ Express – S’Express
17. Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rappinghood
18. Egyptian Lover – Egyptian Lover
19. Todd Terje – I Want Your Love
20. Justin Timberlake – My Love
21. Simian Mobile Disco – Love
22. The Beatles – All You Need Is Love
23. N.A.S.A. – Gifted (Boombotz Remix)
24. The Jonzun Crew – Pack Jam (Look Out For The OVC)
25. Sweet – Love Is Oxygen
26. Ultramagnetic MCs – Burn Dope (Instrumental)
27. DJ Medhi – Pocket Piano
28. Kid Kudi – Day N’ Night (Crookers Remix)
29. Bart B.More Beat vs Rakin (DJ Zegon Edit)
30. Major Lazer – Hold The Line
31. Dick Dale vs. Major Lazer – Hold Misirlou (Ape Sh!T Brothers Mash Up)
32. Silvio Mazzuca – Cerveja
33. The Champs – Tequila
34. Drunk Masters – Top Cat
35. The Rolling Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Soulwax Remix)
36. M.I.A. – Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
37. The Jacksons 5 – I Want You Back (Roger 72 Remix)
38. Missy Elliott – I’m Really Hot (Instrumental)
39. Michael Jackson – Bad (Acapella)
40. Soho vs Missy Elliott – Hot Music vs I’m Really Hot (DJ Zegon Mash Up)
41. LCD Soundsystem vs Busta Rhymes – Put Your Hands Innocuous (N.A.S.A. Mash Up)
42. Tittsworth – Boojangles (Instrumental)
43. Mighty Dub Katz – Magic Carpet Ride
44. Friend & Lover – Groovy Now (Mighty Mi Mix)
45. Mylo – Drop The Pressure
46. Daft Punk – DaFunk
47. Daft Punk – Da Funk (Thunderous Olympians Remix)
48. Kid Color vs Too Short – Blow The Zonga (N.A.S.A. Mash Up)
49. B-Easy – Bongo Joint
50. Switch – A Bit Patchy (Acapella)
51. N.A.S.A. – Money (Count Of Monte Cristal Remix)
52. N.A.S.A. – Money
53. N.A.S.A. – Whachadoin’ (DJ Zegon Megamix)
54. Quincy Jones – Soul Bossa Baile (N.A.S.A. Remix)
55. Ron Rico – Miss A (Sneeze Song)
56. Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons – Beggin’ (Pilooski Re-Edit)

On an interesting note, our man JG on the blog here went to high school with Edison back in the day. Time to reconnect and get us some hookups haha!

If you didn’t catch them earlier on this year at their gig at the Espy, N.A.S.A. will be back next year at the St. Jerome’s Laneway Festivals. Dates are:

Brisbane – Friday 29th January @ Alexandria St off St Paul’s Terrace, Fortitude Valley
Melbourne – Saturday 30th January @ Footscray Community Arts Centre
Sydney – Sunday 31st January @ Sydney College of the Arts
Auckland, New Zealand – Monday 1st February @ Britomart Station
Adelaide – Friday 5th February @ Fowler’s Live, North Terrace
Perth – Saturday 6th February @ Cultural Centre, Northbridge

Tickets are on sale now and you can grab them from the Green Tix website.

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)

That’s right, everyone’s favourite A.D.D. party masher Girl Talk has announced two Big Day Out sideshows for next year in Melbourne and Sydney.  Read on for the dates.

Wednesday 20th January
Melbourne – The Palace

Monday 25th January
Sydney – Enmore Theatre

Tickets go on sale this Friday 13th November at 9am over at Ticketek so don’t muck about as this will sell out much like the Big Day Out festivals have…

To sign off, enjoy one of Bunny Greenhouse’s music video for the track “In Step”. Do check check out the rest of the videos in his ambitous project of mashing up all the music videos  to the tracks off Girl Talk’s album, Feed The Animals.