Trouble & Bass is ready to show their softer side with the release of Little Jinder’s “Polyhedron” EP on August 5th. The vox come off as your ‘typical’ whimsical Icelandic/Nordic/Swedish pop fairy chick, but um the production is pretty damn fresh.
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Little Jinder – “Polyhedron”
And “Polyhedron” is great [...]

Outlaws and Le Castle Vania bring us a couple new Walter Meego remixes for you guys from two different directions.
Outlaws takes “Girl” and adds in a little Bryan Adams circa Robin Hood into the mix… which might be the first time I’ve ever enjoyed Bryan Adams so congrats. Le Castle Vania’s mix of “Through [...]

Mount Sims was always my favorite of the electroclash generation… in 2002, “How We Do” was the anthem all by itself, and I must’ve listened to Ultra Sex one point one million times. His sophomore release Wild Lights ended up getting a lot less play on my stereo… partly due to it’s release during a [...]

The Presets – “Talk Like That” (YouTube)
During his recent interview on BIGSTEREO, K.I.M. mentioned the video for “Talk Like That” directed by Jonas & François (who also did the “D.A.N.C.E” video) — well, here it is. Watch a creepy Presets’ fangirl dance around and destroy their instruments. Who hasn’t been there? Kinda brilliant.

“Mama’s Boy” debuted on MTV.com over the weekend… in case you missed it, for all the mama’s boys:

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I need (need) to share a song with you that is so easily on my top ten list of favorite songs of the year — if not decade. And no, that’s not a hyperbole. “The Rose” is epic. This builds up to the most fabulous break. I imagine it being like three am and the [...]

I expressed my ode to Cosmo Vitelli’s Cliché record label a couple of weeks back. Cliché are doing some releases of New York’s duo of Marcos Cabral and Jacques Renault also known as Runaway. Cosmo is definitely on the money.
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Runaway – “She Did It For The Money”
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My most favorite part about Invasion is their drummer looks like she’s never missed Ozzfest. And no sarcasm html tags needed… for real. But it’s the energetic frontwoman who pushes this track to the top of my playlist… Chan is like a Tina Turner for the twothousandtens.
Invasion’s debut album is being produced by James Shaw [...]

I was just sitting around wondering out loud, “Whatever happened to Friendly Fires? I super loved their first couple eps/single.” So I jumped on the MySpace, and sure enough their debut album is right around the corner. Good news.
That said, I’m not sure I am totally sold on “Jump In The Pool”… it’s kinda [...]

After recovering from an infamous car crash, Iceland’s Steed Lord is heading off on their first American tour. And they’re ready in full force. To celebrate they sent out this remix by DJ Barletta…
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Steed Lord – “It’s What U Do 2 Me” (DJ Barletta remix)
Here’s a taste of what [...]

In New York for a DJ set, K.I.M. from The Presets took a moment to talk to me about The Presets, their work ethic, his time as a Raver, and In & Out burger.

What were you doing in London?
We were touring. We did a couple of weeks in the UK, did some dates in Europe, [...]

A friend of our’s Mario Orduno from San Diego just informed us that his awesome club night in San Diego is coming to San Francisco, we’re very stoked and decided to have a free entry to some of our SF fans, Read below for details and a little background written by none other than Mario [...]

FREE STUFF!!! I love free stuff and the lovely people at Cornerstone love to give it. We have 4 vinyl copies of UNKLE’s new album “End Titles… Stories for Film” as well as 4 CDs which come in a limited edition packaging that is only available in the US thru UNKLE’s site.
To win sign up [...]

Our friend The Twelves is no stranger to this site — we’ve posted their remixes of Asobi Seksu, M.I.A., Erlend Øye, NYPC, Kylie, Yelle and Theatre of Disco… and let’s not forget the most popular mixtape we’ve posted in recent times. So yeah, no strangers.
A step away from the remixes, the duo emailed us [...]

Little Pictures album “Owl + Owl” has been getting much love in my stereo the past week. Perfect DIY pop that reminds me a bit of the Blow or Tender Forever. One of those rare albums that I could post anything from… all the tracks are real gems.
“I Wish I Could Keep You” makes me [...]

Laff at yrself… Fanboy/Fangirl. Funny shit. Best part is the Larry Tee echo.
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Fanboy/Fangirl – “Scion Money”

Travis posted Lismore’s “More” back in April which I loved. I love the Penelope’s vocal on this track in the fashion of Spektrum (RIP) and NYPC. Well here we have AC Slater’s remix which emphazes the urgency in her pleads and has me jumping and screaming for her to get more. Both of them are [...]

Spruce Lee and KATO (whose mixtape I posted a month back) have just sent me their remix of girls by Walter Meego and its pretty darn fine.
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Walter Meego – Girls (Spruce lee and Kato remix)
Spruce also finished this remix of Catcall which I’m absolutely loving right now.
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This email landed in the inbox this morning from The Golden Filter:
“We’re super new. and somewhat secretive…”
I’m kinda over the market-your-band-as-a-mystery formula — hey it worked well for Fake Blood and Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya, but I dunno… So I almost hit delete but gave the track a second and thank god. Golden [...]

Hot on the heals of that Falke/Horror “Embrace” remix that caused a mini blog riot is the video for PNAU’s “Embrace” featuring Ladyhawke. It’s a “live” video, which I’m rarely a fan of… but the editing does a good enough job capturing the feeling of the song.
EDIT: aw, a little bit more info on [...]