"Don't Be Shy" Spektrum

I thought I was transitioning out of my disco phase. But alas, all it takes is a sick-ass bassline and a hot girl with a gap in her teeth singing about getting a facial (not like a spa facial...) to pull me back in. Oh well... Get used to it, Hitler.

"Don't Be Shy" Spektrum

"Burning" The Whitest Boy Alive

Thanks Matty. Another melancholy rainy-dayer. With a beat. The Whitest Boy Alive is Erland Oye's (of Norway's Kings of Convenience) new band. Do you think Canada will ever be invited to become part of Scandinavia? We could really use some new friends.

"Burning" The Whitest Boy Alive

"Are You The One" The Presets

One of my favorite things about this whole internet music movement is the crazy amount of remixing going on. I played a party recently where I mixed four different versions of The Knife's "We Share Our Mother's Health" together. How fun. Perhaps it's a phase but I don't think so. It's almost like there's no such thing as a finished product anymore. Everything is a work in progress, zipping back and forth as ones and zeros, evolving though time and space. To illustrate my point, I'll enlist the help of Sydney duo The Presets who have been at the centre of a flurry of re-edits. Their song "Are You The One" is a certified party starter. But why stop there? Throw a james-murphy-disco-beat underneath it. Or strip the drums right down to the raw hi-hat and kick and see if it still moves asses. It's like lego, except you can get laid doing it.

"Are You The One" The Presets

"Are You The One (club edit)" The Presets

"Are You The One (Van She NYC Tech Mix)" The Presets

"Are You The One (Simian Moblie Disco Remix)" The Presets

"Lazy Eye" Silversun Pickups

Here's a good one for a rainy vancouver afternoon. LA's Silversun Pickups have been described as a "90's revivalist" band (when is this shit gonna stop?) I guess because they sound a little like the Smashing Pumpkins. Yeah, and the Smashing Pumpkins didn't sound like anybody. Jerks.


"Lazy Eye" Silversun Pickups

Hornby Island

I'm on the enchanted island of Hornby (which the Haida refused to settle on because it was sacred but the white man had zero problem settling on)doing a music/writing session with my brother, Ty. So, sorry for no new posts. I'm a little obsessed with this old Cat Power song though, if you're interested. I'm also a little obsessed with the old, damaged, boozed-up Cat Power. She was so...bloated.

PS There was for real a rainbow over hornby on the fairy ride in. Good omen?

"Drop It Like It's Hot (DatA remix)" Snoop Dogg

Shameless, I know. But people dance to this thing like a thing that people really like to dance to. At first they humour it because they know the Snoop song and it's almost been long enough to like it again. But by the three-minute mark, they've never heard of Snoop or The Neptunes or rap music; they can't even remember their own name. All they know is that those bleeping, popping, whining synths and that boner-inducing bass-line sound better than Phillip Glass on acid. (you're on acid, not Phillip Glass) I'd like to learn more about DatA, but try googling them and you'll see how difficult that is.

"Drop It Like It's Hot (DatA remix)" Snoop Dogg