mtv brazil has a lot to answer for...

the last winter was a cruel one - bonde do rolê cancelled their dublin show, and then marina left. but wait! according to paul devro of mad decent, pedro and gorky have some new band members. apparently they ran a show on MTV Overdrive Brazil to find a new lady. and they were twice as lucky as they expected to be...

in other news i'm in the middle of recording my first mix since christmas. i don't even know if it's like "fresh" or anything, but it's the first time i've done anything in a while. so whatever.

hehehe...

this has to be the coolest thing on the internet. right now.

Devendra Banhart - Sea Side

lately...

i've been busy every night - i was at 7 films in the dublin international film festival in the last week, was at cadence weapon on friday, so on. so i haven't really been up to much online. plus i'm heading to manchester for two days this week. going to switch on friday, and sebastiAn on friday. should be a good weekend. one over which i'll regret very much giving up drink for lent. anyways, my friend did this for me, thought i'd show the world.

get it now...

my friend has been fawning over xxxchange for the last few months, mainly due to his phenomenal output of remixes of the likes of thom yorke, sunny day sets fire, person, lily allen, chicken lips, beck... the list goes on. he really needs more attention. dude is killing it, as they say. two perfect examples are his fully fitted track 100 million, currently available from the mad decent blog, FO FREE. 320 like. if you like justice and hip-hop you really can't complain. secondly, check his radio show with eli escobar, where the two stand in for mark ronson and play their own tracks and remixes for two hours. great stuff. both guys have a sense of humour too, which is nice.

Fully Fitted - 100 Million

East Village Radio: Authentic Shit, 2008-02-08 - Eli Escobar and XXXChange

this is sick...

what's up with this laidback luke guy?! i first came across his work on a free mixmag cd mixed by his mate steve angello - i thought housetrap was one of those two tracks in one jobs, where it starts off all menacing and then becomes something much more melodic and uplifting - but in the past few weeks he's been throwing out some crazy remixes like nobody's business. the one theme? they're all unbelievable re-edits of some "classics" - azzido da bass's doom's night, daft punk's around the world, jaydee's plastic dreams and, err, paul johnson's get get down. he's playing dublin next week, but, alas, it's on sunday. what's up with that like... anyways, i've reached the conclusion that maybe this whole "swedish house mafia" thing isn't so bad after all...

what? more than one?!

i'm writing for another blog now. people read that one though...

Analogue Magazine Blog

ZOMG!

i want this so bad...

over the last year i've become a huge fan of vashti bunyan, the folk singer with the delicate voice responsible for the magnificent just another diamond day. last week i found an album of singles and demos from the mid 1960s called some things just stick in your mind. a lot of the songs are, stylistically at any rate, in the same vein as those on diamond day. having said that, the lyrical content is very far removed. as these songs were recorded before she began her journey across England by horse-drawn-cart, she had not yet written the songs of bucolic beauty found on diamond day. instead her songs are largely about loss and love, and the transience and complications of that very emotion. most emblematic of this feeling is someday, in which she arrives at the conclusion that love needn't always mean happiness. ultimately the album is a delectable curio, worth owning and cherishing.

Vashti Bunyan - Someday