Sir Salvatore, is playful indie with a clean pop style from SF. Kinda like Field Music. They’re a relatively new band but they’ve opened up for Sebadoh’s Eric Gaffney. I liked the riff on this song a lot, because it’s catchy and feel good.

&ND - To make a good believer, you gotta do what you’re told says French electro/indie group &ND. They’re a Parisien band influenced by modern dance/rock bands like LCD Soundsystem and The Rapture, with a little bit emphasis on the guitars. I’m normally not so much into this kind of music, but I liked the lyrics and their radio friendly dancerock so I thought I would let you check it out yourself

Infants have chaotic Hella like beats mixed with the furiousity of Atari Teenage Riot with a messier sound. Extreme/raw sounds and ideas please me aesthetically, but having a muddy chaos is not so appealing for me, got to clean the mud a little bit IMO.

Beta Valentine is from Austin, TX and they’ve just released their second album called Gold on Has anyone ever told you?. This is energetic power trio music with heavy trashy guitars in fact it’s electrified southern rock with a little bit artsyness (is there a word like that?) thrown in, but my question is “why are the vocals mixed so low?”

Finally the most famous of all the bunch, 65daysofstatic the 4 piece electropostrock band from Sheffield, UK. They’ve been getting critical acclaim and reviews everywhere, for some reason I’m not a huge fan of their stuff, but I’ve always thought they are a solid band.

Sir Salvatore - Hooray this Projector
&ND - Hey Hey Hey
&ND - Traffic (Road Safety)
Infants - No Soul
Beta Valentine - Eighteen days of rescue
65DaysofStatic - When we were young and better

D-I-R-T-Y guys are not the only ones doing re-edits of course, there’s a whole slew of artists like the king Tangoterje Barna Sound Machine, the Sa-Ra Collective, Sasso, Otterman Empire, Freaky Funk, The Delicate Genius, DJ Harvey, Krikor1 and more, there’s a thread on ILX that calls them bearded disco, but most of the vinyls are either bootleg or too limited so they’re very hard to find. Best places to look for them would be the blogs bumrocks and lovefingers, and the D-I-R-T-Y collective blog Alainfinkielkrautrock, and of course the record shops Fatcity or Piccadilly are always a source for the soulful. I’ve selected 5 tracks, a Pilooski re-edit of Yellow Power from the upcoming D-I-R-T-Y compilation, The Delicate Genius with a funky disco edit, and 3 more disco re-edits for your pleasure, will do more soon, I promise!

Yellow Power - Hai Samurai (Pilooski Edit)
Kleer - Tonight (Sa-Ra Remix)
The Delicate Genius - Personal Message Unit
Debarge - I Like it (Barna Soundmachine Remix)
Carl Carlton - She’s a bad Mama Jama (Freaky Funk Edit)

I’ve known GreensKeepers for a long time, mainly with their house music efforts, so before I get to check their latest Polo Club release thanks to the Dinamo.FM guys, I thought this was yet another dance album as I was accostumed to. In a strange tale of serendipity, the first song I played was “Bloodclots” where words like “purgatory”, “reprisal” and “raining blood” flicked by. After a short amount of processing time, it dawned on me that these are lyrics from the infamous Slayer song Raining Blood, from the Reign in Blood album, one of the alltime best metal albums ever.

I began to laugh like hell instantly, Araya’s blistering fast vocals and King & Hannemann’s thundering guitars were recouped by funky horns and laidback rhythms. In a state of shock and awe, I listened to other tracks from the album. There was no generic house music at all, most songs have a tongue in cheek / fun loving attitude with simple beats, rock riffs and pop hooks. There’s even Huey Lewis & The News‘ most famous “I Want A New Drug” which goes (I want a new drug/One that wont hurt my head/One that wont make my mouth too dry/Or make my eyes too red) made into a slower electropop piece but my greatest obsession is Love Lobotomy with the rolling bass that’s equally suited for the dance floor.

It seems Chicago’s GreensKeepers has found gold on this Om Records release, I know it’s not as sophisticated as some of the stuff I review here, but in an age where pop culture and music has penetrated so much into our houses, I wanted to give props to GK who at least do it right and make it witty & fun at the same time.

PS: I can’t believe the “Greenskeepers bloodclots slayer” query gives no return, has no one noticed that this is the lyrics to Raining Blood?. Here’s the original song, now you can see the boys have been creative!.

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Slayer perform Raining Blood

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Greenskeepers’ previous hit Lotion

GreensKeepers - Love Lobotomy
GreensKeepers - Bloodclots

This album’s really the most easy going and cheerful album that we’ve listened to in a few months, completely packed with percussion (including a triangle!), tropical vibes, flute, guitar and it’s seen as the best representation of Forro, the traditional dance & music of northeastern Brazil channeled into a highly accessible easy listening mentality (unlike some of the stale latin jazz). As if this wasn’t enough, the album features guests like Cibo Matto’s Miha Hatori, David Byrne and Bebel Gilberto. This album is pure gold, and I strongly advice you (in fact I would force you right away) to see them live if you’re around in Istanbul, I’ve heard that they’re here to play 3 shows, in Ghetto, Nublu boss and sax player Ilhan Ersahin’s new club and I guarantee you’ll leave with a huge smile on your face. Don’t miss!!!

PS: These guys sure know how to rock, very fun to watch live, however the place was quite empty because it’s thursday and there was some more popular events (e.g Asia Argento djing), I might join them once more tomorrow, hopefully there will be some more people!. Here are some photos I took from yesterday night. Also if you’re around Istanbul, tonight we have the queen of spoken word poetry Ms. Ursula Rucker @ Babylon.

I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about but the music seems more simple & fun than booty bass. The second song “Bondallica” has a drunk metalhead bragging about how pop music and punk sucks and how metal rules on top of THE most known metal riff ever. (I initially thought it was Rammstein’s Du Hast, but I’ve since changed my verdict yet can’t pinpoint it.) Terribly funny mashup. Yet the third song “Caminhão de Gás” is the most fun with the fiddly monosynth melody on very basic drumbeats. Simplicity seems to be the key in Bonde Do Rolê’s music. Having fun, and getting wasted without having to bear the the hipster electro-clash scene should be wonderful!.

Ok, thanks to Brooklyn Vegan, we now know they’ve been on tour with Diplo, and the style of the music is called baile funk. Now you should go watch the band’s live show on Youtube and also this one on Google Video.

Bonde Do Rolê - Solta o Frango
Bonde Do Rolê - Caminhão de Gás

Make space for Mr. Vonstroke’s debut CD “Beware of the Bird” on his own Dirtybird Records. I generally expect 2-3 good electronic dance albums per month these days and I was expecting a standard CD with 1-2 good tracks and lots of fillers, but oh how mistaken I was. I am sincerely in love with the album at the first listen. I admit there’s nothing new or revolutionary with this album, and there are some “wacky” tracks. But this guy’s really mastered the formula of dance music. It’s not rocket science, just music for a nice party with dancable beats, and some technoish hooks. While most of the big names are repeating themselves this gentleman has taken the sub bass of booty bass and mixed it with acid and electro in a way that would appeal both to the mainstream and the underground dancefloors.

“Deep Throat” is his first hit with a lovely danceable melody and some chunky drums while “Who’s afraid of Detroit?” is a detroit techno take on with minimal drums and dark pads with again a catchy floating melody. Good debut!

Claude Vonstroke - Deep Throat
Claude Vonstroke - Who’s afraid of Detroit?
Claude Vonstroke - Deep Throat Movie (MOV)