I’ve been listening on/off to the UK release of Norwegian singer-songwriter Silje Nes‘ Ames Room released on Fat-Cat, and it’s about time to talk a little bit about her music now that the European release of her debut is due. The opener “Over All” is the anathema of “Ames Room”, gentle vocal pop over dissonant [...]

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Les Savy Fav - Let’s stay Friends (Frenchkiss) : So I submitted to indie hypster art rock shit with the Brooklyn indierockers Les Savy Fav. Their uptempo indie stomp is catchy as well, filling in the shoes of last years Bloc Party for me.
Pjusk - Sart (12K): Barren drony soundscapes from Norway by the [...]

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Haven’t been checking thru what the other mp3blogs have been up to for a long while, today I tried to check back using hype machine but i could only stroll through 3 days or so because there was too much stuff!! Anyways, here’s a quality selection from today’s session and some more [...]

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Kingfisherg from Carte Postale’s flickr
Do you remember those dark periods of your life when you didn’t have last.fm? I sure don’t! A comparatively new and overlooked service by last.fm is the labels pages, where participating labels put their wares online for the global market. It’s of such a huge benefit to small labels I [...]

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* 4 Arab Strap tracks ripped from vinyl by The Vinyl Villain
* Total of 4 tracks from Feist’s 2004 and 2007 albums on A Plague of Angels
* DMX Krew, Porn Sword Tobacco on my recent fave Little White Earbuds
* 2 tracks from Pole’s new release Steingarten on Sonorama.
* A song from Balkan Beat Box’ [...]

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Image scanned from a French fashion magazine from 1977 by Martijn Konijn.
The first 4 months have gone by and indeed 2007 has been lucrative for music. As the collective memory is so low these days and there’s so much production and hype, I want to emphasize the better stuff once more. Here’s a short [...]

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I’ve been pretty slow on doing this for some reason so it’s a dual month coverage for now. Here are some of the better pieces that has come to my mailbox. First up is a funny bloke from Australia Mr. Tim Shiel, aka Faux Pas, putting fun back in electronica via sample plunderphonics and eclectic [...]

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* CSS “Alala” (princess superstar dj’s are not rockstars remix), Architecture In Helsinki “It’s 5″ (Poutine Dream Mix 33hz & Ming) and most importantly Fanfare Ciocarlia’s Romanized version of “Born to be wild” on Pardon my Freedom. Also Benga and Skream if you like some dubstep. Added to our permanent linklist. Hi guys!
* Astrud [...]

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Here’s the final installment of the top 2006 list with some more good songs. Barbara Morgenstern’s 2006 effort The Grass is Always Greener is an allround electronic pop/downtempo album it’s not groundbreaking but it’s her 3rd album in a row with the same quality that you’d expect and the operator is a jolly [...]

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* Melt Banana - We will rock you (Queen cover) on Cacophony and Coffee.
* Incredible cover of Dead Kennedys’ Too Drunk to Fuck by Nouvelle Vague Fabulist!.
* Gnarls Barkley- The Boogie Monster on I heart music and 8 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy versions on Brigadoon
* Barbara Morgenstern - Alles was lebt bewegt sich [...]

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