It sucks being a small business all the time. You don’t have the tools, resources or the money to develop all these crazy ideas you want to experiment with, like the super hybrid thing you wanted to do involving every single social media application out there. Heck, I’m still trying to emulate Toys R Us’ Facebook Page campaign and their successful drive during the Christmas period collecting fans. I sell toys too!
But no it doesn’t work that way.
Groove Armada. They would be the last group you’d guess hearing tracks from their latest album Black Light. I freaked out in the car after first hearing Warsaw on Triple J that it was by these cheeky fellas. They’ve completely changed their style, but it is one hell of a welcoming change. Groove Armada doing dance rock with a surge of dark synth, with noticeable influences from New Order and David Bowie? They somehow did it.
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Groove Armada – I Won’t Kneel
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Groove Armada – Warsaw
One of my favourite radio station programs, Triple J’s Soundlab, is full of amazing surprises, and last night didn’t fail to deliver. They played a remix of a track by an experimental UK group Grasscut and I was completely floored by how fucking eerily good it was, especially towards the second half of the song. Dance with a despairingly hopeless panic attack with sirens blaring in the background and a non-stop beat that won’t let you off the hook until the end. It did help that it was late and raining.
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Grasscut – Muppet (Nathan Fake Remix)
All the way back in 2001, before their popular dance electro albums Bright Like Neon Love and In Ghost Colours, Cut Copy released their first EP titled I Thought of Numbers. It contained 7 tracks, some of which reminded me of something the Avalanches would’ve done. Six or so years later, they would play a large role in propelling Australia’s electro scene, alongside The Presets and The Midnight Juggernauts.
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Cut Copy – Glittering Clouds
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Cut Copy – Standing Up Sitting Down
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Cut Copy – Nine Summertime
The MFA (Motherfucking Allstars) are London-based duo Rhys Evans (Welsh) and Alastair Douglas (not Welsh).
This is the song that made them popular and look as promising as the Chemical Brothers. Minimalistic electro dance is probably the easiest way I can describe this.
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The MFA – The Difference It Makes
This is an attempt for me to better understand the concept of social media and try to explain it in simple terms.
A lot of businesses are misinterpreting the concept of social media. Rather than seeing it as a platform to interact/ socialise, they see it more as a medium to propagate self-serving news. In other words, one way communication (I’m talking, you’re listening).
Let’s use a very familiar analogy: making friends. When a business gathers twitter followers and facebook fans, and bombards them with nothing but sales ads, it is like a guy who goes around making tonnes of friends only to use them to buy stuff off him. He doesn’t call back or really make an effort to hang out; his friends are there for him to make money off. Basically, he is a crap friend, and before long, he will either lose his friends or have no close friends.
This is seriously funky!
An old Dan Aykroyd film (Dr Detroit) was mashed up to accompany ‘Runaway’ by GRUM. In case you were curious, the movie involved pimps and prostitutes. And yes, that’s Fran Drescher!
Love the whole dance scene towards the end of this clip, the 80s porno-esque looks and the groovy synth beats. Wish my life were like that everyday.
Rage was doing a lot of Countdown episodes the other night and quite naturally, it brings out a lot of 80s nostalgia. They showed a lot of Tears for Fears clips and I felt it would be a crime not to share something that is an anthem for great 80s music.
We Have Band – Hear It In The Cans
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Interesting fellas from Canada. Great remix! MYSPACE
What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow – Love of Luxury (Lake Heartbeat’s Lake Luxury Remix)
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Plasmo and the Infinite Sadness 