kind of cool

Noise is kind of cool

2007-03-22T20:28:00.000+02:00

Electronic bliss at 3 min 28sec. Enough said. Listen to the track.
New Dntel album coming out in 2007.

Hot List - Week 11

2007-03-19T19:24:00.000+02:00

Bilson

Menomena - Wet And Rusting
Devin The Dude - What A Job feat. Andre 3000 & Snoop Dogg
Devin The Dude - Lil' Girl Gone feat. Lil' Wayne & Bun B
Nas - Hope (Original Version)
Slim Thug, Bun B & T.I. - Three Kings (Ratatat Remix)
Editors - Lights
RHCP - Give It Away
The Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Way Out

I haven't had too much time to listen to new music in the last two weeks, sorry :/ Devin The Dude has saved the early year in rap music though!

Hot List - Week 10

2007-03-13T21:38:00.000+02:00

Scarlett

I know it's late, sorry for the delay! I've just been pretty damn busy lately..

Menomena - Muscle'N Flo
Justice - D.A.N.C.E
The Teenagers - Homecoming
Feist - My Man My Moon
The Rakes - When Tom Cruise Cries
Of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
Fear Of Flying - Forget-Me-Nots
Outkast - Hollywood Divorce feat. Lil' Wayne & Snoop Dogg
Riot In Belgium - La Musique
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Save The Population
The Verve - Sonnet
Clipse - Trill
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes

Being a teenager is kind of cool

2007-03-05T22:18:00.000+02:00

Okay, now this track needs to be put on repeat and played ten times in a row. It's that addictive. During the second listen you realise you are singing the chorus out loud. Just make sure there aren't any sensitive people around. Because the lyrics are dirty. Sorry.

The Teenagers - Homecoming (zshare)

A trailer for a new TV series, Skins

Hot List - Week 9

2007-03-04T14:55:00.000+02:00

Ferrari Testarossa

Some tracks that got played a lot on week 9 (both new & old stuff):

The Black Ghosts - Face (zshare) MySpace
Corey Hart - I Wear My Sunglasses At Night (I know it's the 80's :D)
The Whip - Trash
Pete Rock & Large Professor - The Rap World
Metallica - Orion
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dosed
Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You
The Wombats - Moving To New York
GoodBooks - Leni
The Teenagers - Alone Again (Van She Tech Remix)
Muscles - Ice Cream
Roxy Music - More Than This
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Phoenix - Playground Love (Air Cover)
MIKA - Relax, Take It Easy (one of those tracks I hate to love)

New York is kind of cool

2007-03-02T19:38:00.000+02:00

www.sxc.hu

"I've just had the craziest week
Like a party bag of lies, booze and then deceit
And I don't know why I want to voice this out loud
It's therapeutic somehow

So I'm moving to New York

'Cos I've got problems with my sleep
And we're not the same and I will wear that on my sleeve
So I'm moving to New York
'Cos I've got issues with my sleep
Looks like Christmas came early
Christmas came early for me

I put one foot forward and ended up 30 yards back
Am I loosing touch or am I just completely off the track
And I don't know why I want to voice this out loud
It's therapeutic somehow

So I'm moving to New York
'Cos I've got problems with my sleep
And we're not the same and I will wear that on my sleeve
So I'm moving to New York
'Cos I've got issues with my sleep
Looks like Christmas came early
Christmas came early for me"

Nothing special this time, just the coolest track:

The Wombats - Moving To New York (zshare)

The Wombats' MySpace

Who doesn't like ice cream?

2007-02-27T21:48:00.000+02:00

Sometimes I wonder how random it is to find out about a good artist. It kind of makes me sad that there are thousands and thousands of great tracks out there, but I'm never going to hear.

Well anyway, here's one of the tracks you are lucky to have found. Now his name is Muscles, he comes from Melbourne, and someone said his music sounds like Hot Chip meets TV On The Radio (I'm still trying to remember which blog introduced me to him).

That's all you need to know. And yeah, this is a beautiful track, and it just gets better and better as I listen to it.

Muscles - Ice Cream

Visit his myspace too!

Cowboys don't dance

2007-02-26T21:54:00.000+02:00

Okay, today was the first day of school after winter break. My lessons should have started at 12, but I was feeling really sleepy so I decided to go to school an hour later. I missed a bus and I knew I would be late, so I really thought about not going at all because I only had two lessions of history. My bus comes every 20 minutes so I just sat to the bench, listening to Midlake in the rather wintery weather of Helsinki (-8 celcius). After 15 minutes of contemplating my life, I started thinking about going back home. But then I thought it'd be a pretty meaningless day if I would do that. Wake up, shower, music, eat breakfast, go to bus stop for 15 minutes, go back home. So I decided to go to school, which was actually pretty great cause I love history and I was in lessions for only 80 minutes.

Anyway, what I realised at the bus stop bench is that I love Midlake. The Trials Of Van Occupanther is probably one of my top 5 albums of 2006. It's a rare glimpse of light in this single infested world. Okay, Roscoe is also a superb single, but the most of the tracks on the album work better as album tracks.

Midlake - Young Bride (zshareeee)

Review: Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future

2007-02-24T20:34:00.000+02:00

By now, everyone, including your mother, has heard of Klaxons (not The Klaxons as I've seen some people type). Klaxons are actually three geeky looking guys (like all the coolest rock stars these days) and they come from London. Thanks to these lads we also have a subculture called "New Rave" these days. I even saw an article in a mainstream fashion magazine about this a few days ago, that's how bad it's gotten. Okay, now this post is not about new rave as a phenomenom (an excellent post about it here) but about Klaxons' new album which actually is a good debut, no matter how much I would like to hate it.

Now Atlantis To Interzone and Gravity's Raindow (it came out on Kitsune originally!) were really huge indie hits, and that's how they got a record deal with Polydor. On Polydor these guys have released two singles, Magick (UK 26#), and Golden Skans (UK 7#, their most commercial sounding single thusfar, in my opinion at least).

Anyway, to some peoples' disappointment, and some peoples' joy, I must say that underneath all the colourful clothing and extra NME hype lies a surprisingly ordinary rock album. Golden Skans could become a huge mainstream hit in 2007, and As Above, So Below is so conservative it could be from the up-coming Kaiser Chiefs album. Not to mention Totem On The Timline, that is so straightforward it could be Arctic Monkey's new single.

Overall, Myths Of The Near Future is a nicely balanced consistent record with a very few weak moments. The ending track Four Horsemen Of 2012 is something that I would have preferred as an internet bonus track or something though. The surprising thing is that despite their singles they have saved their finest moment to the album. The song I'm talking about is actually a cover of Paul Oakenfold's Grace's It's Not Over Yet.

Take a listen to it here guys. It's one of my favourite tracks of 2007 so far.
Klaxons - It's Not Over Yet (zshare, 192kb/s)

Now here's my favourite take on the remixed to death single, Golden Skans:
Klaxons - Golden Skans (SebastiAn 1.2.0 Version) (zshare, 160kb/s) (I really heart SebastiAn right now)

Buy the album on Amazon.co.uk

8/10

Pitchfork scale: 8.3

Hot List - Week 8

2007-02-24T17:01:00.000+02:00

Just some tracks I'm really feeling right now, some are new tracks, some are a bit older :)

Tiga - You Gonna Want Me (Van She Tech Remix)
SebastiAn - Greel
Union Of Knives - Evil Has Never
New Young Pony Club - The Bomb (Phones Edit)
Vicarious Bliss - Limousine
Dj Mehdi - Singnatune (Thomas Bangalter Edit)
Rework - Love Love Love Yeah
Snowfight In The City Center - No Light Left
Utah Saints - Something Good
Winterkids - Tape It
Uffie - Hot Chick
Busy P - Rainbow Man
Cassius - Rock No. 1 (KIM Remix)
Ratatat - Lex
Wolf Parade - Disco Sheets

And I'll probably be posting lists like this every Saturday, if this gets good feedback :)

+ 10 Random tracks from my iPod:
Placebo - Bruise Pristine
Jae Millz - U Can't Tell I'm From NY feat. Mike Beck, Maino, Remy Ma & Papoose
Jay-Z - Can I Live
The Crash - Of Hope And Despair
The Strokes - Under Control
The Flaming Lips - Waitin' For A Superman
The Beta Band - Squares
Ghostface Killah - Outta Town Shit
The Stooges - Idea Of Fun
Andre 3000 - My Favourite Things

Maximo Park

2007-02-22T12:20:00.000+02:00

I'm not really arsed on writing long stories about this really as I'm a bit hung over :D Just a great first single from their brand new album:

Maximo Park - Our Velocity (zshare)

The Avalanches

2007-02-17T18:57:00.001+02:00

The Avalanches are a very exciting electronic group hailing from Melbourne, Australia. I believe quite a few people remember their greta single Frontier Psychiatrist back from 2000. They've only produced a single album so far, but they are still signed to Modular Records (For all the ill-informed, Modular is one of the hottest record labels in the scene right now, and they are the lovely people who brought us Wolfmother, Cut Copy and all the other great acts) and the new album is at works. The sooner it comes out the better, because this new track is something really really good!

Now here is a beautiful upbeat track from the group, mixing WHAM's Ray Of Sunshine and Digitalism's Zdarlight. Enjoy!

The Avalanches - Ray Of Zdarlight

New blog!

2007-02-17T16:10:00.000+02:00

Welcome to the kind of cool blog! This blog is going to be mainly about music, ranging everything from alternative rock to electro & hip-hop. I'll be posting some tracks there and then, but this blog isn't going to be about downloads only, but also about current events considering music.

And feel free to post your comments and feelings about this blog, I'm always looking for improvement in here!