Rik Bracke - Veel maar niet genoeg

Van opgekropte woede, van veel maar niet genoeg. 

A very raw song.

K

Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

From their album 'An Awesome Wave'. Each song is a gem but right now I feel like sharing this one.

K

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Roots Garden Records

Okay! Finally!

For some stupid reason I couldn't log into the blog anymore for about a month, but I'm back. Since my main input to this seems to be posting youtube links as if nobody else would know that site, but if nobody minds I would be up for continuing that.

I have a feeling this will be the song of summer for me, from the exquisite Roots Garden label and mixed/produced by Nick Manasseh. Look up those two, I find Roots Garden one of the better reggae labels, who also have the amazing Bob Skeng on their playlist. Enjoy!

Roman Holiday

I thought Nicki Minaj had flipped out with all the way-too-colourful appearance but then I took a while to go through Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded and it's actually quite good. It's not one of those albums where each song is mind-blowingly good but it is very dancy and thus suits perfectly the summer of 2012. She's a good and energetic artist, in my opinion, thus she shall have a spot on our blog! ~__^

ISABELL

Childish Gambino and Beck - Silk Pillow

Unexpected collaboration but it seems to work. Childish Gambino & Beck with Silk Pillow. Beck's oddness with Gambino's pop tunes, it's as if they decided to make music between my and Isa's taste. Lol

But now I wonder, where in the world did these two meet?
K

BRETON

Despite my high level of antisociality, I managed to take some time off last month and see We Were Promised Jetpacks in Toronto (more amazingly, I should mention, I managed to convince a dear friend to come along, achievement unlocked). Anyhow, this post won't talk about WWPJ but instead of a warm-up band from London. Actually, I'm not going to blabber on about their amazingness and niceness, but instead I shall post a couple of their music videos; Edward the Confessor and Interference.

Enjoy and check out Fat Cat Records for more info!

Red Bull Elektropedia - Bass Camp

This looks interesting, Red Bull seems to put a lot of effort into music making. I don't know if it's just in Belgium but I like what they do with Red Bull Elektropedia (visit their Youtube channel, it has nice videos).
For instance this video, another nice example of a great initiative. They invite 16 young musicians and teach/give them the opportunity to work with hard- and software that they don't usually have available, in a perfect creative atmosphere and guided by their group members and some impressive names as lecturers/teachers (some of them also give lectures to me weekly, heh. I keep being reminded of how fucking lucky I am).
Anyway, enjoy the video and do look up some more Red Bull stuff, I'm actually impressed every time I see what they do next to making their original product. If only their drink was good...
K

SWEET BABY, I NEED FRESH BLOOD

Okay, this is more my kind of video. I must say that the red colour adds a dimension to the whole video that simply makes it work. However, I don't like the ending with the swimming pool scene. It doesn't make sense to me thus I shall give this video 7 out of 10 (the comical stalker definitely brings an additional point to that grading). No, what the hell am I doing, grading music videos on my blog? I don't even know why I'm posting so many videos but it's okay (it is justified by an unnecessary cup of "coffee" and a late hour because 23:03 is indeed late for me).

As hard as it is I will try to move forward with my text and say that True Blood's soundtrack has some really good music and this is where I happened to hear Eels's Fresh Blood. So, if you're up for some chill music you can always check True Blood out.

ISABELL

Calling All The Crows

I did not know that the free songs on Tap Tap could have something good to offer. Yes, I realize it looks as if I don't have a life but I'm sure it is somewhere between the addiction to Tetris and this newly discovered game... Anyhow, take a listen and you might like it. I don't really know what is it about the song but the first thought that comes to my mind is some sort of a rhythm in it that makes me feel like I have an association with it... I just have no idea what's the association. Night-blabbering taking over...

Also, I was going to post the original music video but there was something about it that made me not become too enthusiastic about it, thus I'm posting this live performance. I realize the singer looks scary... Heh.

ISABELL

Jerry Lee Lewis - Just Dropped In

ooooh what, I think this is a super super super cool song. Really.K

Shawn Lee's Incredible Tabla Band - "Apache"

Damn! I'm in the mood for weird music tonight.

K

Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra ft. Nino Mochello - Kiss the Sky

What a chill song.
K

Mr. Gasmask - Jawbreaker

Sweet!
K

Belgian Reggae

It exists!
K

THE ORIGIN OF LOVE

When the earth was still flat,

And the clouds made of fire,

And mountains stretched up to the sky,

Sometimes higher,

Folks roamed the earth

Like big rolling kegs.

They had two sets of arms.

They had two sets of legs.

They had two faces peering

Out of one giant head

So they could watch all around them

As they talked; while they read.

And they never knew nothing of love.

It was before the origin of love.

The origin of love

And there were three sexes then,

One that looked like two men

Glued up back to back,

Called the children of the sun.

And similar in shape and girth

Were the children of the earth.

They looked like two girls

Rolled up in one.

And the children of the moon

Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.

They were part sun, part earth

Part daughter, part son.

The origin of love

Now the gods grew quite scared

Of our strength and defiance

And Thor said,

"I'm gonna kill them all

With my hammer,

Like I killed the giants."

And Zeus said, "No,

You better let me

Use my lightening, like scissors,

Like I cut the legs off the whales

And dinosaurs into lizards."

Then he grabbed up some bolts

And he let out a laugh,

Said, "I'll split them right down the middle.

Gonna cut them right up in half."

And then storm clouds gathered above

Into great balls of fire

And then fire shot down

From the sky in bolts

Like shining blades

Of a knife.

And it ripped

Right through the flesh

Of the children of the sun

And the moon

And the earth.

And some Indian god

Sewed the wound up into a hole,

Pulled it round to our belly

To remind us of the price we pay.

And Osiris and the gods of the Nile

Gathered up a big storm

To blow a hurricane,

To scatter us away,

In a flood of wind and rain,

And a sea of tidal waves,

To wash us all away,

And if we don't behave

They'll cut us down again

And we'll be hopping round on one foot

And looking through one eye.

Last time I saw you

We had just split in two.

You were looking at me.

I was looking at you.

You had a way so familiar,

But I could not recognize,

‘Cause you had blood on your face;

I had blood in my eyes.

But I could swear by your expression

That the pain down in your soul

Was the same as the one down in mine.

That's the pain,

Cuts a straight line

Down through the heart;

We called it love.

So we wrapped our arms around each other,

Trying to shove ourselves back together.

We were making love,

Making love.

It was a cold dark evening,

Such a long time ago,

When by the mighty hand of Jove,

It was the sad story

How we became

Lonely two-legged creatures,

It's the story of

The origin of love.

That's the origin of love.

***

I was just reading Hedwig and the Angry Inch, written by John Cameron Mitchell. Particularly these lyrics which somehow made my mind wonder to pleasant places. The lyrics are beautiful.

I haven't heard the song and frankly I don't want to (until Friday when I will actually have to watch the film) because simply reading them makes me feel (oddly so) good on the inside. Makes me think of love.

Enough with this blabbering.


ISABELL

DEADMEAT TOUR 2012

I was browsing through upcoming concerts and gigs in Toronto (which disgracingly so has no snow) and the list looks dangerously weak, I just might have to concentrate only on school... Maybe, most likely no, I always hope for that.

Anyway, I bumped into this video which looks amazing so I thought I'd share it with you. Probably a worthwhile tour. There's not much I need to say here because I'm feeling weirdly tired at the moment except for that it's presented by Rockstar Energy Drink (at least it's drinkable) and featuring Steve Aoki and Datsik. More information, surprisingly so, on their site. Check it oooout. Cheers.

ISABELL

You and me are BETTER TOGETHER

This is a beautiful song and a beautiful music video. And yeah, I guess over a short period of time this has managed to create nice memories. Enjoy this chillness.

Jack Johnson performing Better Together live in Paris.

ISABELL

Me and the Devil

This simply works.

Fine, I'll admit it. I heard this first on TB but anyhow, epic song is epic. I like how colourful the video is shot-wise (since obviously the actual colour scale used is not that wide). Still, for me the music video somehow hangs in the borderlines of life and death and I like that feeling, all the masks, costumes, sounds and so forth. Simply wonderful.

Check it out and appreciate what Gil Scott-Heron has brought.

ISABELL

Joker - Digidesign

Although I think what has become of this dubstep hype is pretty retarded, the things I heard a couple of years ago when it was still pretty unexplored territory, was pretty good. I always loved the releases of Hyperdub, a London based label lead by the intriguing Kode 9 ( 9 Samurai and Portal both are still some of my fastest personal launches into deepspace) that also has Burial - he's been blogged about enough already I think - Four Tet, Flying Lotus, King Midas Sound, Darkstar and the Spaceape, an MC that redefines the concept of mindfuck every two verses.

Anyway, I always liked this song for it's pretty cool title, the simplicity, the trippy sounds, the chillness and at the same time some mysterious tension, that cymbal pitching up every few beats and the beautiful, beautiful synth melodyn how it flows around itself... damn.
If I were an astronaut who loses grip of the edge of his ship and starts floating away into infinity, I'd put this song on infinite repeat.

K

This song is also worth listening to, I don't know a lot of songs as dreamy as this one.

Duke Ellington - It don't mean a thing (if you ain't got that swing)

My god! The sound of that trombone at 1:05! Have you ever heard anything like that? And the swing indeed... This makes me want to get my lovely Isa in my arms and dance again.

K