Kele Releases New Tracks!

Holy fucking shit motherfuckers - Kele Okereke, lead singer from Bloc Party has finally released new tracks from his upcoming album Boxer - and its some of the best material I've heard since Bloc Party released the collections of B-Sides unofficially entitled Another Weekend in the City. The music is clear, unhinged, beautiful, and at times, a little bit banger. Maybe the band needed a split to express themselves musically - a sad day for all of us Bloc Party fans, but a good thing ultimately. Who knows, maybe Pin Me Down, Russell Lissack's side project Pin Me Down's first album is awesome as well. Ill give it a listen and post about it later today.

Check out this Tron-esque video for the club sounding track Tenderoni!

Kele Okereke - OS|MS

Rise by Kele Okereke

Walk Tall by Kele Okereke

Kele Okereke - Tenderoni (Larry Tee and Beckwith Remix)

Pin Me Down

So... Pin Me Down.

What to say. Russell Lissack (Bloc Party, fool) is an amazing guitar player, expressive and emoitional, with a great degree of technical skill yet possessing of a tempering intelligence that keeps him seemingly restrained until the appropriate moment. He has proved an expert DJ and programmer, a hard working and proficient musician with interesting ideas.

Milena Mepris is pretty hot.

I just dont know what to think. Mepris' (former lead singer of Black Moustache) voice seemed to be a fantastic contributing factor on such projects as Pin Me Down's excellent remix of "Ares," but it was pretty filtered and background, whereas on these tracks its front and center - and noticeably more, erm, nasally. I just dont know. The two tracks I have heard so far, "Cryptic" and "Time Crisis," its almost omnipresent, forgettable and annoying, until Russell's unusually muscular guitar playing edges it out of the way, and becomes immediately recognizable as the defining factor it was with Bloc Party.

Maybe its Russel's fault. While I certainly extract a great amount of joy from hearing him play guitar the same way he did with Bloc Party, maybe he needs to grow more as a guitarist to help these tracks stand out.

Or maybe he should just get back with Bloc Party.

Check out this remix, however, it does empty some of the guitar but it softens Mepris' voice and turns the track into an unoffensive eurodance track.

Pin Me Down - MS|OS

Pin Me Down - Time Crisis (Co-Pilots Turbulence Remix)

Bloc Party - Ares (Pin Me Down Remix)

State of Electro 2008

To kick off my contributions to the cheetah lovefest I present to you a mix of the hottest of the hot: ELECTRO. This movement, fueled by the unstoppable energy of the French dance scene superstars such as Justice, Daft Punk and Sebastian, represents the inevitable reemergence of disco sensibilities through the fusion of electronic and more guitar based rock. While electro's home is certainly the dance floor, this sythesis has created some of the most intense, energetic and driving music being produced today.

While this mix may not represent the newest electro music available, it is certainly some of the most essential. Beginning with the a celebration of that most essential life-blood of electro in the form of the "ecstasy trilogy" and moving directly into some of the most fantastically hedonistic dance music ever created, these songs are the absolute pinnacle of one of the greatest genres to emerge in the last decade.


State of Electro 2008


Boys Noize - "& Down"
Thieves Like Us - "Drugs In My Body"
Soulwax - "E-Talking"
Boys Noize - "Let's Buy Happiness"
Justice - "D.A.N.C.E. (MSTRKRFT Remix)"
Simian Mobile Disco - "Tits & Acid"
Justice - "DVNO"
Digitalism - "I Want I Want"
Daft Punk - "Around The World/Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger"
Mylo - "Musclecar Reform Reprise"
MGMT - "Electric Feel"
Justice - "Waters of Nazareth"
Danger - "Revolte at 22h10"
Justice - "Phantom Pt 3 Ghettoruckus Remix"
Kavinsky - "Testarossa (SebastiAn Remix)"
Bloc Party - "Halo"