Eloquent language

With the holiday cheer coming over us, and that familiar growing sense of stress and incapability to give your loved ones what they deserve seeps into us, I can't help but sing a tune and perhaps do a jigg. As you cloth that pagan partytree of yours, perhaps you'd want some good tunes to put that jingle in your tingle. For you, I'm compiling my top 20 tracks of the past year.

#1 Animal Collective - In The Flowers

I could easily fill the top eleven of this list with every song from Merriweather Post Pavilion but that would be boring, wouldn't it? The opening track of Merriweather is such a wonderfully romantic and just allround beautiful piece of music.

#2 Boys Noize - Gax

Gax is more melodic and not quite as frantic as many of Rhida's other tracks, held together by an intro, bridge and outro. My love for Boys Noize is undying.

#3 Beach House - Norway

This track really envelopes itself into that blanket of the hypnogogic aesthetic, and never seizes to be so cozy and lovable, delivering an incredibly lush and uplifting experience.

#4 Something A La Mode - Rondo Parisiano feat. Karl Lagerfeld

A crazy exersise in music, that I had on my iPod for an extent of six months before listening to it. Yeah, I'm bad at catching up on my tunes. Any track that utilizes the fashion designer with a thousand rings is awesome in my book.

#5 Danger - 00:01 feat. Vyle

One might wonder why french electro and hip hop hasn't been mixed more in the past. French wonderkid, Danger, shows us all how it's done.

#6 Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man

Mumford has produced some great folk rock, and their album released not long ago is most likely after Merriweather my second favorite album to listen through in one sitting. Picking one favorite wasn't an easy task. But just try and not sing along in the chorus on this one, I dare you.

#7 Tim Exile - Family Galaxy

My god, how about that Tim Exile. He's so cool I wanna be him. If Pink Floyd and Modeselektor had a retarded child that in return for his lack of motoric skills got the amplified musical visionary of his parents, Tim would be him. And this track is the best example of just that.

#8 Faux Pas - Silver Line

Capturing the essence of dreams with it's mellow yet frantic sound. Closing my eyes I feel like I'm flying over some green and desolate landscape, with beauty it's sole purpose for being.

#9 Mille - Crysteena

The track that made the summer forme. I listened to it so many times that I basically lived it. I lived the life of a cybernetic machine, living tissue over metal endoskeleton, and I've just now woken up. But I want to go back.

#10 Cleast Eatwood - Get Related

That's what she said.

#11 The XX - Crystalised

I love the way the two voices intertwine in this song. These kids sing so well about teen angst, love and need that I sometimes feel like they're singing about my life.

#12 Good Luck At The Gunfight - Kimberly

I wish I knew this Kimberly, sounds like she's that kinda girl that you could just take home and play scrabble with, you know, and just shut up for a bit.

#13 Hurts - Wonderful Life

Man, Hurts has produced one song so far, but what a frickin song! This guy will be the shit in 2010.

#14 Neon Indian - Terminally Chill

I'll have to agree with the peaple who hate the term chill wave. But the word, chill, just seems to exemplify this track so well, thus the name.

#15 Blake Miller - Tomorrow Sorrow

Blake Miller could lull me to sleep with his amazingly tender voice every night. Everything from the thumping sound in the background, to the wonderfully grated guitar play just speaks to me on such a basic level.

#16 Ganache - In Pidgin

The church organ underlining the vocalists awesome baritone voice makes me smile every time. I wish everything was in pidgin.

#17 Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others

Grizzly bear being on this list was really a no brainer. It was only a matter of time before they got their big break. This is the track off the album I'm most in love with, and it's probably the one mostly resembling their earlier work.

#18 Discovery - I Want You Back

A Jackson 5 hit redone by one part Vampire Weekend and one part Ra Ra Riot. Sign me the fuck up!

#19 Washed Out - Feel it all around

The soft synths in this tune make it just about the greatest song ever to fall asleep to, and so I have many a time.

#20 Deadmau5 - Strobe

The Way this track builds up to it's eventual six minute mark climax is just jaw dropingly awesome.

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It's been a fairly good year, and hopefully you wasted it listening to good music, like I did.

They're alive!

Since the day when I first rented Creep Show 2 from the video store at the age of 12 I've been obsessed with an age I haven't even lived. But that only serves to magnify the mystique of this era long past. I'd gorge in movies like Evil Dead, Karate Kid and Scarface. My eyes would glisten as Bruce Campbell fights the living dead in one of the greatest horror movies of all time, or when Daniel LaRusso makes that final kick in the rising up story that has defined so many lives. The color, the style, the music, the cars, the clothes, the absence of cellphones, twitter and facebook are very befitting of my romantic soul. 

The whole sunny day, ice cream aesthetic is fantastic but there's also the fact that the 80's were the horror movie age. Some of the greatest horror movies were made in the 80's. They simply don't make them that way anymore, in fact the best they can do is just to remake these old classics, and for every time they screw it up so momentously a sinlge tear runs down my cheek. The mission is no longer to scare but to shock, the companies spit out these awful films, making they're money off of stupid teenagers who've been led to believe that this is what horror movies entail. 

These movies are derivative, ugly, full of stereotypes and just plain stupid. That encompasses about 90% of all horror movies produced today. And they'll continue to be produced because people just don't expect much from horror movies anymore. We are no longer able to sympathize with our protagonist but are rather no short of wanting to see them dead, that, is a huge failure from the movie business. Our protagonists are loudmouthed, unapologetic assholes, who you want to see die. Now take for instance, The Thing, from 84. Not in any part of the movie do you acctually see the whole monster, and our protagonist is an intelligent and likable man. You stay scared throughout, making up these versions in your head of how this horrible creation must look, all the while being scared for our protagonists life. Some things were basically better in the 80's. 

Neither can they make parodies like the Naked Gun anymore, or disaster movies like... shit, there's never been any good disaster movies. 

Some day I'll build my time machine. Taking Doc 's idea to a whole new level and attaching the flux capacitor to the rear of my skateboard. Hitting the streets of days long past with my Delorean DMC 12 before shooting Rutger Hauer in a nightclub for dancing with my 80's girl, but only after outmanouvering those hoodlum chumps on my nuclear powered skateboard. All in one day's work.

I'll later retire to my cabin up in north country where I would grow a beard and chop wood all day, wear my belt straps so high that my waistline doesn't exist and fight the living dead, human corpses possessed by demons from the lower circles of hell. At the sight of my mighty woodsman's beard they would not stand a chance, rotten flesh would prove no match when I had been cutting north country wood. My skin would no longer be that, but bear more of a resemblance to a tree's bark. I would light up a fire with my north country wood and perhaps read a good book, pontificate on recent events and maybe take a bath in my 80's bath tub. I'd later be shocked that there was no possibilities for cable TV in my Cabin, dumbfounded at how anyone would wanna live without it, I'd grab my skateboard and get the hell out of there. I'd have the time of my life though, if only for a short time.

Oh, and the music was good too.

This DJ set isn't really music from the 80's but at the same time it embodies the era so well for me. Anything the Valerie golden boys Outrunners does is gold, regardless.

The Outrunners - DJ set @ Razzmatazz

Ovaltine is good for your "soul"

If only things were made in such excess that we may live our lives without worry for the next day or the next coming of a storm. If only it were so. If only all music was produced by the same standards as Andrew Weatherall has put up with his work. If only it were so. 

Then we'd all be good for nothing ingreats wouldn't we? Well now, Ignorance is bliss right? I'm an eyeball witness at the scene of said ignorance and I plead guilty. I am able to tell you, however, that Andrew Weatherall is as awesome as the day is long (Definitions of the passing of time may vary). There's a fair amount of ingenuity to his stuff that I as an onwatcher am very unlikely to pocure from many musical artists these days. 

I'm realising that I'm largely prone to shower a great deal of praise on whoever I'm writing of, sometimes warranted, sometimes not, but I just gotta vent all of that love I got inside me I guess, so take it, or leave it! 

If you like needlessly long sentences that one was for you.

Andrew Weatherall - All The Little Things (That Make Life Worth Living)

xoxo Chekov, Pavel Andreievich, Zulu and all us other motherfuckers off the deck of the Enterprise. Especially Zulu though, he's just full of it. Sexy ass coon.

Herr Doktor

Brazilian futuristic know-how from "Herr Doktor" in this Futuremix delivered for Valerie. 

Herr Doktor's passion for all things retro strikes a very real note with me. He has a thing for old 8-bit cartridges of games for the old Nintendo and Sega machines. I guess we all look back to our childhood as something we want back every now and then.

Now synchronize your watches, turn on your flux capacitors and get ready to see the future! 

Herr Doktor - Future Mix

"Waka Waka"

Business means Business

"Pony Pony Run Run's" summer hit, Hey You, has been hit up with a really cool remix by "Crystal Fighters" just in time for the release of their first album. Adding in some guitar and some cool syntheziser-work they've dissected Hey You and made something very different, yet still really cool. It's also gotten it's very own video, in the form of a traveling commercial for southeast Asia.

Pony Pony Run Run - Hey You (Crystal Fighters Remix) 

On the subject of great remixes I also came upon a great remix of "The Temper Trap's" single, Sweet Disposition by Alan Wilkis. One that doesn't quite chop quite as mercilessly in the original tune as much as the previous remix. Alan doesn't let go of the feel of the original, instead he's able to add a new dimension to it. I like it when remixers are able to do that.

The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition

The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition (Alan Wilkis Remix)

"In The Name Of Science!"

Prof. Huxtable Speaking

-"Dude", he said, "listen to this", he said, "it'll rock your world", he said. 

Hudson Mohawke - FUSE

And it did, "Hudson Mohawke" is at a loss for a better word, just fantastic. FUSE is one of the most epic tracks I've heard this year, this, the year of Crysteena and Apollo. Everything Hudson Mohawke creates is amazingly well-produced and creative, with a kind of electro house deal goin on. Max Justus deffinately comes to mind. He's releasing his first LP on the 26th of October, through the same lable as Tim Exile, whom you can read of here. I for one have my copy pre-ordered, and I suggest you do the same, there's a T-shirt in it for you! You can order it here.

"Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine"

Robot Apocalypse

I made a short posting about "Mille" a while back. Now I would like to rehash the subject. With the release of new material only furthering proof of his godlike ability of producing grade A shit. Mille is a swedish electro chipcore behemoth, it's only a matter of time before they reach the broader stage and have the world in awe. What he has produced so far would make the likes of Daft Punk and Kavinsky green with robot envy. I'm sure I just stepped on a lot of feet there, but yes, I firmly believe that Mille has produced better music than Daft Punk. 

One day when the AI has taken over the universe, Crysteena will be their marching tune as they mercilessly slaughter all innocent organisms. I for one will welcome our new robot overlords. 

Mille - Ghost Dancer

Mille - Maniac Pop

Mille - The Shaolin Temple

Mille - Stargazers

Mille - Crysteena

We Got Company - Give Me Some More (Mille Remix)

An unexpected smile

If there is a god, he would listen to "Matamatics". Now of course the idea of an all powerful and all seeing sentient being is ridiculous, right? The Zenith track sounds a lot like "Danger", and that, can only be a good thing. But the real gems are their remixes of Imogen Heap and Drake, underlined by a mellow beat and a feelgood synth they're the kind of track that gets one through the day, and the night to an equal amount. The dance aesthetic is one proudly advanced into by Matamatics. Best I Ever Had disrupts all my senses who cry for stillnes and what commences can only be described as a white boys desperate attempt to dance.

Drake - Best I Ever Had (Matamatics Rmix)

Imogen Heap - Headlock (Matamatics Rmix)

Matamatics - Zenith

Miami horror

The "Miami horror" is finally reaching into the cookiejar and pulling out it's first single. It's that hit track that you've just been waiting for them to release, and now that it's here - with a beautiful video to boot - it couldn't have gone better. I can't help but feel they're kinda like a downsized version of Bag Raiders though, but I'll have to wait til the finished album hits the shelves sometime next year before I can really evaluate. 

On the subject of the video, I really think that director "Moop Jaw" did a fantastic job with it. Be jealous of their young bodies and minds, be awed by the fantastic scenery, be thrilled by the music.

Miami Horror - Sometimes 

Miami Horror - Don't Be On With Her

Afrika shox

I found this song a couple of months ago on "Keytars & Violins" (possibly the coolest blog in the world in terms of design, just sayin), and it's an excellent example of good experimental music. Apparently African folk song + house = true. And that's exactly the kind of experience I'd like to share here on this blog. "Niconé" has done some really cool stuff in recent years, even cooler than Owl's with lazer eyes! Which in itself is contradictory since nothing is cooler than Owl's with lazer eyes. 

Niconé - Abayomi

Discover

I never quite wondered what would happen if you were to mix "Vampire Weekend" with "Ra Ra Riot". I should've. Once again, this certainly isn't "news" but this little brainchild of Vampire Weekend keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot vocalist Wes Miles is some of the best electro pop produced this side of the universe. They produced an album titled the same as their project, "Discovery" which was released just before summer. This album is a discovery of an Electro pop universe not yet traversed with soundmixing as dubiously clever as the mindtrap that is sudoku (I really can't figure that shit out!) and vocals as unfitting as mustard on candycorn yet still as wellfitting as chocolate syrup on vanilla ice cream. Of course there still is that slight chance that you're allergic to the small residue of peanut in the chocolate syrup. 

Discovery to me, is a very interesting project and I'm eagerly awaiting whatever comes next, although six months of listening to their first album certainly hasn't put me off from looping it on my iPod some more. An auto tuned Ezra Koenig sets the mood for Carby, a great track out of an album where I acctually love every single song, I don't think that's ever happened for me since Cross was released two years ago. The cover of the Jackson 5 track I Want You back is probably my favourite track out of this fantastic musical achievement, it remains epic and ferocious despite it's slow tempo. I could realistically name every track on this record as my favorite though, I just love it that much.

Discovery - Carby (Feat. Ezra Koening) 

Discovery - I Want You Back

XXX

Pornographic material for yo' ears, that's what my agenda is all about. "The XX" is a four-piece from London consisting of 18-19 somethings coming together to create this summers most beautiful album. It's hard to imagine something less timid than The XX's melodies, and that's where their musical genius lies, their quiet and soothing, yet somehow angry display of pure teen angst. There's alot of themes to do with moons and stars, as well as the silly ideas we youngsters have about unconditional love and our beliefs that somewhere out there is something for us to build our lives upon. They display a harsh reality though, one that says that we cannot always stay so naive. Yet they wish to linger in these beliefes as though they were unwanting of leaving their naivite behind, as if to say that having these dreams are just as crucial as the realisation that we cannot rely on them.

Now I'm sure many of you are aware of The XX's gothic homage to the vocal melodies of R&B and their back to back musical upbringing with "Hot Chip" and "Burial" for which they are most recognised. For those of you not aware though I'd like for you to consider the following fact. They are fantastic. They released their first LP about two weeks ago, and through strained repetiotion on my iPod I've come to the conclusion that there's not a single mediocre track on the record. Every track is as inventively gloomy as the one preceding it and the duets between vocalists Romy and Oliver are a struggle of beauty on beauty with the listener ultimately the winner. 

The xx - Shelter 

The xx - Stars

Last Night in france

Boy, let me tell you, if the description "Hip-hop house through pink italo shades" doesn't pique any kind of interest in you, this artwork will. I can honestly say that I was awestruck by these pretty fuckin masterful pieces of artwork they had on their Myspace. "DW" is the name of the swedish duo I'm raving about, DW is short for Deadwood, but in fear of being associated with the wrong things they feel that the name DW is more electro, possibly more german. In spite of the project being 6 years old they have yet to release their first EP. Though with the help of Chicago based indie label Glam Boy, things are finally put in motion with a small promo video posted on Vimeo promising it will drop this fall. 

Italo Disco they call it, and Italo Disco it is, the best kind, the cheesy kind, the kind that makes you glad to be alive. While they've made some great stuff on their own, their very best creation is probably the colab with french counterpart "Daroc" on the track, Hypnotic France.

Following are some great snippets of sound, DW originals and DW remixes alike.

Edit: I just came across this really cool online drum machine with the DW logo on it, check it out! Ronwinter Drums

Daroc Feat. DW - Hypnotic France

DW - Hijack

DW - You and me

Charlie - Spacer Woman (DW Remix)

Fake - Frogs In Spain (DW Remix)

Daroc Feat. DW - Hypnotic France (Pelifics Remix)

Daroc Feat. DW - Hypnotic France (Charlie Fanclub Remix)

While on the subject of Daroc, I'd like to talk about a track that's been haunting my dreams and terrorising me to the point of a breakdown. In a good way. By the time the song reaches it's literal climax, man, It just makes me happy. It was featured on the "Boxon Makes Me Happy" album released earlier this year, an album you should buy right away, unless you're a chicken-wuss! Chicken-wuss! That's right, I'm resorting to the insults of a seven year old, I'm also resorting to mocking my few readers, oh well, here's the track.

Daroc - A Bout De Souffle 

Crimefighting just got sexy

Anyone played Vice City? Yeah? And you figured maybe you'd watch some TV in your virtual luxury flat? Yeah? Then maybe you came across the in-game show called Angel and the Knight about the crimefighting couple living on a speedboat, named Chris Van Angel and Bonnie Knight... Yeah? Well, Chris works as a "hot dog" helicopter pilot and is a Vietnam veteran. Bonnie is a recovering alcoholic ninja who will sleep her way to the truth. Together they create a formiddable crimefighting team, whilst also battling their inner demons. They also ride a helicopter that can go underwater. If that's not the concept for a successful and longrunning TV-classic I don't know what is!

It so happens that someone thought it'd be a great idea to release a soundtrack with songs that had nothing to do with the show itself, but rather with the era and mentality of he show. It's the soundtrack the show would've had, had it been aired on real television. Now the only reason I'm aware of this thing is that "Murder One" is featured in a colab with "Girl is Toügh" on the track titled This is Love which is an allright disco-thumper but acctually one of my least favorite tracks on the album. Instead "Palm Highway Chase" takes the podium with his track titled Space Again. It's a great trip to the nightly colors and sounds of 80's downtown Miami, suckin it all in through the pores of your skin while watching the neon flash by from the seat of your car. Now I am aware I was not born in the 80's nor have I ever been to Miami, but all you gotta do is believe, Johnny boy! The album is available for free download right here.

Palm Highway Chase - Space Again

Nothing Will stop them

There seems to be no end of interesting swedish bands and musicians, yet they receive much too little acclaim here at home. The Sound of Arrows are now reaching out abroad to release their debut single in the UK and the US through "Neon Gold", accompanied by this video here. I've been watching it on a loop for the last four days and I absolutely love it. I just want to run out into the rain and in a fiery rawr proclaim my challenge to the world, in the face of great adversity. Because, as the song says, as long as we stay together nothing can stop us. 

"The Sound of Arrows" do everything themselves, they write and produce all their own music, handle the design work and even create their own music videos. That DIY mentality really is commendable, and - with that in mind - The Sound of Arrows really are a new breed of pop superstars, as the folks over at Neon Gold so nicely put it. 

The duo consisting of Oskar Gullstrand and Stefan Storm released their latest EP this last january, titled "M.A.G.I.C.", spearheaded by the track of the same name, a track with definite shades of Justice's "D.A.N.C.E.". A bunch of kids singing a chorus about how the world is full of magic never fails. Unless it sucks. Which this track clearly doesn't.

What follows is the wonderful promo video for their M.A.G.I.C.A.L. EP.

Greetings from Paris

This is my first post in this blog and I have to say that it is not without being a bit nervous that I am writing this... I mean no one writes better than the Neon Prince, and since I am an old fart I don't know anything about new music. 

To make my post seem cooler, I chose a headline saying I am in Paris, so even if the song I choose for this first post won't be a hit amongst the people in the Topographic Ocean, making clear that you are NOT in Sweden is a classic way of being cool. And I think it kind of works, most of the time.

To complete the cliché:

Bioxlat - Joe Le Taxi

Danger-ous Love Juice

What happens when one of my favorite electronical artists remix one of the greatest musical feats of all time? Some awesome fuckin shit is what happens! What follows is so full of pure 80's asskickery, so full of sheer musical prowess your head might just explode. The french wonderkid "Danger" remixes Love Juice by "SymbolOne"! And it is fan-fuckin-tabulous!

This remix isn't exactly new, but it's deffinately one of my favorite remixes of ANYTHING ever to surface out of ANYTHING. Seriously, if the aliens attack, all we need to do is play Danger's Love Juice remix and they'll stop their onslaught, because a civilization that can achieve such transcendence truly deserves to live out their time. If you've not caught onto it yet, yes I do like this song, immensly. 

SymbolOne - Love Juice (Remixed by Danger)

Danger is according to me one of the greatest in the electro-music genre today, and while the Love Juice remix might not have been enough to persuade you to that point, I'm hoping these two following tracks might. The first one is titled "07:46", from his latest Ep released this march, the second is off the same album, it's called "00:01", featuring "Vyle" on vocals, and it's essentially a remastering of their track, "00h00" which was one of my favorite tracks out of 2009 untill I heard  the new version. Dunno why Danger is so keen on naming his albums and tracks after dates and times of the day, I'm guessing these are his favorite hours of the day, or maybe they signify important days of his life. Well I dunno, but as the long as the music sounds good I'm all for it.

Danger - 07:46

Danger - 00:01 feat. Vyle

Justus

"Muxtape" got a makeover, instead of being the mixtape-mecka that it was it's been accommodated for artists only to upload their music and present themselves. It had become a great place to discover indie musicians struggling to get their creations out to the masses that thirst for the new thing. Right now Muxtape is strictly invite-based, as it evidently has once again gone into re-development to become a place where artists will be able to sell downloads and where labels may manage their bands in orderly fashion, thus getting them involved and evading legal issues. Anyone will also be able to perform remixes of music on the site. This all sounds like it'll be a great innovation, especially for indie musicians to make some money to fund their efforts.

 Though it's not what the creator of Muxtape, Justin Ouelette, first set out to do, which was to create a scene where anyone could come and share their favorite music with people, whether of their own creation or not. With it's launch in March last year, I bet Ouelette never would have expected Muxtape to grow at such an excellerated rate, but apparently alot of people love to create mixtapes, and I'm certainly one of them. By August Justin had become under siege from the RIAA over Copyrights issues. He had to take down the site, promising though that it would be back up agian soon. Though by late September he posted a blog stating that the site could no longer be running the way it had been, instead it was going into development to become what it is today. And now it's steadily growing into what will be one of the greater steps toward flunking the copyright laws and the evil music-labels that have been hampering artistical freedom for so long. Well... One can hope.

Max Justus

In one of my Muxtape listening sessions I stumbled upon a few gems that I'd like to direct your attention to. First of all there's "Max Justus" whom I first came across last winter, when he released remixes of eight of 808's & Heartbreaks tracks, an album I didn't enjoy all to much. But Justus managed to take Kanye's Cher-impressions and make it into something pretty good. I especially like the track, Bending Space and Time, off of his newly released album titled No Mercy which after a quick listen gets a good verdict from me. 8 from 808's and Heartbreaks is available for download completely free of any kind of expences, it may be found here, but most deffinately not here.

Max Justus - Bending Space and Time 

Max Justus - Simplicity

Next up is "Doctor Rosen Rosen" who has remixed Lilly Allen's newest album, "Its not me, it's you", and released the remix album titled, "It's not me, it's Doctor Rosen Rosen", as seen above. I'll have to admit I've never sat down and listened to any Lily Allen songs, but I'm sure that DR.R.R's interpretation is at least as good if not better than the original, given that the remixes are a bit different. The album is available for free download here. 

Lily Allen - Chinese (Remixed by Doctor Rosen Rosen)

Lily Allen - The Fear (Remixed by Doctor Rosen Rosen)

Others that were very interesting, but I was not able to find purchasable or downloadable or I just didn't feel like getting ahold of  at the moment include: "Maxo", "M.E.S.H.", "Omnichrome"and "Blood and Sunshine". 

Mille

As quoted from the "Starsmith" blog:

"This 

  Song

  Will

  Complete

  Your

  Life."

Mille - Crysteena

What he said. Period. Since I first heard it over at "Data Sapiens" about four months ago I've probably injured my ears irreparably from looping it over and over and over on the highest volume on my iPod. On top of everything else, "Mille" is acctually a resident of Stockholm, Sweden. I feel honestly proud to be swedish now.

Big lipped aligator moment

Well first off I guess I should apologise for the lack of posts in the last few weeks, but I just haven't really felt compelled to write something untill now. And well, I know it might seem odd posting about a game soundtrack, but hell, this is the most kickass track I've heard in a game yet, with too many bleeps and blops for me to possibly shy away from it. They only made these kind of tracks for those game systems from the late 80's and early 90's and I have to say, watching this video I had a real nostalgic trip. Reminiscing of those days before the internet and a time before the likes of Michael Bay had stained our young with his horrible movie-making, a time where the world seemed a great place, and I was just an innocent little boy playing Donkey Kong on my brothers Super Nintendo. Oh, how time flies by.

This is off the awesome movie/games reviewing site, "That Guy With The Glasses.com", put together by the awfully french "Benzaie" who's made a bunch of these videos honoring game soundtracks of old, you can check em out here. 

The game also looks pretty cool, you have to admit that in the gaming world shooting out hearts out of the chest rather than bullets out of guns is a pretty unusual concept. 

The composer of the music is a guy called Barry Leitch who's worked on over 240 games over the course of the last three decades. This guy has totally become my new obsesession, I wish he would be enlisted for the sequel to the space saga that is Mass Effect. I just know that he's the one to conduct the melodies to make you feel the deep silence of space.

Thank you Benzaie!

Appselektor

The Collaboration between the two german musicians, "Apparat" and "Modeselektor" culminated into what is probably one of this years greatest album releases. The selftitled album "Moderat", an obvious coupling of their two names had a number of great tracks on it, though the track "Seamonkey" is probably the most impressive, I've found that "Rusty Nails" is somewhat more easily listened to, and is probably my personal favorite. Now they've released the video for Rusty Nails as well, and I really, really like it.

Into Exile

When I came across "Tim Exile" over on "Keytars & Violins" a while back I had an almost revelatory experience. This guy released his third LP this year and it's by far his most mature stuff so far, while his first two LP's are in comparison alot more like a boy playing with a drum machine, "Listening Tree" is - I think - "lil' Timmy's" big break at this point, he's been getting some good press for it, and it's just so well deserved. This englishman in Berlin exile has been doing his thing for 10 years now, so he's pretty much a veteran of the art at 29. "Pro Agonist" and "Tim Exile's Nuiscance Gabbaret Lounge" were both released through "Planet MU", and they were very much so verbal of Planet MU's more ploy-ish sound. Now "Listening Tree" was a colab-release between "Planet MU" and "WARP", bringing in" WARP's" electrosmartness, if you will. Also new to "Listening Tree" is Tim Exile's vocal talents which - at times - kinda reminds me of the lead singer in "Depeche Mode", "David Gahan", at other times of "Syd Barret", leadsinger of "Pink Floyd".

Tim Exile

Now you can probably tell I'm pretty extatic about this guy, I mean just look at that awesome helmet he's wearing on the picture above! Look! Now! 

Anyway, heres's a couple goodies from the one and only Timmy in Exile. I have to say Family Galaxy is one of the greatest tracks I've heard this year, and 2009 has been pretty good for me with new albums from "Phoenix", "Röyksopp", "Fink", "MSTRKRFT", debut albums from "Passion Pit", "La Roux", "Fagget Fairys", "Moderat", "Discovery" as well as the first EP's from "Marina and the Diamonds", "Yes Giantess", "Chiddy Bang", and a bunch of cool Mixtapes from the likes of "Theophilus London" and "Wale" and on top of that a shitload of remixes. And that's just off the top of my head, yes, 2009 has been good to me. 

Tim Exile - Family Galaxy

Tim Exile - Don't Think We're One