Tag Archives: House Party

Swim, Caribou

Just posting some cool music I downloaded on a whim. I love it when that happens: When I throw 10 bucks down on itunes and I come out with a cool album of songs. Thanks, Pitchfork! Almost seems like happenstance/I actually have good taste in music.

It’s like, some kind of avant garde house music that will throb your brain sometimes. I first listened to this while I was slowly developing a hangover, falling asleep after a night of Vegas drinking. I find myself constantly going back to listen to it over the weeks, though. Bowls especially, needs to be bumped with some loud bass as it counters with some harpy harps and clangy clanging bells. Somewhere in there, there’s a house party. And Found Out is a deconstructed, softly mutated disco diva’s ballad sung by a croony white dude with remorseful pains about being found out about some affair or another. Or at least that’s the story I imagine, I didn’t really listen to the lyrics. It’s soooo Thelma Houston’s “Don’t Leave Me This Way”. And I mean that in the best way.

mp3: Caribou “Found Out
mp3: Caribou “Bowls

LazerProof

La Roux reminds me of my BFFN (best-friend-for-never) Sarah, who is in rocking down in New Zealand right now. The video for Major Lazer’s “Pon de floor” gloriously freaked her out, so this combination of the two polarizing artists is blowing my mind! It makes almost too much sense.

But it took me awhile to actually listen to it. I finally popped it into my ipod and now it’s my driving soundtrack!! La Roux’s music is really malleable, and her voice is really versatile, so it sounds really good over any kind of bass-y beat. Vice-versa with the music, case-in-point, Independent Kill. It’s my hilarious jam with this awesome rap-bitch (Candi Redd) singing over the funky-cool In For The Kill beat. But yeah, I think what I like most about Major Lazer, and La Roux’s style, is that it’s very old school and like, disturbingly fun. Especially the “In 4 the Kill Pon the Skream” remix. It’s fuckin’ old school house party circa 1992. What else is good… the re-work of Gucci Mane’s “I’m Not Your Lemonade”! It unexpectedly works. Coool!

go here to download the entire mix, but here’s a taste of the best

mp3: Major Lazer & La Roux “I\’m Not Your Lemonade + Heroes n Villains Remix feat. Gucci Mane

mp3: Major Lazer & La Roux “Keep It Fascinating