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black kids, hot chip & MGMT for me

also to beats me -- i did a remix of that lady gaga song, gets played on XM a lot:

https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php? ... MHhMWEE9PQ

I really though Hot Chips's "Made in the Dark" was a great release and I like the MGMT disc as well... It is always hardest for me to remember what came out in a given year since I listen to so many different albums/artists... but those are two that really stuck with me.

Emissary wrote:i quite like this one

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LMBNZ6mDSYk

the girl has that androgynous look that was prevalent in the 80s, its a refreshing change from mini sexpots of today.

Yeah that's a cool track, but its basically when doves cry by prince, n'est pas?

the new gang gang dance album did it for me

black moth super rainbow

industrial reggae polka
speed mariachi waltz

italtek's album on planet mu
and some of syntheme's acid tracks

Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (Warp)


Clark - Turning Dragon (Warp)


Peter Broderick - Home (Type Records)


Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs from the beehive (Smallville)


Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)


Dinky - May be later (Vakant)

I'm on the Flying Lotus bandwagon.

ubermnd wrote:Deadmau5?





just kidding. I've been really digging this guy...

http://www.prettylightsmusic.com/

made his new album free to download from his site. Its absolutely stunning! I seriously recommend to anyone. This man is a production wizard.

Don't forget to bung him a few bucks if you like it tho

JESUS!!!! this is some amazing music. cheers for the link...

http://www.myspace.com/rjd2

i'm sure a lot of you are familiar with this guy. I remember hearing his name as a DJ years ago, but never knew what he was really up to. Then recently I found a link to his myspace page from dj infiniti.
I gotta say, I love his album "Third Hand". Quite a few tracks on there that I love listening to. Now, I have a problem because, a lot of "producers" or "musicians" take credit for music that actually isn't theirs. : Kanye West, including numerous other thieves. Even Timbaland is a thief. I've tracked down every single song he "produced", and every one of them was stolen. Which is not a surprise since, thats how he got his start with the night-rider theme song. A quote by Timbaland in response to an accusation of him stealing music: "Music is just notes that repeats itself." Yes, music is about repetition, but not when your repeating someone else's song. The truth is, the mathematical possibilities of music, notes- and time- are infinite. He's obviously someone who does not belong in the musician/artist category.

But RJD2... I know he is a DJ, and does sample a lot of stuff. Which is fine, as long as the samples are re-used in a creative way where the artist gets to express his emotion with those samples. I'm mainly talking about drum sounds, hits, stabs, vocal one shots, etc... "Producers" that take melodies from other songs should be thrown out the window. But supposedly RJD2 has recorded his own drums, vintage keyboard instruments, guitars, and obviously his own vocals, which I think is truly AMAZING. It takes a lot of talent for me to appreciate listening to a white guy sing melodies in the alto range. There aren't many of those guys out there that can use their higher pitched voices to sound good. Tom Petty being one of them.
now, my friend heard some of RJD2's music, and swears up and down that the melodies he sang were stolen from old songs by other artists. I haven't verified this yet, but i'm pretty good at naming that tune.
Regardless, I love listening to that album, and I like what I hear coming from his instruments, but I can't give the guy all the credit just yet. Either this guy is EXTREMELY talented in writing hooks and melodies, or i've over estimated him and he's just rehashed older songs into his own.

anybody know about how much of that album was sampled from old records?

wow thanks for pointing out that justin martin remix of mushrooms. i really love the original and the remix is amazing!

1. The Bug - London Zoo [Ninja Tune]
2. 2562 - Aerial [Tectonics]
3. Roots Manuva - Slime & Reason [Big Dada]

lipidfish wrote:Sound off on what you thought were the best music releases of 2008.


GO!

The two best albums I heard in 2008 both came out last week:

E-40 - Ball Street Journal

San Quinn - From A Boy To A Man


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