(Gluttony by Bryan Crockett, 2002. Cultured marble.)
I love it when I spend my work weekend (mostly) away from the internet, and come back to find a damn GLUT of exciting news and new music. YACHT+DFA=!, a new TV on the Radio song, a new Crystal Castles song, more talk about Girl Talk, a free mixtape from Dead Science, and free Music Fest NW wristbands after the jump.
1. DFA Records picked up Portland duo Y.A.C.H.T. It makes me happy to hear that one of my favorite labels is staying fresh while still sharpening their benchmark aesthetic. First, Hercules and Love Affair’s new album is probably the best dance music LP of 2008, and now, The Juan Maclean’s shift from pseudo-human revivalist electro to reinterpreting classic house continues to catch my ears. Check out Y.A.C.H.T.’s new video for “Summer Song” and then tell me they are not a perfect fit.
2. If FBM were a mixtape, then this next song would mix niceley. (I actually thought that some other Y.A.C.H.T song was playing again in a different tab.) The funky danceability of TV On The Radio’s new single, from their forthcoming “Dear Science,” has me excited. Go to their website to hear it. Don’t expect the stripped down intro to be all that you are going to get though. It’s basically a rule that TVOTR has gotta have no less than 40 tracks on any given song.
** A side note for gossipy Portlanders: my friend says she saw guitarist Kyp Malone (he’s the guy with the beard, afro, and glasses) at Fresh Pot a couple of days ago and heard that he may be living in Portland now. I’d be curious to hear if this is true.
3. Crystal Castles’ announced in a Myspace bulletin that they dropped a new song on the Cannibal Cheerleader blog. But it’s just Ethan Kath on this track, and it’s a rework of a song by White Lies. So it’s sort of a Crystal Castles song.
Crystal Castles – Death (White Lies rework/cover/remix/dub/reanimation)
4. Girl Talk discussions are sometimes traps. I love most of the discourse surrounding “Feed the Animals,” but sometimes I can walk away from discussion or article feeling dumber than before. However, Eric Harvey’s Silent Party #4 over at Pitchfork is the best I’ve heard/read yet regarding Gillis controversies. I highly reccomend reading it if you geek out over arguments of what is “really music”. I know that it’s a week old, and to the internet a week is like a year, but I BLOG AT MY OWN SPEED DAMMIT!
5. Seattle’s The Dead Science is giving away a free “hip hop style” mixtape on the band’s website. I’d suggest skipping the mixtape, and steering towards the link to download the tracks unmixed. While the “mixtape” version is funny, the hypeman schtick gets annonying, and muddies up the 3 awesome tracks that make this a worthwhile download. Said tracks would be the remixes featuring the Parenthetical Girls’ Zac Pennington, Carla Bozulich, and a glitchy techno remix from Freddy Ruppert.
6. Here’s a contest to win some Music Fest NW wristbands, from Strands and PDXpipeline.com. Strands sounds pretty cool, plus I want to win. That’s why I buried it in my post, despite that I still want to share it. As of now, I still haven’t received my invitation email, however.
“..Win 2 wristbands to MusicFest NW
Strands is a local social media service that aggregates all your online content into one place and then gives you recommendations based on what you and your friends like to help you discover cool new things.
They need your Portland feedback!
Strands is giving away two wristbands that will get you into MusicFest NW.
To enter the contest:
1) Go to beta. strands. com
2) Use the promo code “Pipeline” to sign up
3) Create an account and play around with the site
4) Come back to PDXPipeline. com and leave a comment under this blog post with your Strands username and one thing Strands can do to make the site more “Portland Centric”
A winner will be chosen at random from the comments on August 25th.
Good luck!..”
Posted By Sasha
Awesome post Erik!