New from the DFA...

not on DFA but I also picked up Holy Ghost / Soft Rocks remixes of MGMT "Of Moons Birds and Monsters"

Holy Ghost side turns it into their typical disco roller + has a dub version that cuts out the (almost Yes-sounding harmony) vox, Soft Rocks side I don't know if you'd call "balearic" or what but it's an acoustic guitar / live percussion mellow jam kinda like "Slowdown" on their Umut 2000 12"

dmr thx for the pineapples tip, those vocals ARE damn similar and that track is great

no prob. that's a total classic ... Flexx put out a 12" reissue a couple years ago

Yeah, that Pineapples is easily one of my top three Italo jams.

is there a lot of other italo out there with these types of gruff-yet-smooth male crooners?

also reminds me a touch of the male vox on that stardust tune, or even that barrabas edit on history clock.

first thing that comes to mind is Studio's mix of "Possible"

although I guess that's more balearic than italo but w/e

La Bionda (I Got Your Number), Lime (Your Love), Gino Soccio (various) ... ? varying degrees of gruffness there I guess

robert gorl

macho

supermax

The singer of Pineapples was an african-american soldier stationed in italy or something.

maybe we should move this convo to an italo thread? but here are 2 of my fave gruff male singer italo tracks

Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight def. runs through my head when I hear the DJ Kaos track (to bring things back around)

also that Surkin rmx of Juan Maclean is pretty good

vocalist from kano's "another night", "i need love", etc has that gruffness

do love that savage track

also that Surkin rmx of Juan Maclean is pretty good

― dmr, Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:59 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sounds like bizarre inc

vocalist from kano's "another night", "i need love", etc has that gruffness

― QE II, Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:17 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is the one that occurred to me

http://www.thefastlife.org/Images/2008/04/surkin02.jpg

damn dude does look young

dj baggins

can we do a surkin s/d here rather then me bumping some some ed banger kitsune thread? .... what'r his best tracks besides "One Day" rmx and "White Knights Two"?

COME 'ERE LEEEDLE BOY.,..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/hisori/random/IMG2165-1.jpg

um, sorry.

can we do a surkin s/d here rather then me bumping some some ed banger kitsune thread? .... what'r his best tracks besides "One Day" rmx and "White Knights Two"?

― dmr, Friday, May 29, 2009 5:19 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

Some of this is really nuravey/super distorted and less the smoother two tracks mentioned above, but some of the best of nurave IMO.
search:
Chrome Knight (feat. Chromeo), basically white knights two with some great chromeo vocals
Radio Fireworks (Surkin 909 Edit)
Radio Fireworks (Riot In Belgium Second Remix)
Para One - Midnight Swim (Surkin Drowning Mix)
DJ Mehdi - Lucky Boy (Surkin Remix)
Boys Noize - Don't Believe The Hype (Surkin Mix No. 1)
Teki Latex - Les Matins De Paris (Surkin Remix)

i wouldn't destroy much of his but it doesn't stand out the way this stuff does

ignore what's on the Action Replay his "full release" that I didn't mention above tho, just not really worth anyone's time

thx for the tips, missed those posts until now

Justin Miller DFA mix with some unreleased stuff on it (Altair Noveau, Q&A, Canyons, Shit Robot)
http://blog.viva-radio.com/Post.aspx?p=434

ysi link at the bottom of the post

The Black Meteoric Star album is out today (on eMusic, anyway). Downloading it now.

ilxor Altair Noveau has a 12" coming out soon (today?) on dfa that's pretty nice.

walter jones 12" on emusic today too

the 12" is coming out mid-July, just noticed today that it's available for pre-order on the DFA webstore.
today *is* my birthday now THAT's pretty nice.

and haha thought I'd change my user name to make it less google-able but no dice!

sweet

space fortress is ace

thanks!
next step: stop wasting time and finish new tracks

black meteoric star album is one hell of a good time

so excited about free energy album

urgh... based on the tracks on free energy's myspace they sound pretty damn insufferable dude. i was beginning to think dfa was becoming reliable or something.

BLACK METEORIC STAR, on the other hand, makes me want to forget all about it

i dig the free energy songs but they're the most un-dfa tracks i could imagine short of twee pop

free energy is so corny -- lyrics are so generic

ye whatever genre they're in they do not represent very well

i'm kind of a big twee pop fan, fwiw

DFA's webshop has the three black meteoric star 12"s available as a bundle with free posters, i see. are the full-length versions of the trax going to be available as digi-downloads or is this going to be a basic channel-type scenario?

welp the first one is avail as download so i would hope the other two will as well

why is buying the bundle of 3 bms singles more expensive than buying 3 individual singles?
shit is awesome, anyway.

so great that all the new 12"s are only $8- is this actually a new thing or do i just have a terrible memory?

really into that walter jones. also looking forward to altair's stuff!

walter jones tracks are great. he's super humble.
http://www.thefader.com/articles/2009/6/11/q-a-premiere-freeload-walter-jones-living-without-your-love-new-dfa-signee

still hard to belive that's him and not a woman singing

ok, nm. think he's singing on 'i'll keep on loving you' and there's a girl singing on 'living w/o your love'

new justin miller mix up on warm blog has a super-tight edit of rose royce's 'Every Way But Loose'. tip!

Walter Jones 12" is ridiculously good. when DFA get it right, they get it right.

just came back from hearing justin and jacques (and lovefingers) dj at what used to be a sex club while dancing on the bottom of what used to be a small pool. I left early because I'm old, but it was pretty cool, even though I thought the false floor on the bottom of the pool above the lights seemed like it might let me fall through at any moment.

aw was that the galaxie thing? i didnt hear abt it till 2 late :/

yup.