We, too, once swam over 3,000 miles down the Amazon. Except it was more like the Willamette, for ten miles, and we actually didn't leave the boat. But the delirium thing definitely happened.
04/09One fateful night, Refined Taste and Youthful Abandon got drunk and did the nasty. The condom broke and they made a baby. That's us, and we're The Shit.
We, too, once swam over 3,000 miles down the Amazon. Except it was more like the Willamette, for ten miles, and we actually didn't leave the boat. But the delirium thing definitely happened.
04/09Word's don't—nay, can't—describe. Apparently Jeezy even ad-libs in interviews.
04/08Gee, this totally doesn't make up for the fact that Paddy still hasn't finished the third volume of his memoirs.
04/05It's definitely about the free booze.
04/05So now he's picking on girls? We are convinced that The Game has become the Hank Kingsley of hip hop.
04/05Martha Stewart is so powerful that she sends Jews to Hell.
04/04UPDATE: We don't know what to believe in this whole Keef matter.
04/04$%*(&@#! MOVABLE TYPE I WILL KILL YOU!!!!
04/04We remember the very day: we were at a friend's house, after school, playing Super Mario on his newly-acquired Nintendo 64. Or rather, we were watching our friend play Super Mario -- we wanted to play Mario Kart, but our friend didn't want to, and, since it was his house, and since he was the only person we knew with a Nintendo 64, we had to be content with sitting around and being in charge of the stereo. Bored, we ran the dial to the local Top-40 station, which erupted in an alien blast of sound that was totally unlike anything we had ever heard before. It was as if the speakers were about to explode and set fire to the curtains and then burn our friend's house down to the ground. It was awesome.
That moment, hearing "Da Funk" on the radio, was our initiation into music geekdom. We picked up Homework a few weeks later, and then we went on to the Sound Lab and Respect Is Burning compilations, Les Rythmes Digitales, Cassius, Etienne de Crecy, Motorbass, Air, Alex Gopher, etc. You get the picture. For three years or so, anything French was cool in our neck of the woods: we wanted more of that sound, and we looked for it everywhere.
So you can understand how glad we are that the French are, officially, back. Blogospherically, they're everywhere! Big Stereo commented on the French resurgence back in December. Elsewhere, Electric Zoo profiled Ed Banger and Institubes, two record labels behind some of the new hotness; Mischief & Mayhem dropped some choice cuts from the latest Ed Banger compilation; and all this good French dance music got Home Taping to thinking about the good ol' days. But what the hell are we going to call this shit? "Dirty House"? "Dirty Disco"? The "Ed Banger rave-olution"? Come on, guys, you can do better than that! Okay, well, neither can we. Here are some of our current favorites:
Alan Braxe and Fred Falke
Check out their stunner remix of Van She's "Kelly," available at Missing Toof. And we love what they did with Keith's "Mona Lisa's Child," which is available (and a whole lot besides) over at Palm's Out.
Cassius
Fluokids loves the new album. And so do we. "Toop Toop" just kills it, every time.
Justice
Justice have held the keys to our heart since January 2005, which was when we first heard their awesome remix of Scenario Rock's "Skitzo Dancer." Maybe you've heard of them? If you missed "Phantom," here's your last chance.
SebastiAn
As far as we could tell, SebastiAn did not produce a bum track in 2006. Bake this man a cake! And then take a trip over to Good Weather For Air Strikes for a peep at four of SebastiAn's best remixes.
Surkin
This is amazing.
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Comments (1)
hmm, i thought it was called blog house??
Posted by elizabeth | February 26, 2007 12:35 PM
Posted on February 26, 2007 12:35