SummersRadio™ STARTLEFEST 2011 Halloween Spectacular Continues! New Video! Modeselektor featuring Thom Yorke - 'Shipwreck' Berlin's Modeselektor released their third studio album called 'Monkeytown' just last month. 'Shipwreck' is one of two songs on the album that features the vocals of Radiohead's Thom Yorke - and it's also their new single and video!
The video for 'Shipwreck' addresses a number of common fears - zombies - vicious dogs - and more... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ STARTLEFEST 2011 Halloween Spectacular Continues! New Music! The Bats - 'Free All The Monsters' New Zealand's The Bats have released their new studio album (their eighth) earlier this week! It's called 'Free All The Monsters' and is released on the Flying Nun label. The title track is the first single and video - out just in time for Halloween and STARTLEFEST 2011!
This is The Bat's new single - and fun video - 'Free All The Monsters' - the band takes the high road and shows some rare human sympathy for a monsters life :) Oh yeah - beware of the flying turtle... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ Presents... STARTLEFEST 2011 Halloween Spectacular! Mazzy Star - 'Into Dust' Darkness falls. And so it begins - our second annual STARTLEFEST - 2011 Edition! This is our tip of the hat to Halloween where we feature songs beyond the typical 'Thriller's and 'Ghostbusters' you'll being hearing everywhere else.
We begin by following Mazzy Star's brand new 'Common Burn' single (posted at the common burning time of 4:20 no less!) with another Mazzy Star song that was never released as a single - but it's managed to chart several times in recent years nonetheless.
'Into Dust' is the ninth track on Mazzy Star's beautiful 1993 album 'So Tonight That I Might See'. It first charted in the U.K. in 2009 after being used in a Virgin Mobile commercial - and then it charted again this year after being used in commercials for the 'Gears Of War 3' videogame.
As it was never a proper single there's no official video for the song, but as is common with great songs, a number of fans have made their own. I like this one in particular as it suits the acoustic sparseness of the song - featuring some great photographs from a cemetery. Truth be told, the odds are pretty good that we'll all end up buried underground or set on fire at some point - reducing us all to dust in the end. That's a bit scary isn't it? Behold the frightening stillness of Mazzy Star's 'Into Dust'... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Music! Mazzy Star - 'Common Burn' California's Mazzy Star are set to release their first new single in 15 years tomorrow! It's called 'Common Burn' and it will be available on itunes tomorrow (in the U.K. - Tuesday here in North America) - along with the b-side track 'Lay Myself Down'. The song will also be released on a limited coloured 7 " single on November 8th on their own Rhymes Of An Hour label.
The new single will be followed with a tour in early 2012, with their as yet untitled fourth studio album planned for release in the second half of next year. This is Mazzy Star's new song 'Common Burn'... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Remixes! John Acquaviva, Alex D'Elia & Nihil Young featuring Dan Diamond - 'Good Music' (Stefano Noferini Remix)/ John Acquaviva & Olivier Giacomotto - 'While My Wiki Gently Leaks' (Da Fresh Remix) London Ontario's Definitive Recordings label have released numerous top quality tracks lately - and five of them get the remix treatment on the label's new 'All Star Remixers 2011 Vol. 2' EP released this week!
'All Star Remixers 2011 Vol. 2' follows Vol. 1 of course - which featured four new remixes and was released in April. This time there's five solid new remixes - and I've chosen my two favorites thus far to share. First we have John Acquaviva, Alex D'Elia & Nihil Young featuring Dan Diamond's aptly titled collaboration called 'Good Music' - remixed by Italy's Stefano Noferini. Please note that the label posts edits of their songs to discourage illegal copying. This edit is 4:14 - the full version is 6:43 (another two and a half minutes of awesome grooves!) and is currently available exclusively on Beatport here: http://www.beatport.com/#release/all-star-remixers-2011-vol-2/822078
This is the opening track on the 'All Star Remixers 2011 Vol. 2' EP - the excellent 'Stefano Noferini Remix' of 'Good Music'... Enjoy!
John Acquaviva and Olivier Giacomotto's cleverly titled 'While My Wiki Gently Leaks' track closes off the 'All Star Remixers 2011 Vol. 2' EP in the form of this new remix from France's Da Fresh. Once again the full song is an extra two and half minutes longer than this edit... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Music! Keep Shelly In Athens - 'DIY' Greece's Keep Shelly In Athens have just released another new song from their forthcoming EP online. We previously featured the title track from their 'Our Own Dream' EP in August - and today we have their new single called 'DIY'!
Their new six track EP is released on limited 12" vinyl on the Forest Family label November 5th in North America. (They will be releasing a different four track EP in the U.K. called 'Campus Martius' on the Planet Mu label on December 5th http://www.planet.mu/discography/ZIQ314 ). The coloured vinyl release is limited to 500 copies - 250 white and 250 in silver.
This is their new single 'DIY' - I like how the piano and keyboards create a sense of cinematic urgency to the track - and the horns are a nice touch too - in addition to Sarah P.'s fine vocals of course... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Music + Free Download! Orbital - 'Never' Orbital have released a brand new single online - their first since last June's single 'Don't Stop Me'/ 'The Gun Is Good' - called 'Never'!
'Never' will be included on their as yet untitled forthcoming new studio album (their eighth - and first in eight years) due for release in April 2012. The band has also announced a U.K. tour to coincide with the release - you can find out more information on the dates from their official website here: http://www.orbitalofficial.com/
SummersRadio™ New Music! Nine Inch Nails - 'Zoo Station' As mentioned in Sunday's Jack White post - the new issue of Q magazine hits the stands today - along with a bonus cd called called 'Ahk-toong Bay-bi Covered'. It's a track by track album of covers by some big name artists to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of U2's Achtung Baby album. Since it's unlikely that many of us outside of the U.K. will be able to buy a copy, I thought I'd feature another song from it today!
'Zoo Station' is of course the opening track on the album and if you were expecting Trent Reznor to deliver a banging industrial version of the song, you may be a titch disappointed - as he's opted for a rather restrained approach. The way U2's version begins is a bit industrial sounding already - so perhaps that's why he chose to go in the opposite direction - maybe he just didn't want to do what people were expecting him to do. Or perhaps now that he's 46 maybe he's just mellowed out - in any case here's Nine Inch Nails rather chilled cover of 'Zoo Station'... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Remix! Joy Division - 'She's Lost Control' (Young Edits Voices In Her Edit) Luke Foskey aka Young Edits// Youth or simply Youth (not to be confused with U.K. musician/ producer Martin Glover aka Youth - who has produced or remixed artists such as Primal Scream, The Verve, U2, The Shamen, Art Of Noise and many others - and who also started the first psychedelic trance label - Dragonfly Records!) is a 22 year old dj/ producer from Brisbane Australia. He's just released his latest remix online - of the Joy Division classic 'She's Lost Control'!
'She's Lost Control' appeared on Joy Division's debut album 'Unknown Pleasures' in 1979. A different version of the song was later released as a single in summer of 1980. The lyrics involve a girl having an epileptic seizure - Joy Division's guitarist/ vocalist Ian Curtis also had epilepsy.
This remix is respectful of the original - Luke says on his Soundcloud page:
'A band synonymous with artistic influence on my generation and I am no exception. I've always toyed with the idea of turning this track into something dancefloor orientated, but I never wanted it to lose its depth of originality nor its dark edge.
Hopefully this edit does justice to one of the most phenomenal and influential bands of their time. RIP Ian x'
This is the 'Young Edits Voices In Her Edit' remix of 'She's Lost Control' which will be released soon on the Discofil label - I particularly like it when the acid techno bits kick in later in the song (about 5:50 in)... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Music! Jack White - 'Love Is Blindness' In yesterday's bonus track we featured Jack White in his collaboration with Electric Six - today we have a brand new Jack White track - a cover of U2's 'Love Is Blindness'! This month marks the 25th Anniversary of Q - the British music magazine. As part of their celebrations, the December issue of the magazine - which hits the stands this Wednesday the 26th - will come with a new exclusive U2 covers album - specifically an Achtung Baby tribute album! It also just happens to be the 20th anniversary of U2's 'Achtung Baby' next month - and the 12 track bonus disc is called 'Ahk-toong Bay-bi Covered'.
*update* If you were frustrated that you'd miss out on this release because you can't buy Q in your area, 'Ahk-toong Bay-bi Covered' is going to be released on itunes on November 15th!
Here's the complete tracklisting and cover art:
1. Nine Inch Nails - Zoo Station
2. U2 - Even Better Than the Real Thing (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
3. Damien Rice - One
4. Patti Smith - Until The End Of The World
5. Garbage - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
6. Depeche Mode - So Cruel
7. Snow Patrol - Mysterious Ways
8. The Fray - Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
9. Gavin Friday - The Fly
10. The Killers - Ultraviolet (Light My Way) 11. Glasvegas - Acrobat
12. Jack White - Love Is Blindness
Despite beings a critics favorite 'Achtung Baby' is hardly my favorite U2 album - although it certainly has a few classic U2 songs on it. None of the tracks I'm still most curious to hear are posted anywhere just yet - the NIN, Depeche Mode or Snow Patrol covers - however they have released three songs online thus far. One is Garbage's 'Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses' - Shirley Manson's vocals are seductively lovely as always, but the song loses it appeal for me when the sludgy chorus kicks in. I didn't find it completely postworthy but you can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFJnzab8sng
They've also released the Damien Rice cover of 'One' - which just seems wrong to me - and Jack White's explosive cover of 'Love Is Blindness' - most certainly the stand out of these initial three offerings. As is the case with some of his own White Stripes material - Jack White manages to turn the U2 track into a full on Led Zeppelin styled freak out! It's gutsier, bluesier, and as Bono says on the magazine cover 'some of these versions are better than our own' - I just might be inclined to agree on this one... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Music! Peter Horrevorts - 'Fire In The Disco' The Netherlands Peter Horrevorts has released a new EP on Germany's Kanzleramt label called 'Fire In The Disco'! It features two tracks - 'Fire In The Disco' and 'Smoke In The Club'.
'Fire In The Disco' mixes an array of genres together - it's mostly tech house but with sprinkles of reggae and ska, techno, and disco - with some great production - featuring plenty of keyboard effects... Enjoy!
Bonus Track! Well I could hardly post a song called 'Fire In The Disco' without thinking of Electric Six's classic 'Danger! High Voltage'! Electric Six just released their eighth studio album called 'Heartbeats And Brainwaves' earlier this month on Metropolis Records, but they achieved their first major success with this song in 2003 - fueled in part by the fact that it featured the White Stripes Jack White on backing vocals (under the psuedonym John S O'Leary) - as both bands were part of the Detroit garage rock scene.
This is the Les Rhythmes Digitalis (aka Stuart Price) 'Thin White Duke Mix' of 'Danger! High Voltage'... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Music! Secret Cinema & Kalden Bess - 'Pow Pow' (Original Mix) Looking to add a little Pow! to your weekend? Rotterdam's Jeroen Verheij aka Secret Cinema and Canadian dj/ producer Bessioud Mohamed Khaled aka m0h aka Kalden Bess - have released a new EP together on Montreal's Ground Factory Records this week! It's called the 'Pow!' EP and it features three tracks - the first song is called 'Bam Bam', followed by 'Pow Pow' and then a dub version of 'Pow Pow'. It's currently available exclusively on Beatport here: http://www.beatport.com/#release/pow-ep/818740
I'm siding with the b-side as it were on this one - this is the 'Original Mix' of 'Pow Pow'. The song has an incredible drive to it - along with trippy French vocals - and plenty of spacey keyboards. You know how some songs are so encompassing that on a good night out they journey beyond the dancefloor - until everyone - people at their tables, in the bar lines ups - everywhere - are dancing? This is one of those songs... Enjoy!