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Daily Doses: Albatross “Golden Hue” (2010)
Sometimes it just takes a lighter touch.
Australia’s Albatross just dropped this beautiful spaced out jam, and it’s been an extremely welcome distraction from the post 4-day weekend return to Mundania.
Coloring electronic beats and jabs and a great synth bass line with organic harmonium/air organ filler and breathy vocals, Golden Hue finishes as a perfectly blending of all the elements.
Be sure to visit their soundcloud as well, and grab the two tracks they released a few months ago, “DM167” and “Sirens”
Download Albatross’ “Golden Hue”
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Daily Doses: Coma Cinema “Her Sinking Sun” Kumon Plaza Remix (2010)
Kumon Plaza’s back!
Dylan Khotin-Foote, the young genius behind Canda’s Kumon Plaza, was most recently featured on Dead As Digital as one half of Gay Boiz. Here he goes from the acoustic beauty of that track back to his electronic roots with an apocalyptic remix of Coma Cinema’s brilliant “Her Sinking Sun”.
Changing instrumentation behind a cover as emotionally charged as this one without losing the feel is always difficult, but here that challenge is met impressively. Opening by taking the low-key Casiotone intro and replacing it with a driving synth bass hook, the track builds flawlessly from there with just the right amount of synth color and vocal changes. Khotin-Foote’s deft touch throughout this remix scream of a love and respect for the original artists that’s beautiful to see.
I rarely post remixes, but if they were all this good, that would quickly change.
Download Coma Cinema’s “Her Sinking Sun” Kumon Plaza Remix
Visit Kumon Plaza’s Bandcamp For A Free Download Of His Debut LP Cliff
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Daily Doses: WALSH “I Drive The Perv3rt Van” (2010)
New York Times Headlines:
Brandon Biondo goes through a quarter-life crises and changes his name to WALSH.
Releases more amazing tracks.
Crowd goes wild.
Just to make sure we ride that comfortable line between spreading lies, and disseminating a truth before it occurs. I’m not saying this IS the headlines for the New York Times, I’m saying it SHOULD BE.
Brandon Biondo’s first track I mentioned on here was, “Bill Da Bear And His Megafortress”. It remains one of my favorite tracks of his and a constant “gym jam”.
It also really established that when it came to the current beatsmiths I promote, Brandon Biondo is the king of the night life. Since then he’s proven in other tracks he has a pretty diverse style, so I might not pigeon hole him into that any longer, but the jams of his I like to most do tend to be the bangers.
Enter “I Drive The Perv3rt Van”, an aptly named song that seems like it’s perfect video counterpart would be a guy in a Volkswagon van, a pair of glasses, a thick pair of shades and a tiny pair of shorts.
And if you’ve ever wondered if you could dance with that image stuck in your head, I’m here to tell you that if you’ve got this song blasting…
Yes you can.
Download Walsh’s “I Drive The Perv3rt Van”
