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I think that many times lately I find myself considering of music not as bad or good, touching or indifferent but as stylish or not! I don’t know if there is a point in that, and moreover if music critique can be based on this criterion (and actually what makes a musical piece, track, song stylish?) but I like to use this term when I listen to music that could be heard in an ultra fashionable bar, a stylish restaurant or the lobby of a design hotel. That doesn’t mean that this music can be enjoyable only there but I think it would fit perfectly there…

So two of the tracks that come instantly to my mind this period when I think for something stylish are from Walter Ego and Simian Mobile Disco. Walter Meego is a musical duo from Chicago, Illinois whereas Simian Mobile Disco (even the name is cool!) come from a closest to mine neighbourhood as being an English production and remix team. Actually there is a story on how I discovered these groups and their music and the connecting link is “Diesel Liquid Space” (right, the latest ultra-chic and super-ultra- hightech fashion show from Diesel where holographic projection was used for the first time in that kind of live show … Alexander McQueen’s fashion show in Paris followed with a hovering ethereal Kate Moss! … but enough with this enormous parenthesis!). As you can imagine tracks from both Walter Ego and Simian Mobile Disco were used to dress musically the show, along with tracks from other producers of course.

Anyway, below you can listen to “Romantic” from Walter Ego (which is heard during the catwalk… search for the Flosstradamus remix) and to “I Believe” from the English duo (though the track used for the show is the “I Got This Down”… but no clip for that).

I just saw a very romantic movie called “The Notebook” and I wanted to suggest you seeing it.

“An heart-warming movie that makes your insides go mushy with emotions!!!”. Maybe that’s enough to convince you

I believe that it’s better not to watch the “YouTube” clip if you want to see the movie!

Listening to “Alone” from the amazing Moby on last.fm, I started reading the “Artist Description”.
My attention was caught by this: “Moby has recently scored the soundtrack for Richard Kelly’s upcoming movie ‘The Southland Tales’. Whilst he is generally against composing music for films, he was a huge fan of Kelly’s previous film ‘Donnie Darko’ and could not resist the offer the director gave him.”

“Donnie Darko” is one of my favourite movies and Moby is one of my favourite composers/producers. So I was excited by learning about this cooperation! I guess ‘Donnie Darko’s great OST featuring songs from Joy Division (which is Moby’s favourite band) must have motivated him to compose the music for Richard Kelly’s 4th movie. According to wikipedia, “Southland Tales is a 2008 science fiction film… Set in the near future, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles and a comment on the military-industrial newstainment complex.”

The “Southland Tales” website is up and running and you can here some music from the movie’s OST. The music is characteristic of Moby’s music with an ambient character and heavy use of atmospheric pads. I am looking forward to watch the Movie and listen to the OST. The release date is on March 2008.