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Time to update my blog with something that my readers will find interesting, exciting and catchy… What can that be? What should I write for? Maybe about how busy these last days have been at the office or maybe about the (welcoming) surprises I had since Monday and on? I guess this news won’t satisfy my idea. Therefore, and since listening to music has not been part of my everyday life in the last 10 days, I’ll just post the videos that caught my attention (along with my ear’s attention, eeerr… my two ears’ attention please). So let’s start…

Brand new and great! “This Boy’s in Love” by “The Presets“. They are Australians. Remember the name in a few weeks. I’ll test you… (meaning that in my opinion this is a nice happy dance tune that will probably be a big hit in the following months). I like a lot the darkness of the video too. Maybe the song sounds a bit 90s but the video doesn’t look 90s at all.

You know “Justice“, or you should… No? Shame on you! (don’t bite DJart!) Anyway, I’ll excuse you for now but this is the second (correct me if I’m wrong) official video from their first album with the cross. One of my favourite albums for 2007. “Justice” are considered a really important group of the best electro scene worldwide at this moment (…Eiffel Tower, Bordeaux, Le Louvre, Carla Bruni… congratulations for saying French!) . You may not know why but you can take a small taste of their “art” by pressing the play button 68pixels below. In any case, the video is just awesome! Kudos to whoever made it.

And let’s continue with the two (personally) most anticipated albums of the last months; in no random order: Moby’s new “Last Night” and Portishead’s new (after 10 years please!!!) “3″. I got really excited when I first listened to “Last Night”. Now, after approximately 20 times of listening to it I can be less subjective and say that it’s a very nice album and in my opinion similar to “Play” (although not as good) and superior to the average “18″ and “Hotel”. In other words, TGI Fridays and Moby created an album based on his great old style (of “Play” and before). My favourite track is number seven (.07) called “Hyenas” but since no video is available for that right now, I’ll let you enjoy the again brand new video of “Alice” which is the second released single from “Last Night”. P.S. Visually, one of the most “explosive” videos I’ve ever seen! Just live the weed in the drawer…lol

And for the end the amazing “Machine Gun” from Portishead. I always had believed that you need to be patient and listen to the whole track before judging it. This is the absolutely best example for me to confirm that. I could never imagine how an industrial iterative beat coming out of a drum machine and Beth’s depressive and tired vocals can create such a great tune! I shouldn’t think the opposite though… we are talking about Portishead! Judge for your own but please have in mind that the recorded studio version of the album sounds much better.

Have a nice weekend…

When music feels so good…

Friday Midnight is almost here! And Ghetto is close! Have fun and daaaaanceee
At least I’ll do that…

Mommy, can I go out and kill tonight?
I feel, I feel like taking a life.
Please, I wanna seal the kitchen knife
and feel, feel like taking a life.

Rippin kittin kidding on the round (x2)

Daddy, can I go and haunt tonight
like you do on Sunday mornings.
Honey, give me a real gentle knife
to feel, feel like taking my life.

Rippin kittin kidding on the round (x4)

Mommy, can I go out and kill tonight?
I feel, I feel like taking a life.
Please, I wanna seal the kitchen knife
and feel, feel like taking a life.

Rippin kittin kidding on the round (x4)

Mommy, daddy, please let me go (x2)

I heard this song for the first time half an hour ago and I have heard it more than 5 times since then! I can’t decide what I like most. Is it the music and the rhythm or the amazing 80s disco style and VHS quality clip?

Im gonna take my time mmime!
she gon’ get hers before I…
im gonna take it slow..ow..oo..ow,
im not gonna rush to stroll, so she can get a…
Sensual seduction-duction so she can get a..
Sensual seduction-duction ooh whoa!
so she can get a sensual seduction-duction duction
Sensual seduction-duction ooh whoa!

she might be with him, but shes thinking bout me, me, meee,
we gon’ go to the mall, we gon’ go out to eat, eat, eeeeat,
and all that we ever do is play the machine-chine-chiiine,
smoke us a cigarette, and go back to sleep, sleep, sleep, so we can get a!

Sensual seduction-duction
Sensual seduction-duction ooh whoa! ooh whoa!
sensual seduction-duction duction
Sensual seduction-duction ooh whoa!
Im gonna take my time mmime!
she gon’ get hers before I…
im gonna take it slow..ow..oo..ow,
im not gonna rush to stroll,

if ya dont know right know, doggy-dog is a freak,freak,freak!
i keep a bandage with me seven days of the week, week, week!
and all that we ever do is play the machine-chine-chiiine,
smoke us a cigarette, and go back to sleep, sleep, sleep, so we can get a!

Sensual seduction-duction
Sensual seduction-duction ooh whoa! ooh whoa!
sensual seduction-duction duction
Sensual seduction-duction ooh whoa!

i was all in da clup sippin some jin smokin on a benadrome when i
peeped this little hoe out, i was all in a bum and drifter, shorty then
came, then she hit da floor know, with a see through dress long hair
light broen eyes lookin like ms. O.P, and a nigga know if i take her
home with dem wide ass hips and you damn right im gon’ be, so hot-uh!
goes da chick with da real pretty face, big ass booty and ity-bity
waist i whispered in her ear little mama what you drink? i know you a
freak, but you knoe i aint gon’ say shit, see my game is
outrageous, i got it tippin crippin exchange and fuck faces, but it
aint no use to rush da bus
cause i wouldnt want to have her to rush!

Sensual seduction-duction
Sensual seduction-duction ooh whoa! ooh whoa!
sensual seduction-duction duction
Sensual seduction-duction ooh whoa

Which is the best way to update your blog? A blog that you care for but you didn’t have the time, the mood or the inspiration for more than ten days to update? … the answer is with a video compiled from photos and videos shot by the author! lol

Ok. The truth is that lately I haven’t been feeling very well, and I don’t mean psychologically (luckily I am always a positive and happy person). London’s cold weather is always willing to affect sensitive bodies like mine… haha (I am a virgo… and virgoans tend to worry about their health & sometimes tend to be hypochondriacs). Anyway, enough with all these nonsense.

Now that I’ve finally found the mood to post something new I created this small video to jewel my blog (lol²)! Seriously… I liked this track: Take back the future from (the greek group) High Level Static and so I decided to make a clip where I can use it in the background. All photos and videos of the compiled video are shot at Berlin 1+ month ago. Watch it but believe it or not I can be more creative and imaginative in video editing :p …but with Windows Movie Maker and a laptop with 512MB RAM choices are limited…

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).

Two songs, one new and one a remake of an older one (Golden Brown by The Stranglers)… but both addictive! Two songs from my two latest addictions: “Justice” and “Frankmusik“.

Justice is a band from France and they are considered (obviously in my opinion) the new Daft Punk, although their stylistic approach is a bit different. Forget about robots, men with masks and full anonymity. Justice feel more free to party with their exponentially growing audience (already 2.240.000!!! plays on last.fm with Madonna having reached 9.600.000 for example) while having a rock/metal style layout at their lives (huge, huge, HUGE amplifiers).

Frankmusik is an almost teenager Londoner (east London in particular) and there is already a lot of hype around his name. His music is described as pop…but it’s not the pop you are used to listening to. It’s fast, with maaaany electronic elements and it will remind you of soundtracks of old arcade games! Who knows…maybe he can be Madonna’s next producer or “advisor”.

Both Justice and Frankmusik have released their first albums although I think the former have presented already many other things in the music industry. Who can forget about the amazing “We are you friends” from “Justice vs. Simian”? Nobody after having listened to it on the dancefloor (…preferably an original 80s dance floor with the lighted floor :D)

… I don’t think that you are still sitting in front of your screen!

It doesn’t hurt me.
You want to feel, how it feels?
You want to know, know that it doesn’t hurt me?
You want to hear about the deal I’m making.
You, (If I only could, be running up that hill)
You and me (If I only could, be running up that hill)

And if I only could,
Make a deal with God,
Get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building.
If I only could

You don’t want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet lies.
Unaware that I’m tearing you asunder.
There’s a thunder in our hearts, baby

So much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me, we both matter, don’t we?
You, (If I only could, be running up that hill)
You and me (If I only could, be running up that hill)
You and me, won’t be unhappy

And if I only could,
Make a deal with God,
And get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building.
If I only could

Come on, baby, come on, come on, darling,
Let me steal this moment from you now.
Come on angel, come on, come on, darling,
Let’s exchange the experience

And if I only could,
Make a deal with God,
And get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems.

And if I only could,
Make a deal with God,
And I’d get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems.

If I only could, be running up that hill

… 27 years old and growing …

What employees need to know!! Hilarious…

“Word around the office is you’ve got a black smock. I got a black smock too, maybe we can wash our black smocks together sometime… maybe a little detergent, two black smocks, together…. detergent…”

Did you ever wanted to watch to process of making a pair of jeans? The whole process, from cotton to a pair of jeans, can be seen in an interesting video from Nudie Jeans Co. The video can be found here.

The whole site is cool and especially the innovative “denim guide“. So take a look.