Flat Beat

Nu mai imi e lene! Sa scriu, that is... ca in rest, am lene pentru aaaaall of you... The treatment? Vreo 6 ore de french electro ieri seara si o discutie about my exam (ala de luni) cu mama in Cora azi (in timp ce se auzea pe fundal Klaxons... aham, de la aia din Cora, nu din castile mele)... Asa ca I bring to you my fave tracks de aseara + azi... adicatelea... French house.... fuckery, ain't it?


Daft Punk - Something About Us

Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat *classic, classic, I tell you... and you must remember the video... *

SebastiAn - Ross Ross Ross

Cassius - The Sound Of Violence

Para One - Les soleils artificiels

Busy P - Chop Suey

Mr. Flash - Champions (feat TTC)

Surkin - And You Too

...and a bonus...

Teki Latex - Disco Dance With You (spank rock remix)

Under Control?

I wish two drinks were always in me,
I'd pretend I had the perfect day
(Electricityscape)


Hell, nu stiu cum, nu stiu de ce... dar new-wave-ul radiant al acestei melodii ma deprima mereu... nu versurile care de altfel au un usor iz de tristete... bateria... si chitara aia... Si uite cum it got to me again... excuse me, I have to nurse my depressive state caused by listening to excessive amounts of Strokes…

P.S.: why doesn't blogger have smileys? Or it does and I can't seem to find them? *insert confused smiley here*

24h bunny people

Declar deschis sezonul la formatii al caror nume incepe cu ‘I Was A…” (I was a cub scout, anyone?)… Trei finlandezi, doi baieti si o fata, s-au gandit sa isi puna un nume care sa te faca sa iti zici ‘and I was a Cradle of Filth fan”… cu atat mai mult daca nu ai ascultat in viata ta COF…. In iubita traditie ‘i’ll pick a band name in order to mislead the public’, I Was A Teenage Satan Worshipper fac un electropop dulce, euro-90s(well, intelegeti voi ce vreau sa zic...), cu sintetizatoare retro si o voce care pluteste usor deasupra muzicii… au probabil in jur de 20 de ani iar melodiile pe care le fac cu o usurinta ingrijoratoare explodeaza de atata energie... imi amintesc de ceva… nu stiu de ce, simt ca imi sta pe limba numele unei formatii necunoscute si pana la urma ma gandesc ca doar am impresia… Poate ma ajuta cineva…

I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper - Cheaters

I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper - A Graveyard Chic.mp3

The Art Teacher

"I’d still love to be on ‘Oprah’ and, you know, have them visit my crib or whatever.”

Idealistic

I love this song for it's strange energy... for the summer feel it has... for the chorus... for the fact that it makes me wanna jump real high whenever I hear it... for the hand claps... and for the beautiful video...


Digitalism - Pogo.mp3

Art Snob Solutions

Somewhere between pop aesthetics and strong experimental scents… that’s where you’ll be bound to find Of Montreal... To be honest, they have the same weapons as Flaming Lips or Fiery Furnaces… Hailing from Athens, Georgia and named after a failed romance Kevin Barnes (the leader) had with a woman from Montreal, the band is a part of the Elephant 6 Collective. Discretely, these guys made a name for themselves with quirky, lo-fi, twee songs with a psychedelic touch. Then came 04’s ‘Satanic Panic in the Attic’ with a slightly more electronic sound (God, ‘Disconnect the Dots’ is just fabulous). “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?” follows this line… Disco keyboards and psychedelic guitars tickle your ears… just that now the lyrical direction differs. The previous albums were full of humorous situations. The new album is more personal and darker… its lyrics revolve around depressions, paranoia, neurosis… it is so complex it scares you... it is hard to tell what direction it will take after the next chorus… in its schizophrenia, it creates Beatles-esque refrains (‘Sink the Seine’), Prince-a-like pop (‘Faberge Falls For Shuggie’), (what seems to be) innocent electro-pop ( ‘Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse’) and stylistic landmarks (‘The Past Is A Grotesque Animal’)… And it’s shinning a ghostly, surreal light… just like a weird dream that haunts you…

Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal

1. Placebo

2. Modest Mouse

3. The Strokes

4. Jesus and Mary Chain

5. Guided By Voices

6. Pavement

7. Broken Social Scene

8.Wolf Parade

9. Justice

10. Destroyer


This week I've been caught between Canadian stuff, 80s indie, my old passions and some electro stuff... finally got a good listen of Pavement... fucking great... and can't get my ears off Modest Mouse's 'Bukowski'... started reading Bukowski cause of it...

Fisrt, LastFm weekly top ten...

1. Interpol

2. Travis

3. Babyshambles

4. BRMC

5. Bright Eyes

6. Arctic Monkeys

7. The Teenagers

8. The Coral

9. Tapes'n Tapes

10. The Cribs

next, trying to explain it: yes...i like Travis...now,fuck off... oddly, most of the bands in this week's top have new albums... not so oddly, Interpol are no. 1...

I Loved My British Romance

The Teenagers seem to do music for porn movies.... The Teenagers are madly in love with Starlett Johansson… The Teenagers and their ‘fuck Nicole' make me weak in the knees… The Teenagers are three non-teens from Paris who are obsessed with adolescence and snogging in cinemas and all those romantic stuff… who are yet so rude they curse like hell– ‘I fucked my American cunt - and use perverted vocals all over…The Teenagers play with their instruments and create a clash of trance, pop and rock... But what matters is that The Teenagers are simple in a Velvets kinda way and that they are unique… Enjoy….

Homecoming

The Teenagers - starlett johansson

Favourite Dream

Why now? Because I am finally ready to write something about this album that just haunts me ever since I got it… I still can’t explain why…. Yes, I am a huge Monkeys fan… and, hell yeah, I adore the new album… an album that sets off with “Brianstorm”, a strong, tight song that effortlessly leaves everyone breathless… In fact, the whole album is brilliantly tight and filled with energy: it’s the bass. And maybe the production, James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco. Prince Monkey’s lyrics are just as sharp/mikeskinner-scented on this album as they were on the first one: the kid’s got loads of talent and one can not deny it… ‘D is for danger’ and ‘This house is a circus’ are huge: the vocal part gives them their undeniable strength. “Balaclava”, “Teddy Picker”, “If you were there”, “The bad thing” and “Old yellow bricks” are reminders of the past song – because, all in all, the Monkeys did not change one bit. “Fluorescent adolescent” follows the line of stories about the hardship of adolescence in nowadays England. The slow-scented “Only Ones Who Know” is just as comforting as James Murphy’s “NY I Love You”. “Do me a favour” has some of Turner’s best lines – “to tear apart the ties that bond/perhaps ‘fuck off’ might be to kind”. The ending is monumental, probably my favourite song of the album: “505” has a great, fuzzy psychedelic feel, it’s the only song I can say is completely different from anything they ever did and its lyrics blow me away each time – “I’m always about to go and spoil a surprise, take my hands off of yr eyes too soon” and so on….Ladies and gentlemen, Arctic Monkeys are back….

Arctic Monkeys - 505.mp3

All things go

1. Klaxons - oh, dear me...they might top Strokes in my little 'times they were no. 1 in my weekly chart' top...Strokes lead with 7 times

2. Placebo - reminded meself why I love this guys so much

3. Saturday Looks Good To Me - brilliant...

4. The Tangles - thanks, Tina...:D

5. Arctic Monkeys - publicly admit my worship.... it ain't working

6. The Essex Green - i knew i loved them

7. Good Shoes - i am actually wearing very good shoes

8. The Ladybug Transistor - lovely

9. Los Chicros - goooood french indie

10. Travis - yes, act amazed

P.s.: this weekend I was away... my mom was here so I spent time with her... figures, no internet or music... However, lovely shoes...:D....

You're just too busy seeing red when all I see is blue.

I know they are such a known band... who cares? They may not be highly inovative, but their music gives me a feeling like few band do... something so visceral, I don't know how to explain it... Maybe it's the australian thingy that makes them so damn fabulous... I love how this song, Autobahn Music Box, sets off (slightly acoustic), I love the "I'm sorry,baby, for what I did to you" part (his voice and the way the instrumental goes), i love the chick's voice... I love the lyrics... makes me wanna dance....

Cut Copy - Autobahn Music Box.mp3

Top?

1. Deerhoof - gig on friday...brilliant... had to listen to them

2. Hot Club de Paris - new obsession no. 1

3. Morrissey - the Moz is the...erm...Moz

4. Patrick Wolf - 'surprise' no.1

5. Klaxons - 'surprise' no. 2

6. Larrikin Love - old obsession no. 1

7. The Presets - new obsession no. 2

8. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - new obsession no. 3

9. Sonic Youth - 'surprise' no. 3

10. The Long Blondes - old obsession no. 2

La nouvelle scene française Part 2. aka The Ones I Like

Although i can't say that ‘la nouvelle scene française’ gets my groove on (remember this post?)….there are certain bands that are totally worth it...

I love UFO sound like a blast of energy, they have great drums and I instantly fell in love with the vocals...

I Love UFO - Like In The Movies.mp3

Stuck In The Sound make me feel all hyper… and they just have fabulous song titles…

Stuck in the Sound - Never on the radio.mp3

The Kissinmas draw influences shamelessly from the British dance punk movement… yet, they manage not to sound like ‘trying to be British’… The result: a blast of energy and a band that could be mistaken for a British one….a bloody good one…

The Kissinmas - Disco Punk (Is Too Easy).mp3

The Love Bandits are slightly funkier… and I do believe they give the late 90’s French electronic scene some credit…

The Love Bandits - She Loves Sex.mp3

Los Chicros fool you… if you hear “Diskonoise” you might think they are some indie-dance act… Thus, the rest of the album comes as a surprise… it’s folkier, more acoustic… And it really sounds good…

Los Chicros - Diskonoize.mp3

The Clerks were one of the three bands that performed at Inrock Indie Soiree in Lyon… (the other two were The Sunshine Underground and The Automatic)… Blemey… I couldn’t believe there are French… The English accent was perfect… Well, besides that, they do this danceable pop-punk that isn’t far to innovative but is fun….

I saw Arpad Flynn and The Mockings in December ’06… Ninkasi… as always… And I was amazed… Arpad Flynn are this art-rock band from Lyon… somewhere between Sonic Youth and Joy Division….that know how to give a great energetic live performance…The Mockings are also from Lyon….Their style is more of Bowie meets Led Zeppelin meets New York Dolls…I like them….

Unfortunetly, I do not have anything from the last three acts... so, if anyone who reads this has songs of theirs... could you please... *big grin**puppy eyes*

Happy as Eddie

Six Queens


I'm the sixth queen
I'm the wrong queen
I've got mascara running through my bloodstream
I'm on the hot step
I've got a broken heart
I want to be a cherry lipped little cheap tart

There's a boy with a monobrow and club foot
And his family own all his villages huts
So I'll travelled to New York
And sold my crotch for a dollar and a short

But there's a symphony in my heart
And I've lost all my morals
Down an alleyway, boot polish, sky gaze
Bloody murder, my life has moved in strangeways
I was the sixth queen from the start
But I cast all my morals
On a tube train, boot polish, sky gaze
Bloody murder my life has moved in strangeways

I've got secrets trapped in my fishnets
I'm a coward man that works in an office block
I was a child who craved for a new world
I was a boy who yearned to be a cover girl
I learnt the history, and read about the six queens
I decided life should be about playing for the other team
I broke society wit a lipstick shot
Now my life has grown for old to hot

But there's a symphony in my heart
And I've lost all my morals
Down an alleyway, boot polish, sky gaze
Bloody murder, my life has moved in strangeways
I was the sixth queen from the start
But I cast all my morals
On a tube train, boot polish, sky gaze
Bloody murder my life has moved in strangeways

But theres a tragedy in my heart
But I've lost all my morals
Down an alleyway, boot polish, sky gaze
Bloody murder, my life has moved in strangeways
I was the sixth queen from the start
But I cast all my morals
On a tube train, boot polish, sky gaze
Bloody murder my life has moved in strangeways



larrikin love - six queens.mp3

Wait for me about a year or two

Did I mention I love Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin?....and it isn't just due to the name and the idea it sends (in case you did not know, I was really fascinated by Yeltsin at the tender age of 6...). It also because of 'Oregon Girl', a song of which I just can't seem to get enough...And the rest of the album, Broom, an album that is not inovative, not surprising...well, the rest of the album is something like an acoustic Bloc Party meets an acoustic Interpol meets Of Montreal on their first album meets..well, just about any big indie cult band of the last decade (Elliot Smith, The Shins, Olivia Tremor Control..with some vocals Conor Oberst-style)...even more surprising is the ease the four guys for SSLYBY have when performing...such an ease, you can't posibily not love their girl-named songs....

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Oregon Girl.mp3

Weekly Stuff...again...

1. Arctic Monkeys - new album...yeah, baby...

2. Klaxons - oh...what a surprise..

3. The Presets

4. Larrikin Love

5. The Blood Arm

6. The Smiths

7. Patrick Wolf

8. Grandaddy

9. We Are Scientists

10. Los Chicros - good french indie...go figure...

The Weekly Stuff

1 Sebadoh

2 Klaxons

3 Hot Chip

4 Adam Green - there is nothing better than "Bunnyranch" on Easter

5 Little Man Tate - Sheffield, baby

6 Of Montreal - This band is absolutely mind-blowing....

7 Travis - yes, I like Travis...a lot, I might ad....

8 The Sunshine Underground

9 The Libertines

10 LCD Soundsystem

In My Imagination, You're Waiting Lying On Yr Side With Yr Arms Between Yr Thighs

"To tear apart the ties that bind
Perhaps 'fuck off' might be too kind"
Do Me A Favour

I'll just say this...I've been waiting too impatiently for this album...Figure, I am not able to say anything intellingent about WHY I love it so...I just know I do...I got it last night, at about 2:30 am...You know I needed 5 minutes to acknoledge the fact that I HAVE it...Yeah, I pressed 'pause' after playing "505" on repeat and just stood there, staring at the screen...I think it was a musical orgasm...that track is PURE GENIUS!!!!...Oh, dear me...I have to IM/mail/sms everyone I know...in order to tell them how great the new Arctic Monkeys album is....

Good Things, Proud Men

Sebadoh sunt the quintessential 90s low-fi band. Sebadoh sunt schizoizi. Sebadoh sunt o formatie cult a indieului. Sebadoh exista datorita neintelegerilor ( privind the aesthetics?) dintre Lou Barlow (a sensitive chick dressed-up as a guy?)si restul membrilor Dinosaur Jr. (neintelegeri datorita carora exista the sublime milestone “The Freed Pig”). Sebadoh inseamna trei personalitati diferite: pe de o parte Barlow (extremely sensible, writing songs about disappointment, being low, losers, love, obsessions, immense sadness si indragostit de the pop-folk aesthetics), pe de alta parte Eric Gaffney(cu a lui iubire pentru experimentalul sonicyouth-ian, cu his psychedelic tunes si noisepopul filled with distorted acoustic guiatars) – daca vreti, un fel de duo Lou Reed-John Cale – si pe alocuri versurile ciudate ale bateristului Jason Loewenstein (si iubirea lui pentru squeaky vocals Pixies-style si soundul specific hardcore). Sebadoh e formatia cu care m-a stresat my best friend, Seba, dupa ce a aflat de existenta unei formatii al carui nume contine “Seba” (fara sa ii fi ascultat vreodata). Sebadoh e formatia AIA care m-a fermecat cu “Gimme Indie Rock”, a schizoid combo of Barlow and Gaffney’s ideologies (incepand cu a distorted sound si continuand cu the folk sound so precious to Barlow doar pentru a reveni la the distorts ). Sebadoh sunt the living proof ca Stooges, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Syd Barrett si Joni Mitchell pot convietui pe aceleasi albume fara a fi caraghiosi…fara a starni mila si fara pic de ironie. Sebadoh sunt o explozie de punk ( hardcore ca pe “Crisis”, pixies-ian ca pe “Worst Thing”) de bitter love songs, de mesaje transmise asa cum nu credeai ca se poate (“On Fire” si “Ocean” reusesc sa point out the existence of a generation of confused men care nu stiu cu sa asculte nevoile feminime…fara insa a ii transforma in “victime”), de anthemic moments (din nou, “Gimme Indie Rock” stands out, la fel si “Good Things, Proud Man”) si de experimente duse la extrema (“Cecilia Chime In Melee”, un instrumental de 4:19 minute, filled with distorts and heavy punk drums). Sebadoh e formatia AIA care pare a lua locul Placebo in my mind: nu conteaza ca am chef de new rave, de post-punk, de Smiths, de Velvet Underground…merge si un Sebadoh…asa ca nu ne crizam…After all, this is the truly great thing (well, cel putin one of them)….

06_Truly Great Thing.mp3