Fool’s Gold - Surprise Hotel (2009)
This band has been generating a lot of hype lately, and gauging from this amazing single, they certainly deserve it. Only issue is, they hail from seasonless L.A., and mistakenly are releasing this would-be summer jam in the fall. Minor details I guess.
Check it out:
Fool’s Gold - Surprise Hotel (2009)
Oh and other hot newness from Ernest Greene, AKA Washed Out. MDMA anyone?
Washed Out - Feel It All Around (2009)
Love, Latham
Maximum Joy - Building Bridges (1982)
In light of the recent blog entries on racial/cultural divides, and that today is the anniversary of the September 11th plane crashes, I thought I would cast a little hope into our little blog and the web world at large with this beautiful dub/disco jam that asks the ever-important question:
How do you feel about building a bridge?
Between you and me,
Between them and us?
This was originally released as a b-side to Maximum Joy’s 12” White and Green Place (1982) on Y Records. In 2005, the label Crippled Dick Hot Wax! issued a compilation that includes most of this too-short-lived band’s slender output. The compilation is titled Unlimited (1979 - 1983) and I highly recommend adding it to your music library.
And in other news: I am sending out vibes of peace and hope (also HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) to all the humans and animals and plants in the world. As Yoko Ono says, “a dream we dream together is reality.” LEZ DO IT!!!!
For inspiration, get to know one of our modern day freedom-fightin’, bridge-buildin’ badasses: Malalai Joya.
xo
Latham
Sylvester - Rock The Box (Dance Version) (1984)
Just showing a little love for Sylvester - an endlessly inspiring artist who contributed a whole lot to disco music and queer culture before his untimely death from AIDS in 1988. LOVE YOU GIRL!
And for fun, checkout the Pointer Sister’s vocals on the Pinball Number Count song they made with Walt Kraemer for Sesame Street! CLASSIC!!
peace and love
Latham
Pictureplane - “Goth Star” (2009)
I’ve been obsessively jamming out to this song by Denver’s Pictureplane for the past week. It essentially mutilates Fleetwood Mac’s Seven Wonders into a hazy and lazy tripped out jam. It sent me searching for other hot Fleetwood Mac reworkings. I found quite a few remixes, but only a select number are really worth a listen.
The Tom Croose Edit of Never Going Back Again is a seriously beautiful spring/summer jam, You Make Lovin Fun gets a redbull and vodka infusion, and the 12” Extended Remix of Seven Wonders is just a great cake with lots of extra delicious icing. Also check out this really incredible remix of the Radiohead song All I Need, where Thom Yorke’s vocals are sped up and pitch-shifted and reverbed to the point where he sounds EXACTLY LIKE Tusk-era Stevie Nicks! Too Cool!
Fleetwood Mac - Never Going Back Again (Tom Croose Edit)
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Lovin Fun (Trailmix Remix)
6th Borough Project - “Do It To The Max” (2009)
This song is a serious BANGER.
In other disco news:
Check out Marianne Faithful performing Why D’ya Do It live in ‘05
And why not throw in a little Chicks On Speed for good measure?
Remember Glamour Girl ?!?!?
Not quite sure how any of this fits together, but I hope you enjoy it all the same!
—posted by Latham
Ono - “I’m Not Getting Enough” (Dave Aude Club Mix) (2009)
I could do without the majority of the recent catalogue of Yoko Ono remixes, with the exception of the highly effective Walking On Thin Ice Remixes and the politically sincere Everyman…Everywoman Remixes.
I’m pretty excited about this new remix by Dave Aude however. It takes the cheekiness of the original recording (from Ono’s 2001 album Blueprint For A Sunrise) and covers it with joyous dancefloor sincerity and sleaze (not necessarily opposing forces in my opinion). Whereas most of the other Ono remixes opt for drowning out Yoko in favor of 4-to-the-floor one-offs and subsequently losing much of her soulful, humorous nuances in the translation, this remix feels like a cross-generational conversation on desire and longing. But you can hear for yourself!
check out the original reggae-heavy song below:
ONO - I’m Not Getting Enough (2001)
and the Blow-Up reworking of Everyman Has A Woman Who Loves Him, queered and retitled:
BLOW UP - Everyman Everywoman (2007)
and if you’re still “not getting enough,” check out the animated video for:
ONO - Walking On Thin Ice (Pet Shop Boys Remix) (2003)
—posted by Latham
Polmo Polpo - “Kiss Me Again and Again” (2005)
Polmo Polpo (loosely translated as “octopus lung” in Italian) is one of Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist Sandro Perri’s musical projects. This is a beautiful and sprawling cover of Dinosaur’s 1978 Disco freak-out “Kiss Me Again.” It’s over 20 minutes long, and seriously it just needs to be that long. Sadly, I had to seriously reduce the bitrate so a little quality will be lost, but I went for content over form this time around. Enjoy!
Check out the original below which features David Byrne on guitar and Arthur Rusell on production!
Dinosaur - “Kiss Me Again” (1978)
—posted by Latham