Interview w Junior Boy(s) and Max Tundra

Only positive press has surrounded the latest Junior boys album which is old news by now, due to the early leak (four months early) and the pace that music is thrown at us these days.

After their show at Mercy Lounge, I was able to talk with Matt Didemus (the Junior Boy to the right of the above image) and Ben Jacobs (who recently gained renowned for his spastic electronic style under the name "Max Tundra")

Picture the combination of Jocobs' peppy elegant British accent clashing with Didemus' straightforward almost jaded, deep tone of a voice and you have the following interview:

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Eli Smith - Party All Knight

Found this one while shopping around on the IHC pages.

Maybe I'm a sucker for the "Knight" play on words, or just in the mood for mind numbing bass.

Either way check out Eli Smith's release from the So Sweet label which also released a 7 track Le Castlevania sampler which you can find over here

The sound fits right in with harder pounding tracks like Aoki's "Gifted" remix, which I only recently uncovered (due to following Aoki hate trends, I looked over it), but I have to hand it to him, the man can make a solid N.A.S.A mix

$ Eli Smith - Party All Knight (Original)
$ N.A.S.A - Gifted (Steve Aoki Mix)

The Presets - Kicking and Screaming (Video)

"Kicking and Screaming" The Presets

Moderat - "Sick With It"

There's a type of person who listens to Modeselektor/Aparat and other styles of 'post industrial artsy electronic house' . From my experiences, they're usually urban white kids who are into underground hip hop rooting from Chicago.

I'm not well acquainted with either artists (although "Happy Birthday" by Modeselektor is one of the better songs I've heard in my lifetime).

Its a big deal that these artists are collaborating because...

well collaborations are always fun.

As I was listening through the album my first thought was that this is going to be another ambient, deep drawn out housy cd (sort of true, but sort of not), I did however find a single on Moderat's debut album called, "Sick with It" that blew my mind.

I was driving when I first heard it; cityscapes and bridges were passing over me while the sun was setting.

I highly suggest that you check this one out, its already made its way to 'best originals of '09' on the nn end of the year list.

$ Moderat - Sick With It

Wolfmother to tour w ACDC + Album Artwork + TUNES

^Wolfmother travels to Yavin IV for album cover shoot

read more on Wolfmother/ACDC tour at the MODBLOG

what other blogs are up to...

$ Telephoned - Turn My Swag On
$ Katy Perry - Waking Up In Vegas (Calvin Harris)
$ Daft Punk - Robot Rock (Immuzikation)
$ Phoenix - Lisztomania (Holy Ghost!)
$ Fenech Soler - The Lion & the Bird
^ who came first? the fenech or the fires...

IRONIC RAP TIME!!

What a surprise I have for you this morning. New Toxic Avenger, New RAC, new DTTT.

First off, lets just give a round of applause to DW who made some stellar art for the new FamilyForce5 remix album. (making them 1000x more bloggable with retro fo-akira hyper pink/blue/nn look). I guess the label wanted to move away from goober youth group kiddos vibe (listeners also bought Hawk Nelson, Skillet, Relient K blah blah blah)

too bad FF5 will always be stuck in the Christian Music section T_T

Second off, I hope you enjoy the new DTTT mix of LMFAO's "la la la" (<3 u James)

$ Family Force 5 - D-I-E 4 Y-O-U (RAC remix)
$ Family Force 5 - Fever (Toxic Avenger Remix)
$ LMFAO - la la la (DTTT remix)

Q: What Does Nashville Electro Sound Like? A: MAVS

Some people are saying "Nashville is the new L.A" which....I don't think so. Those people must never have been to L.A. The only similarities I can find are that both cities require a lot of driving to get to wherever you're going.

A modestly growing collection of players are blossoming here in cashville as far as electronic music. Matt Pusti is one of them, under the name "Make Up and Vanity Set"

He recently sent over some remixes which I'm proud to unveil here on NN.

Listeners will find the sounds to be similar to datA or CFCF.

$ Uncle Skeleton - Diskoteq (MAVS remix) ♥♥

$ Anamanaguchi - Danger Mountain (Training Montage by MAVS)