Nineteen Ninety Never

As I Tweeted earlier, this trailer for The Electro Wars (a documentary about electronic music) has me absolutely stoked about the state of music today. From the film’s decription:

“It seems that every other day a new remix is popping up on the blogosphere, how does this affect marketing for other independent artists? Do they welcome the remixes or oppose them? Is music overload possible? What will eventually happen when all these budding producers grab a hold of a Pro Tools tutorial and develop their own remixes week in and week out? Will the remix itself become obsolete? Will original tracks have to step up to the forefront rather than recede into the background? Themes of this nature are explored in the film.”

The trailer seems to answer most of these questions, and all the artists interviewed seem to agree that it doesn’t matter what category music is in anymore, and that it is all amazing and all in one stream, and that there is a place for everything.

Anyways, here’s a few tracks from the soundtrack:

Blende - Iratus

Skream - Midnight Request Line

Toxic Avenger - Toxic is Dead

Props to Vogelspand, Squeegie and The Blue Walrus for the tracks

The Electro Wars website

The Electro Wars on Twitter

According to this, the sirens were “dangerous bird-woman…portrayed as seductresses in Greek mythology.”

They were known for their beautiful voices that would lure sailors to their death. Odysseus was one of the only ones to get away with hearing them, and he had to do so by having himself tied to the mast of a ship and plugging his crew’s ears with beeswax so that they couldn’t hear the sirens while they sailed by them.

Anyways, here’s a collection of modern-day sirens. Disco sirens, if you will. You’ll be tempted, but not to the extent that you’ll need to put beeswax in your ears.

Midfield General - Disco Sirens (via the Blue Walrus)

Paris Hilton - Turn You On

CSS - Meeting Paris Hilton

Lady Gaga - Just Dance (Something Wrong Remix)

Katy Perry - Hot N Cold (Something Wrong Bassline Line Bitch Remix)

Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl (Vanderbilt Remix)

Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl (NONEWYORK Remix)

Hillary Duff - With Love (Disco Villains Remix)

Chromeo vs. Rihanna - Don’t Stop The Fancy Footwork (Hood Internet Mix)

Mariah Carey - I’ll be Lovin’ You Long Time (Gejius Dandy Lion Remix)

Midfield General - Disco Sirens (Push Rub Electro Mix)

I’m not totally convinced that these are seperate songs, but they’ve got different titles and they come from different editions of The Blue Walrus‘ great Clap to the Electricity compilations.

Fox n’ Wolf - Youth Alcoholic

Fox n’ Wolf - Electric Date

According to their MySpace page, they’re also from Sweden. Is everyone from Sweden these days?

In other news, I’ve now got a Myspace page myself, and a Twitter account. Awesome.