Well, I’m pretty sure that summer is over here in Toronto. Those lazy afternoons of sneaking into the pool area of sweet condos are over, but they’ll be back again next summer.
In the meantime, remember sunshine with the Summer 2009 Mix from (Pretty) Girls and Lasers.
(Pretty) Girls and Lasers - Summer 2009 Part 1
(Pretty) Girls and Lasers - Summer 2009 Part 2
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that I love golden robots like Hesperus and Glitter Boy.
Starshine, pictured above, is another awesome golden robot . As the semi-romantic counterpart to ROM: Spaceknight. she was first an alien woman named Landra who had given up her body to become a space knight and fight the evil Dire Wraiths with Rom. After Landra/Starshine was killed in battle, an earth woman who had been in love with Rom dug up Starshine’s body. When this woman put on the Starshine armor, she basically stepped right into the old Starshine’s place in Rom’s heart.
And you thought your life was complicated.
Anyways I can’t get enough of this XX remix of Florence + The Machine. Just beautiful. You can pretty much just hear two golden robots falling in love when you listen to it.
Florence and The Machine - You’ve Got The Love (The XX Remix)
For more Florence and The Machine, check out RCRDLBL
A year or so ago I found a web comic called Gone With The Blastwave. It was about a group of soldiers wandering around a post-apocalyptic city, trying to find the other army and trying to find their way out. It was a Mad’s Spy Vs. Spy crossed with Platoon and it was amazing. Unfortunately, the author seems to have discontinued it.
If you still want to read the darkly comic tale of these masked troops wandering around a ruined city, you can buy the first volume on Amazon (or you can find some of the images on Google)
Speaking of ruins and the future, here is great Tommie Sunshine track and a bangin’ Tiga track, both remixed by the Disco Villains:
Tommie Sunshine - Dance Among The Ruins (Disco Villains Remix)
Tiga - Mind Dimension (Disco Villains Remix)
I love the Disco Villains and I’m glad to see that they are back.
They are @DiscoVillains on Twitter, or you can even buy some of their stuff on iTunes
There was a period of my life last year when I called every female I knew “Baby.” I don’t know where I got it from, but its probably from songs like these. They’re the kind of songs that make you want to sing along, especially to the “oooh, baby” parts. They’re not the kind of songs that make you want to fall in love, they’re not the kind of songs that make you want to be a fitte prins. They’re just the kind of songs that make you want to dance with your baby all night long. Have you ever seen the scene in Layer Cake where Daniel Craig is watching Sienna Miller dance? Its like that.
Miami Horror - Make You Mine (Fred Falke Remix)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
And as a bonus, a track from that scene in Layer Cake:
Kylie Minogue vs New Order - Can’t Get Blue Monday Out of My Head
Miami Horror is on Myspace or here on 199x
Fred Falke is also on Myspace
What ever happened to Stardust, anyways?
Like that wicked gun shirt I recently blogged about, I also picked up this Triumvir “Rome Never Fell” shirt at Capsule up in Toronto’s glamorous Yorkville region. Its black and white, and features a statue of Caesar giving the Trudeau-salute. It also fits perfectly.
To celebrate how much I like wearing it, here are some Rome-themed tracks for you.
The Streets - Blinded By The Lights (Nero Remix)
AutoErotique - Gladiator (Steve Aoki and DJ AM Mix)
And while we’re on the topic, let’s reminisce about the time I went as Caesar for Halloween. I was probably inspired slightly by Robert Silverberg’s Roma Eterna, a fictional story of what the world would have looked like if the Roman Empire had never fallen.
Thanks to our T-dot brethren SalaciousSound for the Violca track. They’ve got another one, and some more information on their post about Violca.
A few weeks ago CJ Milli made my day by dropping a couple of tracks in my inbox. It was like she was reading my mind when she combined Empire of The Sun’s “We Are the People” and Kanye West’s “Homecoming” into awesome. She’s also put together a few of her own tracks.
CJ Milli - The People’s Homecoming (Kanye West + Empire of The Sun Mix)
She’s pretty cute and puts together some good beats, so check this chiquita out on MySpace. Like Clipse and John Carter, she’s from Virginia and it makes me think there must be something in the water down there.
And by way of a few bonus tracks that reminded me of her track…Chiddy Bang samples MGMT’s classic track Kids and gives it a bit of hip-hop flavor while The Mentalists simply cover it using nothing more than iPhones and their voices for instrumentation (watch the video of this if you don’t believe me).
Even though its June and slightly rainy here in the T-dot, it still feels like the start of summer, and it feels like a good time to post some warm-weather, good-times music.
The video above is for the track “Hey You” by Pony Pony Run Run, and its got a funny, summery feeling. The band has even dropped their own, dance remix of the track:
Pony Pony Run Run - Hey You (Pony Pony Run Run Remix)
The June Soundmen dropped a track in my email the other day (you can too: ultimatecowboy (at) 199x (dot) org), telling me to pay attention because it was going to be “the summer banger.”
June ft. Remo - Watch My Moves
I don’t know if it has the staying power to be the banger we’ll be listening to all summer long, but its fun for now.
For a couple of good summer mixes, check out the wonky Sound Pellegrino Team Thermal mix on Curb Crawlers, the MADJAZZ’s Summer Brainstorm on Mad Decent or The Summer Never Ends mix by Jens Lekman. All three should be good for bumpin’ on the patio with a case of beer on a warm evening.
I’ve been living the good life on the Valley Isle for the past week - eatin’ delicious grinds and giving it a good rip at H-Bay.
Justin Faust - Surfer Mystique (Pelifics Remix)
Props to the Trash Menagerie kids for serving up that timely track. You can find more Justin Faust on MySpace or buy his stuff here. More Pelifics here (looks like he’s another Scando).
After reading about him on Tzero I haven’t really stopped listening to Scotty Dynamo. It really doesn’t get much better than white teenagers making club raps about partying and living the good life. Seriously.
Scotty Dynamo - Cars Glamour Fame Money
Scotty Dynamo - Make It Right (Remix)
I had trouble choosing what tracks to post because they’re all gold.
Find the kid on MySpace, Twitter, Flickr and buy his stuff on iTunes.
Do it now, so you can tell your friends you were listenin’ to Scotty Dynamo before he blew up.
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)
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)