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
Sometimes I forget that Hervé drops huge, electro-bass bombs. I forget, then I remember and I’m pissed at myself for forgetting in the first place.
I guess he got luck when they were handing out cool names, because he also performs/records as The Count, The Young Lovers, Action Man and The Dead Soul Brothers. Oh, right: He’s also part of the Machines Don’t Care collaboration album with some other UK heavies.
Listen to him bring it:
Kidda - Under The Sun (Herve Remix)
Oh, and his last mix album, Ghetto Bass, had a huge robot on the cover so you just know he had to get some 199X love.
Catch this man of mystery online - he’s Hervespace on both Myspace and Twitter.
Also catch me on Twitter or follow 199X on Twitter.
“Metallic dragon can move things by the power of his mind and destroy whit but a thought. If metallic dragon chose, he could lay waste to all the energy mankind has amassed. Compared to the power of his will, the enargy mandkind has used to date is no more than puffs of air.
But in reality, metallic dragon are all part of the flow the same grate stream.”
When I first saw a kid in one of the classes I taught holding this white plastic thing, I thought it was a lunch box. Turns out it was a sewing kit.
Here’s a track that I picked up the other day by a fellow called Eddie Mars, followed by some stuff from Japan’s answer to urban weird: Cornelius.
And if you’re so inclined, hit me up on Twitter (personal and official 199x).
For more from Japan here on 199X, check out Life In Lotus Land I, Life In Lotus Land II and Life in Lotus Land III.
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?
Every thing that the The Golden Filter touches is, well, solid gold. They seem to be pretty mysterious, shying away from sharing much about themselves. As they said in an interview on KillahBeez, “The origins of the golden filter lie somewhere in the cosmic seas of darkness and desperation… and the way in which the tides rise above that.”
The Golden Filter - Solid Gold
The Golden Filter - Solid Gold (Clouded Vision Remix)
The Golden Filter - Favorite Things
Little Boots - New In Town (The Golden Filter Remix)
Polly Scattergood - Please Don’t Touch (The Golden Filter dub)
I previously blogged the beautiful music that is The Golden Filter’s Empire of the Sun remix, and I’ve also professed my love for Little Boots before.
You can try catching The Golden Filter Myspace, Tumblr, Facebook and even their own website.
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).
Edgar Rice Burroughs had one hell of an imagination - he didn’t just write the Tarzan books (including Tarzan at the Earth’s Core), but he also wrote a series of books about Mars featuring an immortal named John Carter. Rumor has it they’re making a movie about his adventures, and I anticipate it being awesome.
In the books, John Carter is supposed to be from Virginia. You know who else is from Virginia? Pusha T and Malice from Clipse, that’s who.
Clipse feat. Pharrell - Mr. Me Too (Neon Coyote Remix)*
To top that off, here are some banging Mars-themed tracks to get you going.
Fake Blood - Mars (Original Edit)
Fake Blood - Mars (Herve Re-fix)
Kid Cudi feat. Crookers - Embrace The Martians (Tevar Edit)
* If you really want to stretch the connections here, it makes perfect sense to include a Neon Coyote remix in this Mars-themed post because The Coyote was a major character in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy. Throw your hands in the sky if you’ve read it!