An Industry of Cool… or not.

Ok.  So I’m late on this one.  Like…almost a month.

But…

I think it’s worth it.   I now present In My Bedroom, Vol 2 aka Neo-New Wave Flashback:

In My Bedroom, Vol 2 – May ‘09

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Tracklisting:

1. Book Of Love – I Touch Roses (Long Stemmed Version)
2. Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance With Somebody (12″ Mix)
3. Madonna – Into the Groove (Shep Pettibone Dub)
4. Hall and Oates – Out of Touch (Extended Version)
5. Midnight Club – Keep Your Love Alive (Midnight Club Remix)
6. Justin Faust – Surfer Mystique (Pelifics Remix)
7. Camouflage – The Great Commandment (Loungo Mix)
8. New Order – True Faith (Shep Pettibone Remix)
9. Futurecop! – Tonight’s Hero
10. The Sound Of Arrows – M.A.G.I.C
11. Erasure – Sometimes (Razormaid Remix)
12. Hosta – Fun Fun
13. When In Rome – The Promise (O.N. Mix)
14. Sferro – Turquoise Waters
15. New Order – Touched By the Hand of God (12″ Mix)
16. Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakley – Together in Electric Dreams (Extended Version)
17. Sebastien Tellier – Roche (Breakbot Remix)
18. Phil Collins & Phillip Bailey – Easy Lover (Rare Extended Remix)
19. Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time (Extended Version)

Just in time for the weekend, I bring you a new feature that I’ve come up with.

The In My Bedroom series of mixes will (hopefully) be monthly, starting this month (hoping next month’s installment will get recorded in Seattle with Matty C, and go down in history with our drunken, 3 hour, overnight dnb mix from 2004).

The only real constructs I have for these mixes are to pick a beginning and ending track, and then somehow fill in the hour between them. That being said, this month I was in a disco-y mood, for the most part, but ended up with the mix moving from disco-y, to deep. It’s not perfect, it’s not really even that good, but it is the first in a series. I’m only going to give each mix 1 go, and I’m not going to plan out more than the first and end tracks. I like to think of this mix as a good mix for the drive out to the bars/clubs at the beginning, and good for the drive home at the end.

Let me know what you think.

In My Bedroom, Vol 1 – April ‘09

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Tracklist:

Cut Copy – Far Away (Damn Arms Remix)

Miami Horror vs Dan Hartman – Starmaker (Relight My Fire Remix)

The Virgins – Rich Girls (Twelves Remix)

Ladyhawke – Back of the Van (Fred Falke Ultimate Beverly Remix)

Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars

Chromeo – Call Me Up (Bag Raiders Remix)

Diamond Cut – Teardrops (Treasure Fingers Filter Disco Edit)

DJ Digital Dave – Dirty Disco

The Presets – Talk Like That (Miami Horror Remix)

DNA – Don’t Stop

Treasure Fingers – Cross The Dancefloor (Chromeo Remix)

Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream (Treasure Fingers Remix)

The Twelves – Works For Me

Roy Davis, Jr – I Have a Vision (The Juan McLean Remix)

Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone (Deadmau5 Remix)

Hot Chip – Colours (Fred Falke Remix)

I’m the first person to admit that I just didn’t get the Ting Tings when they first started hitting everyone’s radar.  I found them annoying and formulaic.  I just didn’t see anything there to pay attention to.  Well, then I heard the Calvin Harris remix of “Great DJ”.  For some reason, this remix stuck with me, and I found myself singing it randomly and jamming out the the funky bassline after the drop.  Well, this morning I woke up with it in my head again, so I decided that I needed to post up some Ting Tings and deal with the fact that I find myself liking pretty much all their stuff now.

Well, as it turns out, they were on Jimmy Fallon last night.  Check the video below.

….and here we go with some tracks to check out.  I’ve included the previously mentioned Calvin Harris remix of “Great DJ”, a Dizee Rascal cover of “That’s Not My Name”, an acoustic performance, and some other goodies.

The Ting Tings -- Great DJ (Calvin Harris Remix)

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The Ting Tings -- Great DJ (Acoustic)

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The Ting Tings -- We Walk

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The Ting Tings -- Shut Up and Let Me Go

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The Ting Tings -- That’s not My Name

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Dizee Rascal -- That’s Not My Name (Tings Tings Cover)

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I’ll be back soon. Work, SXSW, and life have got me busy. Trying to get a bunch of posts together to update with.

Don’t hate me.

Friday night saw me in downtown Austin, getting liquored up starting at about 5:30 PM.  At about 7:30 PM or so, I headed over to Stubb’s to grab my ticket from the booth and wander around inside.  After about 30 min or so, I met up with sailorlegs and here crew, and shortly after that, Matt and Kim hit the stage.  I managed to record a few tracks on the Flip, but I haven’t gotten them online yet, and am not really in a hurry to (you’ll understand after watching the Cut Copy video below).

Matt and Kim were on point, and pumped the crowd up nice (Knightlife wasn’t bad on the decks, but his track selection early in the night was kinda meh).  They blew through their set in about 30 min, playing a good 7-8 songs.  Mostly highlights from their new joint, Grand.  This was the first time I’d caught them, and I didn’t have any expectations, but I would definately check them out again.

Knightlife came back on and we moved around to stage left.  He upped the pace and got the crowd going a little more this time.  About 45 min later, Cut Copy was ready and the lights went down.  The following video is their intro and “Hearts on Fire”.  Apologies for the distroted sound.  This was the first night out with the new Flip and I now realise I really need to do something baout the mic gain on it.  It’s way too sensitive.

Cut Copy was better than I thought they’d be.  They kept everyone moving, and ran through most of their greatest hits (I remember Hearts on Fire, Far Away, Nobody Lost Nobody Found, Sands of Time (they said it was the frst time they had ever played this in the US, and about 3/4 through me recording it, one of the security guys told me to shut it down), Saturday, Feel the Love. and Lights & Music (the last of the 3 song encore)).  I honestly can’t remember what else they played, but it was all good, of course.  Tey played about and hour, maybe 75 min.

I did not check out the after party with L.A.X, but I did walk down the street, have 2 beers, and go home.

Cut Copy – Hearts on Fire (Knightlife Remix)

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Matt and Kim – Good Ol Fasion Nightmare

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Cut Copy – Sands of Time

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