some ace new electro before I head off

Gotta catch a plane to Poland in a few hours, but there's just enough time to get these babies out there.

Super blog favourite Seams has a new single out Focus Energy b/w Motive order.

Focus Energy/Motive Order by seams

Obviously everyone knows that originally Focus Energy was a pokemon battle move which was a completely pointless waste of time, much like Magikarp's Splash attack.
And if you didn't know that, then you do now.
Luckily Seams' Focus Energy isn't anything even slightly resembling a waste of time. Moving on from his last EP Tourist Seams aka James Welch has taken on a more techno sound making his tunes even more danceable.

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D/R/U/G/S not busy enough playing at Glastonbury has whipped out a solid gold remix of Lykke Li's Sadness is a Blessing (seems everyone's doing it)
(mp3)

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Dam Mantle's getting ready for his WE EP release later this month with this tune Not a Word
It sounds like a dubstep children's rhyme.
Not A Word by Dam Mantle

New mix up and ready

Earlier I made a little 20 minute "dj mix" of songs I think are wicked. Never done one before so I thought I'd try it out. Giving the old beatmatching a go. I guess it ended up sounding alright. So here goes: The AndygoesdowntoChinatown House in my house-mix, what do you think?

AndygoesdowntoChinatown House in my house mix by AndygoesdowntoChinatown

High fives, hats off and maybe even a special prize to whoever recognizes the 7 tracks on it.
If you want my magnificent prize then type your answers in the comment box or e-mail me. Or don't. Your loss really.

Back from Juhannus, just about

This picture embodies my midsummer/juhannus. Fair enough I'm neither of the guys in the picture but still, the warmth of togetherness as we walk towards the tranquil sea on our way to share our mutual love for the warmth of togetherness is pretty obvious here. Something I'd only trade for a bit of money and a slice of pizza.
The can of cheap beer held ever so gently represents the flowing liquid-esque mobility of our love for each other. Come what may, we'll swish and swirl our way back to each other, unless you're Moses and then we're fucked.

The two onlookers in the background are quite visibly jealous of what we have. Why shouldn't they be? What we have baby is magical. What we have baby is some real Harry Potter-shit.

This is Juhannus.

Anyway, eyes to the future ya.
I'm heading of to Poland for some business soon so yet again I'm going to abandon ship for a while, but before I do that let's have some good old musical times.
Starting with some picks from our midsummer playlist.

I am completely obsessed with this band/song.

Window by PVT

I could also listen to I Look to You by Miami Horror all day and on Saturday almost did.

I Look To You by Miami Horror (Official)

USA BOYS by HEALTH

Gold Panda - MPB

I keep repeating myself saying that "This-or-that artist, whose album this-or-that from last year was MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE album of the year, has now released a new track."
The way things are going it seems I've got loads of favourite albums of last year and they're all releasing new tunes.
Seeing as I didn't do an end of the year top-list you'll just have to take my word for it.

Anyway here I go again: Gold Panda whose album Lucky Shiner from last year was (one of) MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE album(s) of the year, has now released a new track MPB (mp3).

MPB by Gold Panda

MPB is basically just Gold Panda giving a xylophone a good hiding backed with a banging beat. Simple, but with astonishing results when done properly.

And just for good measure let's post his remix of Lykke Li's Sadness is Blessing, just because it's ace. Oh and because as everyone obviously knows, sadness IS a blessing.

Lykke Li: Sadness Is A Blessing (Gold Panda Remix) by Gold Panda

Alas I shall be leaving you wonderful readers for a few days as it's midsummer in Finland and midsummer over here is yet another great reason to get completely shit-faced for three days (like you need an excuse). So in true Finnish spirit I'm either going to pass out in a sauna and wither away, crash my non-existant car into a moose or simply drown after trying to piss over the side of a boat. Looking at statistics it seems like whatever I do, I'll probably die.

So hey! Happy midsummer people.
xoxo

Everyone, I need your help

Hello, I'm about to reveal a secret that not everyone knows. Yet.
I have an alter-ego. Yes that's right, as well as being this super awesome music blog guy, I also do normal day-to-day stuff.
During the summer that involves taking part in the runnings of the family business: a quaint little local shop in the countryside for local people. This is all fine and nice but I've just got the tinyest beef with what tunes the matriarch wants to plays in the café. All day, every day we listen to Radio Nova. It's what I like to call the parent-friendly, grand-parent friendy and great-grandparent friendly radio station. Not Thomas-friendly though.

Today, through the seemingly endless torrent of Laura Pausinis and Eros Ramazottis and Bruno Marses (how did this guy get so big?) I caught an advert saying that the top-200 most voted songs will be played on Radio Nova on midsummer's day ie. Saturday ie. the day i'll be really flipping hungover. So I want everyone here to make my day just that tiny bit easier and vote for something I want to listen to. How does that sound ladies and gents?

All we have to do is head over to
http://www.radionova.fi/ohjelmat/radio-novan-yo/Juhannuslista-Top-200-tulee-taas--Aanesta-suosikkiasi--21300.html


IT'S EASY! We can do this.
The only bits that need filling are the two first boxes:
Nimi: Your name
and the bit where it says: "Ehdota omaa suosikkia" you type in, um, I don't know how about, Gang Gang Dance - Mindkilla seeing as that's where we left off yesterday
and then just press 'Lähetä'

Brilliant. Thank you!
Everybody have a Gang Gang Dancey midsummer
xxx

Just pondering, you know, about J-Lo and Justin Biebs

I was sitting around today thinking about stuff in general and then some other stuff. Then I got to thinking about how Gang Gang Dance's Mindkilla is possibly the best song of the year so far and how when the DJs before Crystal Castle's gig played it and it was better than the gig itself.



This got me thinking about another Gang Gang Dance tune, Dust from their previous album Saint Dymphna and how it always reminds me of Kula World. Anyone remember Kula World for the PS1? What a great game that was! Just rolling about as a beachball collecting fruits and keys. Back in the day when men were men and video games were video games.

Does Dust sound anything like Kula World? Well, um, not a lot. Feel like my memory's tricked me and am kind of worried as to what other visions have been distorted by time.





Then I was thinking about other stuff, like how many times does Jennifer Lopez say the word 'floor' in her new "hit" On the Floor?
Because I'm lazy + I didn't really want to listen to it any more than never, I googled "how many times does Jennifer Lopez say the word 'floor' in her new "hit" On the Floor?" and apparently she says it 21 times which is actually a lot less than I was expecting. A simple calculation tells me "floor" pops up every 12 seconds. (Justin Bieber says "never" 66 times in Never Say Never, once every 3 seconds.)

I think the repetition is meant to put me off the fact that the song's just a shit rip-off of Kaoma's Lambada. Unfortunately it hasn't. In fact I've heard a bunch of really annoying, stoned (and awful melodica players) hippies playing Lambada on melodicas in a park which has been better than J-Lo's version.
Also having Pitbull tell me how he's gonna bump me like a tonka truck and then incept and mess up my brain hasn't really worked in the track's favour. Call me old fashioned but I prefer being bumped into and then get issued a formal apology.