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Jan 05

Memoryhouse - When You Sleep (My Bloody Valentine Cover)(Yours Truly Session)

So it is finally here! Mixtape File #1. I hope this mix will speak for itself as, right now, office work and blogging do not mix well when the man is watching.  Damn the man!

But, download and enjoy. There’s plenty more to follow. - ramos (Jan. 5)

UPDATE 01/17/12:

Cloudy Sundays seem to always emit a nostalgic air, and while most of us who know better are licking their wounds from an evening of fun times and music, others of us wide-eyed and bushy tailed traverse through the empty street and highways listening to soft, long-ago melodies.

Mixtape File #1, set loose last year about this time, marked the beginning of our now year-long rant of what moves us and shakes us.  And a little over year since the inception, our voices in our heads still chatter and the music still plays loud and often to shut them all the hell up.     

Yet stepping onto memory lane, it seemed fitting to make some necessary adjustments to a half-assed posting.  Tagged appropriately and slipping in a photo to inspire you, we thank you for following.    

DOWNLOAD: the Mixtape File #1

Tracklist:

  1. CFCF - Forbidden Colours (Sylvian & Sakamoto Cover)
  2. Home Video - The Smoke (In Flagranti Remix)
  3. Radio Dept. - Heaven’s on Fire (Lo-Fi-Fink Remix)
  4. The Drums - Me and the Moon (Twin Shadow Remix)
  5. Houses - Endless Spring (Kordan Remix)
  6. Brothertiger - Feel
  7. Chad Valley - Ensoniq Funk
  8. Matthew Dear - You Put a Smell on Me (Nicolas Jaar Remix)
  9. The Drums - Forever and Ever Amen (Thieves Like Us Remix)
  10. The Naked and Famous - The Sun
  11. Nicolas Jaar - Love Teacher
  12. Pollyn - Falling Out of Place (In Flagranti Remix)
  13. Health - Eat Flesh (Baron von Luxxury Remix)
  14. Stereototal - Chelsea Girls (Thieves Like Us Remix)
  15. Oh No! Yoko - 90’s Kids (Teen Daze Remix)
  16. Mathemagic- Sequin
  17. Pallers - The Kiss (Surburban Kids with Biblical Names Remix)
  18. Korallreven - Honey Mine (ft. Victoria Bergsman)
  19. Primal Scream - Higher than the Sun
  20. Memoryhouse - When You Sleep (My Bloody Valentine Cover)

DOWNLOAD: the Mixtape File #1

- ramos


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Feb 01
Here it is: Mixtape #2 DOWNLOAD HERE Tracklist: Gymnopedie-MillionYoung (Erik Satie Cover) Electronic Fences-Computer Magic Z-Tanlines Special Fx-Mark E Hooray for Airbags-Skeleton Jones America’s Boy-Broadcast Tunnelvision-Here We Go Magic Tomorrow Night We’ll Go Anywhere-Evan Voytas Bikini-Phreek Plus One I Washed You-Prince Language Feel It All Around-Washed Out Le Troublant Acid-KZA Annie I’m Not Your Daddy-Kid Creole and the Coconuts Beam Me Up-Midnight Magic (Jacques Renault Edit) Vote Bowie for President-Sidwho Transmission-Hot Chip (Joy Division Cover) Come to Me-Tricky What I’ve Lost-Benoit & Sergio Being with You-Basement Jaxx You Can Tell It to Everybody-Air About this: Expect a cinematic intro-to an energetic first half-to a disco galactic exploration-taking you back down to a love jones. Enjoy the ride. This is dedicated to our 31 followers thus far. It’s only been a little over a month and you have made this blog so worth while! Love love love you all who take the time to listen to what Ramos and I have to share with you. From the gift that keeps on giving, -delacroix

Here it is: Mixtape #2

DOWNLOAD HERE

Tracklist:

  1. Gymnopedie-MillionYoung (Erik Satie Cover)
  2. Electronic Fences-Computer Magic
  3. Z-Tanlines
  4. Special Fx-Mark E
  5. Hooray for Airbags-Skeleton Jones
  6. America’s Boy-Broadcast
  7. Tunnelvision-Here We Go Magic
  8. Tomorrow Night We’ll Go Anywhere-Evan Voytas
  9. Bikini-Phreek Plus One
  10. I Washed You-Prince Language
  11. Feel It All Around-Washed Out
  12. Le Troublant Acid-KZA
  13. Annie I’m Not Your Daddy-Kid Creole and the Coconuts
  14. Beam Me Up-Midnight Magic (Jacques Renault Edit)
  15. Vote Bowie for President-Sidwho
  16. Transmission-Hot Chip (Joy Division Cover)
  17. Come to Me-Tricky
  18. What I’ve Lost-Benoit & Sergio
  19. Being with You-Basement Jaxx
  20. You Can Tell It to Everybody-Air

About this:

Expect a cinematic intro-to an energetic first half-to a disco galactic exploration-taking you back down to a love jones. Enjoy the ride.

This is dedicated to our 31 followers thus far. It’s only been a little over a month and you have made this blog so worth while! Love love love you all who take the time to listen to what Ramos and I have to share with you.

From the gift that keeps on giving,

-delacroix


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Mar 05

Kevin Barnes - Harvest Moon (Neil Young Cover)

Crashing and burning onto our personal mixtape memory lane, I, at this ungodly hour, am stuck.  Thanks, Delacroix.  Definitely not light. Absolutely not tight.  It’s thick and creamy, as well as hot and steamy.

Anyways, as the sickly sadistic fools of sentiment that we are, here’s another diddy for that special Cuddlepalooza mixtape.

Kevin Barnes, the Bowie-esque frontman to the exceedingly theatrical band Of Montreal, is captured here performing a live cover of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon.”  His acoustic presentation of this 1992 classic creates a beauteous lull that’s worth wrapping your cheesy heart around.

So, bleed the rest of the evening with this.

Download: Kevin Barnes - Harvest Moon (Neil Young Cover).mp3

- ramos  

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May 29

Fanfarlo - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel Cover)

As sentiment seems to be the on-going theme of these most recent post of ours, let us continue to roll with it. Nostalgia is a pleasant feeling on a clear Sunday morning, and it’s worth clenching on to while the blanketed air is still warm and toasty.  There are, in this song and these two bands, memories for me that are either poignant or pacifying; And in remembrance, the scars and predilections fluster fondness.  

London-based quintet Fanfarlo create a beautiful homage to the iconic “fuzz-folk”/ psyche-pop of Jeff Magnum and band Neutral Milk Hotel.  Taken from NMH’s 1998 masterwork In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Fanfarlo in a 2009 lap-top acoustic session give a soft breathe of pleasant reminiscence into the LP’s title track maintaining Magnum’s intended soft-heartedness and whimsical melody.

Watch out for that trumpet halfway through and listen for that melodica in the background.  It’s just too much. Too much, I tellz ya!!   

Download: Fanfarlo - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel Cover).mp3

- ramos

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Jun 28

Houses - Talamak (Toro y Moi Cover)

It’s been awhile since our blog posted another sweet cover track and thankfully, Chicago-hailed duo Houses (aka Dexter Tortoriello & Megan Messina) came and delivered this quiet LA evening.  Debuting last year with All Night, Houses presents beautifully-crafted synth pop tunes besmeared with Dexter’s quixotic vocal distortions.  Covering one of the premiere tracks from Toro y Moi’s Causer’s of This, Messina and Tortoriello re-imagine the bright-eyed original to an incredibly intimate, lovelorn melody.  As such, the song’s lyrics moan longingly through the multi-layered rhythms and the woozy samplings.  And, in the end, “Talamak” becomes a quiet pillow-biting whisper for want and fancy.

When can we get together again?
Nevermind, I’ve lost you

How can I tell if I love you anymore
Nevermind, I know I do

Call you closer to my arms
You’ll feel better when you’re warm

Do you like it when you leave your house?
Do you like it when you’re in a town?
That you love
Like one I live in
Like one I live in

It’s my body’s plan

I feel another
Timer
Will my love
Slow down

It’s my body’s plan

Make another telephone call
Think of you and me

Download: Houses - Talamak (Toro y Moi Cover).mp3

- ramos

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Jul 07

Mr. Little Jeans - Suburbs (Arcade Fire Cover)

And I can’t get past this feeling - this is just too enthralling.  And all things enthralling are rapturous. 

Featured on our latest Mixtape #8 (Check it out in its entirety: Here.), Mr. Little Jeans, fronted by Scandinavian Monica Birkenes produces a haunting, yet perfectly enchanting, rendition of the title track to the latest Arcade Fire release The Suburbs.

Simply enthralling …

For the full experience, download: the mixtape file#8.zip

- ramos

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Jul 25

Tobias Hellkvist - Step Aside (EfterKlang Cover)

Some Mondays feel like Sundays and it’s best to drift softly into the cool summer morning.

Home Normal’s Swedish producer/instrumentalist Tobias Hellkvist covers the Danish ensemble Efterklang in his own rendering of “Step Aside.”  Taken from their 2004 release Tripper,  Hellkvist drops the multi-instrumentalism of electric beats and keyboards and, managing still to keep in line with the band’s intended warmth and delicate melody, strips it bare to a pensive acoustical performance.  And for this morning, it hits the right chords and pulls at the appropriate heartstrings.

And I suppose I’ll fall off.

Download: Tobias Hellkvist - Step Aside (Efterklang Cover).mp3

Download: EfterKlang - Step Aside.mp3

- ramos

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Aug 02

Teen Daze - Harvest Moon (Neil Young Cover)

Yes.  Neil Young is still very much alive.  And No.  Tribute albums are not just for dead people.  And tracks like these are good for hot summer nights.  So, slip on something meshed and light (as long as you look sexy in it), and play this cool track to ice the sweat off your shoulders.

Released by Universal Electricity (aka the band Vacation), Teen Daze’s “Harvest Moon” is one in a 14 track cover compilation to Neil Young.  Headed for the Ditch: a Tribute to Neil Young is dreamy anti-folk collection of emerging artists like Mixtape favorite Foxes in Fiction, Emily Reo, Ghost Animal, and Breakfast in Fur.  A little experimentation, some chillwave, and analog psychodelic, this LP beautifully pays homage to the gentle folk and prolific lyricism of its subject.

Download: Teen Daze - Harvest Moon (Neil Young Cover).mp3

Download, If you’re craving more: Headed for the Ditch: a Tribute to Neil Young.zip

Also, check out an acoustical rendition by Of Montreal’s frontman Kevin Barnes: Here.

- ramos

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Nov 20

The Chain Gang of1974 - Hold Me Now (Thompson Twins Cover)

Obscure nerd fact for the music nazi muscle flex #1130:

Did you know that multi-instrumentalist Kamtin Mohager, better known as The Chain Gang of 1974, coined his moniker from the Ravonettes’ album Chain Gang of Love and the birth year of his favorite artist Ryan Adams (1974)?

Well, now, you do. Please, be sure to keep this useless tidbit handy to either notify Kamtin that you’re completely wet whistle for his hard rocks or to let that hair-flipping vixen next to you know that you’re just as into her music interests as her pantyline.

Though, at first listen, his new record under Modern Art Wayward Fire may mistakenly be chucked into the back row and stowed as a “guilty pleasure”, Kamtin Mohager’s alternative dance music project The Chain Gang of 1974 is terribly infectious as it’s heavily dosed with dance wave hooks, richly layered synthetics, and post punk elements.

For tonight’s posting, Chain Gang transforms the 1983 New Wave hit “Hold Me Now” by the Thompson Twins into an incendiary rock ballad.  It’s a 6 minute long love ride with rich riffs and heart-wrenching piano play that begs you to sing along, go home and fuck somebody.

Download: The Chain Gang of 1974 - Hold Me Now (Thompson Twins Cover).mp3

Download: The Chain Gang of 1974 - Hold On.mp3

- ramos

If you like what you hear and up for a free show, check him out at The Echo in Los Angeles.  Mohager and crew have been the Free Monday Night resident this Mo-vember.  So come and see the last of their free shows:

11/21 @ the Echo w/ Lesands, Tic Tic Boom, & K. Flay

11/28 @ the Echo w/American Tomahawk, Hot As Sun, & Cassettes Won’t Listen

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Dec 15

Rio en Medio - Let’s Groove (Earth Wind and Fire Cover) (Caz Edit Pt. 1)

Curtain down.

So, I work near a Hooter’s.  And as I suck drags off my cigarette and suffocate on the nicotine, the slow decay of my existence is further perpetuated by the beer-happy playlist of the Hooter’ed damned.  Such like their stale, curly-cut French fries served by the not-so attractive waitress in the not-so attractive, skin-toned leggings (barf in my mouth), top 40’s and golden oldies are neither appetizing nor my forte.  However, I can not deny that certain songs of certain eras melt my insides as they touch upon sentiment and old memories.

Curtain up.

Lesser known indie gem Danielle Stech-Homsy under the pseudonym Rio en Medio cover the Earth, Wind, and Fire 80’s hit “Let’s Groove”.  Better known for both her peculiar instrumentation and ethereal lyricism ripe with literary references, Rio en Medio caught the ear of Devendra Benhardt and signed onto his Gnomonsong label to release her 2007 debut LP Bride of Dynamite.Though the original recording of Stech-Homsy’s cover does not accurately exude her unique spectral folk pop, it nonetheless finds its place as a cute diddy by an adorably unassuming artist.

Yet, featured for this rainy evening, the edit by Atlanta-based DJ’s Mike Zarin and Chris Nicholson (aka CAZ) spice up the button-up’ed rendition of the Earth, Wind, and Fire disco jam.  A mix of Balearic percussions and dance beats liven up the atmosphere in this CaZ edit, adding a little booty and shake to the cover’s hand-clappity cuteness.

Groovy.

Download: Rio en Medio - Let’s Groove (Earth Wind and Fire Cover) (Caz Edit, Pt. 1).mp3

Download: Rio en Medio - Let’s Groove (Earth Wind and Fire Cover).mp3

- ramos

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