Not only is this song killer, but the dancing is amazing. You can just make out the roots of Dee-Lite’s classic ’Groove is in The Heart’ underneath the new melody they’ve got going on here. It’s a perfect post-summer, winter warmer type of song that you need when you get to a club and want something to come on that isn’t a Britney Spears remix or some hard-house vibe that actually rumbles your whole body. It’s also not trying to be some sort of Eric Prydz rip-off with lots of girls in short bikinis wearing skirts, but truely has an interesting range of characters doing some great moves. Plus, fantastic video editing. Inexpensively, but well done.
This track by Hamburg’s Se:Sa (aka Skye ’n’ Sugastarr), in collaboration with Mousse T, is going to be huge and features an excellent vocal contribution from Sharon Phillips, who you might have last heard on the Trentemoller track ‘Want 2 Need 2′.
“For everything sold on iTunes, we get the majority of the 70-79p per unit sale price,” [one independent label owner] said, then added: “But for everything sold on the Ruckus Network we receive the princely sum of £0.005 per unit. That’s half a pence. My distributor then takes their 25 per cent off of that, leaving myself and the artists to dish up the remaining fractions of a penny between us.”
It’s not much better through Real Networks, he informed – for sales through that service, his label receives a penny per track, he claimed. The thousand tracks sold so far have accrued £10 to the label (to share with the artists) rather than, “the £790 or so we’d have got for the same amount of sales through iTunes.” MacWorld: iTunes income substantial for music partners
I know it’s been a while since I’ve written anything substantive on here, so I thought I’d share a photo from last Thursday night with the world in place of interesting content. I hope It’s alright with Laura, featured below, that I’m posting a photo that I took with (beautiful, new) camera on the night in question. Club SOHO or SOHO club, I don’t know which, is an Erasmus-society event every Thursday. It’s a hot and sweaty, overpacked, techno filled collection of Spanish people with the occasional injection of anything-else thrown in. Lots of cheesy Shakira when the night gets late, lots of people dancing too much, sweating too much and drinking too much. It’s also just about the smallest club I’ve ever seen. Funny still though. Where else but Belgium would you have someone actually charge to use bathrooms in a club? You’ve already paid to get in, next time will we also have to pay just to get out?
The boys of ‘Dangerous Muse’, a US based electronica/dance band whose two members, Mike (left) and Tom (right) hail from New York City. Tom is still at the Jesuit College Fordham University and is set on finishing his degree before focusing his attention on the music career the pair are currently carving out for themselves:
“I’m not going to give up school because Mike is two years older than me”
The pair talked toThe Advocate magazine about their music and their style. With their raunchy and risque photos and ambigous lyrics to their most popular songs, the pair are an advert for new ‘modern’ sexual freedom. When the liberation movement of the 60s was all about empowering people to break free of society’s pre-determined roles for their lives, the current revolution appears to be pushing for the ability to attract, outrage and be whoever they want to be.
“There’s no such thing as ‘out’ anymore,” Mike interjects. “It’s like, everybody’s out. People are always trying to attribute behaviors to labels, and a lot of these behaviors are being stripped from genders. Even though you look like a man, you don’t have to act ‘like a man.’
Their music can be found at online distributors like iTunes, but can also be listened to via their MySpace profile.
While she’s been out of the news for a while, getting married, toning down the raunchy ‘dirrrty’ image that resulted from the marketing of her last album, Christina Aguilera’s back from the recording studios with a soon to be released album. During her off-period she promoted voting in the 2004 US elections, as well as numerous collaborations with other musicians like Herbie Hancock and Andrea Bocelli. The first song from the album, to be titled ‘Back to Basics’, is to have its first single release in the form of the jazz and big-band influenced track ‘Ain’t No Other Man’. The song is great, as you would hope any new Christina Aguilera track would be, though it does take a second listen to really ‘get’ it. It opens with a Miles Davis-esque horn entrance before Christina starts her wail/singing sound and the ‘heavy beats’ come in. It’s a move away from some of the more rap-influenced parts of her previous album, but these are never far from the surface for one of the tracks on the August-released album features the rap star Nas and is due to be titled ‘Still Dirrty’. With fantastic production and her powerful voice, the new album will do doubt be a hit. Nobody’s going to be sending the Aguilera brand to the wall with a shoddy release. Popjustice have this to say before they talk about the single itself:
Is it any good?
We do not know because, as keen supporters of the forward-thinking notion that record sales are the only way to make money from music and that downloading songs illegally is directly taking money from recording artists’ mouths even if the word of mouth generated from such an act would more than compensate for the three pence revenue lost from that initial download, we have not illegally acquired the song.
She performs the song on the 2006 MTV Movie Awards which are broadcast in the US tonight, having been filmed June 3rd. Photos from the evening are below.
These are the lyrics for one of my favorite songs of the last couple days. I’ve listened to it a half dozen times. I don’t know if it’s because of the mood I’m in or just because it’s a beautiful, melancholy kind of contemplative and yet not sad song.
Further big plus, it’s on iTunes so everyone can have a listen!
Hey boy, why you didn’t call me?
I waited for days,
I can’t believe you didn’t call.
A, you’re gay. B, you’ve got a girl friend,
C, you kind of thought I came on too strong, or
D, I just wasn’t your thing, no ring.
When we sat, uh-uhunh, outside for an hour at the party and talked I thought something good could be starting. It’s not a lot that I want, just some talking, and really, you just made me feel kind of uncool.
Susan Ploetz says that maybe you are scared. Shelley, Jim Brown’s brother’s girlfriend, said there always is a reason, which was somehow strangely comforting. And Chris Browning says you’re probably surrounded by girls, and I’m just not one of them that you’re needing.
thetouchmefeeling.com <-- the website of 'The Blow' aka Khaela Maricich and producer Jona Bechtolt.
If you’re looking for ‘Spiral’ lyrics, go here as they’ve moved off the frontpage due to writing the post a couple days ago. The link, however, is still alive. Check it out.
Featuring Kenna singing the main chorus and the Sugababes working their harmonies, William Orbit’s newest album features the stunning track ‘Spiral’. A melee of sounds, the mix of Orbit’s dreamy synthetic sound and the Sugababes’ lush, low voices sooth the melody to allow Kenna’s chorus to slot in perfectly. His most recent solo work since the classical interpretations of Pieces in a Modern Style, William Orbit’s newest album doesn’t disappoint. It’s ambient and electronic without becoming background music. With sounds that could be from a faulty phoneline on ‘Firebrand’ to doo-wah like performance on ‘Who Owns the Octopus?’, it’s a fantastic chillout album that entertains without constantly shouting for attention.
Anyway, I like to sing along to songs as I get obsessed with them, so I wrote out/worked out/muddled out the lyrics to Spiral and here they are:
We bust a red light
And I’ve got no fight
Moving in a mad rush
No limit, I can’t stop
We’re into overdrive
Hopelessly into you
‘cause you know how to
Unwrap my feelings ‘til I’ve
Opened up from inside
No reason to be shy
Every reason to be mine
Nothing’s really sane but everything’s amazing
Slowly taking over me
Baby have you noticed, the sky is rearranging
I feel it move in me
Oh, the ground beneath us crumbles and we fall
So I wonder, will we fall?
‘cause I don’t want to be alone
Caught up in a spiral
Adrenaline rush
The moment we touch
Breaking out a hot sweat’s
As good as it gets
I can’t get enough
Fall into a head space
Deep into a new place
Spinning out of control
You should know
I don’t want to be safe
Every reason to be mine
Nothing’s really sane but everything’s amazing
Slowly taking over me
Baby have you noticed, the sky is rearranging
I feel it move in me
Oh, the ground beneath us crumbles and we fall
So I wonder, will we fall?
‘cause I don’t want to be alone
Caught up in a spiral
