Bruitz de Garçons

Remember the Holy Fuck remix of 'Happy Up There' I posted here a couple of days ago? Well Boys Noize, our favorite German DJ/producer, did one too. Like Holy Fuck, he took all the dreamy side of the original away, but instead of the experimental dance rock approach, he chose the bad-ass German electro approach. Less original I agree, but much more appropriate for getting crazy tonight at Metropolis on the occasion of I Love Neon 10 Year Anniversary. Tickets still available through Paypal for 32$CAN. He's gonna play the songs of his coming album. Expect the best. 

Mediafire: Röyksopp - Happy Up Here (Boys Noize Remix) [208 kbps] 

The Chick From The Knife Releases Album

Let’s be serious : Sweden is heaven on earth. I once asked a Swedish girl if it was true and she laughed at me. But I know, and we know, and she knows: Sweden IS heaven. They study for free in Upsala, they get rich in Stockholm and they make beautiful music in Gothenburg. Look at this list of artists or bands that come from there : Air France, The Embassy, The Honeydrips, Jens Lekman, The Knife, Love Is All, Sally Shapiro, Studio, The Tough Alliance. That’s quite empressing for a town named Gothenburg. Please check them out cause they're all excellent and their music seems to come directly from where they’re from : heaven...

... except The Knife. I don't know where their music comes from, but it's probably a really strange place. We all know them for their breakthrough single ‘Heartbeats’, but they also made two excellent albums: 'Deep Cuts' in 2003 and 'Silent Shout' in 2006, which are filled by excellent dark electro pop songs, like ‘Pass This On’ - don't start jerking off guys , it's a drag queen - ‘You Take My Breath Away’ and ‘Marble House’. When you listen to their music and see them with their bird masks, you imagine cold and weird descendants of Vikings, but they actually look like two very cool brother and sister. Sadly for us, they took a three year break in 2007, in order pursue their own solo projects: DJ Coolof for Olof and Fever Ray for Karin.

And here's the point of this post: Fever Ray released the physical version - it was available digitally since January - of her self-titled album yesterday. There are already two videos: one for the first single 'If I Had a Heart' and one for 'When I Grow Up'. The album is overall very dark and very ambient, but it's great from track 1 to track 10. I've uploaded for you the song that was playing all day on my iTunes and, as a bonus, a happy makeover of 'When I Grow Up' by fellow Gothenburger Dan Lissvik from Studio that you can listen to cheer up afterwards.

Mediafire: Fever Ray - Dry and Dusty (320 kbps) [removed after request]

Mediafire: Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (D. Lissvik remix) [192 kbps] [removed after request]

Bloc Party Should Never Enter A Recording Studio Again

I saw Bloc Party live two years ago headlining Osheaga. Before that, I had heard their breakthrough album ‘Silent Alarm’ - the apparent inspiration for the Knife's 'Silent Shout' released a year later -, but my friends and I didn’t really understand why they were generating so much hype. After having realized that the group of people I was with had gone back home, I miraculously made my way between 50 000 people and succeeded to get just before the stage.

And I was happily surprised, because even if Bloc Party’s songs aren’t as catchy and well-produced as the songs of Interpol or Arctic Monkeys who were playing earlier that day, this band made sure that the amps were at 10 and that the metronome was above 160 BPM. In top of that, the singer was on fire, the crowd was responding very well and their show was finally one of the highlights of the day.

I don’t recommend you to buy the album they released late last year, but I do recommend you to go to their show tonight at Metropolis. There are still some tickets available and it will cost you 43$ with the fees and the taxes. I think it’s worth the money, cause you’ll probably remember this show for a long time. You may also be interested by the opening band, who was featured earlier this week on Les Oiseaux Exotiques. Below is a song from their new album that is probably gonna make your feet dance when they play it tonight.

Mediafire: Bloc Party - One Month Off (232 kbps) 

Holy Fuck, I'm Happy Up Here When You Do That Stuff

What a nice thing to take a song that was good before and make it good again! Some may say it's stealing, but hey, think practical, you wouldn't listen to the old song anyway. And that's true for anything in life. Cause people were doing stuff before and most of the times, their work could easily be modified to fit our times and be very useful again. Even if it's in our blood, we shouldn't try to do everything by ourselves.

Anyway, Röyksopp were wiser than most of us and they thought that one part of a Parliament song from 1976 called 'Do That Stuff' - pay attention at the 0:36 and 2:44 marks - could be an interesting idea to develop into a song. They released it today as the first single of their new album that is going to be out in exactly a week. It's called 'Happy Up Here', and even if it's less poetic than 'Eple' from Melody A.M., it's still a very good song. 

Although released today, the song had already leaked two months ago and a few remixes have appeared since then, including a very good re-interpretation by Holy Fuck. They transformed the song completely and made another musical gem out of it, without the feel-good aspect. That's the version you will be able to download today on your favorite music blog.

Mediafire: Röyksopp - Happy Up Here (Holy Fuck Re-Interpretation) [192 kbps]