From out of the Ashes

As you may have heard, Teki Latex's label, Institubes, is no longer. After producing albums for electro celebrities Bobmo, Para One, Surkin and Midnight Juggernauts over the past seven years, they are closing up shop.

Enter Marble Players. Their new website gives a sneak peak into their origins:

"As you probably heard recently, Marble is a new dance label launched by Para One, Surkin and Bobmo. We already told you these three have began sharing recording space less than a year ago, and soon spent some time jamming and producing together. Surkin and Bobmo already had their High Powered Boys project, but this new unit, christened Marble Players, is a bit more hardware-oriented, and involves multiple analog/digital mutations ; a typical day in the studio would be Bobmo coming up with a vocal digital sample, then Para replaying it on his SP12, then giving it back to Surkin so he can add his own Reason-based beats – you get the picture. Generally, there’s a just a strong taste for manipulating sound as a physical thing in the way Marble Players play."

Happy America, America!

This is a great song for this weekend and Crystal Fighters just posted a great video of this song anywho. Almost as fitting as Mungo Jerry's 'Summertime'. Almost. And, pretty sure that song was sexist, anyways.

Catch more Crystal Fighters here.

I'm thirsty

It should come to no surprise that I am totally crushin' on Uffie. I was heartbroken when I found out she got married. Que sera, sera

That's like, totally French. Or something like that.

I'm like, totally crushing on the whole Ed Rec crew actually. Who doesn't love dancing babies?
Well, I don't love dancing babies, but Uffie lends her charm in this ad for 'Evian'.

Adorably hilarious.

I did get the chance to watch Rubber last night. I can absolutely understand the disappointments by many. The pointless asides were at times distracting, although it increased the level of suspense and overall drama of the film methinks. In the end Dupiex's shot selection and editing made this an extremely memorable film. Catch it July 1st on Netflix.

Bird Man

Mr. Oizo's pseudonym purportedly is a corruption of the French Oiseau, meaning "bird". You may know know him for the production of many bangers for fellow Ed Rec label-mate, Uffie.

Quentin Dupiex is no one-trick pony, however. Known for the Levi ad campaign which featured cuddly creature "Flat Eric", Dupiex is an experienced producer as well as director and film-maker. Foreign language 'Steak' debuted in France in 2007 while his strange and quirky music videos never cease to surprise in their ingenuity and purposefully rakish movement and camera angles.

Black humor/horror "Rubber" was released in 2010, with the soundtrack (composed by Oizo himself and Gaspard of Justice) being released on the same month on Ed Banger Records.
Sporting a wide array of mixed reviews the movie is set to be release on Netflix for instant viewing on July 1st, 2011.

You should, like, totally watch it.


RUBBER OFFICIAL TRAILER ! from oizo mr on Vimeo.

Tensnake Revisited

You might have seen Tensnake's video for the song 'Coma Cat'. The song is great; The video is even better. As one of the comments read on the video, 'Booze-stealing lesbians, doesn't get better than that'. Forgive me, I'm going to have to get used to simple html again before I can post in anything other than barely-readable elementary school-level prose.

Until then...

Enjoy these low-fi throwbacks to the early 80's...

Caetano ~ Haiti

I once had to write a paper about this song in an ethnomusicography course. Timely. And dope when recorded in studio thirty years ago.

Theophilus London

Although he looks a lot like Spoek Mathambo from last post... he isn't.

But I'd take a hefty wager that you had already guessed that.

The debut LP from Theophilus London drops on July the 19th. And it's gonna be ill. Czech it out here.

Thus spoke Spoek

We have talked about Spoek Mathambo, the South African self-proclaimed genre starter and fashionista who double-fists his two electro heavyweight bands - Sweat.X and Playdoe.

Anything he touches is bound to be full of heavy baselines and battery tasting. Be careful.


Sibot - WoW Bass feat. Spoek

Mexicans with Guns feat Cerebral Vortex and Spoek - Nuts and Bongos

Bear Island!

Good video of Basement Jaxxs' "My Turn"

Oh my, I get it.

So, I finally came across the official video for Uffie's "Pop the Glock," which was released, like, a millenia ago. The song is still great. Except now in a really girly way.

Still great video though. And this song could be played anywhere.

Quesadilla Castle

Great Harrison Schaff music video...

As always..

More Malente videos... In sweet, sweet HD quality.

Enjoi.

Malente - I like it


Malente - I Like It from hatschih on Vimeo.