Venga ya está, Lady Gaga ya ha metido mano en el mundillo indie y de lleno. Aunque yo aún siga sin diferenciar sus canciones entre ellas, sí que es verdad que es la sorpresa mainstream del año y que aunque más de lo mismo, al menos se sale un poco de lo soso que hay en las listas de ventas. Ha dejado una de las mezclas de su tema “Bad Romance”, primer single de la reedición de su álbum “The Fame: Monster”, y que sale el 24 de este mes, en manos de Hercules & Love Affair. El mix es otro paseo por los ochenta, y como la original tampoco es para tirar cohetes, solo sirve para escuchar otro punto de vista nada convencional; mezcla soul, soft funky y algo de disco por lo que rezuma Hercules por todos lados…..

Esta es la expresion de alguien al que se le presentan tantos concietos y no tiene dinero para cada una de las entradas, pffff!!! esta es la guia de concietos para noviembre y diciembre de este humilde servidor.

Jueves 19 de Noviembrde 2009

Salon Covadonga

Boleto: $250.00 General

Este me emociona de sobremanera!!!! A-trak en el Velvet!!!

Buenisimooooooo!!!! El bailongo se va a poner gruesooo!!!!

Va a venir tambien Girl Talk para el 4 de diciembre, aun no hay flyer pero ya cuando salga lo pondre aqui ya que ese evento tambien esta recomendadisimo por este servidor.

Lo prometido es deuda aquí les dejo toda la info acerca de este show

Artistas Invitados:

Puma
Dramian & Luriel

Boletos en Eticket a partir de hoy viernes 6 de Noviembre!

Costos:

$250 + cargos (PREVENTA)
Viernes 6 – Lunes 16 de Noviembre

$350 + cargos (TAQUILLA)

Para saber tu punto de venta mas cercano dale click en

PUNTOS DE VENTA ETICKET

*Sicario Roma: Colima 124 Col. Roma
*Marketen: Saltillo 91-A Col. Condesa
*Mundo Joven Insurgentes Sur: Insurgentes Sur 1510 “D” Col. Crédito Cosntructor
*Mundo Joven Revolución: Revolución 633 Esquina Calle 22 Col. San Pedro de los Pinos
*Mundo Joven Polanco: Eugenio Sue 342 Esquina Homero Col. Polanco
*El Rey del Mar: Stim 1323, local B (Bosques de Reforma) El Chamizal (Bosques de las Lomas)
*Teatro Las Torres: Circunvalación Pte. 10 Cd. Satélite

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Info. definitiva sobre la fecha de Hercvles & Love Affair en el D.F.:

Jueves / 19 / Noviembre
Salón Covadonga
Puebla #121, Col. Roma

BOLETOS EN ETICKET A PARTIR DEL VIERNES 6 DE NOVIEMBRE

Sobre la información de Preventa tenemos duda, el costo definitivo  será de $250.oo + Cargos y en algunos sitios mencionan que será apartir del 6 de Nov. y hasta el 9 de Nov., mientras que en un correo de IMECA mencionan que será del 6 de Nov. hasta el 16 de Nov., así que pus no sabemos como esta la movida, mejor comprenlo lo antes posible.

Día del Evento: $350 TAQUILLA

www.eticket.com.mx

PUNTOS DE VENTA ETICKET:

*SICARIO ROMA: Colima 124 Col. Roma

*MARKETEN: Saltillo 91-A Col. Condesa

*MUNDO JOVEN INSURGENTES SUR: Insurgentes Sur 1510 “D” Col. Crédito Cosntructor
*MUNDO JOVEN REVOLUCIÓN: Revolución 633 Esquina Calle 22 Col. San Pedro de los Pinos
*MUNDO JOVEN POLANCO: Eugenio Sue 342 Esquina Homero Col. Polanco

*EL REY DEL MAR: Stim 1323, local B (Bosques de Reforma) El Chamizal (Bosques de las Lomas)

*TEATRO LAS TORRES: Circunvalación Pte. 10 Cd. Satélite

Because I Feel Blind!
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Todo este año se ha venido confirmando la visita de Hercules & Love Affair a nuestro país, pero todas estas confirmaciones de shows siempre se han caído como la del Jose Cuervo Salón y Sonofilia.

Y bueno de menos en el mes de Julio, un dj set de Kimm Ann Foxman llego a calmar un poco a la banda, qué con ansias espera su presentación (Live Act), la cual llega este  19 de noviembre. Así que ya saben una fiesta mas para este cierre de año.

Pronto mas info acerca de la venta de boletos y locación.

Pues después de mucha espera ya esta todo listo y confirmado para que el 21 de Noviembre de éste año se realice el Festival Sonofilia en Guadalajara.

Éste será el Line-Up:

• DJ Shadow (Live)
• Grace Jones
• Röyksopp (Live)
• Fischerspooner (Live)
• Mutant Clan
• PNAU
• Luciano presents Æther
• Does It Offend You, Yeah?
• Hercules & Love Affair (Live)
• The Whip
• Grafton primary
• Kavinsky

Los tickets ya estan a la venta y los puedes comprar a través de SuperBoletos o en Puntos de Venta. La mecánica para comprarlos está así:

La preventa de los primeros 5 mil boletos tendrán un costo de $800 pesos desde el Viernes 11 de Septiembre hasta el Domingo 20 Septiembre o agotarse.

La segunda preventa de los siguientes 4 mil boletos costarán $950 pesos hasta el Domingo 18 de Octubre o agotarse.

Otros 4 mil boletos más costarán $1,100 hasta el Domingo 15 de Noviembre o agotarse.

Finalmente el resto de los boletos tendrán un costo de $1,200 a partir del día Lunes 16 de Noviembre o al momento de agotarse el inventario de las otras preventas.

Pues así está, a grande rasgos, lo que será uno de los mejores eventos del año.

+ info:
Sonofilia

Röyksopp – The Girl and The Robot (Kris Menace Remix)

Hercules & Love Affair – Blind (Hercules Club Mix)

PNAU – Lover

We’re on the new Arod FallGaze  ‘09 Mix.

Arod FallGaze ‘09 Mix (right-click and save)

1. Jon Brion – Phone Call
2. Trailer Trash Tracys – Strangling Good Guys
3. Miike Snow – Cult Logic
4. X & Hell – Monster (DCUP Remix)
5. Vinyl Life – Hot Sauce
6. Ghosthustler – Parking Lot Nights
7. Love & Electrik – Sex Video
8. Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars
9. Human Life – To Forever
10. Zoot Woman – Lonely By Your Side
11. La Roux – Bulletproof (Fred Falke Remix)
12. The Penelopes – Stuck in LaLaLand
13. Hercules & Love Affair – I Can’t Wait
14. Wolfmother – New Moon Rising (YACHT Remix)
15. YACHT – Psychic City (Classixx Remix)
16. Gypsy & The Cat – Jona Vark
17. Au Revoir Simone – Another Likely Story (Neon Indian Remix)
18. Phoenix – Fences (Friendly Fires Remix)
19. Neon Indian – 6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know)
20. Memory Cassette – Asleep at a Party

Hace poco tiempo hubo una actualización al line up de este festival que se llevara acabo este 21 de Noviembre y bueno el día de hoy hubo otras actualizaciones así que aquí les dejo las pasadas y recientes sumas al Sonofilia 09.

Hercules & Love Affair

Quienes no se prendieron el año pasado con su rola Blind?, Quienes no le cayeron hace poco a la fiesta de DFA donde estuvo Kim Ann Foxman? Quienes no disfrutan de sus rolas? Quienes no se pusieron contentos con su suma al Sonofilia? En fin otra gran presentación y para quienes no los ubiquen o quieran recordarlos les dejo una rolita muy sonada de ellos.

Blind – Hercules & Love Affair

PNAU

Gran agrupación que desde hace un par de años vengo escuchando y que realmente me gusta mucho su onda buena vibra, electro pop, colorida. Provenientes de Australia de donde mas verdad? uno de ellos integrante de Empire Of The Sun así que ya se imaginaran su sonido, y bueno para que los topen aquí les dejo una rola de ellos remixeada que me encanta escúchenla!

Embrace Ft. Lady Hawke (Fred Falke & Miami Horror Remix) – PNAU

The Whip

The Whip es una banda de Manchester, Inglaterra. Herederos de la combinación entre pop y electrónica surgida en Manchester hace muchos años, The Whip insiste que ambos géneros pueden entrelazarse con una facilidad sorprendente.  Muchos críticos los etiquetan como “New Ravers” esto debido a su música bailable y sus coloridas vestimentas, sin embargo ellos se consideran un grupo pop bailable con sucias guitarras. Pero mas bien les paso una rola para que los escuchen.

Blackout – The Wip

Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Does It Offend You, Yeah? es una banda de Electro Rock de Reading, Inglaterra, se dieron a conocer al igual que The Whip gracias a las Kitsune Maison Compilations con el sencillo Let’s Make Out que aparece en la recopilación no. 5. Por desgracia no tengo rolas pero si les rolo un video de una de sus rolas que me gusta mucho, hay vean que show.

Kavisky

De este dude no hay nada que decir ya saben que show con el y pues simplemente les dejo un rolon que seguro prendera a toda la banda ese día.

Testarossa Autodrive – Kavinsky

Bueno pues ya termine este breve resumen de las actualizaciones del Sonofilia 09 que seguro se pondrá de locos. Ya por ultimo para los que no sepan bien quienes integran todo el line up hasta este momento aquí se los dejo completito.

Dj Shadow

Grace Jones

Fischerspooner

Hercules & Love Affair

Royksopp

Does It Offend You Yeah?

The Whip

Kavinsky

PNAU

Mutant Clan (Timo Mass y Santos)

Luciano Presents: Aether

Grafton Primary

Pitchfork just (somewhat prematurely) released their list of the top 500 tracks of the decade as part of their ongoing P2K: The Decade in Music series. But I guess someone had to kick off the end of the decade lists that are sure to start permeating our lives starting now. Regardless, it’s quite a feat for anyone to take on. When these things do inevitable come around, I love to turn them into playlists for my own bizarre entertainment. You see, I love lists, of any kind really. And these are my favorite kind. So I thought I’d take my playlist of Pitchfork’s top 50 tracks of the decade and put them up here. I’m sure someone will come along and put up all 500 somewhere, but that level of obsessiveness is for another fool to deal with. Enjoy.

50

Basement Jaxx

Rooty LP (2001)

Romeo

49

Sufjan Stevens

Illinoise LP (2005)

Chicago

48

Panda Bear

Person Pitch LP (2006)

Bros

47

Burial

Untrue LP (2007)

Archangel

46

Robyn ft. Kleerup

Self Titled LP (2007)

With Every Heartbeat

45

Hot Chip

The Warning LP (2005)

Over and Over

44

Franz Ferdinand

Self Titled LP (2004)

Take Me Out

43

UGK

Underground Kingz LP (2007)

Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You)

42

Battles

Mirrored LP (2007)

Atlas

41

TV on the Radio

Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes LP (2004)

Staring At The Sun

40

The Avalanches

Since I Left You LP (2000)

Since I Left You

39

Modest Mouse

Good News… LP (2004)

Float On

38

T.I.

King LP (2006)

What You Know

37

Kylie Minogue

Fever LP (2001)

Can’t Get You Out of My Head

36

Sigur Ros

Agaetis Byrjun LP (2000)

Svefn-g-Englar

35

Animal Collective

Strawberry Jam LP (2007)

Fireworks

34

M.I.A.

Arular LP (2003)

Galang

33

Spoon

Kill the Moonlight LP (2003)

The Way We Get By

32

Amerie

1 Thing (2005)

1 Thing

31

Jay Z

The Life and Times 3 LP (2000)

Big Pimpin’

30

The White Stripes

Elephant LP (2003)

Seven Nation Army

29

Hot Chip

The Warning LP (2006)

Boy From School

28

Antony & The Johnsons

I am a Bird Now LP (2005)

Hope There’s Someone

27

Clipse

Lord Willin’ LP (2002)

Grindin

26

Justin Timberlake

Future Sex/Love Sound LP (2006)

My Love ft. T.I.

25

Rihanna

Good Girl Gone Bad LP (2007)

Umbrella

24

Radiohead

Kid A LP (2000)

Everything In Its Right Place

23

Daft Punk

Discovery LP (2001)

Digital Love

22

LCD Soundsystem

Sound of Silver LP (2007)

Someone Great

21

Kelly Clarkson

Breakaway LP (2005)

Since U Been Gone

20

The Walkmen

Bows & Arrows LP (2004)

The Rat

19

R. Kelly

Chocolate Factory LP (2002)

Ignition (Remix)

18

Hercules and Love Affair

Self Titled LP (2008)

Blind

17

Annie

Anniemal LP (2004)

Heartbeat

16

The Rapture

Echoes LP (2002)

House of Jealous Lovers

15

The Knife

Deep Cuts LP (2002)

Heartbeats

14

Jay Z

The Black Album LP (2003)

99 Problems

13

LCD Soundsystem

Self Titled LP (2002)

Losing My Edge

12

Outkast

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below LP (2003)

Hey Ya!

11

Gnarls Barkley

St. Elsewhere LP (2005)

Crazy

10

Arcade Fire

Funeral LP (2004)

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

9

Animal Collective

Merriweather Post Pavilion LP (2009)

My Girls

8

Radiohead

Kid A LP (2000)

Idioteque

7

Missy Elliott

…So Addictive LP (2001)

Get Ur Freak On

6

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Fever to Tell LP (2003)

Maps

5

Daft Punk

Discovery LP (2000)

One More Time

4

Beyonce ft. Jay Z

Dangerously in Love LP (2003)

Crazy In Love

3

M.I.A. ft. Bun B & Rich Boy

Homeland Security Remixes (2007)

Paper Planes (Diplo Remix)

2

LCD Soundsystem

Sound of Silver LP (2007)

All My Friends

1

Outkast

Stankonia LP (2000)

B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)

Hercules And Love Affair’s eponymous debut album is that rare thing – a dance record you can think to.It features Blind, the year’s biggest dance number so far, and plenty of other chances to get jiggy on the floor. But there’s much more to it than its perfectly crafted beats, its Antony Hegarty vocal tracks and its DFA production sheen. This is a record that moves the mind as well as the body. And as far as the Brooklyn outfit’s chief songwriter and originator Andrew Butler is concerned, it marks the start of a singular mission to raise up disco…

“Initially I was asked a lot, like, ‘Are you Hercules?’ ‘Is the band Love Affair?’ and I was always like, ‘There’s no Hercules, there’s no Love Affair, it’s just a poetic device. It’s just a means of putting a beautiful romantic idea to the project.”

Hercules And Love Affair, name of album and project, is the brainchild of Colorado-born DJ, producer and muso Andrew Butler.

“It’s kind of my baby, it’s my voice,” he attests.

Press shots for the group feature four faces: Antony Hegarty, of Antony And The Johnsons, is pictured alongside fellow vocalists and New York scenesters Nomi and Kim Ann, with flame-haired Butler lurking somewhere at the back. He pays the vocalists effusive compliments throughout our interview, yet he is very clear: in Hercules And Love Affair, he is the man. So what’s all this about poetry and romance, and what does any of it have to do with this disco record?

“It comes from a personal interest in Greek mythology,” he says, adjusting his baseball cap. “It started when I was a kid. At five, six years old I had schoolteachers that, instead of reading us fairytales during our fairytale hour, would read us Greek myths. I got kind of obsessed from the first time I heard a Greek myth. I just wanted to learn more and more about them. I thought they were these really weird stories that were sometimes super-super sad, super-super dark, but often very heroic. I just loved the notion that this myriad group of gods and goddesses could come down at any moment and interrupt your life or point you in a certain direction, or give you some kind of tool to use in order to help you achieve something.”

Picture Butler at school, all precocious and given the special tools to allow his imagination to run riot.

“When I was little I entertained this idea a lot that Athene was my patron goddess. Looking back, I identified with and appreciated her because she was a strong, just woman.” He pauses. “I kind of equated her to my mum. She was the goddess of war, the goddess of wisdom.”

Much later, Butler would write the song Athene that would kickstart a train of thought. This early exposure to Greek mythology would sow the seeds of a lifelong interest that manifested itself at college and turned him into something of an academic.

Butler enrolled to read up on “myths of homosexuality in Greek art – vase paintings and stuff. And I found this whole other layer or group of myths that were really interesting to me.”

At least part of that interest, it seems, stemmed from an acceptance that he was gay and that in Greek mythology that was not something earth-shatteringly unique.

“I’d come out of the closet and it was interesting to me to read about the strongest man on earth (Hercules) losing his beloved, another man, being completely wrecked and distraught, vulnerable because of it. I thought that was a really beautiful myth, this idea of the strongest man at his most vulnerable. That always stuck in my head, that story. But it wasn’t until I wrote Athene, which I wrote maybe two years ago, as a prayer to this goddess who meant so much to me when I was little, that I started writing other things and decided on an overarching theme, something that represented who I was authentically. It was the idea of the Greek myth, that idea of the strongest man expressing his emotion to the fullest. And so I chose the name Hercules And Love Affair.”

All well and good, but how did we then get from studying homosexuality in classical mythology to ’70s gay disco spliced with a dash of Chicago house?

“This was a pairing of interests,” Butler patiently explains. “Hercules And Love Affair also had a really wonderful disco ring to it. In the late ’70s there were a lot of, like, ‘orchestras’, or ‘experiences’, like the Mike Theodore Orchestra or… The Rice And Beans Orchestra, The Invisible Man Band. There’s a band called The Crown Heights Affair. It felt very much in the disco tradition. But also in classic house music there were a handful of artists who adopted classical identities. Marshall Jefferson had at one point a project where he called himself Hercules. There was an artist named Adonis, and he put out some really classic house tracks.”

Butler had worked out where he felt comfortable. He’s also had a bee in his bonnet since college, though not about mythology. He gets infuriated by people dismissing dance music, and intends to restore disco to its rightful place, as he sees it, amongst a pantheon of art forms.

“It has been a focus and intention of mine since I entered into semi-advanced level academia,” he says, matter-of-factly. “I went to college and I started working in an electronic music studio, but the teachers there told me ‘that music you’re listening to, that isn’t legitimate music’.”

But as far as Butler was concerned, there was a relationship between disco and Philip Glass, Steve Reich and

“any of those minimalist modern new music composers. I was constantly dealing with these people saying ‘this isn’t legitimate’. And, ’stop making beats’. It got tiresome.”

As Butler doubtless informed his teachers,

“the level of musicianship on a lot of disco records is super high. They never restricted themselves to one sound or another. Everything goes in disco.” Latin rhythms, classical music, jazz… you can do all of it. So, “for people to say that dance music is not legitimate, to me, is so preposterous. So I do have, in some ways, an agenda.”

The next step to self-realisation and progressing that agenda through music was collaboration.

“A producer whose work I’m fond of and who I got really close with in the late ’90s, Derek Carter, used to name certain songs after really obscure myths. That was something I pointed out to him immediately on meeting him, and I told him I loved that he names his songs after demi-gods.”

Butler went one step further, referencing the gods themselves.

“The Hercules Theme is a chorus of women singing to Hercules. The thought there was that I wanted to reference a myth when Hercules fights the Amazons. I wanted a group of women, the Amazons essentially, singing to Hercules about their struggle.”

He wrote the track two years ago and has since replaced the synth parts with real horns contributed by session jazz players, a nod to those earlier disco albums’ musicianship. It’s easy to get drawn in by Butler’s understanding of the myths as he weaves them as stories. On Iris, the refrain “Today is a day for someone else” turns out to be from myth too.

“Iris is a song about the messenger to the gods, or the goddess of the rainbow. She travelled on the rainbow to come down to earth and deliver news. So I made up a myth of my own about a goddess coming down from heaven one day. And if she had something to say, what would it be?”

It would be about putting yourself to one side, Butler explains, displacing your ego for a day, trying to be of service, of help to someone else. Iris being one of the benign gods, her song on the album is one of its more gentle numbers.
In addition to the music, Butler wrote the album’s lyrics save for those on Time Will and Raise Me Up, which were written by Hegarty.

“Antony is phenomenal,” enthuses Butler. “It’s amazing watching him in the studio… magical. He has explored his voice so much and for so long that it’s amazing to watch him use it. He internalises every bit of rhythm he hears in music, so he was dancing the whole time he was recording. He physicalises the music he makes and the music he sings. He would work up a sweat!”

Hegarty’s unique voice is matched by his look.

“He’s very unique looking, to me. He has an angelic face…” muses Butler. “I think he is the embodiment of the balanced person, you know, equal parts… He’s very comfortable in his skin as he is in terms of gender. He can address the feminine and the masculine and negotiate it actively and present it in their work confidently. It’s really admirable that he does what he does.”

Enthusing about Kim Ann, Nomi and the musicians on the record, Butler declines to accept the term ‘collective’ to define Hercules And Love Affair.

“It’s very much like a community of friends, a group of New York goofballs,” he says.

The final goofball to come on board was Tim Goldsworthy of the DFA.

“DFA essentially came in three years into the process,” Butler remembers. “I’d been demoing Blind for a long time and I presented it to a disco producer named Daniel Wang, who lives in Berlin and has a kind of cult, early disco record label. I was bringing him music constantly and asking him what he thought of it. Finally he heard a version of Blind and he said, ‘You need to take this to DFA, there’s no other group of people in New York City that are going to do justice to this, that are going to be able to give you what you need.’”

And so it was that Butler met James Murphy, Tim Goldsworthy and John Galkin.

“They all really loved the songs,” he remembers, but “Tim was the one who stepped up and said he was going to co-produce it with me. I’d never met any of them but I could kind of tell that, oh, that one is the one that really gets it and really, really wants it.”

He reckons Goldsworthy was interested because of British references.

“I mentioned Wally Badarou at one point, who was an amazing keyboardist for Level 42 and had been in a band with Herbie Hancock or something, and his eyes lit up.” It’s a first, I suggest – Level 42 and DFA in the same sentence. “Tim and I used to watch Level 42 videos on YouTube in the studio when we were making the record!” Butler confesses. “We would laugh a little, but we liked them. And other records, like Eurythmics’ The Garden, that was kind of emotional, but synthetic… wonderful vocals…”

Anyway.

“Tim and I were on the same page. The process was interesting – weeks of he and I and Eric Broucek who does all the arranging and production for DFA in general. We would be there and each day someone else would come in and lay down a track. It really wasn’t until the band started rehearsing that we were all together, doing it together. It was much more like it was a bits and pieces studio product until the rehearsals started, and then it started feeling like a band.”

Much of the record was recorded in DFA’s studio and on their synths – what Butler calls a “really true-to-form analogue set-up”.

We played at the annual 10 Days Off festival in Ghent last Sunday. The Line-up of this 10 days during festival was again outstanding and very eclectic. We opened the 9th day in the Café, where later that night Andy Butler from Hercules And Love Affair did a dj-set. Andy played a lot of tracks from his new sidetracked compilation which was just released on Renaissance.

This was, as far as we can remember, our playlist:

• Ytre Rymden Dansskola – Afterski
• Motor City Drum Ensemble – Frontin’
• Craig Smith & The Revenge – The Soul Part II
• DJ Sprinkles – Grand Central Pt. 1 (MCDE Bassline Dub Mix)
• Supersonic Lovers – Motor City Blues
• Azari & III – Hungry For The Power
• Tensnake – In The End (I Want You To Cry)
• Nicolas Stefan – Closer
• 4th Measure Men – 4 You
• Radio Slave – Don’t You Know?
• Runaway – Brooklyn Club Jam
• Arto Mwambé – Une Seule Nuit (Mix De Danse)
• Directions – Busted Trees (Carl Craig Remix)
• Runaway – Use Me
• Photonz – No Fear
• Morgan Geist – Detroit (C2Rmx1)
• Andre Crom & Danito – Those Nights
• Cajmere – Brighter Days (Underground Goodies Mix)
• Tony Lionni – Found A Place
• Visti & Meyland – Yes Maam (Trentemoller Remix)
• Patrice Baümel – Javelin
• Rejected – Let’s Go Juno (District One Remix)
• Filippo Moscatello – Houz?
• Milton Jackson – Crash
• The Chain – Geo
• Tomas Barfod & Fredski – March On Swan Lake
• Vincenzo – Shonen Jump

At the end of the summer we’ll be also playing at Laundry Day, the last open air dj-festival of the season. The full line-up of the festival will be soon announced so keep an eye on their website.

Es lunes y va empezando la semana pero nunca dejamos de pensar en la fiesta y menos si se viene una muy buena como esta la cual es de el label de DFA en la cual estará Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules & Love Affair) Dj Set y Tim Sweeney (DFA/Beats in Space) tal fiestononón se llevara acabo este viernes en el Salón Covadonga (Puebla 121 Col. Roma), la cual será una súper fiesta con tragos y todo, así que hay esta el dato.

Para mas info www.rocketsmusik.com

Y será lunes pero ya casi es viernes! y para empezar la semana e irnos preparando para el fin, les dejo una rola que el año pasado fue un hit de Hercules & Love Affair

Disfrútenla!

Blind – Hercules & Love Affair

Songs that I currently love….

Blind – Hercules & Love Affair

Don’t Want to Hurt You – The Sounds

In For the Kill – La Roux

Dreaming of You – The Coral

Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division

Ashes to Ashes – David Bowie

Fluorescent Adolescent – Arctic Monkeys

The Magnificent Seven – The Clash

This Town – White Arrows

Cause = Time – Broken Social Scene 

Goldmine – Rumspringa

Writer’s Block – Just Jack

My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix) – Feist 

Pra quem não conhece, a Pitchfork tem uma seção em seu sítio dedicada a vídeos de entrevistas, shows, bastidores e apresentações especiais, com os artistas mais bacanões.

Este é o primeiro da série chamada “Don’t Look Down”, que apresenta o Hercules & Love Affair na cobertura de um prédio em NY. Lindão, né?!

You may recognize the voice. Yep – it’s Nomi Ruiz from Hercules & Love Affair with her new project alongside Andrew Raposo and Morgan Wiley, who all met during the Hercules & Love Affaire world tour.

“Fun Girl” struts along in a fine New York/DFA kind of way complete with strung out bass guitar, soaring strings and of course Nomi’s mesmerising voice to complete the threesome love affair.

Check it out – it’s cool like a night out in Lower East Side!

MP3: Jessica 6 – Fun Girl

Conheci o Hercules & Love Affair no ano passado, quando ouvi o som em um desfile da Chanel. Eu e minha ex-chefe logo puxamos a música e ficamos abobalhadas com a voz da mulher e o estilo do som. Pra quem não conhece, o Hercules & Love Affair é um projeto musical do DJ Andy Butler e dos músicos Nomi Ruiz, Kim Ann (além de cantora, é designer de sua própria linha de jóias chamada Foxman – ainda sem site) e Antony Hegarte.  No começo do ano passado, não só eu, mas todos puderam assistir a grande explosão mundial da banda nova iorquina com o single “Blind”. O primeiro álbum do quarteto foi produzido pelo próprio Butler e trouxe, além de “Blind”, uma outra track muito boa, “You Belong”. Ambas deram ao álbum o 40º lugar entre os melhores discos do ano em diversos países.  Enfim, com tanto sucesso em pouco tempo, a banda resolveu produzir um novo álbum, desta vez através do reconhecido selo da cena eletrônica, o Renaissanse. A compilação intitulada de “Sidetracked” veio para mostrar o novo lado da banda, um som muito mais eletrônico. Andy Butler, o “Hercules” do quarteto, retornou aos decks após vários anos parado e retomando clássicos do House e Disco, decidiu levar suas influências para o novo álbum. “Sidetracked” terá dois discos mixados e especialmente remasterizados e tem previsão de lançamento para 13 de julho. Para quem ainda não conhece o som, vale a pena dar uma fuçada no site dos caras e ficar de olho no próximo trabalho, porque acho que será excelente.

♫ Sweat in Space Mix

Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (Fred Falke Extended Remix)
Cut Copy – Hearts on Fire (Holy Ghost! Remix)
Feist – Sea Lion (Chromeo Remix)
Hercules & Love Affair – Blind (Frankie Knuckles Dub)
Sebastien Tellier – Kilometer (A-Trak Dub Mix)
Tiga – Good as Gold (Morgan Geist Monophonic Mix)
The Presets – If I Know You (Alternate Version)
DJ Mehdi – Pocket Piano (Joakim Remix)

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ALSO! We have a winner on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs contest!! The winner is Eddie! Because Karen O is always sumptuous! Thanks for playing everyone!

PLAN A: Obits, The Lights, Drug Wars @ The Casbah. Ex-Drive Like Jehu singer / guitarist Rick Froberg moved to New York awhile back to focus on his work as a graphic artist. Returning to San Diego with Obits’ heavily echoed rock ’n’ roll in tow, we couldn’t be happier to have him back. PLAN B: Hercules & Love Affair (DJ set), Pat Mahoney @ Spin. Both of these acts have direct connections to James Murphy’s DFA Records, which means two things: 1. They have better record collections than you. 2. If you attend, expect to shake your ass. PLAN C: Tapedeck Mountain, This is Not My Life @ Soda Bar. Claiming connections to local bands such as Comfortable For You, Calico Horse, Goodbye Blue Monday and Manuok, I’m not exactly sure what This is Not My Life sounds like, but based on their previous experience, the project sounds promising. –Todd Kroviak

Quick Picks:

Red Pony Clock, Maren Parusel, The Dabbers, DJ Morgan Young @ Beauty Bar

Sweet and Tender Hooligans (Smiths/Morrisey tribute) @ Belly Up

The Shamey Jays (CD release, Joey Harris, Anna Troy Band, Bedpost Buzzards @ Brick by Brick

Muy lejos ya del electro-punk gonzo de Six Finger Satellite, Juan Maclean se encarama a los tacones del disco y se lanza a la piscina del hedonismo. Bajo el signo de la sacra DFA y tomándole el testigo a sus camaradas de Hercules & Love Affair, el grupo lo forman hoy el señor John, los dos miembros de Holy Ghost!, Gerry Fuchs de !!! y Nancy Whang, quien pone voces en casi todo el álbum dándole la réplica a Juan cual Susan Sulley a Phil Oakey. El hombre que se definió como “el único capaz de imaginar un triángulo amoroso entre un hombre, una mujer y un robot gay amigo del hombre”, firma junto a todos ellos un disco ácido, musculado, extrañamente introspectivo y muy erótico, pero también delatado desde su título por una impronta tautológica y sarcástica que no siempre le favorece.

Pecando en ocasiones de un mimetismo peligroso, “The Future Will Come” se acerca demasiado a The Human League y a los popes del sello neoyorquino (LCD Soundsystem). Se advierte nada más empezar “The Simple Life”, un gran tema que juega a ser “Get Innoucuous!” mientras le roba la línea melódica al “Love Action” de “Dare”. También se dan cita Giorgio Moroder, Larry Heard y Boney M, quienes se piropean y se meten mano unos a otros en una orgía homérica coronada por el cierre inmortal de la conocida “Happy House”. De los nuevos temas que no conocíamos -los más cortos- llama la atención una inesperada balada (“Human Disaster”) y esa serpiente selvática a punto de inocular el veneno que es “Accusations”. A base de cencerros sibaritas, teclados en libertad y bajos siliconados, el álbum arrastra un acabado tan dichosamente ‘coolness’ que algunos podrían tachar de barato (“One Day”).