Lights go down

Just a little poor excuse for not writing for such a long time: studying! I enjoy it, though. The Video Production module especially! I still have loads to do as I’m working with my group on press conference that will take place in a week and a half, so I’m here just to post a couple of new music videos you may enjoy. I have quite a few drafts of nice posts (at least I find them interesting), but I can’t find time to finish them… Hopefully, I will find some time just after I’m done with this conference. No worries, this blog is here to stay!

Basement Jaxx
My turn

Have Jaxxes ever made a poor music video? If they did, I must have missed it – let me know about it, please. I absolutely love this one, it’s so cosy! Simple, colourful, and engrossing. And funny – maybe not in a way that you burst with laughter, but I’m sure you’ll smile a bit (at least inside) while watching it.

Keep an eye on Tomek Ducki who directed that music video, he’s a really talented guy. His videos on his vimeo profile are worth looking at, just give it a shot – click here (I highly recommend ‘Life Line – Életvonal’ – a short movie with touching story and great visuals).

Finally, the song. Brilliant. That’s why I love Basement Jaxx: there is something special about each and every of their songs. No exception here. Irresistably catchy melody, killer beat, and most importantly – soul. Perfection.

Lily Allen
Who’d have known

Lily and Greg Kurstin created an amazing album this year, here’s just another single to prove that. Good concept for a music video; I really liked it, even though not much was happening in there.
I  hope Lily wasn’t serious about quitting the music industry! Who’d be voice of our generation then?

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And just to combine the artists above, here’s another perfect song by Basement Jaxx that features Lily Allen on  backing vocals (just listen carefully and you can hear her):

Róisín Murphy is getting orally fixated

Leave everything and go to Róisín’s MySpace to hear her new single ‘Orally Fixated’! I wish I knew what it sounds like, but there seems to be a problem with my MySpace player… Hopefully, I’d get to listen to the song some other way. So far I can only stare at this great cover – I count on you to let me know what’s the song like!

***UPDATE***

I’ve just listened to the song! It’s interesting, but for me it lacks this special Róisín vibe, if you know what I mean… I like ‘Demon Lover’ and ‘Royal-T’ much more!
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It’s a surprise as the first single was rumoured to be ‘Demon Lover’ that we could hear on Victor & Rolf fashion show. ‘Orally Fixated’ will be released on 16th November in UK (one day later in USA). British broadsheet newspaper The Guardian will offer a 48-hours free download of the single, so write it down in your diary!

What the album is gonna be like? Listen to an interview with Róisín (it’s from July, so some things might have changed by now):

Peachy creamy loss

I really like glamorous music videos, arty music videos, alternative music videos, weird music videos, music videos with a concept, music videos with a story, and sometimes amateur music videos happen to be quite good too.

Peaches‘ music video for ‘Lose you’ (directed by herself!) combines all of these categories somehow, thus, it’s a really good music video.

More highly intelectual, eloquent and professional reviews of music videos coming soon.

PS. The song rocks too, like the whole I Feel Cream album on which she worked with Simian Mobile Disco, Gonzales and Soulwax – actually, that’s why it’s so good.

PS2. Here’s a music video for a new single from the album. Not as good as the previous one, but not a bad one. Song is super cool, though. Reminds me of Madonna’s ‘Get Together’.

Whatcha say?

So guys, whatcha say about this barbarian sampling of Imogen’s marterpiece ‘Hide and Seek’ in a poor song by Jason Derulo? It’s so average I wouldn’t pay any attention to it if there was no Imogen in it… However, American consumers are not too fussy and the song is doing really good – it’s on #2 on Billboard list.

Immi herself doesn’t bother that much as she said that the song lives its own life and she just lets it be. Fair enough. One of Imogen’s recent tweets: “@jasonderulo we really should meet/chat/say hello one of these days! Our tune is getting places! x“

Judge for yourself:

Ish Value

There are artists that over the years lose distinction between shaping their original sound and being repetitive, like Röyksopp, and there are artists that copy their own ideas shamelessly all over again and get away with that, like Timbaland.

Timbo is gonna release Shock Value 2 in a month and the lead single was just released. ‘Morning After Dark’ features Timaland himself and some oh-so-boring new artist SoShy from Timbaland’s label.

Timbo says the song is

“very interesting. The song, I can’t describe it, it’s so different. It’s not different for me, but I can tell you this — it fits everything going on with the vampire theme.“

I say it sounds not different at all; it sounds exactly like everything else he has done over last few years. Come on, it’s ish! Really ishy ish I shall say.

The worst thing is that once the album comes out, Timbo is going to be everywhere again. People, wake up! He’s so four years ago! Just to make things clear: I really appreciate his old work with Aaliyah, Missy Elliott and more recently – Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake. I just can’t stand how he’s stuck on repeat and people are still so excited about him. And maybe I’m wrong but I’ve got a feeling the whole album is gonna be just as I’ve-heard-it-all-before as this single.

Blah.

Shakira’s new album is actually quite good

I’ve never been a fan of Shakira as her voice annoyed me most of the time. And so did her music, to be honest. However, I realised that things may be about to change when I heard ‘She Wolf’ single and found out that she teamed up with the legendary The Neptunes to make her new record. I was right.

So considering it’s a heavily mainstream electropop, here’s a review:

Find three differences

Read more for the answers.

Short history of a dress on that cover

Scroll to 2:17 in the clip below:

For more amazing fashion shows visit Victor & Rolf official website – I discovered them thanks to Róisín and I’m absolutely impressed! Fashion has never made me feel this way. When you visit their website just go upstairs…

Róisín returns and so do I

Róisín Murphy performing at Victor & Rolf spring/summer 2010 show

Hello everyone! I wanted to return for the new season with some big news and now it’s the time. Róisín Murphy performed a couple of new songs at Victor & Rolf spring/summer 2010 show and they are killers! Instantly, I got so excited about the new album that I could hardly fall asleep that night. Seriously! I’ve got some clips from the show and two another songs from her set at Burlectric, and there is a sleek download for you too, so keep on reading.

By the way, a few days ago – on 5th October to be precise – this blog turned 1 year old! Now let’s celebrate it by listening to Róisín’s new stuff…

Free downloads from Sam Sparro and Back Ted N-Ted!

Back Ted N-Ted / Sam Sparro

Twitter is a gooood thing (as long as the artists you follow post decent tweets)! I follow only four artists: Imogen Heap, Kate Havnevik, Back Ted N-Ted and Sam Sparro. Last two guys have been really generous recently as they give us more than two hours of great tunes.

Back Ted N-Ted shares “1 hour and 15 minutes of fun for you. a dj mix i made for imogens release party… please share : D” – amongst the others you’ll find there Calvin Harris, Empire of the Sun, M83, Deadmau5, Booka Shade, Animal Collective, Underworld, MSTRKRFT, Le Tigre and himself – download it here.

Sam Sparro together with Jesse Rogg release their debut podcast: “IT’S HERE!! first episode of our new podcast “TURN THE RADIO OFF” downloadable now! Enjoy!!” – lots of catchy music, including Gossip, The Presets, premiere of Sparro’s remix of ‘Feelings Gone’ by Basement Jaxx featuring himself, and many fresh stuff as well as oldschool vibes. Get it here.

Hope you enjoy the downloads, I truly do! Especially the DJ set by Back Ted N-Ted that I play on repeat!