The last days of the year... for yours sincerely, it means re-listening to all the music released during the year that I've grown to love. The music which soundtracked my life. And trying desperately to put them in the right order - never entirely possible, but as I've been doing it on a weekly basis ever since my eleventh year on Earth, I'm sort of trained. And every year I curse myself for dedicating so much time on something which is only really relevant to me. A list with an order which is purely subjective means zilch to anyone else, but hey, other people spend days on Christmas dinner preperations and hundreds of euros on fireworks. Things that seem silly in my eyes. So here goes, a couple of charts with music which will take me back to 2008 whenever I look back at them. And I hope some of you will enjoy glancing over them, and perhaps even discover some new music to form the soundtrack of your life in 2009.
(Shame - although probably just for me - I could not find the time to do my annual Favourite 20 Sleeves, Worst 10 Sleeves and Most Annoying 10 Songs, let alone my Favourite 20 Videos and Favourite 20 Remixes - do I hear you sigh of relief? Well, do not rejoice yet - for perhaps I find the time later...)
May 2009 bring a whole new soundtrack for everyone of us, to soundtrack a year full of love and good health,
xxx SJ
My 100 favourite officially on CD or 7" released singles of 2008
I made mixes for those special sunday moods you certainly know and experienced. You’ll find fresh tracks aswell as some classic songs and personal favourites in these sets. Furthermore you’ll notice that i tried to mix many different genres.
01 The Cinematic Orchestra - Into You
02 Louis Vega feat. Julie McKnight - Diamond Life (Deep Dish’s Numb Life Remix) //
03 Ada - Each And Everyone
04 Junior Boys - Double Shadow
05 Psapp - Cosy In The Rocket
06 Apparat - Arcadia
07 Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer (Part 2)
08 Air - Mer Du Japon
09 Chromatics - In The City (12″ Mix)
10 Phonique - Casualities (Album mix)
11 Matthew Adams - No More Anymore (Michael Feihstel Remix)
12 Guy Gerber - Unfulfilled (Album Mix)
13 Marie Boine - Filer Til Voui (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
14 Gabriel Ananda - Lamakova
15 The Cinematic Orchestra - Music Box
A LIVE recording of Emotiquon's improvised live set @ King Tuts Wah Wah Hut (supporting We Smoke Fags) in Glasgow!!!
After their exciting live performance at The Altitude Festival 2008 (supporting the phenomenal Grand National), Emotiquon were invited to perform at the infamous Glasgow venue, King Tuts Wah Wah Hut.
Supporting upcoming new electro-punk act We Smoke Fags alongside synthpop pioneer iamchemist, Emotiquon knew that the pressure was on! However, without their library of new sounds and tracks (all contained within their treasured external hard-drive which they left behind in France after their last gig), the set had to be completely IMPROVISED!!!
The THEME for this performance was aptly "Close Encounters"!!!
Illustrating that Emotiquon can perform well under pressure and with virtually NO preparation at all, this podcast should entertain all fans of electronic music...
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OK - these are a few weeks old cus I missed em last week and was too lazy to write them up over the weekend. My Bad. Out of this lot I have only heard of one band (Grand National) and have no idea about the other 3 except that the pictures on the sleeves were pretty. Yes, yes, frivolous purchasing maybe but I expect high things from them.
OK - lets see how this works; I will review them from front covers only and then play them after...
The Shortwave Set - No Social (4)
Intricate circular themed front cover so I'm expecting patterned music maybe math-rock but with quite light heartedness not heavy.
No Age - Eraser (3.5)
Stodgy Psychedelic with thick chords and cool weirdness
White Rabbits - While We Go Dancing (3)
Rural Lo-fi ramshackle folk in a guillemots/kid harpoon style.
OK, lets see how I did...
The Shortwave Set no social (4.5) White Lie (2.5)
Aha - wrong, kind of, but it is light and airyish, in a good way, and it has a cracking chorus that reminds me of something in the back of my memory... well, could it be Hash pipe by Weezer? Wow. Think of a glam Tunng crossed with Roxy Music and and and its a real winner! I was tempted to give it 5/5 but I'll save that for now. This is brilliant. Go check them/this out. NOW!
3 plays in a row and I am in love.
The B side is good but not a patch on the A, a more beat driven tune which still draws a cross-stitch of musical threads together nicely for the chorus.
No Age Eraser (3.5)
Not stodgy thick but multicoloured creamy all the same here - bit Animal Collective from 6/7 yrs ago and sweetly short but weird and cool.
All 3 B sides are short cool and fuzzy, in turn VU, Ramones and more AC - first 2 recorded in a toilet somewhere, last one under the stars and under the influence...
White Rabbits While We Go Dancing (3) Take a Walk Around the Table (2.5)
Not Lo-Fi! But Kid H/Guillemots reference might be closer, as would a sweetly pop Larriken Love - maybe.
Oh, its on Fierce Panda - a constant fave... which made me think that they were UK based but not so - born in the USA this lot.
Altitude Festival,
Meribel Ski Resort,
Rhone-Alpes,
FRANCE
73550
We've WON the Altitude vs Bebo band competition!!!
We'll be supporting the fantastic Grand National, and Super U on the MAIN STAGE on Friday night!!!
And we'll be sliding down the beautiful alpine slopes the next day, and hopefully drinking ourselves into a stupor the very same evening!!!
If anyone wants to come too, let us know ASAP. You'll obviously have to get yourselves there, but there's discounted accommodation and free entry into the festival. And the organizers have assured us that any skiing fans will be well looked after (VIP treatment)
After winning the Bebo/Altitude Festival 2008 band competition, Emotiquon travel to Meribel in The French Alps to support Grand National on the main stage...
The journey does not go quite as expected! Emotiquon are rather silly.
This video podcast documents James Mechanoid & Shaun Dimensional's preposterous trip from Schiphol International Airport, to Meribel in the French Alps... home of The Altitude Festival 2008!!!
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After the success of our Altitude Festival debut, we're pleased to announce that Rupert & La (Grand National) have given us the go-ahead to remix any song of our choosing!
We've decided to have a shot at their excellent Drink to Moving On track, from their debut album Kicking the National Habit. We're awaiting the original parts to the track from Rupert.
The rather entertaining (Tetris inspired) video to the track is on YouTube:
We've been invited by Spanish DJ collective Buffetlibre to perform a cover version of an original 80's track for their forthcoming REWIND project (due for release in July).
We're choosing an old Human League track WXJL Tonight, taken from their 1980 album Travelogue. It's from a time when Phil Oakey worked with Ian Craig Marsh & Martin Ware (who then went on to form Heaven 17, of Temptation fame), We feel it's an apt choice, as:
Buffetlibre are the Spanish DJ collective who gave us the original parts to Shitdisco's Reactor Party. Our remix is currently gaining attention across the world-wide web, and has already been played on several radio shows and in clubs around the world!!!
We feel it's an honour and a sign of respect to both Buffetlibre & The Human League to be asked to complete this exciting new task....
Altitude Festival,
Meribel Ski Resort,
Rhone-Alpes,
FRANCE
73550
We've WON the Altitude vs Bebo band competition!!!
We'll be supporting the fantastic Grand National, and Super U on the MAIN STAGE on Friday night!!!
And we'll be sliding down the beautiful alpine slopes the next day, and hopefully drinking ourselves into a stupor the very same evening!!!
If anyone wants to come too, let us know ASAP. You'll obviously have to get yourselves there, but there's discounted accommodation and free entry into the festival. And the organizers have assured us that any skiing fans will be well looked after (VIP treatment)
After winning the Bebo/Altitude Festival 2008 band competition, Emotiquon travel to Meribel in The French Alps to support Grand National on the main stage...
The journey does not go quite as expected! Emotiquon are rather silly.
This video podcast documents James Mechanoid & Shaun Dimensional's preposterous trip from Schiphol International Airport, to Meribel in the French Alps... home of The Altitude Festival 2008!!!
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DOWNLOAD: CLICK ON YOUR FAVOURITE LINK BELOW:
After the success of our Altitude Festival debut, we're pleased to announce that Rupert & La (Grand National) have given us the go-ahead to remix any song of our choosing!
We've decided to have a shot at their excellent "Drink to Moving On" track, from their debut album Kicking the National Habit. We're awaiting the original parts to the track from Rupert.
The rather entertaining (Tetris inspired) video to the track is on YouTube:
We've been invited by Spanish DJ collective Buffetlibre to perform a cover version of an original 80's track for their forthcoming "REWIND" project (due for release in July).
We're choosing an old Human League track "WXJL Tonight", taken from their 1980 album Travelogue. It's from a time when Phil Oakey worked with Ian Craig Marsh & Martin Ware (who then went on to form Heaven 17, of "Temptation" fame), We feel it's an apt choice, as:
Buffetlibre are the Spanish DJ collective who gave us the original parts to Shitdisco's "Reactor Party". Our remix is currently gaining attention across the world-wide web, and has already been played on several radio shows and in clubs around the world!!!
We feel it's an honour and a sign of respect to both Buffetlibre & The Human League to be asked to complete this exciting new task....
Grand National
