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Videos of The Week: The worst cover version ever, Cee-Lo, The Last Exorcism & Spike Jonze short film
The worst cover version ever
Sweet Child Of Mine is a song which is often-covered never equalled. NOTHING could be worse than this Brazilian version. In fact, not much is worse than this full-stop.
Cee-Lo – F**k You
The voice of Gnarls Barkley has had his heart broken but rather than wallow in sorrow, Cee-lo’s raising his middle finger to the former partner. The typographic video received over a million views in four days.
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Sites of the Week: Facebook Places, Shuffler.FM, Dublin Milkman
Facebook Places
The social network giant revealed its challenger to location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla last week.
http://www.facebook.com/places/
Shuffler.FM
The latest music blog aggregator sends you on a journey of the blogs in question while playing the song in a handy player. Your path is chosen by genre.
http://shuffler.fm
Dublin Milkman
Make Sunday that little bit easier and get your papers, milk and Bretzel Bakery bread delivered to your door.
http://www.dublinmilkman.ie
Band of Blogs: Sufjan Stevens, Sun Airway, Zappateer1, Dubstep mixtape
The best music on the web this week..
New Sufjan Stevens EP
The emotional music of Sufjan returns via a new digital-only eight track EP called All Delighted People. It’s on sale for $5 and is 60 minutes long.
http://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com
Sun Airway
The Balearic / chillwave / tropical pop sounds keeps on giving. This Philadelphia duo have made some of the loveliest blissed-out electronic pop available in 2010. Look out for their album Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier in October.
Listen at Nialler9
Zappateer1
Donegal man Zappateer1 (probably not his real name) makes really excellent mashups inspired by The Avalanches and Girl Talk.
http://www.youtube.com/user/zappateer1
25 Tracks: A Dubstep Chronology Mixtape
Drowned In Sound put together a mix which spans 13 years and serves as an audio journey through dubstep’s morphing from UK garage to its Croydon birthplace to its current place in the musical lexicon.
Listen at Drowned in Sound
Day and Night’s Top 10 DJ Mixes
By no means is this a definitive list, but it is a list of the 10 best mixtapes we’ve heard in the last eight months or so. There’s plenty to love here. Do tell us if we’ve left anything out.
- Four Tet Essential Mix
Features: Kieran Hebden doing what he does best – playing the best out-there electronic music out there, including Floating Points & Joy Orbison. - The Magician – Magic Tape One
Features: Stephen Fasano introduces his new solo project post- Aeroplane and makes a mark with this funky disco mix. - Mike Scott’s Orchestral Pop Fantasia State Mix
Features:” The point where the two worlds of pop and classical crossover, via a series of well known tracks, obscurities and mash ups. “ - Autechre FACT Mix
Features: “An unpredictable, kaleidoscopic affair, rooted in sinuous leftfield hip-hop but with bursts of tremulous ambient electronics, techno, hectic breakbeats and, at one particularly memorable point, metal.” - Alex Metric August 2010 Mix
Features: An hour of solid dancing: Phoenix, Mystery Jets, Holy Ghost!, Tracey Thorn, Boys Noize, Orbital, Kele, Jamaica.
The best places to get your DJ mix fix
Take a look at your CD collection. Chances are there are a few expertly-chosen DJ compilations on your shelves. DJ mix CDs used to be ten-a-penny In today’s new music world, there are less opportunities for DJs to physically release mix compilations unless they are asked by a still-going-strong series like Fabric or DJ Kicks. The internet is where it’s at in terms of convincing a promoter to book a DJ and an audience to throw down their hard-earned euros on a live set.
Sites like Soundcloud and Mixcloud make it easy for DJs to share their skills with an audience and the number of mixes has been increasing lately with some brilliant sets available. Take Aeroplane for example, the now one-man DJ from Belgium has been uploading mixes of stellar quality to Soundcloud every month since September last year and each one is eternally listenable. The latest mix Late July features disco, house, current remixes and Yoko Ono.
Diplo has been a major proponent in the online mixtape business for about five years now, ever since he released his MIA mixtape – Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1. One of his most recent and notable mixes was another collaboration. This time, Diplo under his Major Lazer project worked with La Roux on Lazerproof, a dancefloor-flavoured collection based on La Roux originals.
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What’s your Wu-Tang member name & the best links this week
- A designer’s minimal take on a collection album sleeves.
- 30 popular Irish tweeters.
- What’s your Wu-Tang Clan member name?
- Only Photoshop can bypass a little thing called time and help put together a series of impossible couples, including eh… Veronica Lake and Vanilla Ice?
- Why Back To The Future is oh so wrong.
Videos of the week: The best online personal video ad ever & Fred the raver
The best online personal video ad ever
Is this the coolest personal ad ever? It’s got a bare-chested rock ‘n’ roll karaoke lovin’ mulleted alpha-male, amazingly cheap animated graphics and talk of forklifts as “electric horses”. Ladies, he wants to duet with you (in the Sacramento area).
