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Where I will post my daily (as much as possible) music suggestions, old and new.
Monsieur Seb’s Daily Music Suggestion: moi!
Just a quick reminder that I’ve got a new mix ready for your listening enjoyment in the post right below!
Monsieur Seb’s Daily Music Giveaways: FREE STUFF! Won’t enlarge your penis. But then again…
Hey y’all! Sorry ’bout the wee hiatus, I was off on a small holiday with my daughter, last weekend, and well… that’s it!
As is customary when I do not post for a few days, I try to come back with music you can keep legally and for free!
Well, I found a few great things for ya!
First, if you remember, a coupla days ago I told you about The Mungolian Jet Set releasing an excellent double compilation of their work. Well, turns out they are giving out one of the tracks on said compilation, and it happens to be the best one of the lot!
Clairevoyage (A Medley Performed By The 16th Rebels Of Mung) – Dominique Leone
As you can see, it is offered by RCRD*LBL, “a network of ad supported online record labels and blogs offering completely free music and multimedia content from emerging and established artists.”
There’s tons of good stuff and there’s a newsletter you can subscribe to that will send a free track to your inbox on a daily basis!
Today’s free track, for instance, made me discover the excellent Memory Tapes.
Bicycle (Horrors Cosmic Dub) – Memory Tapes
I’ve also mentionned FACT Magazine before, they also give out free stuff regularly, and latest on the list is British MC Ms. Dynamite.
Never heard of her? Check out the video for her debut hit from a coupla years back, Dy-Na-Mi-Tee
Monsieur Seb’s Daily Music Suggestion: Thanks, Resident Advisor!
It’s always a pleasure to discover new tracks, as I hope, humbly, I help you do, my dear readers, from time to time.
My latest discovery, then, was suggested by a Tweet from top music site Resident Advisor.
The tweet in question was about a new white label release by dubstep artist Pangaea, who I didn’t know before.
However, said post had no audio link and it raved so ecstatic about a previous release by Pangaea, titled Router, that I just had to go and check it out on Beatport.
Wow! Instantly fell in love with it…
Now, on a more objective angle, it doesn’t reinvent Dubstep like Burial did with his Untrue album a couple of years ago, and it’s a tad more accessible (ie less underground), but it’s a great piece of work, nonetheless!
Hope you dig it, too!
Monsieur Seb’s Daily Musical Suggestion: The Good Life
There are some records one feels lucky and grateful to own.
One such record, for me, is the double vinyl entitled Testament 93 by Kevin Saunderson’s Inner City.
There’s no debate on how influential Kevin Saunderson’s been for House Music and electronic music in general, as much in his solo productions as with Inner City or even as a label owner.
Released (as the title implies) in 1993, this beautifully packaged double 12″ was, at the time, and it sill is, very near a collector’s item.
First because CJ Mackintosh’s remix is absolutely first class, adding just what’s needed to the original production of the “other” Inner City classic, Good Life (Big Fun being THE classic), to make it sound even better on a dancefloor, but without hijacking the track.
Good Life (Cj Mackintosh’s Living Good Club Mix) – Inner City
Good Life
It sounds like it could very well be the orginal, to someone who hasn’t heard it in a while.
Second, the lot of producers invited to remix some of Inner City’s best songs is quite impressive, even now: the aforementionned Mackintosh, Unity, Brothers In Rhythm, Leftfield, Saunderson himself, as well as The Future Sound Of London, doing a 15 minutes-long version of Praise that sounds like a close relative of Papua New Guinea.
Praise (The Future Sound Of London Concept Dub) – Inner City
Praise
Nowadays, Testament 93 is not that hard to find in digital version (download or CD), and I’ve seen a few vinyl copies available from online retailers and eBay. If you go for vinyl, make sure you get a mint copy, because although the pressing was very nice, it was also very fragile.
Monsieur Seb’s Daily Music Suggestion: hot! Hot!! HOT!!!
I’ve just completed a little round of shopping on Beatport and I just HAD to share this bomb with y’all!
Living my Life – Roberto Rodriguez (Plastic City)
Living my Life
Now, Rodriguez, originally from Helsinki (check out his brief bio by clicking this link), is not a newcomer to the scene, and some of his productions have been featured in my mixes before.
He’s one of the producers I’ve favourited in Beatport because his productions are always top quality, but this new track on Plastic City just blew my mind intstantly!
Pay close attention to his subtle use of a TB-303-like sound in there (the low warbly one that comes in before the high squelchy one). Absolutely delightful!
It has all the makings of a classic, it is the kind of track I wish I had composed, and I say that without any trace of jealousy, only with great awe and admiration!
No need to bet your money: this track is obviously gonna be in my next mix AND it will play during my set @ Picnik Electronik, on August 16th, that is for SURE!
Monsieur Seb’ Daily Music Suggestion: Fred’s Back!
To celebrate the return of Fred Everything in Montreal today (@Picnik Electronik tonight at 8pm), I’ve decided to share my favourite tracks by my old friend from Quebec City.
I stayed within his album productions because had I decided to choose among his hundreds of productions and remixes, it would’ve been a tad complicated to pick just a few.
Hop to see y’all there today! “Opening” for Fred are Slim Jim, Justin Long and JT Donaldson.
If you can’t make it, there’s always the Lazy Days Recordings podcasts mixed by Fred which you can download.
From Light of Day – Elevate feat. The New Mastersounds
Elevate
From Lost Together – Mile End
Mile-End
From Under the Sun – Revolution
Monsieur Seb’s Daily suggestion: Thank You Maude!
My dear friend Maude made me discover this track yesterday and, unbeknownst to her, by doing so she kicked open flood gates: I am now on a mission to discover as much as I can about Jamaican music.
Maude, bless her heart, suggested I start by getting all the Trojan boxed sets. Wait! But… There a ton of them!
Don’t be a smart-ass, how much of that country insanely rich musical history do you really know outside of Marley, Tosh and a few other big names? I know also about Desmond Dekker, Sly and Robbie, Lee “Scratch” Perry, King Tubby and a few more, but I also know they are but a tiny fraction (quantitatively) of what I have yet to discover.
In any case, if this song doesn’t make you want to discover more, that’s fine, but I’m still totally convinced you will thouroughly enjoy it!
Monsieur Seb’s Daily Music Suggestion: The Mungols are Back!
I call them my secret weapon. As a DJ, that is.
They are rather un- or little-known around these parts, and I’m not sure how well they are known overseas, but I know for sure that without being a household name, they are certainly not complete unknowns.
I’m talking about the Mungolian Jet Set, also known as The 16th Rebels of Mung, among other monikers.
Pål “Strangefruit” Nyhus, Knut Petter Sævik, Reidar Skår and their variable geometry crew, are, to this humble but savvy DJ, among the most creative music producers of recent memory.
No, I’m not exaggerating. And no, I’m not saying this because they are Norwegian and I think Norway (where I’d move anytime given the opportunity) is the best and most beautiful country in the world — as well as being second only to the UK, maybe, in terms of the quality of the music that comes out of it.
I’m saying this because the Mungs consistently produce epic tracks and remixes of Psychedelic Disco, Abstract Ambient, Sound Collage, Trip Hop, even stuff that could be categorized as World Beat! You name it: they’ve done it or will do it one day, without a doubt, and you can be assured that they will constantly raise the bar for themselves in the process.
They’ve remixed a host of great names, among which Ost & Kjex, Lindstrøm, Dominique Leone, Mari Boine, Nils Petter Molvaer, Bebel Gilberto and LSB as well as collaborating with Altz.
Here are a few examples of their unbelievable ecclectism:
Clairevoyage (A Medley Performed By The 16th Rebels Of Mung) – Dominique Leone
Clairevoyage (A Medley Performed By The 16th Rebels Of Mung) – Dominique Leone
Bring Back the Love (Mungolian Jetset Dub) – Bebel Gilberto
Bring Back the Love (Mungolian Jetset Dub) – Bebel Gilberto
Jet Setter – The Mungolian Jet Set
Jet Setter – The Mungolian Jet Set
For everyone’s listening enjoyment, they’ve recently collected some of their best productions and remixes on a double compilation entitled We Gave It All Away…And Now We Are Taking It Back out now on Smalltown Supersound, even though the release date announced everywhere is Aug. 18th.
This is one of those instances where I cannot urge you enough to get yourself a copy of said compilation, because their releases are not always easy to come by.
Once you’ve accustomed your ears, and mind, to their mind-blowing sound, with all its cultural references — borrowing as much from Ornette Coleman as from Eminem —, seek out their first album, 2006’s Beauty Came to Us in Stone, released on Jazzland Rec.
That album is not for the faint of heart and the intellectually weak, but it is OH! SO rewarding!
Here’s a clip of the Mungs live on Norak national television (!) with Bugge Wesseltoft on piano:
Monsieur Seb’s Daily Music Suggestion: A Day at the Zoo
I’m spending the day at Granby Zoo with my daughter today, so I tought I’d type “zoo” in iTunes search tool to find today’s music suggestion.
I did consider suggesting Bowie’s Heroes, since the title of the book on which the movie Christiane F. was based is Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, but I figured that was a bit convoluted and somewhat weird in the circumstances… 🙂
So, in the end, this is what I picked out for you today:
For more info on Jazztronik (and it’s not that easy to come by some real info not in japanese).