18th Aug2009

Tiesto + Tegan + Sara – I Feel It In My Bones

by nickwan
Tiesto

Tiesto

http://stereogum.com/archives/video/new-tiesto-feat-tegan-sara-feel-it-in-my-bones-stereogum-premiere_084901.html

or

www.myspace.com/tiesto

By the way, it’s amazing. This track is amazing for a few reasons. The first would be the collaboration of Tiesto and the crap load of people on his upcoming album Kaleidoscope with the likes of Jonsi from Sigur Ros to Nelly Furtado (who seems to be the go-to person for collab’s [next to T-Pain]) and Tiesto can only get bigger with this endeavor. The second reason is that if this is what one song sounds like, what can we expect from the rest of his album? Tiesto has really tried to cross his dance medium with the singalong feeling emoted through vocals, and with the track “Feel It In My Bones” it really shows that he is doing it flawlessly without losing his own dance-y style.

To focus on Tegan and Sara for a second, this isn’t too far off from a song Tegan and Sara would normally produce either. It’s definitely a dance song and not something I’d want to see live from TnS but it isn’t too far off from songs like “Are You Ten Years Ago?” and “One Second” — just a lot more electronically driven. I initially thought the vocals would be played down a lot, kind of like the Tiesto “Back In Your Head” remix, but the song definitely shows that Tegan and Sara co-wrote with Tiesto rather than Tiesto leading the charge with some sparse vocal loops across the song. This, again, should get a lot of people excited to hear all these other co-written songs off this album.

To note, I’m not too much a fan of dance floor hits and I can really only take so much of Tiesto before I lose my mind in a trance induced headache. Although, even though this song is a collab between him and one of my favorite artists, I’m excited to hear what this album can bring.

It drops October 6th!

12th Jun2009

Major Lazer – Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do

by nickwan
Album Art

Album Art

Dub meets dance. However, most would say that when you listen to dub reggae it’s a lot like dance anyway. I mean, you can dance to it… but that’s about it. Some good dub you can really get in to, but lately the fashion behind dub reggae/dub step/ dub-whatever is the idea that the songs are there to get you to move and nothing else. That’s pretty much what this record is about.

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31st Mar2009

Girl Talk – Night Ripper

by nickwan

Maybe the best way to describe Girl Talk is if you took every single song you have liked or heard and have had stuck in your head and made a glass sculpture out of it… then took a giant sledgehammer to it, picked up the fragmented pieces, and tried to recreate the masterpiece you just saw shattered, that’s what this album sounds like. Musically, it sounds almost exactly like this… and to most, just like modern art, they will hate this. But once you get past that first layer of “wtf?” you might get to a state of mind that’s closer to your modern ADD thoughts than you thought you had. 

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