BBC Radio 1 has a great series called the “Essential Mix“. There’s a lot of those on YouTube and Modeselektor‘s is one of the truely great ones amongst those. Enjoy!
“Knife” is great songwriting by New York’s Harper Blynn, performed live on a balcony in not-so-sunny LA for BalconyTV.
Friday-evening, time to pretend you’re a young hipster! And this might help; a great (old, as in over 10 years old) track called “Manila” by Seelenluft in the Manitoba remix, as it was featured in Four Tet’s magnificent “Essential Mix” from way back in 2010;
The vocals are by the Michael Smith, who apparently was only 12 years old when recording “Manila”. There’s multiple remixes of it (and the official clip for the Ewan Pearson remix is pretty funny), but none are as wild as this one. Love those crazy horns, they remind me of (the more recent) Neneh Cherry & The Thing with their freaky cover of Springsteen’s “Dream Baby Dream” (which Four Tet remixed as well).
There’s real gems to be found on KCRW’s YouTube channel, which features artists that perform live in the studio. Laura Mvula is a upcoming UK vocalist and you can see her performing “Sing To The Moon” below. Enjoy!
Heard this one a couple of times on KCRW; French singer-songwriter Mina Tindle with “Pan”.
Beautiful, no?
Altijd fijn als iemand een bekend nummer een volledig andere richting uit duwt, zeker in The Voice van Vlaanderen. En iedereen weet dat ge voor die muzikale twists bij Alex Callier aan het goeie adres zijt, toch? Hij liet Jaouad afgelopen vrijdag “Smells like teen spirit” coveren, in een Big Band versie! Met een “walking bass”, zag je Alex tijdens de repetities zomaar uit de mouw schudden. Fantastisch!
Alleen, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” met Big Band en walking bass, had Paul Anka dat een eeuwigheid geleden ook al eens niet gedaan?
Misschien kan Alex wat nog inspiratie vinden bij Pieter Embrechts die (met zijn New Radio Kings) iets gelijkaardigs met “The Best of You” van de Foo Figthers deed:
Maar ik kijk vooral uit naar een kopie van deze ietwat bizarre psychedelica-versie van “Wonderwall”;
Yesterday I pushed a beta version of the long overdue 1.2.0 to the SVN trunk at wordpress.org. This is the version at least some of you have been waiting for, as it includes the following new features:
But don’t go running off to your WordPress admin screens just yet, there’s no update notification to be seen there. This is very much still work in progress: the microdata-stuff isn’t complete yet, I’ll probably load the CSS differently, I’m still not sure what widget sizes will be supported, the translations have to be updated, there’s some PHP notices to take care of … And most importantly: as this isn’t just another small, incremental release, we need lots of testing.
So I’m looking for people who want to join in on the fun and test the in-development version on their blogs. To do so, download the zip-file from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-youtube-lyte.zip and (optionally) drop me a line so I know who I have to ping when I push an update out. I’m looking forward to receiving feedback from you guys & girls!
