Lindstrøm & Christabelle on A-Trak’s mixtape
December 27, 2010Comments Off
Lindstrøm & Christabelle’s Baby Can´t Stop is featured on A-Trak’s mixtape for RCRDLBL. You can download his mix here. Here is the full tracklisting:
A-Trak – Ray Ban Vision (feat. CyHi Da Prynce)
The Temper Trap – Resurrection (Penguin Prison Remix)
J. Cole – Who Dat
Florence and The Machine – You’ve Got the Love (The xx Remix)
Monarchy – Love Get Out Of My Way (Holy Ghost! [feat. Dixon] Remix)
Drake – 9AM Freestyle
Tiga – What You Need (Chromeo Remix)
Lindstrom & Christabelle – Baby Can’t Stop (Radio Edit)
Sebastien Tellier – Kilometer (A-Trak Remix)
Chromeo – Don’t Turn The Lights On (Carte Blanche Remix)
Kanye West – Christian Dior Denim Flow (feat. Kid Cudi, Pusha T, John Legend, Lloyd Banks & Ryan Leslie)
Sleigh Bells – Tell ‘Em (Kingdom Remix)
Shit Robot – Take ‘Em Up (feat. Nancy Whang)
Lindstrøm & Christabelle 14th best album on XLR8R
December 24, 2010Comments Off
Real Life Is No Cool owes more to ’80s R&B and radio funk (Ă la Bar-Kays or Alexander O’Neal & Cherrelle) than it does Lindstrøm’s typical fare (Kosmische and Moroder-esque disko), and we were pleasantly surprised by the producer’s about-face this time around. Featuring vocals from his wonderful collaborator Christabelle (a.k.a. Isabelle Haarseth Sandoo), Lindstrøm’s approach to production is delightfully all over the map on this one, with plenty of the expected arpeggiated synths augmented by tinkly pianos, Euro-style coos, and a sensuality that most of Scandinavia’s cosmic disco hardly ever achieves. Start with “Lovesick” and then finish with the absolute heart-stopper “High & Low.”
Check it out on XLR8R here.
JD Twitch from Optimo talks about producing Tussle
December 24, 2010Comments Off
Here is a blog piece from JD Twitch about producing, and him producing Tussle’s next album:
This year I was asked to produce a record for the first time. Well, I had been asked before but couldn’t do it as doing Optimo every week took up too much time and I didn’t feel ready to do it. One of the reasons for ending Optimo as a weekly club was to have the opportunity to do different things so when I was asked to work with Sons and Daughters I leapt at the opportunity. The entire process was a long but joyful experience that really couldn’t go wrong as they had written (imo) their best set of songs, were completely energised and we were working with a phenomenal recording engineer – Sam Smith at Green Door studios in Glasgow. No computers were involved in making the record (it was recorded to tape) which for someone who spends around 70% of their waking life staring at a computer screen was extremely refreshing. The album has been perfectly mixed by one of my back room heroes, Gareth Jones. It’s definitely amongst the most creatively rewarding experiences I’ve had and something I think I’d like to do a little more of. I also helped San Francisco’s Tussle produce their record which was done in a completely different way – a brief session in Glasgow and much exchanging of huge files across the internet. This is still ongoing but hopefully I’ll have finished piecing it together early in 2011.
Annie and Lindstrom & Christabelle on Sleigh Bells’ mixtape for RCRDLBL
December 22, 2010Comments Off
Annie and Lindstrom & Christabelle are both on Sleigh Bells’ mixtape for RCRDLBL. You can get the mix here. And here is the tracklisting:
Crystal Castles – Celestica (Thurston Moore Remix)
Gorillaz – Stylo (feat. Mos Def and Bobby Womack) (Chiddy Bang Remix)
Lindstrom & Christabelle – Baby Can’t Stop (Radio Edit)
Holy Ghost! – Static On The Wire (RAC Remix)
Crookers – Transilvania (feat. Steed Lord)
Annie – Don’t Stop
Kanye West – So Appalled (feat. RZA, Jay-Z, Pusha T, Swizz Beatz & Cyhi the Prynce)
Sleigh Bells – Tell ‘Em (Kingdom Remix)
Massive Attack – Girl I Love You (feat. Horace Andy) (She Is Danger Remix)
Lykke Li – Get Some
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid film
December 21, 2010Comments Off
Check out this great documentary about the collaboration between our friend Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid. You can see it on the Four Tet website here.
The Creation drug craze
December 21, 2010Comments Off
Everybody that has read the Creation Records book “My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For The Prize” (if you haven`t read it, you should!) knows that the drug craze in their bunker heavily influenced the day to day running of the label. I guess the best example is this compilation that came out in 1990. The title pretty much says it all: Pensioners On Ecstasy (Rejects, mislaid masters and never heard before rheumatical remedies)! The album is wild. Tracks by House Of Love, My Bloody Valentine, Biff Bang Pow!, Nikki Suden and Electric Cowboy (as the liner notes says; At-the-time Primal Screamer Paul Harte before he freaked out) and Nick Golding (rejected Creation Single. Composer of Full Metal Jacket soundtrack. Brother of Ex-Weather Prophet Dave Golding. Son of Mrs. Golding). No doubt one of the strangest label compilations ever.
Lindstrøm & Christabelle: NME cult album of the year
December 21, 2010Comments Off
Read the whole story here.
But it’s not just drug-damaged cosmic explorers who somehow failed to set the world on fire in 2010. For reasons that seem unfathomable to me, ‘Real Life Is No Cool’ is the work of Norwegian disco/house producer Hans-Peter Lindstrom (known for his beardy cosmic noodling) and chameleonic pop disco singer Christabelle Sandoo (nee Solale). This team work can be traced back almost a decade to when she surreptitiously whacked some of her by turns sultry/aggressive/dead pan/exuberant vocals on one of his club bangers. But given this and the fact that tracks such as ‘Music In My Mind’ and ‘Baby Can’t Stop’ are club staples by now, doesn’t damage the utter freshness of this disc. Only someone from a rock background like Lindstrom would have the nerve to invoke Quincy Jones, Prince, Donna Summer, Patrick Cowley, Cerrone, Vangelis and Manuel Gottsching but thank God he did, given that he gets away with it entirely on such killer tracks as ‘Love Sick’.
Arp’s FADER mix
December 21, 2010Comments Off
ARP has done a wonderful mix/compilation for Fader (see what they say + tracklisting under). You can download the mix here.
To construct the music that Alexis Georgopoulos makes as Arp, you’ve got to have a lot of restraint. Its roots are in new age: synth washes ebbing and pulling, tiny shift changes in overwhelmingly relaxing, yet interesting music create an underlying tension if you want to listen for it. But if you don’t, that’s cool too. There’s plenty to be found on the surface of the textures as well if that’s as far as you choose to go—and that’s the beauty of this stuff. There are an infinite number of threads to follow and things to notice. Arp is basically the choose your own adventure of music (pretty proud of that one). As often happens when we’re trying to wrap our minds around something—in this case, Georgopoulous’ updated but still faithful strain of new age—we want to know what kind of stuff is infecting the music. What artists, new and old, are providing inspiration and maybe spiritual guidance or something. To find out, we had Georgopoulos make us a massive, sprawling, two part mix of stuff he’s been into. The tracklist is after the jump, but expect James Blake, CFCF, Robert Wyatt and more. Perfect jams to get lost in while you drink your weight in eggnog for the next couple weeks.
A
Psychic TV – Godstar (Calfornia Mix)
Moggi – Danza Galattica
NDF – Since We Last Met
Washed Out – Belong
Tensnake – Coma Cat
James Blake – I Only Know (What I Know Now)
Sister Sledge – Lost In Music (Gay Marvin Edit)
Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Broadcast – Drums On Fire
The Telescopes – 16T#3
Anna Domino – Everyday I Don’t
Superpitcher – Friday Night
Octex – Emergon
B
The Radio Dept. – Heaven’s On Fire
Eroc – Andromeda
CFCF – Before and After Light
Dorothea Raukes – Auf Engelsflugeln
Mathematiques Modernes – Jungle Hurt
Bernard Fevre – Molecule Dance
Nuno Canavarro – [Untitled]
Jonas Bering – Missing
The Durutti Column – Stuki
John Martyn – Go Easy
Dominik Von Senger – Late Night Blues
Robert Wyatt – At Last I Am Free
Idjut Boys on Ministry Of Sound Radio
December 20, 2010Comments Off
The Idjut Boys is hosting a show on Minstry Of Sound radio. The show is called Nu Disco and airs every Thursday 8-10pm on. DJs on rotation are The Idjut Boys, Future Disco, Cosmodelica, Toby Tobias and The Cosmic Truth. You can hear the last show with the Idjuts here.
ARP host on East Village Radio
December 20, 2010Comments Off
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Alexis Georgopoulos of Arp and the Alps hosted Radio Heart yesterday. He played a forthcoming release on Mexican Summer, The Alps’ “Easy Action,” a track from the latest Arp release, The Soft Wave, as well as music he’s been digging lately, like Arch M and Dorothea Raukes. Matt from RVNG INTL – who put out the Arp & Anthony Moore 12” earlier this year – dropped by, as well as Justin Luke from the gallery Audio Visual Arts (AVA). Check out the full show here
