Kitsuné 7, "The Lucky One", another installment from the fabulous fashionistas, is out (leaked) and led to my discovery of new favourites Tanlines from Brooklyn NY.
Tanlines - Bejan (MediaFire)
The Tough Alliance - A New Chance (Tanlines remix) (MediaFire)
Telepathe - Chromes On It (Tanlines remix) (MediaFire)
After hearing them, I couldn't resist digging out all my other neo-tropical pop & dance punk, balearic & cosmic disco and other friendly psychedelia that I've had in mind for a mix for quite some time now, but have had neither the tools nor enough tracks to complete.
My journey of discovering these sounds and putting them all together, oddly enough, started with the sun drenched, blissed-out, hazy psychedelia of dearest Panda Bear back in 2007.
Air France
Soon after, Swedes Air France followed with my belated uncovering of their EP On Trade Winds.
The Tough Alliance
They in turn somehow got me onto The Tough Alliance (also from Brooklyn). The beginning of the following year in 2008 saw the release of El Guincho's Alegranza.
El Guincho
Now, ever wondered what a rave might be like at a world music festival? Ever heard that soundtrack to that Brazilian movie City of God? Can you comprehend an album Manu Chao would make after falling in love with everything Animal Collective, especially the exquisite Person Pitch by Panda Bear? That's pretty much how one has to go about summing up this mind boggling mash-up of musical styles that Pablo Díaz-Reixa has fully realized under his El Guincho guise. Alegranza plays like some bastard mixtape of someone travelling the world, compiling and documenting with a sense of child like wonder, the various exotic music encountered along the way. Caribbean steel drums and Afro-beats, psychedelic Tropicália from the likes of Os Mutantes, doo-wop, calypso harmonies, even trance music. There was nothing as refreshing as this at the time. It induces you with an urge to go party the world over, the music breaking all language barriers. I fell in love with it instantly, still drooling over Panda Bear and it was a favourite for a long time. Low and behold who teams up? The old and the new:
El Guincho - Kalise (Tanlines remix) (MediaFire)
Later that year Air France's a w e s o m e No Way Down EP came out.
Lemonade
Enter Lemonade, at the beginning of this year, of course hailing from Brooklyn too, but of what I could gather (at least according to what I saw on their Myspace) they used to be from San Franciso, California. They were probably surfing, smoking spliff on the beach (all coastal vibes), hanging out with friends, perhaps listening to Air France and El Guincho. Relocating to Brooklyn (again this is all pure speculation) they came into their own, whilst befriending and playing with their peers, the fellow Brooklynites mentioned above. (Visit RCRD LBL and download a whole heap of their stuff there for free)
Lemonade - Big Weekend (Delorean remix) (MediaFire)
And so finally, thanks to all the loose ends being tied up as we speak and some other songs recently discovered, you can look out for this "sound" I speak of in my upcoming Bananas and Ecstacy mix round the end of the month. It all comes full circle on this tropical new wave - sunny California, Brooklyn, Sweden and Spain - featuring all these artists and more.
Fuck the cold. Winter sucks. Already I am clinging to every single sunnyside-up-song in pure denial.
Bonus: Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy (Air France remix) (MediaFire)
It's summer elsewhere.
Tanlines - Bejan (MediaFire)
The Tough Alliance - A New Chance (Tanlines remix) (MediaFire)
Telepathe - Chromes On It (Tanlines remix) (MediaFire)
After hearing them, I couldn't resist digging out all my other neo-tropical pop & dance punk, balearic & cosmic disco and other friendly psychedelia that I've had in mind for a mix for quite some time now, but have had neither the tools nor enough tracks to complete.
My journey of discovering these sounds and putting them all together, oddly enough, started with the sun drenched, blissed-out, hazy psychedelia of dearest Panda Bear back in 2007.
Soon after, Swedes Air France followed with my belated uncovering of their EP On Trade Winds.
They in turn somehow got me onto The Tough Alliance (also from Brooklyn). The beginning of the following year in 2008 saw the release of El Guincho's Alegranza.
Now, ever wondered what a rave might be like at a world music festival? Ever heard that soundtrack to that Brazilian movie City of God? Can you comprehend an album Manu Chao would make after falling in love with everything Animal Collective, especially the exquisite Person Pitch by Panda Bear? That's pretty much how one has to go about summing up this mind boggling mash-up of musical styles that Pablo Díaz-Reixa has fully realized under his El Guincho guise. Alegranza plays like some bastard mixtape of someone travelling the world, compiling and documenting with a sense of child like wonder, the various exotic music encountered along the way. Caribbean steel drums and Afro-beats, psychedelic Tropicália from the likes of Os Mutantes, doo-wop, calypso harmonies, even trance music. There was nothing as refreshing as this at the time. It induces you with an urge to go party the world over, the music breaking all language barriers. I fell in love with it instantly, still drooling over Panda Bear and it was a favourite for a long time. Low and behold who teams up? The old and the new:
El Guincho - Kalise (Tanlines remix) (MediaFire)
Later that year Air France's a w e s o m e No Way Down EP came out.
Enter Lemonade, at the beginning of this year, of course hailing from Brooklyn too, but of what I could gather (at least according to what I saw on their Myspace) they used to be from San Franciso, California. They were probably surfing, smoking spliff on the beach (all coastal vibes), hanging out with friends, perhaps listening to Air France and El Guincho. Relocating to Brooklyn (again this is all pure speculation) they came into their own, whilst befriending and playing with their peers, the fellow Brooklynites mentioned above. (Visit RCRD LBL and download a whole heap of their stuff there for free)
Lemonade - Big Weekend (Delorean remix) (MediaFire)
And so finally, thanks to all the loose ends being tied up as we speak and some other songs recently discovered, you can look out for this "sound" I speak of in my upcoming Bananas and Ecstacy mix round the end of the month. It all comes full circle on this tropical new wave - sunny California, Brooklyn, Sweden and Spain - featuring all these artists and more.
Fuck the cold. Winter sucks. Already I am clinging to every single sunnyside-up-song in pure denial.
Bonus: Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy (Air France remix) (MediaFire)
It's summer elsewhere.
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