This is what it sounds like when...

...I am listening to all kinds of music all over the place. Bit of an incoherent post, but all of this stuff is really cool. Been really digging and playing this stuff a lot of late.

Pink Skull, a more obscure, experimental and krautrock inspired MGMT (to put them in some kind of perspective), return with a new album, Endless Bummer, a record full of haunting drug induced disco delights and a cacophony of treated analogue sounds and effects.

The psychedelic post-punk-funk of "Chicken Dream Inside Egg" is definitely a standout track. And I for one, tend to dislike most placings of a saxophone in any song, but it works here...

Pink Skull - Chicken Dream Inside Egg (MediaFire)

With influences varying from Psychic TV, The Orb and Plastikman to Can, Faust and other kosmische contemporaries, it's sure to induce the odd acid flashback.


The only thing though, is there is nothing on Endless Bummer resembling anything remotely close to the catchy dancefloor grooviness of "Cirkus Bezerkus" (from the Blobbaghanoush EP), released earlier this year.

Pink Skull - Cirkus Bezerkus (MediaFire)


But apparently it's all about their live show, with their live band performing on bass, drums and plenty of toys to trigger to full effect... Fair enough.

Lately, I've also been finding myself blurring the lines between (cosmic) disco and minimal more and more with tracks like this one by New Yorkers Neurotic Drum Band:

Neurotic Drum Band - Robotic Hypnotic Adventure (MediaFire)

and this remix by Diskjokke:

Ost. & Kjex - Boston Food Strangler (Diskjokke Remix) (MediaFire)

I rekindled this track from his collection of Discolated Remixes 2007-2008 that came out earlier this year and it's an oscillating beast of a bubbler. Lovely stuff!

Then there's this Bok Bok remix that caught me a bit off guard.

(Little) Jinder - Youth Blood (Bok Bok remix)

Expecting something more along the lines of his familiar tropic/afro-house vibe much adored in a DJ Danger Ingozi set, it's something quite special. The drums and bassline sounds like it belongs in a dubstep track, but it's the synth and filtered vocal sample from the original by Swedish darling (Little) Jinder that just ties the whole production together beautifully. It makes for more of a dreamy Fred Falke/Grum tinged track, if they chose to produce something a bit more stepping-like.


Girls, be sure to check out the original too:

(Little) Jinder - Youth Blood (MediaFire)

It's your new favourite electro pop crush.

Prins Thomas borrows Lindstrøm's banjo for a blissed out stroll in the footsteps of The Boy Least Likely To, being gentle to the original in his production and turning it into a lovely twee disco epic.

El Guincho - Antillas (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) (MediaFire)


It's part of a much anticipated El Guincho remix project spanning across 4 EPs where singles off his album Allegranza, are reworked by various producers, including Bass Clef, Architecture in Helsinki, Tanlines, Delorean and Mumdance! Tropical goodness.

The new Joe Goddard (of Hot Chip) album is lost on me, I have no real interest in checking it out properly. Any original off it is most likely far better off with the remix treatment like this one from the irresistable Four Tet.


Joe Goddard - Apple Bopping (Four Tet remix) (MediaFire)

Like, wow! What a stunning track.

Lastly, and obsessed as ever I guess:

Aeroplane - Chart Mix November 2009 (right click save as via Soundcloud)

01. Music Go Music : "Warm in The Shadow" (Villa Remix)
02. Gossip : "Heavy Cross" (Siriusmo Dub)
03. Emjae : "Discoplex"
04. Two Door Cinema Club : "I Can Talk" (Golden Bug remix)
05. Palermo Disko Machine : "Vesuvia"
06. Joakim : "Spiders" (Extended Dance Mix)
07. Don Diablo : "I am Not From France" (Cagedbaby's Rollerdisco Lcross Campaign Mix)
08. Detachments : "Circles" (Mighty Mouse remix
09. The XX : "Crystalised" (Rory Phillips Remix)
10. Bot'ox : "Bearded lady Motorcycle Show"

Have a lovely weekend!