YE OLDE ELCTRO TUESDAYS

Dammit, Cobrapants has been living on the edge so long...the edge feels dull. When I need a good whetting, I go backwards.

YMO are basically..the Japanese Kraftwerk. A little more organic, and coloured with Asian sensibility, as opposed to Teutonic frigidity. Plus they had a chick in the band. Bonus points there. A WEALTH of youtube info and footage exists..these are some of my favorites.



Cobrapants is a bit obsessive over analog synths, and seeing that kind of live setup...it's hot.

02BEHINDTHEMASK.mp3
"Behind The Mask"
Yellow Magic Orchestra

BLESS THE BLOG

It's time to get righteous. All the best music is floating around in blogtown and Gangbangaz were kind enough to put the bestest of the bestest all together in one handy package with their first mix for the masses.



Pick it up at
BLESS THE BLOG - SendSpace Link

Gangbangaz MySpace

AIR IS THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD

Really, they can't do anything wrong and it just bears repeating.
Air are awesome.


You know those songs that like, change your life? I'm not ashamed to say this one did.


Personally, I think 10,000Hz Legend is one of the greatest musical achievements of the last fifty years, but what does Cobrapants know?


Mer Du ProCon
Mer Du ProCon
Delia vs. Mer Du Japon
Gangbangaz Mash

I LAUGHED I CRIED AND LAUGHED AGAIN

I used to work at a record label. We'd get all kinds of crazy shit from crazy people. I got a few tucked in my back pocket for a rainy day. But not today. Today is a special day. I gotta thank Mrs. Roper, totally rockin' friend of Cobrapants for letting me share this with you.

Meet Tony Jag.
Half Man!
Half Jaguar!
Half Magician!
Half Musician!



That shit is so intense I don't even know where to begin.

TWIDDLY GUITARS

I can't put it any other way. It seems like all the cool bands are buying themselves cotton crew neck sweaters in muted tones and delving into Paul Simon's "Graceland" and old Television albums.

Some do it better than others.
Vampire Weekend are the American contingency and latest pretenders to the throne. Disclaimer: The Song "A Punk" is not very punk.


When I saw this video...something told me that I had seen it...BEFORE. It bugged me all night until I realized it's a fucking WANG CHUNG video.


Cobrapants recommends you frame both in your screen together, play both at the same time and make your own video mashup!

Foals are from Oxford, UK. These are the downcast gloomers of the bunch, and have adopted the twiddly sound to a Cure/My Chemical Romance "Egads, I've just been cockpunched" vibe. If you think it sounds ghastly...it is. The song "Electric Bloom" contains the following examples of spectacularly cliched lyric writing at its finest.
"all I see is marching bands"
"dying kings"
"it's just another hospital"

P.U!

Lastly, Norway's Datarock
Okay, I'll admit that the first time I heard "Fa Fa Fa", I thought it was an LCD Soundsystem jam. And if you haven't heard of these guys, well, you'd better turn in your decorative PLO inspired neckscarf, you're out of the club. I saw Datarock live a few months ago, and they were SO. FREAKIN. TIGHT. I thought it was all canned. But it wasn't. This twiddly guitar affair puts Cobrapants in a good headspace...I see white beaches, blue water, a potent drink with an umbrella, maybe a coupla phatties...this is a feel good track indeed.

Winner?

DATAROCK BY A LANDSLIDE!!!!


JSTVSLV-Fa-Fa-FayoTechnology.mp3
"FA FA FAYO"
DJ STV SLV
Datarock vs 50 Cent

GAMEBOY/GAMEGIRL.."SWEATY WET" VID!

Thanks to Bigstereo for posting this first, but as a bona fide fan of the track, I gotta follow suit.

I pilfered "Sweaty Wet" G.L.O.V.E.S remix and it's been a staple in my DJ sets for months now. Hurrah! Finally! A vid for the original (and solid) version. Sure, it's low budget, suuure, it's just a party vid with neon clad people hopping around but whatever. It's effective. Not everyone is rockin video budgets like Kanye these days. Besides, it keeps the focus on what we call in blogtown A MIGHTY FUN BANGER.


Gameboy/Gamegirl MySpace

Australia, I think I can almost forgive you for your past addiction to horrid trance music.

BLOG YOURSELF TO DEATH

This morning I woke up to a new CNN report that bloggers are dropping dead from overwork and stress. Puhleeze. Besides ass piles, sore fingers and the occasional funny bone sprain...people will find anything to whine about. Newsflash. Work is hard. Journalism is hard. Entertaining people is hard. Boo fuckin' hoo.

But not today. There's oh, soooo much to talk about. Like...
The Juno awards! Oh yeah, they got awards up in Canada too, eh? Alls ya gotta do is sell about 300 copies, fill out a form and send in a fee and you too can be Juno nominated! Surprise, surprise Feist took Single of the Year, Album of the Year, Pop Album of the Year, Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the year. All well deserved, it's just too bad it takes a move to France and an Mac commercial for people here to "get it". And "get it" they have! Seems every single ad campaign now has a "Feistalike" singin' the jingle. Ohh dear.

Avril Lavigne performed her tired single "Girlfriend" and indeed, looked about as bored as everyone in the audience. I wish I had a pic of how bored that audience looked. If I didn't know any better, I'd have sworn they were cardboard cutouts. Or zombies.

Another fingerwag at the Juno committee. What's UP with the big nasty pile of oil drums on the stage for set design? Yes, oil comes from Western Canada. We know that. Too bad most of what's being pulled out of the oil sands are going...south. And too bad the Oil Sands project is tantamount to one of the greatest man made ecological disasters...ever.

Good show, Calgary! It almost made me miss the good old days of


almost.

Muuuusic...muuuusiiick.
Congrats go out to Deadmau5, who picked up a Juno for best Dance recording.

03MyMoonMyMan_BoysNoizeRem.mp3
Feist
"My Moon My Man"
Boyz Noize RMX