Ladies and gentlemen 3LAU is at it again, with his second installment of Dance Floor Filth, a twelve strong collection of hard hitting bootlegs and edits, your night life will never be the same. Again, another extremely talented young man in the electronic field, at just 21 Justin "3LAU" has been rocking clubs round the world with his amazing blend of top 40 hits and electro beats, branching from house to dubstep and back again. His first album represented my first successful attempt to bridge my music with my friends, which went surprisingly well, but this style requires me to tone it down in places where I need to uphold my hipster image, "its just a remix" doesn't work anymore. Also just a warning driving to this is the most fun you'll have in a car, watch the limits.
1. Action
2. Guilty Pleasure
3. H8
4. B#tch City
5. Modern Talking
6. Lick It
7. Love Control
8. Jupiter Unison
9. Petty Language
10. Set Fire
11. These Are The Days
12. Back To New
Lets just start this off by saying I've been keeping up with a lot of frat rap and hip hop these days, and the game is seriously lacking, the duo that is Upper West have restored my faith, or at least gained a new fan. But don't my uneducated label scare you, this album is top notch electro hip hop, my favorite rap album in a long time. They're also responsible for the best colab I've heard in a long time; Dougie, Jfink, Gabriel Stark, Reef and Sarah Solovay, so with that listen on and be amazed.
Art for art's sake, I couldn't have said it better myself, Montreal natives The Tanuki Project, are an alternative electronic visual band. Which means you're going to be saying, "a guitar shouldn't make noises like that" a lot. Every performance is like an exhibit at an art gallery, pushing the limits of your artistic senses making you draw connections between visuals and audio.
I first heard their single High Unholy under the Cyberpunk_music subreddit, the music video was a little hard to watch, being completely about police brutality, but once that visual is out of your head its not hard to imagine surfing around a sci fi city blasting these tunes which I guess was the whole reason I found it where I did. If you need a little help with the imagination part check out their website, specifically their live sets to get the whole scope of the combination act.
The Tanuki Project have been described as "The Ting Tings meet Nine Inch Nails", I would say more Metric meets Sybreed, or Airlock meets 65 Days of Static, either way its a perfect blend of hard rock styling, driving electro beats, and haunting vocals. The fact that they're Canadian just seals the deal for me. So pick up their album One by One and the High Unholy single for the great price of free below and hit all those links above for a little networking.
Also if the band just happens to see this I apologize for my recent lack of writing skills, I thought it was more important just to get the word out. So please support the artists and check us out on Facebook here. Cheers.
Lets get right to it shall we? After what seems like an eternity I've decided you folks don't receive enough punishment, or at least your ears don't. So for my return post I've got something that neither of us know fuck all about, lets call it a learning experience.
James Doesn't Exist, are a (now) five piece, well lets call them an experimental metal bad, from Highland Park, Illinois. I would love to be able to claim finding them for myself but all that blame can be placed squarely on the only person to use our Facebook page since I did many moons ago. There now my ass is covered and we can get onto the actual music here.
Uncanned is their tenth release, put out on their one year anniversary, cute isn't it? All told the eight tracks might add up to maybe ten minutes, which is really all the casual listener could handle, but if you're slightly deaf and really quite twisted you'll get your jollies a plenty. Amusing quote samples, heavier than your mom in a hummer riffs, and drum patterns that will surely scrape your inner ear for you, Uncanned is the perfect introduction to all JDE has to offer. I count thirteen projects on their Bandcamp, all free, so before I get negative contemplate whether you need to have your family/neighbors/everyone looking at you like you crawled out of some dark hole in the ground and grab them up.
Don't get me wrong I'm just the kind of fucked up it takes to appreciate this but taking an unbiased view here everything JDE has is designed for a niche market, and my only problem other than that is how short the tracks are. Maybe its a good thing, maybe too much would melt your brain, but it can come off as not knowing how to make a full length track, its like every file is an idea, and somewhere after the first minute something clicked off. Uncanned is an eight track, maybe ten minute release and its not the shortest, Meatheads has 25 tracks almost all of them under five seconds. That's just me being nit picky and really its because I want more that I offer this constructive criticism.
Also before I get lazy again thanks to AJT for sending over his remix of their track Crunk Juice, check it out here, and expect more posts about JDE in the future. If you liked my little disjointed post here please consider heading over to FB and letting me know, cause really I would like to get back into a regular schedule but I need a little encouragement.
