social networking.

Right, I'm a lazy bastard and haven't been on the official FLFD Myspace for aaaaages. Now that's gonna change - add me if you haven't, I'll be on for at least ten minutes every day now on that specific profile for some chat. Do people still chat on Myspace? We should. Let's be buddies.

http://www.myspace.com/flashinglightsflashdrives

oh gosh.

A great find this morning in the form of Ceylan Ertem, who I knew pretty much nothing about until this morning. Well, now I know that she's based in Turkey, has collaborated with Friendly Fires, is adorable (I point you towards her Flickr feed), and makes gorgeous music like this:

Ceylan Ertem - Gonul Dagi

This comes highly recommended. Props to Punkreas.org for pointing me towards this.

the damage is done, so bite your tongue

Remember back when M.O.P. said (yelled, actually) "HOW ABOUT SOME HARDCORE?!" Well, here's some hardcore from a Detroit band called Sister Cities. It's a free demo, so go wild. Oh, and it's good.

DOWNLOAD SISTER CITIES' 2009 DEMO HERE

"i can't understand what this motherfucker is saying but I LOVE IT!"

I figure everyone knows about it, but without having too much time to blog recently (damn you uni!), I have to pull a late pass on these new Thom Yorke songs that everyone's heard already. Still, they're good. And it gives me an excuse to tell you that aren't in the loop that Flea (yes, that Flea) has formed a new group with Mr Yorke and Nigel Godrich. Yup, that's true. Click here to read the announcement on Dead Air Space.

Thom Yorke - The Hollow Earth

Thom Yorke - Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses

Thom Yorke's in some other band that I can't remember the name of. I'll let you know if it comes to mind.

29/09/09

Apparantly it's the top dog Gilles Peterson's birthday. Happy birthday, you!

Listen to his show on Radio 1 Wednesdays 2am-4am.

an abundance of posts? sorry about that

Right, first and foremost - if you tuned in to last night's return of FLFD, THANK YOU for doing so. It was fun even if it was a bit patchy - don't fret though! I'll be picking it up over the semester - keep an eye out for my other show, At the Pictures, on Tuesday afternoons from 3-5. It'll be good times. Check out the shows on the Listen Again option (up soon, I've been promised!) as well as some other cool shows on Air3's website.

Anyways, I just have to big-up an artist I couldn't quite squeeze in on yesterday's show. They're called PPP (standing for Platinum Pied Pipers), a hip-hop/soul/electronica outfit spearheaded by two forward-looking fellas by the name of Waajeed and Saadiq. They sound familiar to all that next-level Detroit stuff... think SA-RA, J Dilla, Jneiro Jarel, the usual bunch...

They've got an album they dropped this year called Abundance, and it's properly cracking. I get paid tomorrow, so it's time for me to order my copy already, but you guys should definitely check out the free mixtapes they have up on their Myspace blog - especially the Abundance Mixtape, which is full of dope remixes and gives the casual listener time to catch up on just who these guys are. Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD HERE

TONIGHT

AIR3RADIO.COM @ 11PM-1AM

whoa, we're almost lonely stoners

Well HOLY SHIT I JUST FOUND MY FUCKING PARTY SONG FOR WINTER.

ABX - Prayer N Night

I'm going home, gone. The Hood Internet killed it.

"they're eating them! and I'm next!"

Somedays you just find a band that make you breathless and slightly slackjawed that you found them by pure luck! You're left just sounding like this kid after you hear one of their songs, especially the one below. If you weren't familiar with Kid, You'll Move Mountains before, well now I reaaaaaally hope you are.

Kid, You'll Move Mountains - Volts

*scurries off to their Myspace to immediately order the record, no joke*

let's dance to the radio

While my girlfriend and I were cooking dinner the other week (awesome burgers and awesome potato mash with leek and onion if you were asking - gosh I'm famished thinking about it), we found ourselves flicking through the digital radio in our kitchen, which is when we came across Amazing Radio and its online counterpart, Amazing Tunes.

Basically the deal behind the radio station/website is that unsigned artists get a chance to shine with people voting for what songs they wanna hear online, and then you can listen to them right there or turn on the radio like I did and have a pleasant wee surprise when you find something you really dig. It's a neat way of doing things and without it, I wouldn't have latched onto this little tune by Cornwall funk outfit The Underbelly called "Eric FM". It's non-embeddable which is some annoying shit right there, but if you click HERE it'll send you hurling straight towards the player.

And try not to dance a little bit in your deskchair. Trust me on this one.

quick formatting change

Okay people, a couple of quick Myspace links to end the day:

This is LDZ aka Londonzoo and they have bangers. Click on the photo above to check out their Myspace page and check out the following songs: "Hold It Down", "Lips To Da Floor" and "Man Urself".
If it wasn't for the perenially grumpy Marx'sBeard at Cows Are Not Food, I wouldn't know about Glasgow outfit Water Wolves, whose two recorded songs show promise as well as a way with a sweet tune. Definitely worth listening to for a couple, click on the photo above.

Right then. Right.

"king of copenhagen"

I finished the entire Pusher trilogy in about a week, something I'm seriously stoked about. I rule. Let's run it down: the first one is good and the most unusual of the lot, the second feels like a retread more than anything despite a cracking first act, and the third is the nastiest and probably the best, Zlatko Buric walking high and mighty over everybody else in the film. For a trilogy of films made to stave off total bankruptcy, they are way way better than they have any right to be.

Each film starts with an iconic opening montage set to the trilogy's theme music like so, one of the few times that I've seen heavy rock actually used well in a film. (If you're not an American filmmaker, it's most likely you'll know how to do this - apart from Zach Clark, whose underrated comedy Modern Love Is Automatic has a spot-on soundtrack from Blasphemer).

But the music I'm going to let you check out is the creeeeeeeepy ending theme to Pusher 3: I'm the Angel of Death by Peter Schneidermann. And you can see the trailer for the trilogy HERE.

"i made you cool"

New MPHO track, courtesy of Popjustice, who attribute it to, er, whoever leaked it. It doesn't quite beat "Box N Locks", one of my favourite singles of this year, but it's still catchy stuff.

you heard it here first

A REMINDER: I went in before the NME and Punknews. Sure, the lads from Calvinball got the name of the show wrong but on principle...

Calvinball - No Matter How Hard You Try

And remember, if you live in Gainesville Rock City, they're playing The Fest 8 alongside our mutual pals Apologies, I Have None, as well as Bomb The Music Industry!, The Flatliners, Trash Talk and a million other bands that my old paramour Blonde Ross probably bums.

confusion and new wave

As a journalism student, you're directed pretty early on to two specific texts about the state of modern journalism - Nick Davies' "Flat Earth News" and the academic article "A Compromised Fourth Estate?" Both are definitely worth checking out if you have the time, and they're definitely enlightening, showing how much of our mass media is dictated by PR releases. Think about how much of the news on TV or the internet refers to acts in the future tense: from today's online edition of The Guardian, "Chris Huhne, the [Liberal Democrats'] home affairs spokesman, will call the Tory record on law and order a "disgrace" in a keynote speech... will warn that a new Tory administration would mean a soaring number of offenses". Check out the article here and see.

Now, the reason I bring this up is due to a little bit of guilt - it turns out that this morning someone I know sent me a press release for the upcoming release of teenagersintokyo's upcoming "Isabella/Long Walk Home" 7". I went and checked out the tracks on their Myspace because, well, I've dug the band for a while, having played "Very Vampyr" on FLFD a few times. But something makes me feel a bit off about re-fitting this information to you guys - even if teenagersintokyo's songs are worth checking out (which they are) the things I learnt in journalism class are peeking over my shoulder. Old boss, same as...

Then again, maybe I should just get on with it. I guess it's expected of bloggers to do this - everybody needs a buzz, and Popjustice have done a great job of helping us realize just how silly the whole deal is. Just a search for "press release" on their website should clue you in to how they address 'em, my favourite being this classic. Still, it's something that crossed my mind this morning and while I want you guys to check out the music below, I thought it wouldn't be bad to put some garbled confusion up because, well, blogging and "Media 2.0" (my least favourite term in the world) make you do that.

teenagersintokyo - Isabella

teenagersintokyo - Very Vampyr

"Isabella/Long Walk Home" is out on Back Yard on October 5th.

ooooooh yes!

It is uncomfortably hot in this computer suite (that, of course, may just be the cold talking) so I'm going to make this quick. New Between the Buried and Me songs, from the upcoming The Great Misdirect.


Between the Buried and Me - Mirrors (couldn't find an MP3, sorry dudes)

Between the Buried and Me - Obfuscation

Victory Records will be taking a break from sucking hard to release this Stateside on October 27th . Get stoked.

ps. fast forward to 6:30 in this video and if you're like me, you'll lose it.

PETA loves this dude

Talking of the Wu, Masta Killa has a new album coming out too. Surprise! No Said Date was good so I'll check this out.

Masta Killa - Things Just Ain't The Same

Loyalty is Royalty is out soon on Nature Sounds.

If I can get another post up today, I will, but don't count on it 100%.

"edumacation"

Word on Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part 2 is that it's stunning, worth the wait, etc etc. I'm still to hear the joint, but I'm getting it at some point this week after I'm done being buried on the Chef's recent mixtapes Blood on Chef's Apron and Cuban Revolution. You guys know how to use Google, so I'll leave it to you - these mixes are free and circulating around the web and I can't speak for the latter, but Chef's Apron is absolutely bonkers at points. This track below just missed out on Chef's Apron, but it coulda made it on there.

Raekwon - Once Upon A Time In America

oh my heart's life

So, my bad for not blogging for about a week - Fresher's kicked off last week and my schedule is still needing to settle down some. I would love to blog at home in bed with a cup of tea, truth be told, but that luxury isn't coming today as I'm running about with a cold to classes, lectures, libraries, job interviews, Air3 meetings... And the internet is down in my flat so I'm afraid posts will be dotty for the time being.

But! FLFD is officially BACK LIKE CRACK NEXT WEEK on Air3 Radio and we'll be playing the best of what I've found out there on the internet. And this time I'll hopefully have a slot in the evening because very few people were willing to start their morning with the odd mixture of hardcore, drone, dance, jazz and hip-hop that usually makes up a usual playlist. But no boundaries, y'heard? That's a promise!

And here's something I'd love to throw on the show even though it would take up a full hour of a two-hour slot (those wishing to start a show this year: not a good idea for radio). Mudd Up! have revisited a post they made four years ago about Oum Kalthoum, a mega famous Egyptian singer and actress, and a live performance of her trademark song "Enta Omri" ("You Are My Life"). Now, "Enta Omri" is a song that usually can last up to forty minutes, so if you're busy you may wanna bookmark this, but I really think you should listen to this pronto. It's gorgeous.

Oum Kalthoum - Enta Omri (Live)

The link above directs to the stream Mudd Up! have on their page. You should add them to your favourites while you're at it - great sense of discovery going through their posts.

So, Nicholas Windig Refn has a new film on the way by the name of Valhalla Rising. Reviews are mixed but I'm interested in seeing what the man behind Pusher has to bring to the viking genre. It looks amazing at least - shot just outside Glasgow as a matter of fact. (Just missed a BAFTA screening of it the other day, damn.)

Oh, and the ever reliable Pinglewood threw this track up from the awesomely-named Among The Bones yesterday, and it sounds epic, in the way a viking movie does. Ha, that's good writing, drawing parallels n' shit (even though Scott did it first.)

Among The Bones - An Altar For Serpents And Vermin

bad house is satan's church

I found this while looking for soundclips of that moment in Antichrist - y'know, the "chaos reigns" bit, and I found this. Huh.

this is my only post of the week but...

HOLY SHIT HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS?!

Shakira & Danzig - Hips Don't Lie

Flashing Lights + Flash Drives is back on Air3 very soon..

A really, really touching blog entry by Jensen over at Clandestine Industries - the story behind their upcoming "In Loving Memory" hoodie, worn above by label owner Pete Wentz.

I think I'll be copping this one, not only out of respect but because they really hit a home run on this one.

R.I.P.

head-exploding goodness

Better late than never - Blackclassical knocked it out of the goddamn park again with this one podcast Jazzfreeka did for Scrimshire in June of this year. Seriously, so much gold on this. Go crazy.

Download the Splendidly Blended Podcast #14 (Blackclassical Edition) from HERE.

so what's my motherfuckin' naaaame

As you can probably tell by the Twitter feed to the right of this post, I had an odd urge to listen to those hit Jennifer Lopez x Ja Rule remixes that were all the rage earlier this decade when, er, they were still all the rage. Odd how once upon a time Lopez wasn't a walking j.loke (GEDDIT?!) but that chick from Out of Sight and Ja wasn't the guy that 50 ruined (and then replaced) but a promising NY rapper who was part of a hotly tipped supergroup. How time has been cruel to them. Still, "I'm Real (Remix)" kinda was the jam back in the day wasn't it? Anybody?....

Okay, it's hella lame to admit I liked this. But I still sort of do. But Ja actually outsings Jenny and there's something seriously up with that. Still is.

[/nostalgia trip very few asked for]

...just remembered she said "nigga" on this and everyone either went APESHIT OVER IT or DIDN'T FUCKING CARE when it came out. I remember this shit too succinctly.

swoosh

Because I'm ridiculous and have my opinion formed fully by Nah Right [/sarcasm], I've been playing a lot of US hip-hop golden boy Drake recently. So Far Gone is my shit, I'm not going to lie, especially when it goes back and forth between the more laidback, almost drowsy material ("Houstlantavegas", "Sooner Than Later", "Successful") and the massive sounding summer smashes - namely "Best I Ever Had" with its video with, well, good looking women. (Really good looking women. True story.)

So my first reaction to the cover/reimagining of the song by Donna, Anna & Ruby was "EUGH THIS IS LIKE THE LIVE LOUNGE GODDAMMIT" before it started seeming pretty sweet, with those new lyrics and all that stuff. It sounds a bit like the song can end at any point and you'll continue singing along, which is both a testament to Drake's original and the cover version.

Donna, Anna & Ruby - Best I Ever Had

(via Cover Me)

And while we're on the topic of Drake, the made-to-be-massive posse cut "Forever" featuring Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem leaked last week and Tom Breihan went in for Pitchfork. Ouch. Low reviews and general spreading of apathy aside, the song's allowed me to annoy my girlfriend with a brand new catchphrase: "I'm shuttin' shit down in the maaaaaaaalll". And for me, that's priceless.

Drake ft. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem - Forever

The FADER cover story that the photo above is taken from is worth reading if you hven't peeked yet. Click here.

podcast big-up

In my ongoing quest for blogs that appreciate the music of Jean-Claude Vannier, I stumbled upon Runny's amazing podcasts. This is the most recent one, and I'm only forty-five minutes in and am totally agog with the Vzyadoq Moe, Modulo 1000 and ADULT tracks. The entire podcast, entitled "Grit and Comedown", is embedded above but you can download it by doing the right-click-save-as thing right HERE or you could go to Runny's blog and subscribe right there. Recommended!

Tracklisting:

Gnonnas et ses Dadjes- Dadje von o von non
Modulo 1000- Cafusa Thrice
Mice- New Life
Fora de Hora- Desencontro
Sao Paolo Underground- The Realm of the Ripper
Psychic TV-Firewoman
Fat Eyes- Wake the Town
Slits- FM
Vzyadoq Moe- Guerra das Sombras
DNA- Not Moving
Black Dice- Gore
ADULT- Glue your eyelids together
The Birthday Party- Figure of Fun
David Liebe Hart- Time Heidecker Lied to Me
Excepter- Cruel Sensation
Gary Numan- Films
Jean-Claude Vannier- Le Mort du Roi des Mouches
John Zorn- A Shot in the Dark
Ikue Mori and Kim Gordon- International Spy
Magik Marquers- Taste
The Residents- Voices of the Air
Arthur H- La Tour Eiffel Siderale
Nico- Sixty Forty
Aphex Twin- Prep Gwalek 3B
Oval- Catchy Daad
Svarte Greiner- Ocean Out of Wood
Neil Tomo- This is David Lynch

"my dad used to say it reminded him of bebop"

So, yeaaaars ago world's greatest entertainer (seriously) Q-Tip made an album called Kamaal the Abstract that out-Love Below'd Andre 3000 before he even recorded the damn thing. However, Arista shut it down and the album never got released... until now!

Listen to "Blue Girl" here, it's great. And download the track below - the thing's been bootlegged since forever anyway so you might as well before you pick up the official release.

Q-Tip - Heels