THE MÆNDÆRTHÆLS FÆT. RUNÆ LINDBÆK ÆND THE IDJUT BOYS

Ayo: so I wonder about a lot of things, like the earth, and trees, and why is there war, and one of the things I wonder about a lot is: why are there so many good Scandinavian musicians? I think one easy explanation for this is "nanny-state" socialism, like the kind espoused by President of All Muslims Barack HUSSEIN O[b/s]ama. For example in Sweden, all drugs are legal, and if they find you doing heroin, they use rich people taxes to buy you a design firm specializing in avant-garde cutlery and just straight-up give you turntables and a Kaos Pad, and in Norway every single person is taxed 6000% from cradle to grave, and the state religion is Muslim Homosexuality, which is taught in every school alongside Ableton 101, funded by the stolen money of Norway's many hardworking professors of architecture, fisherpeople, and Pitchfork Media crush objects.

This explanation works quite well for Britain, too, which is like Scandinavia, but with more racism (also, Scandinavian people are easier to understand). In fact, it works so well that I am sort of tempted to become a socialist, only I am not sure how to do it (for example, do I have to become a vegetarian? Very complicated). Let me be more specific: this new record by the Meanderthals, called Desire Lines, has made me into some kind of godless/Moslem pansexual socialist, such that I am tempted to move to San Francisco (more like Gay Frangaysco), because it is made by pot-smoking foreigners from the UK and Norway: the Idjut Boys and Rune Lindbæk.

It is basically obvious that the Idjuts and Lindbæk would work together someday, being that they are both totally gay/socialist for echo effects, and love to smoke "weed" and "chill" and also they are basically three of the raddest producers/DJs/"figures" in dance music over the last 10+ years. And even though the album isn't really "disco" it is still in keeping with what these guys do: reverb, echo, delay, and tons of bongos. They love bongos. Really, this is just like a perfect album to get, as they say, faded to. I can't even imagine how much weed they all smoked while making this album, but it was probably a lot, and probably funded by the government.

Anyway my point is that I did an email interview with Rune that you can read here on Anthem's website. Rune, it turns out, is a bit of "jokester"; the Idjuts, on the other hand, "don't check their email."

And here's "Collective Fetish" from Desire Lines, plus an earlier collaboration between Rune & the Idjuts (that's Rune on vocals, by the way; he sounds like that over email, too.) I invite you to enjoy this shit now, because at the end of the summer your little sister's boyfriend will be all, "Hey, have you ever heard this band, the Meanderthals?" and you'll be like, "I wish I could shoot myself in the face, now."

Meanderthals - Collective Fetish

Hearts On Fire

So as some of you who read intently may know I lost a posting yesterday. I have no fucking clue why, but I will repost the tracks and as much of what I had put up as I can. Let me know if anything is missing, like links you may be interested in or pictures of me naked or whatever. Anyways, here is an abridged version of the post that was deleted by blogfuck.com.

Aussie electro rock group Cut Copy released their second album this year, In Ghost Colours, which I must say I do not like quite as much as Bright Like Neon Love, which is one of my favorite albums of the dance rock genre that has blown up of late. While "Lights And Music" is the popular track of late from the album, I find it a little too gimmicky (do check out the Boys Noize remix though). I much prefer the first single "Hearts On Fire" which was leaked earlier this year (or late last year?) in much of the anticipation for the coming album. Here we have a remix by Brooklyn-based up and comers Holy Ghost! who have been doing remixes and production on quite a few of my favorite lables of late (DFA and Permanent Vacation). Their single Hold On is in a similar vein to Cut Copy with slightly more of a raw housey feel feel as per the typical DFA style and now comes with two Mock & Toof remixes which are quite good as well. Here they draw out the classic "Hearts On Fire" into a longer dance cut with additional percussion and rearrange the melody structure a bit to give you a feel similar to Williams' "Love On Real Train" (similar to the way Price Language reworked "Happy House" if you're familiar). Either way it's a great mix of track I couldn't get over to begin with, but I do confess I wish they had left more of the sax in there, enjoy.

Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (Holy Ghost! Remix)

Now for more music from Norway. Rune Lindbæk has been around for a few years and I had heard much about him but none of his stuff. He runs in the same Scando disco crowd as fellow Norwegians Todd Terje, Prins Thomas and Lindstrøm. Today's track comes from Lindbæk's album from last year Klubb Kebabb. I picked it up last weekend when Mike B over at Amoeba recommended it. The album is a collection of edits with lots of lovely reverb effects added in for good measure. All the edits are of fairly classic tracks, such as Key Of Dreams' "Africa" and Codek's "Tim Toum". I chose a funky edit of Boney M.'s disco classic "Silent Lover". Lindbæk strips the song of its verse sections and extends all of the wonky walking bassline sections for a bouncey disco jam that is sure to work well on the dancefloor. Be sure to check out the whole album though, because there are some serious other tracks lying in wait.

Rune Lindbaek - Franz Tranz

This track has been floating around the internet for the past 8 months or so, but I felt the need to post it anyway because I have been listening to it nonstop. This is another summer jam that will help you in holding on to your sunny blue skies as they begin to fade to winterey grey. The Idjut Boys take Phil Collins' "I'm Not Moving" and loop all the good bits into a bouncey summer track that brightens even the gloomiest day. Sure Phil Collins is cheesey as hell, but sometimes that hits the spot when you're reminiscing about summer.

Phil Collins - I'm Not Moving (Idjut Boys Edit)