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31 days of good 2010, music

(31) Days of Good: Day 19

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It’s pretty much raining all over California for the next couple of days and while I thoroughly enjoy this weather, I know a lot of people can’t stand it. I say, take this time to sit in, relax, and listen to today’s GOOD — the perfect additions for any lazy Sunday soundtrack.

…and since my beautiful, incredibly fantastic, and perfect in every way wife surprised me with a birthday/graduation/ugly Christmas sweater party last night, today’s post is short and sweet.
Enjoy!
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More Blackbird Blackbird here.
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More Tennis here.
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More Warpaint here.
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31 days of good 2010, music

(31) Days of Good: Day 18

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Baths is LA music-maker Will Wiesenfeld — a eclectic combination of lush melodies, ghostly choirs, playful instrumentation, and stuttering beats.
Over the last six years, Wiesenfeld has gainfully explored the intersections and out reachers of both electronic and acoustic music. Baths had a big 2010. The debut album, Cerulean, was released in July, the blogosphere couldn’t stop talking about Bath’s appearance at this year’s CMJ, and being featured on The Hype Machine Radio Show is never a bad thing.
Bikini is Nigel Diamond and Olivier Olivier and not since The Postal Service, have I heard of a more interesting way to produce a record.
Olivier composes all the melodies in the fall of each year, drawing his inspiration from the poetry he writes during the summer. He records vocals, exports all his drafts without titles of form to Diamond, and Diamond spends the following spring arranging Olivier’s melodies, rhythm sequences, and vocal treatments — adding his own lines. The result is a finished record. Nothing is sent back to Olivier. The songs are sent from Diamond to be mastered and released. (courtesy of RCRD LBL)

More at biikiinii.com.

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31 days of good 2010, music

(31) Days of Good: Day 17

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I’ve been a big fan of movie soundtracks and scores since I first saw Edward Scissorhands back in 1990 (still my favorite movie score…and probably my favorite album overall) and in honor of today’s highly anticipated and hyped release of TRON: Legacy, i’m proud to present my favorite movie tunes of 2010.

(be sure to check out the soundtrack edition over at 35mmBeats for more good cinema tunes)
First up, one of the best comic book adaptations and probably the most underrated movie of 2010—Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.
Radiohead producer Nigle Godrich, Beck, Metric, Broken Social Scene, Cornelius, Dan the Automator, Kid Koala, and David Campbell all contributed to the film’s soundtrack. Not bad, right? But even better, Beck composed the music played by Sex Bob-omb (Scott Pilgrim’s band in the film) and Broken Social Scene wrote all the songs for another one of the film’s bands.
This next film was anything but underrated. Inception will most likely end up being my favorite film of 2010 and the score is equally impressive.
Once again, Hans Zimmer proves why he is one of the most sought after and best film composers of all time. His score to Inception is the perfect companion to Chris Nolan’s dream caper and I instantly fell in love with today’s featured track when I first heard it the film.
(As a little bonus, i’ve also included the We Plants Are Happy Plants remix)
I don’t even think living under a rock could keep you from knowing that Disney has finally resurrected TRON.
I haven’t seen a movie hyped this much since Lord of the Rings. It seems like everywhere you look is another TRON: Legacy poster, the TV commercials are a plenty, and Disney’s Calfiornia Adventure even turns into ElecTRONica—a nighttime dance party with live DJs, dancing, sneak peaks of the new film, a recreation of Flynn’s Arcade, and TRON even takes over the new light show, World of Color.
But it’s not just the film that’s getting all the hype. When word spread that Daft Punk would be composing the film’s score, music blogs blew up. I’ve been listening to the duo’s score a lot since it was released earlier this month and it definitely lives up to the hype. The balance of electronica and orchestra works perfectly and proves there’s more to these French boys than synths and beats (had to post two tracks so you could see the range).
And real quick, I haven’t had a chance to listen to any of Clint Mansell’s score for Black Swan, but if it’s anything like his previous works (Pi, Requiem For a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler), i’m sure it will be fantastic and end up on my iPod. Check it out if you get the chance.
31 days of good 2010, music

(31) Days of Good: Day 15

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Today’s GOOD comes from three upcoming 2011 releases that i’m super excited about.

First up, the Swedish songstress Lykke Li.
Back in October, Lykke Li dropped her latest EP-project Get Some/Paris Blue. The A-side track, Get Some, has been getting most of the love (you can download the Beck remix here), but my favorite of the two is the B-side, Paris Blue. (Lykke Li’s new album, Wounded Rhymes, will be out sometime 2011)
Next up, probably my favorite noise-pop band these days, Deerhoof.
Deerhoof’s 10th studio album is set to be released in the US on January 25th, 2011, but back in early October, the band released the new track, The Merry Barracks, and if the rest of the album is anything like this, we’re in for quite the treat.
Lastly, one of my absolute favorite bands, The Go! Team.
The Go! Team’s last album, Proof of Youth, came out way back in 2007 and i’ve been patiently waiting for something new from the Brighton-based sextet since then. Their latest, Rolling Blackouts, is set to be released sometime next year and will feature collaborations with the likes of Satomi Matsuzaki (Deerhoof) and Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast). Needless to say, Rolling Blackouts is the album i’m most excited to hear in 2011 and without further ado, the lead-off track, T.O.R.N.A.D.O.


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(31) Days of Good: Day 14

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What does a lo-fi, beach pop trio have in common with a British wonky pop artist? The man on the moon himself, Kid Cudi.
Both of today’s artists have done more than well for themselves, but there’s no denying the impact Cudi had when he collaborated with Best Coast and Rostam Batmanglij for the converse produced (yes, the shoe company) track, All Summer, and teamed up with Dan Black on the Symphonies EP and the deluxe edition of UN.
Along with the Cudi collaborations and some epic “photobombing“, Mr. Black has been super busy. He released Symphonies in the US at the end of 2009 and this year he toured the US and Canada, including stops at SXSW, Lollapalooza, and Austin City Limits.
2010 also saw the release of Black’s Weird Science mixtape. Like me, you probably associate mixtapes with hip hop, but Black proves pop artists can hang with the best of them. Check out my favorite from the tape below and then download the rest here.
Next up, one of the biggest buzz bands of 2010, Best Coast.
I’ll probably never understand why people long for LA, but I still dig Bethany Cosetino’s story and inspiration. While Ms. Cosetino attended college in NY, she would spend her days longing for the life she left behind in sunny LA. This longing created Best Coast and the debut full-length, Crazy for You, best described as beach blanket lo-fi pop songs about “summer and the sun and the ocean and being a lazy creep”
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