You know how it goes. Fantastic songs that I've recently fallen in love with. All worthy of a mix cd, all worthy of your love.
1. Gameboy/Gamegirl // Sweaty Wet/Dirty Damp
(dance) Ugh so funky, so good. The heavy electro bass is sure to get your body moving and the rapping in this song is so Fanny Pack that it's just super super cool. This is the 2007 answer to Fanny Pack's awesomeness, which I want to exploit the crap out of because they deserve some fame fame but I can't because, like, who talks about bands from the nineties anymore??? J/k you luvs it. You so do. And backtrack that Fanny Pack cuz its soooo soo fun.
2. Miami Horror // Don't Be On With Her
(dance) Funky beats and fatty treats. This song's got some more dancy fun for all you crazy legs out there. It's got a straight taken from Daft Punk transish around the 2min mark, keyboard synth totes stolen from my bestfriend Prince, 808 hand claps, and some SICK guitar shredding. And when I say that they took these parts from these musicians, I mean it in the best possible way. It's all instrumental, but it's sure to keep all you kids dancing, espeshs if youre a fan an 80s fan, which I know you are. Cuz, like, you know. I'm pretty sure we ALL are.
3. Justice // D.A.N.C.E
(dance) Yay for a new Justice song. A new Justice song that was smart enough to top it off with some cuteness. (I talked to their representatives and it turns out the main reason for this is to make it to LRMD fame. They're clever.) First off, the vocals have a child-like quality, which combined with the spelling out of words as in "stick to the B-E-A-T" plus "easy as A-B-C" makes for some fairly cute touches added to an otherwise perfectly produced dancy song complete with bloops and sharp strings. This song is a must.
4. The Brobecks // Jacqui
(indie rock) Ugh. Simply wonderful indie rock. Perfectly constructed with bridges and balloons. This falls short of cute and settles perfectly into that number one indie rock song that you haven't heard this year.
5. Gruff Rhys // Candylion
(indie rock) Let's just say that this song starts off with "A long time ago, in the kingdom of candy"... There's xylophone for cuteness and strings for pleasantry but there's room for cream. I mean cuteness. There's room for cuteness. Someone smart decided that the lyrics were already so cute that they should leave some cuteness out of the music so that if you were to see a kitten while listening to this song, you wouldn't explode. Cuteness overloads are dangerous sometimes, I should know. Anyways, this song is mainly just very, very pleasant. It's sort of like looking at a pop up book filled with lots of pretty pictures of rolling hills and round anatomically-incorrect animals. It feels good and it's relaxing, but it's not going to bring you to any epiphanies. Never the less, it's made it to "weekly obsessions", so I suggest you do a little clicky clicky and d/l d/l.
6. Antarctica Takes It! // I'm No Lover
(indie rock) Duh you guys. Just duh. Someone tell this band to start making music again because I'm offishs a fan.
Image via one of my favorite peoples evs: L.P.
I ran out of good Animal Collective photographs so this old picture of mechanical/organic romance will have to do. Anyways the new Animal Collective EP Water Curses found its way onto the internet a few weeks ago. Like always their shit is worth its weight in gold so here is a 24-k nug of a song.
The Justice + Diplo show last Thursday hit me like a pile of bricks made of snow filled with dead batteries. The show restored my faith in 1) live music and 2) the French. The best part about the show was that it was hosted by myspace. OMGZ I <3 MYSPACE!!!! Myspace is so much cooler than facebook or livejournal or blogger. yay. So here is a nice track by Midfield General that was produced by Justice. Let my just say that the name says it all. 
