JACK PENATE - tonight's today (extended version)

Spring is here and all these crazy uplifting pop songs arrive... and i keep dancing on tables all day... If this goes on, 2009 will be THE music year for ages!
I always liked Jack Penate's pure pop-music but never thought he was a genius! Now i have to admit I was wrong. This song is so way beyond anything since... well...Paul Simon discovered african music? Imagine a "very" british pop singer backed by (lets say..) Orange Juice, and surprisingly visited by a 20 piece african-carribean percussion streetgang high on mescal! If this doesn't get you shaking, you must be German! This is what Post Punk to me really was (and should now be) about: combining sounds of foreign cultures with pop and making people dance (and me happy).

The 12 Inch comes with 2 remixes by Mickey Moonlight and you HAVE TO WATCH the weird video (big screen, very good quality) on his website. It comes with real "Hair"-style dancing moves!

what did they put into his drinks... I want to have it too...

>>>JACK PENATE - tonight's today (extended version)
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http://jackpenate.com/

PHOENIX - 1901 on "Saturday Night Live"

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Of course most stuff on TV all over the world is crap at the moment. But then you can watch Phoenix perform several songs Live on a saturday night in the US. That's what i call courageous... Please, German TV, wake up!

one more to watch:
PHOENIX - Lisztomania (also on saturday Night Live)

PETER VAN POEHL - Parliament

There are three songs on my mind at the moment which sound like: Spring!!!
First up there is swedish pop-weirdo Peter van Poehl with his second album "May Day". He lives in Malmö, Berlin and Paris. And he sounds a bit like Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel mixed with Phoenix, Marvin Gaye and some psychedelical Krauts... (well, more or less).
Once a musician in Bertrand Burgalat's band, he later (2006) released his first beautiful album "Going to where the tea trees are".
"Parliament" is the first uplifting single from "May Day", a "BIG" folk-pop-song with lots of strings and SOUL!!! Oh, and the video is actually great, too! Never forget: life is great!


http://www.petervonpoehl.com



(curious about the two other songs that make my day...? Easy, tiger! One each day...)

JOHNNY BOY - you are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve

Sometimes there are songs, that catch the atmosphere of a time better than any speech of a politician. If you want a metaphor of the economic world crisis, take the song title "you are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve". How good is that? But, strange with this one: London's Johnny Boy wrote and released this song over two years ago. How did they know by then? Spooky, isn't it?
Musically this is pure Pop-heaven! Sounds like a Phil Spectoresque "wall of sound" production (could be a Ronettes song), mixed with the attitude of The Clash! They have an album, which is worth buying, so check them out.

>>>JOHNNY BOY - you are the generation that bought more shoes
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www.myspace.com/johnnyboyuk

PHOENIX - 1901

...it's 4pm and what a great way to start my new blog:
Phoenix just released a new song from their upcoming album through their website. It is called "1901".
Phoenix for me are a little bit like an old friend from school. I am not seeing them very often, but every contact or sign of existence makes me feel warm and happy. There is hardly a "living" band, that found its way so deep into my soul, because they were with me in situations, where i needed a remedy for my soul, which for me is the best way to describe "the sound of Phoenix".
Years ago i split up with a girlfriend and felt really dark, shitty and depressed (you know how that feels...). I decided to escape the Berlin winter and my crap state of mind to the south of Portugal for a week and the day before i left, i bought "United", the first album by a new french band called Phoenix. It really changed my life, no shit! The CD did not leave my Cd-player for a whole week (truth). There was a warmth in their music, that really worked like medicine to me. When i came back, i felt so much better and the reason was honestly "United" (lets say combined with the south of Portugal...).
Few months later i was going to play a festical in Mallorca with le hammond inferno and guess who was going to be there, too: yep, Phoenix!
I was feeling really special about seeing them play live. But that wasn't so easy. They were stuck on the airport, because all of their band equipment arrived ages too late on the island, so they almost did not play at all. They were put back in the line-up from a 8pm slot to later to later to later to... very late in the night, but they came and they played without any sound/linecheck at 3 in the night.
The festival was called "Isladencanta" and it was situated in the middle of the island in a valley between some mountains and the site was breathtakingly beautiful. For some reason there was hardly any audience there, but it looked amazing, because behind the big stage there was a mountain and on the mountain was a small cemetery. so you looked at the band and because there was no backdrop, you could see the graves in the back.... (do i need to say more...?).

They played and it was... well, you know how it was...

Coincidence happened, that we shared the same shuttle bus back to the Hotel after our shows, so i was sitting there with Phoenix, feeling like a small kid... I gathered all my strength and told them the story about "United" and my Portugal and they reacted so touched, it really meant something to them, i felt. I will never forget that special ride in the bus my whole life. They were extremly nice people (as they still are now) and until today i deejayed several times for their shows so we meet from time to time...

But: I AM SO HAPPY THERE WILL BE A NEW ALBUM SOON!
It will be out in may and has the fantastic title "Wolfgang Amdeus Phoenix". Here is a first song from it. Enjoy it as much as i do and if i bored you with my long private story: i don't care!

There is also a dj-mix compilation "Kitsune Maison 6" available by Phoenix on Kitsune. check it out!

>>>>PHOENIX - 1901
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http://www.wearephoenix.com/
http://www.myspace.com/wearephoenix

LEMONADE

This is simply amazing and in a world of it's own! No big words from my side on this one: Imagine Primal Scream with Andrew Weatherall (era Screamadelica), DFA-style beats and coolness, a bit of Flaming Lips, some 90s Rave elements, oriental samples and a psycheldelic fucked up feel. This is pop-art and sounds like nothing on earth so far. They have a six track EP (CD @ juno and download @ other music) out which will be one of my top 5 records of 2008! Also yours? Get it while you can!!!!

>>>LEMONADE - blissful
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>>>LEMONADE - Big Weekend (Delorean rmx)
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http://www.myspace.com/bananasandecstasy

BAGGY LEGGINS - Run Da Roses (Fools Gold Booty)

It's really difficult to add something great to "Fools Gold" by The Stone Roses, because it's so fucking good anyway! Here the guys from Baggy Leggins (no clue, who they are... yes! I love it, they don't even have a myspace-site) have cut the track to pieces and then added some Hip Hop vocals from RUN DMC & DAS EFX ("real Hip Hop") and "BANG", there you have a track that will destroy any decent party in a second.
This track is only the b-side of a 7 Inch. Tha A-side is a really weird and mindblowing booty of a lazy Ethopian tune called "GIRMA BEYEN" redone with heavy b-boy beats and crazy bass. Get it (while it lasts) at Juno.

>>>BAGGY LEGGINS - Run Da Roses
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the picture is the original artwork of the Stone Roses 12". Like all fantastic Stone Roses artworks it was painted by John Squire himself, the guitarist of The Roses. Below is a link to his fine arts. (listening to the music he released since he left The Roses, he should really stick to the art...)
http://www.john-squire.com/art