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René Van Munster

Here’s the new 18 year old fidget house genious. Think Dave Taylor and Switch but with a cello studying background. It’s a combination that clearly works very well and makes me wish I’d play the cello.

My favorite track so far has to be Feed Me with its crazy mobile static noise groove. Phonesmack is out on Secure Recordings and you can have a listen to it on his myspace. Then get his releases from beatport — beatport’s interface is still awful so search for Munster once their 412kb website has finished loading and you’ve managed to navigate through their futuristic, yet 2001-ish looking interface. When you’re done, watch this interview:

Don’t forget to listen to his collaboration with Brabe as the Bootlickers and to read the René Van Munster interview over at tejano bounce.

Freeform Five Minimix

Here’s a great minimix from Freeform Five on Annie Mac’s Mash Up show on Radio 1 in April.

Annie Mac’s Mash Up – Freeform Five Minimix

1. brian wilson – our prayer (freeform reform) (nonesuch)
2. annie – the greatest hit (freeform reform) (telle / loaded)
3. freeform five – strangest things (freeform reform dub) (perspex / fine)
4. destinys child – bootylicious (freeform reform) (columbia)
5. alter ego – beat the bush (freeform reform vocal) (klang / playhouse)
6. jamie lidell – when i come back around (freeform reform) (warp)
7. freeform five – electromagnetic (tiefschwarz remix) (perspex / fine)
8. the killers – when you were young (freeform reform) (vertigo)
9. gabriel ananda – ihre personliche glucksmelodie (freeform reform) (karmarouge)
10. freeform five – perspex sex (ewan pearson remix) (classic)
11. n.e.r.d. – lapdance (freeform reform) (virgin)
12. freeform five – break me (jackson remix) (classis)
13. justin timberlake – sexyback (freeform reform) (jive)
14. x-press 2 feat. david byrne – lazy (freeform reform) (skint)
15. freeform five – no more conversations (the subliminal kid remiks) (apollo / island)
16. mylo feat. freeform five – muscle car (freeform reform) (breastfed)
17. isolee – beau mot plage (freeform reform) (playhouse / classic)
18. isolee – beau mot plage (original) (playhouse / classic)

And this is a classic:

Alice Smith – Love End (Freeform Five Mix) [yousendit]

If you don’t get sarcasm, you might have braindamage

What you may not have realized is that perceiving sarcasm, the smirking put-down that buries its barb by stating the opposite, requires a nifty mental trick that lies at the heart of social relations: figuring out what others are thinking. Those who lose the ability, whether through a head injury or the frontotemporal dementias afflicting the patients in Dr. Rankin’s study, just do not get it when someone says during a hurricane, “Nice weather we’re having.”

Do you have semantic dementia?

Mystery Jets – Umbrellahead

All time favorite!

Lykke Li – Dance Dance Dance

Finally something besides Basshunter coming out of Sweden.