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The Bulgarian January 18, 2009

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Christmas and new years is over and I just came back from a crazy week in Sweden with nothing to show for it apart from a three day fever I came down with as soon as I got back to London. Three days in bed means three days wasted if you ask me, but at least I kept my head clear enough to crawl to the laptop, push play on winamp and make it back to bed again. What I’m trying to say is that I’m sorry for the lack of updates and I haven’t given up listening to music!

So, here’s one of my favorite producers, The Bulgarian. He’s got a quite identifiable crazy fidgety house sound, yet every one of his tracks seems so different from each other. Not sure how that works really, you better just listen for yourselves. Disfunktional Caterpillar is an all time favorite and the first of his tracks I heard. The bassline kills it!


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Larry Tee – I Love U (The Bulgarian Remix) [via FuckBadMusic.com]

Urban Monkeys – Disfunktional Caterpillar (The Bulgarian Remix)

the bug – run the place red (KiNK vs the bulgarian rerub)

konflict – messiah (le castle vania remix – the bulgarian 127 re-beat)

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http://myspace.com/thebulgariantracks

http://soundcloud.com/thebulgarian


Bubblyfish and Stu of dropdabomb December 30, 2008

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Being of the 8-bit generation I really love the retro chip music sound. I used to make chip tunes when I was still making music on trackers, but my tracks were nothing like the craziness they’re coming up with today. A few years ago I went to a club in Stockholm where they had a guy playing live on gameboys and some other retro 8-bit looking systems. Had a blast just sitting down and watching computer nerds dance next to trendy pop chicks, finding some common ground in the low-fi 8-bit music coming from the speakers. I have to go back next time I’m over there..

Bubblyfish creates her music mainly using gameboys with the nanoloop software, although in some of her tracks she’s adding effects and using a “real” sampler. I have no idea what the track at 08:30 in the video is called but I like it. And check out her sweet dreams remix at 05:15, or on her myspace.

Here’s a short video interview with her. And another interview for Wired from 2007. Get her latest album from retinascan.

[via synthtopia.com]

The only problem with trying to find chip music online without really knowing what to look for is that there’s so much of it! But this is some quality 8-bit madness from Atari-ST music collective dropdabomb. These two are from stu and you really should listen to more of his stuff on his site, his myspace or on the buy page for  his Atari Solo album on retinascan. I especially love the those low bitrate samples and the small glitchy bits in chiprape.

stu – chiprape [get this!]

stu – Disco Ver Atari [preview only but a must listen nonetheless]

stu – mYMelody

Check out the buy page on retinascan.de for more stu.


Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings December 23, 2008

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INDIO, CA - APRIL 25: Sharon Jones of Sharon ...
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Tomorrow I’m off to Eastbourne to celebrate Christmas with my housemate and his family. Them being English, and me being Swedish, my present to them will be some Swedish music and dvds. Unfortunately I couldn’t find much Swedish music besides Robyn and Basshunter in the shop, so of course I went for Basshunter.

But right now I’m definitely not in the mood for either Basshunter or Christmas music but I am in the mood for some good funk however, courtesy of Sharon Jones and her crew.

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Keep On Looking (Kenny Dope Remix)

And here’s a bit of that Hot Chip sound to calm things down again.

Grovesnor – Drive Your Car (Hot Chip remix)

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Buy and sell used mp3 files December 12, 2008

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With the debate about whether copying is actually theft still running hot, new startup Bopaboo, currently in private beta, dives right into it. Bopaboo provides a marketplace for its users to buy and sell used mp3’s.
They’re clearly aware of the challenges lying ahead of them and it’ll be interesting to see what the law the record labels has to say about this.


Drop the Lime – Hear Me (Buraka som Sistema Remix) December 4, 2008

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I love this version of Drop the Lime’s Hear Me by Portuguese Buraka som Sistema. I like their use of the ride and snare heavy drum loop from the original, taking it out and bringing it back every 2 bars. A simple and small part of the track, but that alone makes it the best remix of the bunch for me.

Drop the Lime – Hear Me (Buraka som Sistema Remix) [zippyshare 128kbps]

Drop the Lime – Hear Me [juno]

Drop the Lime – Hear Me [beatport]