Musique Non Stop - SPIN Mix

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1. Kirin J. Callinan Stuns With Dirty, Upside-Down 'Landslide' Video
2. Only Beyonce Looks Amazing While Falling 630 Feet Through the Air
3. Darkside Unfurl Shadowy Art-Pop in 'Freak, Go Home' BBC Live Video
4. Watch Dave Grohl, Jack Black, and Val Kilmer's Goofy Jam Session
5. Washed Out's 'All I Know' Gets Touching Coming-of-Age Video
6. Thanks Obama: Dirty Projectors Hit National Park for ‘Impregnable Question’ Video
7. Stream Super Wild Horses' Sweetly Fuzzy 'Crosswords' Album
8. Hear Lord Echo's Funky House-Soul Hybrid 'Molten Lava'
9. See Lady Gaga Belt Out Her Nomad's Ballad 'Gypsy' Live in Berlin
10. Cut Copy Aim to Transcend on Soulful 'Take Me Higher'

Kirin J. Callinan Stuns With Dirty, Upside-Down 'Landslide' Video Posted: 25 Oct 2013 11:07 AM PDT A simple idea, executed with utter commitment, can be more powerful than we realize in a media environment cluttered with songs and videos long on aesthetic but short on singular characteristics. Kirin J...

Darkside: Psychic – review

(Other People/Matador)

Darkside is a collaboration between digital minimalist Nicolas Jaar and multi-instrumental jazz refugee Dave Harrington, two New York residents who recently and mischievously remixed all of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories . Generally, electric guitars do not have a natural simpatico with deep digital music. But here, Jaar's staticky nocturnal productions come augmented by guitar and vocals. Jaar has said it is his "rock'n'roll record"; the classy 11-minute Golden Arrow is an accurate taster of the cinematic bent of much of Psychic. The only fusion too far here is Paper Trails, a blues-funk digression from this otherwise elegant experiment: closing track Metatron marries blues and sci-fi much better.

Rating: 3/5

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Best New Tracks - Pitchfork

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Movement: "Us" Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:44 AM PDT     Sydney trio Movement inhabit a shadowy subspace where R&B and dance music begin to blur together and blend. Their new single on Modular, "Us", transcends standard lyrical lecherousness, advancing onto more troubling terrain. The vocal take is light and controlled, but it burns with menace and the type of heat lent to whispered threats in the corner of a black-lit club: "When we're alone in the dark/ And I could take you right now/ You're the way that I want you/ Moving for me." Flecks of steel drum sprinkled throughout the song's second half serve as welcome bits of color and light, an indication of the band's gift for cultivating atmosphere-- the darkness of "Us" threatens to overwhelm, demands a search for relief. Movement: "Us" on SoundCloud.

Best New Tracks - Pitchfork

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Darkside: "Golden Arrow" Posted: 26 Aug 2013 11:45 AM PDT Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington offer up the first 11 minutes of their new album as Darkside atop a video of a fire burning in slow motion, but Jaar and Harrington seem to care more about the smoke than the fire. The first half of this composition (which you can download via Jaar's label Other People) is ink-black, soaking in a sparse violin and echoing piano. It takes nearly six minutes for the duo to work themselves into the sort of slinky, neurotic groove that Jaar featured on Space Is Only Noise, now aided by Harrington's sharp, staccato fretwork. When Jaar's voice comes in, it's not the conversational basso he preferred on that album, but rather an affected, digital bleat that recalls Mark Hollis in its abstraction, if not its garbled tone. Darkside seem to be aiming for the same kind of well groomed, shifting post-rock laid down by bands like Hollis' Talk Talk and Bark Psychosis. It's a kind of weaponized patience that makes Jaar's brainy grooves seem big and potent.