RJD2 - The Glow Remixes

Hiphop producer RJD2 (most famous for his great Ghostwriter) gives away a free remix package of his new track the glow. Fools gold regulars Flosstradamus give the track a disco spin. Paolo Palazzo provides a great grinding bassline and Candy Cane's remix isn't that good really. But hey, it's free!

You can find the EP and more info here.

Felix

Moombahton

It's not exactly new anymore but I  guess lots of you still haven't heard of Moombahton yet. Though the style has to be one of the least ambitious in the last couple of years (it mainly consists of edits of heavily slowed down Dutch House tracks) it sure makes a nice variation in my mainly speed-driven EDM collection.

Quizzers pay attention: Dave Nada -one half of the electro duo Nadastrom- is regarded as the founding father of Moombahton, which he discovered while playing Afrojack's Moombah at 108 bpm. Dutch House may be short-lived, but maybe Moombahton can keep those high-pitched synthlines alive.

Nada gave the first Moombahton EP away for free. So here ya go. (Riverside Remix being my absolute favourite)

 Dave Nada - Moombahton by T&ARecords

Felix

Soft Circle - Shore Obsessed

I stumbled upon this new -and pretty outstanding- release by NY based Soft Circle in a random webcruise yesterday. Lots of hipster-potential in this project: poppy sounds, discobeats and main man Baroosha himself, who was a founding member of the noise ensemble Lightning Bold. Think Animal Collective on E. Only downer is the fact that I keep confusing the band's name with Soft Cell. Gives me the creeps.

You can stream the album on the Dutch site luisterpaal.nl (which is a gift of God, by the way), and rcrdlbl is giving away the track 'Treading Water' for free.

Happy New Year y'all!

The PAVLOV crew wishes you an outstanding 2011. With less traffic jams, oil spills, political crises, bad music, bad films, bad food, earthquakes, cheesy hit-40 remixes, tornadoes, right wing maniacs, left wing maniacs, boring cooking programmes, hangovers, rain, bloghouse, impolite waiters, horribly produced dubstep, long queues, African dictators, flu, and much more fun!

Holly Miranda

This is Holly Miranda. Born daughter of a priest, she was raised severely religious and learned to sing in church choir on Sundays. At sixteen she dropped out of school and moved to New York. Few years later she met up with TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek to record her first album “The Magician’s Private Library”. Live she is assisted by the talented Timmy Mislock who some of you might know from his solo project Abandoned Lighthouse.

Central narrative of her album is both sides of sleep: either staying awake or drifting away in dream. The thought that the night is always the hardest part when things get though, shimmers through songs like ‘Joints’, ‘Slow Burn Treason’ and ‘Sleep On Fire’. In ‘Waves’ and ‘No One Just is’ Miranda sings of long lost love, as she twists her hauntingly beautiful voice into the deep cavities of her soul. A very intimate and well produced album. Christmas present? Nah, keep it for yourself.

Choosing a single video-moment to go with this post has never been harder but I decided to show you the very same fragment I first saw of hers. ‘Pelican Rapids’ is an unrecorded song Holly uses as an encore for her gigs. It’s so raw and intense. Watch in HD, full screen and maximum volume to faint in absolute swoon.

Hannes

Bill Willingham - Fables

If you love a good fairytale, then better hold on to your socks for Fables! It's a comic book by Bill Willingham, who throws all the characters from fairy tales into one great story. Because all the characters are chased by their nemesis - the Adversary-, they have to seek refuge in the real world, where they find shelter in NY. It's a struggle to fit in with non-magic beings, in combination with the constant thread of the adversary.

The book gives a very nice twist at the fairy-tale creatures: making Pinochio an angry boy who just wants his balls to drop and grow up, while prince charming appears to be one big asshole. The realistic look on the creatures only heard from in stories we've been told is refreshing and the addventures they go through are beautifully written. This makes it really worth your while to pick up the book, because faibles will nail you down to your chair and leave you no less than amazed.

Emily

Brodinski - The Best of Everything pt.II

Woot Woot!

Brodinski's long awaited Best of Everything compilation finally dropped on XLR8R yesterday. Some great remixes of Brozzers favorite R&B and hiphop tracks by top notch producers as Djedjotronic, French Fries and Renaissance Man!

Grab it while it's still hot!