Australian Remix duo Stereogamous (AKA Paul Mac and Jonny Seymour – @stereogamous) get a big thumbs up this week from LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy for their hot new remix of the forthcoming LCD single I Can Change.LCD’s latest (and final) LP This Is Happening has scored rapturous acclaim across the globe as one of the albums of the year.
To have LCD’s frontman give his personal stamp of approval to a remix has been a huge coup for this local dance duo. With its thumping beats and driving core, the track is sure to be a hit. The world’s most popular pop website POPJUSTICE agrees and made it a feature, as well as Stoney Roads sharing the love.
Stereogamous have made quite a name for themselves remixing some of the best and most diverse acts around the world including Wolfmother, The Presets, MEN (JD Samson from Le Tigre), Jimmy Sommerville, We Have Band and The Scare. And it’s not just James Murphy giving them kudos – earlier this year George Michael was so impressed with their dynamic live set, he commissioned them to create a 45 min warm-up for his sold-out Melbourne and Sydney stadium shows.
I reckon it’s really important to travel. Whether its in a Rolls Royce or with a rucksack…
Travel gives you perspective and frees you up from the day-to-day. For me it gives me a kind of sense check of what you are doing, where you are going and what’s really important.
Even though I’m in my late 30’s… I am a hopeless case with spending at least part of my holidays on one (or many) of my favourite artists. There is always music involved. I can’t see that ever changing… Add in some of your favourite people in the world and I’m pretty damn contented.I’ve done most musical festivals in the world but for me, Coachella is the best and most intelligent. Goosebumps on multiple occasions. Hairs on arms standing up – check. Really – it’s that good.
Imagine, a dream line up… backdrop it with a lush green space in the middle of the California desert. Surround that with palm trees… Then back drop it with an intense mountain range. Cap it with some snow at the very top just off in the distance. Then add a picture-perfect blue sky and you are getting close. This is music lovers festival heaven.
At night the palm trees are underlit with different colored spotlights…and 5 massive Hollywood-style spotlights are planted around the parameters of the festival shooting into the sky and meeting up in the middle of the festival space. The sunset at the end of each day is something to behold as the sun rests for the night behind the mountains. And when the bands play, they play to a surrounding backdrop of palm trees or a hint of desert… it’s hard to explain in words but hope you are feelin’ me on how good it was. Although there were 60,000 people each day, it doesn’t feel suffocating or over-crowded. It’s clean and well-run. Yep. It’s pretty impressive. And if you believe in energies and spirits and those kind of otherworldly touchpoints… well I think it has all of that going on as well.
But most importantly, I have never seen so much incredible music and such a musically-forward line up as this year. I highly recommend it.
This Wednesday night, about one hundred punters converged on Ching-a-ling’s in Sydney’s Darlinghurst to schmooze, drink, and listen to LCD Soundsystem’s new album This Is Happening VERY LOUD on repeat (the first chance in Australia to do so without being hunched over a computer with headphones).
The party which we threw with In The Mix, Faster Louder, and Pure Blonde (thanks y’all!) went off a treat, and we have the pics to prove it. Inspired by James Murphy’s This Is Happening album artwork, we all emulated the man himself in an effort to bask in his greatness.
Here are a few of our faves from the evening, which may or may not include some pics of ourselves.
James Murphy + Spike Jonze. It was an inevitable and long overdue combination of musical + directorial talent.
What wasn’t inevitable however, was a cohort of Evil (and possibly drunk) Panduhs crash-tackling Murphy, pimping him up in a mini-dress and makeup, and binding him to his compatriots with duct tape.
One thing is official… if I wasn’t scared of pandas beforehand, I am now.
If you really really like it (we do), then you can pre-order the album from JB Hi-Fi and receive free a LCD Soundsystem tote bag + a download of LCD’s Bye Bye Bayou:
If you’ve not heard today’s incredible 10th anniversary Splendour In the Grass lineup, have you not a computer / radio / phone / ears / eyes????
OK so camping tickets are $450 (ouch), but we’ve done the math & it turns that makes each set $5.55… Five and half bucks to heard the new LCD album live!? The full lineup is below, with our favourite acts on the LHS. (Full disclosure, they’re all ours!)
Laura Marling Ltd Edn I Speak Because I Can CD/DVD with 5 free downloads, postcard artwork, and lyrics booklet
Jonsi blockmounted poster featuring Go album art
Operator Please signed 7″ vinyl of Logic / Logic (Dolby Anol Remix)
Ben Harper & Relentless7 signed blockmounted poster featuring White Lies… art
Gorillaz limited edition Plastic Beach CD/DVD
Hot Chip One Life Stand double gatefold vinyl
Goldfrapp Headfirst collector’s edition cassette
Just head to our sister store at theinsong.com/splendour, buy any of the singles or albums to receive competition details, and tell us in 25 words or less how you plan to warm up for Splendour.
The excitement for the new LCD Soundystem album in our building is palpable… can you feel it simmering away!?
Ever since 2007’s seminal album Sound Of Silver and its compatriots 45:33 and 45:33 Remixes, we have been waiting with baited breath to get our hands on new tunes from Mr James Murphy of DFA. How on earth do you follow up THE album which brought us the joyful cattiness of North American Scum(WE LIVE IN NORTH AMERICA!!!), the Kraftwerk-inspired railroad clackety-clacks of Get Innocuous, the hypnotic caresses of Us V Them, the poignant swelling anthem All My Friends, and the heart-wrenchingly bittersweet Someone Great??? Sound of Silver wells up such giddying and complex emotions that after a listen, I need a tissue, a hug, a dancefloor podium, and a good long nap.
Trust us however, no one is going to be disappointed with the 2010 album… *drum roll*… THIS IS HAPPENING out on May 14.
Today it is our very great pleasure to reveal This Is Happening’s artwork, tracklisting, and first single Drunk Girls. Behold!
1. Dance Yrself Clean (ed note – this track’s a killer – wait 50sec for it to kick in and then bliss out)
How did it come to this? Ten short years ago I was dancing to TLC’s No Scrubs (judge ye not!) on Manly Beach for the countdown to *gasp* The Millennium.
Suddenly, we’re at the other end of the decade, and we never did work out what to call ‘00-10… “The Noughties” didn’t really cut it. We’d better come up with something quick sticks, because the tunes from the last ten years have been incredible and future generations are going to need to refer to us somehow…
NME’s Top 100 albums of the last decade has some mean contributions, not the least of which is the man of the hour Emperor Luke Steele’s early effort, Lovers from The Sleepy Jackson. The Empire defining epochs, even way back when!
Other EMI faves from the list you can regularly hear blasting around the office are below:
#4 – Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
One very notable absence however… WHERE IS THE DAFT PUNK!?!?
Whilst we greatly respect NME’s all-seeing UK hipster stylings, stay tuned for The In Sound’s very own and very wise Best Of 2009 album list – coming soon to a browser near you!
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