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Did You Hear That? Best of 2011 Part 2 M83 – “Midnight City”

Continuing work on my best of heard in 2011, next up is M83  “Midnight City”. My complete spotify playlist can be heard here.

Separating the fact that this song is used in a Victoria’s Secret commercial. it’s still pretty great. It was produced by  Justin Meldal Johnson who also produced my favorite Big Sir remix in the early 00′s.

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by Oldschool Brian on Dec 15, 2011 at 04:11 PM
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Did You Hear That? Best of 2011 Part 1 tUnE-yArDs

I’m working on a list of the best of what I heard in 2011. Here is the complete spotify best of 2011 playlist.

tUnE-yArDs W H O K I L L – 4AD

I’ve written quite a bit about Merrill Garbus this year. If my list ended here it would be enough. What Merrill does under the moniker tUnE-yArDs is wholly original. She crafts beats and melodies which could only be her own. I fully believe if not for the success she has garnered in 2011 she would be doing exactly the same thing busking in the BART in Berkley.  tUnE yArDs have not hit critical mass yet.  (I don’t think they have done an american express commercial or the like yet ) but there will be followers. So many followers.

W H O K I L L is truly stunning in every way.

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by Oldschool Brian on Dec 15, 2011 at 04:08 PM
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didyou hear that: inBflat 2.0

inbflat 2.0

This is why your band sucks. Darren Solomon from Science for Girls put together this project where total strangers post improvised music ( with very limited guildlines) to youtube and the end product is more interesting than trying to find meanings IN RAINBOWS.

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by oldschoolbrian on May 15, 2009 at 03:03 PM
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Perez Hilton in Talks With Warner Brothers Records

Perez Hilton
Would you let this man recommend music to you?

According to MTV.com Mario Lavendeira ( a.k.a Perez Hilton ) is in talks with Warner Brothers records for his own label imprint. In the name of full disclosure I myself have taken some recommendations from Mr. Hilton. He picks some hits and some misses. The question is will Perez stick to his guns with which acts he plugs, promotes, and disses when the man has his hand in his pocket? BTW Perez you should have negotiate more $$$ up front ( rumoured to be 100k ). Old dusty record executives love to throw money at the next hottest thing that they don’t understand. ” A blog, you call it?”.

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by oldschoolbrian on Feb 26, 2008 at 09:14 PM
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