Sunday Beats : Darth Vader Balloon, heRobust, Walsh, CATNAPP, Obey City, Aluna George, Joe Goddard, Soffie Viemose, Post War Years, Nas, Lone, Cuushe

Darth Vader Balloon

Listen | heRobust - Finders Bleepers
Listen | Walsh - Kommissar (Featuring Persona La Ave) -
Listen | CATNAPP - Look at me
Listen | Obey City - ↓ Down & Up ↑
Listen | Aluna George - You Know You Like It (Bobby Tank Remix)
Listen | Onra - L.O.V.E
Listen | Joe Goddard - Gabriel (featuring Valentina)
Listen | Soffie Viemose - To The Wood (Sun Glitters Remix)
Listen | Post War Years - Brazil (Damu Remix)
Listen | Nas - One Love (ManOnWire Remix)
Listen | Lone - Lenticular Cloud
Listen | Cuushe - Summer Night Sketch (Botany Remix)

Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair ( 2008 )

Forget disco for a second. The most significant thing about the debut album from New York's Hercules and Love Affair has less to do with revival than arrival-- that of a compelling new voice in American dance music. Not Antony Hegarty's, of Antony and the Johnsons, even though his pipes are an integral part of Hercules' aesthetic, but Andrew Butler, a twentysomething resident of New York who has made one of 2008's great albums, and one of the best longplayers from DFA. (DFA's Tim Goldsworthy surely deserves some of the credit as well, as the album's co-producer and the programmer behind most of the record's beats.) Butler got his start writing music for art projects in college-- "like a remake of Gino Soccio's 'Runaway' done in the style of Kraftwerk," he told Fact magazine-- but Hercules and Love Affair's music doesn't require Fischerspooner-type theatrics. This debut album is a self-contained, self-assured, 10-song set that runs vintage styles through a restless compositional imagination to create something joyfully, startlingly unique.Philip Sherburne, Pitchforkmedia

Hercules and Love Affair - EMI/DFA - 2008
Mp3 | Hercules and Love Affair - Blind - [ Feat. Antony Hegarty ]
MP3 | Hercules and Love Affair - Athene

Mp3 | Hercules and Love Affair - Blind - [ Frankie Knuckles - Mix ]
Mp3 | Goldfrapp - A&E - [ Hercules and Love Affair - Mix ]

Video | Hercules & Love Affair - Time Will - [ Feat. Antony Hegarty ]


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Headman - Catch Me ( 2008 )

The new HEADMAN album is here! After amazing remixes for THE GOSSIP and CHROMEO the Berlin based ROCKDISCO pioneer Robi Insinna aka HEADMAN you can imagine what this third HEADMAN album could sound like: A wild mix of hard drums, 70ies Disco, Hacienda Rave, and Housemusic.You might have heard the frist single CATCH ME IF U CAN already on the KITSUNE/BOOMBOX compilation. But there's much more: Check out DREAMPIECES which features Jeremy Kerr - of UK whiteboy funk legends A CERTAIN RATIO. We think this is HEADMAN best recording since his discopunk debut from 2001!Gomma


Catch me - Gomma - 108 - 2008
Mp3 | Headman - New
Mp3 | Headman - Catch me Medley


On - Gomma - 68 - 2006
Mp3 | Headman - Everybody [ Vocals - Ben Rymer , Erol Alkan ]

Video | Headman - On and On

Download | Headman DJ Mix @ Polaroid Leeds 02/07

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Japanther @ Occii 01 Mar

Two guys, bass, drums, tapes falling over anthemic awesomeness. The best and most positive dance band in New York. Like "Holiday Road" from the "Vacation" played super loud with equipment on the fritz. Soulful hip hop hardcore drumming and crazy samples and drum machine beats on old cassettes make for amazing singing alongs. "Japanther make the type of music that dares people to stand still. Poppy surf-punk numbers mixxed with comedy and performance." - Japanther HQ

Mp3 | Japanther - 10
Mp3 | Japanther - Changer yer Life

One of Brooklyn's favorite noise-rock bands, Japanther (Ian Vanek and Matt Reily) unveiled a new rock-opera using a high-energy multi-media format -- their "tool kit" integrates live music, dance, an interactive set, and video projections, plus an animatronic robot dinosaur -- the band and their collaborators create a full-immersion theatrical concert experience that sports a sharp political edge and an equally edgy heart.

Video | Japanther in 3-D

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