Snazzy Vol.10 with Noah and the Whale, Broken Records, FrYers, Teenagers and more

3 March 2008

The Snazzy compilations have been left a little unattended since October (that is 3 quick months), but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been collecting great tunes to put on this latest update. Here we’ve got some of the sweetest songs you can imagine from Noah and the Whale and Lykke Li, along with the best band to come out of Edinburgh for a long long time, namely Broken Records, and some more crackers that have been sitting in my ‘To Post’ pile for far too long. My dissertation is now over, all finished with a night with no other than Erol Alkan (MySpace) which was just fucking awesome – but more on that in the next Electricity post.

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Lykke Li has created a cute, minimal track with just piano chords and percussion and such a fantastic childlike voice.

Noah and the Whale have been featured on TBW before, and for good reason – they are one of the most interesting bands currently coming out of the UK. The slow, sad ballad of the first half of the song breaks into an up-beat catchy delight that defines my views on the band.

Broken Records come out of my home town, Edinburgh, and finally give me a local band worth promoting. The piano, and distorted emotive singing style and what sound like orchestral chords add depth to a simple yet beautiful song.

Death to Anders have an album that flits between genres, but here is where I think they find their sound – reminding me of early Shins records that will get your foot tapping.

The Paper Cranes have and album out in a week and although it may be a little difficult to get hold of – it will be worth it – just listen to the piano and guitar driven melody on this from their first EP to understand what I mean.

The Dodos are a band that I humm’d and harr’d with at first, as they just sounded a little too chaotic. The drums don’t, on first listen, sound in time, and the whole thing sounds a quite a lot like a band jamming session. However, it really really grows on you and the chaos of the track just adds to its character with the band sounding like making the track was a lot of fun.

FrYers have been in my to post pile for far too long, as this track is catchy as hell. It is a great pop record that puls away form the crowd with the stroytelling and electronic bleeps.

Holy Hail have written a driving rock/pop tune that makes you wantt o move. It’s understated and simple but perfect.

The Teenagers have been getting a lot of press over the last 12 months and for good reason. Here is another of their pop/indie tunes that have created the deserved reputation of one of the most exciting acts to come out of 2007.

Look See Proof brings the pace of the mix up a little bit with a track that reminds me of early Bloc Party with doubletime drumming and sticcato guitars that did and does work very well.

The Fashion offer up a sound that makes me think of Kasabian but improving on their now slightly too mainstream formula.

You can also download the whole mix as a zip file:
Snazzy Vol.10

Clap To The Electricity Vol.7

By: Tim

11 February 2008

In: Mixtapes, News & Leaks

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So yeah I was lying about how I was going to have some best of lists up. I wanted to and I did have a selection, but life is too hectic to post too often shamefully. We have had some awesome nights out here in Edinburgh recently, with a climax being Vicarious Bliss from the Ed Banger team, who I’ve previously featured here, and they put every other DJ in The Caves to shame (all credit to the RIP boys who put the night together).

So posting wasn’t my top priority, but work has kicked back in and instead of doing that here is the latest instalment of the Clap To The Electricity series of compilations, and as usual there are some absolute stompers, some you may have heard on the dancefloor and some you will really wish you did. I have to say that the In Digital Time remix of TV On The Radio and Knightlife remix of the Bag Raiders are two of my favourite tracks I have posted on here. The TV On The Radio track feels like a party tune as opposed to its previous state as a come down chiller, and the Bag raiders just makes me want to hit the dancefloor. That’s not to say the other aren’t superb though. The Annie remix is one of MSTRKRFT’s finest, making that song sound as it always should have done, Spitzer cranked out another fine Kylie remix and We Are Terrorists and T.E.D.D have created some of their own brand of electro awesomeness. Ending with Soulwax remix always makes for a good mix :)

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If you are struggling to download any of the individual tracks from my file server you can also get them at:
Drop.io/electricity7

You can also download the whole mix as a zip file:
Clap Your Hands to the Electricity Vol.7

Clap To The Electricity Vol.6

By: Tim

30 December 2007

In: Mixtapes, News & Leaks

10 comments

Hope you all had a good Christmas and have something massive planned for new year. I couldn’t let it slip by without posting up some of these crackers which make up, yup, Clap Your Hands To The Electricity 6. As per usual, we’ve got some of the established (Digitalism and Thomas Bangalter) and some of the new (Hot Pink Delorean and Danger) and they are all beautiful. And by beautiful I mean shifting to some dirty synths and beats with a little bit of pop mixed in for sweetness.

I’ve got a Best Of 2007 compilation to get up tomorrow and another Snazzy mix ready to go. Busy, busy week – watch this space

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