Posts Tagged ‘Salem’

LivingEars Radio 08.21.10

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Tune into UtahFM every Saturday night 9-10:30 MDT to catch me spinning (digitally) the latest and greatest…

You can listen to a replay of the show at your convenience for the next two weeks right here.

UtahFM is looking for a few good men & women to host shows. If you think you are interesting and others think you are interesting and you have an interesting idea for a show… do something about it and contact me.

LivingEars Radio 08.21.10 Playlist

Big Boi – You Ain’t No Dj
Kanye West – Power (Remix ftg. Jay-Z)
Cee-Lo - Fuck You
Florrie – Come Back to Mine (Elite Gymnastics Remix)
Dominant Legs – Young at Love and Life
The Walkmen – All My Great Designs
Appaloosa – Intimate (Glass Candy Remix)
Miami Horror – Moon Theory (Baby Monster Remix)
Beat Connection – Silver Screen
Small Black – Photojournalist (Star Slinger Remix)
Miami Horror – Soft Light
Chromeo – Don’t Turn the Lights On (Aeroplane Remix)
Keep Shelly in Athens – A tear in my i
Hard Mix – Memories
Chad Valley - Anything
Little Boots – Earthquake (Charm of Existence Darkmix)
Salem – ASIA

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LivingEars Radio 08.14.10

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Tune into UtahFM every Saturday night 9-10:30 MDT to catch me spinning (digitally) the latest and greatest…

You can listen to a replay of the show at your convenience for the next two weeks right here.

UtahFM is looking for a few good men & women to host shows. If you think you are interesting and others think you are interesting and you have an interesting idea for a show… do something about it and contact me.

LivingEars Radio 08.14.10 Playlist

CFCF – Letters Home (Memoryhouse Remix)
These New Puritans – Hologram (Salem Remix)
No Age – Glitter
Teengirl Fantasy – Cheaters
Magic Places – Digital Lightspeed
Keep Shelly in Athens – A tear in my i
Teen Daze – Spin Around, Go Ahead
Beat Connection – Theme From Yours Truly
Teen Daze – Gone for the Summer
Beat Connection – Same Damn Time
The Avalanches – Radio
Star Slinger – Hold Me (Teams vs Star Slinger)
The Avalances – Live at Dominoes
Skream – Where You Should Be
LCD Soundsystem – I Can Change (Tiga Remix)
KXP – Pockets (Annie Vocal Mix)
The Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

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Salem – Dis Raver Stay Wif Me

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Fresh off the decks is a new mix from night crawler trio Salem. Perhaps the first chopped and screwed mix featuring rave hits?? I found this over at Dis Magazine. There is no tracklist, drop the names of the tracks you recognize in the comments… The second track is “Better Off Alone” by Alice DJ. The last track is “Forever Young” and is definitely the highlight. A classic brought to a syrupy speed…

Salem – DIS RAVER STAY WIF ME

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Drag

Friday, April 9th, 2010

 

The Guardian recently published an article called “Scene and heard: Drag.” They get into the emergence of artists such as Balam Acab, Salem, oOoOO and the short history of chopped and screwed, syrupy slow hip hop and what it has morphed into in a short amount of time.

This is one of my favorite things happening in music right now. You’ve seen many of these songs and this type of music here for quite some time.

Here is a little roundup:

White Ring – IxC999
Salem – Tent
Balam Acab – Heavy Living Things
Balam Acab – See Birds
Lil Wayne – Lollipop (Chopped and Screwed by DJ Young Redd)
oOoOO – Mumbai

As previously reportedRobin from 20 Jazz Funk Greats has started up a new label, Tri Angle, supporting this scene. If you want to find one of the originals check out this label Disaro from Houston. Looking forward to what’s to come from all of this.

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SXSW2010: Salem

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

The video above I took my first day at SXSW. Salem closed the iamsound party playing after jj and Sleigh Bells. Most of the crowd bounced after Sleigh Bells and it was really, really late at this point. The sound guys were awfully slow at getting bands set up so Salem only got to play 4 songs.

John (the guy rapping above) took to the mic and performed “Trapdoor” and “Tent.” On record his voice is heavily altered, making him sound more like a 400 pound black guy than the 20′ish year old scrawny bro that he is. Frankly I’m having a hard time coming up with words to describe the performance. This is a band most will find better suited to record. I left a little bewildered.

My initial reaction was ‘this kind of sucked’ but what with the pentagram necklaces, the passed out groupie mid-stage, the girl from The Ring bobbing all over the stage in front of me, Heather’s thigh high leather boots and the unflinching death glare from John, the more I think about the performance the more I find to like about it.

There have also been stories about the band getting booed off the Faderfort stage. The comments section on this post on Fader is a pretty great read and gets into live bands vs recorded bands as well as editors possibly trying to control their staff a bit too much.

I think what it comes down to is: did you enjoy the performance? I saw them twice and until I had a few days to ruminate on the experience I don’t think I had anything positive to say though I was certainly telling everyone I saw about how bizarre it was. In the end there was certainly no band I wanted to listen to more post-sxsw than Salem. So, I think that says a lot.

Salem - Trapdoor
Salem – Tent
Salem – Redlights
Salem – Frost

Here are a couple of mixes:
Salem – We Make It Good Vol. 11
Salem – XXJFG Mix

And some of Jack’s other hiphop leaning tracks.
Salem x Gucci Mane – Bird Flu
Salem x Gucci Mane – Round One

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5 Helloween Mixtapes

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I, unfortunately, have not had time to whip up a Halloween mix but some great bloggers and musicians are here to save the day. The five following mixtapes should be enough to keep your party going all night. And please tune in to UtahFM.org to hear me keeping it creepy from 9-10:30PM on Oct31. Plenty of horror film themes and other evil tracks to bring the house down.


First up, Fever Ray has put together this exceptionally well crafted and appropriately themed mix of songs for Resident Advisor. Some have always been fairly dark and evil but some only come off that way in the greater context of the mix. It works very well and is highly recommended.

Fever Ray – RA.178


“Walk Me Home” is 17 minutes of new music from Memory Tapes. It was compiled for arawa.fm as a Halloween mix and is a bit darker than most of Memory Tapes’ material thus far. Also great.

Memory Tapes – Walk Me Home


Gorilla vs. Bear has put together a group of tracks and samples that, while not specifically Halloween related, do come together to form a dark soundtrack that works well. I love the samples and plan to play some similar things on Saturday’s show. Also, thanks to Chris for hooking up that Salem track. WEpt is about as dark and strange as I’ve heard from the band. They’re definitely on drugs, right?

Gorilla vs Bear – Halloween09


Kitsune Noir has taken a similar approach and put together a mix of spooky songs (The Horrors, Fever Ray, NIN) and a group of others that work to make the mix accessible and dark all at once (Girls, Smashing Pumpkins, Grizzly Bear). I love the artwork.

We Never Heard Its Noise | A Kitsune Noir Mixtape


And lastly, one of my favorite new bands (still calling them new until they pick up a little more notoriety), Salem, put together this mix a few months back. It’s not exactly a Halloween mix but everything this band does is ultra dark and disturbing and this is no exception. There’s even some gabba in there for you techno-heads.

Salem – XXJFG Mix

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