I needed something to really pull me back into this.
November 25, 2009 | Filed Under exclusive, music, tuftsmania exclusive | 3 Comments
image: flickr (repost? i can’t remember)
Luckily my friends at Binary and Nightwaves were eager to help. Feeling like a match made in the dreamwave heavens, a connection was made between Despotz Records‘ own ultra-pop-funk O’Spada and Binary’s Nightwaves. They were given the task to remix/rework/whatever you want to call it O’Spada’s latest single, “Ten Strikes”. After just a short time they were ready to deliver the final product.
The result: TWO amazing renditions of one excellent original track. yew! Taking the original clean-cut/pop-funk groove, Nightwaves, took O’Spada to the land of bongos and reverberating synths. They did what they do best by creating an impossibly dreamy atmosphere and turned this squeaky clean track into a dream of cosmic proportions. TWICE.
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O’Spada – Ten Strikes (Nightwaves Midnight Fire Remix) –It starts fairly minimal with skeletal rhythm and stark vocals which gradually builds atmosphere –eventually into a thick pulsing aural beast just before breaking to the amazingly lovely chorus progression. so smooth. a knife through butter, creamy camembert, etc. massaging your auditories.
take note: BONGOS BONGOS BONGOS!!!!
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O’Spada – Ten Strikes (Nightwaves’ Sunday Morning Remix) –hand claps, reverb, and FM synths on a sunday morning is the best way to have any morning.
So which one is your favorite? Both? Thought so. No, but really. Let’s hear it.
For those of you who are just joining the mania, O’Spada is AWESOMELY fresh. You can hear what I posted about them a while ago, here.
BONUS:
Here’s the original version of O’Spada’s ‘Ten Strikes’
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Shouts to all who put in the time to make this happen. Bloodthirsty Crew, Carl-Marcus, Josh, Kyle, the whole Binary Fam, O’Spada.
20 minutes (+/- 1)
June 25, 2009 | Filed Under music, tuftsmania exclusive | 6 Comments
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Oh, hey there. Just wanted to stop by and say hello. I’m still here, but barely…for now. To update you, I’ve been antisocial, keeping to myself and locked indoors; playing back records and music in the comfort of my own filth. Here’s a taste of what’s to come. You will be pleased.
Ed: It has a bit of a lazy start. apologies, I did this during breakfast. Groggy jones.
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TUFTSMANIA – 20min Breakfast mix (DOWNLOAD, right click and save as)
Tracklist:
- The Videoband – Sun & Dust
- Nijel – All night Dancing (Casual Touch Mix)
- The Videoband – The Forces (unreleased)
- Tiga – Shoes (BENI remix)
- Animal Collective – My Girls (Gigamesh ‘Proper House’ Remix) – O M G .
- Maybb – Touring in NY
- Daft Punk – Nightvision (The Twelves Cover)
OK. Will you LISTEN to the Gigamesh remix of ‘My Girls’?? IT IS OUT OF CONTROL. I’ve been repeating it for a month and my goosebumps haven’t gone away.
Also, The Videoband is fucking BACK people. Seriously. Go buy the brand new EP right. now. I’m not messing around.
BONUS:
here’s the Videoband’s bootleg ‘Shut up Chris Martin remix’ of Coldplay. Thank God someone shut that guy up already.
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Coldplay - life in technycolor II (The videoband’s shut up chris martin remix)
YELLE
August 4, 2008 | Filed Under music, tuftsmania exclusive | 5 Comments
I got this e-mail last week stating it would debut on perezhilton last friday. After a weekend hiatus, I decided to try to find the premiere material to no avail.
So here you have it friends, YELLE’s new video, “Ce Jeu”, is officially premiering right here and now on TUFTSMANIA.
this is the most official official release ever, officially.
POOL PARTY @ TUFTSMANIA (tracklist in comments)
June 16, 2008 | Filed Under music, photography, tuftsmania exclusive | 9 Comments
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It’s been obscenely hot in LA and when it’s hot, you have a pool party. One of the requirements of a successful pool party is excellent music.
Who gives a shit about smooth technical mixing when you’re too busy blasting your friend with a Super Soaker 2000 Death Cannon Triple Barrel Lazer Machine Hydromaster?
exactly.
also, big ups to Hacks from Resonator Mag for reminding me about the 80kidz remix of “Knock Out”.
TUFTSMANIA – When you are on fire, Pool Party (right click, save as)
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Franki Chan from IHEARTCOMIX also sent this little gem of a mixtape over to me. It has a tracklist that is pretty much all 5-stars in my itunes, so you should check it out.
Franki Chan Exclusive NLLR Mix (right click, save as)
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PS: what’s the deal with hotlinking files? Obviously it’s an easy way to link to a file/mp3/whatever, but it totally kills me these days. I’m not making any money from this website, and when another site (sometimes even sponsored, to remain nameless) hotlinks to the files hosted on this site, I over-run my bandwidth allotment. I have TONS of bandwidth and it is usually pretty hard to do, but once it’s linked outside on other bigger websites, game over. There really aren’t any excuses with the multitudes of free online file hosting (zshare, megaupload, yousendit.)
I could care less about ‘being the first’ to break news on a track,
I could care less about getting credit for ‘being the source’ of a track,
and I could care less about getting a huge reader base.
Getting quality visitors works well enough by word of mouth.
So, other leechy music blogs, let’s show some proper netiquette…
…AND SAVE ME THE BANDWIDTH OVER-USAGE MONEY!
this is why lithuania will kick your ass
April 8, 2008 | Filed Under day to day, photography, tuftsmania exclusive | 3 Comments
image: tufts vs cits
I’ve been following Metal on Metal for quite a bit now but it’s been a chore trying to get into contact with them. Luckily, I have good friends in Lithuania hooking me up… you know who you are!
“…We don’t like this new act, called Nicolas Sarkozy though, he talks too much.” -Metal on Metal
Previously known as Nesakyk Mamai! or Don’t tell your Mom, Metal on Metal has been steadily infiltrating the ears of people all over europe. Why the HELL, don’t they get more love over here beats me. I seem to be interested in all the wrong bands??? (hellz no) Their originals and re-works are really something else and lately, they’ve been getting straight up grips of remix work on their plates. Just look at the hit list on their myspace.
I’m sitting on a most recent commissioned remix of Blood Red Shoes, which is a heavy track on its own, but with the MoM touch… fucking insane, no questions asked.
I’ll be over there. Blasting everyone’s brains out with this track. No big deal.
It seriously gets hectic, and I’d have it no other way. What? I can’t hear you, my ears are bleeding.
Blood Red Shoes – I Wish I Was Someone Better (Metal On Metal Remake) *tuftsmania exxxxxclusiveeeeeee <3
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Keep checking their myspace for their latest EP, Slaughterhouse, full of original sounds, to be released in the future! You can bet it will be covered here as well.
Answers to the world’s questions provided by none other than Lithuania’s only, Metal on Metal.
hit the jump to find out what they think about the finer things in life. (you really want to)
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