Hot Chip - Flutes (Sasha remix)
The still excellent and somehow still progressive Sasha turns in a patient but dance floor destroying remix that betters Hot Chip’s awesome original. 2012 has been kind enough to allow me to see both Hot Chip and Sasha live and I couldn’t recommend either act more enthusiastically.
The XX - Sunset
There are some achingly beautiful songs on the new XX record.
Sofia Coppola photographed by Michel Comte
Poolside - Without You
Unsurprisingly, a band named Poolside made the best summer record of the year. The debut, Pacific Standard Time is out today. All you need to know about it: the genre ID3 tag reads “Daytime Disco” and the whole record pretty much rules.
I went to the Miami Heat championship parade yesterday.
Victory parades are uniquely visceral and massive, as well as a great excuse to start drinking before 10am. Hundreds of thousands of fans unencumbered by expectations or entrance fees make for some astoundingly loud screaming.
Last Thursday at 4am, I sat on my balcony more tired and drunk than I’d probably ever been. The rowdy celebration on Biscayne Blvd had settled into a half-dozen maniacs shooting illegal fireworks off in front of the arena. My intoxicated elation started to turn into a creeping emptiness. How many hours did 89 games work out to? How much money did I spend on bar tabs? Can I honestly say I’ve thought about anything other than the Heat for the last two months?
Satisfaction from simply being a fan is best understood in hindsight. The two-week drinking break I’m now on, the bruises on my leg from jumping off a news van, the video of me running shirtless doing the ‘Jump Around’ dance for an embarrassingly long period of time. Scattered memories of emotions I wouldn’t have otherwise felt danced through me until they culminated in a crowded and very hot parade.
It felt like a city-wide sigh of relief, our oft-maligned fans crawled out of the sports bars and couch grooves that our lives had become and realized that the best course of action was to just keep yelling.
(also: try to spot the Larry O’Brien trophy in the picture above)
Kewpie Mayonnaise is the greatest condiment ever.
Clams Casino - Unchain Me
I started this day excited that I could hear the new Hot Chip on NPR and now I’ve left it blown away by Clams Casino’s new and very free instrumental mixtape. Put this on and get back to whatever you were up to before.
Cafeteria Mix - Volume 2 - Spring 2012
Here’s a bunch of songs I’ve liked this spring (some of which I’ve featured on here.) I mix about as well as your iTunes but I like all these songs and this is not too shabby an order to consume them in.
Tracklist:
Chromatics - These Streets Will Never Look The Same
Maceo Plex - Gravy Train (Nicolas Jaar Remix)
Poolside - Take Me Home
Studio - Out There (Edit)
Laurent Garnier - Jacques in the Box
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Tapes & Money
Hot Chip - Flutes
John Talabot (feat Pional) - So Will Be Now
Also: Here’s a link to Volume 1
Source: SoundCloud / Cafeteria
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Tapes & Money
The best Hot Chip song that isn’t a Hot Chip song.
Wilco - Company In My Back
Wilco is the best band to not listen to for years and then re-obsess over. Jeff Tweedy never wrote a better non-sequitur than “I move so slow, a steady crushing hand. Holy shit there’s a company in my back.”
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