As we’re just about primed for the big 90s hipsterevival, we think it’s high time to bring back some rave-core casio samples with our thump thump.

Can’t quite let go of that dirty synth though.

Todd Edwards - The Messenger / So Real

T Raumschmiere - E

Hail Social - No Paradise (Adeyhawke Mix)

Without the aplomb and will of a sweater wandering into a suit, it takes a rare band or person to successfully remix drunk singing favorite I Will Survive (curiously unsung at the last karaoke gathering) without falling into full out camp. But before ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’ became a rallying cry for rubber-obsessed internet fans, Erasure in 1991 managed to pull off a great version that could appease both lovers of intense synth and Gloria Gaynor impersonators. The track remains as ripe today.

Erasure - I Love to Hate You

Plunking along the BQE, one cherishes Sir John Bejtman’s* flamboyant call for the destruction of publicly funded shitholes rather than a cheesy epic sonata celebrating their existence. The English have some sort of knack for grand explosions, which probably includes some lame excuse for why their bars still close at 11pm and something about the War of Independence and gunpowder, though I’m in no mood to do any real research about it. That’s why, then, it comes as no surprise that a bomb-worthy megahit comes in the new Kate Nash song about kissing boys and not getting into relationships. Where would-be clusterfucking Americans reach transcendent heights by trampling each other for discounted spatulas, Nash’s bomb eviscerates any kind of real connection by just being a cheesy bitch. And that’s pretty cool.

Kate Nash - Pumpkin Soup
TS Eliot reading Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

* This link indicates quite nicely why Brits trained at the Oxbridge institutions are the biggest wanks in the world. Read it and see if it makes any fucking sense.

Imagine sutured ears listening to inane philosophical arguments. Imagine a pulse pounding beat so full of liquid gold it makes the Gowanus Canal seem like the fucking Aral Sea. Trip-hop double-duo single-quartet band Professor Murder kicks off their annual Italian Street Fair Festivals Festival with a piece so wonderful you gotta wonder where they got the drum samples to make the thing fall so quickly in line. Paired with a great drink, this new track has all the makings of a four-million-dollar condo, and then some.

Professor Murder - Flex-It Formula

David Lynch and Donovan are both totally into Transcendental Meditation [TM(tm)]. Last week, Lynch went to Berlin and got up on stage with a Tranzendental Deutchmann who promised an Invincible Germany–awkward!!! Trentemoller’s (more tolerable) remix of Moby’s rave anthem ‘Go’ samples the Twin Peaks theme. We’re not sure if Moby is a TMer, but he does sell very expensive tea under the guise of cuteness. In 1996 I was at a corn-cob barbeque in upstate New York with the guy. He had a young blond girlfriend and my friends and I got drunk and danced the Macarena on the dock in the lake.

Donovan - Get Thy Bearings
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme
Moby - Go (Trentemoller Remix)