More Super Downtempo

Hey, y'all!

I've been into super downtempo music for some reason, and I happened upon this song whilst stalking Lorde's youtube page (she talked about liking the artist in an interview). But my Lorde fangirling is a topic for another time!

The artist is SOHN, and he's got a really cool, ambient, pulsing electronic feel to his songs. They've also got some cool vocal effects that remind me a bit of Adventure Club and The Kite String Tangle. The song I picked is Lessons, which I think has the best and most beautifully lowered vocals I've heard (better than the BBC remix of Little Talks and the Cyril Hahn remix of Say My Name). Anyway, here it is!

Super Downtempo

Hey, hope y'all had a great weekend! I mostly just sat around in sweatpants, watching movies and eating chocolate cappuccino cheesecake... #bejealous.

Anyway, today's song is a super downtempo one, which I find good since Mondays aren't usually hyperactive for me. This song is a cover of Drake's song Hold On, We're Coming Home done by ASTR (most known for their track Operate). It's really nice and relaxing and smooth, and a great way to unwind after getting coffee spilt all over yourself and your backpack... #dontbejealous.

Also, this is a free download! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy free.

Indie Electro House

Oh hello!

Today's song is a good example of a crossover trend that Avicii kind of kick-started with his UMF 2013 set, which basically entails a mixture of indie/folk/country tracks being hybridized with electronic and progressive house songs. Maybe I'll post one of Avicii's tracks another day, but today's track is All These Roads by Sultan & Ned Shepard (vocals by Zella Day and Sam Martin). It's got a super catchy beat and some good ol' electronic horns, along with that ever-so-indie male-female harmony. Hope you like it!

1+1=2

Hello there!

Today's song is by one artist I love featuring another artist I love, so that's neat. The song is Wonder by Adventure Club featuring The Kite String Tangle on vocals, and it's a pretty calming electronic house song. Smooth synths and a cool base line with Adventure Club's signature flowy vocal slices make for a pretty solid tune! Hope you enjoy it!

Music Ketchup 10: Waiting For You

We're at music ketchup number ten now! I think this will be it, and I'll just keep posting songs daily for a while since I have a few more stored up. Anyway, here's another Oliver remix, only this time it's of a Kris Menace song (which is cool since one member of Oliver did a remix of a Kris Menace song years ago back when he was U-Tern). The song is called Waiting For You (feat. Black Hills), and here it is!

Music Ketchup 9: Heart of Glass

On the ninth post of music ketchup, Jacob gave to youuuuuu... a

Flashback Alert!

This here's a remix by Oliver and Thee Mike B of a classic song by Blondie, Heart of Glass. It's very disco, and I love it. Oh, and it's free!

Music Ketchup 8: Shot At Night

Ketchup song number eight is a remix of a Killer's song called Shot at the Night. Cazzette did the remix as a more sped up version of the original, and I really like it. The original felt too slow, in my opinion.

Music Ketchup 7: Bravado

I don't know if I've ever posted Lorde on here, but I absolutely love her. This is one of my favorite songs by her. I don't really love her new album, but her initial EP was fantastic (especially this song, The Love Club and Royals). Anyway, this song is called Bravado, and it has some great vocal layering and a really neat, simplistic synth and drums backtrack. I know that Lorde's pretty well-known now, but this song is still worth posting, in my opinion.

Music Ketchup 6: Given The Chance

Ketchup song number six is a really eclectic indie electronic song that's surprisingly heartfelt. I love the crinkly distortion on the synths, and the random pitch-changed vocal slices. Overall, it's a beautifully written and arranged song. It's busy, but it's good busy... like party hopping.

Music Ketchup 5: Little Talks

I don't even know, guys. This remix is really really strange, but I kind of like it. I guess it's what happens when an indie rock band remixes an indie folk song. It's got some weird, lowered female vocals (probably not as successful as that of Cyril Hahn's Destiny's Child remix, but still good) and some great brass and drums. I enjoy it, but I don't know if I should feel bad about enjoying it.

Music Ketchup 4: Changing of the Seasons

Okay so I almost always like Two Door Cinema Club, and they sometimes get actually good remixes, which is strange to me since I don't usually like remixes of indie rock songs. But either way, this is a super cool remix of their single Changing of the Seasons by Belarbi. It's got a cool ambient piano/melodic bass combo thing going on, and it's very dance-able (if only I could dance).

Music Ketchup 3: Another Story

You guys, The Head and The Heart came out with a new album mid-October! Pretty exciting! Here's their second single from the album, titled Another Story, as ketchup song number 3.

Music Ketchup 2: Alive

Another ketchup song!

This one's a catchy indie dance track by Black Van featuring Deidre Muro called Alive. It has a smooth, calming yet uplifting feel to it, and I'm a sucker for vocal slices.

Music Ketchup 1: Indian Summer

Ahh, I haven't posted in forever! I didn't post any songs in October, nor did I ever finish September... so I'm going to catch up now with a series of posts, and make September-November into one single playlist!

First ketchup song is a happy indie electro song made for summer, but I think it's always applicable! Makes me happy :) Here's Lenno's remix of Indian Summer by Rasmus Faber (featuring vocals from Frida Sundemo).


More songs to come!

Stale(room)mate

Hello! It is I, the male counterpart of this blog, making a dramatic re-entrance after not posting forever! I know you can't physically see the re-entrance and its epicness, but if you could, it'd be like this:

But yeah, I feel like I should post to the main wall of this blog since if I just post music thingies in the background nobody would even notice. So here comes a story, kids!

For those of you who don't know, I have a roommate. People call him Twitchy. I call him Tater Tot, because he's okay with people calling him Twitchy and not okay with people calling him Tater Tot. 

But yes, herein lies the problem. We're weirdly compatible as friends, and it's kind of a bad thing for me. 

Here's a little bit of insight into how I interact with friends: I push boundaries. Once I've been friends with you for long enough, I get a good feeling for how much you can tolerate in terms of teasing and such. Then I proceed to dance on that line for the rest of said friendship as such:

So yeah, I can be pretty out there in social situations. Tater Tot, however, is passive in most that he does. I've been friends with him for a while and have yet to find a line on which to dance. This creates some awkward moments when I try to make him uncomfortable and it just... doesn't work. 

An example of this was when I was (badly) playing the piano once, and he came over and asked to play something. I felt like being annoying, and only gave him half the chair on which to sit. While he played a tune with his right hand, I proceeded to pull his left hand around my neck and hold it with both hands against my solar plexus, thinking that he'd tolerate it for about twenty seconds, then get up and give me the chair back. But alas, I was mistaken. We probably sat there for over five minutes, stuck in a stalemate of awkward proportions, each of us testing how long the other would last. You could cut the tension with a knife.

I forget who gave in, but it resulted in a picture on a cellphone that I hope never gets posted to Facebook. Maybe I will eventually find my roommate's tolerance line... that is my dream...

Jacob