self described “happy music for sad people”
I’ve been really into Darwin Deez for the past few weeks. The band has been getting a lot of good press online and are one of my votes for Mill acts in 2010.
Darwin Deez - “Radar Detector” (mp3 from WRMC)
The poppy guitars and claps of Radar Detector feels like it was jacked from the first season of the OC, but the simplicity and quirkiness of the song gives it more personality.
Bonus - Xaphoon Jones, creator of indie-gone-hiphop tracks for Chiddy Bang has remixed the song, giving it his usual grimy synth beat. The vocal sample sounds good and the change in the song’s tone is creative take on a cutesy synth-pop song.
Darwin Deez - “Radar Detector (Xaphoon Remix)” (mp3 from Den of Vice)
Reblogged from Neon Gold Beat Company:
Just in time for summer, Chiddy Bang roll through with one of the first block party anthems of the season. Sampling one of the biggest hits of the blog era is a surefire way to get your name out there, but any attempts to pass Chiddy Bang’s remix of “Kids” off as anything less than amazing fall flat once that chopped up synth sample drops and the beat takes off. The MGMT original was the soundtrack to thousands of late summer nights last year and spawned just as many remixes, but Chiddy Bang’s effort sits head and shoulders above the rest and establishes them as ones to watch in the months to come. Only just wrapping up their first year of college in Philadelphia, the hip hop sensations-in-waiting already have a handful of sick tracks in their repertoire, and if they can follow up their ace remix work with some solid originals of their own they’ll be a force to reckon with before the year is out. Recognize.
Awesome semseter end anthem. Pump it hard this summer.
