Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
Genre: Alternative
This is actually the first Passion Pit song I heard, and fell in love with. Listen and learn.
Kid Cudi & Dan Black - Symphonies Video
I got turned onto Dan Black last spring with his cover of Notorious BIG’s Hypnotize.
He took the same beat, made an original track called Symphonies, and did a remix with Kid Cudi. That’s a lot of mileage out of one track.
Anyways, the music video for the Kid Cudi remix came out this week and I think it’s pretty fresh. Like Justice’s DVNO video’s use of logos, Black and Cudi pay homage to a wide variety of movie title sequences.
BONUS
1) our new friend Jeff put together this Passion Pit remix of the original Symphonies. This wasn’t part of the playlist Tuesday night but still gives me flashbacks to that after-party. Listen to it here (mp3/right-click to download)
2) If you’re a fan of classic movie titles, check out this website, The Art of the Title - it compiles the best title sequences in the past 20 years. Random, but awesome! Below are a few of my favorites.
Older movies are way better but I can’t find many online.
MAY 4 IS ALMOST HERE!
I’m sure you’re aware by now, but The Mill is throwing a HUGE show on Tuesday 5/4 featuring some pretty sweet acts, and they are….
THEOPHILUS LONDON
This guy has been making moves in the indie-hip-hop realm like nobody’s business, and it’s no mystery why. His style is sick, a perfect union between production and rap. His samples are perfectly selected and placed, and span everything, from Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston to techno beats that were premiered last week. His flow is completely different - he’s got this preach-hiss-sing aspect to his voice that is reminiscent of nothing I’ve heard before. He’s got a little electro, a little R&B. All in all, Theophilus has the best of every world in hip-hop right now. If you’re interested in his music, you’re in luck. All of his mixtapes are available for free online, as he hasn’t released his first full-length yet. Check them out here:
- I WANT YOU (released 4/10)
- This Charming Mixtape (released 1/09)
- JAM! (released 4/08)
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SAVOIR ADORE
Savoir is a full, five-piece pop-rock outfit from Brooklyn. Their style is simple, but infectious - their sound is raw and polished, focusing on melodies that glide through one ear and out the other with ease. They’re just damn fun and effortless, and perhaps that’s what makes them so endearing considering the movement towards overproduction and over-complication in the studio and on the stage (of which we are all certainly a willing participant). Savoir is signed to Cantora Records, who held a showcase at The Mill last fall that featured Bear Hands and Rumspringa. Now, Savoir is ready to blow the lid off this place. Should be difficult considering we’re outside, but still… Check these tracks.
- Bodies (mp3)
- We Talk Like Machines (mp3)
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WET BANDITS
You probably know these guys as Ayad and Jeff from a little band called Passion Pit, in which Ayad serves as the lead sampler and Jeff does synth work. Anyway, these guys also DJ under the name Wet Bandits and, well, I have no clue what to expect. But hey - these guys know what they’re doing. Here are a couple of their remixes you shouldn’t miss.
- Chairlift - Bruises (Passion Pit Remix) (mp3)
- Two Door cinema Club - Undercover Martyn (Passion Pit Remix) (mp3)
- Lady Gaga - Telephone (Passion Pit Remix) (mp3)
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SLEEPY MAILBOXES
Trinity College’s own Alli Millstein will be opening this whole thing off with her new project Sleepy Mailboxes. A fun electro-ass time!
SO GET YOUR ASS TO THIS SHOW! IT’S GOING TO BE ABSOLUTELY EPIC! TICKETS ARE $5! RESERVE THEM NOW! SEND AN E-MAIL WITH HOW MANY YOU’D LIKE TOMILLTIX@GMAIL.COM!
New Shout Out Louds album released February 23rd! It’s called Work, and the singles “Walls” and “Fall Hard” were released earlier this year. While they kept their signature cute background melodies, this new album has gone a step further. Although their previous album, Our Ill Wills, has distinct tempo changes and a profound message about traveling away from home, Work has allowed the band to come back home with a more simple and upbeat outcome. When I listened through the album, there was hardly a song that I didn’t put on my ipod playlist.
Get “Walls” and “Fall Hard” (Passion Pit Remix) here. (Song above is regular version of “Fall Hard”)
Also, an actual The Morning Benders album will be released on March 9th. I first heard of them when they opened for The Kooks a couple of years ago, but they only had EPs being released then. The Morning Benders’ new album is called Big Echo, and they have certainly grown as a band since I heard them last. The lead singer’s voice is something I have never quite heard before. The only way I can describe this band is if The Shins had a distant cousin…. Anyway, the only single that is available is “Excuses,” and by golly is it great. There are also other songs from their previous album/EP. Download it all here.
enjoy, millbillies
Wolfgang Amadeus Remix
so much activity on the Mill blog - i love it.
here are 2 fantastic remixes off a recently released mixtape of Phoenix’s 2008 summer jam-filled Album
Rome (Neighbors Remix with Devendra Banhart) - a nice trance effort by Neighbors with Devendra Banhart adding some funky echoes to Phoenix’s vocals
Love Like a Sunset (Animal Collective’s Remix - Deakin’s Jam) - Animal Collective adds their signature sound to this epic track, with catchy piano hooks, sporadic percussion and trippy vocals. They cut the song in half, while maintaining the huge build up of the song.
It’s nice to see remixes not having to have pulsating bass and flashy synths!
Also check out remixes by Passion Pit, Friendly Fires, and Chairlift!
While remixes of Passion Pit’s Sleepyhead are becoming less exciting, this cover breathes fresh life into the track. Ellie Goulding first came onto my radar with her cover of Bon Iver’s “Wolves”, the song managed to take the already etherreal track to a more minimally beautiful sound.
With the help of Starsmith, she mellows out the Passion Pit boys and gives the song a much more laid back make over. It’s great to hear an excellent acoustic musician take on electro beats flawlessly.
Passion Pit has obviously blown up into the news bees knees of the indie rock world, and while franny and I may still harbor feelings of embitterment, it would be cruel to deny the greatness that is “Manners.” Some dirty dog leaked this shit a week ago so I don’t feel bad posting this song on the blog since its already all over the internet. Its called “Seaweed Song” and its definitely one of my favorites from the album. The part where he goes “Nobody knows you like you know you/ but i think i do” - ah that shit just slays me- so go ahead, hop aboard this jam and dont look back
Little Secrets is the only thing getting me through my final papers- arguably the best use of a childrens chorus ever (besides the obvious MGMT song, and that awesome/creepy song from The Lost Boys that plays whenever they do big aerial shots of California). Let me know what you think, and you can catch PP all over the place soon- Bonnaroo, Lolla, 2 shows in June in NYC at Bowery, and undoubtably all over the radio station because this album is going to be HUUUUUUGE. But please, please, please, buy a copy of it when it comes out- this will be something you’ll want in your car stereo all summer long, EVERY SONG IS THAT GOOD
