December 2008
11 posts
Best of 2008 - Part IV: The First Five
The Best Albums of 2008: 5-1
5. Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
The debut of Pnau genuis’ other project, Empire of the Sun, is a gorgeous space-glam opera. Australia is really full of bands now who can mix this dreamwave-indie-pop into the nu-disco with taste. In addition, Walking on a Dream has a great concept both musically and visually and conjures a world that you can nearly...
Best of 2008 - Part III
Best Albums of 2008: 10-6
10. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Of Montreal’s Skeletal Lamping is the most delightful example of avantgard-pop creativity. Keeping indie relevant and showing off the cheerful side of pop-music art, Kevin Barnes, at least we hope, has many many more songs and albums to give birth to from the womb of his musical imagination. (Don’t worry, gonna drop the...
Best of 2008 - Part II
Best Albums of 2008: 15-11
15. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
France is not only the cutting edge of electronic music but there may be something in the water there and they have a talent for tap in to the heartbeat of the pop music generation. With the themes of love, teenagers…Anthony Gonzalez manages to mush together these elements into a great shoegaze-synth odyssey. M83 songs are perfect...
Best of 2008 - Part I
Hiya! Short explanation first. Kunk’s best albums of the year posts start now. Top 20 albums will be shared in 4 days and will be followed by the 40 best tracks remixes on the last day. The list isn’t totally personal nor is an official list of our blog but balanced somewhere between it. It’s really hard to decide on the criteria of bestness: close to the heart, banging the...
It’s a Fetish You All
Some are into leather, some are into lace. Some are into copious amounts of latex. Some girls like cups filled with brown goo. But whatever your ‘thang, there’s a little fetishist in all of us. For example, i fetishize Carl Sagan… but i’m strange like that. This being established, there’ll be a little something for all of us with the inner child who begs to be let out...
One More Devoted to Woah
Maybe I should feel ashamed of my attempt to pimp our Saturday party this much but I have my non-selfish reasons too. For one, it’s a remix by Clockwork, superbly talented youngster from LA. His name is Henry Steinway and he’s so nice, he keeps sending us his newest productions. This one is not his newest but still… Woah is a glorious dancefloor-filler in itself and Clockwork...
Grum Comes
Er… you catch my drift. Unless you’ve been under a wet rock you haven’t been able to avoid the awesomeness emanating out of this young man’s lappy in the last half-year. His edit of Anoraak’s Nightdrive with You vaulted the track into iconic status, while his broad assortment of other remix work has been no less solid, and we’ve touched on it round here before....
A Knight’s Life is a Fabulously Dangerous One
Cannot resist factor is very high on this ditty by Knightlife, which is actually a take on a track by the Bag Raiders, and the Time Bandits, smushed together into one tasty thing. (thanks rashers) Wailing synths: check. Groove: check. ‘Soundtrack to something’ feeling: check. Chasing something at night: check. Fabulously dangerous: check. I guess one could classify it as a sickness...
CFCF Panesi… The Presets remix
Whoa, I’m really into CFCF right now. I was too before but after a couple times listening to his Panesian Nights EP I’m blown away. Beautiful night-sky music. You know, music of the spheres and all that shit injected into a crappy sci-fi movie. Seeing that the tracks were removed from Waves at Night, I decided that I’d share The Presets remix. Weirdest remix of Talk Like That....
Be Careful the Sun Will Burns You
Linus Loves just hit us up with the latest effort by AustraliaEngland-based Burns, whose been churning out quite a few of late. This time he turns the laptop dial onto Aussie Nick Littlemore’s Empire of the Sun. BTW Littlemore should totally name it Empire of Australia since between that act and Pnau and all the other stuff he’s like in like 30% of the country’s exports. But i...
Pilooski Cheers Us
Just so y’all know kunkers are still around… but a little St. Nicolas day chocolate overdose has slowed down our keyboard fingers. Not to worry, we’re all good and only on the up and up. As you already know i’m a fan of Pilooski and we did a little bloggy stuff on him a while back.
A banger this remix of Findlay Brown is not, but you wouldn’t expect that anyhow....