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LFF07: Mister Lonely Oddball celebrity impersonators, skydiving BMX nuns, proof that Werner Herzog is one of the funniest dudes alive: Mister Lonely marks the welcome return of former wunderkid-now-plain-wonderdude Harmony Korine. J Spaceman teams up with the Sun City Girls for much of the flawless soundtrack and elsewhere you'll find Diego Luna moonwalking to Spank Rock in an old people's home and Red Riding Hood singing along to John Jacob Niles's heartbreaking 1956 folk ballad. John Jacob Niles - The Maid Freed From The Gallows [mp3] [Buy] A Silver Mount Zion - 13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed [mp3] [Buy] Spank Rock - Backyard Betty [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 31/10/07 Live At The Witch Trials Mark E. Smith interviewed by some guy. With this Mark E. Smith becomes Pinglewood's Most Posted. Thank God it's not Kanye. Posted by: Scott 31/10/07 Pop And Lock Record companies seem to have decided that to sell more pop records they need to flood the internets with hipster remixes. And look, we’ve played right into their hands! Curses. Kylie Minogue - Two Hearts (Studio Version) [mp3] [More on Studio...] Britney Spears - Gimme More (Seiji Remix) [mp3] [More on Seiji...] Edit: Apologies to Seiji for mistagging this track Posted by: Scott 30/10/07 LFF07: I'm Not There Todd Hanyes's bitty, experimental Bob Dylan anti-biopic is as enigmatic and frustrating as the man himself. His disciples will love the inch-thick layer of in-jokes and you've probably heard that Cate Blanchett wins the Bob-a-like contest, but it's Charlotte Gainsbourg's heartbroken turn as Famous Dylan's wronged wife that provides the emotional core. Weird that a film about an apparent misogynist would be held together by women. Charlotte Gainsbourg & Calexico - Just Like A Woman [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 29/10/07 We Don't Need No Water L to R: Kid Sister, A-Trak, some rapper in fancy dress. Kid Sister is a force of nature. She’s now so elementally powerful her hair has turned blonde like some kind of club-rocking X-Man. The Fool’s Gold tour just passed through America’s west coast and it’s no coincidence the whole place is now on fire. Kid Sister - Switch Board [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 26/10/07 First Among Equals When they're not putting out James Jarvis t-shirts and Will Sweeney prints of fighter pilot hotdogs Alakazam are the design force behind Erol Alkan's Phantasy Sound. We're looking forward to what they come up with for the label's second release, the debut single from Primary 1. A kind soul passed us these demos and they are stellar. Oakey-doke electrofunk and an anxious falsetto. Like Calvin Harris if he wrote songs instead of choruses. He's in the studio with Epworth and Alkan RIGHT NOW and you can catch him live at Durrr over Christmas. Primary 1 - Hold Me Down (Demo) [mp3] Primary 1 - Outside (Demo) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 25/10/07 LFF07: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly The last time we cried in the cinema Macaulay Culkin had just been stung to death by killer bees (so sad!). Then last Sunday we watched The Diving Bell And The Butterfly. Julian Schnabel 's dazzlingly impressionistic adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby's book had us (us! with our ice-cold hearts!) bawling in the isles. We walked out with snotty noses, humbled by the indomitability of the human spirit. It didn't last long and we're back to hating everything now, but for a while there we felt a little weird. From the soundtrack: The Dirtbombs - Chains Of Love [mp3] [Buy] The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 23/10/07 Dances With Wolves What would Klaxons sound like if they were French? A bit boring if the latest Justice remix is anything to go by. What would Klaxons sound like if they were French Canadian? A bit like We Are Wolves and they rule. Conclusions: Klaxons should probably not change their nationality and Canadian bands should always pick a lupine name as it virtually guarantees awesomeness. We Are Wolves - Magique [mp3] [Buy] We Are Wolves - T.R.O.U.B.L.E. [mp3] [Buy] Klaxons - As Above So Below (Justice Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 22/10/07 LFF07: Eastern Promises David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises is disappointing because it’s the least Cronenbergian film he’s ever made. It’s routine. But Viggo Mortensen is awesome and spends his time playing with worry beads made in a prison from melted-down lighters, apparently given to him while he researched his role with the Moscow Mafia. Yeah, right. There's some much talked about nudey bathhouse wrestling so... Hulk Hogan & The Wrestling Boot Band - Hulkster's In The House [mp3] Posted by: Scott 19/10/07 I Can See Clearly Now Todosantos - OMG We Got It Todosantos are the Hispanic All Saints, except they're not that's just what their name means. They're actually dayglo Venezuelan lunatics camping out in Brooklyn. If you stare at this video long enough you'll see a dancing 3D penguin. That or you'll have a fit. We had no idea who these people were until Cousin Cole sent us his jacking new acid-disco remix yesterday. Thanks Cole! You made us go blind! Todosantos - OMG We Got It (Cousin Cole's El Pollo Acido Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 18/10/07 LFF07: Funny Games People have been whining about Michael Haneke’s decision to remake his horrifying 1997 film Funny Games in America. Fact is, ten years on, in a world where torture-porn is the most awesome new thing, the US edition of Funny Games is arriving at exactly the right time. [More...] Here's some easy listening from the soundtrack. John Zorn/Naked City - Bonehead [mp3] [Buy] John Zorn/Naked City - Hellraiser [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 18/10/07 Gimme 'More Baltimore must be a great place to live. A crack epidemic, John Waters, Bmore, oddball electro… It all adds up to P.A.R.T.Y. Local hero OCDJ has fused the city’s two freshest music scenes (the gogo rappyrap of Bmore and the electro-spazzery of Dan Deacon and pals) to make something he calls candy crunk. We’re sold! OCDJ - pls stp th hstl [mp3] [Buy] OCDJ - Smoke My Cheese [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 17/10/07 LFF07: Home Cinema While the light-haired (but dark-hearted) half of Pinglewood lives it up in Singapore the rest of us are spending our days in gloomy rooms, geeking out with the daylight-dodging citizens of cineland. The London Film Festival starts today so our usual stuff will be punctuated by ill-informed rubbish about films we don’t understand. You lucky, lucky people. Vampire Weekend - Exit Music (From A Film) [mp3] [Source] Posted by: Scott 17/10/07 Space Oddities They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them) - It's Always Boomtime (Part One) We love crackpots, and They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them) look like they cracked all of their pots a long, long time ago. They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them) - It's Always Boomtime (Part One) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 15/10/07 Talk Dirty We once had a degenerate online conversation that ended with us smashing our hard-drive, skipping town and burning our fingerprints off with acid.* Warp wiz Jimmy Edgar and Laura Clarke have turned their cryptic, carnal chats into a dark and dirty electro-funk record. Clearly we need to step up our banter game. *(We still do this. So smooth!) XDistrict - Color Correction [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 15/10/07 Mr West Goes To Washington Wale is fast becoming king of the remix guest verse. Kanye West - Good Life (DC Remix ft. Wale & T-Pain) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 12/10/07 Way Down In The Hole The Wire - Series 5 Promo Once again back is the incredible. Blake Leyh - The Fall (Theme from The Wire, excerpt) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 12/10/07 Takeover These are the best of times. The early days of a new (/old) sound, when it still has three or four different names. Bassline, niche, 4x4 or plain old speed garage-- whatever you want to call this, it's big (again). T2 leads the charge. T2 - Heartbroken (Remix ft. Jodie Aysha) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 10/10/07 One Last Dance Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (live on Jimmy Kimmel Live!) It was a tie between Rick and Rod, but then Stevie steals it right at the end. Posted by: Scott 10/10/07 Over The Rainbow As today’s the day that album by those dudes came out, here’s a sweet new XXXChange remix of The Eraser by one of said dudes. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (XXXChange Remix) [mp3] [Source] Posted by: Scott 10/10/07 You Ain't Got No Alibi We like to think Robert Mitchum’s dubious accent on this song proves he was the Collie Buddz of his day. Robert Mitchum - From A Logical Point Of View [mp3] Cash Money & Marvelous - Find An Ugly Woman [mp3] Posted by: Scott 10/10/07 Side By Side On My Piano Keyboard Tonight The Whitest Boy Alive play the Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen. We're going to seize this as an opportunity to promote racial harmony throughout the internets by pairing them up with the uber-buzzed Black Kids. See we had a dream too, Dr. King. But ours involved the cast of High School Musical and some yoghurt. The Whitest Boy Alive - Burning [mp3] [Buy] Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You [mp3] [Free EP...] Posted by: Scott 09/10/07 Hangin' Tough The Coathangers send out some pretty mixed messages, but they certainly seem like fun. The Coathangers - Nestle In My Boobies [mp3] [Buy] The Coathangers - Dont Touch My Shit! [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 08/10/07 Talk Radio Hey, did you hear about the new Radiohead album? What? Oh. OK. Our contribution to the BLOG FRENZY is a track from Jonny Greenwood's jazzy, avant-garde Bodysong soundtrack. Greenwood recently took time out from breaking the internets to score PT Anderson's new film, There Will Be Blood. It looks sombre, moody and joke-free. Great match, then. Jonny Greenwood - Splitter [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 05/10/07 Suspicious Minds Who needs a polygraph... Riskay - Smell Yo Dick ( ft. Aviance & Real) [mp3] [More...] Posted by: Scott 04/10/07 One More Night Today's other posts both end with the word 'Night', so this one does too. Think of it as a theme. Another theme for today (besides hangovers and the word 'Night') is awesome cover versions. Three things we've learnt today: 1) If you're going to cover the last good Chemical Brothers song then getting Au Revoir Simone in on vocals is a very good idea. 2) If you have to feature on one of the year's worst albums then protect your rep by submitting a winning version of a Teddy Riley classic. 3) Lighter fluid is not a drink. Shinichi Osawa - Star Guitar (ft. Au Revoir Simone) [mp3] [Buy] Klaxons - No Diggity [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 03/10/07 Last Night Yesterday we saw Metronomy and Foals at the Scala. It was a great show, but today we are feeling ever so weary. Expect lots of short, lazy posts, many of which won't make sense. Metronomy - Radio Ladio [mp3] [Buy] Foals - Hummer (Surkin Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 03/10/07 Fight Night Kanye missed a trick not sampling Battles on Graduation. Now all these other rappers will get on Pitchfork and he's bound to be annoyed. Battles - Leyendecker (Dj Emz W.231 Remix ft. Joell Ortiz) [mp3] [Source] Posted by: Scott 03/10/07 Until The End Ra Ra Riot - Dying Is Fine Here's a new cartoon video from FOPs Ra Ra Riot. It's colourful, cute and more than a little sinister— especially the inter-band cannibalism at the end. Posted by: Scott 02/10/07 Let It Bleed If you gave blood in the 1950s the NHS would give you a bottle of Guinness to fortify you post-donation. They don’t do that anymore. No booze for blood = free blood. And here are Free Blood. Free Blood - Never Hear Surf Music Again (Adventures Close To Home Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 02/10/07 Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens Flagrant Fowl - Tambourine Dream Video Blend A tip of the titfer to Cousin Cole and Pocketknife for this sweet little video promo for their forthcoming album, Tambourine Dream. As well as our favourite doomed sisters, it features tastes of the duo's graceful remixes of Iron & Wine, Nico, Panda Bear and The Boss. Flagrant Fowl is like a less-proggy Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve and everything we've heard from them is gold. Tambourine Dream should be out by the end of October. Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Operation (Cousin Cole Remix) [mp3] Suicide - Ghost Rider (Pocketknife's Torn Bowery Blazer Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Midlake - Roscoe (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve - I Swim Around (Neu! Hallogallo Rework) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 01/10/07