It's open season for students, and the Board of Studies hunters are prowling. For any that have been seeking a study escape via tunage, I apologise. Cutting the balderdash lets get back on into it! So since a while back there has been various developments on the scene:
Pioneers of pop-disco chart-toppers and outrageous head accessories Jamiroquai made a return.
Good weather has given birth to beach visits
In The Mix ran a house party in Potts Point which the likes of Busy P, Brodinski, DJ Medhi, Jack Beats and AC Slater attended.
And Parklife + the long weekend draw ever closer
As arguably one of Australia's best music festivals Parklife nears a combination of warming up tunes and chilled study beats have occupied my ears of late. And so for those who are gearing up for yet another great festival, or to the geeks, nerds and brainiacs alike who are trying to do well in that 'little quiz before schoolies' (HSC) then hopefully these two artists can help.
Already strongly featured on drunkfunk! and a fixture of disco and electro world-wide acclaim is the UK bopper Grum. He is on his way down-under to bust out his 80's inspired set on the Parklife tour. With a highly successful album ('Heartbeats') released earlier this year and a remix list worthy of a royal scroll, Graeme Shepherd [aka Grum] deserves all the worldwide acclaim he is receiving. I suggest to anyone in need of some fresh new music or artist to get right into that they go out and grab his album as many are comparing it to electro avant-garde releases such as Daft Punk's 'Discovery' and Mylo's 'Destroy Rock & Roll'. Here is his latest retouch of Parklife compatriots plus a mint tune of his own - also i suggest to anyone who loves the idea of an 80's police/melodramatic/homo moustache inspired video clip check it out here.
Now heading back into the archives comes one of my all time favourite albums. Infamous French duo Air's 'Talkie Walkie' for me is the ultimate study-to-good-music-without-jumping-on-your-chair-and-doing-hanky-panky album. It blends very chilled and minimal beats with a dreamy layered sound that reeks of the artistic French. It is not everyone's cup of jaffa but it certainly has its great moments as tracks like 'Surfing on Rockets', 'Alpha Beta Gaga' and 'Cherry Blossom Girl' are timeless and unmistakable. Adding to the beauty of the album is how 'Alone In Kyoto' one of my all time favourite tracks puts me right in the shoes of Scarlett Johansson in 'Lost In Translation' - creeping and peering around Tokyo. I highly recommend purchase and don't condone but would understand illegal acquiring of this album as it is just musical bliss.
peace!
nicK
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