FaveSongs2009 is coming! In the meantime.... a Teiam Player mix

I'll be finally finishing up my FaveSongs2009 list over the weekend, so check back soon. But in the meantime, enjoy another part in my series of mixes which is sort of a Best of 2009 series anyway.

Below, both streamable and downloadable from my SoundCloud [listen at work! put it on your iPod!] is Taking Off Heads vol 3 [vol two exists and will be along shortly; I like being unpredictable].

This one starts off in about the same vein, with some chill MillionYoung [you'll hear more of the Floridian in 2010], works through some good chill tunes before eventually picking up pace with some Dan Deacon, finally rounding out with some Major Lazer and melodic but grimy dubstep of a Doorly remix.

Tracklist:

MillionYoung - Chlorophyl

Beach House - Lover of Mine

Toro Y Moi - Blessa

Tune-Yards - Hatari

Animal Collective - I Think I Can

White Denim - Regina Holding Hands

Gold Panda - Quitter's Raga

Dan Deacon - Surprise Stefani

Yeasayer - Tightrope

Major Lazer feat Santigold - Hold the Line [LehtMoJoe remix]

Calvin Harris - Not Alone [Doorly remix]

Taking Off Heads vol 3 by Teiam Player

If you missed the first one, you need to check it out. I'm egotistical and like all the work I do, but vol 1 was one of my favorites. Lots of good chill music there.

Teiam Player x the Isbells

If you haven't heard Belgium's the Isbells, do so soon. Their self titled debut album is one of my favorites of the year, and "Reunite" is on my top ten of FaveSongs2009 list [check this space in the next few days to actually see the list].

I absolutely adore the original song "Reunite"; I merely wanted to add just a little bit of something to it. It's merely a.... well, it's just a subtle re-edit using only elements of the original, not anything added from the outside.

For me, the Isbells along with Mumford & Sons helped filled the niche that the Fleet Foxes records have been in for nearly two full years now. Lead singer Gaetan often sounds a lot like OHWNT favorite and Jose Gonzalez, so if you can imagine a crossbreed of he and Fleet Foxes, you're imagining quite the flannel-clad superpower.

Download a copy of my refix from my Soundcloud page.

Reunite [Teiam Player's Reu-edite] by Teiam Player

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The xx x Teiam Player

The xx "Infinity" - Teiam Player Wicked Game edit

The xx - Infinity [Teiam Player Wicked Game edit] by Teiam Player

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Taking Off Heads - a Teiam Player Mix

Taken by Trees

YACHT

Dirty Projectors

Toro y Moi

Washed Out

Delorean

The Very Best

XX

El Perro del Mar

and wonderful others.

Listen and enjoy.

Taking Off Heads by teiamplayer

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Te!am Playa @ Nattspil

Tell your friends to grab their coats, tell mothers to hide their daughters, it's Teiam Player @ Nattspil Thursday night.

....and then he just disappeared.... thanks MandoPhotography. 

I'm going to try and do something a little different with this one, so all of you "friends" who don't normally show up, maybe you should consider doing so.

Pow!

Download a nifty little mix I did last fall, entitled Hustlin. A seamless mix, it features awesome eclecticness by Warren G & Nate Dogg, Modest Mouse, CSS, Ratatat, TV on the Radio before getting into gritty electro house and finally into some jukin booty and b-more sweaty sex beats/jawns.

Teiam Player - Hustlin . ~120min, ~71mb

More muzics coming soon.

But for a refresher course on all things Teiam Player, to include awesome mixes and other mash-ups, take this link!

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Election + Change = an OHWNT MegaPost occasion

image courtesy of Dr Seuss and a largely unknown illustrator named me

So I'm confident.

It's happening.

I think there's gonna be change.

Most of my friends, who are grown up and have jobs would have been unable to vote today, and consequently waited in line last week or over the weekend. That's too bad, because I've always felt there's something special about voting on election day.

We may all be lucky to be voting in the first place, but I feel lucky just to vote today.

And I'm pretty sure I'm finally gonna, after a defeat in 2000 and a second in 2004, help elect the next PotUSA.

So in the spirit, whether they be loosely, latently or saliently in the spirit, here's an otherwise totally random some tunes for y'all [all in one zip at bottom]:

James Brown - "Say it Loud [I'm Black and I'm Proud]"

Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump"

Michael Jackson - "Black or White"

Daft Punk vs Adam Freeland "Aer-O-b-a-m-a"

2 Pac - "Changes"

Roots Manuva - "Revolution"

AxAxSx - "Get the Fuck Out"

Te!am Playa [2 Pac vs The Cure] - "Close 2 Pac" ["Changes" vs "Close to Me"]

Van She - "Changes"

Gogol Bordello - "Go Revolutions"

The Blacks - "Back to Black" [awesome cover of Amy Winehouse]

Get all the patriotic songs right here, in one happy little patriotic 65mb zip file.

As my friend Julia said to me earlier in a txt msg, ¡OBÁMANOS!

Perhaps it's only funny if you know el español.

Happy voting.

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Rokkin With Okkervil River

I've eluded to the awesomeness of Okkervil River's latest album The Stand Ins a few times already, if you've read closely. Or at all. It picks up right where last years The Stage Names left off.

This time the hype is real. Singer/songwriter Will Sheff is almost at Colin Meloy or Dan Bejar's level of writing here. Simply mahvelous.

Here are some tunes from the new album:

Okkervil River - "Singer Songwriter"

Okkervil River - "Starry Stairs"

Okkervil River - "Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel 1979"

Okkervil River - "Lost Coastlines"

And one older one that I just recently discovered, from 2002's Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See. It's a murder ballad:

Okkervil River - "Westfall"

Go purchase Okkervil stuff:

Strictly Discs : iTunes : Amazon : InSound

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Reminder:

My less talkative doppelganger Teiam Player rocks the Majestic friday night at Madison's most awesomest club night. Be there or be striken from my Facebook friend list. Click here to see a slew of related Teiam Player posts, complete with musics and mixes, old and new. I'll save you some time by sharing this nugget, which has been touted by friends as my instant classic. I made it in a time long ago, back before I was even the boyman Teiam Player.

Teiam Player - "Work it Black" [ACDC vs Beyonce]

Palabra.

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Teiam Player: one new track and two gigs this week

Monday night I'm rocking at Natt Spil. Yes, it's a Monday, but no, you probably have nothing better to do, because.... it's a Monday. So come out.

And Friday night, this:

I am, humbly, the opening set, just as it says on that thar flyer. So what? I'ma tear the motherfucking roof off that place, before the main acts.

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And here's a song I won't play Friday night [maybe Monday night], the latest Teiam Player action. Stream/download:

Teiam Player - "world. fire. dancing."

It's a little TV on the Radio action, "Dancing Choose" from their [awesome!] new album Dear Science, supplemented with some R.E.M and Billy Joel. Word. Original working title was "Dancing Didn't Start the End of the World Fire" if that gives any clues as to what tracks it features.

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Two more things before I tuck myself in.

1. I went skydiving on Saturday. It ranks right up there with moonlight sex, and enjoying fresh mozarella and vino with friends in a park in Italy as some of the best moments in my life.

Except that it totally blows cheese/wine out of the water.

2. Get a load of these.

G'night.

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Teiam Player @ Natt Spil, Thursday

It's absolutely gorgeous in Madison right now and I'm going to try to make this quick so that I can go back outside. I started this post out there, but after the 3pm sun started making my laptop smell like melting plastic I decided it was time to come in.


Anyway.... That's right, kids. As I recently mentioned, this crazy guy above will be DJing at Natt Spil. And don't worry- I may be wearing a hat, but it will not be that one.
Thursday night.
21 August 2008.
10pm --> 1.30am
Come one, come all. It'll be a grand ol time.

And as I usually tell friends in an effort to get them to come out, if you request a song in advance, if you show up I will play it. There are few exceptions-- but chances are that if it's on the Top 40 list, it'll be rejected. This request thingy also works if you do so when you show up, but chances are better I'll have it if you tell me in advance.

Enough of that.

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But on that tip.. here I share some dancey tunes, some of which one may hear if he or she were to show up at a certain awesome little bar this coming Thursday night.

First, the remakes or remixes of 80s or 90s songs. These are great:
Anoraak - Talking in Your Sleep
the original is by the Romantics, remember?
Belind Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth [Hidden Cat remix]
This is my current favorite song, and if you were my neighbor you'd know that too well by now.
Ruby Isle - Solsbury Hill.... ....removed per band's request
The original, by Peter Gabriel, was right up there with Smokey Robinson's "Tears of a Clown" [first OHWNT'd here] as one of my favorite songs to whistle to. Srsly. This Ruby Isle remake is awesome, as is pretty much every other song they've redone. They have a habit of it.

Now some other top tunes which I've been loving lately:
Santogold - Say Aha [Tepr remix]
Another good Santi track, another good remix.
Van She - Virgin Suicide
Van She are from Australia. And like paisanos Cut Copy, Mystery Jets, they make really good music. Heavy 80s new wave influence, and a lot of dance stuff [they also have several dance remixes of others' tracks out there]. This song is a bit more low key.

Now some Teiam Player refizzes. These are basically some dance mash-ups I did recently, mostly to put on the mixtape I mentioned here and here [it's good! go download it! it got me a good gig!]. Without further..
Mr Miyagi - Pick Your Poison [Felix Cartal remix] [Teiam Player Clipse Love You edit] A gritty electro house track with Clipse vocals [from a JT song!] tossed over top.
Soulwax "Miserable Girl" [Royal Rumble remix] vs Britney Spears "Outrageous" [Teiam Player Invites Prodigy edit]
Two soundalike gritty electro house tracks with Mobb Deep's Prodigy over top. Note: the Britney song sounds nothing like a Britney song.
Heavy D & the Boyz - Now That We Found Love [Teiam Player Hey Muscles I Love You edit]
The classic Heavy D track paired up with the recent classic Muscles "Hey Muscles I Love You".

As always, go buy some musics:
Strictly Discs : Turntable Lab : iTunes : Amazon

Have a killer night.

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OHWNT 080808: the rebirth. Also, upcoming Teiam Player gig

If my blog is still around at the next 080808, then mankind is doomed. Hell, if it makes it to 090909 I'll be surprised. And while I don't find this day to be particularly noteworthy, what better day would there be to be reborn? I mean, really.

So some or many or all or none of you may know I was out of the country for a while. Technically, since Guam is a US territory, I was in country, but it felt more like some place like.... Puerto Rico. Oh, wait-- that's Los EEUU as well. In Guam, five distinct languages can be heard on a regular basis: English, Chamorro [Guamanian], Japanese, Tagalog [Filipino], and Engrish [ya know, Engrish]. All the maps and tourist craps are in one or two languages, English and Japanese, but if only one then more often than not that one will be Japanese. It was a nice place. But this isn't a travel blog, or even a life blog really, so on with the show.

The only musical worth that trip had for me was that I heard the same six or seven songs over and over and over again. Some of those I still like, remarkably, but most [like Lolli Lolli, Lollipop, I Kissed a Girl].... notsomuch.

I also had one CD to listen to in my rental [a pimped out 2009 Toyota Corolla]-- my recent bloghouse/electro mixtape [which happened to be the topic of my last post]. I listened to that thing so much that two things happened: [1] I fell in love with most of it even more and [2] I found a few little things that bugged me so much that the first thing I did when I returned to the mainland was repair it. That can also be found at the same ol' link, which is right here in case you missed it the first times.

I have to say, that mix is pretty sweet and you should go listen to it [you can stream it!]. Straight up dance mix, the kind of set I'd be playing if I were playing a club. And of course since the man cannot be stopped, Teiam Player had to throw a few refizzes in there-- a blend featuring Heavy D & the Boyz, and some hip hop-apellas over other tracks.

ANYWAY, on with the new news....


TEIAM PLAYER @ Natt Spil 08/21! After fearing I may get bumped from the lineup because of reasons that aren't worth explaining, I am playing at the Spil on a night which has all the potential in the world to get a little crazy. Why? [a] it's a Thursday night [2] it's the day after my birfday! [d] I haven't been out in Madison for a while. Oh yeah, and like I always say, it's Natt Spil. So come down. There will be reminders closer to gameday.

Now onto the new musics. Here below are a few of those tunes I heard over and over and over while in Guam which I never got sick of. You've probably heard some on the radio, and others perhaps not. Anyway, I like these, and without shame.

Gavin DeGraw - In Love with a Girl
First saw this video one morning getting ready for work, and then heard it on the radio and never got sick of it.
Solange - I Decided
Also first saw this on MTV as well, and loved it instantly. Never heard it on the radio but I see it's been blogged to death, with loads o'remixes, one or two of which are quite good.
Estelle feat Kanye - American Boy
The first few times I heard this I never heard Kanye's verses, and the rest of it seemed pretty lackluster to me. Then I heard Kanye, and he tears it apart. Then I caught it on the radio a few times, always already halfway through the song, and I was always like "damn this is a good song, what is it?" and then I'd hear the chorus and then Kanye again and then I was always like "oh yeah, jeez". I hate it when I miss a song's potential the first time I hear it and it takes the radio or a club for me to like it.
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
Again, saw this video first, without even knowing who it was. Jason Mraz, like the early Jack Johnson stuff [only stuff I've heard], is very islandy, with a strong island music influence. So it was in a perfect setting in Guam. It's an island. It's islandy. It has perpetual summer. No breeze and it's muggier than a Buenos Aires alley. But it's still islandy. This song was all over that rock, too. I'm sure all the songsters at the bars in Hawaii are playing it on their ukeleles. Guam is pretty ukelele-less, too.

Ok, enough of all that overplayed [but good!] crap. Here's the overhyped [but still equally good!-- no, way better!] stuff. The mega-blogged stuff, as I'm sure it was the past few weeks. But I'm just now catching up and these guys are all rocking it.

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
AWESOME song. Download it if you don't ardy have it.
Grizzly Bear - While You Were Waiting for Others
This song is nothing short of fucking amazing. Presumably a song from their next album, they played it for KCRW or KEXP. You will love this song, perhaps more than the Fleet Foxes song. I've played it about a dozen times in as many hours.
Holly Golightly & the Broke-offs - Bottow Below
Never listened to them before, and never really cared to. And I don't think I like much of the rest of the album, but this song is real nice. And it's an opener, which I always love. Note: I'm still unsure if this song is sposedta be entitled "Bottom Below" or in fact "Bottow Below" like it says.
The Dodos - Jody
I've been rocking this album for a while, but somehow didn't have this track. And Holy Crap, they totally rock out on this. It's an epic seven minutes long, but they power through the whole thing and so will you.
Santogold - Icarus
This Santogold track is on the recent Diplo // Santogold mixtape Top Ranking. I haven't listened to the whole thing yet but there is plenty of new Santi White [aka Santogold] material, and plenty of rerubs by Diplo, et al. This is one of the closing tracks.... EDIT: it is the closing track, with exception to the hidden track, which is a Bad Brains cover, apparently.

Buy tunes:
Amazon : Strictly Discs : InSound : iTunes : Turntable Lab

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There were plenty of other tunes I planned on posting, but that just gives me the motivation to come back and write soon and for you to come back and read soon. I have like six or seven others I wanted to share but it's already going on 11pm and I really wanted to get this done [especially seeing as I started it like six hours ago, then went and had dinner and beers and beers and beers].

Welcome back.

See you soon.

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Ryan's been mixing!

Ryan's been mixing!

For all you dance types out there, check it out. It's stream-able from the Zshare links below, as well as downloadable from all links. 

And here's a tracklisting:

Louis La Roché - Peach
GRUM - Go Back [Teiam Player Go Strong edit]
The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful
Madonna - Into the Groove [Sidechains remix]
Little Boots - Stuck on Repeat [Fake Blood remix]
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name [Tom Neville remix]
Loose Cannons - Girls in Hats [Boy 8-Bit remix]
Shwayze - Buzzin [Villains remix]
Treasure Fingers - Cross the Dancefloor [Laidback Luke remix]
ESTAW - Break it Down
Boy 8-Bit - Ghost House
Fake Blood - Theme
Harrison Schaaf - Zombie Outbreak [Degree remix]
Metronomy - Radio Ladio [Mac 3000 remix]
Matt & Kim feat Hollywood Holt - It's a Fact [Mano remix]
Kid Cudi - Day 'n' Nite [Teiam Player All Days 'n' Nites edit]
Muscles - Sweaty
Kay-L - Ohhh!
Heavy D & the Boyz - Now That We Found Love [Teiam Player Hey Muscles I Love You edit]
The Hood Internet - Light Falsetto Music [Cut Copy + The Dream]
Steve Aoki - 1967 Poem
NROTB - Take Me Upp!
Heartsrevolution - Switchblade [LA Riots remix] [Teiam Player CastleQueen edit]
Mr Miyagi - Pick Your Poison [Felix Cartal remix] [Teiam Player Clipse Love You edit]
Royksopp - What Else is There [Trentemoller remix] [Teiam Player Zdarflashlight edit]
SymbolOne - Love Juice [Moulinex remix]
Anoraak - Nightdrive With You [GRUM remix]
Ghosthustler - Someone Else's Ride

And here's where ypou listen and download:

Download/stream 128kbps version from zshare here.
Download 320kbps version from SendSpace here.

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Also, I leave for Guam early tomorrow morning so this blog is most likely all but dead once again for the next two weeks. Hopefully then I'll get back on it shortly after I return.

Ry.

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Teiam Player @ Natt Spil, tonight!

It's time for another crazy midweek night out. Come down to Natt Spil to see this crazy guy [above], play some records and be-bop behind the decks to his own music, in his own world. Here are some musics you may hear if you do show up:

selections from Ry's muxtape
selections from Teiam Player's own muxtape
Smokey Robinson - "Tracks of My Tears"
Ratatat - "Falcon Jab"
Muscles - "Ice Cream"
Bangers 'n' Cash - "Bitch"
Flight of the Conchords - "Mutha'uckas"
Hot Chip - "Out at the Pictures"
Ghostland Observatory - "Heavy Heart"
Santogold feat Spank Rock - "Shove It"
Jamie Lidell - "Out of My System"
Teenagers - "Sunset Beach"
Toto - "Africa"
Cut Copy - "Hearts on Fire"
LCD Soundsystem - "Get Innocuous"
Thom Yorke - "And it Rained All Night"
The Kills - "URA Fever"
Portishead - "We Carry On"
Massive Attack & Jose Gonzalez - "Teardrops" [a Teiam Player mish]

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These people probably won't be there, but I had to share these photos, compliments of mi hermana, y un hermano, Mando.

That's mah dad. He had a tought time camping last weekend with his grandchillun. These are them:
It must be hard being that cute. Well, it was. It was tough being that cute.

These things will be there, but at least partially covered up by my flip-flops or [if you're lucky] totally concealed by my chucktaylors.

Any way you do it, enjoy your Tuesday. But to hell with you if you don't do it with me at Natt Spil.

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First FaveAlbum2008: Ratatat - LP3. Also: Teiam Player!

I think I mentioned it last week, that electroguitarchillfunk duo Ratatat's third album, LP3, would be the first contender for favorite album of the year. Well, I'm announcing it already. And what about this cover art?

[click for bigger]

When I first heard Ratatat a couple years back, I never thought I could be such a fan. Here are four highlights from their new album. I CANNOT STOP PLAYING THESE TRACKS!

"Falcon Jab"
"Mirando"
"Mumtaz Khan"
"Shiller" [direct right-click-download mp3 link via GvsB]

Also, here's a couple classics from their second album, erm, Classics.

"Lex"
"Wildcat"

Go pre-order LP3 already:
InSound
Or wait for it to show up here:
Amazon, iTunes, Strictly Discs.

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Also, you know I always like an excuse to post some Teiam Player tracks. Here's Tupac's "Changes" with two Ratatat beats from quasi-album 9 Beats. If you've got excellent memory, you already know that Tupac actually raps "rat-tat-tat" in this song. This was something I delightfully stumbled cross only after I'd started making the song. It felt like a Hollywood moment, ya know like when you have a song in your head and then turn on the radio and boom! there it is. No, I don't listen to the radio either. The Tupac thing is also one of those few times I begin to believe in fate. I still don't, mind.

Anyway, that Ratatat + Tupac mish was the original draft and outtake. The Tupac lyrics eventually found a better home in "Close 2 Pac", on top of the Cure's "Close to Me". You can hear that one over on the Teiam Player muxtape. But here below is another TP track, featuring beats from the same Ratatat EP and lyrics from Kelly Rowland's "Like This", which also features the magnificent Eve.

"Ratatat's Changes"
"Ratatat Like This"

Lame titles, I know. But the original Ratatat song titles are simply "One", "Three" and "Four", so there's not much cleverness with title-mashing I could do.

Also, one more song. Every time I listen to Ratatat, I can't help but think they're deeply influenced by songs like the Eagles' "Hotel California". Just listen to the backing rhythm guitar or whatever guitar it is, with the same sort of sound to it. Sounds just like "Lex" if you ask me.

Eagles "Hotel California"

Wizzard.

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sister, oh sister

A crazy friend I met in Buenos Aires as he carefreely nomaded his way across South America, photographer colorstraordinaire Dan of danzim and urbanatural.sh, regularly sends out some of his pretty sweet photos.

Dan usually likes to play around with lights and words, messing with things like f-stop, ISO, shutter speed and probably many other things I've forgotten in the thirteen years since I took a photography class in high school. And then sometimes he does some minor post-snap work. In any event, he regularly does cool things like this [click all photos for larger images]:

And this:


I usually find his stuff to be somewhere between photography/design icon Ed Ruscha and lights fantastic photographer and designer Chuck Anderson, aka NoPattern [you've seen Chuck's work all over, just never known it].

But in the latest installment from last week, he played like one of les freres Lumieres and simply caught one tiny moment of everyday life. Below is the masterpiece, unofficially titled what happens when you fall in San Juan.

I can't stop laughing at this picture. It's brilliant. I think I found it even funnier because the copy I received was about seventeen times bigger than the screen, so I saw it piece by piece, first seeing the hermana caida [fallen sister], and then the hermana perra sonriendo [laughing bitch sister]. I can relate-- my big sister would have reacted in the same exact manner.

And so here's a bunch of songs in the theme of the photo.

Sufjan Stevens - Sister
New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream
Muscles - Ice Cream
Interpol - Evil
Menomena - Evil Bee
Colin Meloy - Sister I'm a Poet [Morrissey cover]
Urge Overkill - Sister Havana
Weezer - Troublemaker
Lil Kim - Queen Bitch 101
Bangers 'n' Cash - Bitch
Teiam Player - Kid Sister on my Shoulders

And yes, I did eventually note that she's holding some sort of candied apple or something and not ice cream. Oh well. I already had the ice cream songs uploaded and posted. Besides, the only apple song I could think of was "Bonita Applebum", and you can find that on someone else's blog.

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Teiam Player @ Natt Spil tonight; also: tons of tunes

In a gig I've been referring to as my coming out of retirement, I will be playing whatever the hell I feel like. Because it's Natt Spil, because it's Tuesday, and because I'm me, and if you've ever seen me DJ, I usually tend to play whatever the hell I want anyway. The Spil is the perfect place for that.

Come for late dinner, where they make the best damn stone oven pizza around. Awesome wine list, too.

Listen to Teiam jamz here.
And be my friend here.

But if you really want a feel of what it's like to see my spin.... just show up tonight, causelikes no CD or nothin can represent. This comes closest, though; listen to Triller.

Here are some things I just may play tonight; who knows?

Headlights
Get Your Head Around It
Cherry Tulips
Market Girl
School Boys
Some Racing, Some Stopping

El Perro del Mar
Jubilee
Glory to the World
From the Valley to the Stars

Flight of the Conchords
Foux du Fafa
Mutha'uckas
Hiphopopatomous vs Rhymenocerous
The Most Beautiful Girl [in the Room]

Hot Chip
Out at the Pictures
Wrestlers

Destroyer
Dark Leaves from a Thread
The State
Plaza Trinidad

Be Your Own Pet
Becky
Black Hole
Zombie Graveyard Party

Frightened Rabbit
I Feel Better
Bright Pink Bookmark

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My Muxtapes

I've been meaning to talk about Muxtape for a while. Kept forgetting. I'm sure you all know about it by now. Pretty damn ingenius; I think that guy could make millions.

Anyway, I finally got around to making one of my own.

http:// ry.muxtape.com

Okay, so I made two. If you hadn't noticed, there is a new permalink to the right. It's a link to my Teiam Player Muxtape. It's so much better than TeiamSpace in that the songs are higher quality and I can put more of them up. And there's no need for stupid pictures or excess words. Simplicity is bliss. So if you're one of the seven die-hard Teiam Player fans out there, good news for you.


http:// teiamplayer.muxtape.com


Palabra.

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Back to DJing: late night drive electro chill mixtape

I copy/pasted this [below, not above] directly from a post I made in a DJ forum I'm a member of, so apologies for the DJ jargon, if there is any. I got really lazy.

For those making assumptions, this is totally unlike my typical creations that I post here [the Teiam Player stuff]; this is a good ol' fashioned DJ mixtape, recorded live, right here in my bedroom. And damn was it fun.

Skip to the tracklist and judge before you listen if you don't wanna hear me ramble any more. Or be a good little enthusiast and judge while you listen before you check the tracklist. Whatev, it's really late. I'll shut up. G'night.

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I'm pretty excited about this mix, mainly because it's the first live mix I've recorded in a few years. I kinda went into retirement a couple years ago after being overseas for extended periods, and just within the past month finally [!!] broke down and bought Serato [I of course quickly realized it's something I should have done years ago, as I've always been a huge fan of looping for extended mixes and live remixing]. It's like the raddest thing since the direct drive turntable itself. I've been mashing and doing longer mixes with Ableton for a while [if you missed it: my megamanic Ableton-athon 180-sample mashmix here], and so getting back onto the 1200s felt real good.

So here it is.. after playing with it for several days, and wanting to do a mix like this for quite some time, I finally did. No time better than starting at 3am, ey? As you can see, it's a mixed bag of stuff, contains some older stuff, and kinda bounces around a bit. It pretty much-- I think-- has a late night feel to it. And since I've been kinda out of the game for a while, it isn't a perfect mix. I'm still not as expert on Serato as I'd like to be, and wasn't able to do as many quick mixes as I'd have liked to. Oh well.

So wait until it's dark, then hop in your car and cruise to it.

Teiam Player presents: The Lighter and Darker Side; early morning in April
Tracklisting:
TV on the Radio - Mr Grieves
M83 - Couleurs
Boys Noize - Shine Shine [Apparat remix]
Booka Shade - Solo City
Juana Molina - La Verdad
Panda Bear - Bros
DNTEL - [This is] the Dream of Evan and Chan
Matthew Dear - Deserter [Four Tet remix]
Caribou - Niobe
Battles - Tonto [Four Tet remix]
Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place
Burial - Archangel [Boy 8-bits remix]
Daft Punk - Make Love
LCD Soundsystem - Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up
Santogold - L.E.S Artistes [XXXChange remix]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

133mb hiQ mp3 on DivShare:
http://www.divshare.com/download/4297261-e4a

73mb medQ mp3 on zShare:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/108339900f792d91/

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Teardrop

Howdy y'all.

Well it's spring break here in Madison and I've employed it nicely, I do believe. I've finally completed a huge music project I've been working on off and on for the past few months. I mentioned it here a couple weeks ago, where I gave a little five-minute snippet to listen to.

Anyway, stay tuned to see the entire 80-minute mix and all of its 200 [!!] sampled songs here soon enough. In the meantime, I have another offering.

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In the meantime..

The latest Teiam Player song I have to offer is a bit different than most. First, it's not very dancey. Second, there are no hip hop // rap vocals. So.. if you typically steer clear of my TP crap because you don't like mash-ups or you don't like my mash-ups, or you just don't like me, at least give this one a chance first.

Here it is, a brilliant duo of Nellee Hooper and Jose Gonzalez, two beautiful voices coming together in Jose's cover of the Massive Attack original, with the original itself. I dig it. Bonus points, as always, for the third song sampled; it's an easy one.

Teiam Player: Massive Attack feat Jose Gonzalez - "Teardrop"

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TeiamWork

Whoa.. it's been a long time..

..I shouldn't have left you..

without a strong rhyme to step to.

Erm.. that was Eric B.. ya know from Eric B & Rakim.. "I Know You Got Soul". Oh, just watch it.



Wizard.

Anyway, wanna know what I've been up to? Well tomorrow I'll give you more of a written documentation with the aid of some photos and more music and.. probably just some random stuff.

But for now all I have is this little snippet of a piece of work that's been taking up virtually all of my weekends and otherwise free time the past couple weeks. It's a very unfinished piece of work which-- due partially to my vilified trait of perfectionism mixed with my OCD tendencies-- may never be completely done. But it's actually closer than anything in its ancestry has ever been to complete doneness.

Without further.. here's the opening five minutes of a little mix with a tentative title. Try to jot down all the samples you recognize. The first 60 seconds is pretty fun; I think there are something 40 different tunes in that little bit.

Teiam Player "Le Snippette"

Hit me back up in.. six months to hear the rest.
Just kidding.. it's chilling right now at about 140 minutes of junk that needs to be condensed, re-editted, etc.

Always interested to hear what you have to say.

Peas.

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Favorite Songs of 2007, Part Siete

Good weekend? Good. Let's get back to the grind. To help your week, some more of my faves.

Why? - "The Hollows", from The Hollows
Cave Singers - "Seeds of the Night", from Invitation Songs
Yeasayer - "2080", from All Hour Cymbals
Venetian Snares - "Integraation", from My Downfall
Jonquil - "Lions", from Lions
Hot Chip - "My Piano", from My Piano
Junior Boys - "Like a Child" [Carl Craig remix], from Dead Horse
Aesop Rock - "None Shall Pass", from None Shall Pass
Arcade Fire - "My Body is a Cage", from Neon Bible

Bonus Teiam Player: Arcade Fire + TV on the Radio =
Teiam Player - "My Body is a Wolf Like Me"

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