A music video? A reunion gig for the Muppets? A bit of cunning product placement for Kronenbourg? Whatever it is, when the beat drops half way in, you know everyone’s having a good time.
Dance Yrself Clean: LCD Soundsystem + Muppets = win
Aeroplane / January 2011 Mix
Funk up your Saturday night with a bit of mixed up disco, courtesy of Belgium’s Aeroplane.
Time for take off …
Sefiros / Post-Orchestral Electronica
Some eeps and bleeps for your Friday night, courtesy of Sefiros, aka Bryan Henderson, a Scottish electronic maestro who was recently nominated as Soundcloud’s Soundclouder of the Day.
There’s plenty to download if you’re that way inclined, both on Soundcloud, and over on the Sefiros website.
A Hundred Lovers / Josep
Diesel have used this on their new Spring Summer catalogue film. It makes me want to do a special dance. And it’s got one of those bits in it that when you’re listening to it through headphones it zooms back and forth across your head.
Stereo! That’s the word I was looking for. Lovely stuff.
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Submitted by Phil Evans - submit your suggestions of great tunage:
Alexander / Truth
Any tunes with some Wild West whistles get extra points in our book, but this is a rare gem that’ll make you ooh.
Alex Ebert, the Alexander in his own solo mission, is part of the folkalicious Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, who’ve been rocking the LA indie scene for a while.
Highly listenable. Especially for cowboys (and for the more PC-minded, cowgirls and cowpeople. And cows.)
Move over Bjork, the new Dancer in the Dark is Thom Yorke in this brilliantly unnerving video for Radiohead’s new single Lotus Flower. Choreographed by Wayne McGregor (who’s previously collaborated with The White Stripes ), the uncomfortable, jerky ballet steps are far from the graceful prancing in Black Swan. If you aren’t part of the almost 4.5 million viewers who’ve watched the video since it was uploaded on Friday - here’s your chance to be mesmerised.
The Story So Far
2010 was a busy year for Leith Records.
♫ We sourced music and musicians to be featured in Leith.co.uk Agency ads and virals
♫ Managed Hog-The-Stage.com, a national competition to find a band to play the main stage at Hogmanay 2011 in front of thousands and supporting high profile Scottish bands.
♫ Featured over 100 emerging Scottish artists via online and social media
♫ Run the “Downhill Rock n Roll Live” competition for a Scottish band to play at the Mountain Bike World Cup 2010. 50 bands entered, and over 11,000 votes were cast, with Dirty Modern Hero playing to thousands in Fort William
♫ Published a bundle of new Scottish music on TenTracks.co.uk
♫ Hosted “Batter of the Bands”, a live music event at the Leith Festival, with profit from night going to for young persons’ charity Fairbridge - with Schnapps winning an EP production
♫ Directed, edited and produced the viral “Mic Supper” (bit.ly/ mic-supper) – for a budget of £10 to cover flowers for the chippie owner.
♫ And won the Best Self Promotion category in the Scottish Ad Awards 2010
Here’s to 2011…
We’re now at Leithrecords.com
Which is the same as this was, but isn’t any more.
So if you’re confused, just got to Leithrecords.com and listen to great music. Like this.
Thanks Tumblr. It’s been great.
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STORM by Django Django (@thedjangos)
Sit back on your interplanetary moon cruiser, stick some Django Django in your hookah, and inhale the wonderfully weird musical rhythms.
They came out of the Edinburgh College of Art, and mix intergalactic space art, bittersweet harmonies, with dreamy bedouin drums, resulting in a astral galaxy tour for the senses.
Stop by at their Myspace page and say hello some time.
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Kindly submitted by Rachel Campbell.
To submit your track go to http://leithrecords.com/submit or drop it in our Soundcloud dropbox.
Wowl! - Thunder City Takedown
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WOWL! - THUNDER CITY TAKEDOWN
And now, for something completely different…
Wowl! is an elusive artist. Originally from Edinburgh, he/she peddled their way over to Berlin to spread the instrumental goodness. According to Urban Dictionary “‘Wowl’ is a mis-pronounciation of the word “Whale”. Commonly said by those with a strong Essex accent.”
If you fancy yourself as a Sherlock Holmes character, be my guest and discover more over at SL Records and Myspace.
