This Sweet Love

All Sunday's should be as Sunny as this one. Here's a sunny track I have been listening to quite a bit this past week, from coat to coast, finding sunshine in both cities.

James Yuill - This Sweet Love (Prins Thomas Sneaky Edit)

Fenech-Soler & Alan Braxe

UK outfit Fenech-Soler are in love with Alan Braxe. And French House guru Alan Braxe is in love with Fenech-Soler. The product of such a romance is Fenech-Soler's debut single, The Cult of Romance, out on Braxe's Vulture label.

Alan Braxe remixed that track, and a handsome baby boy was born. Have a listen to baby...

fenech-soler - the cult of romance (alan braxe remix)

Tom Ford

Pheonix v. Classixx

Not that Pheonix's 'Lisztomania' needed a makeover, but boy, I am very glad Classixx had the idea to do so. Classixx uses 'Lisztomania' to create a beautiful haze I regularly visit after midnight, where eyes gently close, body parts merge and the wave of right now, this moment, this breath, takes hold.

Pheonix - Lisztomania (Classixx Remix)

And just to be fair, here's the original.

Pheonix - Lisztomania (Album Version)

Bit Funk

It has been a while since I have fallen head over heels into a song like this. Bit Funk's Love Scientific is some damn fine electronic production work, and never ever goes overboard. I know a lot of people love their hard hard electro, but to me, it just always feels amateur, obvious and simply inaccessible. Bit Funk gives me faith that there is a breed of danceable and emerging electronic music still able to sooth the soul without resorting to chaos.

Bit Funk - Love Scientific

Catcall

I played this at least twice on Thursday's launch of The Bar Code, and I wasn't even Dj'ing! Thanks for letting me drop a track Lil Stel, twice!

Catherine Kelleher is Catcall. Catcall's August is my new jam.

Catcall - August

Sferro & The Sweeps

Life inside a video game...
Midnight on a submarine...
Lasers dancing the waltz...
Just listen...

Sferro - Replique
The Sweeps - When In June

THE BAR CODE

As Director of Design & Decor for The Bar Code, I have been curating a mean collection of furniture and art objects to have on sale alongside the fashion and the bar and the DJ's and the beautiful people. Please come check it out, and take home a piece of vintage and modern cool.

P.S. - Official After Party Thursday night at 15 Romolo, directly following the event. I'll be behind the decks at Romolo tipsy and happy, so come out to both the launch of the event itself from 6-11 and then on to the after party as well.

And here's a plug running on the Radio - Alice 97.3 FM - crazy.

Ellie Goulding

Another London female electropop vocalist makes me wish I was driving with the windows down all summer long...

Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed

Goodbye Horses

Fan Death covers Q Lazzarus' classic and oh-so-sexy 'Goodbye Horses.' I tend to play the original late into an evening, late into a set, late into a haze of sweaty boys and girls who fell in love on the dance floor. Now I have two options when I feel like saying goodbye to a night and goodbye to some horses. Pretty awesome...

I'll include the original for those who don't have it, because you should, because its amazing, just because.

Fan Death - Goodbye Horses (cover)

Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses (original)

PS - Fan Death's original material is pretty awesome as well Here's a taste...

Fan Death - Veronica's Vail

Wave Machines

It happens to be 74 degrees, sunny as balls and the perfect Saturday afternoon to pop the sunroof, head north on 101 and sing along to the wave of happy pop and club bounce that the Wave Machines stir up. Keep the lights on, released on 4/20, is the first release off their upcoming debut album, "Wave if You're Really There." Enjoy, and break out the SPF...

Wave Machines - Keep the Lights On

My Monday Night, Your Twisted Wires

I love rediscovering music that lost itself in iTunes USA. Music, like dogs or dreams, often get lost in dark places. This song popped back into my regular rotation thanks to my upcoming Monday night trip down to Mezzanine to see Glass Candy. Opening is none other than Twisted Wires, a fellow Italians Do It Better cup of synthy disco Joy Division . Check it...

Twisted Wires - One Night at the Raw Deal

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Here's the first track off Pheonix's upcoming Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix , their 4th album, which drops on May 25th. Some pop, drop and roll.

Phoenix - 1901

Asobi Seksu & Twins

I just pulled this one off BigStereo and am a happy little boy as a result. I loved Asobi Seksu's breakout album, Citrus, and am happy to here these two being remixed by the likes of Twins.

Enjoy! It's a poppy jam indeed. PB & Jam!

Asobi Seksu - Familiar Light (Twins Remix)

SAUCE ::: I-15, Chris Brown, Mavado ::: SAUCE

What is it about those smooth R&B jams with a killa beat, saucy vocals and cheesy titles?

I-15 - Tootie Frootie

Chirs Brown ft. Noah - Which One

This third one is more dance-hall meets the bedroom.

Mavado - In Da Car Back

Santo Mixxy Mix

Here's a Santogold remix.

Santogold - Lights Out (Tepr Emo Remix)

Junior Boys

The first album was amazing, the second album was fantastic and the third album is better that chocolate cake. You don't believe me? Well take a listen...here's the new JB album, "Begone Dull Care." Press play, cross your fingers and praise be to JB.

Junior Boys - Beyond Dull Care (Full Album)

The Presets

Was just talking today about how great these two are live. Hence, the inspiration for posting this track, "If I Know You," off of their 2008 Apocalypso.

The Presets - If I know You

Speaking of tracks first heard in 2008, here's another that I recently re-discovered this week after it popped up on a shuffled iTunes playlist late one night while lying in bed (tipsy). Loved it then, in the dark, in the bed, in the mood.

Santogold - Starstruck

Vietcong Disco

Some new sounds being made and played in those dimly lit lofts out in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Along the lines of DFA and Rong Records, the Vietcong Disco (Eddie Mars and Malcolm LaSalle) is, "bringing you never before heard disco tracks, from better decades past, when war and torment were shortlisted by dance-culture, sexuality and flashy good looks."

Midnight Star - Close Encounter (Eddie Mars Edit)

Eddie Mars - The Pharoh's Jewel

Things That Look Like Other Things

I have not posted about design in a bit, except for the fab pair of Common Projects Sneakers I featured earlier, which are for sure an example high end design for your peds. Anyway, here are some cool Things that Look Like Other Things.

Royal College of Art graduate (UK) Cristian Zuzunaga has devised a fabric based on a 'pixel' concept, which is being produced by Danish manufacturer Kvadrat and sold through Moroso. The sofa looks like a zoomed in view of a lo-res image of school children playing hop-scotch behind the school house. That, or a Gerhard Ricter 'Color Chart' Painting, below.

Speaking of sofas, how about this leather loveseat on wheels. Which would you take, the oh so sexy leather Moto Guzzi, or the oh so Danish, and oh so manly mid century modern Sofa designed by Kaare Klint?