The In Crowd

This is the first in a planned series of posts examining music I didn't have a chance to get to during last year. 

 

Soulwax, Tiga and Mstrkrft are all pretty much making music for so-called "hipsters" and trawl a musical nexus where 80's sounds like electro, new wave, synth-pop, Chicago house, techno and old school hip hop collide with contemporary electronica and club music. Since I spent most of my youth in the 80's listening to those sounds, hearing them reinterpreted well by new artists is always welcome and gonna get a hearing from me when it crosses my radar.

 

Montreal's Tiga leans a little more heavily on the 80's tip than the other two with the influence of new wavers like New Order, Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy and Depeche Mode flowing throughout his album. Mstrkrft plays more like a mix of Daft Punk and Trevor Jackson's seminal nouveau post-(disco) punk project Playgroup and is recommended if you dug Mylo's Destroy Rock N Roll from early last year.

 

Meanwhile Soulwax's Nite Versions album is almost like a shiny 2000's update on the housier side of the 4/4 breaks, beats  & rock 'n' roll attitude formula that "Big Beat" groups like the Chemical Brothers pioneered a decade or so ago. None of these albums are particularly groundbreaking but all are really solid listens top to bottom and worth investigating.

 

CLICK N LISTEN: 

 

- Soulwax - "NY Lipps" MP3: YSI  |  zshare stream/download

 

- Tiga - "Louder than a Bomb" MP3: YSI  |  zshare stream/download

 

- Mstrkrft - "She's Good for Business"  MP3: YSI  |  zshare stream/download

 

 

ON THE NET: 

 

- Soulwax - MySpace  |  MySpace  |  MySpace - 2 many DJ's  |  Buy

 

- Tiga - MySpace  |  Buy

 

- Mstrkrft - MySpace  |  Buy