10 favorite songs of 08

So I guess forward is starting a blog and they were thinking we should all do a list of 08 or something. Here are the 10 songs i listened to most this year. Keep in mind I didn't specify FROM this year. It's a rar archive so you'll need some sort of uncompressing utility.

Surkin - Next of Kin
I heard this in the unreleased Fabric mix that Justice did and just figured it was them doing an edit of something. Then I happened on the actual track in a compilation.

Iron Virgin - Rebels Rule
I've always loved glam so one night on soulseek I got a bunch of best of's and compliations. This is the only tracks the really caught my attention but i can't stop listening to it.

Sebastien Tellier - Sexual Sportswear
Sebastien Tellier and Arpegiators. Put two of my favorite things together then add production help from a member of daft punk and you can't lose.

Portishead - Machinegun
I find some of third kind of off putting in how much every song sound like another song (silverapples much?) but this minimal electro gem easily rises above it's allusions.

Harry Manfredini - Theme to Friday the 13th Part 3
An instrumental from the 80's that could easily have been made by Chromeo.

Yuksek - Tonight
Phillip Clark showed me this song a couple weeks ago and i've since listened to it at least a hundred times. Everything about this song is perfect.

Jack White and Alicia Keys - Another Way to Die
I'm obsessesed with fuzz tone. This has got it en mass. Really crazy arrangement and the best bond theme since a view to a kill.

Women - Black Rice
I played a couple shows with them in the Jon Mckiel band not person. They didn't have any records yet so i didn't hear this until a bit latter but it was definetly a standout track of the shows.

Paul McCartney - Check My Machine
This is on the reissue of McCarney 2. From what I gather this was not a sucessful record at the time. The world was not ready. Forget about the beatles or any of those other guys. Get this record and try to tell me this isn't the music of the future.

Mr oizo Sebastian and Sebastien Tellier - Skatesteak
From the soundtrack to Oizo's movie Steak. Easier to watch than electroma.

new mash up

Daft Punk, Super Mario Bros and the Rocky Theme in a failure Pile - SERIOUSLY

DJ mix.

in other news i just finished a dj mix of some new tracks i'm into and some mash ups i did.

SERIOUSLY - DEC 08MIX

top 5 and ECMA's

Our show in PEI tonight made the top 5 shows in Canada this weekend:

Fri Dec 12 - Corb Lund Yellowknife, NT - The Hurtin' Albertan will be giving a lesson in horsemanship and raw-country rocking Friday night at St. Patrick's High School.

Fri Dec 12 - Fembots Toronto, ON. A misty musical thank you to the little indie label that could. (weewerk) celebrates its 6^th birthday with Fembots, Tony Dekker, and Jenny Omnichord at the Whippersnapper Gallery.

Fri Dec 12 / Sat Dec 13 - Hey Ocean! Grande Prairie, AB. Since seeing them once is never enough, Vancouver's Hey Ocean! will take the stage at Better Than Fred's for back-to-back nights.

Fri Dec 12 / Sat Dec 13 - Jingle Bell Rock Toronto, ON. With The Dears, Tokyo Police Club, Metric, and Sebastien Grainger all taking the stage at the Sound Academy, it must be said: Helping charities never sounded so good.

Fri Dec 12 - Sleepless Nights Charlottown, PEI. The kids will be on fire this Friday as Sleepless Night's wall-of-sound makes its way into Hunter's Ale House.

Also we got nominated for best alternative recording at the ECMA's this year. I think hey rosetta'll get it.

another mash up

while i'm waiting for work to call me back about when i can start i've been working on a new mix. here's a mash-up of britney's womanizer and katy perry's hot and cold. it's fairly brief but the joke gets old quick.

we're home

Fredericton was awesome. The second show was crazy. I sweat the whole time. In other news I made a new myspace for my other side project SERIOUSLY. I'll be posting all the mixes and mashups i do there as well as original material.

xox

got caught live vid

got caught at sneaky dee's on Zunor TV

some pics by trev

facts

i wasn't able to post anything since we got to the west coast and we're already on our way back east. here are a few things i learned.

-East Hastings is a shitty hangout

-I don't hate all hippies it turns out, just most of them

-You never know where you'll find a vocoder

-Mountain towns are beautiful and junk

-Pinky sleeps like a bear in January

-Actual recording studios are a thing that i like when i am at them 

-That is what i want my amp to sound like and no i won't change it

-I like dogs. small ones. that shit next to pinky.

I'll post some pics as soon as i gets them.

jasper

I'm in a hotel room in jasper that is connected to the place we played last night. Getting hotels is awesome because then you don't have to hustle to find a place to stay all day. It's a rare and welcome treat.
The show last night was really fun. we played jeff's guide to TV and breathe deep tornado which we have not played yet this tour. the show was opened by a dance party so we had to try and keep the energy going which it's safe to say we failed at and i couldn't have been happier. the few people that were into the show were cool so i was glad to be there playing. not to mention we got an insane amount of beer and some girl bought us shots. That made the heckling alot easier to take.
Yes, the heckling. No we won't play you a tragically hip song and no you can't come up on stage and play it yourself.
In honor of the corporate-ish surroundings i'm in, here is the radio mix of got caught.

sleepless nights -got caught radio remix

Winnipeg.

We've arrived in winnipeg after 3 days of travel and attempts at travel. The first day TOMTOM our navigator wasted all our daylight then we confirmed that out lights aren't working right at all. We were searching for a motel 2 nights ago when a place called Krazy Krust Patties appeared as being on out route in the GPS. We had to check it out. turned out to be a jamaican restauraunt in a stripmall. needless to say we did not sleep there.
Anyway, we drove and drove and ate and slept and now here we are. We're playing a show tomorrow which is why we do this so i'm psyched.
Note: chicken bowls from kfc are the best thing since rock'n'roll.

Toronto

Last night we played at Sneaky Dee's in Toronto. We got to hang out with our former drummer Mary; always a nice feature of passing through. She got really drunk and was pretty much hilarious all night. We got a few drinks from the bar but they were only good for some beer caller grolsh i think. It was quite bizarre. the driest beer I've ever had. the cotton candy of beers really. Paul from Zunior was there and he taped some of our set so hopefully some of it will end up on Zunior TV in the near future. Our timmons show got cancelled so we're driving from Toronto to Winnipeg but now we have 3 days to make it there. By the time we arrive i should have gotten quite far in lego batman and beaten the crap out of Pinky in tetris attack a bazillion times.

here's a demo of a song that may make it onto our next record.

we're all doomed

best tour ever.

we're hanging out in the basement of sonic unyon in a rehearsal space with out friend nick. last night we played at the casbah lounge, which was cool although different. we usually play in the big room there but for the amount of people that come to see us the small room is probably more apppropriate. The show ended early so we got to go see preistess down the street afterwards which was awesome. guitar envy enmasse. we're off to Toronto today where we're going to get to see Mary C our former drummer. Show is at sneaky dees. last time we where there spooky ruben showed up. do do ou yoy yo yeh.

guitar hero

Here's a song we recorded at the same time as turn into vapour. Like jeff's guide i just got around to finishing it. It'll be on a forward compilation that should be be out by christmas.

sleepless nights - guitar hero

music NS

we played a music nova scotia showcase this weekend. it was fun. not a huge turnout or anything but playing on big stages with nice sound systems makes me feel like a rockstar. t/r took some pic. trev made a bring nova scotia music week to yarmouth t-shirt. that would be awesome, we travel so much that i never have the time to get home.

we're going on tour again.

First show is at the Music NS awards in New Glascow, we get to play with Myles Deck and the Fuzz which is pretty daunting but I think we may be up to it. we'll be breaking out a new song for the first time. I think it may be called "your affection" I could be wrong. also we've renamed our song "information" to "faber drive". They have a song called sleepless nights and we keep hearing about people finding that on the internet when they're looking for us on-line so we may as well google-fuck them right back. This is the first post here SNOH, so i'll fill you in on what to expect. lots of MP3's of demo's and radio sessions and side projects and such, links to video's hopefully some of which we can make and post on this tour, and my ramble ramble. I'm going to try and update this as much as possible. As soon as i get my hosting situation figured i'll start with some radio session tracks i think.

xoxoxox