It has been over 2 years since El Guincho released "Pop Negro" an album that garnered him worldwide & critical recognition.Today El Guincho is streaming new music on his website.
It is a 25 minute mix called Trances that is a collection of what he's been working on since then.
It sounds very promising. I look forward to hearing the new material as a whole album. Enjoy it here: http://tranc.es/
Thom Yorke's side project Atoms for Peace with super producer Nigel Godrich & badass bass player Flea have their 2nd album coming out Feb. 25th, 2013 and it's titled Amok but today they decided to put out a new song called "Judge, Jury and Executioner." Enjoy! from AFP's Facebook wall: So in the midst of yet more weird weather
and the beginning of another year it feels right to put out a song
called ..... Judge Jury and Executioner from Amok. It's up on youtube
here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4tW3mhp9io - I hope you like it.
The flip side of the release is a tune called S.A.D.
I wrote about this awesome super nerdy app for Remezcla and I highly recommend you download it.
It's available in many formats and best of all it is totally free on his website.
Below is an excerpt from my Remezcla article published January 7th, 2012:
Recently, more artists have begun using applications in innovative
ways that enables them to add features and additional depth to their
songs. By using modern technology that is readily available to many of
us with devices such as tablets and smartphones, it allows the artists
to explore undiscovered territories that makes the listener’s experience
a more personal, unique, and interactive one. Most notably was Björk’s Biophilia
which was the “first app album” ever where each song had its own
application that provided interactive material pertinent to the song’s
title or inspiration. Now being added to this expanding roster is the
Uruguayan Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter, Jorge Drexler. Music geeks and nerdy music lovers will rejoice!
Drexler recently teamed up with Samsung to release an application called n.
The app is named “n” since in mathematics, it is the symbol for a
series of natural numbers that can offer multiple solutions to an
equation, and that was partly Drexler’s inspiration for this app. The
app features three compositions that were specifically written for this
interactive project that Drexler refers to as “aplicanciones”
(application + songs).
I played this song out and sung this lyrics over and over like a mantra. When the video came out I was so happy to see how creative it was. We all have been trapped in the mundane and dream of escaping one day and follow your heart.
Esta canción la esuche tantas veces que las letras se convirtieron en mi mantra. Cuando salio el video estaba muy contento de ver que tan creativo era. Todos hemos sidos atrapados por lo mundano y deseamos escapar algun día y seguir nuestro corazón.
La Santa Cecilia - Tainted Love:
The simplicity of this video is what makes it magical. It's very well executed and goes to show that you don't need to have a big budget to be effective and imaginative. DIY all the way!
La magia de este video esta en su simplicidad. Muy bien ejecutado y demuestra que no se necesita un gran presupuesto para ser eficaz solo falta usar la imaginación. Todo es mejor hecho en casa!
Fiona Apple - Every Single Night:
Such odd imagery, but effective nonetheless. Although, I feel like Fiona looks a little unhealthy I was thrilled to see her back in full effect.
Unas imagenes muy raras pero efectivas a la vez. Aunque pienso que Fiona se ve un poco desnutrida estaba muy emocionado de verla de regreso en efecto completo.
This technique has been done so much before, but I found it very effective especially for the vibe of this song.
Esta tecnica ha sido usada tantas veces pero lo encontre muy efectivo especialmente para la vibra de esta canción.
Super Guachin - La Gorra:
I love this song and this video is perfect for their glitchy 8-bit video game sounding cumbia dub.
Me encanta esta canción y el video es perfecto para su sonido cumbiabero con toques de videojuegos.
M.I.A. - Bad Girls:
This is my absolute favorite video of 2012. I love that M.I.A. took something so trivial as women driving that is very taboo in parts of the Middle East and made a political statement while not being so preachy about it and having fun with it.
Este es mi video favorito del 2012. Me encanta que M.I.A. haya tomado algo tan trivial como las mujeres manejando que es muy tabú en partes del Medio Oriente y hizo un mensaje politico sin sermonear y a la vez divirtiendose al hacerlo.
