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Going to Vermont

Christmas is over (finally), so now everyone's going to go about their merry way once again, until New Years that is. Meanwhile, I'll be traveling up to Vermont for a couple of days, so I won't be posting for a while. I made a mixtape for the roadtrip up there, and thought I'd post it here for you to listen to in the meantime. It's more mellow and less electronic than my first two mixtapes, but personally, I think it's overall better. Download the mixtape, check out the track list, you know the deal. 

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Ian France - The Vermont Mixtape

Track List:

01 Final Fantasy - I'm Afraid of Japan

02 Beirut - Napoleon On the Bellerophon

03 Beirut - Scenic World

04 Final Fantasy - This Lamb Sells Condos

05 Grizzly Bear - Easier

06 The Neighbourhood Council - Liver and Tan

07 Grizzly Bear - Granny Dinner

08 Beach House - Master Of None

09 Fight Bite - Swissex Lover

10 Feist - I Feel It All (Diplo Remix)

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

The much hyped about eighth studio album from Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavillion, is officially going to be released January 20th, 2009. However, Josh Jodoin the ultimate leak source), has done something we've all longed to happen. On Christmas day he leaked Merriweather, and the whole album's still up for free download here. He's a regular santa. I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but so far, My Girls is my favorite track. I'll probably be posting a review soon, but not within the week. Until then, download the album and check out track list. 

Track List:

01 In the Flowers

02 My Girls

03 Also Frightened

04 Summertime Clothes

05 Daily Routine

06 Bluish

07 Guys Eyes

08 Taste

09 Lion in a Coma

10 No More Runnin

11 Brothersport

TreeWax

Found one last Christmas vid I just had to share with you. The song's A Fifth Beethoven by Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band, remixed by Soulwax. What could be better you say? Another Soulwax remix? Well, it's made by the guys over at Klip Collective. I don't know if you know them, but they're pretty awesome.

Kudos to WeLikeIt.Indie.

Smudge

This is the latest ad from the great guys over at the Reality Coalition. Pretty funny, but true. 

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Japan

This is a little stocking stuffer I thought I'd post from DJ Muranao of the electro unit, I'm So Looking You. It's a cover of WHAM's Last Christmas and a truly great gift from the gal DJ all the way over in Nagoya, Japan. A beautifully woven mass of Christmas bells, techno kits, and radiating synthesizers, the track's enough to wham the Christmas spirit into any robot's heart. Hope you enjoy it, and once again, merry Christmas... from Japan!

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I'm So Looking You - Last Christmas

Banjo Or Freakout - Silent Night

Once again, Banjo Or Freakout creates another haunting, atmospheric masterpiece, with his inter-dimensional rendition of Silent Night, a Christmas favorite. If you want more Banjo, you can preorder the Mr No/Someone Great 7" here. However, if you're looking for any more Christmas-oriented tunes, just check out my indie Xmas playlist here, and I'll be posting if I find any more Christmas tracks to rock your stockings. Until then, merry Christmas!

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Banjo Or Freakout - Silent Night

DP Christmas Playlist

Well my friends, it's that time of year again - Christmas is only three days away! Yes, pretty soon the big guy in the red suit will be climbing down our chimneys and placing gifts under our pink, aluminum Christmas tree. Pretty soon our relatives, and maybe even you, will be chugging down egg nog and hot cocoa by the gallon. Pretty soon you'll be sitting in the living room, watching the yule log on channel 11, and wandering if there is any other music you could be listening to besides White Christmas sung by Bing Crosby, which you have heard an estimated 37 times in the past two years. Of course, the Cocteau Twins, Frank Sinatra, and Ella Fitzgerald are classics, but for years, you have secretly longed for something better. Anything with some beat, some guitar, or some synth. Anything mellow, techno, or just plain indie. Well, you go to your computer, and google Danish Poet Blog. You look at their latest post, and find a cool, hip, indie Christmas playlist that rocks your socks off! You quickly burn the tracks onto a CD and eject your used copy of Christmas Oldies: Vol. 4 (you know, the one with Nat King Cole?) replacing it with your still warm CD filled with fresh new tracks. You turn up the volume on your stereo to a woppin' 9.5 and mute the TV. After settling down with a warm mug of hot cocoa, just as Coldplay's cover of  Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, comes on, you come to the realization that Christmas can be indie, you just have to believe. 

So here's a small playlist I cooked up in order to wish you a merry indie Christmas. It includes the Raveonettes track everyone's been raving about and a beautiful cover of Winter Wonderland by Goldfrapp. The music video on the bottom is for the Micky P Kerr track, Credit Crunch Christmas, a comical, low-budget view on our tanked economy during this joyous time of year. 

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Various Artists - DP Christmas Playlist

Track Listing:

1 Coldplay - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

2 Purse Snatchers - Christmas Lights

3 Sufjan Stevens - Sister Winter

4 Goldfrapp - Winter Wonderland

5 The Raveonettes - Come On Santa

6 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - All I Want For Christmas

7 Death Cab For Cutie - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Micky P Kerr - Credit Crunch Christmas

Send Us Your Mixtapes!

That's right folks! I'm always looking for new music, so whether it's your mix, your remix, your mixtape, or your very own music, just send it to me at DANISHPOET@YAHOO.COM. I'll listen to it and if I like it (which I'm sure I will), I'll do a post on it. I'd love it if you sent me your stuff, and if I really really really love it, I'll keep an eye on you and post any other new music you come up with. Here's a 10 minute minimix I actually made just a couple of days ago called The Herculean Mixtape. I mainly put it together just to help cheer me up during these cold, dreary days, and I hope it does the same for you. Check out the track lists, then download the mixtapes. Cheers!

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Ian France - The Herculean Mixtape

Track List:

1 Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor

2 Hercules & Love Affair - Blind

3 Cut Copy - Far Away (The Golden Filter Remix)

4 The Hours - See The Light (Calvin Harris Remix)

5 Plus Move - Boss

6 Cut Copy - So Haunted (Knightlife's Sun-Soaked Reprise)

Music Video Update: Running w/ the Beast

This is the music video for zZz's Running with the Beast, the title track off their latest album. Directed and concepted by Roel Wouters, this is one of those artistic music vids that only come around once in a while, with a track by another one of those obscure (and in this case dutch), indie rock bands. Well, this is one to be remembered - two colored cocks printing their fight on a sheet of paper. 

Hot Chip and Pete Cover Cape Cod

Well who saw this one coming? If you've ever heard of the Vampire Weekend song Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, you'll probably remember the lyrics "feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel..." and then there's a guitar segment and some more conga drums. Now that Banjo Or Freakout's already covered the track, what could be more perfect the a cover of the tune done by the person it's singing about - Peter Gabriel. Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip that is. Originally recorded over the summer in Peter Gabriel's Real World studios, the Cape Cod... cover is a perfect reflection of what Hot Chip does best - give you the sense of what the song's all about, while adding some really cool beats. However, I've got to say, I'm not all that crazy about how Pete's voice fits in with the synths and claps. Judge for yourself - download the track. 

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Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

The Herculean Mixtape

I just made a new mixtape - more of a minimix actually, only 10 minutes long - centered around that awesome Hercules & Love Affair song, Blind. I think it's my best one yet - it's full of mashes and beats and twists and tunes - that are guaranteed to get your heart pumping. Download the mixtape, check out the track list, you know the deal. 

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Ian France - The Herculean Mixtape

Track List:

1 Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor

2 Hercules & Love Affair - Blind

3 Cut Copy - Far Away (Golden Filter Remix)

4 The Hours - See The Light (Calvin Harris Remix)

5 Plus Move - Boss

6 Cut Copy - So Haunted (Knightlife's Sun-Soaked Reprise)

Danish Poet Got Interviewed!

Chalky from over at Terrible Love Songs interviewed me as part of his Music Lives On the Internet project. Check it out!

Bob Meets the Beatles

Don't have much time to post today, so just thought I'd share this with you. I always fined Dan Meth funny, and every time I watch this I crack up. Great stuff.


Bob Meets The Beatles from Dan Meth on Vimeo.

Music Video Update: A Thing For Me

This is the latest vid floating around the internet - the sing-along style music video for Metronomy's Thing For Me. They take the sing-along bouncing ball to a whole new level, and you can't listen to the song without watching the video. It's perfect.

DP Blogcast - 12/14/08

Finally decided to start a DP podcast, or what I like to call "blogcast" that'll be available for free download every Sunday on this website. It'll wrap up the week's best remixes and beats I posted about for 30 minutes or less (depending on how much I posted, and how good it was). Well, here it is, my first DP Blogcast.

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DP Blogcast - 12/14/08

Track List:

1 Cut Copy - So Haunted (Knightlife's Sun-soaked Remix)

2 Cut Copy - Far Away (The Golden Filter Remix)

3 Fake Blood - Mars

4 Hearts Revolution - Ultraviolence (Les Petits Pilous Remix)

5 Jay-Z & Santogold - Brooklyn Go Hard (Kanye West Production)

6 Feist - I Feel It All (Diplo Remix)

DP on the HM Continued

If you recall a couple of posts ago, I was talking about how Danish Poet Blog wasn't listed as one of the blogs on The Hype Machine's music blog list. Hypem, an MP3 music blog resource, is one of the more popular blogging networks, that not only helps popularize blogs with MP3 links, but also shares fantastic tracks over the internet. Well, I had asked all of my faithful readers to please enter in my blog for submission of the list, and if that didn't work, to please write them a letter (which they could copy and paste off of my website). As you can guess it meant a lot to me, so you can possibly imagine how thrilled I am to tell you that it worked! DP's now listed! Thank you so much, everyone, for your thoughtful contribution. I am forever in your debt. Now, check out my blog (as listed on Hypem) in all its beautiful glory. Oh, and as a proper thank you, I put up the currently five most popular tracks listed on Hypem for free download. Triple CHEERS!

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Hearts Revolution - Ultraviolence (Les Petits Pilous Remix)

Jay Z & Santagold - Brooklyn Go Hard (Kanye West Production)

Fake Blood - Mars

Lady Gaga - Just Dance (Anthony Ross & Mezzir Remix)

Kid Cudi - Day'N'Nite (Crookers Remix)

Music Video Update: Higher State

UK electro duo South Central just released a remake of the Josh Wink classic, Higher State of Consciousness. I've got the download after the jump, along with the music video, a mixture of ominous shadows and lights cast onto a montage of newspapers. Sound weird? Well, the music fits it perfectly. Take a look!

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South Central - Higher State

Hi-Fi Christmas Party

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