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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