Portland has a lush music scene, I might even say that it might be more exciting than it is here in Brooklyn. During the CMJ festival Portland’s Starf*cker played a couple times and I never got to catch them live but picked up their album and definitely found a few songs on there that I really like. With the name Starf*cker I thought it was gonna some wild Dan Deacon kind of music but it wasn’t at all which isn’t a bad thing but the name just threw me off.
Eliot Lipp continues to blow me away, he has started his own label called Old Tacoma Records and has been touring non stop like a proper busy musician in 2008. His new single is what i’m guessing how Hip Hop will sound in 2030.
Le Baron was given to me by none other than Tom Croose, this whistling song puts Peter Bjorn and John to shame.
I know I post some Techno/House on this blog and its probably not very fitting to listen to the songs just on your computer especially if you don’t listen to much of it but DJ Koze this year was elite. Listen to those shakers! just brilliant production and sequencing, if you ever hear this on a big system you’ll fall in love.
Starf_cker+Lipp+La Baron+Koze
12.07.2008
not really feelin that koze track, however i have a track that’s on kompakt’s 2008 pop ambient called ‘nymphe und schaefer’ that is gorgeously sad. pretty much a staple for this grey wintery weather we’re havin’ up on the northwest..
I’m totally loving that Eliot Lipp track. Thanks for opening my ears to this artist 🙂
Eliot Lipp is my hero.
My buddy Andrew Sloan directed the video for Starfucker’s Rawnald Gregory the Second. Its pretty awesome.
Check it out here:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/147044-pitchforktv-starfucker-rawnald-gregory-erickson-the-second-video-premiere
He did a really great job with it.