New and Old Music I'm Excited to Share with YOU!

Haven't made a music post in a while... never even got around to my 2007 Best Album Reco... which, for the record is an extremely tough call between Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam, Radiohead's In Rainbows, Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, M.I.A.'s Kala, Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future, Interpol's Our Love to Admire, Datarock's self-titled first album, !!!'s Myth Take, the Shins' Wincing the Night Away, Arcade Fire's Neon Bible, LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver, and finally Panda Bear's Person Pitch. I must also give hearty nods to Tracey Thorn's tender coming-out-of-her-shell album Out of the Woods, Bjork's Volta, Patrick Wolf's The Magic Position, as well as Moving Units' sophomore effort I instantly fell in love with upon hearing the title - Hexes for Exes - and finally the blaringly obvious and loudly critically acclaimed releases from Amy Winehouse (Back to Black) and Mark Ronson (Version).

2008 is already proving to be quite a powerhouse year for solid releases.

Here's what I've recently snagged - some new, some old - this stuff comes HIGHLY recommended, but of course you should always hear for yourselves:

Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi
Bang Gang - Something Wrong
Kylie Minogue - X
Celebration - Modern Tribe
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Daft Punk - Alive
Erlend Oye - Unrest
Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home
Funk D'Void - Dos
Soulwax - Nite Versions
The Glass (various remixes)
GusGus - Attention
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (get the black bonus track edition if you can...)
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Hercules & Love Affar (Self-titled debut album)
In Flagranti - Wronger Than Anyone Else
Inland Knights - various (it's all good), but Best of Drop Music is a great foray
Jarvis Cocker (of Pulp fame) - Jarvis
John Tejada - various (again - all good)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Miss Kittin - Batbox
Mr. Oizo - Moustache (Half a Scissor)
Mu Fish Fu - Out of Breach
New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
Professor Murder - Professor Murder Rides the Subway
Shitake Monkey - Street Beef
Purple Crush - Welcome 2 Emo Club
Riton - Djalma
Robyn - Robyn
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
The Teenagers - reality check
White Girl Lust - Solid Bump Records (you can find this mix on GBH.de - the best funk/disco/tech-house mix I've heard in years!)
Yello - You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess / Stella
Yelle - Pop-up
OM Records' - 300th Release! Sounds of Om Vol. 6
Theatre of Disco - Theatre of Disco
White Williams - Smoke (with the lovely, the talented Sofia Lamar featured in the album art)
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into


Also there's this new site where you can upload your own, and stream other peoples' mixes from all over the place. For anybody who was of the mixtape generation, this will definitely pull your sentimental heartstrings and it's just cool to see what kind of playlists other people are making. The site is growing exponentially. Totally check it out for yourself!

www.Muxtape.com




Enjoy!

Michael/Corocet/Senor Blog