This song is a perfect hypnosis for me, it sends me into a deep trance. It's so chill, but also talking about a topic many have dealt with. Trying to numb the pain of a past relationship with drugs and strange bed fellows. I have heard this version of the song much more than the original by Tove Lo, and I find this to be a brilliant remix by Hippie Sabotage. Go follow them right now! Check out Tove Lo the singer who created the original version of "Habits (Stay High)" too. Both are quickly building from the success of this amazing song.
Greenskeepers have an album called Polo Club that is just perfect. I have listened to it straight through a number of times. They are a total throwback band, retro sounding but with new ideas. "15 Minutes" is a brilliant spin on new age music, it sounds just like something out of the 80's. The band began as friends James Curd and Nick Maurer collaborated creating an awesome sound but also amazing vocals and excellent lyrics. You can stream the double album Polo Club the third album from Greenskeepers by following the link. Or check out more on James Curd's Official Soundcloud page too.
This is a nice chill type of musical artist called Baths. This particular song has a lot of glitches creating a melody, but a lot of his music is rather mellow, and some use vocals or samples of spoken words. "Lovely Bloodflow" comes from Baths debut album Cerulean released by Anticon. This is the official music video through the Anticon youtube channel. Chill electronic music is becoming a popular sub-genre, not so much in the club scene but more so in cars and the background when people want to chat at parties. Satellite radio even has a station dedicated to it simply called Chill on channel 53 for XM. Baths is awesome, you can listen to most of his music on spotify here.
Battles is a very experimental style of rock band, they are all talented musicians that can go off on musical tangents leaving the listener wondering what just happened. "Atlas" comes from the debut album by Battles entitled Mirrored. The album name is very fitting due to the incredible use of patterns found in many of the songs. Battles sort of reminds me of Primus, using powerful banging bass slaps along with raw recordings. This is about as indie as you can get with rock music and vocals, just when it seemed like everything had been done before musically, Battles comes through with a new take on grunge music. Mirrored is a long song basically split into tracks, thus the abrupt ending, so you have to listen to the whole album to get the full effect. You can listen to the entire Battles album Mirrored here on Spotify.
HIM is an intense gothic rock band from Finland with a ton of great music. If you have seen any of the Bam Margera films - Ming Hags, Haggard, or the CKY movies they all use HIM music within the score. HIM is one of the only bands that goes into hard metal and also deep ballad type tracks. The lead singer Ville Valo is very smooth with his vocals, different than a lot of other rock bands where the singer puts on a tough guy voice. "Pretending" come from the album Deep Shadows & Brilliant Highlights released in Finland back in August of 2001. HIM has a total of 8 full length albums to date, go check out more from HIM here on spotify.
This is a classic beat from the bombfunk MC's called "Freestyler" and a really cool music video. The rasta style lyrics are an added bonus too, everyone listens when you have a cool accent. This song reminds me of Roni Size and Reprazent, another electronic/hip-hop group from the same time frame, back in the late 90's. This video is really cool, chronicling the day of a boy who has an all powerful music player that can manipulate time and space. "Freestyler" is also used in the film Haggard a goofy story about a dude dealing with a break up. Haggard is one of a couple films created by Bam Margera and it's stars the late Ryan Dunn. Go peep more by the Bombfunk MC's for some sick old school, fast beat, electronic music.
This is a really cool track by Hot Chip called "One Life Stand," there's really nothing else I know even similar to this song. I first heard Hot Chip about the same time that MGMT blew up, so I tend to lump the two bands together. They are both very out in left field, but every now and then a pop masterpiece emerges. Hot Chip is definitely a hipster type of band, but I mean that in a good way. This song has some really interesting lyrics to go with the amazing music. You can listen to a bunch more Hot Chip music via Spotify here.
