Weekly Song Recommendation: Cut Copy – Feel The Love

#MusicMonday!
This week’s recommendation is Cut Copy’s “Feel the Love” from their 2008 release “In Ghost Colours“.  What makes this recommendation cool is the fact that the album was originally recommended to me by Mr. Frank Payne.  Frank can be thanked for introducing me to so much of the awesome music that I’m into.  Nobody has better music taste than him.  Hands down.

Now onto the song.

This song really has pretty much everything a good track needs.  So take note if you’re in a band or planning on starting one.  These things will make a tune an instant hit.

1) Obscure introduction with ample electronics that breaks into a standard indie rock jam.
2) Lots of padding consisting of heavily reverb’ed “Ohhhh”s or synth pads.
3) A dance chorus that absolutely consists of a double time hi-hat pattern.  You may also replace the acoustic drums at this point with a drum machine if you like.  But bring back the acoustic drums for the verse.
4) A vocoder.  I can’t stress this enough.  Modern music does not use a vocoder nearly as much as it should.  Fine, autotune… but the vocoder is where it’s at.
5) Synth heavy outro to dance to.

With this track having all of these things and more, how could it go wrong?

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Weekly Song Recommendation: Quintron – Witch in the Club

I really need to start putting more of my personality into this blog.  Even it bores me.  So once a week I’m going to plan on posting a song that I think my friends should listen to.  Most of my Omaha friends need some music schooling anyway ;)

This week I feature a track from Mr. Quintron (and Miss Pussycat)’s album “Swamp Tech”.  It’s called Witch in the Club.

He was here a couple months ago at The Waiting Room and in my opinion put on one of the best shows here so far this year.

The track starts off with the sound of the infamous Drum Buddy, an instrument that he invented and plays live at his shows.  It consists of a coffee can with holes in it, on a turntable, with a lightbulb inside of the can.  As light leaks out through the holes little photo sensors pick it up and make a synth sound.  Genius.  Enjoy.

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