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#200-207

DGM — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:02:32 GMT

#207 Spleen United
Copenhagen.

Days Of Thunder

some are born into restless lives

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#206 Personal
A Greek White Lies.

Love Or Fate

fear is growing take me by your side

Prayer

I will wait for you until I die

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#205 Emil & Friends
Brooklyn.

Crystal Ball

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#204 Bastian
Sometime's you hear a song for the first time and 30secs into it you know you love it - like this one just 10 mins ago. From Amsterdam, lead vocalist sounds like Lenny Kravitz, the music like Prince/Chromeo.

Touch and Go

If I have to come down
I'm not hanging around, oh no
I just touch and go
Soundcloud

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#203 C2C
4 DJ's from France under the name of Coups 2 Cross

Down the Road

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#202 Basement Batman
Brooklyn

On A Streak

He made it to the top, and looked down at the drop
Bandcamp

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#201 Les Friction
From LA. Not too sure how to describe what they sound like. Sort of like some overblown orchestral rock Eurovision song. Sort of. Debut album out this week, the following is how they describe it "The year is 2048 AD. Humans are now able to leave their earthly home and travel to other dimensions. While traveling, a shell of their body remains on earth and functions at a reduced capacity. For most people, life is more interesting and entertaining in these alternate dimensions; however, having neglected their loved ones at home, society on earth begins to deteriorate. Anarchy ensues and the travelers begin to receive millions of S.O.S.�s from their families on earth. Now, they must fight and struggle their way back home to save earth from certain destruction. Our story begins��"
Ok then.

Torture

I'll live and die in this bubble

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So since I'm at a notable number it's time for my new #50's posts - songs that have been left out up to now as no YouTube videos available - an embedded link will have to do. Click if you want to....or not.

#200a Loyal Divide
From Chicago, a band that have been around for a couple of years. They released their debut album in Oct 2011 and a few weeks ago they put out a song that didn't make the cut - a duet with Rachel Sarah Thomas from Automata.
Otto, a bit folk-ey to start off with but...wait for it.
Soundcloud

#200b Coco Morier
From New Mexico but lives in LA, she has written a few songs for Britney Spears and is worked with Peter Bjorn & John, Miike Snow and Lykke Li on her album
Explosions, a mixture of Little Boots and Ting Tings, poptastic. Currently my most listened to January song.
Soundcloud

#200c Les Handclaps
From Montreal, appeared on a SXSW Playlist back in March and then nothing - never heard of it again.
Cliche, French Canadian lyrics.
Mp3 player

#200d Frida Sundemo
From Sweden.
I Was Surrounded, soppy as funk but a lovely melody to the chorus nevertheless.
Bandcamp

#200e Polyester Embassy
From Indonesia.
Space Travel Rock N Roll, sounding like Kent.
Soundcloud

#200f Lasertom & The Blast Crew
Electronic band from Dublin.
Heavens In The Backseat, a 7:30 cover of a Hot Chocolate song.
Soundcloud

#200g King Melodies
From Sweden again.
You Will Win
Soundcloud

#190-199

DGM — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:26:48 GMT

#199 Cambriana
From Brazil, like a more mellow sounding Metronomy's 'The Look' (#010)

The Sad Facts

you've been leaving bodies everywhere you go
Free on Bandcamp

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#198 Oliver
From Los Angeles, a duo that mainly do remixes for the past couple of years but release some originals too.

Housse De Racket - Roman (Oliver remix)

Memories Of The Future

Dirty Talk

Donald Glover (Troy from Community) does a bit of singing under the name Childish Gambino. The original song from Nov 2011 isn't really my thing, rap & NSFW lyrics, but Oliver have mellowed it down and kept the chours - the best part anyway.
Childish Gambino - Heartbeat (Oliver remix)

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#197 Stella Le Page
Pop from London.

Snake

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#196 Ugly Kids Club
From Nashville, very like The Kills.

My Soul

Free on Soundcloud

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#195 The Other Tribe
Bristol.

Don't Need No Melody

I don't mind what I've become

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#194 Philco Fiction
Norway

Finally

Your heart is colder than the winter of 81,
My mind was made up in the winter of 82

The City

The days in the city grow empty without you

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#193 Lockets
Philadelphia

Catch Me

Free on Soundcloud

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#192 Tanlines
From Brooklyn, TV on the Radio like.

Brothers

I'm just the same as I've ever been,
but I'm the only one who hasn't noticed it
Free on Soundcloud

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#191 The Wooden Sky
Toronto

Child of the Valley

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#190 Tesla Boy
Moscow, dreamy floaty pop.

In Your Eyes

hey, tell me what's going on, you're in my skin,
my flesh and bone

#180-189

DGM — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:38:59 GMT

#189 We Trust
#188 Phunktastike
#187 Frigid
#186 Late Fragments
#185 Carousel
#184 Freedom Fry
#183 Team Me
#182 Nightriders
#181 Dead Social Club
#180 Sinkane Ra

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#189 We Trust
Portugal

Time (Better Not Stop)

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#188 Phunktastike
Buenos Aires

Booged Out

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#187 Frigid
A dark and moody Canadian interlude

Dust & Debris

Free on Bandcamp

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#186 Late Fragments
Dublin

Late Fragments

Free on Bandcamp

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#185 Carousel
San Francisco/ Cleveland

Know It's Right

I like the way you always make me stare

Here Now

same old frustrations, I know. It shows

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#184 Freedom Fry
He's from New York, She's from Paris.

Tallest Dreams

keep climbing up

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#183 Team Me
I know I've said it before but this (Oslo) band does really sound like Foster the People/MGMT.

Show Me

I'm happy as can be when you are gone
Free on Soundcloud

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#182 Nightriders
80's sounding group from Boston

Lost The Feeling

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#181 Dead Social Club
From London, sounding like a more electronic-y White Lies.

Stockholm

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#180 Sinkane Ra
Solo project of Brooklyn's Yeasayer drummer Ahmed Gallab.

Jeeper Creeper

#170-179

DGM — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:44:10 GMT

#179 Kido Yoji
#178 The Magician
#177 Citizens!
#176 Leno Lovecraft
#175 Music for Animals
#174 Sajid and Zeeshan
#173 Plastic Operator
#172 MF/MB/
#171 Eight Bit Tiger
#170 Alvin And Lyle

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#179 Kido Yoji
From Japan, based in NYC, sounding suspiciously like Chromeo.

Am 3:33

More Than Real Blue Satellite Remix.

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#178 The Magician
Alluded to this fella before, he was in Aeroplane (#006) but left before the debut album was released. From Belgium, he deserves his own post.

I Don't Know What To Do feat. Jeppe

I spin and spin but I just wind up on the ground

Scenic, Another Sky [The Magician remix]

Lykke Li, I Follow Rivers [The Magician remix]

Free on Soundcloud

He also teamed up with French DJ/Producer Yuksek last year and released a single under the name Peter & The Magician.
Twist

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#177 Citizens!

True Romance

never knowing where you came from or where to go

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#176 Leno Lovecraft
A 19 year old New Zealander now based in Paris, with an extremely colourful (disco funk) video.

Princess - give it 45secs until the chorus

my laser beam penetrates through your platinum plated heart

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#175 Music For Animals
From LA.

City Streets

They cut down all the trees we used to climb

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#174 Sajid and Zeeshan
From Pakistan. Taken from an album of covers of someone called Junoon this a mixture of Indian melodies, Spanish guitar and some mild electonica. Quite a pleasant combination.

Pyar Bina (Junoon cover)

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#173 Plastic Operator
Part Canadian, part Belgium and based in London.

Making It Right

Free on Soundcloud

...and so ends the year.

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#172 MF/MB/
From Malmo and Stockholm. The Grand Chase is from 2010.
Over the past couple of weeks have been listening to a lot of remixes (end of year, etc) and discovering songs I had but have gotten lost amid everything else, one such is their remix of a !!! song.

The Grand Chase

all that we shared, and nothing is given back

Jamie, My intentions are bass - !!! (MF/MB/ remix)

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#171 Eight Bit Tiger
Two brothers from Chicago. They compare themselves to Daft Punk, Blondie, MJ, Prince & New Order. The opening and closing tracks seem to be the better songs off the album.

Bad Advice

Jumping in the elevator makes it go faster

Training Wheels

My story is in reverse

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#170 Alvin And Lyle
Luxembourg.

The Good Feeling

Fall into my dreams

#160-169

DGM — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:11:56 GMT

#169 Y LUV
#168 Louis La Roche
#167 Post War Years
#166 Young The Giant
#165 Ghost Beach
#164 Hook & the Twin
#163 Psychemagik
#162 no snow/noalps
#161 Johan Agebj�rn
#160 Ford & Lopatin

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#169 Y LUV
Los Angelus.

Keep It Rollin'

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#168 Louis La Roche
London

F.U.B.A.R.

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#167 Post War Years
London.

All Eyes

you have all the time in the world

James Yuill (#083) remix

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#166 Young The Giant
California.

Cough Syrup

Im losing control

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#165 Ghost Beach
New York, electro.

First Time

You're the only thing that feels right

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#164 Hook & the Twin
From the UK.

We're so Light

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#163 Psychemagik
From the UK. Cosmic Disco they call it.

Diamond Star

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#162 nosnow/noalps
From Malta, sounding like a more poppier Ham Sandwich/The Flaws.

Far Into The Night (Without You)

...tonight, tomorrow, anyday without you

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#161 Johan Agebj�rn
Some Swedish synth-electro-pop...for a change.

The Last Day Of Summer feat. Ercola & Queen Of Hearts

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#160 Ford & Lopatin
Formally known as Games, from Brooklyn.

Emergency Room

World of Regret

#150-159

DGM — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:10:35 GMT

#159 Contrakids
#158 I Break Horses
#157 Polica
#156 Destroyer
#155 The Treatment
#154 me & LP
#153 Low Roar
#152 Hermitude
#151 Peter Wolf Crier
#150 The 2 Bears

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#159 Contrakids
Sydney.

Fool

I know you wanted more

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#158 I Break Horses
Stockholm.

Winter Beats

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#157 POLI�A
Minneapolis.

Dark Star

ain't no man in this world who could pull me down from my dark star

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#156 Destroyer
From Vancouver, taken from his 9th album Kaputt.

Downtown

I was just getting used
To having you 'round

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#155 The Treatment
From Norway with their cover of a 1976 song by Loleatta Holloway. Beyonce-like disco funk.

We're Getting Stronger

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#154 me & LP
Los Angeles. Folk indie pop.

La Belle Tocade

let’s give it right this time

(Bonnie Says) No Shitty Ride

Oh my, Oh my

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#153 Low Roar
Ryan Karazija, born in San Francisco but living in Reykjavik.

Tonight, Tonight, Tonight - similar to Radiohead's How to Disappear Completely. 8 mins of haunting goodness.

I ain't gonna be here too long

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#152 Hermitude
From the Blue Mountains outside Sydney, a hip hop dance tune.

Speak of the Devil

That little devil on your shoulder,
Is telling you to dance.
C'mon, you know that you want to...dance dance dance dance

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#151 Peter Wolf Crier
Minneapolis

Settling It Off

I won't die, I won't grow

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#150 The 2 Bears
One part Hot Chip. Out Jan 2.

Work

We gotta work, work harder, for each other, for the future

#140-149

DGM — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:20:46 GMT

#149 White Demin
#148 Wake! Owl
#147 Sunbears!
#146 Fakuta
#145 BOA
#144 Sharon Van Etten
#143 Dark Captain
#142 Mina Tindle
#141 Tennis
#140 The Rosebuds

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#149 White Denim
Austin.

No Real Reason

I got no real reason for my loneliness

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#148 Wake! Owl
Vancouver.

Wild Country

What will become of the truth when we keep it in

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#147 Sunbears!
Florida.

They think they're soooo philosophical

We all die the same,
Remembering the life that we had

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#146 Fakuta
Chile.

Aeropuerto

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#145 BOA
Sweden.

Push

do you know what it's all about?

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#144 Sharon Van Etten
Brooklyn.

Serpents

Everything changes in time

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#143 Dark Captain
London.

Submarines

We shouldn't have to try this hard

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#142 Mina Tindle
Sounds like a Parisian Marina & the Diamonds.

To Carry Many Small Things

And if I fall, would you fall with me?

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#141 Tennis
From Denver.

Origins

Have you confused your power with might

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#140 Rosebuds
From North Carolina, the song Second Bird of Paradise taken from their fifth album Loud Planes Fly Low

She floats like a bird in the canopy

#130-139

DGM — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:23:02 GMT

#139 WooWoos
#138 Swiss Lips
#137 Bastille (US)
#136 Bastille (UK)
#135 Cass McCombs
#134 Class Actress
#133 Grum
#132 Trent Dabbs
#131 The Concretes
#130 Shaheryar Mirza

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#139 Woo Woos
From London and a possible new Sugababes - although with names like WooWoos/Fizzy Lettuce I dont see it happening.

Fizzy Lettuce

You're trading your spark,
To play in the dark

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#138 Swiss Lips
From Manchester, sounding like Foster the People.

U Got The Power

boom, boom, give me a reason

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#137 Bastille (US)
Double post today as 2no. Bastille's around at the moment. These guys are from LA. More electronic than the UK version.

Wide Open

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#136 Bastille (UK)
From London.
Similar to Hurts.

Overjoyed

I hear you calling in the dead of night

Icarus

You won't remember this

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#135 Cass McCombs
Taken from his sixth album, Cass McCombs is originally from California but now living in New York.

Love Thine Enemy

I found this quote in a book and thought of you

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#134 Class Actress
Brooklyn

Weekend

Bring on the weekend

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#133 Grum
From his 2010 Heartbeats album, Graeme Shepherd aka Grum, from Leeds.

Through The Night

Can't Shake This Feeling

Cybernetic

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#132 Trent Dabbs
Nashville

Second Wind

Move on, what good and gone is still gone

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#131 The Concretes
From Stockholm

Good Evening

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#130 Shaheryar Mirza
From Islamabad

Found My Love feat. Zoe Viccaji

Day after day skies of grey
Turned to blue

#129 Leonard Friend

DGM — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:52:06 GMT

Using his grandfathers name, Alex Feder is originally from Brooklyn but now based in LA.
R&B/pop.

Serious Music

We're desperate for our youth while we're still young

#128 Ivy

DGM — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:15:00 GMT

New York

Suspicious, sounding very like Lena's Taken by a Stranger of all songs

No matter what you say,
No matter what you do ,
I will always be suspicious of you

Fascinated

Look what you're doing to me

#127 Guilty Ghosts

DGM — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:23:14 GMT

Brooklyn

Tinted Windows feat. Guerre

you were so high...

#126 Zen Circus

DGM — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:20:22 GMT

From Italy

L'amorale

#125 Little Red

DGM — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:20:28 GMT

Melbourne

Get A Life

#124 Vandaveer

DGM — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:28:33 GMT

Washington DC

Concerning Past & Future Conquests

I kinda like this state I'm in

#123 Zimmer

DGM — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:00:14 GMT

Paris / Los Angeles

Cruisin'