spiz you! mr(s) #F00: bubbles are everywhere.

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dl: SPIZ YOU! MR(S) #F00 – Bubbles Are Everywhere (zshare)
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In general, Spiz You! Mr(s) #F00 is like the Andrew WK or Totally Michael of the digital, dorktastic generation. It’s this whole “let’s party with our computers” kind of vibe (which I totally dig). Despite that, their song “Bubbles Are Everywhere” is more along the lines of Coach Said Not To meets The Postal Service. Being less than a minute and a half, this tune is definitely too short to suck.

The band describes themselves as “a collaboration between two internet friends” that “likes computers and other things that are related to them.” I’m pretty sold on this band, but I have a feeling that they may love their laptops too much to take touring or making music seriously. In the end, I’m kind of okay with that. I just hope they keep making more songs.

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BONER TRACK: SPIZ YOU! MR(S) #F00 – Party-O on MSN Tonight (zshare)
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electrik red: friend lover.

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dl: ELECTRIK RED – Friend Lover (zshare)
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I don’t normally talk about the doodles on this blog, but this one is particularly close to my heart. I’ve been saving it for the perfect girl group–the kind that made me feel like I did when I was obsessed with Destiny’s Child (back in eighth grade, but of course). And let me tell you… that group is finally here.

As much as The Dream is desperately striving to be this generation’s Prince, he’s trying equally as hard to turn Electrik Red into his very own Vanity 6. While I’m on the edge of my chair waiting for their album to drop, I’m not sure the rest of the world is with me. But what the fuck is the rest of the world’s damn problem? How can you not love a group whose member spurts out, “You know how back then the Spice Girls had girl power? With us it’s lady power, girl power on crack!”? I love music that involves crack!

Okay, but in all seriousness… my musical crush on these gals began when I encountered the group’s “We Fuck You” on Mixtape Maestro. That song just makes me want to have sex with a toaster or relatively anything. It’s pretty much boner city, and I’m not even turned off by the fact that The Dream annoyingly inserted his favorite syllable “ay” (see Rihanna‘s “Umbrella”, which he also wrote). It actually enhances the song somewhat, or at least the song’s humpability.

After metaphorically splooging several times, I had briefly forgotten about the group until an e-mail hit my inbox from DefJam. It included their video for “Friend Lover”. This was the moment when I really fell in love. I posted the video on my facebook page and made a mental note to myself to pick this album up the day it came out. Nobody (I can think of) is currently doing pop music like this on a mainstream level.

It seems like only a few days later that their video for “So Good” popped up. This was the moment when I became obsessed. The song itself had a decidedly timeless groove to it, even if the lyrics or vocals weren’t particularly mind-blowing. But where I was really sold was the video–the minimalism here was just so refreshingly ol’ skool, recalling the days of early TLC, En Vogue, Total and SWV.

People have been comparing Electrik Red to The Pussycat Dolls, but those people are fucked in the head. Their sexuality is much more overt and not some commercialized gimmick. There’s some sensuality behind it, not just this “nudge nudge” kind of vibe.

Word on the street is that their album has been pushed back to April, and I would seriously humiliate myself in public begging DefJam to not shelf it. Am I crazy?

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UPDATE: Nah Right just posted a remix of “So Good” with Lil Wayne. Weezy doesn’t really enhance the song too much, but I’m hoping his presence will cause radio to pay a little more attention to the song.

the presets: blog love.

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dl: THE PRESETS – If I Know You (Tania & Jori version) (via BIGSTEREO)
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Yesterday around 7:10pm, I had just gotten off the phone with Julian Hamilton of The Presets. The interview was for a certain publication I write for on occasion, but I did manage to ask one completely selfish question for ITMS!!:

What’s your relationship with all the music blogs out there?

[Sigh] I don’t know, man. Do they like us or do they not like us?

I think most of them like you.

Oh, thank god for that! Every once in a while, I’ll read a review, and I just feel uncomfortable (whether it’s a good one or a bad one). I just find it a bit strange. I try not to Google myself too much. Yeah, but that’s good I guess… I guess if the blog kids like it, that’s something good. I guess it’s a relatively new thing, the whole blog thing. It just sort of took off after we put out our first record. Oh, I’m glad they like us.

Once the piece is published, I may be able to share a few other nuggets. Most of them will be totally gay nuggets (that hit on other nuggets).

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BONER TRACK: THE PRESETS – Talk Like That (Miami Horror remix) (zshare)
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