IM // UR | Love, the Violence and Floating Points

This is probably the most exciting album we've heard in a while. Can you imagine a metal band not made by (and for) teenagers who worship Iron Maiden like their sisters worship Miley Cyrus? Invasion's The Master Alchemist is a compilation of 12 songs created with noisy guitars and fearless female vocals that will teach future generations about the emerging punk attitude; all with a metal sound and new rave style that might actually be the future of hairy metal. And we all thought heavy metal had no future...

WE // R \\ WEARING

No matter what part of the world you live in, you really can't ever have enough tees. Specially white ones. And black ones. With cool graphic prints on them. Meanwhile, in hipster-dom, crystals are still an ever popular theme, but in this case, we prefer this one in particular from Canadian based operation Handsome Clothing, christened the 'Lunar Crystal' (//Christel) tee. 'Handsome', despite being a kind of old school, highly civilised type of word, does describe this tastefully hip label justly. They also have a darn good-looking blog too, so go check that out while you're at it.

WE // R \\ WATCHING

Burn Notice is a USA Network series about a spy who got burned - which they remind you of in every scene. Although following the
basic style of American television, the series will catch all you dudes out there (sorry, girls won't like this) who like watching things explode in the most diverse ways. And like any good spy show, it teaches you how to make homemade bombs with boring things (a modern version of MacGyver). Plus Bruce Campbell is a lead character. And he's looking all Morrissey like.

WE // R \\ GOING

Imagine a youth house transformed into a club. Now charge 4 reais for a (long neck) beer and from 10 to 15 reais to get in. If you did it all right this would be called Neu (read in German) and actually already exists in São Paulo. My favorite night there is Friday, when they host Explode, a party where they basically play third world inspired songs (from Vampire Weekend to the whole club rap scene from Baltimore). Some great underrated DJs play there from time to time, and when you least expect it, you might find yourself laying on the dancefloor busting out some drunky town moves.

WE // R \\ READING

So yes, we've been wayyyy slack in updating the We//R\\Stuffs, which is why I'm going to say now that we began and finished Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Gray well before we knew it was a film. This is a classic novel about art, vanity, beauty and the consequences of such. 'A Picture of Dorian Gray' is brilliant; exploring and exploiting the potentially corrosive characters of beauty and what beauty can do to a character. Navigating through the deeply dark and light sides of human nature, Wilde's novel is a wickedly good study of society, and echoes with a cackling delight (and despair) at humanity's foibles.

Love, the Violence and Floating Points

Tuesday // November 17, 2009 at 10:05 // filed under Music

L'Amour Et La Violence

The final track to be squeezed out of Sebastien Tellier's Sexuality is 'L'Amour et La Violence', which is coming out via Lucky Number Music and being sold at good ol' Rough Trade.

Accompanied by new versions of the track by Floating Points and the recently uber bloggable Penguin Prison, this split release is also aptly named Fingers of Steel. Here we've got for you the Floating Points arrangement, taking the pure piano and oscillating synths of the original song and amping it up with anxious electronica and kicking it with his 'post-dubstep' style beats.

It took me a while to get a grip on the tripped up layers of the wheels within the wheel of the track; but after I got my head round it, I found it positively hypnotic. Incidentally, if you didn't know, Floating Points aka Sam Shepherd also happens to be a neuroscientist by day, which may or may not have anything to do with the seductive nature of his re-work. Check it:

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Sebastien Tellier - L'amour Et La Violence (Floating Points Mix - Sample) [mp3]

POSTED BY CHRISTEL ESCOSA

TAGS: Floating Points // LINKS: Sebastien Tellier, Floating Points