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BEFORE TODAY by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

It doesn’t take much to make me feel stupid. Trying to find the words to describe the debut album of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti at 4AD is just one of many examples I could give you. To me, ‘Before Today’ sounds like an album that Kevin Barnes could be recording if he loved goth bands more than funk ones. Or like the cold wave genre entering a multicoloured psychedelic stage instead of glazing at it's own depression. Don’t mind my threadbare examples; this is the album that will make it onto every interesting top 10 of the year and you don’t wanna miss it.

WE // R \\ WEARING

I can't resist (probably overpriced) basics-with-a-twist. My wardrobe, full of T by Wang, Oak, Bassike and yes, American Apparel is proof of this; and since in Australia, a new favourite has emerged in the form of Nathan Smith. His selection of supersoft tees, tanks and dresses have sucked me into buying multiples of a number of styles in different colourways. You just can't go wrong with these though! Addictively and endlessly wearable - and not in actual fact, overpriced in the slightlest - Nathan Smith is the way forward for your wardrobe.

WE // R \\ WATCHING

I don’t think any series will treat teenagers the same way that Freaks and Geeks did almost 10 years ago. Although relying on every teen American cliché they could, this series was the closest thing to reality you could get whilst still being something fun and interesting to watch – cause, you know, life is boring. With bands like The Who, The Clash and XTC being either part of episodes or the soundtrack, this 80’s based cult show was short-lived (only 18 episodes), but long enough to enrich the careers of some young actors (i.e. James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Busy Philipps and, erm, Linda Cardellini) and is greatly missed. Can we have a movie about them meeting again in the 00’s?

WE // R \\ GOING

Once, a friend of mine wanted to take me to this 'cheap Chinese restaurant', situated in the heart of Liberdade, a Japanese neighborhood in São Paulo. When we got there the place was packed, but because it looked cheesy and kinda poor, I didn't want to wait it out. It took another friend for me to go back there and fall in love with it. Now, every time the mood for some freshly made noodles (you can watch the chief making the noodle dough through a window) framed in some horribly painted pink walls takes me, I go for Rong He. Did I mention the food is also incredibly generous and cheap?

WE // R \\ READING

The ultimate in peeping tom into other, cooler, more fashionable, richer, quirkier and more-hipster-than-thou lives is Todd Selby's The Selby. Having previously been an internet only voyeur's dream, Todd has just last month released The Selby Is In Your Place, a coffee table tome full of twee drawings, colourful interiors and people showering. Half of the images in the books are favourites from the website and the other is stuff he hasn't published online yet. So go check it out, maybe buy it if you can to make your crappy coffee table in your crappy apartment that little bit cooler with pictures of someone else's cool stuff.

Kill Em All turns SIX

Friday // November 20, 2009 at 12:05 // filed under Music

Filthy 'Ducks'

Those Filthy Dukes (or Filthy Ducks as Raphael likes to pronounce them) have turned out a mix of the most important tracks of the last six years at Kill Em All. They're partying at Fabric in London on the 11th of December to celebrate the half dozen, with a hot hot line-up including The Chemical Brothers, Hercules & Love Affair, Riton and The Juan Maclean amongst others as well as the Dukes themselves - not to even mention We Have Band and Crystal Fighters playing live. Phew.

And here's their track ‘Tupac Robot Rock’ now featuring Wiley in the wake of their recent FABRICLIVE 48 Mix.

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Filthy Dukes - Tupac Robot Club Rock (Kill Em All, Let Wiley Sort It Out remix - Clean Radio Edit) [mp3]

So go check their special birthday mix HERE. Track list is after the jump, peops.

LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
Holy Ghost - Hold On
Soulwax - Krack (NiteVersion)
Teenage Bad Girl - Hands of a Stranger
Benjamin Theves - Texas
Justice - Waters of Nazareth
Boys Noize - & Down
Riot In Belguim - The Acid Never Lies
LA Priest - Engine
Zongamin - Serious Trouble
Cut Copy - Lights and Music (Boys Noize Happy Birthday Remix)
Radio 4 - Dance To The Underground (The DFA Version)
Zombi - Sapphire (Escort Remix)
Tom Vek - Green Lights
We Have Band - You Came Out (Cage & Avairy Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco - Boatrace
Spektrum - Kinda New (Tiefscwarz Dub)
Tiga - Pleasure from the Bass
Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor (Soulwax Remix)
The Rapture - House of the Jealous Lovers
Alex Gopher - Aurora
Tomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga Remix)
Brodinski - Bad Runner
Switch - A Bit Patchy
Proxy - Dancer in the Dark
Dusty Kid - The Cat
Christopher and Raphael Just - Popper (Shinichi Osawa Distorsion Disco Edit)
Vitalic - Poney Pt 1
Shitdisco - I Know Kung Fu (James Ford Edit)
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights (Erol's Love From Below Re - Edit)
White Rose Movement - Love Is A Number