Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat. The premise is simple, we’ve asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening to this week. These are the songs we’ve had Stuck On Repeat.
:: selected by: V :: Cassius – Feeling For You
One of my favorite albums to revisit is Cassius’ 1999. More than anything from Bob Sinclair, or Dimitri From Paris, 1999 epitomized the French touch genre to me, a perfect collection of new (at the time) sounds produced in such a way that you could have told me the album was a buried treasure from the vaults of a late ’7os Parisian discotheque and I would have nodded along convinced. Occasions where you hear an album and just know that is destined to be a classic a decade from now, are few and far between. I felt in 1999—and still feel in 2010—that Cassius created a work worthy of being buried in a time capsule for our great grandchildren to dig up bearing a note that reads, “the sound of our lifetime”. “Feeling For You” with that instantly recognizable intro, those escalating vocals and shuffling beat was my favorite track then, and now. Unfortunately, Cassius proved unable to carry the torch of 1999 on any releases thereafter.
:: selected by: BryanB :: Kid Sister & Carte Blanche – Do!Do!Do! (Original + Laidback Luke Remix)
2011 is already shaping up to be a great year for “mixtapes”. M.I.A. found her groove again, jj dropped a dramatic retelling of hip-hop’s recent hits and now Kid Sister‘s Kiss Kiss Kiss mixtape (which you can download, gratis, here) drops like a shiny, sparkling diamond into the snowy landscape. It crackles, bobs, flashes in all the right places. Especially on the Carte Blanche electro dance number “Do!Do!Do!”. Like a rave induced seance channeling Shannon and Debbie Deb, Kid Sister sounds like she’s popping bubblegum, jamming out in her Honda on the Long Island expressway, making her way to Six Flags. That is a compliment.
:: selected by: Jams Dean :: Cities Aviv – Coastin’ Master
Cities Aviv is from Memphis. He is 21 years old, and not what typically gets rapped out of Memphis. This dude is an artist, tastemaker and all around down. His record label, Fat Sandwich keeps him billed next to hardcore and punk bands (one of which is named Panther Piss, which is an AWESOME band name). This is not your Three 6 Mafia. It’s much more interesting than that, and has much more to say. The song opens with such beautiful sweeping strings, you might as well have just took two to the dome. Listen to this one in the summer with the windows down, please.
:: selected by: Moneyworth :: Nicolas Jaar – A Time For Us
At this point, bloggers should really stop acting surprised when fantastic musicians were born in the ’90s. It’s 2011, and I saw some New York Times article on how mommies just love giving their babies iPhones to play with to make them shut up, not to mention that Willow Smith exists, so let’s all accept the fact that yes, you and I are totally fucking old and by 2020 everyone famous will be 12. So Nicolaas Jaar is a young ass dude who’s on the ever-amazing Wolf + Lamb roster as well as runs his own label, Clown and Sunset, filled with other impossibly young and interesting people. If you like other Wolf + Lamb artists, or if you like the increasingly popular minimal slow house movement, you will be so in love with “A Time For Us”, the A-side of his newest 12”. It chugs along at a sultry 115 bpm for the first three quarters and then, out of nowhere, plunges to an almost agonizing 75 bpm and it’s so goddamn sexy. Please someone play this at the very end of the night somewhere out in Chicago, it’s urgent.
