You're not alone, that was a dope show. Maybe you've felt a little gloomy since then and kept In Ghost Colours on repeat, visualizing yourself back at Sonar sans stainful alt bros. Maybe you hit the remix circuit or even mashed up cutters tracks with popular movies or commercials.
But it's time to try something else, so I'm just gonna put this out there; if you like it, you can take it, if you don't, send it right back. Booka Shade. Most of their new one (The Sun & The Neon Light) follows traditional top gear German electro lineage, but lead single "Charlotte," which scientists may later discover contains auditory blueprints for a prehistoric utopian civilization, sounds like a fresh round of subterranean assaults in the Aussie/French banger wars.
While you're digging German electro magic, please to enjoy the best music video every made by anyone ever courtesy of 80s Berlin pop supergroup The Twins:
Alternative bros with orange tongues ruled the scene, but regardless, cutters still dipped some chicken in it. My favorite part of the experience was the sweaty, underaged girl in front of me with a backless shirt, bouncing against everyone like an old guy at the Y. But then she initiated a reverse grind into the married alternative bro next to me for a few songs, who didn't mind, and the universe was calm. View the full set from Josh Sisk.
Tracklist: Fleetwood Mac - Tell Me Lies The Presets - Truth and Lies Daft Punk - Around the World Cut Copy - Future The Pixies - Gouge Away A Touch of Class- The Bullett (Silvercity-Bob Remix ) Billy Idol - Hot in the City (Dub) Soulwax - E-Talking (Tiga's Disco Drama Remix) The Faint - Your Retro Career Melted (Ursula 1000 Remix) Les Rhythmes Digitales - Hey You (12" Remix) Linus Loves - Stand Back (Mylo Pastel Bronco Remix) New Order - The Perfect Kiss Explorer - Yellow Power Seelenluft - I Can See Clearly Now (Tiga Remix) Chinkiki - Tell Me Something More The Stills - Still in Love Song (12" Extended Mix) Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Chrystal Guided By Voices - The Flying Party Roxy Music - Virginia Plain Cut Copy - Going Nowhere Franz Ferdinand - Matinee (Headman Vocal Remix) Vitallic - Dance Like a Machine Chromeo - Me and My Man (Whitey Remix) Hybrid Funk - Everybody (Headman Remix) Cut Copy - Saturdays
We've been trying to keep our pants on about this Saturday's Cut Copy show at Sonar but it'sjustnotpossible. This will be the show of the year in Rolling Stone's top scenester city of the year with the cutters performing the album of the year.
Who has two thumbs, no pants and will be in the front row? This guy:
Cut Copy comes to Baltimore in less than a week - how are you supposed to get any sleep with a show like this just around the corner? Try listening to this specially-prepared Butter Team sampler fusing various intro/outro sequences together from In Ghost Colours. We can't offer this for download so just move the computer next to your head/the bed. Add seagulls and paprika for a soothing seaside effect.
"Imagine that you've spent the past ten years of your life playing in unremarkable bands. One day, you awake to find you are no longer unremarkable. Pundits and bloggers hail you as remarkably awesome or remarkably shit. You just go with it. Along the way, someone asks if you want to 'co-headline' a tour with a group you admire. This is a joke - this pretense of co-headlining (because they are awesome and you are not) - but you eagerly say, 'Yes, PLEASE.' Shortly after you've agreed to tour with these guys, they release In Ghost Colours. You realize that this is the record of the year and that you will get to witness it live EVERY NIGHT. You - helplessly, appropriately - wig out."
The folks over at Internet Jogging (the j is soft) had a great idea - remix Sony's excellent new "Foam City" commercial that debuts next week with a song that's much less lame. Here are our entries:
Cut Copy - Visions (from In Ghost Colours, the best album of 2K8)
Can you believe Cut Copy managed to drop another rekkid as premium as Bright Like Neon Love, and that soon you'll be testing out your practiced bedroom tektonic spasms at an actual stateside performance? No one is more pleased with this turn of events than Butter Team staffers - and to celebrate we're giving away a special/happy Modular prize pack including an autographed copy of In Ghost Colours, fierce limited edition cutters 3-D glasses and more! All you have to do is leave a comment w/ encrypted email telling us what you think of IGC and/or sign up for weekly Butter Team updates on the right (if you do both, you'll be entered twice and that's OK). We'll pick winners at random on 4/22. Contest is only open to U.S. residents with mustaches, but everyone can enjoy these:
Domestic dates w/ Black Kids: 04-27 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine 04-28 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge 04-29 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards 04-30 Seattle, WA - Neumos 05-02 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge 05-03 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge 05-05 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room 05-06 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry 05-07 Chicago, IL - The Abbey 05-08 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick 05-09 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace 05-10 Montreal, Quebec - Cabaret Musée Juste Pour Rine 05-12 Boston, MA - Paradise 05-15 Washington, DC - Black Cat 05-16 Philadelphia, PA - Pure 05-17 Baltimore, MD - Sonar (don't buy tickets from Ticketmaster, go to the box office)
Thanks again to Modular for hooking us (you) up. Lastly, don't forget this rad video we made for "Far Away" -
Got at least 8 Courics worth of beats here - so put some Dulcolax on toast, take a sip of potion and hit that three wheel motion on yer Rascal mobility scooter.
Next week we start a contest for superfierce limited edition Cut Copy goodies (including a Corey Delaney-autographed copy of In Ghost Colours and cutters 3-D glasses), but you can enter now just by signing up for weekly updates on the right.
Even quasi-regular Butter Team readers know we are super USA #1 fans of Melbourne's Cut Copy. Big news - the cutters have been kind enough to host a MySpace pre-release listening party for our most anticipated album of 2008, In Ghost Colours, which drops in Australia next week. To celebrate we've combined some of the raddest music in the world with the raddest scene from the raddest movie in the world (Rad). Enjoy:
Cut Copy - Far Away (stream only per label's request - no worries because you're going to be pre-ordering it right now anyway!)
As previously announced, Cut Copy will be in town May 17 at Sonar with Black Kids and Ponytail. And it's a Saturday (pinky slowly rising to your lips).
Melbourne's second-coolest people will board the cutter copter for a cameo at Sonar on May 17 with The Black Kids. Corey Worthington opens. Tracklist for In Ghost Colours out via Modular on April 8th: 1. Feel The Love 2. Out There On The Ice 3. Lights and Music 4. We Fight For Diamonds 5. Unforgettable Season 6. Midnight Runner 7. So Haunted 8. Voices In Quartz 9. Hearts on Fire 10. Far Away 11. Silver Thoughts 12. Strangers In The Wind 13. Visions 14. Nobody Lost, Nobody Found 15. Eternity One Night Only
While most Bavarians are stingy with their beats, we are not, so get nice with a new toaster from Melbourne's hottest mothercutters, pre-order In Ghost Colourshere and check the stateside tour dates below. This is all very exciting for us. Mar 10 2008 - Echo - Los Angeles Mar 15 2008 - Studio B - New York Mar 17 2008 - Mercury Lounge - New York
And sweet Pete, if you haven't heard this Holy Ghost track yet (from the DFA crew) get ready for a proper face melting. It's part of the So Cosmic mix Cut Copy dropped last month, and follows Daft Punk's Face to Face and the Airwolf theme on my "let's chase chickens in sweats" athletic training montage mix.
P.S. Dr. Octagon posts up in the B tonight at Sonar with king of microphone techniques Jeru the Damaja. Going to bars is fun, going to bars where Kool Keith spits is tops.
Mother Superior rations out two more Cut Copy rarities to fix all you street walkin' cheetahs proper whilst awaiting the 'cutters next psyched-out star folk voyage. And not unlike a 1984 romantic adventure featuring the Turner/Douglas combo, the Cribs: CSS redux, Japan, and Human League offerings below are 1000% exotic gems and crocodile skin boots.
Yes we know the blogger community was talking about None Shall Pass in July or some other long gone era. Thought you had us for a second though! Probably already assembling a devastatingly dry and witty comment centered around our un-timeliness. (We actually only prefer compliments, such as your beard is nice or you're good at finding shortcuts.)
But no, just wanted to congratulate Aesop Rock for wrassling the ADD mechanical bull that is our ipods, holding tight in heavy rotation for several months, and earning the 3Q 2007 Award for Continuous Portable Music Play. Against stiff competition no less, what with Joe Satriani, Drowning Pool and Atreyu all releasing stellar LPs.
Ok wake to this grocery list - try to guess which of the following songs has not been continuously on our collective playlists for the past several years.
Just know that even participating in this activity means you're a winner, so afterwards take five with some purple stuff or Sunny D. Also know that by not participating you risk the chance of being one of these.
Step into the Butter Team paradise garage to enjoy interprétations françaises de Warren G, fresh folky bleeprock CSS coverlove, and tightjeaned anthems from NYC's original punky brewsters. Plus we dug up some ol' Cut Copy vinyl from their 2001 Rendezvous EP - stay calm and digest slowly while we wait for In Ghost Colours to arrive in February.
Mad props to ourselves for digging up this 2001 vinyl gem whilst searching for something to hold us over until the next Cut Copy album drops. You may detect a trace of Aussie telepathy via Since I Left You, which, by all means.
In this time of violent drive biking and foreign embassy mutherflipping, sometimes you need to just reserve your favorite cassingle from the library and lay up in the cut with a golden delicious.
