Video: Miguel – On Getting Signed

Miguel’s All I Want is You album – IN STORES NOW!

Miguel online – website | twitter

Click the jump for info on how to win a FREE iPad courtesy of Different Kitchen, Miguel and Jive records.

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New Music: Diddy-Dirty Money – Last Train to Paris (Fashion Sampler)

I’m not gonna front: I think this sounds fantastic and as a marketing exercise has been executed flawlessly. A sampler of Diddy’s album of internationally, electronic-inspired urban music premiered on Vogue’s website yesterday featuring the voices of designers & fashion industry icons, Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs, Tommy Hilfiger, Zac Posen and Isaac Mizrahi (no Tom Ford though??!) giving endorsements for the album. That’s how to use your social capital and leverage your contact network and is exactly the kind of move someone on Diddy’s level should be making right now. Peep Vogue Editor-at-Large, André Leon Talley’s excellent Op-ed about the album and Diddy’s history with Vogue for more on why that is:

“Inspired by his addiction to style and the fashion worlds from New York to Paris, Diddy’s new album, Last Train to Paris (to be released December 14), is a brilliant fusion of stream of consciousness and beats that bring to mind the broken cadences of avant-garde jazz. During Fashion Week last year, he sent out the call via e-mail and voice mail to high-fashion friends to come to his studio to participate in the record. I was somewhere doing what I usually do—previewing a collection or sitting around on the fourth floor of Manolo Blahnik’s midtown shoe emporium—when I received the invitation. Rushing to his studio, I thought about what I would say on the album, which inspired his February 2010 Vogue fashion shoot with Natalia Vodianova, photographed by Annie Leibovitz and styled by Grace Coddington, in which he appeared with the swagger and elegance of Cary Grant in a gorgeous shawl-collared camel double-breasted coat by Tom Ford. It wasn’t his first shoot with the magazine. In another Annie/Grace collaboration, for the October 1999 issue, he looked as dramatic as a thirties screen idol, escorting Kate Moss, dressed in couture, around Paris.

This album is simply part of his evolution. Have you ever seen his I Am King fragrance ad, in which he riffs on James Bond films by wearing a dinner jacket on a Jet Ski, or his new Cîroc ad, in which he sends himself up with the teachable lesson “Too many people know your name? Change it. And, change it again” (Sean Combs, Puffy, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy). He’s like great creative thinkers in music who love fashion; swooner Marvin Gaye in his duets with Tammi Terrell comes to mind—what sense of elegance, what Motown glamour!

This album features the voices of some of the most influential fashion personalities, including Marc Jacobs, Isaac Mizrahi, and Tommy Hilfiger, their voices in between songs. For my part, I recited words by James Baldwin, and Diddy respected it enough to leave it intact. Last Train to Paris is totally twenty-first-century Diddy cool.”

Download: Diddy-Dirty Money – Last Train to Paris (Fashion Sampler) [direct mp3 download link, note: sampler plays as a single audio file]

[image by Annie Liebowitz courtesy Vogue Online]

Hit the jump for the track listing and more details on the full Last Train to Paris album.
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Music Video: Lincoln Blache – Go

I featured this track on the old blog but now there’s a video (finally). Better late than never. Here’s another solid track on mp3 by this T.dot artist…



Lincoln Blache – Wasted (RADIO) by tkandso

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Music Video: DiRTY RADiO – Head Go Wild

This is not exactly my thing but I dig it a little and it’s Van-City (Vancouver) representing! What made me decide to post it for sure though was that (I think) as a kid I had the exact same boombox shown at the beginning of the video – crazy!

Here’s the official plug too:

“DiRTY RADiO (aka Farshad Edalat) is a Vancouver-based singer/songwriter/producer and multi-instrumentalist.

Known throughout the Vancity music scene for his vocal and percussion abilities, he has been crafting his sound over the past few years all while writing, producing and remixing for other artists including Sherry St. Germain, Chin Injeti, K-OS, and Kay. 2010 saw the release of his first solo album titled Debut, a progressive pop experience, infused with hip-hop, R&B and dance influences. The record was written, recorded, produced in Vancouver’s Greenhouse studios by progressive music production team SEX-ED (which he also co-founded).

He is currently enjoying national exposure with his first radio single “MY HEART” featuring Vancouver-artist/producer Sherry St. Germain. The album Debut is available digitally from off his website at dirtyradio.ca, as well as on iTunes.”

Get a free download of the track with some sort of twitter-based f-ckery.

Hit the jump for better look at the radio from the front cover of his album and then try to tell me that’s not the same radio!

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Introducing Opolopo – Voltage Controlled Feelings

I LOVE this! If you f-ck with Dam Funk and the like, you need to get at this immediately! Check the science as broken down by their label, Tokyo Dawn Records…

“Voltage Controlled Feelings is the sonic testimony of more than two decades of serious electro, funk and boogie studies from Swedish synth commander Opolopo!

Blending epic Blade Runner soundscapes and Krautrock sequencer lines into cruising west coast beats and beyond, he proves that science fiction and funk are not only compatible, but have always belonged together. Voltage Controlled Feelings is a newly discovered planet orbiting a distant star, that also pays homage to the synthesizers, drum machines and the artists who influenced Opolopo’s music. Echoes of Prince, Herbie Hancock, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream and Isao Tomita can be heard throughout the album.

Supported by respected funkateers such as Dam-Funk, King Britt, Daz-I-Kue and Laurent Garnier, you best put on your finest space suit and dappest boogie shoes to catch the Opolopo starcruiser!”

Voltage Controlled Feelings by opolopo