Avant-Avant - a curated musical selection » Leftfield

Fairmont – Darling Waltz

Jean d'Hambourg — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:03:46 +0000

Post-minimalist late night cold motorway electronics.

DIRTY – 32 Frames For Prince

Jean d'Hambourg — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:59:17 +0000

Strangely epic orchestral reworking of Prince’s “1999″.

British Standard Unit – D’ya Think Im Sexy

Jean d'Hambourg — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:48:32 +0000

This brutally minimal mutantronica rendition almost compensates for Rod Stewart existing.

LCD Soundsystem – Another Heartbreak (redux)

Jean d'Hambourg — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:49:29 +0000

As presented at the YSL spring woman’s ready-to-wear show, a redux version of Peter Gordon classic avant-disco hit.

Nakion – Oh-Ah

Jean d'Hambourg — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:05:14 +0000

Tongue-in-cheek anticlimactic avant-disco with 64bit electronica.

Avant-Avant Mixtape – End of Summer Selection

Jean d'Hambourg — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:00:44 +0000

A dancy selection to emulate the end of summer nostalgie.

Dashiell Hedayat – Long Song For Zeida

Jean d'Hambourg — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:21:10 +0000

Free spirited surrealist French psychedelic improvisations.

Tangerine Dream – No Man’s Land

Jean d'Hambourg — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:16:51 +0000

World infused krautronica psych.

Health – Die Slow (Pictureplane Remix)

Jean d'Hambourg — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 08:35:31 +0000

Mutant tribal electronics with modified steel drums. Remix by Pictureplane.

Jean Jacques Dexter – Be Quiet

Jean d'Hambourg — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:13:22 +0000

Synthetic French seventies psych electronics.

Zongamin – Hôtel 17

Jean d'Hambourg — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:57:42 +0000

This has the correct proportion of actual instruments mixed in to synthetic ones. Nice baseline, great melancholy.

Health – Nice Girls (Little Loud Remix)

Jean d'Hambourg — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:48:16 +0000

Things that end well in a movie from the next decade.

Die Doraus Und Die Marinas – Fred Von Jupiter

Jean d'Hambourg — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:40:04 +0000

Quite fun absurdist space-like lo-fi german kitsch electronics.

Antena – Noelle a Hawai

Jean d'Hambourg — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:09:34 +0000

The French coldwave response to dark moments in the vacation sun.

Discodeine – Tom Select (La Horse Mix)

Jean d'Hambourg — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:24:15 +0000

Dancy repetitive beats with avant-garde effects.