♬ Blackmill – Evil Beauty ↓

Stumbled upon this beautiful time lapse video accompanying the melodic dubstep of British wunderkind Robert Card, aka Blackmill. Can never get enough of this kinda stuff. You might remember his remix of Ellie Goulding’s cover of “Your Song”? Pretty awesome. One more longtime favorite:

♬ Blackmill – Miracle ↓

♬ Mr. Scruff – Fish ↓

Happy Friday, y’all, from Manchester-rez Andrew Carthy, aka Mr. Scruff. Awesome, kooky stuff; included a fan-made music video for extra kookiness.

 
If you know me, you know I’m bad at keeping track of dates; holidays and birthdays are constantly slipping past me. But I think that’s why Christmas and the winter holidays are the only ones I’ve ever bound to. Every year, I have a month dedicated to throwing around as much light and warmth as possible, and in reward, I get at least a week off work to spend with family and friends. How could I not look forward to this? Naturally, I’ve built up quite the holiday playlist. Here are a few of my all-time favorites. Happy Holidays everyone :)

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★ Louis Armstrong – Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Mulato Beat
Remix) ↓

♬ Johnny Mercer with The Pied Pipers – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) ↓

♬ Louis Prima – Sing, Sing, Sing (Chris Wilson mix) ↓

★ Kay Starr – I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Stuhr Remix) ↓

♬ Bing Crosby – White Christmas (Kaskade Mix) ↓

♬ PatrickReza – Rockin Around The Christmas Tree ↓

This isn’t the type of music I typically write about, but I can’t help but share my love for Sufjan Stevens. The Detroit-native studied at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy, then Hope College, and eventually attained an MFA at The New School. But besides his impressive resume, Sufjan (which means ‘comes with a sword’ in Persian and Arabic) writes, sings, and plays more instruments than you can count on your fingers — oftentimes playing the parts of his pieces himself, overlapping the recordings and merging them into one painstakingly-tedious, beautiful work of art.

This year, the usually quiet and inconspicuous Sufjan announced a tour titled, “The Sirfjam Stephanapolous Christmas Sing-A-Long Seasonal Affective Disorder Spectacular Music Pageant Variety Show Disaster” (tickets after the jump!) to promote the expansion of a 2006 album, “Songs for Christmas: Vols. 1-5″, this part entitled, “Silver & Gold”, to be released by his label Asthmatic Kitty Records November 13. Here are some of my favorites of his previously-released carols, followed by some super-sweet mixes… So be sure to catch him live — it’s a lucky chance!

★ Sujfan Stevens – Sister Winter ↓
♬ Sufjan Stevens – Amazing Grace ↓

Can’t get over how good the Shigeto mix is…and always diggin’ the Yeah Yeah Yeahs!

★ Sufjan Stevens – Futile Devices (Shigeto Remix) ↓
♬ Sufjan Stevens vs. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps To Chicago (Radioface Edit) ↓

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The tweet-happy producer-duo Markus Garcia and Jerome Potter, aka LOL Boys, have recently announced a split, after four years of awesome production. Jerome announced on Facebook that the LOL Boys were going on a hiatus to take time to work on their solo craft, but as a parting gift to their devoted following, the Boys released a whole package of edits in a glorious 40-minute mix for The Fader. This edit of Avicii’s “Levels” is outrageously fresh, as well as this cut of “Call Me Maybe”…

★ Avicii – Levels (LOL Boys Edit) ↓
★ Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe (LOL Boys Edit) ↓

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Enjoy these sweet twists to throwback fave rap classics… happy late night/early morn!

★ Anya Marina – Whatever You Like (T.I. Cover) ↓
♬ Jenny Owen Youngs – Hot In Herre (Nelly Cover) ↓

♬ MitiS – Brings Renewal ↓

For my two hundredth post… Fall in love with the amazingness that is MitiS, a Classical pianist from Pennsylvania who crossed over to the electronic/dubstep scene after celebrated performances at Carnegie Hall, NYC and the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia.

I just wanna share good music, have it be through performance or a small, simple social setting. Music is what I do, I wouldn’t change that for anything. Have it be a Chopin piece playing in a hall, or a dirty bass kickin’ the club’s ass, I’m down for either”.

I wholeheartedly appreciate your philosophy, good sir.

★ MitiS – Life Of Sin ↓
♬ MitiS – Parting ↓

♬ Oddisee – The Blooming ↓ or $

Belgium’s ZBS Studio reached out to Mello Muisc Group about permission to do a video for Oddisee’s “The Blooming”. The resulting marriage of visual storytelling & instrumental perfection is a narrative work that tells the story of time’s passage in the life of a boy. The video was directed, shot, & edited by Tomasz Cibulla and Wojciech Drożdż of ZBS Studios in Belgium.

♬ Gorillaz (ft. Andre 3000) – DoYaThing ↓

Posted this sweet little collab between Gorillaz and the glorious Converse to the SyncHarder Vimeo a little while ago… glad it finally made it’s way over to the main site.

Also known as Johnson Peterson and Slyvester Martinez, Yolanda Be Cool is probably best recognized by their second single, “We No Speak Americano” (co-produced with DCUP), which sold over 5 million copies and hit number 1 in eighteen countries in 2010! These two songs recently raced to the top o’ the charts with just as much vitesse — ’cause they’re freakin’ amazing too! If you’re in the New York area, come check ‘em out for free before midnight TONIGHT at the Yotel on 42nd & 10th! 21+, but 3$ vodka bar from 10-11pm ;)

Latest influences: congas, bongos, tartalet recordings, old school hip hop, zombie disco squad, german saunas, weirdos, coffee…

♬ Yolanda Be Cool – Le Bump (ft. Crystal Waters) ↓
★ Yolanda Be Cool – Foreign Affair (Sample) ↓