Den andra anledningen är att jag måste se till att inte stöta mig med mina kunder. Visst, jag tror på en öppen dialog, men jag vet inte hur bra det är för affärerna om jag skulle skriva det jag känner på min vanliga blogg (Ja, jag har faktiskt en sån också).

Deeped skriver om lite om handles och nicknames. Han har även en liten frågeställning som jag ska försöka svara på.

1. Hur skapade du din blogg titel/namn? Eller om du använder en handle/pseudonym när du kommenterar (som jag gör: deeped) - hur fick du den?

   Ärligt talat satt jag bara på WordPress.com och försökte hitta något som var ledigt. Sen plötsligt började Kleerup - Thank You for Nothing igång i iTunes. Och det visade sig vara ledigt.
    

2. Vad är historien bakom namnet/titeln/din handle?

   Och svaret på det finns i föregående fråga...

Kung fu Panda var gryym!! 7,5/10

Läste igår att Markus Krunegård och Kleerup ska göra en EP tillsammans. 10/10

Nu hade jag iaf väldigt svårt att skiljas från mitt band och klippte faktiskt inte av det förrän strax innan vi skulle gå till jobbet imåndags. Anna nämnde något om snuskiga tonåringar som hade sina bakterieband på sig i flera år.

Torsdagen avslutades iaf med Kleerup och där har jag hittat en ny artist att springa till. Har väl aldrig blivit så sugen på att springa när jag har lyssnat på musik. Kan se mig springa flera mil som en maskin, med hjälp av beatsen så går benen till slut av sig själv. Hur bra som helst.

so as a gay i've been listening to both madonna's 'hard candy' album and cyndi lauper's 'bring ya to the brink' and i feel the need to compare the two.

first up: hard candy.

so to start the cover sucks. madonna looks about 90 and airbrushed to within an inch of her life. definitely not her best. the producers she chose for this album also seem a bit passe. like timbaland is last year's news madge; aren't you supposed to find little-known, up-and-coming producers and exploit them for your own gain? seriously, timba's like the village bike, everyone's had a ride and a number 1. madonna should always define the now, and this feels like 5 minutes ago, not a good start. overall, the music's pretty good except the insufferable 'incredible' (which is like 'hey you pt. 2'). the best track on the album is 'she's not me' which is an absolute stormer. there is definitely something immediate about a great madonna song that i love. other standouts are 'the beat goes on' and 'heartbeat.' 'hard candy' is pretty good, it's just not as exciting as 'confessions on a dancefloor' or even 'american life' which at least took some artistic risks.

the challenger: bring ya to the brink

the title may be a bit shit but the album cover is head and shoulders above what madonna's got on display. it's arty and gay without putting off too many straight people: perfection. as for production duties cyndi drafted in only the hippest of electro and pop producers to give the album a very 'now' feel, which obviously means synths-a-kimbo. we're talking the likes of basement jaxx, kleerup and the fantastic dragonette: a truly stellar line-up that doesn't disappoint. 'bring ya to the brink' is a total revelation: every track is stellar with lead single 'into the night life' being the most immediate and infectious. my current favourite track is the quirky 'rocking chair' but other high-points include the dragonette produced 'grab a hold' and the slower-paced 'rain on me.' the album as a whole is eclectic without being confused and it brings cyndi back into the spotlight with a bang.

conclusion:
cyndi kicks madonna's ass. the cover's better, the producers are better, the music's better, the music's more current and more gay. the cynic in me suggests that perhaps cyndi just made an album for the gays while madonna was trying to re-capture her straight american audience. the bitch in me suggests that cyndi was right and madonna wrong. either way for best album from a gay icon of 2008, my vote goes to cyndi.

First installment.
mp3///   Kleerup ft. Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
mp3///   Kleerup ft. Lykke Li - Until We Bleed

And I'll throw in that Stanton Warriors/Bass Kleph jam that was listed at #5:

"On my own again" is a good track to get a summer evening started, and once you're really in the mood for dancing, you can play the remix of MGMT's Electric feel by Justice
 This track is a dancefloor killer. If you like MGMT's latest album (Oracular Spectacular) and also appreciate the sound of Justice, then you'll love that track, this is to become a club hit for the summer, for sure.
MGMT "Electric Feel" (Justice remix) [audio http://thelonelyboy.free.fr/Blog/MGMT-Electric%20Feel%20(Justice%20Remix).gp]

If you'd like one of these tracks, just leave me a comment.

Ekko is scheduled for the 5th and 6th of September, and if you can't afford the probably very reasonable entrance fee then the organisers are still looking for helpers: those wishing to exchange brains and brawn for a complimentary ticket can email frivillig@ekkofest.no .

svårt att greppa om sånt där ibland. en flyende känsla av igenkänning

och en helt bok
vad har jag nu gett mig fan på, envisheten och tamejfanigheten

jag har klippt mig. Ganska kort dessutom. För att vara jag.
Igår när jag skulle fixa det själv blev det rätt bra, men idag tycker jag varenda hårstrå ligger helt fel. Har jag tur så blåser det ute, så skyller jag på det.

fast då måste jag ju gå ut

Jag hörde något om en efter-midsommarfest för nån vecka sen, den borde ju vara idag. D får smsa lill-J och fråga.

Lykke Li ft. Kleerup - Until we bleed

The Shout Out Louds are another band I've come across recently who also happens to be a member of the Swedish pop club. The Shout Out Louds illustrate what happens when The Cure meet Echo and the Bunnymen and they invite New Order over for dinner (which isn't really a stretch, because those three bands all live in the same condo, anyway).

Listen to "Tonight I Have To Leave It," and see what bands come to mind. When our search engine is up and running, I'm confident entering this song in our NewTunes search engine will serve up nothing but Cure, Echo and other 80s alt-pop offerings (which isn't a bad thing).

I've been to Stockholm, and it's not THAT big a place. So, no surprise that Kleerup (who I wrote about yesterday) was asked to create his own remix for "Tonight I Have To Leave It." You can hear that on the Shout Out Louds MySpace page.

During my visit there today, I found a post from Sean Michaels about (Andreas) Kleerup - a drummer and producer out of Stockholm, Sweden. The song Sean posted is called "Until We Bleed," and the song progresses really nicely into a multi-layered, dynamic electronic pop song. If you can get past the fact that Lykke Li (also from Stockholm) sounds a bit like a cross between the spiritualist from Poltergeist and Kate Bush, it's a solid recording. There are also two other mixes posted. Here's the main song:

Until We Bleed

Of the two, I like the work with Lykke Li much better. It seems to have a bit more of an experimental feel to it. Here's a clip of her doing "I'm Good, I'm Gone." I really like this video and the song.

Kleerup has also worked with another Swedish popstress called Robyn. Her work seems to be a bit more mainstream dance pop, and doesn't really push boundaries too much. I'm pretty sure she's sitting on the couch in the Lykke Li video. She also sang backup on Snoop Dogg's "Sexual Eruption."

This is Robyn singing "Konichiwa Bitches." If nothing else, she certainly has an understanding of the video coming out of Japan right now. This has to be the most colorful video I've posted, that's for certain...

M83 - Saturdays = Youth. Maybe I'm a few months late on M38's new album, but Frenchman Anthony Gonzalez' Saturdays = Youth is even later—about 20 years later. The sounds this guy belts out are as close to the 80's as you can get, but can you expect anything less? He, like his other fellow Frenchies (Daft Punk and Air; I'm looking at you), has never been one to shy away from the risky, outdated, and sometimes, even tacky sounds. But no man can do it like he does. Synths woosh like windtunnels and ping like lasers while the drums pound and throb in their robotic ways.

MP3: "Graveyard Girl" - M83
MP3: "We Own The Sky (Maps Remix)" - M83

Kleerup - Kleerup. In other foreign news, Swedish producer, Kleerup, is all set to release his self-title album. Okay, I'll admit it, I don't give a shit about Kleerup's new album. I just wanted an excuse to talk about Lykke Li some more. Kleerup is best know for collaborating with Robyn on last summer’s chart-topping megahit, “With Every Heartbeat”. Well, like with potato chips, he couldn't stop at just one, could he? Of course not. He's at it again, only this time, replacing Robyn with Lykke Li on “Until We Bleed”. Though maybe not as chart topping as "Heartbeat" was, "Until We Bleed" holds its own against any of the best singles this year.

MP3: "Until We Bleed (ft. Lykke Li)" - Kleerup

Lite dåligt med variation på Kleerups nya skiva. Det kan ju vara en poäng med att ha ett visst tema, men i det här fallet blir det mest tjatigt. Många låtar har liknande bpm, ljud och melodier. Det är bra poplåtar som funkar alldeles utmärkt att lyssna på en och en, men en hel skiva blir för mycket.

Skivan har ändå en del variation - sex olika sångerskor. Och det kan ju vara kul. Men i vissa fall känns det som att det finns ett avstånd mellan sångerska och musik (t.ex. Forever med Neneh Cherry) och det får mig att tänka på karaoke. Då känns With Every Heartbeat med Robyn betydligt mer äkta. Jag kommer plocka godbitarna och sprida ut dem i en playlist, långt ifrån varandra.

Ni vet när man står på dansgolvet och sen blir förlorad. När basen slår hårdare, högre än hjärtslagen och när orden tar dig högre än himlen.

Jag tror att det blir så med Kleerups debutplatta. De som redan har fått lyssna på den säger att den är magisk. Det enda jag kan göra är att vänta.

From Zeon's blog it is worth checking out Crash and Burn Girl who has some good tunes as well.

Finding more music blogs is getting seriously bad for my health...yet another two I am going to have to add to the surfer and I don't have enough time for the other ones as it is!

Pendant que le gratin blogospherien ainsi que des gens que je considérais comme des amis ont choisi Coachella et le soleil chaud de Californie. moi je reste pénard à la maison et persiste à croire que je ne manque rien.

i'm so stupid.

Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It (Kleerup Remix)[audio=http://basementbeatz.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/shout-out-louds-tonight-i-have-to-leave-it-kleerup-remix.mp3]

Shout Out Louds Myspace
Shout Out Louds Website

Longing for lullabies. 

Kombinationen av Titiyos sång, rytmen och det sköna soundet är alldeles lysande. Mästerverket finns som sagt att avnjuta på YouTube och vi bifogar givetvis videon bara några rader nedanför denna text. Men, för den politiska korrekthetens skull så vill vi uppmana alla att KÖPA singeln. Gör det på www.cdon.se eller i någon annan lämplig butik.

Avslutningsvis vill vi även rekommendera ett besök på Andreas Kleerups Myspace sida.

Isn't this lovely... A all swedish pop-dish with wonderful guestartists as Lykke Li, Robyn, Neneh Cherry and Tityo. The single With Every Heartbeat with Robyn has been popular for quite some time and it's a great single. Not all songs are as good as this, but Kleerup's selftitled album is bound to be a success... You bet. It' great.

Myspace: Kleerup

You Tube (great video btw!) With Every Heartbeat