The Kills ‘Blood Pressures’ Coming Soon

One of my favorite bands of all time, The Kills, will be releasing their fourth album ‘Blood Pressures’ April 2011. For more information visit www.thekills.tv

Faked Potatoes Mixcast No. 009

Enjoy!

• Living Decorations by Maps & Atlases
• Stop Believing by Hi Tiger
• Paris (feat. Au Revoir Simone) (Aeroplane Remix) by Friendly Fires
• State of Permission (feat. Freeform Five) by Shinichi Osawa
• Finally (The Time & Space Machine Edit) by Cherry Ghost
• Love on a Real Train by Tangerine Dream

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Cut Copy’s Zonoscope Album Due Soon

I am in love with Cut Copy. I have been for some time, halfway between their 2004 debut album Bright Like Neon Love and their 2008 follow up In Ghost Colours I came across them and have never looked back. For example, when I started writing this post, I had no music on, but now I do and it’s Cut Copy. It’s like magic!

Today my email informed me there were some limited pre-sale packages available so like a big nerd I had to nab one package #2 with a Vinyl and signed lithograph (hand numbered and limited to 500 prints, hot damn). If you’re unfamiliar with Cut Copy, I used them last summer in one of our ‘vacation videos’ featuring their then just-released track Where I’m Going. You can find it on Oh, Canada! (How’s it Goin’?).

Over the last few months, they’ve been releasing chapters of a 4 part series, documenting the making of their 3rd album, Zonoscope. Catch up now!

And here’s one more treat, their latest single Need You Now.

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Live the Language

Some really great typography and cinematography in these commercials for EF Language Schools directed by Gustav Johansson. The excellent examples of typography are thanks to Albin Holmqvist.

Sand Sound Forms

Table that resonates with sound causing sand to form patterns that look almost liquid when they change form

Krautrock

Aidan Whiteley (@aidanwhiteley) has thrown together a Mixtape spanning some of the most influential Krautrock artists of the last few decades. Krautrock was an avante-grade, experimental trek into a sub-genre of progressive rock starting in the 60s. Bands like Amon Düül II and Can paved the way for the Radiohead’s of the world. This mix sounds about as cold as West Germany before the wall fell, but is a at really great pace for background music when you’re studying, or working diligently on some project, some where.

1. Krautrock by Faust
2. Thief by Can
3. Soap Shop Rock: Burning Sister by Amon Düül II
4. Watussi by Harmonia
5. Hero by Neu!
6. It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl by Faust
7. Das Modell by Kraftwerk
8. Future Days by Can
9. Caramel by Cluster
10. Radioaktivität by Kraftwerk
11. Frank Herbert by Klaus Schulze

Photography by Maschinenraum

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Villa Amanzi

Perched on a sea cliff in Phuket, Villa Amanzi is the “luxury villa” hotel built in 2008 by architects Original Vision. At a fairly spacious 2,644sm (more room then I’d ever need) you can fill the place up sleeping 12 people and if you go at the right time you can get the place for $2000/night. At $166/person for each night that’s not so bad. After you fly to Thailand, I mean.

via ISO50. Photos via Top Box Design

Classified Trash

The largest obstacle around being green seems to be laziness, no one wants to do something if it’s going to be harder than what they’re already doing. This two-tierd system makes the job easy, and it’s called the Trash Classification Bin. The bin-in-bin is used to put in all your organic waste while the bigger bin holds inorganic stuff. A very non-messy and quick way to do your bit.

Designer: Hu Xinyuan

Walter Meego, New Album

The new Walter Meego album, Wondervalley, is available to download for free off of their Soundcloud (but also hope that if you like, that you’ll purchase the album). It seems a little lighter than their previous fare, Voyager, but still as synthy and delicious as ever.

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Based on the 1985 book by Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer was claimed to be unfilmable. The author reportedly thought that only Stanley Kubrick and Miloš Forman could do the book justice and refused to let anyone else make a film adaptation of it.

The story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an olfactory genius on his homicidal quest for the perfect scent translates as a gorgeous movie that, despite many challenges and limitations—imagine trying to build an entire movie around the sense of smell—triumphs over nearly all of them. Using high-energy visuals and impeccable set design to convey every type of smell conceivable, the director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) is no novice when it comes to quick cuts and expressive film-making. Tykwer said that to him Perfume “was much more a film about the importance of smell in our life than a film that tries to be smelly.”

Tricky – Ghetto Stars

The video for Tricky’s song Ghetto Stars from his 2010 album Mixed Race.

Bleached

Want.

(via Snappylifestyle)

Fred Butler, Accessories

Some three dimensional pieces, with a creative twist. (via Snappylifestyle)

Admflwlng.com Live, Shares ‘This Unfolds’ Mixtape

@admflwlng started his blog over the weekend and has put together a short, flighty Mixtape with it. Check it out and show him some love!

• Submarine by Hunter Sounder
• Kelly (M83 Remix) by Van She
• Again With the Subtitles by Yppah
• Thule by The Album Leaf
• So So Lovely by Shigeto
• This Unfolds by Four Tet
• So This is Goodbye (Pink Ganter Remix) by William Fitzsimmons
• Aquarium by Noasj Thing
• Your Mouth by Telefon Tel Aviv

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Destroyer – Kaputt