Youth In Trouble 2:09 PM

The Presets are back. I'm so happy. This year is turning out to be really good for music. After 4 years of waiting The Presets are dropping their very anticipated next album titled "Youth in Trouble" on September 7th. Their acclaimed last album Apocalypso with packed with well produced original sounding music. I get the feeling that this new one will be that and more. Which is important because as I have grown so has my music taste, and their evolution seems to be on track with my own.

 Another Modular act, The Presets hail from down under and kick way too much ass. Before party rock and all that, these guys come from the scene that invented shuffling, and took music into another dimension. The Presets are one of the premiere and O.G. acts from the beginning of the ENTIRE hipster indie electro scene. Much love for these guys, they started a lot of us off. They set the bar. Trust.

Here's the video for the second release from the new album, "Ghosts." It's very well directed. Gives a nice stylistic ambiance to the sound. These guy know what they're doing.

And since 6 years later, theyve aged, and Ive read that they have families now. No doubt with bombshell wives, but anyway the beats side of the act, K.I.M., as he goes by, looks like he got pretty fat. The years of partying are noticable, but I don't think they were that young when they started anyway.

Only K.I.M. could rock a hat like that so hard.

This is the next level for The Presets, they always amaze, I'm too excited for the musical journey that we are all about to go on as new singles and remixes are released and their sound influences the rest.

The Truth About Royksopp 7:19 AM

For some odd reason there seems to be some confusion about Royksopp and their newest album "Senior." This Album for many dropped in September, but iTunes has it listed as coming out in October, and other sources claim that it just dropped a week or two before Thanksgiving. Now Senior is a pretty solid, but it's definitely not their best work. Which kind of saddened me because Royksopp usually finds a way to top themselves with each LP.

Melody A.M. < The Understanding < Junior > Senior

Interestingly enough, I don't consider Senior to really be their newest thing. It's a direct follow up to Junior, which is obvious due to the names. Think of it as a B-sides or something. Junior was really upbeat and had way more vocals than usual. And Senior takes them back to the melody a.m. breakbeat chill feel. One good example of this is the duality of the Tricky songs. Both of which being so-so tracks on each album, but it helps to prove my point.

Junior's Tricky Tricky

Tricky Tricky feat. Karin Dreijer Andersson by Röyksopp

Senior's Tricky Two

Tricky Two by Röyksopp

Now that we have discussed Senior, let's get to the meat of this post.

I think Royksopp is up to no good. In a good way. Since August they've been releasing free tracks on the their Website. Songs of the Month. These song can't be found on ANY albums, but they're absolutely gold. Some of Royksopp's best! My guess is that they'll be released on an LP coming soon, and they wont make us wait too long. My favorite is their most recent release, "I Wanna Know."

I not even going to give you the chance to preview it, you MUST download this MP3.

Royksopp - I Wanna Know [Media Fire] - Left Click

Also in promotion of the Album Senior, they made a nice little streaming movie with a european independent film feel to it. In it played a Track not found on Senior called "This Space." Odd move, but the track is very worthy of checking out. It has that old school Royksopp feel, but it's oh so fresh.

The particular song starts 4 and half minutes in the video. And I put up the track for the song because I know you'll want it afterward.


Röyksopp's Adventures in Barbieland from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

Royksopp - This Space [Media Fire] - Left Click