Four tracks for your Monday morning

Right when you think it’s that time of the year again when every day is the perfect day to spend at the beach, you step outside and it looks like a hurricane just hit. This is the unpredictability of San Luis Obispo at its finest. But hey, on the bright side, over the past week I have come across some ridiculously good new music, and the following songs are the cream of the crop. I guarantee that these four tracks will get you excited about the potentials of music in 2010 and hopefully forget about this torrential downpour.

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Jamaica

I Think I Like U 2

Control Freak Records

Jamaica, France’s latest feel-good indie-pop export has just landed. Think ‘United’-era Phoenix with less emphasis on calmness and a little more on electric guitar.  The duo, comprised of Antoine Hilaire and Flo Lyonnet, collaborated with Xavier de Rosnay (one-half of Justice) and Peter Franco (of Daft Punk engineering fame) on this summery blast of a first single. The So-Me directed video is just another addition to his fantastic resume of work (“DVNO”, “D.A.N.C.E.”, “Good Life”), and I have a feeling it will be one of the coolest things you’ll see all year. Check it out.

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Flight Facilities

Crave You / Crave You (Cassian Remix)

BangGang 12s

I just discovered this track a couple days ago and cannot believe what I’ve been missing out on for the past 3 months! All discussion aside, this track is on point. The Sydney duo has combined a minimal, yet banging instrumental, an absolutely sublime vocal from Giselle, and just the right amount of 80s to create the ultimate chill out track. And if the original isn’t quite enough for you, Australian producer Cassian takes the track from the after party to the main room of the club, adding a plunking piano riff and a substantial dose of disco.

The entire package, including additional remixes from the C90s and James Curd, is available to buy on Beatport right now.

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Mason

Exceeder (Felguk Remix)

Tasted Music

Mason’s ‘Exceeder’ was without a doubt THE tune of 2006, regularly bringing every wallflower and their mother down from the rafters and onto the dance floor. Well, Brazilian wunderkinds Felguk have dug it out from the vaults and turned it into an absolutely insane electro assault. Think of it as an auditory A-bomb, if you will. This is hands down the best electro house track I’ve heard this year to date, and I expect it to clobber everything in its path when it comes to decide the anthem of Ibiza 2010.

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MoonRunners vs. Daft Punk

Feels Like Magic

Currently unsigned, for more info: MySpace

Over-sampling is getting a bit tedious these days (e.g. Chiddy Bang), and when you’re fiddling around with something as legendary as Daft Punk’s ‘Around The World’, the results would rarely come out as listenable. But for some reason, this product is simply fantastic. The MoonRunners, an upcoming London electro-hop ‘collective’, mesh their verses around a sample reorganized just enough to seem innovative. But in all reality, they have created something so unashamedly saccharine yet ridiculously catchy that you’ll find yourself pressing repeat a good ten times. Or in my case, 14. The track is backed by an effortlessly outstanding video, and the fact that they only spent £55 on it (for parking tickets) just makes it that much better.

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The rain doesn’t seem so bad anymore, right?