Why so scared of romance

Just a quick one: the fantastic chaps over at La Blogotheque convinced Bloc Party to do This Modern Love for a Take-Away Show. Check out the breath-takingly beautiful performance here.

Nothin' but the DJ (I Just Wanna Dance)

The Ting Tings - Great DJ (zShare)
Lady GaGa - Just Dance (RAC Remix) (zShare)

This past summer I happened to spend a couple days in Spokane, WA. I dunno why, but for some reason I really like Spokane. I've only been there once before, the previous summer, also just for a couple days, but it struck me as being a nice place. There's a gigantic park in the middle of the downtown area with a river running through it, and a ferris wheel and gondolas that enter the city center and the best snow cones in the world and a really nice fountain that everyone was running under 'cause it was so hot out. This is sort of thing I'd like to be listening to sitting on a bench by that fountain on a hot summer's evening, just as the sun sets at dusk (I wish I'd gotten some pictures, but unfourtunately I left my camera in the car the whole time).


The Ting Tings debut album, We Started Nothing, is one of my favourites released this year and can be purchased at the links below.


The Tings Tings official site
Buy The Tings Tings music: iTunes, Amazon

Lady GaGa official site
Buy Lady GaGa music: iTunes, Amazon

Visit the RAC's official site for a ton more brilliant remixes.

Your Heart Felt Good

Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet (zShare)

I never really understood this song until yesterday. This is the album (The Moon and Antarctica) that first introduced me to Modest Mouse, and while I liked it as a whole (and 3rd Planet in particular), I thought it felt, at times, too deliberately obtuse, or difficult, or dense. That one line, though, the one that everyone'll remember and sing along to - "I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over" - it struck me as being amazingly true. Sometimes things don't work despite best intentions and all you're left with is nothing. But, is spite of that... "Your heart felt good."



Bloc Party - Storm and Stress (zShare)

An early Bloc Party track, taken from the Japanese Little Thoughts EP (also released as the b-side to the Little Thoughts 7" single). A bit romantic, a bit teenaged (as the title implies). Promise you'll say if it gets / Promise you'll say if it gets too much. At it's heart it's a love song, simultaneously about how being in love can overcome obstacles while those same obstacles are what make it all worthwhile. You're the life of the party, you make my world spin around.


Bloc Party's new album, Intimacy, is out tomorrow.


Modest Mouse official site
Buy Modest Mouse music: iTunes, Amazon

Bloc Party official site
Buy Bloc Party music: iTunes, Amazon

Hi

So, hi. Welcome to Hate the Past Regret the Future. As I'm sure will become painfully evident, I'm kind of new to this whole blogging thing, so by way of introduction, I thought I'd offer ya'll a little mixtape I made. It dates all the way back to last summer and features a nice selection of mostly electro, perfect for dancing to or just laying in bed and chilling out with headphones. Of course I realize it's fall now and this is undeniably a summer mix, but we could all use something to dance to as the weather cools, right?

Download the full mix as a .ZIP file (up at zShare, so it should be available for a good long while).

Snowden - Black Eyes (Le Castle Vania Remix)
Editors - Munich (Pase Rock Bip Remix)
Daft Punk - Around The World (Killdahype Remix)
CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (RAC Remix)
Feist - 1234 (Van She Technological Remix)
Crystal Castles - Crimewave (Crystal Castles Vs. HEALTH)
Battle - North Sea (Russell Bloc Party Remix)
Bloc Party - Tulips (Club Version)
I Was A Cub Scout - Our Smallest Adventures (Frankmusik Remix)
Van She - Kelly (Cut Copy Remix)
Kanye West - Stronger
Lo-Fi-Fnk - City (The Teenagers Remix)
Metric - Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix)
The Secret Handshake - Too Young (The Toxic Avenger Remix)

Shout-outs to the both now-defunct Say Anything Syndrome, for introducing me to a lot of the artists on this mix and really inspiring my passion for music and my desire to start my own blog, and Good Weather For Airstrikes, from which a number of these tracks came (including that insanely danceable RAC remix of CSS, totally my summer 07 anthem).