Van She Tech returns with a series of bootleg banger remixes of some of their fav tunes. First up is CeCe Peniston’s “Finally” mashed up with Daft Punk’s “Aerodynamite” – one of my fav Daft Punk B-sides. An overall super fun Bootleg Banger of an edit. For all of you lucky enough to be in Aussie this weekend, Van She Tech shall be DJing at the Splendour Festival and apparently will be dropping the next Van She single off their upcoming sophomore album.
An analog fever seems to be sweeping Australia with the Midnight Juggernauts moving into a warmer/psychedlic realm and the stoner rockers, Tame Impala making big moves around the world. Cut Copy follows suit and return with “Where I’m Going” – a very 70s tinged pop rock tune featuring Gary Glitter “Rock and Roll Part 2″ Schaeffel Beat drums and over the top kids screaming “Yeah! Yeah!”. Next up is Van She, let’s see what they come up with next.
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My favorite Aussie band Van She is in NYC this week to play a few DJ gigs at Santos tomorrow night, 5.6.2010 and on an amazing bill at Brooklyn Bowl with Penguin Prison, Sat 5.8.2010. Cannot wait.
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I think Van She did an amazing job covering such a cult classic of a tune now Holy Ghost! reworks this tune into a slow burner of a disco tune. Rejoice there is a cowbell in this version!
Van She has teamed up with Bacardi B-Live, another great company that is tastefully aligning themselves with important contemporary cultural movements and artists along with Scion (I am not getting paid to plug them, just love what they are doing). Van She decides to cover Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” WITHOUT Cowbell, which maybe blasphemy but they do an amazing job transforming the track into a modern sounding synth drenched pop tune. I love the classic Van She Tech lush synths that kick in during the 2nd half of the tune. Be on the lookout for the Holy Ghost! remix of this cover.
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“Well that song has such a nice vibe to it and the harmonies in the lah lah lah section are so warm and care free, then it drops into that beautiful tube/tape sounding guitar which leaves you in this gap of contemplation and you just sit there with your headphones on going ” laaa lalaaalala “. we also chose it because a lot of people i know think the song is quite gothic and proggy, which it is due to blue oysters style, but i also think the song is very amazing lyrically and beautiful and i guess it didn’t feel like it totally comes across in their version unless you read the lyrics. so i thought we could do a version that sounded like what we interpreted the lyrics to be … romantic and deep and uplifting as well. we love the song a lot as well which also had something to do with it.” – Van She (via Stoneyroads.com)
Matt Van Schie of Van She has released a track of his own for free on the interwebs. It reminds me of The Buggles especially during the chorus. It has a very nerdy 80s rock vibe, I feel it.
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I found out through twitter that, Van She, one of my favorite Modular Records bands follows the b-log Van She Tech was kind enough to put together an exclusive 26 min minimix for Asian Dan that showcases their ability to move hearts, minds, and feet. Nick also answered a few questions about Van She’s musical history, revealing that Hall & Oates’ “Private Eyes” is one of their favorite dance tracks. Anyone who says that understands music the true meaning of music in my mind.
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Van She is Nicky, Michael, Tomek and Matthew
Van She Tech is Nicky and Michael
2. How would you describe your music?
Krautrock/Pop i guess
3. What are your biggest influences? What was your first musical memory?
Well Mikey is Italian and his father was into Italo Disco and all the classics, Matt loves krauterock and Punk Funk like Liquid Liquid and Konk and Tomek and I grew up listening to MJ, Icehouse, INXS and all the seventies stuff … So we are all pretty different in backgrounds … I remember my first cassette tape was Icehouse electric blue and bananarama and MJ Bad … It was a 3 for the price of 1 deal
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Maia Hirasawa is a half Swedish/half Japanese singer songstress ::swoon:: She is the next Feist/Regina Spektor. She is Swedish and so is Jose Gonzalez so she is definitely going to blow up. Ha.
This track reminds me of Feist with her uber poppy folk goodness.
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