Music Music, Everywhere!

I've been working 8-hour days this week, so I haven't had the chance to do much sight-seeing. But work has been a blast, so that's what I'm going to write about today for you, my lovely readers. 

I've graduated from processing licensing requests and royalty statements to researching record labels and publishers we might want to work with overseas and putting together information on our artists to send to them. Because a huge part of what we do here is dance/electronica/dj type music (not surprising considering the Fatboy Slim connection, but a little outside my musical area of expertise) I decided yesterday that I need to step up my game and familiarize myself more with this genre. I mentioned this to one of my coworkers, thinking that he would refer me to a few key albums I could go to the store and buy or a few singles I could find on iTunes, or if I was really lucky he would toss me a free copy of a sampler CD or something. What actually happened was completely unexpected: I was handed a stack of 19 CDs to whet my appetite with. I'm absolutely in love with the fact that working for a record label = shitloads of free music.

So as I'm writing this I'm sitting at my computer loading a stack of CDs marked "Promo Only" into my iTunes. I have until Monday to familiarize myself with a collection of music that would probably take me about that long to listen to if I did nothing else the whole weekend. I've got a tough life, don't I?

So for your enjoyment, and because I missed a few posts and owe you extra "songs of the day,"

I've selected some of the tastier tracks out of what I've been able to sort through so far:

The BPA (Brighton Port Authority) - He's Frank (Slight Return) featuring Iggy Pop

and specially for Geoff:

The BPA - Toe Jam featuring Dizzee Rascal and David Byrne

Both From the Album: I Think We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat

- The BPA and The Mighty Dub Katz are two of Fatboy Slim's musical alter-egos that he uses to release music that he does that isn't commercial enough for his major label to release. The Iggy Pop tune is a killer song and I absolutely fucking love both these music videos.

The Anomalies - Kid Riot

From the Album: Free Soup Social

- This is a really cool group that combines indie rock, hip-hop and electronic music in a really original way. I wasn't able to find a Youtube link for this one but I'll work on it. Its worth a dollar to buy on iTunes though if I've described it compellingly enough.

Update: So this album is still really new and Kid Riot isn't on Youtube, but the current single from Free Soup Social is. Its called Old School. I personally like Kid Riot soooooo much better, but at least there's soemthing for you to listen to now.

Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)

- Cornershop were a British indie rock group in the early 90s who were critically acclaimed for the hybrid of British rock and musical influences from India. They were contemporaries of British indie rock legend Morrissey. This song isn't affiliated with our label as far as I know but the original version was made wildly popular by the Fatboy Slim remix I linked above.