The Mog (AKA The Mic's Blog)
 Obstacle One and Bon the Man
December 17, 2008, 7:18 pm

Local boys Obstacle One – aside from producing The Mic’s very own ‘Sleep Deprivation’ – have been busy putting together a brand new mix for your delectation, look out for the epic ‘where the fuck is this going?’ charm of Duke Dumont’s ‘Two Doors Down’ remix. Rob and Rob can be found reigniting their residency at the sweat-pit dungeon that is Market Bar and the ever dependable Electric Banana next term, in the meantime, chomp on this…

http://www.zshare.net/audio/521463677a188fa8/

Tracklisting…

    1. Economic Obstacles Intro - DJ Shadow - Blood On The Motorway (Ft.         Excerpt from Godspeed You Black Emperor - Providence)
    2. TLGB - Invisible Man
    3. Dj Mujava - Township Funk (Ashley Beedle Re-edit)
    4. Basement Jaxx - Nifty
    5. Wekan - Skid (Touche Remix)
    6. Obstacle One - Leuven
    7. ZZT- The Worm (Erol Alkan Remix)
    8. Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down (Duke Dumont Reconstruction)
    9. Devilfish & Roel Salemink - Manalive (Jon Rundell Remix)
    10. Shameboy - Heartcore (D.I.M Remix)
    11. Napt - Gotta Have More Cowbell

In further treats this month, The Mic is very happy to bring you everyone’s favourite weepy-man, Bon Iver’s new ‘Blood Bank EP’. Will he ever write a bad song?

http://www.richardjellis.com/files/bloodbankep.zip

If that’s not enough and you really need cheering up, check out this collection of beauties…

http://www.myspace.com/transmissions

Although we do positively implore you to use your head and steer well clear of the James Blunt section, a minor blip…

Have an extremely Merry Christmas, your friend, guru and part-time lover The Mic.

Our first blog
November 27, 2008, 6:47 pm

This is our first blog: how terribly trendy we are! Copy n’ Paste the below links Somewhere or other, as they’re all really good, and we’ll do this properly when we have some more time, Promise.

Best Piece of Non-Mic Related Musical Journalism
Miranda Sawyer Meets Grace Jones
Easily one of the funniest interviews we have ever read. What a legend.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/12/grace-jones-hurricane

Another One to Watch in 2009
La Roux
We didn’t have room for her in the new issue, but we wish we did. Another in a series of startlingly good British girls creating clash-bang-wollop wonky pop in their bedrooms, it’s bound to be a close race between her and Little Boots for the crown of 2009. La Roux does have better hair, mind. ONE NIL TO LA ROUX.

http://www.myspace.com/larouxuk

Links to our Top 5 Covers Of The Month
Hollywood, Mon Amour - Footloose:
So French that you can practically smell the garlic, complete with plinky piano with jazz-hands and a joyous jive-step. Mon dieu! (Kenny Loggins)

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=343732983

Bikini - 1,2,3,4:
Electro-reworking of the plinkiest-plonkiest single this side of Sesame Street: xylophones out, vocoders in...Cute is definitely not the word. (Feist)

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/142075

Vampire Weekend – Everywhere:
The Mac get an Ivy League, Afro-pop make-over courtesy of everyone’s favourite clever, rich bastards. God they’re annoyingly good. (Fleetwood Mac)

http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2008/09/09/vampire-weekend-everywhere-fleetwood-mac/

Unbroken – Love Will Tear Us Apart:
It may not be recent in the slightest, but making Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart sound like a Rites of Spring song was one of the best decisions ever made by anyone: take the passion of the original anthem, multiply it tenfold, and ta-da! (duh)

If you can find a link to this, tell us, because we can’t…

Au Revoir Simone – Paris:
Hushed, down-tempo version of original, turns into spiralling 7 minute mini-epic…yes I am going to say it; ‘synthtastic.’ (Friendly Fires)

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/146860-on-repeat-friendly-fires-ft-au-revoir-simone-paris-aeroplane-remix-mp3-stream