Office Thursday: 01

We all know the feeling that working in an office can be dull as well as life threatening both mentally and physically. luckily for me though in my new job i spend most of my day filing and listening to music, while thinking up things to write on this new blog

I’m Elliott, and this is “Office Thursday”. a three track guide to stuff i’m listening to when i’m filing. There are some things you will like, and pretty much some things that you will hate, but lets dive in there and see what we can find.

Heartsrevolution - Choose Your Own Adventure
Hear it on Hypem
Watch the video on Youtube
Look at their Myspace

Once described to me as “a big bag of gash” i wasn’t really ready to really give this track a listen, but its grown on me so much that i know i was wrong to judge.

Heartsrevolution are described as an electro punk style band, i’m not much on labelling stuff like that because most of the times i’m just wrong. Hailing from the USA the new york boy/girl duo roll around in an ice cream truck called the “Heartschallenger” promoting their music and selling sweets to the masses, check out the video here

the track itself is a nice kick in the face for me in the morning, bang it on on the way to work, you’ll be humming it all day.

RJD2 - Work It Out
Watch the Video on Youtube
Look at His Myspace

He just makes good music, he makes such good music you start to get hot and bothered about his cutting and pasting, sample selection, choice of beats and how he puts it all together, depressingly, you really cannot fault the gent.

taken from “The Third Hand” album, RJD2 combines layer upon layer of perfectly matched beats for the listener t just melt into, the whole album itself feels like this, you could listen t it all day and in my opinion never seems to fall over its feet when its playing. i really cant stress how much you need this song in your life.

We caught the video late one night for this track on MTV2 and that itself is a work of art, using the famous Bill Shannon to dance move and dare i say it grove to the beats of this soulful and smooth track. A video obviously doesn’t make a song, but this one compliments nicely.

DNTEL - Rock My Boat feat. Mia Doi Todd
Hear it on Hypem
Watch the Video on Youtube
Look at his Myspace

Random bleeps are all well and good, everyone seems to have them these days, its only when they are put together in a decent way and order do you get DNTEL.

With the gentle vocals of the rather cute Mia Doi Todd the track just makes you not worry about much, except not falling asleep. Its a great combination of slow beats with soft vocals that are just so suited to the way the song flows its frightening. there’s not much more to say about this song, other than to tell you to get your hands on it as soon as possible

Thats all for now, keep an eye out for mixtape sundays at the end of the week