7 Cuts to Accompany your Coffee

Stranz kickin' it with borrowed rest-stop propaganda property.

Hills of Honalulu
Alden Tyrell
Times Like These
Clone Records : 2006
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Hollablack Tambourine Girl [Kojiro's Mashmix]
Beck & Gwen Stefani
Hollablack Tambourine Girl
FeedmeGoodTunes Laboratories : 2005
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The Garden
Cut Chemist
The Audience's Listening
Warner Bros Records : 2006
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Human After All [Sebastian's Remix]
Daft Punk
Human After All Remixes [Japan]
Virgin : 2006
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Superpositions
Nathan Fake
Drowning in a Sea of Love
Border Community : 2005
[Listen] [Buy]

C'mon Happy Chickens
Reggie & The Full Effect
Greatest Hits 84-87
Vagrant Records : 2004
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Live & Let Die
Wings
James Bond 30th Anniversary
Capitol Records : 1992
[Listen] [Buy]

Am I succumbing to Jack's Ikea nesting instinct? Or am I simply looking for stylishly named furniture to fit my mid-twenties, hipster lifestyle? Do you care? Do I care? No dude [dudette] - you came here for a tune up.

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M. Hoogendijk, like many artists, goes by a few assumed names; these include A Stranger from Another Meaning, Ardathbey & Partisan Midi. In this particular instance, he bears the name Alden Tyrell, a striking similarity to Elden Tyrell of the Tyrell Corporation from Ridley Scott's [awesome] film, Blade Runner. Tyrell's track, like Tyrell's Nexus 6, burns twice as bright if used for half as long - it's a solid track, but it gets a little repetitive [listen to it half as much and it will sound twice as good]. Still, good beats.

"Uh, huh, this my shit" - No, actually this really isn't my "shit" sweetheart. But wait, let's rewind and flip it. Normally, I wouldn't pay much mind to Gwen Stefani's recent work - that is, until the elusive Kojiro returned from Japan and pasted together this bitchin' mashmix of Beck's 'Black Tambourine' & Gwen's 'Hollaback Girl.' 'Hollablack Tambourine Girl is a Tribal Pop-Rock gem. Last year, I placed this track on a few satellite radio play lists. And it seems that since then, some of you have been trying to track this one down. Search no further, FmGT Labs has got the exclusive.

The Cut [Chemist] recently dropped two new singles from his forthcoming effort, The Audience's Listening. These tracks have been noted and generally spoken well of by other sweet music-blogs. I figure that FmGT fans will know about 'The Garden' already, and because of this I thought to perhaps not post this. I'm only doing so because it's so damn good and I don't want to risk the possibility of anyone missing out. What starts off as a dreamy organic, almost bluegrass loop scratches it's way into a sweet-sweet-sweet Bossa Nova Hip-hop funk. Be prepared to fall utterly in love when the beat drops at 2:45 - I only wish I knew what she was singing about.

It was nice to see Daft Punk again when they returned last year with Human After All. In an almost funny event when the album was leaked on the net - so many people said "Oh jeez, I hope this is fake." When it turned out to be the real thing, many gravitated to only a few songs including the classic Daft sounding 'Human After All;' the overused, over marketed and over copied 'Technologic;' and my favorite dank slow jam 'Television Rules the Nation.' A small little Human After All remix collection was dropped in Japan, featuring today's Daft track remixed by Sebastian. I like to cut this one down and loop it starting with the smooth keys breakdown that begins at 3:22.

The proud-not-to-be-a-DJ, Nathan Fake, is the twenty-two year old producer/musician from Norfolk, England and is the mind behind today's track, 'Superpositions.' With a nice electronic flow and a healthy serving of cymbals [not used enough in electronic tunes], Nathan's got no problem passing my QA on production. But at the same time 'Superpositions' reminds me of the Foo Fighter's track 'Everlong' - [sing the lyrics of 'Everlong' on top of this one and you'll know what I mean]. What's more, and a little bit stranger, is that this sounds like what would be the soundtrack to a futuristic remake of Top Gun. I hated Top Gun.

And here's some comic relief, courtesy of Reggie & The Full Effect, a band that some of my college buddies introduced me to back during my days at Syracuse. Fun Fact: Silent K once had a serious freak out when this track was put on repeat one night. I screamed the "Bock-Bock!" part of the song repeatedly for over an hour. Maybe, you just had to be there.

Finally, I'm filling an anonymous request by posting a Paul McCartney [Wings] track. I went into my favorite Bond themes earlier this year. This one is pretty decent too. I have a tough time getting over Roger Moore's overly comedic Bond though. Oh, and the Guns N Roses remake of this was complete crap. That's why Hilfiger slapped you Axl!

Enjoy.