ISO50 Music Exclusive: FREE MP3 EP PART II
Cover Art by Alex Cornell
Since the success of the first exclusive FREE EP that we did on ISO50 I asked for some musicians for more tracks of covers and edits.
Synth Pop guru D. Gookin takes our middle school favorite teen classic single 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins to a raw fantasy land of where Dan Deacon, Luke Vibert and Tortoise collaborate to do our bidding.
The Worst Friends duo take the gentler side of M83 and nudge it just enough to open up the track a tiny bit more, kind of like a bright break in the clouds to the originals cloudy day.
Everyone knows Snap, if you haven’t then go to a gym or club and give it about an hour during peak time and it will come on the speakers, I promise. Mux Mool switches gears and takes this roller skating rink classic and runs it thru the arcade and struts down the street with it while saying hi to all the ladies, a definite head nodder for the underground collectors.
Jerome Covington is new to the blog, a musician that I met at a bar while I was djing over a year ago, he did this cover for us at Moodgadget and its still a favorite to put on because it might be one of my favorite songs from when I was a little. The tempo of the original will always feel a bit too fast after you hear this, he added that touch that makes you want sway while you drive down the ocean coast.
If you brought your attention span today then this cover might be one of the more relaxing and rewarding ones, A Setting Sun aka Guardian does a number on Air’s Le Soleil Est Pres de Moi. The dusty howl gradually disperses while the recognizable sounds slowly creep in, it would make any Air fan smile.
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September 19th, 2009 at 1:09 am
gnarly!
September 19th, 2009 at 2:23 am
That M83 edit is unreal. I love it. Ty;
September 19th, 2009 at 3:01 am
[...] ISO50 blog has just released the second free MP3 EP featuring some killer covers of Air, M83 and my favourite of the bunch, Snap’s Rhythm is a [...]
September 19th, 2009 at 10:17 am
I love the M83 edit.
September 19th, 2009 at 11:01 am
love love love
thank you
September 19th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
It’s telling me the zip (“archive”) is corrupt or damaged….?
September 19th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
The zip also seems broken for me.
September 19th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Zip file works fine. I love it. Thank you Scott.
September 19th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
not really into the SP cover, was expecting something a whole lot more shoegazey I guess, I vote an M83 cover of that would be epic.
September 19th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Like the SP cover that’s not a rehearsal. Nice departure from the original.
September 20th, 2009 at 11:13 am
lovin’ these ep’s. keep em coming!!!
ps: mux mool is killing it!!!. first a remix of stardust…. then this! killer.
September 20th, 2009 at 11:18 am
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September 21st, 2009 at 7:21 am
Nice, I like this collection
September 21st, 2009 at 7:30 am
Are all of you positive reviewers just listening to it on the page? Because as far as I can tell, this is indeed a corrupted zip file. My tools say:
Archive: iso50_ep_p2.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
If anyone has successfully opened this zip file, I’d be interested to hear which tool they used.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:56 am
The zip works now, thanks!
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:24 am
nice one.
works fine on my mac. automatically unzips without me having to do a thing.
could have tagged the mp3s though guys
you missed your opportunity to have ISO50 in my album list!
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:49 am
Rythm is a dancer cover is off the hook ! love how muxmool flipped it
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:31 am
daaaaamn !!!! this playlist looks awesome ! and I’m stuck in the library without headphones…
promise I WILL listen to this when I get home
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:34 am
Awesome compilation and cover design.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
This has a nice style through out. My only complaint is the vocals on 1979, which to me sound like parody.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:13 am
M83 edit really great. Nice collection. Thanks for sharing.
November 13th, 2009 at 5:02 am
I love the Smashing Pumpkins. Thanks for putting this up.
December 17th, 2009 at 7:22 am
[...] Thanks to Marie playing this LP last weekend, I’ve gotten back into Air. This is one group that I’m either into or not; I can’t really just casually put their album on if I’m not in a proper “Air phase” – what this amounts to usually is listening to one select album of theirs a lot and getting the songs stuck in my head for days on end. Talkie Walkie is my favorite album from the French duo, and mixes all of their slightly odd ingredients in the way most fitting to my listening palate. “Run” isn’t necessarily my favorite song on the album – this is one of those cases where the sum is greater than its parts – but it is emblematic of what draws me back to this album again and again over the five years since its release: the great sense of melody warped through bizarre electronic effects, the minimal percussive elements, the Apple Talk vocals and the darkness that still sounds like a love song. In late 2007 I did a cover version of one of my other favorite Air songs, “Le Soleil Est Pres de Moi,” which couldn’t go on Empty Sound because of licensing concerns and also because it contains a sample from that one P-Funk song everyone knows, “Flashlight.” I love the song so I’ve taken the opportunity to once more get it out there. [...]
December 17th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
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