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2012

Darst Card 2012

Mixed By K.Lynn

MUSIC LIST

MakeItHappen

matt and kim

Upbeat

Top 20 Songs of 2012

Megalithic Symphony

Sail

Not Your Fault

This self-titled EP is our debut release for 2011! Enjoy. 

Gettuh Ride

We Are Young ft. Janelle Monáe

Midi Matilda - Day Dreams

The Leopards-Down that line

Grand

Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare

Daylight

AWOLNATION - Kill Your Heroes

OUT NOW! http://s.beatport.com/JuwAUp  The Naked And Famous - Young Blood (Tiesto & Hardwell Remix) out April 24th on Musical Freedom Tiësto and Hardwell are back with another stunning production! This time it's a remix for highly respected indie rock band 'The Naked And Famous' and their big hit 'Young Blood' . It's Tiësto & Hardwell's first co production after their smash hit 'Zero 76' which was a high contender for tune of the year in 2011. 

Tiësto and Hardwell premiered this remix while together on stage at UME festival in Texas, US. Reactions on this one have been amazing and the combination between the uplifting progressive sound and the fantastic touching vocals of The Naked And Famous make this a perfect track for those long summer nights! The track is featured on Tiesto's new mix compilation Club Live Vol. 2 Miami. Tiesto & Hardwell are working in the studio together on the follow up, stay tuned it's sure to say this collab will be big!

Club Life Volume Two Miami Album out April 20 (Europe) / 23 (UK & ROW) / 24 (US & Canada) PRE ORDER CLUB LIFE - VOLUME TWO MIAMI HERE: http://www.smarturl.it/clv2m

Release date April 24th on Musical Freedom

The Naked And Famous - Young Blood (Tiësto & Hardwell Remix) [OUT NOW]

Alex Clare - Too Close

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?i6xbtpbmobx8x9k

Crystal Castles - Lovers Who Uncover

New song by Matt and Kim from the album "Sidewalks", out in November 2010. 

Sidewalks

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From Matt and Kim's album LIGHTNING

Buy on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lightning/id552515747

"Let's Go" Official Video: http://vevo.ly/TzrXIx

www.mattandkimmusic.com
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Lightning

Let’s Go

Reward on Moozar : http://reward-my-music.com/26600 Jag vet inte vad du förväntar dig av en ny skiva med Anna von Hausswolff. Ännu mer av den gotiska, mörka och spröda balladkänslan som präglade hennes debutalbum Singing from the Grave? En serie lättnynnade melodier anpassade till samtidens radioformat? Eller något äventyrligare, farligare, mer oberäkneligt?

Det sistnämnda har funnits där hela tiden, ända sedan Anna von Hausswolff började göra sina soloframträdanden runtom i Göteborg kring 2007-08: det kraftfulla, motsägelsefulla, dubbelbottnade som fick sångerna att om och om igen ta oväntade vägar.

Men på Ceremony har själva friheten hamnat i förgrunden, i musikens absoluta centrum. Det är verkligen en radikal förändring som gör både sångerna och ljudbilderna större, vidare, djupare, flyktigare, skarpare. Musiken stiger liksom till väders, som i det makalösa slutet av ”Goodbye”, där klangerna vandrar stegvis uppåt, allt högre, i sångens egen himmelsfärd.

Konstigt att ingen kommit på tanken förut: att använda kyrkorgel som huvudinstrument i popmusik. För omedelbart när man hör det, exempelvis i de betvingande Beach Boysharmonierna som bildar grunden i sången ”Mountains Crave”, framstår orgeltonerna som lyckobringande klangrum. Ja, det är en fantastisk frihetskänsla som etableras och erövras, som om kyrkorgeln vore den perfekta synten, en fantasimaskin med obegränsade uttrycksmöjligheter.

Att genrekategorisera den här musiken känns bara dumt. Poängen är ju att sångerna tillåter sig att vara allt på en gång, och att kyrkorgeln blir själva bekräftelsen av denna komplexa och samtidigt omedelbara närvarokänsla. ”It’s all there, it’s all there”, sjunger Anna von Hausswolff, och så är det: alla tider är närvarande, den barockvärld som födde Bachs koraler och det dova mörker där de utdragna, råa droneklangerna hittar sin kraft, och här möts världarna på de mest förbluffande vis.

Musiken säger att vi är mångtydiga varelser, och det är precis så det har känts när jag gått omkring i flera månader med de här sångerna i lurarna. Sångerna förflyttar sig obehindrat från det ena till det andra, och har en märklig förmåga att glida ihop med landskapet eller rummet. Det finns en förtröstan och ett lyssnande till ljusets och tidens skiftningar, och det är detta som gör musiken så stor och stark. Den ändrar sig oupphörligt, den är helt fri.

Magnus Haglund
Författare och kulturskribent

Anna von Hausswolff - Mountains Crave

Heatwave - Girl in a Coma

Walk On By (radio edit)

From Matt and Kim's album LIGHTNING
Buy on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lightning/id552515747

Anya Kvitka C'est La Vie (Cutso Edit) (Prod. by Hippie Sabotage)

The hugely acclaimed sophomore album from First Aid Kit is The Lion's Roar.

It can be bought here:

iTunes: http://www.smarturl.it/lionsroar 
CD: http://amzn.to/TOxfET 
LP: http://www.smarturl.it/smarturl.ittrlalblp

The Lion's Roar

First Aid Kit - Emmylou

From the new album Heartthrob, available now on iTunes! bit.ly/XOkqI6

Closer

05 Riff Off  Mickey Like A Virgin Hi

Download the track on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/givingin

Buy the album 'Home' here: smarturl.it/Rudimental

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Not Giving In (feat. John Newman & Alex Clare)

For many bands, making music is all about the routine of recording an annual album, or being able to tour in progressively bigger venues.  Not Matt and Kim.  "Our goal is to make music we want to hear," says Matt Johnson, who co-founded the band with Kim Schifino. "When it comes time to make a new album, I'm just so excited, since I know we have all these ideas and I just want to get them out there."  As for the band's extra-emphatic live shows, which these days happen in large venues, he explains, "We've always just really enjoyed playing music, and things have kept growing." 
 
Matt and Kim's enthusiasm comes across loud and clear on the band's last album, Lightning, its most diverse and developed to date.  From the relentless drive of “Now” to the dance-fueled beat of “Let’s Go” to the more contemplative “Ten Dollars I Found,” Lightning is the strongest distillation yet of Matt and Kim’s unique sound: a spunky hybrid of indelible songs, an emphatic beat and almost tangible energy, mixed with the duo’s influence of listening nonstop to Top 40 Hip-Hop and pop-punk.
 
To make the album, Matt and Kim spent six months working in their home studio in Brooklyn, producing the record themselves. Lightning is a touch more minimal than their earlier work – with layers taken away, instead of added, enabling its intense performances and memorable tunes to really come to the forefront. “What’s made the songs on this album really strong is we’ve been able to pull a lot off – to not have so much going on – and still have a strong song,” Kim explains.
 
“It’s easier to make a song with a lot going on,” Matt adds. “It feels very safe. It’s like putting on a lot of clothes: you feel all covered up so no one can judge just one aspect of it, but when you try to break it down to be as simple as can be, you’re really baring it all.  When you can see clearly what’s going on, those are the times that the songs are easiest to connect to.”
 
Connecting with their audience is certainly a key focus for Matt and Kim.  The indie dance duo’s live shows – which are legendary for constant, in-your-face exuberance – feel more like vibrant, sweaty loft parties than traditional concerts, for both audiences and the band. “I think we’ve managed to continue to make them feel intimate,” says Matt. “When we first started playing venues instead of playing on the floor at parties, we tried hard to keep the vibe of ‘we’re all doing this together and having a wild time’ going.  The show is not just the two of us: it’s the 3002 of us, or however big the venue is.”  Or, as in the words of Rolling Stone: “Matt and Kim’s reputation as a live act precedes them – and justifiably so. Simply put, they are a two-person dynamo, frantic, tightly wound, and full of good cheer. Their performances are as physical as they are musical. . . . For sheer adrenaline-per-second, no other band comes close.”

The band started in 2004, essentially by accident when Matt and Kim were art students at the prestigious Pratt Institute, where they studied film and illustration, respectively.  When Kim wanted to learn to play drums and Matt (who'd been in bands before) was getting his head around a new keyboard, the band was born. Since then, they have earned a Gold Record for the upbeat, stick-in-your-head track "Daylight," played festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo, along with international festivals like V (U.K), Pukkelpop (Belgium), Fuji (Japan), Big Day Out (Australia), Primavera (Spain), Oya (Norway), SWU (Brazil), as well as hundreds of shows. They have won 3 MTV awards: a Breakthrough Video Music Award and mtvU Best Video Woodie Award for “Lessons Learned”, as well as a 2011 award for Best Live Band. Lightning is the band's fourth album, following Sidewalks, Grand, and their self-titled debut.
 
Matt and Kim have always been inspired by Brooklyn’s general urban din as well as the area’s artists, yet Matt points out, “I don’t think a place can define a person. We simply write songs about us and our life so that’s why where we live comes up.”
 
Indeed, there’s something universal about a song with a beat that grabs you, with a great melody, played by a band that simply loves to play music.  And that, in Williamsburg and way beyond, is the key to the universal appeal of Matt and Kim.