Listen to 45 Seconds of Each Track From Modeselektor’s Monkeytown

Berlin techno duo Modeselektor have decided to share with the world 45 second snippets of all of the tracks off their forthcoming album, Monkeytown. This new album, out September 27 on Monkeytown Records, is their third album and was produced in one session over the course of ten weeks. Flowing freely between styles and tempos, Monkeytown experiments with the edges and extremes, exploring fresh sonic territory from a solid base of beats located deep within the groove. With massive drums, minced vocals and a mastery of mounting tension, Modeselektor creates a new animal out of dance music, a mutating chimera with body parts of left-field hip hop, soulful R&B, punk rap and playful surprises. Contributing to the album is an exciting palette of guest vocalists and musicians, including Thom Yorke, Busdriver, PVT, Anti Pop Consortium, Miss Platnum, Sascha Ring (aka Apparat), Pillow Talk, Gordon Boerger, Siriusmo and Otto von Schirach [via Pitch Perfect PR].

Monkeytown track listing:
01. Blue Clouds – Modeselektor
02. Pretentious Friends – Modeselektor feat. Busdriver (emergency call by Pillow Talk)
03. Shipwreck – Modeselektor & Thom Yorke
04. Evil Twin – Modeselektor (vocals by Otto von Schirach)
05. German Clap – Modeselektor
06. Berlin – Modeselektor feat. Miss Platnum
07. Grillwalker – Modeselektor
08. Green Light Go – Modeselektor & PVT (drums by Gordon Boerger, additional synth by Siriusmo)
09. Humanized – Modeselektor feat. Anti Pop Consortium
10. This – Modeselektor & Thom Yorke
11. War Cry – Modeselektor (guitar by Sascha Ring)

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross Nominated For Academy Award

Following their surprising win at the Golden Globes, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are now the favorites at this year’s Academy Awards for Best Original Score for The Social Network. The awards are given out on February 27, 2011. If you haven’t seen the movie or heard the soundtrack, you have no idea what you are missing. The Social Network was the best film of 2010. David Fincher has also asked Reznor and Ross to score his upcoming film “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” released later this year. You can stream “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from the epic crew race scene in The Social Network below:

Trent Reznor Wins Golden Globe

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Trent Reznor Nominated For Golden Globe

Today’s Golden Globe nominations revealed that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score for David Fincher’s near-perfect The Social Network was nominated for “Best Original Score.” This is Reznor’s first Golden Globes nod, although he has twelve Grammy nominations with two wins (for 1992′s “Wish” and 1995′s “Happiness in Slavery (Live)”). It’s uncertain if the Academy Awards will figure out that the soundtrack contains a brilliantly re-worked version of “35 Ghost IV” from 2008′s Ghosts I-IV that is cleverly titled “A Familiar Taste.” Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead) was disqualified from a potential Oscar nomination for his There Will Be Blood score for a similar reason in 2007.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – A Familiar Taste by hralupka

MP3: “Not In Love (ft. Robert Smith)” by Crystal Castles

Everyone in the blogosphere is buzzing about a new collaboration between Crystal Castles and The Cure’s Robert Smith. As good as the track sounds in theory, it’s even better realized. Crystal Castles will release the single next month, December 6th, with B-sides containing acoustic demos of ‘Celestica’ and ‘Suffocation.’ You can download “Not In Love (ft. Robert Smith)” by Crystal Castles here or stream it below:

Short Film For Amon Tobin’s “Esther’s” Released

Belgian director Charles De Meyer (aka Chuck Eklectric) first met Amon Tobin in 2007. It was then De Meyer proposed his idea to create a short film for the song “Esther’s” featured on Tobin’s then just released Foley Room record.  Tobin was impressed and collaborated with De Meyer to work on the sound design. Three years later, the result is a must see:

Check out more from Amon here: http://www.amontobin.com

Trent Reznor Lets You Sample His Score of “The Social Network”

As he has done with past projects in recent years, Trent Reznor is giving away more of his music. This time it’s a five-track sampler of the score he and Atticus Ross did for the upcoming David Fincher film about the origins of Facebook, The Social Network. Reznor, who many believe has revolutionized the way music is distributed on the Internet, will offer an array of packaged formats for the soundtrack, including CD, HD Blu-Ray Audio, and Vinyl. The soundtrack hits on September 28. You can download the five free tracks and pre-order the album on his Null Corporation label’s web site here. Reznor says he and Atticus have been working on the project for months. This news just might be the nail in the coffin for Reznor’s involvement in an HBO series based on his Year Zero alternate reality experience and concept album. Reznor posted a comment about the sound of the soundtrack on his web page:

Musically, this all came out of our secret laboratory – electronic in basis, but mostly organic sounding. Lots of experiments and emphasis on sound fraying around the edges while focusing on the proper emotional tone for the various scenes.

You can download one of the tracks “On We March” here or stream it below:

The film hits theaters on October 1. Trailer is below (and features an affecting cover of Radiohead’s “Creep”) :

This Is Happening! New LCD Soundsystem Leaked

With over a month to go until its official release date, LCD Soundsystem’s highly anticipated third LP, This Is Happening, leaked late last night to the Interweb. Fishpork will not post any additional details regarding the locations of the leaked files. However, your usual sources should not let you down. If you decide to download the album early, please be sure to purchase the album on May 18th and support the band on their current tour. Let the summer begin!

Listen to two new LCD Soundsystem songs!

The first two songs have surfaced from the highly anticipated third album from LCD Soundsystem (aka James Murphy). Listen to “Drunk Girls” via OneThirtyBPM below and “Pow Pow” via Juno Records here. Murphy also produced the soundtrack to the new Ben Stiller/Noah Baumbach film Greenberg, which hits theaters Friday. Amazon.com has previews of each song here.

Hear Entire New Album By The Knife

The Knife (in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock) have announced that their new record, ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’, is now available buy directly from the Rabid Records store as a download or pre-order a CD copy and receive the download instantly.

The album features songs Olof and Karin wrote for the Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma’s opera based on Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of the Species.’and will be available worldwide on iTunes and Amazon beginning Febuary 1st and the CD will be in stores on March 1st.

You can pre-order the CD or FLAC and stream every track here.

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