[Songs of the Moment] Plushgun, "Dancing in a Minefield"
So it's no huge secret that I source online a lot of my music for The Circuit. In doing so for my February 16 edition I came across a mix of a song I'd never heard by a band I'd never heard, but I gave it a try because of where I found it: the site of a bedroom remixer/producer named DreamTime.
A German native now living in Texas, DreamTime has carved for himself a special niche of responsibility in the bootleg/mashup/bastard pop community: he takes as many mixes of a particular song as he can find and uses them to craft super-extended unofficial mixes. Not only are they in the vein of product from old DJ services like Disconet and Razormaid, they usually focus on New Wave and pop artists of the period: 11 minutes of Erasure's "Ship of Fools," 18 minutes of Frankie's "Relax," nine minutes of Simply Red or Moev, you get the picture.
It's not common for DreamTime to tackle music of today, so when I saw he had stretched out a song called "Dancing in a Minefield" by a Brooklyn act named Plushgun I figured something had to make it jump out at the guy. I downloaded it and half-heard it as I was prepping my playlist, but then I gave it a good listen in-studio during my show and FLIPPED OUT.
The "Indie" and "New Wave" tags on their Myspace page are no joke; this is beautiful stuff, kinda reminding me of The Postal Service, maybe even a little more substantial than that? I think it speaks highly of their material that they only have maybe half-a-dozen songs yet people already want to tinker with them. Plushgun are unsigned but sound like they deserve "signed" post-haste.
You can download the DreamTime mix from my Multiply site or (for a limited time) from DreamTime himself, but I highly recommend heading to Plushgun's Myspace, checking out their player, and signing up for their mailing list to get the critical hit of the "Dancing in a Minefield" radio-friendly version all to yourself... info for doing that is in their blog.
A German native now living in Texas, DreamTime has carved for himself a special niche of responsibility in the bootleg/mashup/bastard pop community: he takes as many mixes of a particular song as he can find and uses them to craft super-extended unofficial mixes. Not only are they in the vein of product from old DJ services like Disconet and Razormaid, they usually focus on New Wave and pop artists of the period: 11 minutes of Erasure's "Ship of Fools," 18 minutes of Frankie's "Relax," nine minutes of Simply Red or Moev, you get the picture.
It's not common for DreamTime to tackle music of today, so when I saw he had stretched out a song called "Dancing in a Minefield" by a Brooklyn act named Plushgun I figured something had to make it jump out at the guy. I downloaded it and half-heard it as I was prepping my playlist, but then I gave it a good listen in-studio during my show and FLIPPED OUT.
The "Indie" and "New Wave" tags on their Myspace page are no joke; this is beautiful stuff, kinda reminding me of The Postal Service, maybe even a little more substantial than that? I think it speaks highly of their material that they only have maybe half-a-dozen songs yet people already want to tinker with them. Plushgun are unsigned but sound like they deserve "signed" post-haste.
You can download the DreamTime mix from my Multiply site or (for a limited time) from DreamTime himself, but I highly recommend heading to Plushgun's Myspace, checking out their player, and signing up for their mailing list to get the critical hit of the "Dancing in a Minefield" radio-friendly version all to yourself... info for doing that is in their blog.