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SOAKED

Hadn't heard much of anything from Fluker Love since very early 2010 when his song "Soaked" appeared on Friendship Bracelet Club Volume 3. His self-titled full-length dropped a couple months prior in November 2009, boasting a couple seriously warbled pieces of shoe-gaze like "In Love" and "With You" (check those here). Fast forward exactly one year since the release of FBC3 and here we're posting a remix of "Soaked" by Lapalux, which appears as the last track on Streamer, Fluker Love's tape from last September on Free Loving Anarchists that I didn't know about until the other day. You can stream the whole tape at FLA's bandcamp.






Fluker Love - Soaked (Original)

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Fluker Love also has a free Soaked EP to download at his blog. Dude also has a Soundcloud page with a few jams and remixes that aren't on the full-length or the tape or the EP. My favorite, "Mauve," almost has these footwork stutters in there, blipping by as familiar atmospheric swells fill the space to psychedelic capacity.



Mauve by Fluker Love

TANGENTS REQUEST #026

Today I'm requesting Billy Crystal's "You Look Marvelous," because half the shit I've been downloading lately is just a heavy precursor to this song. Also because I usually put this on after I've blow-dried my hair & moisturized & I'm staring at myself in my mirror in my underwear. I just sing "YOU LOOK MARVELOUS" to myself over & over again. I took a tip from Stephen Colbert & his Cheap Trick warm-up. Yeah, he sings Cheap Trick to himself in the mirror before his shows BECAUSE HE'S A PROFESSIONAL. Personally, Billy's voice in this just really revs my confidence. I don't know what it is. Billy Crystal is just so flattering & inspirational. It's like, "You know what, Billy? I DO HAVE THE LEGS OF A DANCER! I've been doing Tracy Anderson's Dance Cardio every morning as my New Year's Resolution! I AM going to go network the shit out of this mixer at the Marriott!"

Ha! I'm just kidding. All of that was a huge joke! Except the whole me dancing to this in my underwear in the mirror. Definitely every morning. And the Dance Cardio. Definitely not every morning.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles based blogger who enjoys music, potato salad and jerking off all day because she works from home. Check out her personal blog, Tangents & The Times, and follow her on Twitter @MarissaARoss.

JUST ENOUGH

Julian Lynch recently recorded a little live set at WFMU. That set is now available to download at the Free Music Archive. Check out the live version of "Just Enough" from last year's superb album Mare then download the whole set.





Julian Lynch - Just Enough (Live at WFMU)

ROEDELIUS

Hans-Joachim Roedelius is well-known as being one of the key players in the birth of Krautrock, whether recording as Kluster (or Cluster), Harmonia, or on his lonesome. His solo album Selbstportrait I has just been re-released by Bureau B for the first time ever since seeing its original release in 1979 on Sky Records. The label has released one song for the public, "Staunen im Fjord." The track resembles a deconstruction of Cluster and Harmonia to their least flashy and most deliberate, ticking by like the unwavering hands of a timepiece. However, there's no rigidity. There's no seemingly constrictive force, rather a fluid but inevitable path from the beginning towards the end. Bureau B refers to the album as "unfiltered personality, the real Roedelius."





Roedelius - Staunen im Fjord