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LXXXIV
By Scott Reid | 16 November 2010
Congrats to Ethan Reis, who “won” last week’s contest by providing the best theme for our first ever entirely reader-submitted Fantasy Covers project.
Ethan’s winning theme is as open-ended as it gets: any song is fine, so long as you do something interesting with it. More specifically, as he writes, ““Get Extremely Creative and Do Some Re-Contextualizing.” Ethan explains:
For the contest, readers will submit covers of songs, but instead of just making them acoustic versions or sticking close to their original sound, the covers will “re-contextualize” the music with a sound that doesn’t seem to match the original or a common cover version (like something acoustic). That may not make a lot of sense, but maybe what I just want is for the submissions to get creative as possible. So like, we could get “I Walked,” jammed out on the accordion, or a psychedelic, reverb-soaked “Five Little Rooms,” or “Angela Surf City” re-imagined as barbershop a cappella, a la TV On the Radio doing “Mr. Grieves.”
Makes enough sense to me. And, now that we’ve got a theme, the Fantasy Covers Contest 2011 is now open. Click on that link for more info, including deadlines and where/how to send submissions.
As a preemptive thank you to all our of readers who will take part (or, just as good, send along the link to a talented friend who could use the exposure), we give you this podcast, full of all kinds of awesome shit like a new Wolf Parade single, the first track from Braid’s upcoming Native Speaker (Raph from Blue Hawaii’s band, out on Flemish Eye early next year), and the tremendous closer from Roommate’s upcoming Guilty Rainbow (due in March). And so much more, like Sufjan sullenly popping up in the second half, and a chill remake of the best song from Hidden Cameras’ Origin:Orphan. Thanks again to Ethan Reis, and, of course, to all of the artists and labels involved:
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1. Land of Talk: “Hamburg, Noon”
- (0:01 – 3:29)
- from Cloak & Cipher (Saddle Creek; 2010)
1.5. Shannon Wright: “Fairgrounds”
- (3:30 – 3:50)
- from Secret Blood (Vicious Circle; 2010)
2. Braids: “Lemonade”
- (3:30 – 9:55)
- from Native Speaker (Flemish Eye; 2011)
3. Wolf Parade: “Semi-Precious Stone”
- (9:56 – 15:44)
- Single (Sub Pop; 2010)
4. The Phantom Band: “Into the Corn”
- (15:45 – 22:07)
- from The Wants (Chemikal Underground; 2010)
5. Owen Pallett: “A Man With No Ankles”
- (22:08 – 26:24)
- from A Swedish Love Story EP (Domino; 2010)
6. Hauschka: “Kamogawa”
- (26:25 – 32:09)
- from Foreign Landscapes (130701; 2010)
7. Sufjan Stevens: “Now That I’m Older”
- (32:10 – 36:59)
- from The Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty; 2010)
8. Solar Bears: “Children of the Times”
- (37:00 – 40:04)
- from She Was Colored In (Planet Mu; 2010)
9. Warpaint: “Baby”
- (39:57 – 44:55)
- from The Fool (Rough Trade; 2010)
10. Roommate: “Smothered in Hugs”
- (45:00 – 49:02)
- from Guilty Rainbow (Antephonic; 2011)
11. Hidrogenesse vs. the Hidden Cameras: “Kingdom Come”
- (49:03 – 53:33)
- from Hidrogenesse vs. the Hidden Cameras EP (Austrohúngaro; 2010)