OH MY GOD WHAT DID I JUST WATCH BUT THE SOUNDTRACK IS GOOD LISTEN TO IT

I saw Drive over the weekend. I didn't particularly know what to expect, other than that the critics loved it and the plot seemed fun and compelling (a stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver). Oh boy. That was NOT what I got. Think european art house plus horrifying 70s/80s film gore. The first half is amazing and understated and filled with pregnant silences that communicate far more than actual dialogue. Amazing cinematography. It was very good. Then. THEN. Do you enjoy forks to eyeballs? Hammers to hands? Close-range shotgun murders? Razors to necks? And my favorite, graphic head stomping?

Let's just go ahead and talk about the skull crushing so you can experience the magic with me! I have never felt so nauseated in my life. They don't show it. But you hear it. Onomatopoeia time! CRACK crack CRUNCH crunch crunch SMUSH smush smlursh SPLASH splash splash... You get the picture. It was the best.

Why am I talking about this wonderful/awful movie? The soundtrack. Fantastic! Really very good! It's French electro-house and it almost kept me from retching.

Desire- Under Your Spell by thorstein

Kavinsky - Nightcall by lordpiyo

Download the rest of it now. There is even a track called "Skull Crushing," where you can go ahead and keep imagining that scene with me. Have fun!

Filtered tunes for your Monday enjoyment

Original Tracks by Moonchild

I don't know about you folks, but nothing gets my otherwise stagnant Monday blood flowing like some French house. Surprisingly, my two favorite purveyors of contemporary french house are both not Daft Punk or Justice and not even French at that. Go Go Bizkitt! hails from Scotland, and Moonchild lives down under. But what unites them is a taste for sweet bass grooves with gorgeous filters laid over everything to give it that Fresh and Funky feeling. It is a well known science fact that such beats, when pulled though lowpass filters on a low frequency oscillation pattern, make people want to screw each others brains out. So be careful playing this stuff at work.

[Moonchild Mixtapes] by Moonchild

While these tunes may not fit as perfectly into the narrative of a Leiji Matsumoto anime feature, they are indeed awesome and quite reminiscent of the things that we liked about Homework and Discovery (but weren't really there in Human After All and such). And they're fun. I like 'em.