Le Miel du Mois: Decembre

The December mixtape is now up on Et Musique Pour Tous, posted the first of the month, each month.  Click on the tape below to listen:

You can download the December mix along with all past months as well as our forthebeat CMJ playlist *for free* by clicking on “telecharger” – just right click, save to your desktop and “open” to play in your iTunes.

Le Miel du Mois: Decembre Track List

1.  Telepathe – Chrome’s On It (Gold Panda Remix)
2.  Charlotte Gainsbourg – Heaven Can Wait (Feat. Beck)
3.  Sébastien Tellier – Divine (Danger Remix)
4.  Mystery Jets – Half  in Love with Elizabeth (Delorean Remix)
5.  Glasser – Apply (Tanlines Remix)
6.  Phoenix – Lisztomania (Alex Metric Remix)
7.  Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone (Three Fingers Remix)
8.  Soko – I’ll Kill Her (JD7’s Killer Mix)
9. Neon Indian – 6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know)
10.  Fool’s Gold – Nadine (Memory Tapes Version)
11.  Holly Miranda – Waves
12.  Kasper Bjørke – Young Again (Edit)
13.  Bloc Party – Hunting For Witches (Crystal Castles Remix)
14.  Freelance Whales – Starring
15.  Glass Candy – Computer Love
16.  Natureboy – Heart to Fool

Glasser: the music was all made very quietly

Glasser is (sometimes) one-woman act Cameron Mesirow, who recently played the CMJ Stereogum party backed by Brooklyn duo Tanlines. I didn’t catch the show, but from what I’ve read, her on-stage presence has received mixed reviews.

In an April interview with the L.A. Record for the release of her 2009 EP Apply, Mesirow discussed recording all the tracks on her Mac.

LA Record: “How are you transposing this stuff from GarageBand to human beings?”

CM: “It’s pretty simple. You just go track-by-track and musician-by-musician. The parts are so simple—there just happens to be 30,000 of them per song. It’s a really simple set-up. 30,000 people. We might need an extra generator. No, I think that it’s ironic that the music was all made very quietly in headphones but I think it translates better to a giant place.”

Personally, I find the songs to be pretty solid, and I’d like to think that Glasser’s sublime and primitive tone would be well-complemented by her on-stage aesthetic, usually adorned in masks and capes, making for a powerful performance.  I’ll have to catch her live, though, to see if these songs hold up.  Meanwhile, here are two of my favorites, title track “Apply” and the Delorean Remix of “Glad”:

Glasser – Apply

Glasser – Glad (Delorean Remix)