SHREM'S CAROUSEL OF ÜBER NERDINESS: Alison Valentine

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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Crème de la crème: JANUARY 2014

As usual my January "Crème de la crème" chart is a mix of some brand new tracks, some which were released in December in the middle of the whole year-end mayhem and some which I have completely missed out on when they were initially released during the course of the previous year and I only stumbled upon them while browsing through various end-of-the-year rankings. Here it is, my first top 20 chart in 2014. To accomodate those who were looking for a continuous mix rather than single tracks I put it all together in a soundcloud playlist available at the very bottom of this post. Enjoy!

20 (N) "Mean Streets" - Tennis

19 (N) "Turn Over" - Kartell

18 (N) "Via Piero Gobetti 15" - Tami Tamaki

17 (N) "Cours De Gym" - Cinema

16 (N) "Come Alive" - Chromeo feat. Toro Y Moi

15 (N) "Police" - Rosemary

14 (N) "Crying For No Reason" - Katy B

13 (N) "Innocence" - Electric Youth

12 (N) "Curious" - Alison Valentine

11 (N) "Keep Moving" - Jessy Lanza

10 (N) "Can't Get Enough" - Tiombe Lockhart

09 (N) "I Remember (Jim Stanton & Severino Remix)" - Alexis Penney

08 (N) "Wonderful" - Surahn

07 (N) "The Beach" - Femme En Fourrure

06 (N) "Neheb N3ch Hayati" - Medusa feat. Olof Dreijer

05 (N) "Guns & Synths" - Kelela

04 (N) "One, Two, Three" - Jolie Chérie

03 (N) "Memories" - Jaakko Eino Kalevi

02 (N) "Rebound" - Dornik

01 (N) "Blow" - Beyoncé

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

CHOON OF THE DAY: "CURIOUS" - Alison Valentine

How delightful and idyllic is this little pure pop perfection by the lovely Alison Valentine? This New York chanteuse continues to impress with a stream of solid synth-pop recordings, here's hoping we'll receive a whole album at some stage in 2014. Out now on iTunes or below as a generously given away free download. And all of a sudden the summer is here in the middle of this gloomy wintertime. Tune!

Thursday, December 19, 2013

SHREM'S 2013 COUNTDOWN OF TOP 100 BEST CHOONS: part 2: 80-61

#80 "It All Feels Right" - Washed Out [Sub Pop Records]

#79 "Bipp" - Sophie [Numbers]

SOPHIE - BIPP (DOWNLOAD NOW, FROM BIPP/ELLE) by SOPHIE

#78 "Lies" - CHVRCHES [Virgin Records]

#77 "Happy" - Pharrell Williams [Columbia Records]

#76 "Phoenix" - Kill J [Good Tape Records]

Phoenix by KIll J

#75 "Thea" - Goldfrapp [Mute]

#74 "Aydin" - Discodeine [Pschent Music]

#73 "Circles And Triangles" - Alison Valentine [Kitsuné]

Circles and Triangles by alisonvalentine

#72 "Transcend Our Love" - Cola & Jimmu [Herakles Records]

Cola & Jimmu - "Transcend Our Love" by SHREM

#71 "We Are Explorers" - Cut Copy [Modular Recordings]

Cut Copy - We Are Explorers by modularpeople

#70 "BB Bleu" - Kid A [Technicolour Music]

#69 "On My Brain" - Peter & The Magician feat. Sophie Galpin [Partyfine]

Peter & The Magician - "On my Brain" (feat. Sophie Galpin) by The Magician (Official)

#68 "U&Me" - The Miracles Club [Cutters Records / Ecstasy]

#67 "Nature Trips" - Eyedress [Abeano Music]

#66 "Retrograde" - James Blake [Polydor]

#65 "Blow" - Beyoncé [Columbia Records]

#64 "Ralph Macchio" - Annie [Pleasure Masters]

#63 "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" - The Knife [Rabid Records]

Listen to it HERE!

#62 "Look Around You" - Boris Dlugosch feat. Róisín Murphy [Golden City Sounds]

#61 "Wonderhow" - Germans [self released]

Wonderhow by Germans

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Crème de la crème: APRIL 2013

20 (N) "Emperor" - Ali Love feat. Kali

19 (N) "In the Crew of Tea Time (Mr Dan Dub Version)" - Sébastien Tellier & Caroline Polachek

In the Crew of TeaTime (Mr Dan Wunderground Dub Version) by Raquel.Marie

18 (N) "Somebody To Love Me" - Eli Escobar feat. Nomi Ruiz

Eli Escobar and Nomi Ruiz - Somebody To Love Me (Snippet) by EliEscobar

17 (N) "Back 2 the Wild" - Basement Jaxx

16 (7) "UV" - Cinema

15 (1) "Sleeping In Waking" - Rina Sawayama

Rina Sawayama - Sleeping In Waking from jack greeley-ward on Vimeo.

14 (N) "You & Me" - Disclosure feat. Eliza Doolittle

13 (N) "Circles and Triangles" - Alison Valentine

Circles and Triangles by alisonvalentine

12 (N) "Ernest Borgnine" - John Grant

11 (4) "Things Of The Past" - Nicholas feat. Stee Downes

Nicholas feat. Stee Downes - Things Of The Past (Original mix) by Nicholas

10 (2) "A Tooth For An Eye" - The Knife

09 (N) "Aydin" - Discodeine feat. Kevin Parker

08 (N) "Donell" - Joy Orbison

Joy Orbison - Donell by Joy Orbison

07 (N) "Alien Babies" - Easter

06 (N) "Imagine It Was Us" - Jessie Ware

05 (N) "Home" - Austra

04 (3) "Ghost Of Sky (Steed Lord Remix)" - Steed Lord

Ghost Of Sky (Steed Lord Remix) by Steed Lord

03 (N) "Look Around You" - Boris Dlugosch feat. Róisín Murphy

02 (N) "Ain't Got Nobody" - Sísý Ey

01 (N) "If It Doesn't Rain" - Sally Shapiro

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

SHREM'S DOUBLE TROUBLE: "CIRCLES AND TRIANGLES" /// "BIRTHDAY" [Sugarcubes Cover] - Alison Valentine

The alternative pop sensation that is Alison Valentine has just sprinkled some of her magic sounds onto to the latest in the series of the Kitsuné compilations "America 2". Classically trained Alison Valentine crafts feminine laptop pop just like the delectable and tropical “Circles and Triangles” we read on the label's page. "America 2" also features tracks by Toro Y Moi, Gigamesh and Theophilus London among others. Valentine's track however became an instant favourite during the first listen to the record. and the singing florist (!) has also recently offered this sublime cover of The Sugarcubes' cult "Birthday" on her Soundcloud. The summer is so around the corner, enjoy!

Circles and Triangles by alisonvalentine

Birthday (Sugarcubes cover) by alisonvalentine