I'm not a big fan of saxophone in pop music but I have to admit: the sax bit during the break in Cut Copy's Hearts on Fire is the best since the Pet Shop Boys's Suburbia (The Full Horror, 1986).

And the New Order-ish bass riff towards the end is pretty cool too.

Lots of love for this track!

I was in Montreal last week and lucky enough to find Ariane Moffatt's newly released album, Tous les sens, already in stores.

I think it's even better than the previous one - softer and very well produced. A really noteworthy release. My favourites so far are Je veux tout, Briser un coeur and L'équilibre.

I hope we can see her live in Brazil again soon!

Is Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys singing the backing tracks at the chorus of Maps' You Don't Know Her Name? I could swear he is!

Até uns dias atrás, eu achava que a música polonesa tinha parado em Frédéric Chopin. Felizmente, apareceu Pati Yang para me fazer mudar de idéia. Para quem curte esse terreno onde plantaram Portishead e Massive Attack, eu recomendo: é trip-hop de primeira.

Depois de Orkut e Myspace, agora bloquearam o last.fm no firewall do trabalho. Era o que faltava!

Quando eu assisti a Maria Antonieta da Sofia Coppola, lembro-me de ter pensado "eu preciso saber que banda é essa!" durante uma música que deu o maior climão no filme. Acabei deixando passar em branco e só há poucos dias, bem atrasado, é verdade, consegui ouvir o CD da trilha. Para a minha surpresa, tem não uma mas duas músicas da tal banda no disco, e ambas são excelentes.
Daí que peguei um MP3 deles aqui no last.fm e me deu vontade de baixar todo o resto das músicas. Fiquei chocado, porque foram 3 discos, e eu simplesmente gostei…

Hoje eu fui cortar o cabelo e tava passando o show na TV. Não teve jeito: saí dali e comprei o The Confessions Tour com o DVD, que eu já estava namorando há muito tempo. Daqui a pouco vão achar que eu sou fã dela…

Tue 20 Mar – Ariane Moffatt - Ariane était très sympa! And her stuff sounded better (softer and more emotional) live than on CD.

Good news around the corner. Tracey Thorn, from Everything but the Girl, is about to release a new solo album in the next few weeks. You can sample the first single (with remixes) at her Myspace page (http://www.myspace.com/traceythorn). It sounds very 80s but in a cool way. Two other new full tracks are also available here at Last.fm (how could we not love this site?) and they're pretty good too.

Besides, she recorded a cover of King's Cross, but it had to be dropped from the final version of the album. It'll eventually come out as a…

Some months ago Haji & Emanuel released a progressive house version of a track from the early 90s called Take me Away.

I've since gone bonkers about finding an eurodance version of that song, which I used to listen from a cassette given to me by a friend back in the day, but I'm still helpless. A British DJ has helped me finding Take me away, which comes close, but is not quite it yet.

Other versions I've (disappointingly) tried:
Tomass K's
Stonebridge's
4 Strings's
Capella's
Culture Beat's
D-ream's
DJ Kosmonova's…