Beautiful by Tank

Beautiful (Snoop Dogg cover) by Oliver Tank

This is a cover of Snoop Dogg's infamous hit, Beautiful. The original track is one that exhibits images of hot bitchez with massive tits and booties wearing very minimal clothing, drooling all over Snoop Dogg and Pharrell in a derogatory way. Tank, a sydney based, unsigned artist has stripped this song down to create a track with a profound depth that gives you goosebumps. It is reminiscent of new love and real beauty and gives the track a, for lack of a better term, beautiful, new meaning.

Despite all the negative traits of this new technological world we encompass, if nothing else it has allowed for a breakthrough of new electronic music that can very easily be showcased through the joys of social networking.

For more eargasmic, tracks by Tank click here.

Alpen is an electronic outfit from Sydney headed by Daniel Jumpertz and aided by some friends. Their track 'A Meditation on Flight', released on the excellent New Weird Australia Vol. 4, isn't a very new track, but is a good (free!) introduction to their sounds. The song creates suspense and mystery through scattered riffs like a frenetic drum beat, some surprisingly spooky piano, here-and-there electronic sounds, and a kind of distressed guitar that belongs at a wild west duel-to-the-death. Overall: anxious. The anxiety of flight? Perhaps. Check them out.



A Meditation on Flight
Compilation: New Weird Australia Vol. 4
Alpen (Myspace)

Collarbones are a duo from Sydney that have recently been picked up by Aussie label Two Bright Lakes. They mirror the sounds of other electronic, experimental acts such as fellow Sydney siders Ghoul and Seekae. Their new album Iconography came out a few days ago and takes a similar approach to the song below. They've also done a cover of Justin Bieber's One Time and it makes me weep of happiness because such a hopeless song can actually sound okay when mimicked in the right format. So check out 'Last Night' if you like some layered, texturised beats all up in yo grill.

Last Night by Collarbones

Album: Iconography