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We thought we should start 2009 off with our most adventurous song of the month collection so far. Max Justus remixed 8 tracks from the newest Kanye West record 808s & Heartbreak. Max provides an interesting take that is completely different from what Kanye envisioned.

Download the whole thing from: zshare

Max was also recently featured in The Pitch:

“What I try to do with electronic music is push it into a pop format and mix in classical ideas,” Spransy says. “I try to throw curveballs in terms of how I arrange songs. A lot of electro guys will come up with a really badass riff, but it never changes, and that kind of irks me.”

Full Article: Here

Sure these list are all over but I thought we would do one in our style. Here some music and just random Top 10 lists of things from 2008 from TRM friends and Family.

A few album lists:

Both Mike and I (Nathan) had a great year releasing our 3 of our favorite records from 2008. We felt like all of our bands worked extremely hard and made fantastic records. So for both of us our list have the same number one.

1. State Bird – Mostly Ghostly & 4 New Songs/ Max Justus – Five Leaping Leopards/ Interstates – Run Run

Mike’s Top 10 Albums for 2008:
2. Mt. Eerie: Lost Wisdom
3. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
4. No Age: Nouns
5. Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles
6. Kanye West: 808 and Heartbreaks
7. Grouper: Dragging a Deed Dear Uphill
8. White Fang: Pure Evil
9. Wolves in The Throne Room: Two Hungers
10. High Places: High Places

Nathan’s Top 10 for 2008
2. Hospital Ships – Oh Romona
3. Department of Eagles – In Ear Park
4. Lykki Li- Youth Novels
5. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
6. Jamie Lidell- Jim
7. Sportsday Megaphone – So Many Colours/ So Little Time
8. Deastro – Keepers
9. My Morning Jacket? – Evil Urges
10. Passion Pit – Chunk of Change EP
10. Weird Tapes – Get Religion EP (And Everything Else from their Blog)

More lists after the break
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