I Must Have Been Born Hanging Out

I-Robots “Frau (Boysnoize Mix)” – Throughout this entire track, there’s this great balance of exhiliration and terror, and it’s often difficult to tell where one feeling ends and the other begins. The song feels like a chase scene, as though you’re playing a game of hide and seek with a squad of Germanic death machines. The music slows down here and there for moments of tension and suspense, but it is never, ever calm. (Click here to buy it from Nuloop.)

Cex “Chicago” – You know that party sequence in Boogie Nights right before the story jumps into the 80s after William H. Macy’s character kills himself, his wife, and whoever it was she was having sex with at that moment? This song makes me imagine a new version of that horrific party, but instead of 70s porn stars, it’s a bunch of bottoming-out Vice Magazine types at the end of this decade. I’m not sure if they’d pick a song that sounds sort of like Modest Mouse collaborating with Nine Inch Nails as the soundtrack for their inevitable downfall, but it works as the sound of an ugly aesthetic eating itself alive. (Click here to buy it from Automation Records.)