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Ladyhawke, a.k.a. Pip Brown, is a electropop musician from New Zealand. Her self-titled album was released in September of 2008 and one of the tracks, "From Dusk Till Dawn", was featured in Vu's Top Songs for 2008. After listening to this track repeatedly and getting my family to dance, I decided I needed to get my hands on the full album, especially after previewing videos featured on her own channel at YouTube. I haven't gone out and bought a tangible CD in a long time, so that's really saying something.
Incidentally, both "Ladyhawke" and "From Dusk Till Dawn" are movie titles. The first, her stage name, is a 1985 fantasy film that featured Matthew Broderick and Michelle Pfiffer, which is fitting enough, since she is noted (and has said so herself) to be influenced by a number of '80s music genres. The second is a 1996 Quentin Tarantino horror flick, which explains the theme of the official video for the corresponding song.
Speaking of "From Dusk Till Dawn", and her YouTube videos, she created a quirky alternative video to the song, which featured DJ/electroshock musician Peaches, which I referenced in a Monday Monster Mashup post ("Wild Lies", which featured Peaches' remix of the Tone Loc rap "Wild Thing"). Peaches remixed her track "Paris Is Burning" and has appeared with her onstage for DJ duties.
The channel to subscribe to is ladyhawkeforyou, which has more music videos, video diaries, holiday greetings, etc. Although I'm a great fan of well-done music videos and documentaries, I would recommend just watching the diaries and homemade stuff, just to get a feel for her delightfully goofy, whimsical personality. As a self-proclaimed geek, it's quite refreshing to see an artist that is unabashedly so-- a far cry from the New Wave fashion that seemed just a slight more pretentious and fussy at times.
She explains in interviews that she comes from a very musically-oriented family, and that she fell into making music quite naturally, and it wasn't anything that was forced or imposed. That's hopeful, because many fans (like myself) are hoping that there is more good things to come.
Just another quick note:
There have been a number of remixes of songs from the album-- not a surprise, either, since most of them have very catchy hooks and were quite designed to be radio-friendly. One of the ones we got was from a DJ by the name of KiD Cola.
Speaking of "From Dusk Till Dawn", and her YouTube videos, she created a quirky alternative video to the song, which featured DJ/electroshock musician Peaches, which I referenced in a Monday Monster Mashup post ("Wild Lies", which featured Peaches' remix of the Tone Loc rap "Wild Thing"). Peaches remixed her track "Paris Is Burning" and has appeared with her onstage for DJ duties.
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| Another video that most definitely fits with the 1980's New Wave flavor is the one for 'Delirium': Ahhh... Ray-Ban Wayfarer shades. |
The channel to subscribe to is ladyhawkeforyou, which has more music videos, video diaries, holiday greetings, etc. Although I'm a great fan of well-done music videos and documentaries, I would recommend just watching the diaries and homemade stuff, just to get a feel for her delightfully goofy, whimsical personality. As a self-proclaimed geek, it's quite refreshing to see an artist that is unabashedly so-- a far cry from the New Wave fashion that seemed just a slight more pretentious and fussy at times.
She explains in interviews that she comes from a very musically-oriented family, and that she fell into making music quite naturally, and it wasn't anything that was forced or imposed. That's hopeful, because many fans (like myself) are hoping that there is more good things to come.
There have been a number of remixes of songs from the album-- not a surprise, either, since most of them have very catchy hooks and were quite designed to be radio-friendly. One of the ones we got was from a DJ by the name of KiD Cola.
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