Electric President

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Electric President is the second of Ben Cooper’s projects, this time with Alex Kane. The sound is a mix with folk, pop, electronic, with a sound that would be very much like if you threw The Postal Service, The Decemberists, The Flaming Lips, and George Orwell in a large blender.

The songs are characterized by nasalized voices, acoustic riffs, MD-four tracks, SM58, and some computers.

Once upon a time it was the jukebox that made pop music. Or vice versa. Indeed, the vinyl-seven inch is romantic, a sentimental medium. And if one of those two Electric-President-singles were put in a jukebox the girls (and the boys) would dance. The buttons would soon be wellworn. Is it because the songs are romantic? Partly. It’s because the songs touch the very foundations of pop music: the storm and stress, the inwardness and the nonchalance, and melodies, melodies, melodies.

The universe of 24-year-old Ben Cooper from Jacksonville Beach/Florida is an echo-chamber with all kinds of doors that are open to small indie within big pop. All that can also be listened to on the self-titled debut (mm 062) that was published recently.

You have the right to remain awesome, vol. 1 begins with the organic “good ol’ boys”, a carefully arranged juxtaposition of soundtracks and sound signals. A track that borrows its concentration on rhythm and its electronic oscillations from digital music. A track that matures to analogue vividness – at the latest with Ben Cooper’s repetitive singing.

1	Insomnia full track	815
2	Ten Thousand Lines	552
3	Metal Fingers	448
4	monsters full track	436
5	Hum	435
6	Good Morning, Hypocrite	418
7	We Were Never Built To Last	356
8	Bright Mouths	312
9	Snow On Dead Neighborhoods	299
9	We will walk through walls	299
11	Some Crap About the Future	289
12	Ether	288
13	Robophobia	266
14	Lullaby	262
15	Graves and The Infinite Arm	250

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bubblegumcandy wrote:
10 days ago

come on... play manchester UK that would be good :)

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imunks wrote:
10 days ago

i agree with foodlegs :d

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Orange-Minz wrote:
17 days ago

sleep well is good but s/t is way better (maybe sleep well will grow but i heard it very often till now). the freshness and the amazing beats of s/t - they are missing in sleep well.

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RileyRenner wrote:
20 days ago

God, Ben Cooper is fucking genius.

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norkk wrote:
last month

Awesome, so dark and so beautiful

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asilo_berete wrote:
last month

Sleep Well is very impresive!

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philkoester wrote:
last month

my favorite 2008 album so far - of a quite long list...

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startover wrote:
last month

Sleep well is really solid.

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foodlegs wrote:
last month

I love the first album more than Sleep Well I'd say but Sleep Well is definitely great and refreshing, I love all the songs on it.

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Quetzocotol wrote:
last month

Really diggin' the new album!

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WendyChan wrote:
last month

El Sleep Well es una joyita =)

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byeol wrote:
last month

Darn, have the lyrics of the new album not yet been published somewhere on the web? I hate not being able to understand absolutely everything from It's Like a Heartbeat, Only It Isn't!

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evilhomestereo wrote:
last month

haha "the notwist and EP are the kings of the electronic music" forget aphex twin or squarepusher.

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morrmusic wrote:
June 2008

pssst!!!... please check the video section, as all videos for "sleep well" are uploaded now. enjoy!

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ElephantTusks wrote:
June 2008

Sleep Well is just an amazing piece of work..insanely addictive and infectious.

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Alley-oop21 wrote:
June 2008

Closing in on a million total plays.

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jetaimejamiet wrote:
June 2008

EP just rocks! the notwist and EP are the kings of the electronic music

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acidzebra wrote:
June 2008

<3

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Alley-oop21 wrote:
June 2008

the new videos are great

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Buchert wrote:
June 2008

and to you berit89.. Buy the mp3s through iTunes or buy the japanese version of Sleep Well.. it will include the EP as bonus stuff

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