DOWNLOADABLES #73 / Put a ring on it.

Straight from my Colombo room : Hey ! It’s been a long time cooking, but I have 5 new cover for your listening pleasure. Chill out, pour yourself a Gin and lay back. We’ve got some pretty amazing stuff today including a cover of Beyonce’s uber-hot Single Ladies track, redone by Mr Little Jeans in [...]

Random moments caught on camera / Soiree Raclette

I have a lot of meaningless videos on hand. I heart nonsense. This is why I mixed some of them in this little clip. Most of the dialogues are in French. Shot in various places with various people. I just came back from a Soiree Raclette in 21st Century Tower where the french contingent lives. [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #72 / Inhaling essential oils. DiscoTech Special

With nothing much to do other than sniffing essential oils and stuffing my self with medicine, I have a special lineup today for our routine DOWNLOADABLES post. Today we’re focusing on remixes with the likes of DiscoTech who has been on the North American scene for quite some time now. He rocks the decks at [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #71 / Djama by Amadou & Mariam

Kicking off the new year with some kick ass tracks all the way from Mali. It comes as no surprise that this duo of blind individuals is part of my favourite artists. I already mentioned about them a while back and thought I’d share more stuff from their amazing new album called “Welcome To Mali”. [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #70 / Team9 vs Stereogum

Sifting through the crap MP3s that invade the internetz is getting harder by the day. Nowadays, people with less than average skills try their fame by uploading craptastic remixes and cover tracks. But sometimes you hit something good. All you have to do is be patient and listen. Look up trusted blogs like Ohh! Crap [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #69 / Timid Tiger covers Womanizer

Tomorrow I’ll be heading out to Athens for a quick re-fuel and then we’ll head back to the Sandpit before midnight hopefully. So to fill in I have this great set of covers and one remix I wanted to share. The flight isn’t full. At all. My Christmas was pretty much uneventful as I did [...]

A milli in here, a milli in there…

From all of us here at Airboy (that would only be me) we’d like to wish you all the merriest of Christmas, plenty of chocolate, some juicy turkey and flammed pudding. We’d also like to take this opportunity to express our wishes for the coming year. So Happy New Year 2009 ! And as a [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #68 / Got the swagger of a champion

It didn’t take long before someone covered Britney Spears’ “Womanizer”. And no other than trash-talking-rich-ass-chavette Lily Allen took to the recording booth backed by producer Extraordinaire Mark Ronson to have this out before anyone else. And by the sound of it, they’ve probably hit something here. To the point where Lily is having problems with [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #67 / Lykke Li & Mrs Jackson under an Umbrella

My baby don’t mess around – Because she loves me so – And this I know for shooo.. [clap] [clap] [clap] … YES!, we’ve all done it, plenty of times. The [clap] [clap] [clap] towards the side with friends doing the same thing behind you, we’ve all been there. Those were the days… Days without [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #66 / Me & My Sneakers

This image is just to illustrate my favourite track of the week, this is not my latest buy. I would look like a complete clown and out of proportions with sneakers like them. A sizzle on your ghettoblaster, beats your Boombox wouldn’t like to miss. Yes DJ A-track & Lupe Fiasco are at it again. [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #65 / Je te fais un gros bisous, je t’embrasse fort.

Today is quite a special day. Very productive on my side as I’ve managed to pick my laundry – by the way none of the item I’ve dropped were missing – did some cleaning around in the flat and organized my bedroom a little. Just in time for me to leave for Glasgow and then [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #64 / Bittersweet Electric Sky Touch

Browsing the world wide web for new tracks is one of my favourite thing to do. I usually get to that when I’m sick of listening to the previous tracks I downloaded. Today I bring you extremely good stuff to your ears. Mainly remixes and mashups as it was hard to find anything good enough [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #63 / I Heard It Through The Grapevine

My Wagamama is on the way, and the Kaiser Chiefs are back on my soundsystem. This time with a cover song of iconic Marvin. Marvin Gaye precisely. The Kaiser Chiefs aren’t new. They’ve done 3 albums so far and planning a European tour for March 2009. I saw these guys in Paris a few years [...]

DOWNLOADABLES #62 / All time classics.

By popular demand and because those are some of my favourite covers. I have re-upped some old Airboy Classics. Feel FREEEEEEE to download those tracks. Note that all you have to do now is click once on the links below to start the automatic download. We’ve also added a hits counter for each download so [...]

I can feel it coming in the air tonight.

Before you carry on reading, please immerse yourself with the track that played non-stop all along my Paris By Night trek :

Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight
With not much happening on a Sunday night in Paris, I decided to share my Paris By Night experience. I ventured out in the cold wearing no less [...]