My Idea Mix challenge for today: “Listen to new music. Pick up a random new artist or band and listen to a couple.”

Ironically enough, I was introduced to a band called Caravan Palace on Boing Boing today (I’m a few days behind on my rss feeds), and I fell in love with everything I’ve listened to so far.

The songs have an odd swing feel to them, modernized with some electronic bits. I’ve posted two different songs below, as they both have a slightly different energy to them, in case you don’t like one or the other.

Caravan Palace’s “12 Juin 3049”:

Caravan Palace’s “Clash”:

(YouTube link if you do not see the above embedded video .)

I think I shall be adding their album to my collection.