A little present for you funky dickheads! I put The Streets 2009 tracks together in one thick package so you can quit googlin everything together. It’s a fully fledged, 11 track featuring lil album, might be you like the free stuff even better than the last three discs you bought. The Streets – The Twitter (presented by schakkerhart.com), here we go. Load the album, watch the video, read the review, have your say..

The Streets – The Twitter (download removed!!)

1. The Streets – Intro
   
2. The Streets – Long Working Day
   
3. The Streets – Trust Me
   
4. The Streets – He’s Behind You, He’s Got Swine Flu
   
5. The Streets – Skills On Toast
   
6. The Streets – David Hassles
   
7. The Streets – Lovelight Of My Life
   
8. The Streets – A blip On A Screen
   
9. The Streets – I Love my iPhone
   
10. The Streets – Outside Inside
    
11. The Streets – Where my heart Has Been
    
12. The Streets – See if They Salute

Mike Skinner is spending more times on Twitter than on the streets today. Okay, he got an iPhone so may be he combines the two. The outcome of months of heavy twittering is Mike Skinner giving out his newest work for free, right there on Twitter. Nope, that might not be the breaktrough concept for your up&comming emotional skinhead electro ska band, but yes, it once again shows that Mr. /skinnermike is a man of his time. Choosing swine flu as the topic for his “single” might be a sign of that, too.

Mike even stepped his Twitter game up by putting together new musical projects over there. Chantelle Fiddy says on her blog that she does some mysterious projects with Mike Skinner via Twitter. One outcome will be a song with Giggs (read Chantelle Fiddy’s World of Whatever).

So lets get to the tracks on The Twitter. Dont know if they will be on the upcoming last The Streets album Computers and Blues, sice I dont follow as much as he tweets. Mike Skinner told me last year when I interviewed him for Raveline magazine, that hes planning to go in that mash up direction a bit more that keeps clubs and blogs crazy at the moment. Dubstep, Electro, stuff like that.. We were at one that current mash ups by famous(!) artists is most of the time too commercial and without substace, but hey, Mike Skinner might be the right guy to change that.

Some of his new tracks show how he’s really takin that direction, still overall its the Skinner you love to hate. Some melancholic tunes („A Blip On A Screen“ or „Lovelight of my Life“), some faster tracks where he captures the irony of it all („David Hassles“). „I Love My iPhone“ has a dubstep side to it, „Skills On Toast“ features a bumping bass and would have its place on a grime album.

The mixture of fast and slow, melancholic tracks is nice and one thing that might really be like on The Streets’ first album, as promised. Banjos and guitars are nice elements too („Outside, Inside“ and „See if they Salute“), Mike Skinner is playing around in the studio and lets you be a part of it. The tracks are anything but pointless trials though.

You’ll find everythink Mike Skinner tweets on http://twitter.com/skinnermike. I’ll keep you updated with the tracks.

Okay this is the part where I need you contribution. What you say about Mike’s work?

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