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29
October
2008
tags: Mofo Hifi, The Young Punx, Phonat, Mp3.

Throw Some Phonat on That B*tch

Phonat — http://www.myspace.com/phonat

Phonat’s been getting a bit of well deserved play recently, so after a solid month of hoarding the track for myself, I figured it was time for some Res Love.

Phonat is an Italian producer who’s been recently signed to Mofo Hifi and has this incredible track out right now called “Learn To Recycle” –its this genre blending, slow rolling build up of a track that, to coin a an over-used phrase, is music to my ears. Seriously, the track is great. The underlaying idea is to take the same same sample and drum kit, and just run the gambit of genres and styles for an epix 6 minute adventure. Its a awesome addition to anyone’s playlist or deejay set.. if you’ve got the skills to mix a track with what sounds likes some varying tempos (ruh-roh!). Hell, even Annie Mac likes it.

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Phonat - Learn To Recycle” (V0)

Also, not to be out done by those other blogs (or, well, most of them). We’ve also been hooked up with a sick 4 to the Floor remix of the track that’s destined for deejay mix heaven (I’m going to use it in my next mix, personally –and yes, that’s implies I’m actually working on one). It takes the core of the original, and turns it into a super friendly deejay version of the track. Grab it and start mixing away!

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Phonat - Learn To Recycle (4 to The Floor mix)” (320)

Plus, as an added bonus, here’s a remix he did a little back of The Young Punx track “Fire”. Totally way more housey then either of the above and well worth adding to your remix collection

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The Young Punx - Fire (Phonat Remix)” (V2)
LINKS: The Young Punx

You can check out more Phonat releases on XpressBeats and be sure to leave a hawt one on his MySpace

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27
October
2008
tags: Kap10kurt, Disco Texas, Moulinex, Mp3.

Kap10kurt - Mission Complete “Moulinex Remix”

Kap10Kurt - Mission Complete



Ok kids, today we’ve got another quality remix from our favorite that Moulinex dude for ya. Its a bit housey, kinda bouncey and guaranteed to make the kids dance. This time its a take on kap10Kurt’s “Mission Complete” track which has seen some fairly good play recently (not that kind of play…!)

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Kap10kurt - “Mission Complete (Moulinex Remix)” (320)
LINKS: kap10Kurt | Moulinex | Previous Moulinex Coverage..

The full release of “Mission Complete” is available at the sites below, and includes a slew of good remixes, including both an Ocelot and tEPR remix.

PURCHASE: iTunes (USA) | iTunes (UK & Elsewhere) | Beatport | Juno

Feel free and visited kap10kurt’s website directly, or leave a hawt one on the myspace. And, as always, leave some love for Moulinex

The lack of wittyness in this post is brought to you by the death plague (aka knives in my throat, ugh).

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25
October
2008
tags: ADULT..

I Feel Worse When I’m With Jus.

 

They have been corporate executives. Secretaries. Farmers. Butchers.

If  ADULT. were suddenly to become a food-themed band, their discography would potentially include the following hits:

 -Braised in Beer

-You Don’t Curry Enough

-The Cold Cuts

-The Importance of Beating Yolks parts 1-3

-I Should Carrot

- Let’s Drink Tab Together

-Bakers at Night

-Don’t Stock (Soup or Stew)

and, dedicated to celebri-chef Richard Blais

-Glue Your Lipids Together 

-Ham To Foam

Until that happens, their most current incarnation as a razor-sharp dance deconstructionist punk unit, with their new Let’s Feel Bad Together E.P. available exclusively at Beatport.

Not from that E.P. , because they need your 7 bucks more than you do:
ADULT.-Monologue

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From a “Gimme Trouble”-era 12′ release on Kill Rock Stars, this pushes Nicola’s love of hysterics to a new level. Highest recommendation for eardrum shattering.

I also, today, had the fortune of stumbling across a  full Why Bother? tour broadcast. Love the scurvy lighting.

(special thanks to Dr Shlomo Zelig and Bette Noire on this one.)

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23
October
2008
tags: ADULT..

I’ve got the same problems that I had yesterday

And there it is, like a gift to the impending crush-and-doom of the last few months of the year, a new ADULT. digital E.P.

Adam and Nicola do everything right, don’t they? From cover art to titles, they continue their impeccable reign as purveyors of quality nausea, anxiety and nervous disorders of an electronic fashion. This new available-only-on-Beatport four song release, “Let’s Feel Bad Together”, re-writes the history of the Detroit electro no-wave punks by replacing the worn and dirtied tiles on their dancefloor of olde. Nicola’s hysterics, polished and honed over time to swing her voice from a whisper to a heart-piercing shout with not even a dime to turn on, blend far better with their return to straight-ahead electro backings than one would think. This is forceful electro-punk of the highest quality.


ADULT. - “Inside” Music Video from Danny Kim on Vimeo.

The video for “Inside”, from the L.F.B.T. EP. Kitsch and genius…like ADULT. themselves.

Seriously, if you’ve lately found the electronic music landscape lacking? ADULT.’s baaaaaaack. Skip over to Beatport and preview all four songs and then download. “Dance Avoid” wins on this one, hands down, for making an anxiety mantra that actually surpasses last album’s “You Don’t Worry Enough”

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19
October
2008
tags: Finger On The Pulse, Grum, Anoraak, Damage, Moulinex.

GRUM It Up!

GRUM

The Finger on the Pulse crew are currently holding a remix contest for GRUM’s latest track: “Woah”. You can download the parts here so, you know, you should get on that. Deadline is Oct 28th! Its in support of his first US appearance, Nov 1st at Death By Audio (map).

Grum is a Leeds based producer/deejay who has found his way into “hacks’ personal best of” during the course of this year. I posted the Edwin Van Cleef Remix of “Heartbeats” previously (so check that if you haven’t), but here’s more fun, dance fueled tracks that should prove to you that the Nov 1st show is totally going to be the dog’s bollocks.

Here’s the orginal of “Woah”, to get a feel for what this remix contest is all about!

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Grum - “Woah”

Grum tackled Moulinex’s recent track “Breakchops” (you know how much I heart the Disco Texas Crew) and its totally dance-floor worthy:

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Moulinex - “Breakchops (GRUM Remix)”
LINKS: Moulinex | Disco Texas | More Moulinex

Here’s another remix he did, this time for Anoraak out of the Valerie Camp. He keeps the lush soundscape qualities of the original, while adding some “umf” in the form of a chunky bassline and some beefed up synth and drum action:

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Anoraak - “Nightdrive With You (GRUM’s New Wave Remix)”
LINKS: Valerie Cherie | Anoraak | More from Anoraak

And, to round things out, here’s Damage’s take on Grum’s “Go Back”. I’m surprised I never heard this track in more sets, personally. It verges on the border of dark and nasty, while keeping things just straight enough to grab the attention of everyone: chip action during the buildup, grungy bass lines, and a good dose of chopping and screwing.

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Grum - “Go Back (Damage Remix)”
LINKS: Damage

So, to summarize: Download. Remix. Submit. Dance.

Got it?

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18
October
2008
tags: Final Fantasy.

Into the mouth of Final Fantasy

 There are a pair of new EPs coming out from my beloved uber-geek violin virtuoso Final Fantasy within the next few months. And, honestly, that’s the best excuse to post.

(photo from FF at Wordsmiths Books )

Final Fantasy: The Butcher

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This tackles new E.P. 1, “Spectrum 14th Century”. Meant to encompass a history of a fictional land in a fictional time (crushin’ mad-like on your nerd-brain there, bb), the songs are recorded with Beirut as Owen’s backing band and include such atmospheric nuances as faux-field recordings of birds (not birds) and other pastoral noises (not pastoral noises).  “The Butcher” is one of the prettiest and most sublime pieces I’ve heard from FF in a while, and for someone whose entire output is that, that’s saying a lot.

Final Fantasy: I Saved A Junky Once

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If the prevailing mood of the Spectrum ep is one of harmony, the mood of second ep, “Play To Please”,  is that of anxiety and discord. A series of re-configured songs from Alex Lukashevsky runs through striking off-notes, breaking strings and murky nervousness, like ADULT. being played by a string section. See: the above “I Saved A Junky Once”.

Beirut:Cliquot

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When the time comes, and it soon will, for either the world to end or for the greatest songs of the decade to be selected, this will certainly be near the top of my list. Owen’s aching, sweeping funeral dirge sticks in both head and heart forever.

Final Fantasy online (and eternal).

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16
October
2008
tags: Friendly Fires.

I promise…I’m on it.

I  am tempted to begin this with a preface like “a band I’ve been meaning to post on forever…” but that sounds like one of Hacks’ intros, and yeah, I don’t play that game. The fact of the matter is this: Friendly Fires are a UK 3-piece that make a bigger, louder disco-punk ruckus than any of their contemporaries, and buoy the racket with stop-on-a-dime synth-padded prettiness. They’re At The Drive-In with their hearts on fire, reaching out to you both tonight, in the glistening cool of the evening, and tomorrow, in the sticky sweat of the afternoon heat. I’ve been consistently shocked, over and over again, at how good these guys are, how they work for moods both aggressive and tender.

Friendly Fires: Paris (Justus Kohncke mix)

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When I found this, yesterday (via The Fader who maybe, one day, will acknowledge my fanboying with a little wink, a nod, a sip of the Hennessy, something), it struck me how much I’d been neglecting on posting any Friendly Fires. “Paris” has long been my favorite FF song, both from their EPs and their recently-released s/t debut full-length, because it hits the sweet spots I mentioned earlier. It’s a disco freak-out, it’s a spacey love jam, it’s pretty in the middle with nails sticking out of the raw wood with sanded edges. Kohncke’s remix, though…jesus. This is sublime. It’s long, it’s droning, it’s minimialist prettiness with shine instead of rawness around the original tune. This is my definition of a “jam” at the moment, to be quite honest.

Friendly Fires: Paris (original)

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The original, for comparison, and because it’s a little bit of a different creature. It’s more fierce, which highlights the tender, and kinda humorous, aspects of the lover interplay in the lyrics: “One day/we’re gonna live in Paris/I promise/I’m on it…” the couple will then find themselves the French lovers of their dreams, and…and then who knows?

The self-titled debut album comes with highest regard.

Friendly Fires online.

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09
October
2008
tags: MANSION, Mp3.

Body Body Body MANSION!

MANSION DJS



MANSION sent us over a new track recently and as soon as I heard it I had to run (ok click) over and post it. “Body” is a chubby, in your face house track that keeps enough of the kids-love-the-electro-feel in it to well… keep the kids loving electro. Its features that good old school house organ to keep ya smiling through out as well (I’m a sucker for it.. what can I say).

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Mansion - “Body” (320)

They’ve also dropped another track pretty recently call ‘Livid’ which is totally geared toward a tech house/minimal crowd. Thankfully I know there’s a lot of people out there that both read us and enjoy more than the hot chune of the week.. so this one is for you kids. Its long and dark and guaranteed to not get any hipster love on the dance floor, but I can see many ways one would work this into a quality set.

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Mansion - “Livid.” (320)

Be sure and swing by their MySpace for a few other goodies and to leave some loving.

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07
October
2008
tags: HATE.

all the pigs, all lined up

There’s something about the name, the image up there, that conjurs up thoughts of Wish-era Nine Inch Nails adolescent angst leading, eventually, to an innate and strangely cathartic blow-up.  “Hate”. With a name like that, there’s got to be ferocity-and what period, what style, embodies that concept more than seriously backward-thinking junglist Hardcore. Think of HATE like you’d think of those gaslight Dylan tapes or the Jeanius album, only in terms of rave culture: these are lost Jungle tracks that sound like it’s warehouse in the early 90’s somewhere, which is either fortunate or not depending on what you take aural pleasure in.

Notes from Boomkat, who, on their Modern Love label, are actually releasing the HATE recordings:

 We can tell you f*ck-all about HATE, except for the following. The majority of the material on this label is previously unreleased, original junglist hardcore dating back to 1991-1994 from producers who wish to remain anonymous. A carload full of dubplates and DAT tapes full of unreleased material was handed over to the label at Sowerby bridge in Yorkshire sometime in 2008. The material (several hundred original tracks) has been gradually catalogued, with a few tracks already planned for release this year. HATE is a Modern Love project and the label might also feature occasional new versions from different producers. All HATE transmissions will be limited to 300 stamped copies. You’ve been warned…

Hate: Injustice

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Hate: Darkcore

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Both of these tracks have some serious appeal to me beyond the nostalgia factor, which, much like J.T. Leroy’s credibility, should not really alter the impact of the releases. There’s some head-scratching, jaw-dropping, mindblowing work here, particularly in “Injustice” right around the first initial drop.

You be the judge.

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06
October
2008
tags: NightWaves, Binary, Mp3.

Its a Post About NightWaves! AKA We’re Not Dead (But Maybe We Are? [Kitten is Still Dead though, No Wait She’s Flying!])

NightWaves hit us up with some slick material after my Fabian post a while back, and now I’m getting around to sharing the love with you all (And there was much rejoicing!)

Well, first some background. NightWaves hails from LA and aim to bring back more lush, synthed out dance out melodies (and less RAWR RAWR DANCE GRGGLR Bangers –or whatever it is that Shaun calls them). Self described as :

a walk down the beach at sunset with the Pacific ocean crashing right next to you

they definitely have a discod-out, almost-french-house-jam style going on –good tracks for evenings and afternoons alike

“Even Money” is one of those tracks that treats you to an unexpected wanna get up and dance feeling after about 3/4’s of the build up. Now for those of you with no patience, I guess that sucks, but for everyone else its the making of a good track to use in a set!

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NightWaves - “Even Money”

“Blue Dress” is just as funky, in the same vein and just as much fun.

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NightWaves - “Blue Dress”

Since these style tracks work best in mix form (maybe you remember my May mix? Or that I even mix? Because I forget that sometimes) here’s quality 50 min mix of Binary and Valerie artists abound!

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NightWaves Presents: The Dreamwave Hour

Also, since this post is very nicely timed, The Binary Collective is putting on their first event tonight (October 6th) at the Dragonfly in Hollywood, CA. Admission is FREE, so all you west coast kids go party it up. You can check the full flyer for the event here, or you can find out more info via the Binary Blog

If you dig any of this, be sure and check out some of the other Binary Artist:
Fabian
On Off On
Alfa
KeenHouse
The Kids Are Radioactive

Ok, get to dancing!

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