BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix – L-Vis 1990 (07-01-2012)

Tracklist after the jump…

L-Vis 1990 — Timeless (Intro) (feat. Corey Black)
Tom Trago — Dubtopia [Rush Hour Recordings]
Cajmere — Percolator [Cajual Recordings]
Marcel Dettmann — Planning [Ostgut]
DVA — Step 2 Funk VIP
Lando Kal — Communication [Rush Hour Recordings]
Egyptrixx — Liberation Front [Night Slugs]
Optimum — Ghost House
Alfabet — Hell Of Samba [Rush Hour Recordings]
Theo Parrish — Falling Up (Carl Craig Remix) [Syncrophone]
L-Vis 1990 — Our Groove [Night Slugs]
Patrice Bäumel — Roar [Get Physical]
Jam City — Countess [Night Slugs]
Kingdom — SFX [Dirty Bird]
Lil Silva — Pulse Vs. Flex [Night Slugs]
Mike Q. — Let it All Out [Fade 2 Mind]
Jam City — Ecstasy Refix [Night Slugs]
L-Vis 1990 — VHS Crash [Night Slugs]
Untold — Little Things Like That [Clone Basement Series]
L-Vis 1990 — Feel The Void (Paul Woolford After-Hours Mix) [PMR Records]
Helix — Drum Track [Night Slugs]
Bok Bok — MJT [Night Slugs]
DJ Fresh — Night Off
DJ Pierre — Hit Da Handclap 2011
Girl Unit — Club Rez [Night Slugs]
Mike Q. — Ha Dub Reworqed [Fade 2 Mind]
DJ Cease — Super Crash [Rush Hour Recordings]
Paul Woolford — Erotic Discourse [2020 Vision]
L-Vis 1990 — Tonight (Kink Remix) (feat. Samantha Lim) [PMR Records]
Grand High Priest ft. Dajae — Mary Mary (Bok Bok Reconstruction)
TWR72 — 13 Tunnel
Boddika & Joy O — Swims (No Chords VIP) [Swamp 81]
Maurice Donovan — Bebeh [SSSSSS]
Laurent Garnier — Man With The Red Face (Club Mix) [F Communications]
L-Vis 1990 — Tonight (L-Vis 1990 & Simbad’s 3am Mix) (feat. Samantha Lim) [PMR Records]
L-Vis 1990 — Lost In Love (Night Slugs Allstars Mix) (feat. Jaevon McCarthy) [PMR Records]

01. Synkro – Open Arms
02. Little Dragon – Ritual Union (Tensnake Remix)
03. Jacques Greene – The Look (Koreless Remix)
04. Motor City Drum Ensemble – L_O_V_E
05. Tiger & Woods – Girls Like Boys
06. Maceo Plex – Falling
08. Cherrelle – I Didn’t Mean To Turn You On
09. Danny Daze – Your Everything
10. Seth Troxler – Hurt (Martinez Dark Soul Remix)
11. Gerry Read – Untitled
12. Bakey Ustl – A Tender Places
13. Fcl -Let’s Go
13. Behling – Without You
14. Mark E – Call Me (Tensnake Remix)

Eric Prydz presents brand new video for his latest single “Niton” featuring Jan Burton’s vocal. Sample that “Niton” is based on probably will remind you “Pjanoo” but it has some massive dance layers and brilliant vocal line with lovely dramatical keys that makes it sound like even more promising track than “Pjanoo”. Video for “Niton” is pleasant animation that is in global scales not the newest thing but as it wasn’t used a lot last years it feels like something fresh.

I must say I have been a massive fan of this track before Mr Prydz added some vocals to it and renamed it Niton (The Reason). It will be released on Ministry Of Sound Recordings on 6th February 2011 and features some huge remixes for everyone from the likes of Treasure Fingers, Boy 8-Bit , Sigma and Prydz himself under his alias Pryda. I have been able to get my hands on a promo through the power of ze interwebs so download have a listen and enjoy!

Eric Prydz – Niton [Remix Promo]

Thought I would post something a little different. Really loving this Popof remix of Booka Shade’s new track “Regenerate”.

Booka Shade – Regenerate (Popof Remix)

And so the wait is finally over… Here’s the first round line-up announcement for Summadayze/Summafieldayze 2011:

David Guetta
N.E.R.D.
Justice
Armand Van Helden
Chromeo
Bob Sinclar
Boys Noize
Erol Alkan
Tinie Tempah
Miami Horror
Riva Starr
Dennis Ferrer
Claude Von Stroke
Aeroplane
Nervo
Plump DJ’s
So Me v. DVNO
Yuksek
Zombie Disco Squad

+ a ton of the best local acts of each capital city…

I must admit I am a little jealous that the Gold Coast gets the addition of Trentmoller, A-Trak and The Rapture. The last two are playing at Falls Festival from memory.  Maybe one of the other writers will post something about that festival… Of course you’re probably all aware that Armin Van Buuran is doing an epic 9 hour set here in Melbourne on NYE so that explains his absence at Melbourne’s Summadayze also.

Ticket’s go on sale nationally Thursday 19th August at 9am via Ticketmaster or your usual mob of promoters/industry folk… Any other info and for the line-up in your capital city, just browse on over to the Summadayze website.

Courtesy of Diplo‘s guest programming spot on rage last night for those of us that happened to stay home on a Saturday (Shock! Horror!). Here’s is the video to Vitalic‘s track “Poney Part 1″ off the album ‘OK Cowboy’, which was amongst many that were a favourite of mine that Diplo selected… And if you happen to like the tune also:

Vitalic – Poney Part 1

There ya go, enjoy! Love the little distorted child-like vocal bit at the middle point of the track, damn creepy stuff!

Carte Blanche is the french/uk connected cooperative equivalent of Duck Sauce (some sort of fine dining DJ production related dinners are going on I think)… featuring

MEHDI and RITON!!! as opposed to A-Trak and Armand Van Helden. They are also nu disco-ish with a bit of Riton’s techy sounds in the mix.

Check out their track “In The Mix” available for download from Fairtilizer

Ok so after making my first post in the week raving about Riva Starr’s essential mix I thought I would come back for a little more fun posting some tracks that’s got me movin and shakin. Lets see if I can try and make this a weekly post -

Ok so here we go…….

Alan Braxe & Fred Falke – Intro (Bart B More Edit)

Bart B More adds his Dutch touch to this classic track!

M.A.N.D.Y. & Booka Shade – Donut (Boy 8-Bit Remix)

The boys from Berlin have teamed up with M.A.N.D.Y to make another hit “Donut”. Loving the Boy 8-Bit remix after hearing it in the Jack Beats Essential Mix. Also check out the Gui Boratto remix.

French Fries – Senta

Great track don’t think I’ll ever get sick of this sound. I know The Jza was looking for this one!

Boys Noize – Sweet Light (Boris Dlugosch Remix)

Boris Dlugosch remixes this one for the Miami Noize Sampler (I think Noodle G’s gonna love this one)

Round Table Knights & Bauchamp – Calypso

This Swiss duo have just been signed on Jesse Rose’s Made to Play Label expect to hear this track a lot its also getting a lot of airplay by some big DJs.

Kavinsky – Nightcall

Everyones favourite zombie is back!!!

Crookers Feat. Roisin Murphy – Royal T (Riva Starr Dub)

Is there ever enough RIVA STARR!! Its all about the house music and it always was!!

Breakage – Justified

Breakage explores new ground on this bold and bashy release, giving us the perfect insight into the direction of his new album,

Vitalic - Second Lives (Lifelike Remix)

This track has got the remix treatment from The Bloody Beetroots and Lifelike but I have to stay true to my number one DJ crush…Lifelike!

I sometimes wish I had a clone. Then I would’ve been able to have seen both Jack Beats and attend my mate’s epic poker/Arnie movie marathon the same night earlier on this year… *Sigh*… Anyway, apologies for letting this one to sneak up all stealth-like. After you give this Essential Mix a listen you’ll agree it’s anything but stealth…

Essential Mix – Jack Beats (20-02-2010)

Tracklist is after the jump and it’s mutherfuckin’ epic! And for you jza, even that god-awful Doctor P track, ‘Sweet Shop’ gets dropped haha! Not to forget 16-Bit and a few other dubstep tracks…

01. Dead Can Dance – Dawn Of The Iconclast (Jack Beats Intro Edit)
02. Passion Pit – Little Secrets (Jack Beats Remix)
03. Lee Mortimer & Laidback Luke – Blau! (LA Riots Remix)
04. Jack Beats – Labyrinth
05. Pase Rock – Nights (Nadastrom Remix)
06. L-Vis 1990 – United Groove (MJ Cole Remix)
07. D1 – Pitcher (128 Mix)
08. Kissy Sell Out – This Kiss (Jack Beats Remix)
09. Black Box – Ride On Time (Zombie Disco Squad Remix – Jack Beats Edit)
10. Sound of Stereo – Button (Beataucue Remix)
11. Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Epic Last Song (Jack Beats Remix)
12. Foamo – Jookie
13. Tiga – What You Need (A-Trak Remix)
14. Zombie Nation – Seas Of Grease (Harvard Bass Remix)
15. Diplo & Blaqstarr – Get Off (Jack Beats Remix)
16. Noob & Brodinski – Peanuts Club (BeatauCue Remix)
17. M.A.N.D.Y & Booka Shade – Donut (Boy 8-Bit Remix)
18. Mvsvem – French Jeans (Style Of Eye Remix)
19. Boys Noize & Erol Alkan – Waves (Chilly Gonzales Mash-Up Edit ‘Thing’ With A Vocal…)
20. Felix Da Housecat – Kickdrum
21. SonicC – Unicorns On Acid
22. La Roux – I’m Not Your Toy (Jack Beats Remix)
23. Jack Beats & MC Dynamite – What (Boy 8-Bit Remix)
24. Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars (Siriusmo Remix)
25. Claude VonStroke – Vocal Chords
26. Popof – Serenity w/ Fingers Inc – My House Acapella (Jack Had A Groove)
27. Breakage – Justified feat. Erin
28. 16-Bit – Jump
29. Joker – Tron
30. Calvin Harris – You Used To Hold Me (Nero Remix)
31. Subscape – Hardcore Members
32. Doctor P – Sweet Shop
33. Benga – Little Bits
34. Donaeo – Riot Music (Skreamix)
35. Jack Beats – U.F.O (K-Hole Bass Riddim)
36. Lady Sovereign – Got You Dancing (Jack Beats Remix)
37. Unknown Artist – BG (Crookers DJ Tool Mix)
38. Florence + The Machine – Drumming Song (Jack Beats Remix)
39. AC Slater – Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)
40. DJ Zinc – Gimme A Camera feat. Angela Hunter
41. Hockey – Song Away (Jack Beats ‘Anger Management’ Unreleased Dub)
42. DJ Zinc – Super Sharp Shooter (Jack Beats Remix)
43. The Count & Sinden – Panther
44. TC – Deep (Jack Beats ‘2008 Unreleased’ Remix)
45. L-Vis 1990 – The Bird
46. Project Bassline – Drop The Pressure (Jack Beats Remix)
47. Diplo & Laidback Luke vs. Proxy – Hey vs. Raven (Will Bailey Bootleg)
48. Faithless – Never Going Home (Herve Remix)
49. Fake Blood – Mars (Jack Beats Remix)
50. Jack Beats – Get Down VIP

First stumbled upon Chilly Gonzales about 2 years ago when Boys Noize remixed his single ‘Working Together’. Wind forward the clock and Gonzales returns the favour with his amazing version of last year’s rave epic ‘Waves’ by Erol Alkan & Boys Noize.

To celebrate his current US ‘Pillow Talk’ tour featuring artists like A-Trak, Andrew WK and Sia, Gonzales has released a piano mixtape for your listening pleasure. The mixtape features interesting mix of piano and orchestral sounds layered over the original hip-hop and electro beats of the tracks covered.

Download link and track list after the jump.

Chilly Gonzales – Pianist Envy

01. J-Kwon – Tipsy
02. 50 Cent – Many Men
03. Busta Rhymes – Touch It
04. Claude VonStroke – Vocal Chords
05. Lil’ Wayne – A Milli
06. Clipse – Grindin’
07. Daft Punk – Rollin’ and Scratchin’
08. Beyonce – Single Ladies

Remember a while back I was talking about this video clip being developed? Well, here’s a teaser video. Enjoy!

Jump for joy because it’s the end of week and you’ve earned the right cut loose. This week see’s a me indulging a bit on my love of emotional shoegazing psychedelic tribal synth pop house music. yes, as you may have gathered, that isn’t really genre… Anyway, this week’s faves and download links are after the jump.

Gypsy & The Cat – Jona Vark

“Her name is Jona. Jona Vark…”

Ah, some more indie synth pop goodness! After listening to this track I can definitely feel a bit of Empire Of The Sun (the guitar riff = a little bit of ‘We Are The People’), M83, anything from a John Hughes movie, but a lot more Fleetwood Mac. Yes, I like Fleetwood Mac. Not just like, probably love. There I said it… There are definitely elements of ‘Little Lies’ and ‘Dreams’ in this track, especially in the chorus.

While most of the major blogs, Mark Ronson on his East Village radio show and even the late DJ AM were all over the local duo from the middle of last year, they’ve only now started to get a little more radio airplay and more importantly, gotten themselves ingrained into me! Head over to their MySpace and give the rest of their stuff a listen. Hanging out big time for this LP release…

Caribou – Odessa

Now this is an interesting bit of music, quirky and haunting at the same time. It’s fairly heavily layered, so you’re ears will have fun deciphering all the sounds here.  I swear when I first heard the vocals in this track I thought that perhaps Erlend Øye of Kings of Convenience and the Whitest Boy Alive fame had contributed. So if you like that kind of minimal-esque type of chill-house you’ll probably like this latest offering from Caribou.

Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours (Featuring IRFANE)

Unadulterated disco pop funk fun! When you hear this track you can’t help but bounce and boogey. If you’re a fan of the works of Shazam, Cassian, The Twelves etc., I think you’ll did this track.

The Jezabels – Hurt Me

“C’mon evil hurt me, hurt me, hurt me…”

Wow. What a track. Powerful and achingly beautiful at the same time. The track sucks you in with Hayley’s haunting vocals/lyrics, complemented by the frenetic drumming and strumming from band members Sam and Nik respectively, intertwined with Heather’s graceful piano work. Don’t forget to add a bit of reverb and swooping strings for effect during the bridge and chorus.

Throw all of this together and you get a rolling wall of big sound that builds and builds till it smacks you right in the face and just like that, disappears as quickly as it arrives. I’m not surprised to see that the Arcade Fire are listed as an influence to the Jezabels on their MySpace page.

Might as well add the music video here since it was just released last month:

Unfortunately there appears to be no Victorian shows lined up in the near future but if you are in Queensland or NSW you can catch them this month at the Playground Weekend festival February 21st or at the Enmore Theatre on the 24th supporting Placebo.

Yeasayer – Ambling Alp

A nice pysch-alt-electro-pop ditty here from NY group Yeasayer. Like any good song (or at least the ones that I like anyway…), it’s instantly catchy and just downright fun. The little synth solo breakdown at the end is just freakin’ awesome!

Douster – King Of Africa

Yes, this track has been floating around the interwebz for a while now, and yes, Douster is no n00b to the scene. These “weekly” posts however are purely an avenue for me to write about the songs that I like at a moment in time and why they got me hooked that first time.

So pretentious rant aside (hehe!), this track features some great sampling from the Lion King’s opening, the powerful ‘Circle of Life’. What you’re left in store for is five minutes of catchy, fun afro-funk-house. I could see this being a nifty opener to a set or bridge/tone shift for all you wheels of steel traders… Speaking of which, Douster is playing at the Espy on February 20th for us local kids wanting to catch him in the act.

So that’s it! Another week done and only one more away till Classixx are in town… Did I mention that I CAN’T FUCKIN’ WAIT TO SEE CLASSIXX?!?!

Have a good weekend folks and we’ll see ya next week where I guess I could try and make it a lovers themed tunage… Or a happy new year to all the chinky readers out there haha! Peace out!

Crookers – Remedy (Featuring Miike Snow)

The track is off the Crookers forthcoming album, ‘Tons Of Friends’ with some nice vocal work from latest Swedish sensation Miike Snow. Video is after the jump.

Kinda hope that dog got it’s toy back… I mean look at that face! Anyway, the video directed by Paul Kamuf. Enjoy!

Being the uncultured individual that I am, I’ve only recently discovered the NYC clothing label Mishka thanks to their recent collaboration with Mad Decent. More importantly, scanning through their blog I’ve discovered their wickedly awesome Keep Watch series of mixes from a wide spectrum of artists across a variety of genres.

Now I’m planning to post each of the mixes up each week, but to kick things off, I’m gonna start with their latest one featuring my favourites, the Crookers. Tracklisting and download link is after the jump below.

Mishka presents – Keep Watch – Volume XV – Crookers

Triple J’s Craig Schuftan presents a time-travelling adventure in sound. Imagine Girl Talk with a copy of Marshall McLuhan‘s ‘The Mechanical Bride’ in one hand and a key to the Triple J vinyl library in the other. Click the link below and find out why Zan Rowe is calling this “cultural theory you can dance to”. Link to the mixtape and a few other 80s related rambles and plugs after the jump.

Craig Schuftan’s 80MPH Stolen Plutonium Megamixxx

If you aren’t blessed with the pleasure of listening to Triple J during the day it’s well worth visiting their site and checking out Craig’s ‘Acceptable in the 80s‘ page and check out the vodcasts.I think the blurb from the site sums everything up nicely.

Musing on the future of music in 1986, former Van Halen singer and 80s party dude David Lee Roth was certain of nothing, except that the art of tomorrow would be nothing like the art of today. “It won’t be like anything we’re familiar with, I know that”. So, why, now that we live in the future, does everything look and sound a bit like it’s from 1986? Has the fabric of time been altered somehow? Have we run out of new ideas? Or does our new-found fondness for synth-pop and shoulder pads have some deeper significance?

To find out, author and Triple J culture guy Craig Schuftan dons a pair of stupid 80s sunglasses, soups up his sports car with one of those flux capacitor things, and risks further damage to the space-time continuum by travelling back to the origin point of the current crisis – the 1980s. There, he finds himself in a strange world – a world where people listen to futuristic robot-pop while spending money they don’t have on ridiculous clothes so as to take their minds off the impending apocalypse. Yes, all very strange – and yet at the same time, eerily familiar…

Really, really cool stuff. I might even head up to Sydney and check out the 80s exhibition over at the Powerhouse Museum. Looks pretty rad. That’d be the right lingo to use in this thread right?

We love animals.

We also love you.

Logic would dictate that this track should’ve been posted in the previous Crookers post but it’s too damn awesome I felt it was worthy of it’s own post. Opening track of their Social Club set and now opening track to their album Tons Of Friends… Ladies and gentlemen, this is one is a winner.

Crookers – We Love Animals (Featuring Soulwax & Mixhell)

Here’s the video to DJ Hell‘s new single featuring Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry to be released on February 8, 2010 with remixes from Carl Craig, Simian Mobile Disco and Tim Goldsworthy (DFA).

The video is directed by Jo Apps of Simian Mobile Disco’s ‘Audacity’and styled by Nova Dando of Lady Gaga fame.