Let's get Dubbed Up

Looking through some of the old posts I realized that I haven't been posting much dub and dubstep at all, this needs to change, especially given some of the stuff I have discovered recently.

Liquid Stranger - We Meet At Last

Opiuo - The Freaky Bean

VibeSquad - Snackbaskets

Just discovered all of these three - Liquid Stranger is somewhere between ambient, dub and dubstep, while both Opiuo and VibeSquad are relatively unknown but upcoming American acts whose sound falls between dubstep and hip hop, or what the blogosphere is calling glitch hop. I'm normally not too inclined to tags like that but what I've heard so far is pretty bumping. But of course the original land of dubstep/grime/bassline is still the UK, and below are some tunes from there that I've been listening to lately and are absolutely and completely worth your while if you are a fan of the general genre. As with most dubstep, these tracks are best heard on good headphones or speakers, mainly because most laptop speakers cannot do justice to the bass, and dubstep without bass is like eyeballs without pupils.

Joker - Purple City

Cluekid - Frogs on Acid

Plastician - Japan

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo

Enjoy and more soon, peace.

Solar Fields

The human mind is the most powerful thing in existence, and the videos I have embedded and linked to below are testament to that times infinity. I could go on for hours and hours about how wonderful Solar Fields' music is, but nothing I say could allow you to experience the beauty and essence that his music (and these videos) capture.

Solar Fields - Insum

Solar Fields - Breeze

Really amazing stuff, everything that music can and should be, in my eyes at least. Below are some more great ambient and chillout tunes I have found recently, check them out. A couple of them have awesome videos as well -

AES Dana - Natti Natti (Androcell Rmx)

Cell - Spinning Whale

Bluetech - Elementary Particles

Sync24 - DOT

Hol Baumann - Radio Bombay

There are a lot of other great ambient beats that I didn't post, most of the stuff by all of these artists is worth checking out.

The only thing that makes me sad is the relative anonymity that these guys face compared to the "music" that pop culture today propagates. I wonder how different the world would be if Solar Fields or Aes Dana or Androcell were as popular as Kanye West and Lady Gaga. Food for thought...

Peace.

A Set I uploaded

Hey everyone. So I entered this DJing contest on a website called Let's Mix. It's a 50 minute set with the kind of music that I usually post up here, pretty much standard good minimal and house.

The objective for me is to get more than 300 votes and a good rating by the end of January, and if that's achieved I could make it to the next round etc. etc.

Anyway it would be much appreciated if you listen to the mix and vote.


What a Beautiful Life from purestereo at Letsmix.com.

To vote just click on What a Beautiful Life and there will be a rating bar in the window that opens up. K Thanks Bye.

End of Year Favourites

So 2009 is almost done, 2010 is almost here, so I'm going to look back at some of my favourite tracks over the course of the year that I haven't already posted up here. I'm pretty sure not all of them were released this year, but most of them are relatively new and all of them definitely need to be listened to, all day/every day. The categorization is pretty arbitrary but more or less accurate, check these tunes out.

Best of Minimal/ Melodic/ Deep House

Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life (Sascha Funke Remix)

Michel Cleis feat. Toto La Mompesina - La Mezcla (Paul Kalkbrenner Remix)

Robert Babicz - Sin (Gui Boratto Mix)

Mujuice - Moonboy

Booka Shade - Outskirts (Trentemoller Mix)

Claude Von Stroke - Vocal Chords

Mat Zo - Synapse Dynamics

The Field - Yesterday & Today


Best of Electro/ House/ Dance

Daft Punk - Technologic (Vitalic Remix)

Veerus & Maxie Devine - Mouses Ate My Proteins

Empire of The Sun - Walking on A Dream (Johan Baath Edit)

Alex Gopher - Handguns (Dada Life Mix)

Chuckie & Silvio Ecomo - Moombah (Afrojack Mix)

Miles Dyson - Track from Hell (Electrixx Remix)

Ian Carey Project - Get Shaky (Vandalism Mix)

Bob Sinclar - New New New (Avicii Remix)


Best of the Rest (Chill/Experimental/Indie/ everything else)

Florence & the Machine - You Got the Love (The XX remix)

Chakra - Home (Solar Stone Remix)

jj - Ecstasy

Floating Points - Vacuum Boogie

Joker - Digidesign

Post Post - Sober

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll

Kid Cudi (feat. MGMT & Ratatat) - Pursuit of Happiness

There are many many more tracks that I discovered/loved in 2009 but that should be good for now, enjoy and happy holidays, party into 2010.

Zeroooo Seveenn!

One band that everyone needs to have on their chill playlist (and one that I was lucky enough to see this week) is British dub geniuses Zero 7. Here are some tunes you need to listen to -

Zero 7 - Destiny

Zero 7 - Somersault 

Zero 7 - In the Waiting Line (Dorfmeister remix)


Roots Manuva - Witness Dub (Produced by Zero 7)

Plus some more great minimal/cool beats that I've come across over the course of the week

Heartthrob - Baby Kate (Sascha Funke Mix)

Pantha du Prince - Saturn Strobe

Apparat & Ellen Allien - Do Not Break

Etienne de Crecy - Welcome

Some Essentials

Some amazing beats that need to be on every set list, including some great stuff from the Deadmau5 show last week...

Loco Dice - Carthago

Sascha Funke - Mango

Deadmau5 - To Play Us Out


Deadmau5 - You Need a Ladder

Loco Dice - Breakfast at Nina's (Onur Ozer RMX)

Deadmau5 - Everything Before

Late Night Alumni - Another Chance (Kaskade Homage to Roger Dub)

Calvin Harris - Merrymaking at my Place (Deadmau5 Mix)

Cygnus X - The Orange Theme (Deadmau5 Edit)

Paul Kalkbrenner -  Sky & Sand (Berlin Calling Edit)

Kalkbrenner and his brother Fritz composed a minimal soundtrack for the new film Berlin Calling, which should definitely be checked out...

And of course I was greatly impressed by the Mau5's opening act, Burns, whose mixes are something worth looking out for -

Passion Pit - The Reeling (Burns Remix)

Burns - Turbo (Jokers of the Scene Rmx)

Frankmusik - 3 Little Words (Burns Back to 96 Remix)

That's all for now. Peace...

Cool New Tracks

Some very nice tunes I found recently -

Designer Drugs - Back Up in This (Cold Blank Mix)

Scratch Perverts - Stand By

Noob & Brodinski - Peanuts Club (Beataucue Remix)

And one of my favourite new artists - Disco house's latest prodigy Louis La Roche - who I think is set to revolutionize and publicize disco/funky/french touch house like no other...

Louis LaRoche - Love 

Louis LaRoche - Me & Her

Michael Jackson - Thriller (Louis La Roche Mix)

Phonat - Set Me Free (Louis La Roche Remix) 

New Tunes

Some really cool new tunes I found, definitely worth checking out. I saw Pretty Lights recently and it was a really good show, definitely one of the few electronic artists out there who has a clear and distinctive new sound. His other stuff is definitely worth checking out as well. The single by Monarchy has been stuck in my head for a few days, and while I was unimpressed by what little I had heard of Fuck Buttons until recently, this track completely turned me. Enjoy.

Monarchy - Gold in the Fire

 Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar

The Herbaliser - Goldrush

Pretty Lights - Sunday School

Bye.

Nouveaubeats

Some awesome tracks I found, perfect to post before bed. Lots of electro and minimal and a little bit of dubstep and fidget thrown in as well.

Nouveaubeats - Looz (Rockdown Superstars Mix)

Wolfgang Gartner - Wolfgang's 5th Symphony

Lazy Rich - Take Control (Original Mix)

Miles Dyson - Minimal My Ass (Flutuance Remix)

Neuroxyde, David Jones & Andy T - Balkanika (Dub Mix)

Ragga Twins - Spliffhead (Ramadanman Refix)

Trolley Snatcha - The Future

Toxic Avenger - Superheroes (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Mix)

TEPR - 8 Bits Love

Dimitri from Paris - Toujours L'Amore

Crystal Fighters - Xtatic Truth

Bart B More & Oliver Twizt - Finally (Bart B More Mix)

Little Boots - Stuck On You (Fake Blood Remix)

Party Tunes for Saturday

Its Saturday, so here are some beats for dancing the weekend away...

Justice - DVNO (LA Riots Remix)
Justice need no introduction, but LA Riots have been catching my ear for a while and this remix is no different.

Major Lazer - Pon de Floor (Laidback Luke Mix)
Great track, better remix. Laidback Luke has some other great mixes too, definitely someone I'd like to see.

Burns - First Move (Fred Falke Mix)
Fred Falke is yet another German who knows his shit as far as it comes to making great mixes (like this Pryda one). Don't know too much about Burns but I like what I've heard and he is touring North America as Deadmau5's opening act this fall.

Also worth checking out -
Sharooz  - Adrenalize
Boys Noize - Jeffer (Para One Remix)