Norf Carolina c’mon and raise up! Take yo shirt off, twist it ’round yo head spin it like a hella!(copter). Apparently they hate that song in NC but it doesn’t matter because Petey Pablo is awesome, so they are wrong. Other things that are awesome exist in North Carolina too! In this case, I am referring to In Focus, the newest pseudonym (kind of) for Focus, one half of the now defunct Basic Operations, of immense DnB fame. Dude has had releases on many of the biggest DnB labels out there including Metalheadz,Bingo Beats, and Renegade but now he’s totally geeked about new electro/dance rock/blog house or whatever else you want to call it!! This is a very good thing because, in general, one is hard-pressed to find any quality DJing the scene because DJ’s who play that stuff are technically terrible most of the time*. And Jungle DJs are by and large good and so when they play anything, they usually do it better than most other people. He sent me this mix that demonstrates what i’m talking about:
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PYT – Michael Jackson (J2k & Samir-Baltimore Club Rmx)
I know what girls like – Space Cowboy
Sound Gal – Ben & Lex – (Boabinga & ID RMX)
Dogging Sisters – Headland – (Blamma Rmx)
Give it to me – Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake & Timbaland (STA Rmx)
Destroy – Proxy – (Riot In Belgium Rmx)
We are rock stars – Does it offend you Yeah!
British Mode – Goose – (Jester Rmx)
Erol Attack – Boyz Noize
Waters of Nazareth – Justice (Erol Alkan Dur Dur Rmx)
The Prayer – Bloc Party- (Phones Rmx)
I love you – I am Finn – (Van She Tech Rmx)
Street Justice – MSTRKRFT
Whoo! Alright Yeah – The Rapture – (Simian Mobile Disco Rmx)
You can catch him at many of the Sugar Society parties in Charlotte, NC including their newest venture, HELLA!, which from the musings around the water cooler, is already a pretty dope party, even in its infancy. Expect big tings from this guy soon. Check back here in the future fo mo!
* I’m not saying that there’re no good new electro DJ’s out there, its just, in my experience, your average DJ in the genre doesnt really know (or care) about matching beats properly, or layering, or timing or key matching or any of the other things that DJs once took seriously.
Brooklyn-based DJ/Producer Mike Dextro is not easily categorized. It’s hard to pinpoint the sound of someone whom the L Magazine dubbed as “an early Ministry scholar”, who flexed his hip hop knowledge working at Rawkus Records, whose DJ gigs placed him next to the likes of like Drop the Lime, The Glass, Ulysess and Todd Sines (to name a few) and in front of a variety of crowds–from underground techno heads, to Lower East Side weekend warriors, Russian estrada dolls to Italo disco dollies, from electro-rockers to (E)d bangers.
Bulletproof–his latest tune–is no exception. Thanks to an inventively campy approach to mingling electro and acid sounds, a Debarge sample and a Schaffel breakdown, the song feels the way a robot donning 80s-style shoulder pads and a Jerry Curl might look. Of course, for someone whose hip hop track ended up in the dj set of none other than Andy Rourke (of The Smiths), it’s no surprise that you might hear Bulletproof in the most unlikely of places.
For more Mike Dextro, check out his monthly residency at Heroine Chic (1st Thursdays at Galapagos). Watch out for the remix of Bulletproof by Alexander Bassett, of Chicago’s Anodyne Electric Company.
Mike Dextro – Bulletproof Feat. Ole
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This is not a dance floor banger, but simply put, this track is stunningly gorgeous.
I am really just in love with it, i’m feeling the emotion.
I hear Fleetwood Mac in there.
Really bummed Erol canceled Coachella, who does that anyway, eh?
What do we have to do get that man across the pond?
Maybe he’s afraid he’ll drop Midlake?
Yeah, that was pretty bad, I know, but its late at night, i’m reaching to entertain you guys, I think ill just let the music do the talking . . .
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Daft Punk – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Jess and Crabe remix)
Does it offend you yeah – We are rockstars
Tepr – Minuit Jacuzzi
Fox n’ Wolf – Young alcaholic (Ettiene De Crecy remix)
Dj Fame – When I hear music (Duke Dumont remix)
Felix Cartal – Moss-vs-Tree Griff & Booman
Pick em’ up Naast – Mauvais Garcon (Yuksek remix)
Armand Van Helden – the Boogie Monster
Kool Uncle – Big and Dirty Dreams
Utah Saint – Something Good (Van She tech remix)
the Teenagers – Homecoming (Guns n’ Bombs remix)
Speedcats – Speedcats Les Rythmes Digitales – from Disco to Disco Buraka Som Sistema – Yah Freeform Five – No More Conversations (Switch remix)
Mikael Weill – Silmarions (Claude von stroke remix)
Vicarious Bliss – Limousine
I am still amazed that I was able to configure this, and now that I have, i’m gonna go podcast crazy, I can feel it.
Ok – so here you go, this is a mix I did a few years back, when i still had tables – RIP tables : (
Maybe one day ill have them again, and I can start playing my own records, instead of someone else’s, really badly, at 5am.
Audio Pimpstress – “Back When I Could DJ” Mix
March 28, 2005
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1. Mazi & Joshua Collins “Basic Analogue” /Gourmet
2. Martini Bros “Big & Dirty” (Tiga Remix)/Turbo
3. Adonis “No Way Back” /Trax
4. The Glass “Won’t Bother Me” (Original Mix)/Fine
5. Jake Fairley “Cold World” (Trance-Rock Mix)/Sender
6. Michoacan “2 Bullets” /Grayhound
7. !!! “Hello? Is This Thing On?” (Thomas & Eric Dub)/Touch and Go
8. Magik Johnson “Roller Girl” (Mazi & Joshua Collins Rmx)/NRK
9. The Rapture “House of Jealous Lovers” /DFA
10. DJ Buck “Make It Hot” /Siesta
11. LCD Soundsystem “Beat Connection” /DFA
12. Justus Kohncke “2 After 909” /Kompakt
13. Jake Fairley “Cold World” (Original Mix)/Sender
14. Nathan Drew Larsen f. Black Pearl “Standing Still” /Gourmet
Chaki and Emi are ripping Tokyo dancefloors to bits. Known as ‘The Lowbrows,’ they play one of the hottest soirees in the city, ‘Linda,’ which takes place at La Fabrique, Shibuya. (the original is near the Bastille in Paris)
In a neobaroque fashion capital, Linda brings a lux mix of Tokyo’s finest sugoi kids, that seem to have a deep love for Ed Banger Records and like-minded imprints such as Kitsune, Boyz Noise, Citizen and Archibell Recordings. Not only for the French, The Lowbrows continue on with the new breed of twisted/hard/distorted/thrash/
bass/electro producers that we’re all absolutely loving these days!
The boys have given us a peak into their electroshocking debauchery with some party snips as well as their track, ‘LINDA is tonight,’ that plays throughout the video. Another killer on the dance floor!!!!!! Oh and I must add that all cool graphics as well as ‘Linda,’ is the creation of their dear friend, Yoshiro.
Here’s a mash up of a few of their tracks created esp for Trash Menagerie! xx
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Check out their newly released 4-track 12″ Ep on Delicatessen-Recordings, direct from Japan. Music love to your ears. Stay posted for another 12″ as well as a CD album.
