Photo courtesy of Spin.comWant to spend your Halloween with The Rapture?
They perform live with the B52’s tomorrow, Wed. Oct 31st at Roseland Ballroom.

We streamed the remixes of The Rapture’s next release, “The Sound” last week, and now they are yours to download. Stop here to grab Ben “Trucker” Rymers “Back to ‘95 Mix”

The Rapture - The Sound - Ben “Trucker” Rymer’s Back to 95 Mix

Following the success of past releases, Swiss-based production trio, Reverse Engineering present the “Duck & Cover EP”. “Duck & Cover” is the follow-up to the successful collaboration with Washington-based underground MC BLU RUM 13, well-known for his work with artists such as Luke Vibert, Mr Thing, Amon Tobin, and DJ Vadim.Notably influenced by the electronic scene, Reverse Engineering explores the dark sides of instrumental hip hop and focus on heavy and aggressive rhythms that build up the backbone of their pieces. The trio brings together intelligent electronic and underground hip-hop, built up with massive electric bass sounds, heavy electronic soundscapes and saturated hip-hop beats.

Reverse Engineering feat. MC M.Sayyid (Antipop Consortium, Airborn Audio)
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Duck & Cover EP is Available now:
Digital download of EP “DTTR” on Juno
Reverse Engineering on MX3

Reverse Engineering Live
Nov. 2, Riddim Collision Festival, Lyon
Nov. 3, Le Java, Paris
Nov. 8, L’Usine, Genève
Nov. 9, caves du manoir, Martigny
Nov. 10, Festival catapultes, chinon, France

Tah-dahhh!!!! Please allow me to present to you the second installment of my mix series done especially for the menage. Dumpster Diving #2, like Dumpster Diving #1, is an attempt to encapsulate all the supreme tracks that I, Local Hero, have been playing since…well…the last mix. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do. Joy!

Local Hero - Dumpster Diving #2

1. Black & White Bothers - Pump It Up
2. Wideboys feat Dennis G - If you Wanna Party (Wideboys Up North Speed Garage Mix)
3. DJ Icey - Gonzo Fuse
4. Shinichi Osawa - Electro 411
5. Scenario Rock - Perfect Love Antidote (Bobmo Second rmx)
6. Bass Kleph - Bump Uglies (Stupid Fresh “Wizards in Oz” mix)
7. Sebastien Leger - Midnight In Galaxy
8. Sidechain - Turn Your Body On
9. Chromeo - Bonafide Lovin’ (LA Riots rmx)
10. N’fa - Get Doh (Bass Kleph Less Vox rmx)
11. K.I.M. - Wet ‘n’ Wild (Riot In Belgium rmx)
12. Scott Grooves - Mothership Reconnection (Daft Punk rmx)
13. Timbaland - The Way I Are (Cousin Cole’s Unwound Mix)
14. Kurtis Blow - The breaks (Bird Peterson Rubdown)
15. Trash Fashion - Rave Dave (Bryan Cox & Denny Le Nimh rmx)
16. Awesome 3 - Don’t Go
17. Baobinga & ID pres. Big Monster - Get Up, Get Hype (Dub Mix)
18. The Lady Foursquare - Rebel Without Applause
19. Curses! - This Is The Way (Drop The Lime rmx)
20. Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
21. Charlie Fanclub - Jet
22. Boys Noize - Let’s Buy Happiness
23. Hostage - I’m High
24. Justice - Phantom pt II (Boys Noize rmx)
25. The Feelgood Factor - The Whole Church Should Get Drunk
26. Moulinex - Leisure Suit
27. Bob Sinclair - Gym Tonic
28. Puzique - Don’t Go
29. Breakbot - Summer Party

Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stonger
Shot by hundreds of fans at New York’s Coney Island during the Alive 2007 tour, directed by Oliver Gondry, courtesy of our friends at Kidzbycolette.com

Click here and watch it now - Daft Punk, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

More Daft coverage at The Daily Swarm
Ed Banger & Throne Of Blood “Dafter” party pics & live footage

Look Mom, no helmet!

Readymade on acid: Enter The Daily Swarm Daft Punk Halloween Costume Contest

Our friends at The Daily Swarm continue to prove why we love them.
From TDS . . .

“What’s the next best thing to hopping on a plane to Mexico City to see one of Daft Punk’s last North American stops on the Alive 2007 tour on October 31? How about dressing up as Daft Punk for Halloween? We know you’re thinking about it, googling “Daft Punk Helmets” or “Daft Punk Masks” and salivating over the possibility of picking up an original pair for $65,000 (even though they’re absolutely not for sale) or wishing that that Alterian Inc., the special effects studio that Daft Arts used for the “Technologic” video and Electroma, had been more proactive in making an actual outfit commercially available. But making your Halloween wish come true is going to take some creative thinking and crafty skills.

For one idea, we asked the Daily Swarm reader Traci Kaye, a fashion designer at Foley + Corinna, for some advice on how to make a Daft Punk helmet on the cheap and she came up with a fantastic possibility, one-upping us by making it a full-body costume. For simplicity’s sake, Traci chose the summer concert encore version of Daft Punk for her costume design, and once she got past the idea of homemade fiber optics, the final outfit came together pretty fast.”

For more, and a chance to win prizes in the Daft Punk Halloween Costume Contest, visit our friends at The Daily Swarm

This could be yours . . . a rare, mint condition flyer from Daft’s first NA appearance at Even Further in Wisconsin, 1996!

THE GLASS
Mad At You
Supertroels Mix

Some people get a little boozed and make a scene. Some get sauced and make a baby. Glen Brady and Dom Keegan made a band. “The Glass came about when Glen and me were drunk in Plant Bar one night and talked about making tracks. Two days later I went over to his house in Brooklyn and we made ‘Won’t Bother Me.’ Funny, when it got signed to Fine Records in Berlin we realized we lost the files (we hadn’t expected needing them after the session) and had to re-sing the vocals. All the remix versions have a totally different vocal recording than the original.”

You have to appreciate that kind of humility. A sort of, “Holy sh… people like it!” Now, with the release of their EP “Couple’s Therapy,” there’s even more to love.

Last year, the duo rented a cottage in Woodstock in an attempt to focus their efforts and dedicate themselves entirely to the formation of their EP. Dom recounts, “We are both living in a cottage in the mountains, swimming at the local swimming hole and making music all day and night.” Glen adds, “Our friend Tim from 33 Hz texted us ‘How are the Brokeback sessions going?’ We all still laugh at that and those recordings are still referred to as the BB sessions.”

One wonders: is that where the name Couple’s Therapy came from? According to Glen, a friend “once said we needed couple’s therapy, because we were arguing like old ladies. I think a lot of bands argue like married couples, I guess sex for (more…)

Fake Blood Remixes - Black Ghosts, Armand Van Helden, & Bonde do Role.

Most producers get their start tinkering around in the studio - self releasing tracks and edits, but London newcomer Sang, aka Fake Blood (Sang/Fang, get it ; ) went straight for the jugular and bit into some top notch talent. His first remix was for TM fav, Black Ghosts, which lead to a rework of their Southern Fried label mate, Arman Van Helden. When Pedro from Bonde do Role heard how he turned out AVH, he enlisted his sharp studio skills for “Gasolina”. Each chewn, a bass heavy, dance floor success. Sang can suck our blood anytime. So who might be Fake Blood’s next victim? At present, he is taking a break from remixing to work on his own material, which includes a track called “Fake Blood Theme”.

Watch out for this hot producer, coming soon to a dark crowded dance floor near you!

THE BLACK GHOSTS
“Anyway You Choose To Give It”
(Fake Blood Mix)
SOUTHERN FRIED RECORDS

ARMAND VAN HELDEN
“I Want Your Soul”
(Fake Blood Mix)
SOUTHERN FRIED RECORDS

BONDE DO ROLE
“Gasolina”
(Fake Blood Mix)
DOMINO RECORDS

The weekend is here and what better way to kick it off than with a bit of sparkle and bang to add to your DJ set, or listen to whilst at home tossing your head to and fro?! “Diamonds”, is one in the latest of several masterpieces that Lillica Libertine feverishly creates, and there is more to come from this radical rudecat!!

Lillica has been at it non-stop, staying as busy as a bee, since we featured him in March, Lillica Libertine is Fresh out of Death and The Nottingham Prodigy Returns this past August. November sees some exciting happenings – “Manhunt”, will be released via Place Blanche Records on 12″ vinyl and digital download release, and a limited edition to be released via 679 Records on 12″ clear vinyl! Also, check out “Drill It”, another wicked remix he did for Papa Vito, which can be heard at Papa Vito’s page. I can’t get that female “do do do do do do do do dooooo”, vocal from “Diamonds” out of my head!! x

Lillica Libertine - Diamonds