There’s no denying that the latest MIXES have been keeping our ears extremely happy and have caused some serious dance fever action! Each mix is sure to bring out the inner wild side of you! If you’ve missed any of the recent 6 listed below, do yourself a favor and work your way up from the bottom to the top and have a listen. Before you know it, they’ll be over far too quickly and you’ll be begging for more! With the exception of the smooth, minimal Acid Girls mix, these are the bass heavy sounds of the summer season! Peep the MIXES section to the upper right for more JUNE MIXES and keep checking back for more!!
Yes ladies and gentleman, KMD is a very happy girlie as the delicious duo that is The Presets are heading over to play some spellbinding shows in the UK!
So now after dancing my butt off to their fabulous new album ‘Apocalypso’ I’m very excited that I will actually get to sample these new juicy tracks live.
If you are based in the UK get your tickets now here. Just in case you aren’t sure where they are playing look at the lovely list I put together below:
Tue 1 Jul – Thekla, Bristol
Wed 2 Jul – The 444 Club, The Rainbow, Birmingham
Thu 3 Jul – Scala, London
If you’re off to the Birmingham gig, trashmenagerie fave Deluka are also supporting – see you there.
Oh and if your lucky enough to live in London you can watch the guys in action at an exclusive and very FREE instore at Rough Trade East on Friday July 4, kicking off at 7pm. Very limited tickets are available and can be obtained by dropping by the store to pick one up anytime from now until 10 am next Friday, on a first come first served basis.
Oh if that’s not enough check out this awesome track from ‘Apocalypso‘ – ‘This Boy’s In Love‘. Now go – get the album, rush to the instore and dance dance dance.
“While the majority of the music currently coming out of Berlin remains painfully grey and deep, there’s a small culture of electro freaks bubbling away in the city. Shir Khan’s Exploited label is the most obvious source, but Moston’s close behind with his Freakz label. A wonky, tripped out number, the main hook is just one word ‘jack’ and a beautiful bassline which rumbles and tickles in all the best ways. For a little more swing to your set flip for Daniel Dexter and Nhan Solo’s rub – meaty beats all the way. peeps!”
When Moston was asked about the review, he admitted he’d not heard about it. “Did I?” he asked surprised. “What for?” He was chuffed -although he pointed out that, unfortunately, Freakz Me Out is not his label. He could be forgiven for not keeping up.
Moston’s latest remix of Human Resources‘ 1991 old school classic “Dominator” has been getting loads of props. It’s released on house music veteran Bryan Cox’s label, Crux records – others on the fidget house label include Chamillionaire, Trash Fashion, The Bulgarian, 3 Is A Crowd, Gaetan, Chew Fu, Pette Vaydex, Shax, Bryan Cox, Mightyfools, Hostage and so many more I’ll get tired writing them out.
Gigging wise, Lars is doing his normal Germany rounds (below), but is also planning to be in the UK this autumn, which I eagerly await!
5 Jul 2008 – Parkhaus, Lübeck
11 Jul 2008 – Dusted Decks, Grimma
20 Sep 2008 – Taste @ Muffathalle (with Daniel Dexter & Nhan Solo), München
10 Oct 2008 – Suite 15, Regensburg
11 Oct 2008 – Bauhaus, Landshut
15 Nov 2008 – Famous Breaks (Moston & Malente), Gdansk (PL)
I’m featuring “Jack It!” again and also throwing out a track that’s getting a lot of playtime on my i-Pod, “Ever Since I Heard The Sound”, which was released last May (2007) on Plastique Base Records, and is just a perfect electro house tune.
Very few tracks these days can have such a great effect on the crowd to where people are immediately running up to the dj and asking for a song id. Destroy Disco has created one of these “must have songs” and its called “fly or bounce“.
Destroy Disco is a trio of djs from Sydney, Australia. While they have a long history as djs they have less than a few years as producers. It didn’t stop “fly or bounce” from being one of the hottest tracks around with crappy camera phone recordings of the tune popping up all over you tube. It even got the remix treatment from Laidback Luke and frequent plays by malente and crookers just to name a few. It is a crucial track for summer. It crosses fidget with enough elements of big room house to make a great crossover track and flexible enough to play at Pacha and crobar to studio b and cinespace.
And its available now through beatport for you to purchase and enjoy. Click here or here. Rest assured that it is worth every cent of your money, with the original track being amazing and the remixes are even more crucial. My personal favorite being a tie between the Jokers of The Scene remix and the Bart Bmore remix. The whole thing just creates a great excitement for the future of Destroy Disco.
And to celebrate the release of this monumental record, the Destroy Disco boys sent Trash Menagerie some tracks as a thank you to all their fans.
DJ Kue seems to be a name that’s been popping up all over the place these days. His crowd friendly fidgety electro disco house has an incredibly broad appeal and his tight productions have been spotted in some the biggest DJs sets. This San Jose producer has been making tunes since 2004 but has been a well respected DJ in the bay area for 15 years. Most recently he has been added to DJ Dan’s label In Stereo and has shown quite a bit of success from his first release, My Way. He’s been kind enough to provide to you what I feel is the best tunes he’s made thus far, Lovers Break, with its bouncy bassline and funky sample breakdown this one has been a hit with everyone who’s gotten their hands on it. It was, just the other day, featured on Guns ‘n’ Bombs most recent mixtape; the series thats been such a mainstay in the rise of bloghouse. DJ Kue presents a bright future and will be poking his touch on many future remix and original projects.
Saturday, June 21st saw the Big Apple debut of no less than three of 2008’s most blogged about and lauded upcoming European dance music talents, the mysterious masked Frenchman DANGER, fellow countrymen SPITZER and Italian wonk scallywags CROOKERS. This one night only event unfurled to a sold out crowd of fourteen-hundred excited individuals in the main room of the city’s venerable, Webster Hall.
The evening kicked-off in fine style around midnight with an appropriately hyper set of wobbly bassbin havoc courtesy of Trouble & Bass stalwart THE CAPTAIN. Any opening set that includes freshness like FOAMO’S “Rockerman” and the generally upfront sounds that the Trouble & Bass crew are known for purveying, is sure to get people moving.
Following the wobbly mayhem of THE CAPTAIN, Chicago’s Grey Goose guzzling godfather of Ghettotech DJ FUNK, took to the decks. FUNK’S two-hundred mile an hour blend of jackin’ Juke whipped the already excitable dance floor into an even sweatier pool of smiling faces.
Next, the pulsating sound of Electro-tinged Techy-Trance heralded the arrival of SPITZER, who drove head first into their smooth Trance-not-Trance set, an admittedly jarring change of pace from the three-hundred beats per minute, booty bass of DJ FUNK, but this duo from Lyon (sorry for misspelling – fixed!), France quickly had the happy sea of up-for-it punters eating out the palm of their hand. Indeed, anyone smitten by SPITZER’S handful of original productions like the excellent “Rainbow Warrior” or their quality remixes of KYLIE MINOGUE’S “In My Arms” and SALLY SHAPIRO’S “Time To Let Go,” would have been more than happy with the set they played this night.
By the time SPITZER’S set bubbled nicely to a close, it was 2am and finally time for the Phra and Bot (aka, CROOKERS) to take to the CDJ’s.
Photo credit: lastnightsparty.com
Despite the positive buzz generated by CROOKERS DJ stints elsewhere around the world — download their superb BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix and Gatecrasher Sound System mixes, from our MIXES section, for a taste of their established exploits elsewhere — expectations and excitement for their performance on this particular night was tangibly high. So did this much hyped Milanese production and remix team deliver the goods? Without hesitation I would have to say a hearty, yes! While not quite on par with their thoroughly brilliant, masterpiece of an Essential Mix, their Webster Hall set had the room in an utter frenzy, hundreds of people bouncing all around them on stage, feet stomping fists pumping until their last beat was dropped. Kudos to Webster Hall for allowing everyone to freely vibe and get up close and personal to the artist they’d waited so long to see perform in person. Finally CROOKERS had arrived stateside!
Anyone left breathless by the finish of CROOKERS thunderous set around 3:30am, barely had time to recalibrate their eardrums before arguably the line-ups most exciting and certainly most fascinating artists appeared out of nowhere in his trademark “alien creature” mask. It was time to experience DANGER and what better time than 3:30am in the morning!
With DANGER’S appearance the lights in Webster Hall dimmed, about half of the fourteen-hundred strong crowd dissipated and a very low-end rumble started to throb from the sound system. Fluttering images of a jungle suddenly appeared on a massive screen behind the masked DJ, through the jungle a charatcter runs fantically from an unknown danger. For an hour DANGER won the hearts and minds of those who had committed to staying late to witness his unique brand of what can only be describe as cultish, Prog-Electro Soundtrack-Techno! Think VANGELIS meets THE PROXY meets secret society paranoia. DANGER left little doubt that much bigger things are in-store for his hypnotic, if still somewhat lo-fi stage show. The eye-popping, staccato VJ storytelling concept alone will capture the imagination of clubbers, artists and industry types alike and the mind simply boggles at how impressive it all might become with a real budget thrown at it. Time will hopefully tell.
So there we have it, three very different but equally spot-on debut performances that drew seemingly everyone involved with dance music in New York City to the same venue for one night. It was definitely one of the most interesting and eclectic nights of electronic music the city has seen in quite some time. There is little doubt that when DANGER, SPITZER and CROOKERS make their respective return journeys to spin in New York again, they will each have a swollen army of dedicated follows to call their own, in part thanks to this impressive showcase.
Christian Shank (aka I Will Shank You For A Penny, also known as the bass heavy A1 Bassline) and Howard P. Sausage (aka Party Sausage) of the UK-based outfit Partyshank are bringing their grime ridden, circuit-bending sounds to the city of Chicago tonight!!< — We just got word from Mr Shank himself that they are not doing the Chicago show due to Visa problems. Bummer! Apparently, they are making the best of it though by sitting by the pool in Vegas. As far as I can tell, all the remaining shows are still on including the massive Electric Daisy Carnival in Cali.
What began as a joke calling their sound “Toy-step” has now caught on and seems the description is sticking. They’ve crafted their own sound that is a mixture of punk, crazy antics, powerpop, jungle, grime, bass and enough bleepy toy noises to make you wana play your own! Marvel at their talents tonight or catch them on a few more U.S. stops (check their MySpace) including L.A. on the So Sweet stage at Electric Daisy Carnival!!!! Be sure to check the Partyshank remixes page for more pounding numbers and our remixes page for a mix by A1 Bassline!!
