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Eli Smith: ‘Party All Knight’ + Lies In Disguise ‘Meet Your Replacement’

elismith Eli Smith: Party All Knight + Lies In Disguise Meet Your Replacement
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Los Angeles (and-sometimes-Tokyo) resident Eli Smith, VP from the So Sweet Records crew, just put down this first original release that is hella party tune. The title is an apt pun: ‘Party All Knight’. When I hear it I do kinda feel like partying (and maybe a little jousting). …Now, I’ve heard Eli Smith DJs live shows in chainmail armor under ever-waving banners of So Sweet heraldry—O.K. I kid, I kid! To borrow from the the words of the label, “Party All Knight was written as a tribute to people who never want the party to end, those don’t know when to stop partying, and those who do know when to stop, but carry on partying anyway….. including Michael Phelps”. Zing!

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MP3: Eli Smith – Party All Knight (2009)
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That track right there is mastered by Computer Club which is a guarantee it will bang the hell out in your DJ sets on the big monitors.

And if yew never knew, Eli Smith was, once upon a time, the drummer for a little Los Angeles based indie band called Moving Units. Oh, you’ve heard of them? They’re one of my very favorites too! You’re probably aware that the lead singer of Moving Units, Blake Miller is on the So Sweet label as one half of Lies In Disguise with Le Castle Vania. This tune is worth your time as well: ‘Meet Your Replacement’ is Lies in Disguise’s latest offering:

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MP3: Lies In Disguise – Meet Your Replacement (2009)
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Peep out the ‘Party All Night’ video edit on YouTube. And shop for the above tune and other future releases on Beatport.

Le Castle Vania remixes Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Zero’ into ‘Zero Machine’

lecastlevania Le Castle Vania remixes Smashing Pumpkins Zero into Zero MachineDesign Credit: Electrik Suicide

ATL come L.A. DJ/Producer Le Castle Vania has earned a reputation for whipping crowds into a frenzy, no doubt aided by this staple of his sets, the hard-as-fucking-nails electro track, ‘Zero Machine’ that samples (or remixes, if you prefer) the alternative gods, The Smashing Pumpkins, classic, ‘Zero’. If last year was all about Mr. Oizo’s RATM remix (or was it, Patrick Alavi’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ (here) remix instead?), this year is all about:

MP3: Le Castle Vania – Zero Machine
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Also new in the Le Castle Vania repository is this collaboration with Birmingham (but soon to be L.A.) party monster, Computer Club. Computer Club shot this over to us before his recent string of L.A. dates, including Nocuturnal Wonderland (where he straight murdered it). Nod to event coordinators like Insomniac who have, in the last year, let this indie-electro-blog-house thing get a massive stage of their own and fill it with global players. It’s fun to be along for the ride as a genre goes from fledgling to full-fledged—But I digress… Here’s Le Castle Vania & Computer Club:

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MP3: Le Castle Vania & Computer Club – The Messiah

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MP3: Le Castle Vania & Computer Club – The Messiah (Radio Edit)

Yo, so why’s it called ‘The Messiah’ (Besides the potentially obvious, it being a straight-up cover of Renegade Hardware junglist, Konflict’s 2000 track, ‘Messiah’), here’s one you might not know, from way back to 2003, when Le Castle Vania was Messiah-1, drum’n'bass producer and operator of his own short-lived label Negaverse Recordings. The release is a tune is ‘Relic’ which got a properly massive remix by L.A.’s Gridlok and the original ‘Red Dust’. Strictly jungle (the crazy bass drops are all about half-way in):

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MP3: Messiah 1 – Relic (Gridlok Remix)

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MP3: Messiah 1 – Red Dust

Boh! If you love it, know that we love it too. If you don’t, go kick rocks. Or, maybe give this other contemporary Le Castle Vania a try, as remixed by L.A.’s top-shelf’s LA Riots:

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MP3: Le Castle Vania – Trouble in Daylight (LA Riots Remix)

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Le Castle Vania remixes Kill The Noise’s ‘Hey You’ / Lies In Disguise remixes PARTYSHANK & The Toxic Avenger

lecastlevania Le Castle Vania remixes Kill The Noises Hey You / Lies In Disguise remixes PARTYSHANK & The Toxic AvengerDesign Credit: Electrik Suicide

Hey you, yea you… We’re piggybacking off the last post featuring Paparazzi’s remix of Kill The Noise, with this, Paparazzi co-conspirator and ALT-to-LA transplant, Le Castle Vania’s take on KTN’s ‘Hey You’. Le Castle Vania gives some hard electro frequencies and atmospheric bridges for the big room riiiiinse out.

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MP3: Kill The Noise – Hey You (Le Castle Vania Remix)

And here’s some more stuff we seriously slept on sharing, Le Castle Vania’s collaboration with Blake Miller of dance-rock stronghold Moving Units, collectively knows as Lies in Disguise. The duo hit on something great with their first remix for London electro kids, PARTYSHANK, on ‘Penis VS Vagina’ late last year and again, recently, with their remix of masked Frenchman The Toxic Avenger’s electro-thrasher ‘Poker Face’.

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MP3: PARTYSHANK – Penis VS Vagina (Lies In Disguise Remix)

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MP3: The Toxic Avenger – Pokerface (Lies In Disguise Remix)

Now listen to it again, twice as loud. Tinnitus ain’t all that bad.

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All up in the internets’ guts.

Monday through Thursday’s I spend most of the day ducking and dodging responsibility and/or my boss. My usual unkempt appearance (a.k.a. hangover) has been known to draw attention from the higher ups, so I try to lay low most of the day, pretending to work.

Ah, but Fridays! Everyone is preoccupied with turning in their timesheets and trying to get out of the office early, to be worried about why my hair isn’t combed or why my pants are far beyond acceptably wrinkled. It’s the only work day where I get the chance to spend some quality time with my mistress, the internet. We both snuggle up in my cube, I dim the lights and get all up in them guts.

RepertoireR All up in the internets guts.

A while back the Chazology empire came tumbling down and their absence left a gaping hole in our RSS readers. But, after retreating underground to regroup and plan their counterattack they have returned under the guise of RepertoireR! They’ve got a nice new look, but still the same great content. You know there’s always room in our hearts and iPods for Chaz. Should be the same for you. Visit them NYC boys and tell them we sent you.

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kissatl All up in the internets guts.

ATL is the birth place of that legendary dirty south hip hop and has produced many great acts that we know and love. They’ve also produced one of the best blogs out there right now. Kiss Atlanta is run by Preston Craig, who is not only an exceptional blogger but he curates some of the biggest electro parties the ATL has ever seen. He’s like a young, white P. Diddy. Digging through Kiss Atlanta’s archives I found these gems:

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MP3:  Snowden – Anti-Anti (Treasure Fingers remix)

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MP3:  Snowden – Black Eyes (Le Castle Vania remix)

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MP3:  Fergie – Glamorous (Treasure Fingers remix)

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MP3:  Armand Van Helden – I Want Your Soul (Fake Blood remix)

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MP3:  Scanners – Bombs (Young Americans Terrible Fuss edit)

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And it’s hard to pop on the internet, and read any blog without getting linked to a MySpace page. It’s inevitable, BUT! Facebook, is coming up. It’s already bigger than MySpace in Canada and worldwide it’s the 10th most utilized website. Myspace is number 6.

It seems as though MySpace is feeling Facebook breathing down their neck with all their cool features and sleekly designed site because MySpace is soon changing their (ugly ass) layout & it’s chock full of new stuff. Here’s a screen cap of what the new MySpace will look like:

new myspace sm All up in the internets guts.

And speaking of MySpace, did you see that Aesop Rock was their featured artist last week? Which is not unheard of for an indie rapper to make it up there, BUT now Aesop is MTV’s artist of the week?! Not that I’m complaining, but it’s just strange to me, like when your aunt tries to kiss you on the mouth. I was going to touch on the whole MTV VMA thing but there’s not enough hours in the work day.

Shit, since we’re talking about social networks, we know you guys are on them. ADD US!
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It’s almost quitting time for me and as soon at the clock strikes 6 o’clock I will be on my way to see the Institubes‘ PARIS TERROR CLUB tear San Francisco in half! If you’re smart you will be in attendance.

robot rock 300 All up in the internets guts.

If you see me in the crowd tonight, be like T-Pain and buy me a drink, cuz I’m a straight 6 dollar baller right now.

Blow Up Friday, August 17th w/ Le Castle Vania!

blow up 17 Blow Up Friday, August 17th w/ Le Castle Vania!

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Tomorrow the biggest night in SF gets even bigger! BLOW UP will show you no mercy as the mightiest stars of electro take the stage! Resident DJ and partymaker Jefrodisiac is bringing out Atlanta’s not so secret weapon Le Castle Vania to bestow upon us the best beats a plane ticket can buy!

Partake in some recent Le Castle Vania remixes, including one by LA Riots (whom we are playing with on the 31st @ the SPECIAL EDITION Blow Up!)!

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MP3: Le Castle Vania – Tigertron (Toxic Avenger Remix)

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MP3: Le Castle Vania – Trouble In Daylight (Young Americans Envy Remix)

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MP3: Le Castle Vania – Trouble In Daylight (LA Riots Remix)

If you’ve ever been to Blow Up, you know the parties get stupid — I mean outrageous! Expect to see all the regular dance-a-holics and party goers. Club paparazzi Vaindeer, Lady Meleksah & Silke Labson will be there to snap pictures of you having the time of your lives. Peter Noble will be there to capture the debauchery on video.

blow 1 Blow Up Friday, August 17th w/ Le Castle Vania!

blow 2 Blow Up Friday, August 17th w/ Le Castle Vania!

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BLOW UP
3rd Fridays at the Rickshaw Stop
115 Fell St. @ Van Ness 18+
$10 but free b4 10:30 when you RSVP @ going.com




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