Housse de Racket is a Parisian duo made of of too childhood friends who have a knack for making insanely catchy tunes. The bands outstanding single ‘Oh Yeah’ which sounds like an ode to musical maestros of past, has received the remix treatment from fellow Parisian electro purveyors Tepr, 25 Hours a Day & Gonzales. Partake.
Housse de Racket’s first album ‘Forty Love‘ is out October 13th. They are playing various dates in and around Paris. If you are in the area be sure to check them out.
ATL’s Rrrump come off like fun lovin’ party wreckers. This rawkus threesome are doing the darned thing on fellow ATLien Le Castle Vania’s new label, Always Never, part of the So Sweet Records fam.
Tonight Rrrump (and Le Castle Vania) supports indie/dance Aussies Cut Copy & The Presets on the Modular Peoples Atlanta tour date (Cut Copy’s full US tour can be seen here). This has epic potential, everybody that can go should make the move. I know I’d be there.
Brooklyn’s The American Dream Team (or, TADT) have returned and I’m feelin’ patriotic. This mix has me dancing to a whole heap of my favorite tunes. This mix has the same skillful execution as the first mix, ‘What Dreams Are Made Of’. Please enjoy v2.0, as mixed by the Team’s Code-D:
Tracklist:
Intro
Messinian - Throw It Away (Designer Drugs Remix)
The American Dream Team - Money VIP (Feat. Whiskey Pete & Andre Parnel
Le Le - Breakfast (Kill The Noise Remix
DJ Kue - Riding Low
Groove Armada - The Girls Say (Atomic Hooligans Remix)
Big Gipp - Hot (Treasure Fingers Remix)
The Red Room Project - Claptomania (Will Bailey & Mikey Hook Remix)
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Atomic Hooligan Remix)
Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era - Far Out (TMX Remix)
Kidda - Under The Sun (Hervé Remix)
The American Dream Team - Listen 2 The Music
The Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go (Left/Right Remix)
Wired All Wrong - Elevation (Computer Club Remix)
Katy Perry - Hot N Cold (CODES TADT Remix)
Chromeo - Call Me Up (Kill The Noise Remix)
Computer Club - Flat Response
Deviant Sound System - Jump
Crystal Castles - Crimewave (Sinden Remix)
The Death Set - Negative Thinking (Treasure Fingers Remix)
MGMT - Electric Feel (True Pesudo Remix)
Jazmine Sullivan feat. Mixxhy Elliot - Need You Bad (Chew Fu Paino Fix)
New Young Pony Club - The Bomb (Villains Xplosive Remix)
Mission Control - Innerspace (Designer Drugs Remix)
From the mix above TADT have hooked up the VIP remix of ‘Money’, you remember the track with the chant to be about (”money, bitches, cars, clothes & weed”)? Now with added flavor from MCs Whiskey Pete & Andre Parnel (a.k.a. MC Dre):
See TADT clown on the decks like damned Globetrotters or somethin’. Assorted dates in Brooklyn & Manhattan are on the books, including tonight, at Crooked Disco, where they share the night with other special ppls Streetlab. Always current dates & dets on TADT’s MySpace tour page.
Birmingham, UK has a powerhouse of sound in Will Bailey (a.k.a. Rudi Stakker). Formerly half of short-lived fidget outfit Twocker (with Calvertron), and owner of startup label Simma, Will Bailey makes world-renowned tracks in the emerging fidget house sub-genre. It’s something that sounds a bit of UK garage, electro house, drum’n'bass and breakbeat thrown in a martini shaker and poured over a 4/4 time signature (don’t forget the olive). Will Bailey shares the Fidget umbrella with the likes of Crookers, Stupid Fresh & Mickey Slim, just to name a few.
Just in, Will Bailey has shared with us his throbbing remix of Southside Queens hip-hop hero, Pharoahe Monch (who you know we got love for, peep the profile of Monch & his former group, Organized Konfusion in this post from last year). This is perhaps taking a cue from the electro-minded remix by Edinbergh’s Hostage. If you’ve heard ‘em all, how’s this compare? I think this is huge:
Here’s another Will Bailey banger with additional production from fellow Birmingham “producer/engineer/DJ” Mikey Hook, he’s not much older than seventeen and already smashing tracks with the big boys.
And for good measure, here’s that Twocker sound that you’ve grown to love (or you should have). It’s a remix of their only original single (with the exception of the ‘Chopper’ B-side) as remixed by other major fidget playboys, Sydney’s Bass Kleph. Love teh wonk:
And yo, we ain’t even finished yet! To match the exclusive remix at the top, here’s a mix to match. Recorded hot on the heels of Will Bailey’s recent gig trip to L.A. to play Nocturnal Wonderland. California love:
Tracklist:
AC Slater - Jack Got Jacked (Jackbeats Remix) (Will Bailey Into Remix)
The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (Bass Weazal Remix)
How You Like Me Now [Rico Tubbs VIP Remix)
Lee Mortimer - Putto
Idiot - Gorilla (Lee Moritmer Remix
Mighty Fools - Hey Babe
Bass Weazal - Jungle massive
DJ Deekline - Don't Smoke da Reefer (Twocker Remix)
In the mix the Pharoahe Monch track is credited to both Will Bailey & Mikey Hook. I dunno what givz thurr. Whatevs! Twocker, although “broken up”, are going on a Australian tour through early October. Will Bailey goes on to Canadian dates late October through November 1st. Then it’s back to the home country for more UK TLC. Full dates and details on Will Bailey’s MySpace page.
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:
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):
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:
Our favorite Orange County peoples, True Pseudo are steadily building an arsenal of killer dance music artillery. Since their introduction right here, last May, the crew have gone on to take on an unofficial, but officially awesome, remix of Upstate N.Y.’s indie darlings, MGMT’s, ‘Electric Feel’. Also, a cool colab. with San Diego rockstars Buddy Akai (who previously got the Villains remix treatment—amazing) and L.A. party-boy MC, Whiskey Pete.
MP3: True Pseudo - Maxed Out (feat. Whiskey Pete & Buddy Akai)
Removed at label’s request.
We’ve put this up before, but it deserves another go! Here’s a favorite from the original batch of True Pseudo tracks. True Pseudo’s Flitch on vocals. Not having to rely on a remix to make a good indie/electro track—the mark of professionals:
MP3: True Pseudo - Freaking Me Out
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Here’s a brand new mix full of UNRELEASED material straight from the man himself, legendary DJ/producer/promoter extraordinaire, Larry Tee. (You know, the guy responsible for coining the term ‘Electroclash‘ and helping launch the careers of artists like Fischerspooner and Peaches…)
As we mentioned in our post about the SCION house party at The vanguard last week, The electro thrash duo HEARTSREVOLUTION are now a trio since being joined by Los Angeles musician/dj/label owner Franki Chan on drums. The group has recently announced the release of their long awaited Switchblade EP which will be coming out October 18th on IHEARTCOMIX records.
I’m sure all of you kids are familiar with the track, but until now only low quality myspace rips have hit the net. Here it is in all it’s 320kbps glory.
HEARTSREVOLUTION begins their UK tour this Friday at Old Blue Last in London. All you Londoners get out their and show your support.
HEARTSREVOLUTION UK TOUR DATES:
9/19 - London, UK @ Old Blue Last
9/20 - London, UK @ The Monarch
9/22 - London, UK @ Puregroove (instore)
9/23 - London, UK @ Club Propoganda (early)
9/23 - London, UK @ Madame JoJo’s/White Heat (late)
9/25 - Brighton, UK @ Digital w/ Midnight Juggernauts
9/26 - London, UK @ ULU w/ Midnight Juggernauts
Word on the internet streets in that HEARTSREVOLUTION will be releasing another remix 12″ of ‘Switchblade’, sometime in November that will feature remixes by Designer Drugs, Beni, LA Riots, The Toxic Avenger, Mixhell, Acid Girls and more. Be on the look out for that also.
N.Y. come L.A. DJ Reid Speed throws down a mean fidgety electro house mix for all you wayward back-to-schoolers to sneak into your iPods (pro tip: grow shaggy hair & you can wear headphones in class). The mix is ‘Back To School’. The sound is massive.
For a quick bio, know that Reid entered the drum’n'bass scene in the mid ’90s working raves & honing her DJ chops, shortly after, she securing a spot behind the scenes at heavyweight junglist Dara’s highly revered Breakbeat Science record shop (and label) in Manhattan. Her DJing has taken her physically to stages across the globe, and musically from drum’n'bass to UK garage to breakbeat to some fidget electro that you hear below.
Tracklist:
Bassbin Twins - Pigpen
Andy Stuffa - Pretty Girls (David Eckenback Remix)
Don Rimini - Rave On
Alex Metric - Deadly on a Mission
Count of Monte Cristal - Dub More Forward
Estelle - American Boy (feat. Kanye West) (Nadastorm Remix)
N.E.R.D. - Anti Matter (Destroy Disco Edit)
Foamo - Rockerman
B. Rich - Everyday Hustle (AC Slater Remix)
B. Rich - Everyday Hustle
Calvertron - Back to ‘89
Scott Cooper - I Can’t Go
AC Slater - Jack Got Jacked (B. Rich Remix)
DJ Kue - Massive Hotstepper
Flipside - The Rubdown (Heavyfeet’s Jack in the Day Mix)
Crookers - Segalia (Oh Snap Booty Alarm Mix)
Moby - I Love to Move in Here (Crookers Lemmesee Mix)
Calvertron vs. Benga - Turn It Up
Andy George & Scott Cooper - Piano Man
Passions - Turn the Music Up (AC Slater Remix)
Kidda - Under The Sun (Herve Remix)
Bass Weazel - Captain Weazel
Bloc Party - Mercury in Retrograde (Herve Remix)
Dr. Dre - Next Episode (feat. Snoop Dogg) (Project Cyborg Remix)
Shwayze - Buzzin’ (Villains Remix)
Kill The Noise - Hey You
Tittsworth - WTF (feat. Kid Sister & Pase Rock)
Cool Kids - It’s a Party (Deekline Boot)
Fatboy Slim - Toe Jam (feat. Dizzee Rascal) (Stanton Warriors Remix)
Reid Speed alongside Josh David & Matt David (one half of Audiodummies) are collectively known as Breakdown, who we’ll have more from real soon. Reid Speed is also one half of IDM-meets-breaks-meets-electro team, Beep!.
Now, the Breakdown crew & I have been friend for several years, and we came to the realization that it’d be fun to throw a little party together. So, if you’re in Hollywood on a Tuesday and feelin’ like getting saucy & moving your ass around, check out BOOM ROOM, located in the Attic at Arena (we’re sharing the space with DANCE who majorly rave downstairs in the main room). It’s a party, yo! Free & easy!
PUBLIC recently played alongside L.A.’s Villains and N.Y.’s Stretch Armstrong and will soon be headlining Blow Up in San Francisco on Friday, Oct. 10, and playing alongside legendary electronica act the Crystal Method at the Vanguard in L.A the next day… make it out!!!
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