09's 9's

I know ....it is another best of 2009 post. But the fact that i am in pre new years hibernation means that this is my departure from boredom. As the title suggests the focus is to honour the looming end of a decade with a personal selection of my 9 favourite remixes and mixtapes of 09. Take what you want from these choices as it is purely what i was digging this year and not a general estimate based on hype amongst the music scene. First are my top 9 remixes - and this is based on both how the track has been reworked and how funky it is.

THE NINE - REMIXES

I. Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
II. I'm Not Your Toy (Jack Beats Remix) - La Roux

III. Satisfaction Skank - The Rolling Stones vs Fatboy Slim

IV. Sweet Disposition (Axwell & Dirty South Remix) - The Temper Trap

V. Shooting Stars (Shazam Remix) - Bag Raiders

VI. Devils Eyes (Classixx's B-LIVE Remix) - Drop The Lime

VII. Bonkers (Soulwax Remix) - Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden

VIII. Sometimes (Hook N' Sling Remix) - Miami Horror

IX. Township Funk (Crazy P Remix) - DJ Mujava

THE NINE - MIXTAPES

I. 30 Minutes of Swick - Swick

II. The Twelfth Hour - The Twelves

III. Dance On Glass Mix - Breakbot

IV. Infinity + 1 - A-Trak

V. PopTron Mix - Senor Cisco

VI. Sunburn Mix 2009 - Hostage

VII. August Mixtape - AC Slater

VIII. Disco Circus CDs 1 & 2 - MiGHty mOUsE

IX. Infatuation Mix - Blake Miller

Hope you enjoyed. Remember to get out to a gig and support the music scene, have a cracking new years and i shall see you in 2010!!
much love nicK!

Review - Drop The Lime

With such a thriving music scene Sydney is at the forefront of the nightlife in Australia... As i enjoy the international and homegrown acts that are brought to syd dance floors, i feel it is appropriate that we start serving reviews as part of the DF! menu. For a taste test is a quite belated review of Drop The Lime at Chinese Laundry. If you do not know Chinese Laundry (however expensive it may be) is a damn fine venue. Case study being a friday night in which i met The Bloody Beetroots, Drop The Lime and that is not to mention the music that they were dishing out. Props to the in house DJs there including Marky Mark and King Lee who always deliver a great set. DTL being the International that night played about a two set - of which he told me later was only really using one turntable as the other had broken. The now electronically disabled Drop The Lime impressed banging out a wicked set. Well worth the pacific commute this Brooklyn Banger filled his set with originals, dirty dubbing beats and crowd grabbing vocal fills. Overall i am glad i went as i missed out at Stereosonic (damn the shit organisers) on his internationally acclaimed set. The only criticism is that one of my favourite tracks of his was not played. Another thing to note is the venue and Chinese Laundry this weekend are hosting the brotherly combination of Kid Kenobi & Hugga Thug known as Two Fresh so go check them out. Drop The Lime's set had me dancing and in every tune all night so it deserves its high + rating - a great start for many set reviews in the future.

set rating:

+ + + +

nicK!

Munk Funk

Its been a while but we are back and now regularly fixing the holiday hits straight up here. Look out for every day or two for a feature post or track fix. Back to whats important. Unlike many electronic producers that hail from Germany Munk has dropped some slightly lighter and more synthpop beats. His new album Cloudbuster is definitely worth a good listen as it is not full on and not too chilled - the album has a unique sound of progressive beats and jacking rhythms with some fantastic synth lines. Anyways here are a few tracks from the maverick of the German electro scene....This is one to watch with many tracks being remixed by big names and featured in the top string mixtapes at the moment. Go out or log on and buy some of his ill tunes- otherwise these can satisfy your funk needs.

Down In LA (Shazam Vocal Remix) - Munk

Electric Fever (Munk Remix) - DatA
nicK!

Spanish Warriors

Due to a significant workload im going to keep this one short.
The Crystal Fighters have just released their second single which has been boucning around the blog scene over the past week. The heavy synth, brisk percussion and Spanish accent on the vocals has significantly individualized this Spanish band, putting together a little genre in itself, "Basque-tronica" as it has been referred to.
The recent remixes that have been compiled have been excellent, a lot more upbeat than the original. Personally these two in particular have been better than the original.

Fingers crossed for an album soon.
enjoi.

I Love London - Crystal Fighters (Kid Cola remix)

I Love London - Crystal Fighters (80kidz remix)

I Love London - Crystal Fighters

drop the dennis keep the menace

"solace lies in the sound"

Kris Menace isn't foreign to blogging world and has received a large amount of his support from online releases, mixtapes etc. Borderline veteran electronic producer Kris Menace aka Christophe Hoeffel has his own label ('Work It Baby') and tons of digging synth electro tunes in circulation. Along with collaborators such as Alan Braxe, Fred Falke and Lifelike he has produced some disco/electro-pop tunes that are soothing beats to the musically matured of us. Also to be recognised are his remixes - which i may even like more (maybe not). I shall let the light dreamy synths of Kris Menace and another alias of his Jaunt do the rest of the description.

Have a killer weekend all.

Heartbreaker (Kris Menace) - Metronomy

Lightning - Kris Menace

Destination (Jaunt Remix) - Damn Arms

zazZ

Halloween Skream

Excuse the belated Halloween post but my weekend took priority. So in recent time there has been a somewhat dub revolution - courtesy of names like Rusko, Foamo and Doorly. One of the artists who has also been ripping it up is Skream. This UK dubber has been a pioneer of the scene and claims to have 8000 dub variation songs under his belt. Most of you would know his work through his progressively wicked remix of La Roux's 'In For The Kill'. Pre and post this acclaimed mix he has shown true form in other mixes, singles and collabs. With his partner in dub crime - Benga, Skream will be opening 2010 with those dnb baselines and ripping beats at the Field Day festival. Enough said be sure to check out his other work (namely his La Roux remix) + any other substep if your up for a change.

Night by Night (Skream Remix) - Chromeo

Its Not Over Yet (Skream Remix) - Klaxons

BONUS :

Sierra Leone - Mt Eden Dubstep

Next of surKIN

With Stereosonic looming on the horizon, the much anticipated line-up will entail one of Southern France's finest. Surkin will once again be returning to our fine shores, the 20-year old prodigy has been making an impact since his early teens, a fine contribution to the French electro scene.

The art school drop hasn't looked back since, starting out with a strong influence from the Ghettotech scene, now significantly influenced by House courtesy of French duo Daft Punk.

Here's one of his classics off his Next of Kin EP, its fast stop-start beat gives it a great vibe.

White Knights Two - Surkin

A bumpy rhythm and fast percussion sums up this little remix.

Acid Life (Surkin Remix) - Nacho Lovers

enjoy,

Peeler

Sunday fix

"There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me" - David Hasselhoff

G'day. As the week ahead looms i feel that i shall share some frais (parlez vous francais?) tunes with all. So here are a select few that may get you through your manic monday all the way to freeball friday...just. Also look out for a spooky post later this week.

The first is a track that has been quite recently hyped up with big names pulling out remixes of it. It is the latest track from Kasper Bjørke and although being a short, sweet, dreamy and smooth track it also has a ripping video that is worth a look.

Young Again - Kasper Bjørke

These boys have been busy beetroots lately - touring, recording and hella remixing. The next installment of great remixes from these crazy italians. The Bloody Beetroots are set to tour oz aswell for stereosonic which draws closer. This is a solid mix of another pumping european duo and i hope you like it.

I Wont Kneel (The Bloody Beetroots Remix) - Groove Armada

Lastly is a rare MJ track and even though the world cannot hear the end of the Jackson tale this must be shared. It is a rare track that is a B-side of thriller - and with some adjustments and a little more bass (due to its cassete quality) it is a really catchy classic Michael song.

Hot Street (U-Tern Edit) - Michael Jackson

au revoir.

nicK.

The Return

Hello all. Firstly apologies for the recent lack in posts. From now onwards i intend to give at least two weekly fixes of music/reviews/videos/news etc.

Now back to buisness... Since my recent departure many good tunes have been hitting the floors around Australia and the world. And with the recent parklife tour came a string of great DJs/Bands bringing there homegrown or international tunes with them. One of the most notable was the turntable wiz kid himself A-Trak. The story behind this world banging DJ began with bar-mitzvah money that was used to buy his first set of turntables. At the age of 15 he was one of the best scratch mixers in the world as seen here in such videos of his competition sets. Anyway at parklife it was Busy P who dropped A Trak's latest remix. It is in my opinion some of his best stuff so far and will be hitting the club scene in the US and oz quite soon.

Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Enjoy.

sWICKED

I may be a little late on this plug but its weel worth it. And although i promised myself not to post during exams i take by the words of what Winston Churchill once said...."Fuck It"

Sorry if you got excited but jesus only DJs the backroom or heaven so i couldnt get a hold of his mixtape. But....i have got one that is stunning. Just to illustrate how good it is i whilst downloading it also downloaded The Twelves new mixtape (The Twelfth Hour) which at any other time would be on repeat.....But this mix thanks to an anonymous red-head has come to my attention and is unbelievable.

It i could base how i wish to be as a DJ in the future it would be just this. Every song is amazing and it sits somewhere between a mini-mix (where you may not realise there a 20 songs beatmatched at once) and a full blown mixtape. Swick is a melbourne boy doing OZ proud and along with this dope mix he has some of his own individual remixes up. Thankfully, arguably the best new label in the land of OZ 'Sweat It Out' have gobbled him up.....he joins the likes of Ajax, DCUP, Act Yo Age, EduK etc etc. So sit your ass down put redtube i mean youtube on pause for 30 minutes and listen to the best eighty songs crammed into that time. (Download through the link below)

30 Minutes of Swick - Swick

PS - look out for some retrun posts and weekly segemnts starting next friday

A New Sensation?

Lately i have seen some dope stuff on the tube that shows with new age video+audio editing some funky stuff can be made check out these three the first two of which is an chiller under the name Pogo who has quite a few of these on youtube. He uses basic sounds from movies along with a small amount of his own stuff and its very wicked. The last is a more basic refix but is still cool and pretty funny...Theres my Sunday Roast so check em out.
Peace.
nicK

And Then It Happened.

UK duo Beni G and Plus One are the tag team behind unique sounds of JACK BEATS. This magnificent combo have been releasing some killa remixes since early 08, incorporating hard-hitting breakdowns and distorted basslines.

These UK remix extraordinaire don’t disappoint with nearly every release transforming into a dancefloor hit, earning these floor fillers a spot on cheap thrills label along side the likes of Fake Blood and Sinden.

If your still conscious then you can catch there set on the 1/1/10 as they head down under to start the year with a bang, touring with the Field Day crew.

With numerous influences across most genres there is something for everyone.

Bon Appétit

Get Down (Original Mix) - Jack Beats

Fog Bank (Jack Beats Remix) - Boy 8-bit

I'm Not Your Toy (Jack Beats Remix) - La Roux

C-b.

The Land of OZ

Quickly if you have not heard the killer lineup for Field Day 10' then it is as follows:

2 Many DJs (Belgium),
The Presets,
Major Lazer,
LCD Soundsystem (USA),
Architecture in Helsinki,
Fake Blood (UK),
Datarock (Norway),
Krafty Kuts (UK),
The Proxy (Russian Federation),
Sinden (United Kingdom),

Fred Falke (France),

Sebastien Leger (France),

Lyrics Born (USA),

DJ Yoda (UK),

Skream & Benga,

The Juan McLean,

Amanda Blank (USA),

Treasure Fingers,

Nic Fanciulli,

Riton,

We Have Band,

Jack Beats

This is probably the best announcement of various chillers that will be coming to the land of OZ (hence the title) along with such festivals as Pyramid Rock, Playground Weekender, Summadayze, Good Vibes etc. To my rejoice one of the craziest promoters/producers/DJs is hitting down under. Yes its Steve Aoki, not much information about who he is playing with yet is available but for Steve Aoki he does mean special guests. On that note I will drop you a few random tracks and i suggest that you get some of the green highlighted blokes' (above) tunes as they are all insane. Oz we have certanily got some crackers coming up......and toto we aint in fucking Kansas anymore (had to do it).

Peace.

nicK

Atlantis to Interzone (Destroy Disco Remix) - The Klaxons

I Want You Back (Bok Bok Remix) - Dre Skull

BONus:

One More Chance - Bloc Party

HOSTAGE

Tilt your kilt cos Hostage is in the house. Hailing from Scotland this dude has been spinning it up lately. The hard electro styles of Hostage have been on repeat for me heaps lately. I am not sure what they are starting to put in the water over there but scotts like Hostage and Dirty Basement have been smashing out cranking tunes that have an inventive element to them.....i am yet to figure out what makes them different but there is definately something. Enjoy these couple of tracks and stay on the look out for electro talent as its everywhere not just france. If you dig these tracks he is playing at Oxford Arts Factory early-ish october.

Au Revoir.

nicK.

Soundboy - Hostage

I Get High - Hostage

Special Brew - Hostage

A NEW TAKE

(image by Kenny Scharf)
yay. i have found time on the weekend to post...anyhoo the theme for this post are remixes, edits, covers etc of old tunes. Everyone has there personal favourites and although i will never state a cover better then the original as its still after all a cover they are sometimes dang gooood.

The first is a cover (with some lyric changes) of the classic Golden Brown by The Stranglers which in itself it a cranking tune. You may have heard this song in the film 'Snatch' which is also a cracker of a movie like all Guy Richie films it has a great soundtrack. This song was quite highly placed in JJJ's Hottest 100 of all time and if my memory serves me well (rarely does it) it may have made it into the top ten. The cover of this track is by Frankmusik who i did an earlier post about ....i think. You will notice he changed the lyrics to When You're Around but still the same melody etc. So this is Boys Noize remix of his cover. You decide.

Golden Brown - The Stranglers
When You're Around (Boys Noize Remix) - Frankmusik

Secondly. One of my all time favourite old-school tunes that had a moment with Arty Ziff on the Simpsons is Sweet Dreams. The synth line is classic as is the whole tune....cheers Eurythmics. So a couple of Edits of this one the first is from ChewFu and with some new beats and Diplo-like dropping of a rap-appella really makes it a wicked tune. The other is from a man who the scene knows to well Erol Alkan...his stuff is good i just think he rekons he is too good and in some spots ruins the vocal romance....o well its your call enjoy.

Sweet Dreams (ChewFu Remix) - Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams (Erol Alkan's Edit) - Eurythmics

BONUS ROUND- yes bonus round bringing it back to crash bandicoot where youd get a chance to nab more of those fruits that were like a mixture of apples,pears and plums. forget that trip here is the bonus and keeping with the theme is a hiphop remix of the queen himselfs classic tiny dancer.

Tiny Dancer (Ironik Remix) - Elton John

You stay funky.
nicK

Mr B.I.G

Sadly no its not this new york bloke that inspired the post. After watching Notorious again i figured that it not only does Biggie deserve a post but there is also not enough hip hop on here. So also in keeping with the overall theme of this here is some of his stuff given new-school spins. Both of the tracks are mashups and are daaamn fine. The first and probably the better of the two is a mash of the Justice remix of Electric Feel mash potatoed with the B.I.G.'s killer hit Nasty Boy. The second it the young folks themselves with a predecessor track of Nothin To Worry About in with my favourite Biggie track Party & Bullshit.

Party & Bullshit (Dave Wrangler Mash) - The Notorious B.I.G.

Nasty Boy vs Electric Feel - The Notorious B.I.G. vs MGMT

PS - also check out Ratatat's remix of Party & Bullshit

Where's the cheese at?

The man behind the mask Joel Zimmerman aka Deadmau5 has been the best thing to emerge from Canada.

This guy has been one of my faves for some time now, love him or hate him his trance like mixes are some of the best out, an essential component ot any electro lovers iPod.

The chill factor he adds to most of his tracks and remixes gives him the edge that has landed him #3 on inthemix international acts.

His mind-blowing performances earlier in 09 with the good vibes crew has managed to bring him back to our shores once again to headline the upcoming stereosonic festival.

Hes managed to produce one of the best remixes of calivins "im not alone"

so enjoy!

Calvin Harris (deadmu5) - Im not alone

Deadmau5 - Brazil

Deadmau5 - Failbait

SYD's Dirty Trump

I'd like to kick things off with a bit off jazz as the new counter-part to the duo
The trumpet has devoloped a whole new name for itself thanks to the unique sounds of... thats right you guessed it the one and only timmy trumpet. The worlds first DJ/trumpet artist.
Although fairly new to the scene this guy has been jumping from festival to festival throughout 09 and and i look forward to catching his electro symphony next month at parklife.
He's even managed to nab himself a spot in sonys inthemix top 50 , sitting nicely at #37 in Aust, not bad for a guy who only started a few years back.
timmy is making quite the name for himself with sets in a number of australias most well-known clubs
anyways back to the music
The buzz of the trumpet in this chill little remix gives this tune just what it needs. its only a snippet but check it out!

Timmy Trumpet - Changes

xx RATED

just a quicky. The xx have been getting huge exposure recently on the www. They are an awesome foursome that hail from London and although quite dark and melodic are pretty hard not to like. This girlguygirlguy have mastered the electropop to dark indie genre and are currently in the process of a european tour. If thats not enough to buy you these tracks will seal the deal.

PEACE

Basic Space - The xx

Islands - The xx

Shelter - The xx

The Forgotten Chillers

its sunday night and i am creating new meaning to the term CBF. But amongst all that i couldnt be f***ed to do i decided to check the lineup for parklife and stereosonic again as that always makes me smile. Long story short i stumbled upon the fact that Joakim is playing parklife and he fucking rocks. for some strange reason i hadnt soticed him amongst the star studded lineup (or maybe just forgotten). Similiarly i thought i would also give this post to Drop The Lime who are another smaller - but still ripping act (this time at stereosonic). thats it from me ill let the music do the rest of the talking.

Like Thunder - Drop The Lime

Pocket Piano (Joakim Remix) - DJ Mehdi

Who's That Girl (DropTheLime Remix) - Robyn

you stay funky!

Are You Ready?

Are you 'Ready For The Weekend'? as its friday this is a fitting time to give some insight to Calvin Harris' new album 'Ready For The Weekend'. No stranger to the scene and definately an electro household name Calvin Harris' new album follows up from his huge album 'I Created Disco'. One of my alltime favourite Calvin Harris brings a nu disco electro style to his sets, remixes and his originals. 'RFTW' has copped a hammering in British media (although what doesnt - i can see why the boys in green street hooligans hate english journoz) and as you can expect it has not been very well received due to the huge success of 'I'm Not Alone' (the first single of the album). From my listen of the album i would say that no it is not an album full of hits like 'I'm Not Alone', but it has some very good tracks with a true example of Calvins diversity amongst the electro genre. He was slammed for his backlash at the bad reviews of the album but unlike muscles i think he has true variety and quality, lets hope this is not the last of Calvin Harris as its a pretty dang good listen.

Go out to your local record store (even if thats the itunes store) and buy some albums as there is plenty out at the moment. Its one for the list but untill then enjoy these tracks.

Yeah Yeah Yeah La La La - Calvin Harris

I'm Not Alone (Hook N Sling RMX) - Calvin Harris

SICK MIX

ok i am feeling very sick and drained but somehow i cannot fall asleep. So instead i am downloading music! anyways enough crying....i have not posted many mixes lately and wondering whether i may have made a cyber post to do so, however i have for you two mixes from two of the hottest DJ/producers of 09.

Firstly probably one of my most played for 09 is AC Slater who through remixes and originals has been banging his hard-electro around the worls and up the charts. His august mix is not occampanied by tracklisting but some fresh goodies can be noticed within....ill leave the rest of the talking to this 30 min mayhem mix.

August Mix- AC Slater

Lastly this mix is from the uk producer GRUM who have posted tracks from before. This is a mini mix and it is astonishing to see the quality not just quantity of what he crams into 5 minutes....so check it out and email me if you want the tracklisting.

Minimix - GRUM

p.s. i still have a lot on my plate atm and am planning to have a winter mix out before the holidays

you stay funky sydney!

ALBUM REVIEW - Temporary Pleasure/Simian Mobile Disco

Simian Mobile Disco who consist of James Ford and Jas Shaw have transformed themselves from an ok indie band into a master electronic production team. The progressive nature of Simian Mobile Disco's originals along with the repetition and intrumental arrangement is what defines the duo within the international scene. After the success of the first album (Attack Decay Sustain Release) through such singles as Hustler and It's The Beat - SMD's new album has been put on hold to accompany the production skills of James Ford who as mentioned in a previous post was the master mind behind albums from The Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons, Muse, Peaches and french electronic pioneers Air.

I must say right now that it was worth the wait, i am not placing any predictions or insight as to how everybody else will receive the new album but i myself am absolutely loving it. The albums augmenting beats are paired with stunning guest vocals, the vocal cameos shine light through Temporary Pleasure which is down as one of my albums of 09. From The Gossip's Beth Ditto to Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor the different styles of vocals and songs epitomize the range and capabilities of Simian Mobile Disco. All in all a wicked album which is due for release in a couple of days - worth a trip to the record store but until then enjoy these three tracks including SMD's single off the album Audacity of Huge

Have a killer weekend - peace out.

Bad Blood (ft Alexis Taylor) - Simian Mobile Disco

Cruel Intentions (ft Beth Ditto) - Simian Mobile Disco

Audacity of Huge - Simian Mobile Disco

DOUBLE BONUS:

As per request of Alice here is a Van She classic which there DJing side (Van She Tech) have 'vemixed'.....its killer enjoy.

Changes (Vemixed) - Van She

The double bonus comes with this awesome video of a track on Temporary Pleasure....it is the coolest light show video ever and is summed up by one word - synchronized (have a look at it here)

BAY-ROOT

behind the melodic melancholy treasure that is Beirut is quite a good story. At 16 the lead singer Zach Condon dropped out of school to drink his way around Europe. Upon this travel in Serbia he discovered a Balkan folk style of music that now is his life. Condons smooth voice and song arrangement is a true testimony to music itself and the folk side of it. The romance and capturing nature of the songs amidst the folk jamming and chilling culture is well represented in this live and pretty cool video version of 'Nantes'. N-JOY these tracks in a chilled relaxed state.peace.

Nantes - Beirut

Elephant Gun - Beirut

BONUS-

Yes it is another remix of La Roux (la-roo)......"this time baby" it is from Nacey and is a chilled serene tribute to her lovely voice.

Bulletproof (Nacey Remix) - La Roux

p.s. tommorrow ill have an album review of our good friends Simian Mobile Disco

BACKK

I am back amongst civilisation now and back in circulation are to big names that everyone should be excited about. I am of course talking about the new albums from The Arctic Monkeys and Muse.

First The Arctic Monkeys new album 'Humbug'. Honestly coming from a huge fan i have to say that this is not what i expected. The brit kids i feel have got a bit big for there boots and have released an average album. The old Monkeys' sound is trapped under a bold choice in producers, by this i mean not sticking with Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford who was brilliant for them on their previous album. The trashy indie rock riffs have been lost and the trash outways with a grimy sound....however there are still moments of revived brilliance amidst the album so its definately one for a listen.

Crying Lightning - The Arctic Monkeys

Dangerous Animals - The Arctic Monkeys

Secondly Muse who have released this track from their anticipated album 'The Resistance' - i am yet to listen to the entire album though without getting my eardrums around it i anticipate a great record that will reflect their old sound along with influence from the hide-away recording they did in Italy (if i am not mistaken).

Uprising - Muse

And as this post was rock orientated check this edit of the Muscles hit 'Sweaty'....Shazam once again shows why he could possibly Australia's summer chiller.

Sweaty (Shazam Edit) - Muscles

CIAO!

I JUST TOOK OFF MY JACKET

I will be away for a few days so that = no posts (sorry).

But all is not lost as the focus for this post is my biggest influence and a damn cool/successful dude. Pedro Winter aka Busy P along with occasionaly DJing some wicked sets and releasing dope tracks he is the owner of record label Ed Banger which im sure ive posted about before. So at some point he did manage Daft Punk but those gods have moved on and now he is restricted to still a f'ing dope roster of artists. Anybody who is going to parklife will see his set and will also hear his festive french accent as he is host of the event-WICKED.....so the post would not be complete without some tracks so here is one of his orginals that you may have heard given a nice lil mix + one of his signed artists Mr Oizo (pronnounced wa-zuu) with a short and sweet - maybe a lil sour track.........in the words of Murs - AU REVOIR MUTHAFUCKERS!!

Pourriture 2 - Mr Oizo

Pedrophilia (DJ EDjotronic Remix) - Busy P

STEREOSONIC

parklife vs stereosonic...who would win stereosonic has probably the better lineup but parklife is parklife.

ok it has been put to the kungfu test it is like chuck norris vs bruce lee its epic....so just go to both and if you cant manage both pick one as bruce and one as chuck and watch the outcome here.

so for those who have not heard the lineup for stereosonic includes rippers like; drop the lime, deadmau5, bloody beetroots, surkin, fedde le grand, cut copy djs, chicane, axwell, crookers, grafton primary, acid jacks, alter ego and zombie nation. So to celebrate probably the best lineup of the year i have layed down a few stereosonic essentials peace.

Awesome (ft Cool Kids) - The Bloody Beetroots

Touch My Horn (Crookers Remix) - Jesse Rose

Banger (Drop The Lime Remix) -AC Slater

Acid Life (Surkin Remix) - Nacho Lovers

Go Go Stop

slowing it down a little bit i am passing through the grapevine a sydney band that have a good sound and even better to come....'stop starter' are worth a listen if you like a bit of indie or electro rock the smooth and melodic sound transfers to another song i am digging tooo much not too share, the last bonus track could use with some decent recording but you could get lost in this one....sit back chillax...

Habbits - Stop Starter

B1 - Stop Starter

Rad Pitt - Egyptian Hip Hop

P.s. for any indie fans then head to the myspace of a previous band that the stop.starter boys were in >>> LearnToSwimSchool [recommended track is 'Weight Down']

la familia uncle jim
peace

Rubba DUB DUB

Hello again....now for those who have not exactly heard- Dubstep has been getting pretty big lately with the 2stepin genre finding its way into many different reworks and mixes. so i thought i would share some cool tracks that have dubbed up...so blast em out!!

Bulletproof (Foamo Remix) - La Roux

Sweet Disposition (Doorly Remix) - The Temper Trap

This Kiss (Jack Beats Remix) - Kissy Sell Out
[more electro ghetto bass...but meh]

ITS ALMOST REAL

So lifelike you may or may not have heard??? been dropping fresh remixes now for a while and also has a couple of decent originals out-so i thought i would be kind and share or as far as kind can go on a monday.

So Electric - Lifelike

Under the Fuse of Love (Lifelike Remix) - Geyster

PS- i am planning on having a mix of my own up soon...

peace

CLIPPINGS

so yeah i figured i chuck up some videos...
firstly The Temper Trap are a melodic indie band and guess what they are home grown. here is the video of there first single sweet disposition-listen out for these dudes they are gonna be big.



whilst we are on videos Bumblebeez who are simply funky have been announced to play homebake and in honour of that here is on of there all-timers (and a sweet vid) Dr Love



peace

SOUNDITOUT

ok so here is one of my predictions these Sydney boys that fly by the name of sound it out have been compared to the presets however past the male duo they are a whole different experience so here is two of there originals plus a remix of there compari-SONS........in-joy!!!

The Russian - Sounditout

Die Young Tonight - Sounditout

Kicking & Screaming (Sounditout 'Ghost' Remix) - The Presets

I ammm back

sorry peeps...had major computer trouble but to make it up here are some fresh bangers

touring for splendour and playing only one sideshow in sydney which i missed out on....are Friendly Fires whos smooth indie alternative sound has earnt them major props all over the world lately. here is a remix of their hit track...enjoy

Jump In The Pool (Thin White Dukes RMX) - Friendly Fires

another dude who is touring for splendour is the french producer and dj Yuksek....for you i have one of his originals remixed...smash it out

Extraball (BURNS remix) - Yuksek

peace...

its a cover up

These are all pretty chilled covers and have very cool angles on each track. First the old with a cover of the retro-pop queen herself miss Cindy Lauper worth a listen, though is very chilled and takes away from the original copy of the track enjoy....

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Starfucker

And to the more recent are three quite recognisable covers - the pick of the bunch being the twelves doing daft punk but my personal favourite along with props to some Nth Beaches dudes that have produced an aussie kookesque version of mgmt's kids.....check them out and peace for the weekend.

Kids (MGMT Cover) - Static Sillouhettes

Nightvision (Daft Punk Cover) - The Twelves

Good Life (Kanye West Cover) - Nite Club

Gew-lie Gems

YO
So no particular focus for this but just some banging tunes i am digging and think are worth a listen.....{}

Watermelon Bubbalicious - Joakim

Science of Fear (Herve Remix) - The Temper Trap

Go Back (Le Castle Vania Remix) - Grum
In For The Kill (Skream's Lets Get Ravey Remix) - La Roux

PYT - Elesse

godspeed!!

meh

So So here is another member of the french brady bunch.....known as Ed Banger. Our main man Busy P started Ed Banger records and has had artists such as justice, uffie, feadz, mr oizo + many many many more. But one of my favourites is DJ Mehdi...who would translate to probably being the housekeeper alice. Anyway DJ Mehdi has been ripping it up lately and amongst some sick remixes has released a few orginals so check em out peace.

21st Century Life (DJ Mehdi Remix) - Sam Sparro

Breakaway - DJ Mehdi

Pocket Piano (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Remix) - DJ Mehdi

The Energy Never Dies

well the title of Black Eyed Peas album is backed up by the new sound of their album. The E.N.D(EnergyNeverDies) is full of the 'Elephunk' energy we were rocking back when baggy jeans were still tha shit. So the really weird thing about this album is the angle they have taken with gun producers like Boys Noize jumping on for the ride. This electronic feature in this album is odd to me but it should sell well and its a damn catchy album. Fergie and Will.I.Am back in buisness plus the others(rejects) but they seem to have their own songs on the album if you get me....anywayz here are a few freebies enjoy.

I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

Electric City - Black Eyed Peas

Mr Metric

not to be confused with indie band 'Metric' is UK vocalist, producer and dj Alex Metric. This dude can be compared to Adam Freeland and is probably sitting somewhere within an electronic genre though he is not big on classification an makes music for the sound and expereince which i can dig!!! Anyway i have for you a Alex Metric package of originals and remixes so bite down on this suckers.

peaceee!

Pins - Alex Metric

Message To Love (Alex Metric Remix) - Sharam Jey

TeenTerror

OK im back. In france and throughout the electro scene these dudes are seen a semi cult heroes and sort of the playboys of french electro....The Teenagers who not suprisingly started as a joke mix a synth-pop style with dark comical lyrics and funkaayy melodies.....hitting some of the scene on their debut album 'Reality Check' have only really found a place in my heart with their remix work. so Njoy peoples.

Cape Kod Kwassa Kwassa (The Teenagers) - Vampire Weekend

It's the Beat (The Teenagers Remix) - Simian Mobile Disco

WAKE UP...PARKLIFE IS COMING

so yes the lineup has been released and i must say it is banging fully banging!! get out your scratchys your mums credit card and a day off school because the 25th of June is when arguably the best festival of 09 tickets go on sale. now we love sounds was a top long weekend but im putting money on this being a better longy!! i have for you below lineup plus tracks so enjoy.

A-TRAK

Kilometer (A-Track Remix) - Sébastien Tellier

AEROPLANE (DJ Set)

ART VS SCIENCE

Parlez Vous Francais - Art Vs Science

AUTOKRATZ (First ever Australian show)

Can't Stand Without You - autoKratz

BENI

BERTIE BLACKMAN (Sneaker Set)

BUSY P (DJ & Host)

CLAUDE VONSTROKE

THE COOL KIDS

Black Mags - The Cool Kids

CRYSTAL CASTLES

GoodBooks (Crystal Castles Remix) - Leni

EMPIRE OF THE SUN (First ever live show)

EROL ALKAN (First ever Australian show)

Never Be Alone (Erol Alkan Remix) - Simian

JUNIOR BOYS (First ever Australian show)

KASKADE

LA ROUX (First ever Australian show)

In For The Kill (The Twelves Remix) - La Roux

LADY SOVEREIGN

So Human (Sinden Remix) - Lady Sovereign

LITTLE BOOTS (First ever Australian show)

METRIC (First ever Australian show)

Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix) - Metric

METRONOMY

A Thing For Me - Metronomy

MSTRKRFT

SHAZAM

Luckier - Shazam

THE ASTON SHUFFLE

THE GLIMMERS

THE RAPTURE

TIGA

Move My Body (Boys Noize Remix) - Tiga

We We Love Those Sounds

yep so we love sounds 09 is around the corner and i am pumping....for those of you not going - eat it! and for those who are - see you at some point of Buurens 5hr set. The lineup this year is so so wicked and rippin that i had to only pick a few bangers to put up......

No need to fear, another frenchie is back in town through Danger who being a world experienced Dj and producer has remained quite mysterious....his live set should be a slammin shindig and here is a sick track of his.

13h12 - Danger


Staying in Europe we have Dutch DJ Laidback Luke who aside from touring the globe many a times to bang out his sets.....has collaborated with everyone form the Sweedish House Mafia to Daft Punk themselves. So i have for you below his remix that was featured on Daft Punks semi-flop remix album Daft Club (that is if you can call anything of theirs a flop).


Crecendolls (Laidback Luke Remix) - Daft Punk

eMJay + more

So as it is during exams i was not going to make a post....but...in my english exam one of the questions texts was 'Man in the Mirror' so i got my ipod cranking with some MJ remixes and i decided to share the love.

Smooth Criminal (LAZRtag remix) - Michael Jackson

Get On The Floor (Holy Ghost! edit) - Michael Jackson

So whilst i am posting here is a Phoenix remix that i missed out on last week...it is from Alex Metric who has a little Ed Banger sound to him and has long lived in the shadow of his compatriot Adam Freeland but is now breaking out himself.

Lisztomania (Alex Metric Remix) - Phoenix