Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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!

Monday, December 14, 2009

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!

Sunday, November 29, 2009

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.




Saturday, November 7, 2009

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.



zazZ

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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.



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