Archive for the DJ Culture Category
Well first of all, Qualé? Quite a weekend around here, what with the Convection Monthly at Dish turning into a celebration — Sean O’Daniels and Mr. White tore the house down. It was packed to the rafters for some sweet house music mixed with dirty, funky, nasty ass-shaking techno. So, when this band, Database from São Paulo, Brazil hit my inbox with some crazy disco re-edits, I was feeling a couple of them right away. The first one is a re-edit of Game’s 1982 disco track, “Gotta Take Your Love” and the second is a scorching re-edit of Phyllis Hyman’s 1979 classic “This Feeling Must Be Love”.
From Lucio Morais:
Hello!! Whats up???
So we have some Brand New Re-edits, they should be the preview of UGLYEDIT VOL.2 (2009) and we should release after the album called NOISE FREQUENCY PROCESSOR (2009).
We probably r going to release the album @ May 2009 and we already have a first track preview in our space called LOOPS OF LOVE - http://www.myspace.com/databasetrax (And its not a re-edit, its a original track!)
Database - Gotta Take Your Love (Re-Edit)
Database - This Feeling Must Be Love (Re-Edit)
After several critically acclaimed Remix projects and the last CD Sampler Compilation, Iheartcomix Remixed, Scion A/V is back with its next label partnership, Scion CD Sampler VOL. 22: Fool’s Gold Remixed.
Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Chromeo Remix)
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If you’re looking for me on Sunday, I will not be hard to find. I might be the one at Hard Rock Cafe ready to tear it up with the rest of you crazy kids at MSTRKRFT. If you look around the house here, you might find something to listen to.
If you were born in the 1980’s, you may not remember the band known as Bomb The Bass, the sacred brain trust of revered British musician/producer/DJ Tim Simenon. Bomb The Bass has proven itself a root force in the current climate of music, one which helped usher in the modern era of DJ culture way back in 1987. Bomb The Bass’ seminal acid house track, “Beat Dis”, is an infectious blend of borrowed samples over original bass and drum creations. The success of the song was meteoric by any standard, one which sent young Tim to the top of the UK pop chart, tearing up dancefloors on both sides of the Atlantic as it lead the charge into a new phase of electronic music.
Over the years, Simenon has released only a handful of his own recordings, taking time to start a record label and produce recordings for others, never losing the carte blanche he has established for himself in the industry. With 2008’s Future Chaos, he emulates his own trusted collaborative formula by teaming up with Mark Lanegan, Fujiya & Miyagi, Richard Thair and Jakeone (of Toob) and Paul Conboy. The eminent departures and contrasting soundscapes on Future Chaos are future forward, barely resembling his previous outings, taking his music into stark new directions. These nine songs are both roundly precocious in their adventurousness and markedly mature in their texture. We’re so glad to know he’s still about.
Bomb The Bass - So Special (Radio Edit)
PURCHASE: Future Chaos via Amazon.Com
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MSNBC is reporting that a lear jet containing former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and one of Hollywood’s favorite deejays, DJ AM (real name Adam Goldstein) crashed early this morning near Columbia, SC.
Four people were killed in the crash, identified as Charles Still, 25 of Los Angeles, Chris Baker (best known as Travis Barker’s Publicist), 29, and the two pilots, Sarah Lemmon, 31, and James Bland, 52. Witnesses on the scene indicated that at the time of the crash, both Goldstein and Barker were seen fleeing the wreckage engulfed in flames from head to toe.
Both are in critical condition at a burn center in Augusta, Ga., about 75 miles southwest of Columbia. Travis Barker, according to MSNBC, was performing Friday night at an event alongside Perry Farrell, the former Jane’s Addiction singer, as well as Gavin DeGraw and Goldstein. The two had performed together recently at MTV’s 25th Annual Video Music Awards.
UPDATED 11:35am: TMZ has learned Travis Barker has been burned from the waist down, but he is expected to survive the plane crash. DJ AM’s face was severely burned and is being tended to right now.
I just haven’t been updating lately and I don’t know why. I am listless and bored with everything (not to mention being deep in the struggle), I found myself sleeping less and writing more. Just not here. It’s the mid-summer lull before the cool of autumn prevails. I’m an autumn baby, you see, so we suddenly bloom when the leaves are turning their cool oranges and muted browns and such.
Anyways, in my sullied state, I’ve found myself returning over and over to this song all week. Inspired by a request from I’m Waking Up To…” (asking what folks wake up to in the morning), I’ve decided to let the cat out of the bag about the one track that does it for me first thing in the morning. It feels empowering and essential, like the sun itself. Over time, I’ve tried the Rotary Connection’s original version, then that of the late Minnie Riperton. As lovely as each was, it did not hold the same power for me as this version, performed by Nuyorican Soul and deeply remixed by the unmistakable loving and powerful genius of London’s 4hero. At times, I find it so beautiful I’m brought to tears. The remix’s broken beat symphony is everything I need to start my day. Maybe you’ll think so, too.
Nuyorican Soul - I Am The Black Gold of the Sun (4hero Remix)
This track is available on 4hero’s very hard to find The Remix Album, Vol. 1 from Amazon.Com.
In a week during which retrospectives on 80’s electronic and hip-hop are the trend, it only seems fitting and appropriate to re-examine Manchester-born 808 State’s first (ed. note: it wasn’t their first single oops!) (and most well-known) recording, “Pacific State”. Mixed, remixed, repackaged and reissued innumerable times, the original version (which appeared on 1989’s EP Quadrastate) loses no power or edge with time. The perfection of their execution makes “Pacific State” the supreme benchmark of acid house: lush, synthetic harmonies blended with driving TR-808 rhythms.
I’d say we’re pretty lucky that Rephlex Records has just reissued a fully remastered edition of Quadrastate complete with additional tracks. If you dig what you’re hearing here, you’d do well to head on over to Amazon and pick up the remastered edition to hang on to.
The reissued Quadrastate is available from Amazon by clicking here.
Back before samples had to be wait eons to be cleared, back in a day when uptown hip hop crews and downtown punks were checking out each other’s shows trying to learn a thing or two, there lived Steven Stein and Doug DiFranco — two pioneers whose adventures would transform them into the hip-hop superheroes known as Steinski and Double Dee.
Rabid music fans and hip-hop enthusiasts with day jobs on the edges of the biz, they got their “big break” in 1983 by winning a Tommy Boy Records remix contest for Play That Beat, Mr. D.J. by G.L.O.B.E. and Whiz Kid. The remix has come to be known in the annals of hip-hop as “Lesson 1 - The Payoff Mix” — an incomprehensible sampladelic jam of breaks from funk and disco records that reads (just as the name suggests) like a time capsulized history lesson. It was from works like these that, much like the graffiti kids tagging stray subway trains with spray paint cans, a cult of “illegal art” in music was born. More music and full review after the jump.
