Resident Deathkill4000 deej Dirty Marc (aka Monty FUnk) has a new mix of more pop-oriented dubstep shiz up on Mixcloud. Don't let the combination of the words "pop" and "Dubstep" put you off though, this is a goodyin. It iwll clean the cotton wool out your ears anyway.
Far East Movement - Like A G6 (Dillon Francis Mix) Benny Benassi - Cinema (Skrillex Mix) Wtf?! Ft. Dead Prez - Bigger Than Hip-Hop Neki Stranac - Worldwide Moombahton Foreign Beggars Ft. Noisia - Contact Neki Stranac - Worldwide Moombahton Dave Nada - Riverside (Moombahton Edit) Wretch32 Ft Example - Unorthodox (Instrumental) O.D.B - Got Ya Money (Acapella) Justice - Civilization Ella Fitzgerald - Sunshine Of Your Love (Leonidas Deejay Club Edit 2011) Monty Funk - Pony Ride (Demo Edit) The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - The Golden Age (Prince Vince Mix) Friendly Fires - Live Those Days Tonight Green Velvet - Flash ( Jamie Jones Mix ) Calvin Harris - Bounce (Michael Woods Mix) Adele Vs Prydz - Rolling In The Pjanoo (Djt! Mashup) Katy B - Broken Record (Geeneus Mix) Major Lazer - Pon De Floor (Slink Refix)
No, I'm not being a hippie, that's what it is called. The man himself describes it as "Bassy groovy mix to download - 119-129bpm. Featuring tracks from Morphamish interspersed with others from DFRNT+Paranoise, Four Tet, A Made Up Sound, Untold+Roska, and Hostage+Blackwax" and who are we to argue?
And for people who STILL don't know what dubstep is exactly, check out this "History of Dubstep" special. It's a bit hit and miss for my liking, but a great rundown of the whos, whys, whats, wheres and whens:
Loving this - reminds me of what the Orb were up to in the late 80s and very early 90s, but with an old school Hammer horror twist. Not that I was at the original Orb parties mind, I've just read about the times they would play music, sound effects, film snippets and the like and jam over it with machines.
Anyway, here is Sell By Dave's own words on this project:
"I'm going to give the people what they want…sensation, horror, shock… send them out into the streets to tell their friends how wonderful it is to be scared to death" - Vincent Price, House of Wax
In the autumn of 2010, I was asked by Caravan Records boss October and Idle Hands mainman Chris Farrell whether I would like to do a DJ set with a twist - performing a new soundtrack to a film of my choice, which would be screened in the backroom of the Timbuk2 club in Bristol. I thought it was a great idea, and chose The Masque Of The Red Death, Roger Corman's 1960s version of the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name.
I was inspired by the opportunity of providing a new soundtrack, but wanted the music and visuals to work perfectly in sync. I didn't want it to just be "some records over a film". So, I painstakingly edited each track to fit scenes, added sound effects, layered things up, captured speech from the original film, and so on. It was a laborious process, but on the night – when I mixed it all live, in time with the film, it worked wonderfully. The next day, I sat down and recorded a studio version of the mix, which was then edited down again in time with the film.
Hopefully one day there will be a DVD version, with the new soundtrack on top of the original film, but for now take a listen to the audio - it took a long time to put together. As the original film is pretty trippy, this soundtrack is, too. And it features the Monkees "in dub hell", as a friend of mine put it.
Synth fans, tomorrow sees the first installment of Ben Butler & Mousepad's new skwee night at Stereo, with DJing from the man himself and Wavy Graves, and a special live set from Finland's Mesak (Harmonia). It sounds like top notch fun, and if you don't know what Skwee is, check out this mix from BB&MP, or watch this clip from the documentary "We Call It Skwee":
BB&MP have a new EP up for sale on their Bandcamp at the moment too, called "Worm", which was recorded using all analogue synths and no sequencers at Worm Studios in Rotterdam. This is actually a bit less skwee than usual, but still packed full of synthy goodness.
Mark du Mosch - In The Clouds The One - Lets Get It Straight (Legowelt Remix) Bot.Ox - Arab Drift Stinkworx - Coelacanth (Syncom Data Nerine Remix) Gatekeeper - Oracle Brassica - Lydden Circuit Alexander Robotnick - Problems D'Amour Rude66 - As (Nicolas Courtin Remix) Cori Josias - Takin It Straight Bangkok Impact - Fear Of Your Eyes
Another great mix form Mr Kelvin Brown, this time recorded at the Manchester club night Swing Ting and featuring MCs Fox and Diamond. This takes in garage, hip-hop, R&B and dancehall, with a smattering of classics to keep the oldies happy. For more info on Swing Ting visit their blog.
Yes, its that time of year again, when darkness spreads across the land and the midnight hour is close at hand, etc etc. Due to the venue we had hired going out of business, we have been forced to cancel this years Rock'n'Shock festivities, which is a shame, but there's lots of other options for Samhain revelling (personally I highly recommend the Cry Parrot Art School party with Gary War, Ben Butler & Ultimate Thrush, and the return of Optimo Espookio). To get you in the mood, here are some free spookilicious download-able mixes.
The first two are from our own Menergy gang. We made these mixes back in May to promote the Italo Horror Party, but they seem more relevant at this time of year. Mine is a comp of all your favourite disco versions of horror themes while KZ's is a more brooding, modern take on John Carpenter atmospherics. But with some gay disco thrown in for good measure.
Halloween II - John Carpenter Cannibal Ferox - Fabio Frizzi Zombi - Goblin Amityville Frenzy - Lalo Schiffrin Prom Night Theme - Zaza & Zitter Phantasm - Captain Zorro Phantasmagoria / Silver Sphere Disco - Fred Myrow & Malcolm Seagrave NYC Theme - Budy-Maglione Demons (Disco Beard Edit) - Claudio Simonetti Friday The 13th Part III - Manfredini & Zager Lust - Rinder & Lewis Doin' It In A Haunted House - Yvonne Cage Disco Blood - The Vamps Soul Dracula - Hot Blood
Actress- Paint Straw and Bubbles Tobe Hooker- Haddonfield Fear Factory Mr Pauli- The Crunch Black Devil Disco Club- Timing, Forget The Timing Pat Hodges- Fly By Night Telespazio – Galileo – Rodion Mix Goblin- Tenebre Lory D – Bank Robbery Bunker 2 – Dark Side of The Moon Gique- Fulci's Rotting Children Patrick Cowley – They Came At Night Ajello and Daniele Baldelli – Cosmogony The Immortals- Ultimate Warlord Goblin- Suspira Solenoid- Suspiriosm Porn Darstellar- Holocaust
Next up we have a special festive mix from our chums at the disco/house blog Feel My Bicep. The whole thing is three hours long and available from their website. There are loads of great tracks up on the to download too, so get over there and get clickin'.
And finally here's an epic four hour mix from the producer Frenchbloke. Put together for a friend of his who had only just discovered Cabaret Voltaire, it features lots of cold-wave and minimal electronics form the early 80's. This is not specifially Halloween themed, but it is great, and some of these tunes are deliciously creepy!
xeno & oaklander - saracen psychic youth - the future is now ciaran harte - love is strange deux - felicita nightmoves - transdance (uk disco mix) fad gadget - the box the eurythmics - take me to your heart metal urbain - panik robert rental - a.c.c rude 666 - the 1000 year storm palais schaumburg - telefon victrola - maritime tatami rema rema - instrumental the normal - warm leatherette (mathew stone remix) cabaret voltaire - seconds too late das boomerang - suzanne oppenheimer analysis - the devil's dancers futurisk - poison ivy missing scientists - big city, bright lights hiroshima chair - tu eddie and sunshine - lines moderne - indicatif dark day - no, nothing, never gorilla aktiv - spiegelbild monte cazazza - kick that habit man the passage - xoyo ami marie - spiel mit mir our daughters wedding - lawnchairs (dance club version) daf - kebabtraume blah blah blah - in the army john bender - 06-27b4 (rainy day sunshine girl) martin rev - mari conrad schnitzler - auf dem schwarzen kanal severed heads - adolf a carrot emak - tanz in den himmel soft cell - bleak is my favourite cliche der plan - rot grun rot the gist - iambic pentameter yello - there is no reason bourbonese qualk - lies das kabinette - the cabinet die krupps - goldfinger klinik - moving hands hula - poison (club mix) chris and cosey - october (love song) he said - a.b.c.dicks love neon - lobotomy portion control - go talk john foxx - 20th century front 242 - operating tracks i start counting - my translucent hands kas product - loony bin spk - metal field silicon teens - sun flight dorothy - i confess hard corps - je suis passee daniel miller & boyd rice - cleanliness to order malaria! - tod holger hiller- jonny (du lump) heaven 17 - i'm your money voice farm - sleep die doraus und die marinas - fred vom jupiter
Yesterday Panasonic announced that it was going to stop production of the Technics 1200 turntable. It seems like a sad news day for djs and dance music in general. At the start of the last decade turntables (presumably mostly Technics, as they are the industry standard and most recognisable name) were outselling guitars. Well, it seems it may be a little premature to sound a death knell for turntables as a whole just yet - according to Gizmodo, the site that originally broke the story it is only the Technics 1200Mk6 that is going to stop being produced. And I hear nothing about the 1210 series, which is possible even more popular than the 1200s. Still, it's a shame and a sign of the times, but hey, in 10 years we will all be djing on touch screen displays anyway.
So Mixmag are currently doing a poll of the greatest DJs of all time. The cynic in me says it's a waste of time (as my personal faves aren't on there) and also a clever Facebook marketing ploy (you have to "like" Mixmag to get to see the shortlist of DJs and to vote).
However, our chums Optimo are in there, and I reckon by the ammount of feedback left, doing very well. They sure beat Armin Von Tranceypants or whoever is likely to win. So if you DO fel like voting, then first stop is this here page: http://www.facebook.com/MixmagMagazine?v=app_4949752878
Oh, and if you're not on Facebook, don't even bother. You're fucked.
Our dreams of Minority Report-style fully virtual musical world are getting even closer. Wires begone!
Below you can see a clip of the Emulator touchscreen DJing programme, and here is another, developed by VectorForm for Microsoft. I prefer the Emulator to this, as it replcates the Traktor interface and seems more instinctual, but now these ideas are out there it's only a matter of time before bringing actual records to a club will seem totally redundant. Grandad.
"[DJ] Kutmah, a.k.a. Justin McNulty, a British national born of a Scottish father and Egyptian mother, had been taken into custody by U.S. immigration officials last week and is being detained in a facility in New Mexico."
Just posting this here for all a y'all who didn't get it already -it's my first Menergy Mix! The kind of thing you will hear if and when you come to a Menergy night. Hi-NRG, Italo, Electro-pop, House & Gay Disco.
Patrick Cowley & Sylvester - Menergy Earlene Bentley - The Boys Come To Town (Disco Beard Edit) Starflight - Dance To The Beat Azari & III - Hungry For The Power The Human League - Gold (Bicep Edit) In Flagranti - Brash 'n' Vulgar (Disco 3000 Edit) Soft Rocks - The Devil Made Us Do It Walter Murphy - Tocata & Funk in D Minor Azul Y Negro - The Night Den Haan - Night Shift Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive Boystown Gang - Disco Kicks The Ring - Savage Lover Ronnie Dyson - All Over Your Face (Disco Plumber Edit) Taylor Dane - Tell It To My Heart (Percapella) Pet Shop Boys - Heart (Disco Mix)
DJ Zinc was responsible for making some of my favourite old school jump up jungle anthems (Reeeeach Out!) and it's good to see he's still around. He may have swapped the breaks for 4/4, but he still knows his way around a HEAVY bassline. And what Zinc can do to bass, the guys in this clip can do to car suspension:
