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Joe Goddard and Raf Rundell, otherwise known as the 2 bears, have been evoking some strong 90's house musicas vibes with songs from their forthcoming January 2012 album, Be Strong. If you haven't heard their silly and catchy as all fuck song Bear Hug yet stop sleeping on it. This is the vid for their single, Work, that's dropping on Jan 2nd and features remixes from Toddla T, Oliver $, Supabeatz and Franky Rizardo

Work by The 2 Bears

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Straight up had a dream last night that I got a puppy and named it Azealia Banks, who has been my musical obsession as of late. Other things that Azealia has been named recently include the top of NME's cool list, beating out Pulp's Jarvis Cocker. Cool points for preferring cats over drugs, and saying the c-word while dancing like a weirdo wearing a Mickey Mouse sweater and pigtails. This track amongst others are so good.

WHO KNOWS

Sorry for the neglect dear goshdamn blog, life has been all kinds of crazy and busy and weird. A dude dressed as 1/2 of Hall and Oates at a Halloween party said I'd make his dreams come true (see what I did there) if we updated the blog more often, and here we are! Personally I've mostly just been blogging about random public relations type stuff for school (hashtag dull, but big ups to college, university's cheaper, funner cousin). This is a song by London singer Youngman that I've had on repeat as of late. If you're getting a mixtape from me for Christmas, this will surely be on it.

Youngman, closely connected to Magnetic Man, is releasing this single on Shy FX's Digital Soundboy label on January 15th in the new year. He has become the choice hype man for the likes of Skream and Benga with a knack for working an audience and as you'll soon hear, he also has mad vocal talents.

paying hommage

Electro lost a gem today. French DJ/Producer DJ Mehdi, a core member of Ed Banger was celebrating his 34th birthday when his roof apparently collapsed. Tragic.


DJ MEHDI - I AM SOMEBODY by edbangerrecords

butterflies

From balearic disco to early 90's house, this summer's mix is a tribute to re-contextualizing American pop like only the Europeans (and Japanese) know how, clean, simple drum patterns, warm, swirling melodies, a little acid for good measure, and obviously some of my favourite new releases.

Enjoy and let me know what you think.

Atreides - Summer Mix 11

Time - Tiger & Woods

Lord of the Isles - What's Lord Got to Do With It?

Groove with You - Fantastic Man

In the End (I Want You To Cry) - Tensnake

Whipped Cream - Homework

Medina's Mariposas - Cole Medina

Kissing Game - Soul Clap

Seperated - Avant (Jorge Takei remix)

There's a Truth - Motor City Drum Ensemble

My House - Hercules and Love Affair

Creature - Kim Ann Foxmann

I Don't Know - Steve 'Silk' Hurley

Water No Get Enemy (Got to Get Us There) - Mark E vs. Fela Kuti (Atreides' Rio to Lagos mix)

Sex Me - R Kelly vs. Hollis Monroe (The Stripped Down Stomp mix)

Million Dollar Bill - Whitney Houston (Mike Simonetti edit)

oceanic disco

Lord of the Isles takes the opening from Tina Turner's balearic classic and flips it into a hypnotic underwater dancefloor journey. Enough said. It's finally out on vinyl at Turntable Lab. The vinyl label is amazing to boot.

stuff i can't feel guilty about

Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate

This cheesy little slice of classic garage was procured for about a dollar alongside some stellar Whitney Houston "I'm Every Woman" garage edits that I'd love to rip from vinyl but am currently uncapable of doing so.

Four Tet recently played this out the last time he did a set at the Boiler Room, something feels so authentically bumping about the bassline -it's impossible to be pessimistic when you hear it. Last time I DJed, 3 separate people came up to me and gave this "nod" of approval - does that mean that this track was immensely popular back around its release in 1999 and I missed all the hype, or does it just have the power to summon good feelings from everyone in the room?

Either way I'm satisfied.

spelling counts

Ruff Sqwad - Functions / Havana

The best grime instrumental ever, or the BEST grime instrumental ever? Actually, revisiting this stuff now I can imagine that I missed tons and tons of great instrumentals over the years. Combing youtube and other sources now in a desperate attempt to catch up, similar to the first time you try some really good dumplings in Toronto's Chinatown and then consecutively after for the next three weeks when your friends ask if you want to go out for dinner, you reply in a near panic that you HAVE to get dumplings because there are like, FIFTEEN different combinations at least and they're all so good that you actually have dreams about them and wake up in a cold sweat in the night wondering if you got dressed and biked down there that one of those restaurants would be open at 4:45am.

So yeh, it's kind of like that.

lost luv

Placebo - Humpty Dumpty

Placebo - Balek

No no no, not that Placebo. Not the Placebo with the nasal whining was an unfortunate blip in the "groups named Placebo" stage of history.

This is the 70's Belgian jazz, J Dilla sampled, Marc Moulin piano playing group whose "Humpty Dumpty / Balek" EP just got re-released over at Phonica, which has a cut from their 1971 and 1973 LPs put back to back, for noteably less than the £100 that you could spend trying to track down a copy online. Sublime stuff for summer rooftop parties.

fuck it

C2C4 (Carl Craig) - Specimen 2

Sheeeeit, it's been a long time since I've updated. Thanks Mo for keeping things running - there are some things I have been really bumping lately but they've come out more than a few years ago and therefore aren't really Discobelle-esque.

For example, this - Carl Craig re-edits Talking Heads "Once In a Lifetime" and it's motherfucking impossible to track down. Vinyl sold out several times and any rips are guarded better than Mordor and Fort Knox rolled into one, gawddamn. A hundred internets for anyone who stumbles upon this track somewhere, thanks.