moving in reverse

WOW.
I'm A Cliche Records are doing big things, this track sounds gorgeous!
French duo Bot’ox’s new single, “Blue Steel” continues where “Crashed Cadillac” left off. Watch it!

you shot muthafuckas, joe?

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The Hood Internet - Just a Friendomania

(Phoenix, Classixx, and yes... Biz Markie)

Mashups are dead, blah blah blah. I still absolutely LOVE funny mashups. Or moreso, mashups that instead of taking two things I love and slamming them together like a twisted car wreck, they quietly rearrange things in a funny way. My sensors picked back up on the Hood Internet after watching THIS perfection and laughing with Erin for about twenty minutes straight.

But yeah, if you're a DJ and you like people dancing to the music you play, throw this on. Gosh Damn has been a bit lean with the more straight up club bangerz lately, and although this is definitely not a 'banger', it is something I would chuckle at and dance to if someone put it on.

Also, this song has the word "friendo" in the title. Everytime I hear that word after "No Country for Old Men", I twitch a little bit.

rung of the ladder

Idiotproof- Gorilla (Zombie Disco Squad 'Add Acapella Here' Edit)

Here's a crunchy crunk infused slow burner for you tonight, in celebration of the release of "Playin Around Again" compilation on Jesse Rose's Made To Play label. Really wish I went to high school with these guys or something so I could participate in the stellar tracklist here, you've got remixes by Jesse Rose, Herve, Jan Driver, me, Oliver $, Idiotproof and Zombie Disco Squad, who also provide the mix and re-edit the tracks on CD 1.

Taken from Riva Starr's blog, the title says it all here: Add any acapella you want. MOP's "Ante Up?" Tiga's cover of "Hot in Herre"? Totally up to you.

shine a light

NYC producers/djs Cousin Cole and Pocketknife are responsible for something pretty unheard of... reworking folk & acoustic songs into bouncy gems that don't lose a single bit of the emotion of the originals, but amp it up through beautiful added percussion, handclaps and shuffles. You can buy it here, but they just made it freely streamable for everyone. Perfect to listen to as you watch the last few leaves fall, sigh...

Tracklist:
Iron & Wine “Each Coming Night (Pocketknife’s Rooftop Telescope Remix)”
Beirut “Scenic World (Pocketknife’s Breathtaken Remix)”
Jose Gonzalez “Storm (Pocketknife’s TuBa 303 Remix)”
Roy Montgomery “Long Night (Cousin Cole Remix)”
Joanna Newsom “The Book of Right On (Pocketknife’s Scowling Owl Remix)”
Devendra Banhart “I Feel Just Like a Child (Pocketknife’s Peach Fuzz Remix)”
The Duke Spirit “A Message To a Pretty (Cousin Cole’s Compakt Mix)”
Feist “Gatekeeper (Pocketknife’s Faded Beach Towel Remix)”
Nico “I’ll Keep It With Mine (Pocketknife’s Odd Beauty Remix)”
Panda Bear “Bros (Cousin Cole’s No Bro-Mo House Mix)”
White Magic “The Gypsies Came Marching After (Pocketknife’s Silk, Wool, and Rust Remix)”
Neil Young “My My Hey Hey (Cousin Cole’s Into the Blue Remix)”
Nick Drake “Know (Pocketknife’s Dampened Spirits Remix)”
Paul Simon “Paranoia Blues (Pocketknife’s Big Apple Nostalgia Remix)”
Seu Jorge “Rebel Rebel (Pocketknife’s Sem Uma Causa Remix)”
Lavender Diamond “You Broke My Heart (Cousin Cole Edit)”
John Lennon “Oh Yoko! (Pocketknife’s Numero Ono Refix)”
Bruce Springsteen “I’m On Fire (Cousin Cole’s Bad Desire Remix)”

releeease

Excellent excerpt from a documentary about Paradise Garage and the early days of New York underground house and disco, I highly encourage seeking the rest of it out online. It's really nice to get perspective on these scenes and understand that it wasn't only about music, but also breaking down divides of race and gender in a time when being queer or non-white still made you a "different kind of citizen". Worth a watch!

Florence & The Machine - You Got The Love (The xx Remix)

Poor Florence Welch. The Quietus interviewed her and made sure to include every time she said "um" or "i don't know" to scathing effect. Anyone who describes someone's voice as a "sub-Evanescence squawl " clearly is out to hurt some feelings. Anyway, read the article yourself, and in the case of you nothaving downloaded this song, that's been EVERYWHERE over everyone's blog, do so now. Pure bliss.

maakies for life

Buy the Minimood/Rawmania EP on Beatport!

Solo - Rawmania (Beataucue Remix) (ALT)

I don't want to come off as disrespectful when I say that the Beataucue remix of Solo's new track "Rawmania" from forthcoming Sound Pellegrino release is the least impressive track on the EP. It's a whirling combination of Solo's perfect percussion and lazers firing out of Beataucue's eyeballs, the kind of thing that you need to take a shower after listening to.

However, because I've gotten a chance to hear the whole EP in all its glory, I can safely say that buying the Sound Pellegrino dropping on Tuesday would be the smartest decision you've made in a while, because the other three tracks are all MONSTERS. If you like trumpets, I'm gon' cut to the chase and say that you very simply need this release. Sound Pellegrino squad consecutively hit it out of the park so many times that my "blog publicity" (hurr durr) is probably next to useless now. They're unstoppable!

take u to the movies

The Mad Decent blog put it best by saying
"FUCK YEAH INTERNET GO BANG RAIDERS"
If you haven't seen the original yet, get up to date.

success

Trey Songz ft. Drake - Successful

Now grounded in Toronto, I felt that it was my patriotic duty to dislike Drake, roll my eyes at the contrite sneer at his mixtape, and laugh when watching him 'freestyle' (read lyrics off his blackberry) on Funkmaster Flex's radio show. But about once a month I have to borrow a friend's car and drive to Scarborough at 6am, and the only thing that really keeps me from careening off the highway into a ditch is cheesy mainstream hip hop radio. That was where I first heard Trey Songz & Drake's "Successful", and all hating evaporated at that moment.

It's kind of like Trey Songz said "let's try and write the most honest chorus ever" over a super catchy minimal beat, and then after realizing how superficial the words sounded, was like "YES, KEEP IT." Still not a huge fan of Drake, he sounds like Lil Wayne if he was wearing a suit and wasn't addicted to cough syrup (aka not so interesting). But the beat and Trey MAKE THIS SONG, I want to find a way to work this into every DJ set I do for the next seventeen years.

kill yrself on halloween

DJ P.O.L Style- Vampire Killah (LOL Boys Remix)

Q: How does a fairly new, bursting with talent independent label make money?

A: Giving away free music. Wait, what? WHAT?!

Yea, Nightshifter's new Vampire Killah EP by DJ P.O.L Style reminds me that very much like the time I found $60 on the street outside my apartment, sometimes you can stumble on good things for free. Featuring Jason Forrest (aka) DJ Donna Summer and Rob Threezy of "The Change Up" fame, the outstanding track on the EP comes from the consistently surprising tropical bounce duo LOL Boys. Imagine someone chopped the word "Baltimore" into a finely diced garnish, and then chew handfuls all over a bongo-laden chorus of hollering. It's perfect music for the party that I wish I'd have a chance to DJ (y'know, that one with 2,500 people crammed into a super small warehouse, takin their shirts off) and keeps me excited to hear more official LOL Boys productions - especially their unreleased track "Tourism" which is going to be making unbelievably huge waves when it's released.

PS- speaking of free stuff, consider watching "Steal This Film", offering some interesting opinions about The Pirate Bay