here’s my fav mix of the week -
Kill the Noise is an amazing producer/remixer/dj that will be gracing our fair city in a few weeks thanks to fubar. He also happens to be the man behind the amazing mashup project, ludachrist. Check out this amazing video of a live ludachrist concert featuring a dancing spongebob and barney!
KILL THE NOISE Presents: TURN OFF / TUNE IN – VOL. 2
DOWNLOAD MIX HERE! (it’s in zip format)
TRACK LISTING after link jump:
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Posted By Gray
Over breakfast CNN is screaming out that we have just had the biggest single point loss in DOW history after the house blocks the bailout deal. The day is not over yet but so far we have surpassed 9/11 in market hesitancy. Over the television dance music blares, the siren horns of Barletta, the “Wow’s” of Crookers and a new Jay-Z refrain we are about to all get used to. This is a scary moment to watch unfold but truthfully one we should have seen coming for quite some time. Our standard of living is becoming unsustainable, the debt bubble is bursting. Life continues, we still love what we care about and today, for me, that is the music.
Jocking Jay-Z (Don Rimini Remix)
Burritos and Buenos- Crookers (DJ Barletta Refix)
Hools- Don Rimini (DJ Barletta Remix)
Posted By Sasha
At about 5 PM on Friday I decided I wanted to go see Deadmau5 in Seattle. I had known about the show for sometime but had brushed off the idea originally and it has taken a week or two to really sink in that I have free time now. Spontaneous adventures are always the best so I called up Diego, Sean and Koolaid and we piled into the car two hours later.
We were deathly afraid we would arrive late, the Decibel festival was supposed to be popping and Deadmau5 is the sort of name that sells out clubs quickly. Luckily we quickly found the venue and got inside where it was indeed incredibly packed, a good mix of hipsters and bro’s with little pockets of burners. Not much dancing at first and almost no one was drinking so we assumed that everyone was just waiting for their tabs to kick in.
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Posted By Sasha
Duke Dumont is one of the most anticipated producers and DJ’s in the fidget house/ghetto house scene. As the major electronic albums keep flopping this year (Goldfrapp, Miss Kittin, Underworld) the young up and comers hold all the eyes. But even the hot young talents are still a somewhat questionable force with a only a handful of remixes and solo tracks released. The wait is antagonizing, we want Kissy Sell Out’s full length! We want Duke Dumont’s, Sinden’s, Fake Blood’s actual albums!
For now here are some hot to trot songs:
Hoy!- Duke Dumont Extremely rhythmic & building with a nice sample of an Indian trumpet over African sounding drums.
Feltham (The Borstal Beat) with it’s strangely catchy melody of an english girl talking over over a soccer anthem that turns very bassline.
Run It- EPMD (Duke Dumont Remix) Well done, “normal” hip hop with a bit of a boost from the Duke.
Mystery Jets- Two Doors Down (Duke Dumont Deconstruction) If you need proof that electro artists can be interesting and deeper then a banging beat here is a little bit of emotional build up and some extreme versatility.
Posted By Sasha
Remember Gang of Four? The highly influential rock band that birthed the bass line backbones of Disco Punk and opened the stage for The Rapture and Interpol? This is a band the record collectors tell you to listen to and the disc jockeys sneak onto the airwaves.
Here is a new take on an oft overlooked classic, the raw muscular rattling beat, the familiar blaring melody. “Sweats running down your back, sweats running down your neck, your kiss so sweat, your sweat so sour.” And then the hard sharper bass line kicks in to remind you this version belongs in this day and age.
Gang Of Four- Damaged Goods (DJ Koolaid RMXX)
Posted By Sasha
I was able to check this movie out from the multnomah county library, and I am totally impressed by this films ability to entertain me with the story of the only heavy metal band to ever exist in Iraq (and other nearby arab countries) while also telling a very personal story of the day-to-day lives of civilians in war-torn Iraq.
Here’s the official summary:
Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a feature film documentary that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day. Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been a difficult (if not impossible) proposition but after Saddam’s regime was toppled, there was a brief moment for the band in which real freedom seemed possible. That hope was quickly dashed as their country fell into a bloody insurgency. From 2004-2007, Iraq disintegrated around them while Acrassicauda struggled to stay together and stay alive, always refusing to let their heavy metal dreams die. Their story echoes the unspoken hopes of an entire generation of young Iraqis.
I’d like to have a link here, but i was unable to create any. So just go to the myspace page for Acrassicauda.
Posted By Gray
Church makes soft beautiful music that pulsates, drones and spikes into soft crescendo. They quote Kraftwerk and The Beach Boys as major influences and I almost wish they had an animal name as to me they sound like the offspring of Fleet Foxes and Panda Bear. It’s rare that a non dance act really catches my attention these day but this was the perfect addition to my morning. They play a show October 24th at Kellys Olympian to release a CD and you should probably be there.
Go here to stream the album and read about the new kids in town.
Posted By Sasha
Posted By Sasha
[If you called me/text messaged me directly after the DJ Assault show I did not receive your message as I savagely broke my phone to my great dismay. Event review coming very soon & please try to call me again.]
In other news:
After Kissy Sell Out dropped Player Player’s “Lonely” in a podcast bloggers everywhere spread the love and this hype was translated into a loving Pitchfork review for Player Player’s take on “Mars”. Expect to see these songs popping up in your local club as these two cats have already played along side The Crookers, The Klaxons and Erol Alkan making it likely the US will finally take notice.
Player Player- Lonely
Fake Blood- Mars (Player Player 95 Jump Mix)
MR Dobalina (Player Player Remix)
Posted By Sasha
Adam is a relatively new face around town, a transplant from Eugene who spent too much money on vinyl until his boss bought him Serato. Now he has been quickly embraced by the crew at FBM as a friend and soon to be fellow DJ- playing with us on Oct. 17th downstairs from the Kill The Noise show.
Here is a mix he made which is, quite, minimal and impressive.
MINIMAL TO THE EXXXTREME
Track listing after the jump.
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Posted By Sasha
One of my favorite dance music blogs You Can Call Me Pelski just posted a massive post on Trevor Loveys, one of the key fidget house producers/DJ’s in the world. This is a great blog, not just for a wealth of downloads (two of which found there way in my set tonight) but for being a fairly deep step into the genre. Another joke name that caught on, unlike “Nu Rave” this music has long lasting dance floor stability.
(Photo from a Duke Dumont show)
Here are the three more tracks that I would say help define Fidget, more on the Ghetto/vocal side.
Sawtooth Sucka- Back in Town
Unkle- Restless (Fake Blood Remix)
Duke Dumont- Lean and Bounce
Posted By Sasha
I have worked at the same restaurant for four years. In that time I learned a great deal about, well, most everything. There were moments of glory and moments of pain. It was an incredible stressful job but also a deeply meaningful one. The end is always sad but the future is always bright, I am excited to take a break from food industry to focus on this website, DJing and party promotion. In the meantime I am going to miss all the amazing people I spent so much of my life with.
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Posted By Sasha
I have been a big supporter from the very beginning and I happy that the quality just continues to grow. In this cut we have tripped out flowing sound with the boom boom drum beat as more of a steady background, this is a more mature mix, less dance floor spazz and a heady emotional buzz..
Hess is More – Yess Boss (dj koolaid rmx 9000)
As a bonus here is Koolaid’s remix of the MGMT “Kids”. This was produced but never released some time ago.
MGMT- Kids (DJ Koolaid Remix)
Posted By Sasha
This shit is hyper fast, and features the best ghettotech turntablist action i’ve heard, except of course what you’ll hear at the upcoming DJ Assault show this upcoming friday at Branx. (plug plug plug!)
No, seriously, DJ Godfather’s skills are hella good. DJ Godfather (Brian Jeffries) comes from Detroit Michigan, and thus was one of my main influences, growing up in the region. I highly recommend buying one of his mixtapes in the “da bomb” series.
He is the co-owner of the Twilight 76 Records label with sublabels like: Databass Records, Juke Trax, and D.E.T. Only; these labels pioneered Ghettotech and made it famous outside Detroit.
DJ Godfather – PromoBassMix2007
another good one is: DJ Godfather – Live @ Locked vs Computer Controlled 13.05.05
Posted By Gray
As you may have figured out, I like to promote DJ’s who haven’t gotten so much love, perhaps because they’re primarily dj’s, rather than producers (like me). So here’s my latest promotion, of a french dj by the damn of Dactylo. Besides the fact it freatures noisy grinding electro, he really pays attention to transition timing and buildups.
(Better Fucking) In Bed With Dactylo #3
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Posted By Gray
Tonight at Rotture with Joee & Beyonda.
Who they are & why you should go…
Posted By Sasha
Go outside. But first, put these on your Ipod.
Journey- Don’t Stop Believing (Andy Clockwork Remix)
The beat is infectious. The vocal loop is cheesy but grin worthy. This may be my favorite song of the moment.
Jamtech Foundation VS The Prodigy- Out of Space 2008
I raved about Jamtech foundation when I first heard them and I plan on doing the same as new material circulates. I seem to like happy music right now. Is that a bad thing?
MGMT- Kids (Soulwax Nite Version)
Finally, the high quality version. Jam of the um…fall.
Photo by Fernando Arturo Cabrejos
Posted By Sasha
The third day started off once again with a two-headed free set, this time by Britt Daniel and Built To Spill. Although I couldn’t stick around for Built To Spill, I managed to catch a great deal of Britt’s set which consisted mostly of solo-Spoon renditions. I recall a split record with Britt Daniel and Connor Oberst that had some solo things of Britt’s I really enjoyed. When I went to the show, I was expecting this kind of thing to make up the majority of the songs he would preform. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case and all of the experimentation and musical tricks that made Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga so good were out the window. Familiarity still made for some fun though.
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Posted By David Hutchinson
Post rock/doom metal at an all ages venue. Make it feature a bunch of my close personal friends and happening two block from my house at the newly popping venue in Backspace. I’m there.
Posted By Sasha
Speaking to Zac briefly before the show was very informative. Not only did he make us aware that Please Step Out Of The Vehicle would not be preforming there, but he also let us know that Parenthetical Girls would be preforming two sets; one as a “Rock and Roll” group, the other “as an orchestra”.
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Posted By David Hutchinson
