Make You Sweat (Mix)

Originally I recorded this same mix via control vinyl (I use M-Audio's Torq for dj'ing now) but in the end, I realized I'm not going to achieve a good quality with just recording through my laptop (for whatever reason, it sounds a bit better than the radio), so I reverted back to digital mixing. And now I'm going to use my dj name instead of "andytron". Anyways, THE NEW MIX!

Kids At The Disco Presents Make You Sweat
Steamworks - The Presets
Phantom - Justice
Body Heat - Plus Device
F-cking Boyfriend (Peaches Remix) - The Bird And The Bee
Something Good - Van She Tech vs Utah Saints
North American Scum (Onastic Dub) - LCD Soundsystem
By The Time They Reach You (The Bagraiders Remix) - KIM
Interzone To Golden Skans (So-Me Remix) - Klaxons
We Are Rockstars - Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Testarossa Overdrive (SebastiAn Remix) - Kavinsky
I Wish You Were Gone - Joakim
Lindsay Lohan's Revenge - Pase Rock
It's The Beat (The Teenagers Remix) - Simian Mobile Disco
Chop Suey - Busy P
Black Eyes (Le Castle Vania Remix) - Snowden
Someone Like You (MSTRKRFT Sweat Remix) - Revl9n
Frequency 7 - Visage
Transpiralo - Panico


Make You Sweat (Mix) (right click and save as)
60 min / 80 mb

Gramme of Funk

Back in the fall of 2004, I used to have a radio show on KCSB 91.9 FM called "Break Out The Shakedown," and I used to rock this one group from the UK called Gramme. They had a mini-album called Pre Release that was released on Trevor Jackson's (aka Playgroup) now-defunct label, Output Recordings, that had six of the tightest dance-funk jams I'd heard.

Pre Release came out waaaay back in 1999, and since I didn't know anything about the band then, I have no clue where they are now. At least they lasted long enough to bless up with that one release. The one on rotation the most with DJs I shall share with you today:


Gramme - "Like U" from Pre Release

Hadouken!

I just found out about these guys over the weekend (I can't remember from where!), a UK-foursome that goes by the name Hadouken!, who've recently remixed Bloc Party and Klaxons. When I first heard the single "That Boy That Girl" I thought they had a grime MC rapping over the music, but then upon closer inspection the lead singer is white guy who looks like he could be part of Klaxons' crew.

Equal parts punk and grime, Hadouken! busts out some crazy grime-style synth-lines and hard-hitting beats that'll surely shake up the '07 scene. Music video and mp3 below!


("That Boy That Girl" video)


Hadouken! - "That Boy That Girl" (from That Boy That Girl 7")

Services For Your Desire

I'm still unclear about what or who makes up A Touch Of Class ever since hearing their compilation A Touch of Class - Sucks! from a few years back (are they just a label? are they their own band? why are they trying to confuse us?), but I know they've got a magic touch with everything (releases, remixes... and class, I guess?).

Four years later, ATOC has already released follow up compilation, A Touch Of Class - Still Sucks!, which I haven't managed to get a copy of yet, but I wanted to bring your attention to one of the artists they remixed, and how crazy mad I am at myself for not paying more attention to.


("Element Of Danger" music video)

This band in reference is the Brooklyn duo Services, who've just had the single from their two-year old album, Your Desire Is My Business (another album I don't have yet), remixed by MSTRKRFT and ATOC in the past year. But the original version to this single, "Element Of Danger," grabbed my attention immediately. It's a fresh take on the electronic/guitar rock sound that I can't really compare to anything else without problems.

I sampled clips of the album off iTunes, and it sounds like they go into electro death rock at times, but the new music on their MySpace sounds promising (and a new album for this year, perhaps?). If you want the MSTRKRFT remix, you're out of luck. Here's the album version, yeah!


Services - "Element Of Danger"

Ed Banger, Parte Deux

In case you slept on it, Ed Banger's second gift to the U.S. via Vice Records, Ed Rec (Vol. 2), hit digital music stores this past Tuesday. While the first volume was more of a primer for listeners new to the label, the second one brings both old and new listeners together for new, exclusive tracks from Justice, Uffie, Busy P (the man behind the label himself), and a So-Me remix of Klaxons (which is one of the better selections on the compilation, in my opinion).


(Promo video for Ed Rec Vol. 2 via YouTube.com)

Mr. Oizo sadly only appears for the intro track, but probably produced the beats to Uffie's new banger, "Dismissed." Feadz comes up short with a watered down effort and I can't explain it why he didn't give us what he's best at. DJ Mehdi throws in "Lucky Girl," dashed with samples from Gwen Stefani's "Wind It Up" and a Stefani-esque rap in an apparent Gwen Stefani parody song.

Busy P has definitely proven to be a nice surprise through the two compilations, which I would've never expected, so that's why I've chosen to share Busy P's (very Kavinsky) track:


Busy P - "Rainbow Man"