Karaoke

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Morsy

Some quality stuff from Brooklyn's DJ Morsy (of Nana Chill). While the MJ edit is quite blog-ancient (feel-good music don't age, son), the Three 6/T-Pain/Project Pat joint is a newbie (and will be released on Morsy's cd come Thanksgiving).

Michael Jackson - Workin' Day and Night (Morsy remix) (zShare)

Three 6 Mafia ft. T-Pain and Project Pat - Lolli Lolli (Morsy remix) (zShare)

Best album cover... evarrr?

I'd say Top Dog has that on lock. From the basketball attire and daylight-reflecting backboard at night-time, to the (MS paint vertically flipped) hoe's blurred face and failure to actually hang through the mesh.

Mad pics be up!

The above (and following), all courtesy of good homie Le Champion du Monde. Just click the below pic for full night's captures.

Everybody Rocking

Count & Sinden, they just don't stop.

Chopped bassy synths. Jay Z sample. Constant teasing and deliberate failure to drop the heavyness at expected times (ie. @ 1:19). All here:

Sinden and Count Of Monte Cristal - Everybody Rocking (zShare)

Santogold x Boy 8-Bit

Can't go wrong with a Santo & 8-Bit collabo. I threw this track up on TDS the other day and it's been on that Hype Machine climb, so it deserves another drop.

Santogold - Shove It (Boy 8-Bit remix) (zShare)

Jesse Rose

Not new by any means, but I just bumped into it again. Jesse Rose, on point as always. For those unfamiliar with Jesse's sound, this pretty much sums it up:

"Your average club-goer may not know what to call the hybrid house being made by Jesse Rose, but there’s no mistaking its potent mix of mind-numbingly crisp techno/house beats, gritty sample riddled melodies and bassbin-blowing subsonics or its effectiveness on a dancefloor"
- XLR8R Magazine

Plastic Operator - Why Don't You (Jesse Rose & Oliver remix) (zShare)

Crazy Cousinz = crazy good

UK's Crazy Cousinz have taken over my iTunes library. Repeat, all day, urrrday.

Bongos meet loungy house, with a touch of jazz. So damn good.

Paleface & Kyla - Do You Mind (Crazy Cousinz remix) (zShare)

Here's "Bongo Jam" @ 192. Support their sound and cop the 320 quality when it drops tomorrow:

Crazy Cousinz ft. Calista - Bongo Jam (zShare)

Mad Decent month!

Monday we get down with the Mad Decent Tour.

Philly's Diplo, UK's Boy 8-Bit, Brooklyn's Telepathe, LA's Abe Vigoda, and our own Jokers of the Scene. No need for further explanation. Ottawa peoples, full party info in our facebook event page. Out of towners, peep the full tour list to plan your pre-drinks & outfits accordingly.

Boy 8-Bit - Ghosthouse (Suspense Is Killing Me Pt II) (zShare)

Diplo - Must Be A Devil (zShare)

PLUS...

We're stickin' with the label and bringing Mad Decent's DJ Sega & Dirty South Joe through for our Nov. 7th party!

TheDockingStation.ca

So zShare has been down for quite some time now, meaning none of the songs I've thrown on this blog are playable/downloadable anymore. Either they step their game up (and are back up soon) or Imma have to switch file sharing hosts.

BUT...

this wackness gives me a chance to properly introduce you guys to The Docking Station website. The site showcases an eclectic collection of all good up-to-the-minute released music, whether it be electro, hiphop, house, dancehall, indie, or any 841530 sub-genres in between. Not to mention, it's currently getting over 1,000 unique daily hits (a number that sees a 15% increase every month)... which stumps the shit outta my lil' ol' blog.

Earlier this week I was asked to jump on board as a contributing writer and, without a moments hesitation, I said fffffsho. The Docking Station peeps and I have kept in close touch over the past few months... trading tracks (they even pushed the Tom Wrecks Kanye edit I sent them to the 6th most downloaded song on the internet spot 2 weeks ago), mixes, youtube videos, used socks, and semi-scandalous pictures of hot chicks of mixed-backgrounds. Our tastes mirror, really.

No foot dipping, I'm straight jumping in - so make my 2nd home your 2nd home!!!

> > > THE DOCKING STATION < < <

Eminem back with a new...

SONG:

Eminem - I'm Having A Relapse (zShare)

BOOK:

"Illustrated with never-before-seen photographs of Eminem’s home and life along with original drawings, The Way I Am is filled with reflections on his greatest hits, previously unpublished lyric sheets, and other rare memorabilia. Providing his millions of fans with a personal tour of Eminem’s creative process, it is poised to be hailed in much the same way as Tupac’s The Rose that Grew from Concrete, Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, and Journals by Kurt Cobain."

The 208-page autobiography is due for release on the 21st on Dutton Adult (a division of The Penguin Group).

T-SHIRT:

Undcrwn released an Eminem edition t-shirt yesterday, in honour of the above-mentioned book.

DJ Mujava x DJ Rob 3 (+ bonus track)

So not too long ago, DJ Rob 3 (or Rob Threezy as of late) came out with that insane choppy horn-infused banger titled "The Chase". I never posted the track 'cause I had a feeling he was fishing a label for proper release - and really, that joint should be bought. The song did get snatched up (surprise surprise), and is due for release on the Brick Bandits EP (alongside DJ Sega, DJ Tameil, DJ Tim Dolla, DJ B-Stee, and Mike V) under Ol' Head Records (also the home of our next party's guest djs).

Rob's newest release is a juiced up DJ Mujava edit (which just so happens to be the track I've been raving about all summer). How perfect.

DJ Mujava - Township Funk (DJ Rob 3 remix) (zShare)

BONUS:

Rob Threezy - You Bad (zShare)

Mansion - Body

New Mansion, snatched from Dylan @ The Docking Station. The duo steered away from usual chunkyness and kept it wonderfully house-y.

Mansion - Body (zShare)

Band knowledge

My last post reminded me that I need to step my band game up. Here's good practice: the above picture (click for full enlarged version) contains 75 bands. For example... Radiohead crossing the street, Rolling Stones on the far sidewalk, so on and so forth. Try it.

Smashing Pumpkins x Le Castle Vania

Raph & Aaron (D.R. One & Grandtheft of Team Canada) were in town for a party last night. Hadn't seen them since their Redbull party back 1st week of August so I rolled through to say what's up. Just as last time, the venue was one of no history in terms of any hipster/electro/baltimore music... so half the crowd (other half being Team Canada's regular fans that came through) was pleasantly surprised. Kinda like how "the gunshot song" was unfamiliar to most over a year ago, but now you get 63 "Paper Planes" requests a night. Anyways, as much fun as it was to watch martini dress wearing chicks stumble over their own heels to a David Guetta b-more edit, that's not what this post is about.

Music still going and about 20 minutes after the club should have been closed, Frame (who opened the night) readied Neoteric's Nirvana vs. Stardust joint, to which Aaron cued and dropped some next level rock banger. The song turned the place into a scary version of a Justice concert, with so much jumping that I was unable to trainspot and see what the remix was.

I THINK it was this, but I'm not positive. Kicks in heaaaaaavy @ 1:28.

Le Castle Vania - Zero Machine (zShare)

Le Castle Vania myspace here.

Lee Mortimer - Putto

Some quality heavyness from Dubsided and Wearhouse signee, Lee Mortimer.

Lee Mortimer - Putto (zShare)

HTML coding

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank HTML for making me waste my entire day on re-doing my myspace page. Why can't editing be simpler? I'm gonna have nightmares of this tonight:

body { background-colour:000000;}table, tr, td {background-colour: transparent;}table, td{ background-colour: transparent; } table table table{ background-colour: 3b3b3.; border-color:3b3b3.; border-style:solid; border-width: 2px; }

The nightmare is going to be a mere floating black background with a grey outline - 'cause that is what all that jibberish translates to.

Also... if anyone knows their html, please lemme know how I can take the transparency mode off my calendar box without screwing up the rest of my fields.

Kanye West - Love Lockdown (video)

Ellen with the world premiere!

Denis Doyle photography

The picture I used in my previous post was by photographer Denis Doyle. I liked the snap, found his website, and now I like all his stuff.

See the rest of his captures on his website.

African sound of Kuduro

Pic by Denis Doyle

I've gone on an African sound download tear since I posted the Township Funk video 2 months ago. The search brought me back to Kuduro (my first intro to such music, back about a year ago). Kuduro (or Kuduru) is a fusion of African percussion samples, traditional Angolan Kilapanga and Semba beats, and Western house & techno. Kinda like an African flavoured mini-rave, if you will. The sound hasn't really hit this part of the world yet - but with the help of musical boundary pushers such as Buraka Som Sistema and M.I.A., I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot more of it soon enough.

MSTRKRFT x A-Trak

A-Trak's long awaited version of MSTRKRFT's "Bounce" finally dropped a few days ago. The edit sees a nice gradual increase in energy, from steady bouncy drums to a chopped up version of the original synths. Then a nice little pause, followed by a spiced up version of the previous synths. This'll be a dancefloor favourite soon enough.

MSTRKRFT ft. N.O.R.E. - Bounce (A-Trak remix) (zShare) [this is a 192, not a 320]

Soulwax funks up Beethoven

Soulwax + Beethoven symphony + Justice drums + funk. Whaaaaaaaaat?!?

Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band - A Fifth of Beethoven (Soulwax remix) (zShare)

Red & Meth pics + video

Finally uploaded my pictures from our Method Man & Redman concert last Saturday. No press passes were issued, so all pro big camera peeps were turned away from the stage. All I had to work with was my tiny palm-sized Canon PowerShot - but here are the snaps:

^ No stage, just hands and shoulders.

The only video clip I got:

Douster

I haven't thrown up any Douster material since my huge N.E.R.D. remix post. That whole posting disappeared within a day, but I figured it was just some blogger error and just re-linked all the edits. Then that post vanished too (which means I stepped on toes and the internet poe-lice were on my ass). Anyways, here's some newer Douster wobblyness.

Douster - More Gunz (zShare)

Douster - Let's Get Tropical Minimix (zShare)

Tracklist:
Douster - Da Me Duro
Douster - Badman Place
Ice cube - You Can Do It (Bass Kleph refix)
Mowgli - Club Life
RQM - Miss Pacman (Oliver$ remix)
Douster - This Shit (2 Bit Thugs remix )
Laidback Luke & A-trak - Shake It Down
Francky Rizardo - Sensei (original mix)
DJ VR - Batida Chapu
Toddla T - Soundtape Killin (Nastee Boi remix)
Douster - Deh Money

Deadmau5 far from dead

In fact, he's killing everybody else. For those who need a history of this killer, here's a quick re-cap: in 2005, a tiny mouse crawls into a computer hub, gets stuck, and dies there. One month later, 24 year old Hamilton native Joel Zimmerman finds it (thanks to the rotten stench) and starts calling himself Deadmau5. He starts producing music under this name. Within a year he wins a Beatport Music Award for Producer of the Year. He takes the following year to produce, collaborate, and tour. Early this year he wins a Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year (which was "All U Ever Want", with Billy Newton-Davis) and just recently, goes on a rampage and takes the following standings at the 2008 Beatport Music Awards:

Daaaaaaamn, he cleaned up.

Here's an older Deadmau5 edit that never seems to get old:

Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger (Deadmau5 remix) (zShare)

Deadmau5 website here.

Deadmau5 myspace here.

Buy Deadmau5 music here.

Lil Wayne x UMYO

Weezy.
Guitar riff.
Bobby Valentino.
Baltimore flavour.
Swedish dj duo UMYO (digitAlex + Mamma Erik).

Lil Wayne - Mrs. Officer (UMYO Gredos remix) (zShare)

Behind the scenes of the music video:

A good lost

Ever hop around from one person's site link list to another's, then from theirs to to the next's, and so on and so forth? You go so far that your starting point fades from memory. I do a lot of that. I just figure if a certain person, blog, or website interests me, then so might their referrals. Like earlier today... when I went from Nick Catchdubs, to a design company (Burlesque of North America) that created several promo flyers of events that he has played at, to the artist/graphic designer/dj/art gallery co-owner that designed those very flyers (Mike Davis), and then (finally), to an intriguing 2002 released book in which Mike was one of 26 contributors.

The 194 page collection includes "an interview with a shoplifter, freeway rants, a free art experiment, short stories, free speech essay & photography, freestyle design & drawing, a guide on how to get free comps from casinos, a definitive dating guide, and more".

The book is not for sale, but is available for exhibition.

Janelle Monáe makes damn good music

If not familiar with Janelle Monáe - get familiar. The girl is 23, signed to Atlantic & Bad Boy Records, and fuses soul with R&B,rock, and electronica like it ain't no thing. Her versatility and diversity is a rarity, to say the least.



Talk about a breath of fresh air.
Here is that single:

Janelle Monae - Many Moons (zShare)

Make sure to cop her full length album upon release (January 2009).

Adidas Originals Festival contest

Just got a link to this neat contest in a facebook message from Discobelle's Niklas. Basically, you book a virtual/fake one day music festival with a $120,000 budget, 8 acts/artists (you allot hour long sets, anywhere betwen 4pm and midnight), and one afterparty. Some people kept it indie, some ran out of cash and made a shortened 3 or 4 act festival, a bunch created the most face melting French electro line-ups ever, and one even had Girl Talk on at 4 (wtf?).

I tried to pase it and make it flow, so there would be a gradual increase in energy & sweat.

4pm - Peter, Bjorn & John
5pm - Hot Chip
6pm - Chromeo
7pm - M.I.A.
8pm - Digitalism
9pm - A-Trak
10pm - MSTRKRFT
11pm - Daft Punk
Afterparty w/ Diplo

I would have had a 1pm-3pm BBQ pre-drink with Lil Wayne & Radiohead, but shit, no such option existed.

CLICK HERE to view, make your own, and hopefully win stuff.

You best toggle attending... I put 20 minutes of MS Paint skills and $117,000 into this bitch.