Project 46′s “Jigsaw” is an epic trance track that samples Jigsaw from the popular film Saw. The electronic pieces in it are flawless. They are working on a lot of big label releases as of recent but wanted to continue to give away a bunch of free stuff for their listeners on their soundcloud, hype machine and fan pages! Tune in to get in on the action.
Electro/dubstep experimental producer “The 83rd” recently sent us some of his new material in the making. It’s impressive. With his debut EP “The EXperience on the horizon, he’s currently pushing a remix that has been getting a lot of love on Hype Machine called “On and On and Ocean” which samples Erykah Badu, Bjork and The Dirty Projectors. Another great track from his repertoire is his dub take on Adele’s Rolling in the Deep.
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MacKenzie Johnson, better known as DJ MAKJ, uncovered a passion for mixing and DJ’ing at only 15 years of age. After receiving the opportunity to live overseas in China, the teenager grabbed hold of his first set of Technics 1200 Turntables.
As he experimented with the new equipment, Johnson also took advantage of his foreign exposure and critically studied the technical nuances and styles set before him in the most popular clubs. No longer would DJ’ing be a new-found passion, but a thriving career path awaiting his discovery.
As a 17-year-old Johnson made his way back to the United States, he returned with a unique outlook and greater ambition than ever before. The insight Johnson acquired abroad aided him in gaining incredible local momentum; Johnson found himself being repeatedly invited to DJ countless local University and Community College events and concerts. Johnson’s exposed creativity and diversity as an artist deservingly awarded him with much critical acclaim and positive reception.
Johnson has extended his talent to notable venues in the greater California area at San Francisco’s Infusion Lounge and The Ambassador, Sacramento’s Dream Ultra Lounge and The Park in Sacramento, San Luis Obispo’s Mothers Tavern and Native Lounge, and Arizona’s Cream Stereo Lounge. Internationally, he has DJed in Macau, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Johnson was also the World Extreme Cagefighting “WEC” MMA West Coast DJ, Tachi Palace & Casino MMA DJ, NOS “Hot Import Nights” 2009 Season DJ, Coca-Cola Bay Area DJ for all corporate events, 2009 Love Fest Float DJ, and played at Fresh Entertainment 2010 fresh anniversary Rave in LA.
Johnson has since ventured into broader professional territory. He has been welcomed into the New York-based Crooklyn Clan as a featured artist; consistently producing immensely popular tracks/remixes among fellow DJs. Renowned artists such as Tiesto, Hardwell, Laidback Luke, DJ Chuckie, Steve Aoki, DJ R3hab, Wolfgang Gartner, just to name a few have all supported DJMAKJ’s tracks since his competitive debut in the realm of professional DJing and Production.
Most recently, MAKJ has joined Goom Radio, an outstanding achievement on its own. The online radio station specializes in customized radio for its listeners using the highest caliber of sound technology. DJMAKJ is currently the freshest DJ featured on the popular “In The Club” station on Goom. DJMAKJ is the second DJ on the West Coast to represent Goom Radio. His 60 min mixshows will be broadcasted every Saturday on 92.3 NY & Goom Radio’s online station.
At only 20 years of age, Mackenzie Johnson has achieved an almost unfathomable amount of success. His dedication to his craft and ambition to surpass any and all competitors will further propel DJMAKJ higher than he ever imagined.
vonKe is a 19 year old DJ based in Cologne, Germany. He’s been working with music since 2004 and producing since 2009. Below is a new mixtape he made exclusively for our listeners and his facebook fans. It’s entitled Tiara and holds some popular samples that are mixed with his own unique flare.
Follow him below for more popular beats coming to you straight from Germany. Become a facebook fan to get more exclusive mixes!
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The Los Angeles based producer Blazin put hip-hop drums against prismatic synths on his last beat tape, “Night Career”, and it’s two parts “Raw Like a Circular Saw” and “Relics of Psychedelics”. Blazin has hooked up with his cohort (whose name I find to be genius) TuskegeeCadet on his latest mixtape, “Keep It 100”, a title that connotes the rhythmic artisanship you can expect from the pairing. All beats were handcrafted by Blazin and TuskegeeCadet, with Blazin handling mixing duties. TuskegeeCadet also helped out with some mind expanding visuals in the form of a promo vid…
Soundcloud
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Bandcamp
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Tuskegee Cadet & Blazin – Get Yourz/Change Your Flight from TuskegeeCadet on Vimeo.
From the people who brought you Suede Ape, comes Modus Pony, the new instrumental solo project from Matt Ackerman. The self titled, debut album is a collection of experimental ideas, born during countless hours of bedroom daydreaming, presented and served to you as a traditional collection of typically succinct pop-songs. The album is a buffet of bite sized, experimental pieces that can be listened to casually, or examined and picked apart meticulously as an extended piece of audio-art. The album is currently available via bandcamp, with two free tracks available for download if you’re looking for something odd yet catchy, while cerebral in a “I-see-what-he-did-there” kind of way….
A little bit of heavy artillery here with some electric dub courtesy of Knife Party. KP are a sideproject from Pendulum, housing two of their original bandmembers. They are a project that have many going mental over their hard, eclectic, and domineering style of electro-dub beats. Internet Friends shook me hard. Once I caught on it wasn’t long before the remainder of their interesting style of mixes graced my speakers. They are a rising force to be reckoned with and as long as dub continues to become the forefront of the club scene across North America, they will continue to see a huge amount of success. Check out these historic tracks below and be sure to spot em on their next European tour.
Upcoming tour dates so far:
Sat 29th Oct 2011 – Trilogy 2 – Leeds University, Lifton Place, Leeds, UK
Fri 4th Nov 2011 – The Warehouse Project – Store Street, Manchester, UK
Sat 12th Nov 2011 – I Love Techno – Flanders Expo, Gent, Belgium
Fri 25th Nov 2011 – SeCrEt GiG oMg – Alexandra Palace Way, Wood Green, London, UK
Stay tuned for more dates to come…. here.
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Knife Party – Internet Friends
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Knife Party Feat. Skrillex – Zoology
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Nero – Crush On You (Knife Party Remix)
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Rusko has redefined all that is dubstep. Once graduated from Leeds College of Music with a degree in Music Performance, Rusko became heavily immersed in the world of Dubstep through the Leeds based event “Sub Dub” and the closely connected Northern counterpart of Digital Mystikz “DMZ” events, which were both held at the West Indian Centre. Rusko moved to London to work with the record labels Sub Soldiers and Stingray Records and connect with now no longer associated act Caspa. Together the two honed a new sound that was unlike any other.
Rusko made his production debut in 2006 on Dub Police with the song SNES Dub.By 2007 he released Babylon, Vol. 1 with Sub Soldiers. Steering away from the darker side of Dubstep, Rusko brought an upbeat sound to the scene that appealed to many outside the community. Rusko’s extremely successful hit Cockney Thug has appeared on various DJ sets and mixes including Pete Tong, Switch, M.I.A. and Santigold. His music has been remixed by artists Buraka Som Sistema as well as Drop the Lime, Scratch Perverts, Sub Focus and fellow act Caspa. Rusko also did his own productions and remixes of artists like Adele and A-Trak featuring Kid Sister.
Rusko worked with M.I.A. on her third album release Maya. Rusko’s newest album release is titled OMG and was released on Mad Decent Records on 3 May 2010 in the United Kingdom and 4 May 2010 in the United States.
He is also said to have worked on tracks with Rihanna and T.I. and has produced optional material for Britney Spears’ upcoming album. On November 8, 2010 Rusko’s house and production studio in Silverlake caught on fire. The fire started when Belinda’s Porsche caught fire in his carport. He managed to save the hard drives from the studio computers.
As a thank you for Christopher Mercer’s notorious work in the studio, we have a selection of hard pressed historic beats from the English producer. Check out the past below.
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Rusko – Do You Want To Have A Party
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Add hip-hop swagger, rock & roll defiance, and the pulsating energy of a nice piece of French House, ball it up, and let it bake in the LA heat, and you have the recipe for how Magic Machines likes to do it…He’s got no fear when it comes to sampling either, going from Michael Jackson to Beastie Boys without hesitation. After a few months of enjoying the free seven song EP he introduced himself with, it was great to hear from the Los Angeles hipstertronic project known as Magic Machines, and it was even better to hear he’s back with word on the La Machine Magique EP we mentioned late last March. The EP is headed for itunes and beatport on June 28th, and it’s four more tracks showcasing his hallmark brand of textured, staticy, dance music with aggressive intentions. The EP will be available to stream via Magic Machine’s Soundcloud and don’t forget to pick up La Machine Magique on the 28th!
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Magic Machines La Machine Magique EP Teaser by Magic Machines
Hard day @ work? Feet aching? Well have a gander at these freshly picked nuggets, by the haunting, Billy Ray Martin-esque tones of Planningtorock, and the wickedly wondrous, tell-it-how-it-is, electro beast of an work site hammer from YACHT.
Oh tickle me plenty, oh tickle me sin. Its two, ultra lovelies from the land of DFA!
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Mirror People’s new Reaction 12″ is out now! The release marks a turning point in electronic ambient beats from Portugal’s own Rui Maia. With delicious breaks, soothing dips, and classical piano interludes, Maia rediscovers a bit of his own musical past while recreating a brand new contemporary selection in the process. The album is released courtesy of Hands of Time Records.
Having already made his point in several remixes (one being the devastatingly good mix of Neon Indian – find it here), Mirror People are making themselves a force in the industry with their own unique originals. Catch much, much more online at mirrorpeople.net.
Buy it now on JUNO, PHONICA, or PICCADILLY.
Much like Erol Alkan, Erol Sabadosh needs to get himself some T-shirts printed that say “More bosh with your dosh, comin’ from Erol ‘by jove’ Sabadosh …” As this newly received Innerpartysystem remix, courtesy of the man himself, is up there with the best.. twisted in its most original context and terrifyingly uplifting to say the least.
At least Erol Sabadosh has got this totally right, unlike the overly sharp & mega quick release of Apple’s iPad Two! Go figure Apple …
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INNERPARTYSYSTEM – Not Getting Any Better (Erol Sabadosh Remix)
The 2011 Pacific Festival will go down on Saturday, August 13th at Oak Canyon Ranch located in Orange County, CA. I can’t imagine a more relaxing setting to enjoy a rather strong lineup, including Cut Copy, Calvin Harris, and Toro Y Moi, among others. The organizers sought to create something quintessentially southern Californian, sentiments echoed by Steve Aoki,one of the festival’s founding partners, who endeavored to, “establish a premium music and arts festival, and have organized a large collective of seasoned event producers, artists, friends and musicians”. As seemingly every summer festival corners you into making a three-day commitment, The 2011 Pacific Festival promises to be a single, cathartic day of excellent summer-time music… We loved the new Toro Y Moi LP, and we will surely be looking forward to hearing songs from the somewhat out of character Underneath The Pine at this year’s Pacific Festival, so check out “New Beat” off Underneath The Pine, and nab your tickets to the 2011 Pacific Festival below!
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Toro Y Moi “New Beat” by carparkrecords
The New Division have given us some pretty amazing remixes (John Kunkel’s remix of Toro Y Moi), but little original material since the release of the band’s stellar EP, The Rookie. We are happy to report a pair of fresh originals have arrived via the band’s soundcloud, and the Riverside CA four-piece have continued to use their retro-synths to create some sweepingly beautiful moments on both “True Lies” and “Saturday Night”. I love how unabashedly proud The New Division are of the crisp modernity they bring to sounds initially introduced by the likes of Joy Division, New Order, and Depeche Mode. Currently on our “must watch list”, everything we get from The New Division is highly anticipated, and we will continue to alert you when the guys quietly drop their next gripping original…
The New Division – Saturday Night by The New Division
The New Division – True Lies (Radio Edit) by The New Division
Purveying art, music, and yoga, among other things, Lightning in a Bottle 2011 is set to go down this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Silverado CA, nestled deep in the rugged, Orange County wilderness. In anticipation for the event, The Do Lab offers a DJ performance spot to the winner of their annual mixtape contest, with this year’s prize going to Sex Pixels, whose, “Follow Me Now To A Place You’ve Only Dreamed Of: THE LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE EXPERIENCE” mixtape can be enjoyed below, and the runners up and honorable mentions from the competition can be found here. The lineup includes the stunningly beautiful Pretty Lights, as well as a DJ set from Thievery Corporation as the event’s Sunday night finale. LA favorites Fool’s Gold will also take the stage on Sunday to close out what promises to be one of the more cathartic festival experiences you’re likely to encounter, so nab your tickets below!
Tickets Available Here!
Follow Me Now To A Place You’ve Only Dreamed Of: THE LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE EXPERIENCE by SEX PIXELS
