Crystallizing the magic of house, funk, cowbells, and the whispers of French disco elegance swiftly, Lemmy Ashton throws us a shiny high ball and prepares on taking us through a journey of magic sexiness and blissful harmony to a tee. It’s a wonderful feeling to drink a cool Cocktail to the end. Cheers a’bundle Lemmy!
If you haven’t booked your tickets for Ibiza this year, then start hunting around for any cheap or immediate flights – pronto Aerials! (As I’m sure that the seats and prices will eventually rise on upwards or vanish, if not done so already.)
As well as the regular clubbing haunts like Amnesia, Privilege, Pacha, Es Paradis and Eden to venture onwards to, then no doubt Space in Ibiza will be getting geared up for one heck of an opening AND closing party. Roll on the 2011 Ibiza season!
Space Opening Fiesta 2011 @ Space, Ibiza starts on the 29th May 2011 from 16:30 to 06:00 featuring Carl Cox, John Digweed, Yousef, Steve Lawler, Cristian Varela and Technasia – with many more brilliant acts to be added…
Saxaphones and full-on, unadulterated funk and improvisation is the call of the hour through ‘Highlander’ by Timothy Brownie. Sharp n’ dangerous sounds within – so watch those funky meters alright kids!!!
Timothy Brownie has been accompanying the grand duo known as Röyksopp in concert recently, so for any first timers who are not used to their sound, then be prepared to enter a world of instruments, pzazz and down-right-entertainment! Chuck Love volleys back a golden and slighty Cuban drop shot that will please all Röyksopp & ‘Jugo de Frutas’ fans too right!
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A tremendous amount of vigour, true-soul and genuine intensity has been brushed into these grandslam of remixes – courtesy of what can only be called as a dream team of house music producers that celebrate this past “High Times” LP single release.
Authentic smiles beamed all around and the everlasting richness of that beautiful love which emanates from all that Alan Braxe & Fred Falke, Grant Nelson and Tom Belton bring to the cause, will leave nothing but good dinner table conversation afterwards and positive breakfast mornings tales for all those feeling a bit lucky! 2006 WAS a good year after all!
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JAMIROQUAI – Runaway (Tom Belton Dub)
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JAMIROQUAI – Runaway (Grant Nelson Remix)
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JAMIROQUAI – Runaway (Grant Nelson Dub)
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JAMIROQUAI – Runaway (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Dub)
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Closing the mighty electronic dance music porthole gently (like putting a Johnsons baby powder scented-newborn down to rest), we return to slower BPM (Beats Per Minute) quarters through the form of another Jackson family patriot.. Miss Janet “Supreme” Jackson!!
‘Together Again’ was originally penned as a tribute ballad song to recently deceased friends who had died from AIDS. Through radio play and it’s evolution into a dance track, it became a much loved single and a very prominent selling single in the year of 1997. Featuring remixes from the holy hierarchy of house legends in Tony Humphries and Tony Moran forms (plus DJ Premier with his freshly dry cleaned, hip hop jersey on), the J.J. Original (as well as all the single release remixes) perform reminiscently well and carry off a magnanimous amount of vigorous body and note worthy soul to them also.
Crisp in its swagger and enormously loving it is shell, ‘Together Again’ returns on famous ground to remind fans that J.J. hasn’t forgotten you, nor has she lost sight of you. Spiritually uplifting, it’s an unconditional love-fest song – like Janet is to the millions!
JANET JACKSON – Together Again (Tony Humphries Club Mix)
JANET JACKSON – Together Again (Tony Moran 7” Edit w/ Janet Vocal Intro)
JANET JACKSON – Together Again (DJ Premier 100 in a 50 Remix)
In the words of the WWE legend Shawn Michaels, “If you don’t like it.. leave it..” and with the newly received ‘Superstrong’ by Mr Sedgley, this follows in the same traditional mindset of unmovable, wonderful beats with an essence of creativity that screams a total-respect to the past, with a clear, hidden foresight for the future.
Max Sedgley goes right for the aural jugular and puts a well n’ truly big “FUNK” back into the phrase “Funky,” whilst Faze Action permit us to throw our hands and arms into all sort of directions like the thousands upon thousands of true ravers did in the vigorous 1988 & 1989 seasons.
Quintessential, non-trancey like action is right here for the house heads!
MAX SEDGLEY feat. TASITA D’MOUR – Superstrong (Original Mix)
MAX SEDGLEY feat. TASITA D’MOUR – Superstrong (Faze Action Mix)
Last week’s post on Small Pyramids has me hooked on the new Another Way To Feel EP. It’s full of disgustingly good disco funk beats. The EP titled track, Another Way To Feel, has quickly become one of my all time favourites on the album.
Inside you’ll find a stunning backdrop with a unique deep house flavour. To add to the instrumental destruction, Zach Hunsaker throws in some light horns that give the track a whole new dimension. It’s sensational.
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Magnavox is a producer duo (Ju + Mr.Ropper) formed not so long ago in a place called Spain. Recently they released the Through the Fire Demo which we talked about a little earlier. They return with another drop entitled Bamboleo. It’s very fresh. Magnavox are apart of Le Vedu, which you can catch here! What a sound!
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Salad is a Canadian DJ from Ottawa who has been producing music for the last two years or so now on his current stuff, he has been Dj’n for the past four. Within that little time frame he has perfected some great jazz-based disco that plays right up our alley. The two beats he tossed us tend to start off with something seemingly simple, but then the combination of electro, funk, disco, and jazz come together to create something quite more abstract than I could have ever expected. The sound is something serious and the killer of course is the light jazzy keys. They give each track that added boost that could brighten anyone’s day.
- Whether it’s performing his Greek, fruit and Mediterranean salad mixes as a dj, or performing his originals with his gang of cronies, The Disco Vikings, Salad’s objective is to liven up the party and such objective is never disappointed.
Watch out for his latest EP, set to release late August. Check here for that. Until then, enjoy Pushing’ Pressure and Chicago, two tracks to be featured on the album.
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Salad – Chicago (feat. Drew Zaremba)
BONUS!
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The album Coco came out September 2009 and I’m still loving it. Check out this remix and buy it here. It’s worth every penny.
visit www.parovstelar.com for more.
Eastern / Central European tour dates for Parov Stelar here!
Stumbled into a bundle of hot new remixes to Cullen’s Easily Impressed. Both of these are crazy hot and brought to you by no one other than Calling In Sick & Redial. It’ll be a coin toss to see which one gets played more. Calling In Sick uses a few sporadic samples while changing the tempo throughout to give the song a bit of a boost here and there so it’s hard not to dig it. But Redial brings in a little dark flavour that accents the entire track so well. I think his funky bassline takes the cake for me. So I will give it the slight edge and asterisk it… but what do you think?
As always props goes out to the blogs that hear these sick tracks before us. This time our shout-out goes to dodselectro. Tobias and the crew are consistent at delivering the goods. Here is further proof -> Check them out here…& just for interest sake, Tobias chose the Calling In Sick Remix as his favourite.
I absolutely love the vocals in BudNubac’s I’m Going to Follow. It’s sultry latin-loungey rhumba at its finest. I don’t really like the breakdown that happens 4.5 mins-in as the track begins the fade-out, but other than that it’s amazing. I love retro lounge stuff like this. BudNubac (aka Robin Taylor-Firth – Nightmares on Wax, Olive, Subma Chena), Rawle Bruce (Subma Chena), Sara Garvey (Nightmares on Wax), Shovell (M-People), and many others all appear to lend a helping hand to the project. Find more wonderful music from them here.
Pictures are from the first Photo Shoot for the ‘See the Sunrise’ campaign.
Alright so a friend of mine came across what she depicted as ‘Electric Swing’. Whatever it is, it’s fucking mint.
The problem is (and I must admit it is a pretty big problem), and that is we have no idea who is behind any of this. These tracks are a rip off a ‘chain’ CD that somehow was passed through the reigns until it landed onto us. Plus, it’s a burnt copy with no CD information and I don’t have an iphone with handy gadgets that tell me how the universe goes ’round, or more specifically, tell me who is behind these next few tracks. So I digress from my rant and apologize if you want to know more! As do I.
Hopefully one of you out there reading this can take a listen and instantly tell me who this is. I even recognize a couple samples within (or think I do), not sure if they’re originals or what and it’s killllllling me! I am amazed at your talentedness. Talentedness… it’ll catch.
Below you will find a few samples from the album.
♫ Parov Stelar – Catgroove’ *****
♫ ‘Mr. Scruff – Get A Move On’
♫ ‘G-Swing feat. Le Major Melon – La Voix Humaine’
Please tell me the artist name, album name, or track titles if you know them! I would love to fill in the blanks.
Eddie C (shown on the right) brings us some rare funk vibes today. I can’t get enough of Hold On right now, but what initially caught my eye was the delicious track You’re Welcome. The Canadian West-Coast native generally mixes experimental funk beats. If you’re like me and love these, then follow up here for more beats.
