Menace and Falke

Kris Menace, responsible for the great remix of Mer du Japon, featured in this weeks essential mix. He was responsible for the first hour of this essential mix. The second hour was up to Fred Falke. 

Falke combined the smooth and enjoyable french touch beats with some of the classics such as Pink Floyd and Metallica. 

Check out the tracklist at bbc's website

Download Kris Menace & Fred Falke's Essential Mix

Next week we'll witness the sounds of Steve Aoki, the L.A producer founder of Dim Mak records. Dim Mak records holds groups such as Klaxon and Bloc Party, and has been responsible for MSTRKRFT and Bloody Beetroots. 

Time to Disco

Interestingly enough, Erol Alkan (who seems to have grown a beard recently) has put out a disco set, Disco 3000. Its quite fun, so go ahead and check it out.

Also, dig Digitalism's Kitsune Tabloid mix. Its really, really good.
Tracklist:
01. Mawkish - Baba
02. Muscles - Sweaty (Shazam Rmx)
03. Zongamin - Tunnel Music
04. Hercules & Love Affair - Raise Me Up
05. Holy Ghost ! - Hold On
06. Zombie Nation - Filter Jerks
07. The Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made
08. Shadowdancer - Cowbois / with Spank Rock - Put Tha
09. Digitalism - The Pulse (Der Die Das Rmx )
10. Midnight Juggernauts - Ending Of An Era
11. The Jonzon Crew - Space Cow Boy
12. I Sream Ice Ccream - Closing Time Closing In
13. Siriusmo - Diskoding
14. Calvin Harris - Colours
15. The Presets - Yippiyo Ya
16. Hey Today! - If I Was Wonderman
17. Hot Chip - Shake A Fist
18. The Kills - Cheap And Cheerful
19. The B 52 - Funplex (CSS Extended remix)
20. Proxy - Dance in Dark
21. Decalicious - La Faviere 76 ( Larz Chapter remix)
22. In Flagranti - Business Acumen
23. Late Of The Pier - The Bears Are Coming (Hey Today
24. WhoMadeWho - The Plot
25. Digitalism Echoes ( Digitalisms Underwater Sonar)

Part 1
Part 2

enjoy

Expired rodent in da house

Many thanks to G for that awesome Alex Metric set. Here to follow up I have the latest Essential Mix from the boys at BBC Radio 1: Deadmau5.

This guy has literally exploded into the scene, turning out new remixes and touring constantly. Although not solely the hard electro genre that we usually feature here, Deadmau5's style is nonetheless varied, enjoyable, and certainly unique. Many of the tracks and transitions remind me of the later Balance mixes, which nicely accentuates and complements the heavier songs. The last third is not as good as the first two, with some cheesy tracks you'll have to put up with. But the rest is worth it.

Here's the tracklisting:
Deadmau5 - Complications (Mau5trap)
Deadmau5 - Sometimes Complicated (Mau5trap)
Deadmau5 - Bye Friend (Mau5trap)
Sydney Blu - Senses Of The Mind
Deadmau5 Vs Jelo The Reward Is More Cheese (Summer Festival 08 Version) (Rising Trax)
Deadmau5 - Hi Friend (Mau5trap)
BSOD – Milton (White Label)
Supermayer - 2 Of Us (Deadmau5 Edit) (Kompakt)
Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (Deadmau5 Edit) (Border Community)
Matt Rock - What You Feel (Deadmau5 Remix) (Hardplace)
Deadmau5 - Desynchronised (Mau5trap)
John Dahlback - Pyramid (Original) (Cr2)
Deadmau5 - Faxing Berlin (Piano Version) (Mau5trap)
Deadmau5 - Faxing Berlin (Mau5trap) + Morgan Page - The Longest Road (Accapella)
Deadmau5 & Kaskade - I Remember (Mau5trap)
Deadmau5 - Arguru (Songbird/Blackhole)
Deadmai5 - Alone With You (Mau5trap)
Deadmau5 - Brazil (Second Edit) (Mau5trap)
Deadmau5 - Clockwork (Songbird/Blackhole)
Deadmau5 – Jaded (Mau5trap)

My only real complaint with this mix is that its mostly his own music...which seems to indicate a certain level of shameless self-promotion.
Nevertheless, the mix is still amazing and well worth having. So go, go forth and download!

Peace and enjoy

New Metric + Crazy Squirrel

Finally Alex Metric has released a new mix. The last one I had heard was released in september 07. After so long it is good to hear the bleepy and choppy sounds of Alex Metric. The UK Dj who has been palying at Fabric and considered one of the breakthroughs of 2007 has given us a great mix. Check out the tracklist:

Treasure Fingers - Cross the dancefloor - Fools gold
Alex Gopher - Aurora (riot In Belgium Mix) - Kitsune
Bobmo - To the Bobmobile - Institubes
Boys Noize - Oh (A Trak Mix) - BNR
SebastiAn - Army - Ed Banger
Evil 9 - They Live - Rogerseventytwo Mix - Marine Parade
Alex Metric - Caller - Marine Parade
Bart B More - I Love you
The Subs - Papillon - Shinichi osawa Mix
Yuksek - It Comes
Adam Freeland - Hate - Marine Parade
Splittr - All Alone (Alex Metric Mix) - Eye Industries
Alex Gopher vs. primal Scream (Alex Metric Live mashup)
Infadels - Free Things For Poor People (Alex Metric Mix) - Wall Of Sound

Alex Metric June Mix

In addition, check out this story from Germany. I read it and laughed out loud. I found it pretty funny to picture elderly Germans running after a squirrel.

Crazy Squirrel

Enjoy!

New Twelves tracks, DesignerDrugs tour

We're all massive fans of The Twelve's here at NslL, waiting for the day when they play in North America.  They have yet to perform outside of Brazil, let alone South America, but they inevitably will.  Here's a new track of theirs, not the best quality as it's a myspace rip, but worth adding to the collection.  

Humanitarianism (Twelve's remix) - Zeigeist

So aside from posting my current favourite tracks, mixes, videos, etc., I want to use this blog as a forum to distribute my own music.  I'm currently working on a few tracks that aren't quite finished yet but I do have a mashup that I've made available for download below.  It's a mix of Erol Alkan's remix of the Klaxon's Golden Skans, an extended light and spacey track laid over Felix Cartal's L'amour.  The result a blazing vocal mashup that's heavy and driving all the way through.  Please comment with your thoughts on the track.  

L'amour de Skans (an Essex mashup) - Erol Alkan / Felix Cartal

DesignerDrugs were featured in a mix I posted a week ago on the blog.  They do a good job at remixing pop tracks, adding thick, heavy basslines over the original vocals, consistently delivering quality club tracks.  I've posted a handful of tracks in an effort to promote their North American tour.  I'll be at the show in NYC so I hope to see you there.  

Countdown MSTR extended (DesignerDrugs remix) - Jupiter One

Moving Forward, Moving Forward (DesignerDrugs remix) - Protokoll

Drugs in my Body (DesignerDrugs) - Thieves Like Us

July 18 - Boys and Girls Club @ Boondocks, Houston, Texas
July 19 - Tres Chic:XXX-MAS in JULY @ Orchid Night Club, Austin, Texas
July 25 - Ruff Club @ The Annex, NYC, New York
July 26 - LIVE FOREVER @ Barbary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
July 31 - Republic, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Aug. 2 - Location TBA, Seattle, Washington
Aug. 9 - Coda Club, Montreal, Canada
Aug. 29 - Discotech @ The Majestic w/ OCD Automatic & The Glamour, Madison, Wisconsin
Aug. 30 - LIVE FOREVER @ Barbary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sept. 1 - Crush, Orlando, Florida
Sept. 4 - Family Affair, Tallahassee, Florida
Sept. 5 - PULP, Tampa, Florida
Sept. 6 - Neon Liger, Gainesville, Florida

Hint - Portakabin Fever

I think it is finally time for my humble contribution to this flourishing project of ours. This time I am posting something which should be a crowd pleaser - another Ninja Tune favourite, Hint. Hailing from Sussex, England and signed to the label relatively recently, Hint's debut Portakabin Fever has something to offer to a listener searching for Bonobo's brand of chillout, intelligent afterparty music. In fact, Last.fm tells me Hint has toured with Bonobo and Minotaur Shock (another great producer whose work I'm hoping to post soon), which for me was reason enough to check his music out. Somewhat airy, and always with a good variety of melody and rhythm, Portakabin Fever is oh-so-good on a Sunday morning. Try it yourself.


Hint - Portakabin Fever (rapidshare)

Stress

So I'm sure everyone knows and is sick of that Justice song Stress. But the video is pretty good, at least it got me all riled up and pissed off at today's urban youth, at least in France:

However the main point of posting this was to lead into the remake:

JUSTICE - STRESS ( JUSTESSE NO STRESS / THOMAS VDB VERSION )
by Lesairsavif

enjoy and have a laugh

OD

This is going to be a jam packed post...Let's begin with an an interview with Alex Gopher featured on Brav in the Mix. (I believe he actually is a subscriber to our humble blog so please do check out his) FYI the interview is in french, but I hope some people will appreciate it as it's a revealing look into the artist's life and the development of the french music scene over the years. 

I'd like to follow up Nestor's post containing a Duke Dumont track with two more.  Duke Dumont is a young producer from the U.K. who exploded onto the scene after winning a production contest in 2006, declared as one of the best unsigned producers of the year.  In 2007, he released an EP that was widely lauded by the likes of Simian Mobile Disco and Erol Alkan amongst others.  

The first remix I've posted was featured on the Acid Girl's Neon Noise Mixtape, albeit briefly. A unique use of a sample and staccato chord stabs culminate a bouncy club production.  The second remix/reconstruction is in stark contrast to the first; its dark and melodic, even ambient at times; a real class production from Duke Dumont that remains entertaining over the 8+ minutes of play.  

The Deacon (Duke Dumont 'Live from Brooklyn' mix) - Idiotproof

Two Doors Down (Duke Dumont Reconstruction) - The Mystery Jets

D.I.M. really hasn't been properly featured on the blog yet, and its high time he has.  Signed to Boys Noize records, in my opinion the most talented artist on the label, D.I.M. makes blazing, grinding, big bass electro and has forged a precise and instantly recognizable sound and form. This track deviates a bit in its phrasing but still typifies the D.I.M. sound.  I'll post an older, massively popular remix of The Preset's track My People.  Anyone who saw Les Petits Pilous and the Montreal Nu Ravers at SAT a few months ago will remember this song without a doubt.    

Always Something Missing (D.I.M. remix) - Sono

My People (D.I.M. remix) - The Presets

So finally I mentioned doing a new mix for the blog and here it is.  Its ten minutes of relatively recent tracks that have not been posted on the blog.  The tracklist is below, I hope you enjoy it. 

NslL July Mix 

There's No Justice - Cécile

Diamonds in the Dark (Erol Alkan remix Version 3.0)

Ironical Sexism (Grum remix)  - Revolte

Numb (Kris Menace remix) - Heartache

Je Prends les Gens Pour Qu'ils Sont (DesignerDrugs remix) - Flou

Strangers (Yuksek remix) - Van She 

Vacation Music

So this is where I've been for the last two weeks...

and here are two tracks that I just couldn't stop listening to all the while I was there...

You Can't Always Get What You Want (2008 Soulwax Remix) - The Rolling Stones

We Begin - Bufi

This Soulwax remix is fantastic.  Not much else more to say about these guys except that a film is to be released about the two brothers from Ghent in late August, I'll post the trailer below.

As for Bufi, he's from Mexico City and thats all I really know about him.  The track is a bit dark yet melodic and features some clever english vocals that do well to tie the piece together.  

Introducing

Before I used to think that all of the Kissy Sell Out stuff was rubbish.
Obviously I hadn’t heard enough. I just stumbled into a set by him and the resident djs of a club called Moda, it’s a garage in the UK. This is an introducing essential mix, showing us the new music on the scene. I personally enjoyed the kissy sell out hour more than that of Jaymo and Andy George.

Jaymo/Andy George + Kissy Sell Out EM

One really good song in this mix is 72 Virgins by Shitdisco remixed by the Bloody Beetroots

Enjoy!

Crook-Crook-Crookers!

As usual this is a little late by blogosphere standards, but the Crookers Essential Mix (download available at the bottom of the tracklist) is not to be missed out on. They played a sick show last sunday at club 1234 here in Montreal, and although the crowd was boorish, repetitive and stale and the photographers were just reinforcing bland stereotypes the music was good enough to make up for it. Its the music, not the scene, which matters and endures.
Anyway here are some individual tracks from their Essential Mix, which is basically what they played here and I imagine in all the clubs on their tour.
Day n Nite - Kid Cudi (Crookers remix)

Here is the original, still pretty good
Floating - Jape (DIM remix) this one gets good at about 2:45
Get Hype - Math Head a nice n heavy beat on this one
Hoy! - Duke Dumont a kinda Dervish themed tune, quite fun. Makes me wanna spin around
And one Crookers original, not on their EM, but played at the show We Are Prostitutes - Crookers

Enjoy and peace out