12s is back

YO YO YO,

dudes, the twelves are finally going huge. On the 19th of dec. they had their essential mix. It looks like they are adding some new remixes but some of their classic remixes, that we've been listening to for months (maybe even a year), are still there. There is some Kraftwerk (everyones inspiration), some random rock (nirvana), random house (roger sanchez) and a lot of random stuff (Donna Summer/Beatles). I haven't hear it yet but its going on my Ipod right now!

Check it out: The Twelves Essential Mix

and for those that are curious here is the tracklist:
01. Fever Ray — Seven (The Twelves Remix)
02. The Rapture — Sister Saviour (DFA Dub)
03. Phoenix — Fences (Accapella)
04. Cerrone — Look For Love
05. Kraftwerk — Music Non Stop (Vocoder)
06. Daft Punk — Da Funk
07. Glass Candy — Last Night I Met A Costume
08. LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem — Nike Run (Excerpt)
09. Yelle — Ce Jeu (The Twelves Remix)
10. The Chemical Brothers The Chemical Brothers — Music-Response
11. Mr. Oizo — Two Takes It
12. D-Train — You’re The One For Me
13. Metric — Help I’m Alive (The Twelves Remix)
14. Roger Sanchez — Computabank
15. Chilly — For Your Love
16. Dynasty — I Don’t Wanna Be A Freak
17. Radiohead — Reckoner (The Twelves Remix)
18. Siriusmo — Last Dear
19. Empire of the Sun — Walking On A Dream (Accapella)
20. Zeigeist — Humanitarianism (The Twelves Remix)
21. Eddie Tour — Up The Glitter
22. Gaznevada — I.C. Love Affair
23. Phoenix — Lisztomania (Accapella)
24. Groove Armada — Drop The Tough (The Twelves Remix)
25. Methusalem — Robotism
26. Gossip — Standing In The Way Of Control (Accapella)
27. Chromatics — I Want Your Love (The Twelves Remix)
28. Laid Back — White Horse
29. Metronomy — Radio Ladio
30. Sparks — Tryouts For The Human Race
31. M.I.A. — Boyz (The Twelves Remix)
32. Daft Punk Daft Punk — Voyager
33. Indeep — Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (Accapella)
34. The Virgins — Rich Girls (The Twelves Remix)
35. Fleetwood Mac — Dreams (The Twelves Remix)
36. In Flagranti — Just Gazing
37. The Alan Parsons Project — Be Like You (The Twelves Remix)
38. B.W.H. — Stop
39. The Chemical Brothers — Block Rockin’ Beats
40. Karen O and the Kids — All Is Love (The Twelves Remix)
41. Fleet Foxes — Mykonos (The Twelves Remix)
42. Patrick Alavi — Power
43. Michael Jackson — Thriller (Instrumental)
44. Justice — Stress (Siren)
45. Kano — Ahjia
46. Mr. Oizo — Gay Dentists
47. Donna Summer — I Feel Love
48. Cerrone — Give Me Love
49. Mr. Oizo — Hun
50. Chic — Everybody Dance
51. Coldcut — Timber
52. Basement Jaxx — Rendez-Vous
53. Les Rythmes Digitales — From Disco To Disco
54. Alex Gopher — Motorcycle
55. Nirvana — All Apologies (The Twelves Remix)
56. Kraftwerk — Trans Europe Express
57. Black Kids — I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (The Twelves Remix)
58. The Rapture — House Of Jealous Lovers
59. Scenario Rock — Skitzo Dancer (Justice Remix)
60. Daft Punk — Aerodynamic
61. Boys Noize — Arcade Robot
62. Basement Jaxx — Good Luck (Accapella)
63. The Beatles — Eleanor Rigby (The Twelves Remix)
64. The Twelves — Nightvision (Daft Punk)
65. La Roux — In For The Kill (Twelves Remix)

Hope y'all enjoy!

PS- Im gonna see them in Jan. Suckers!

Music for forgiveness? Not a bad deal.

Wow its been a while since my last post, does anyone even read these any more? Its still a nice exercise in philanthropy, given that the stuff I post is mega genius and you all should have it. I must let it speak for itself though. I've prepared a massive post to make up for my absence, I hope you can forgive me.

First we got some electo-house from Mr. Elan and a heavy metal-electro track from Leger;

Shake Me - Jean Elan

Serious - Jean Elan

The People - Sebastien Leger

Then some nice tech-house to chill to, get pumped with, or stay up late because of;

Allegretto (Hector Couto Remix) - Gary Caos

Overcast - Seulo

The Life Wire - Gregor Thresher (there's a bunch of good tracks from his new album, grab it if you can)

Jazzy Stuff - Neuroxyde, Doomwork

O Superman feat. Laurie Anderson (Audiofly X Remix) - M.A.N.D.Y. and Booka Shade (prominently featured in the great City Lights Vol 3 mixed By Kaiser Souzai)

Toxic Love - Popof

And we close with the jewel of recent music, The Twelves new mix!!! AMAZING! A must have;

The Twelfth Hour - The Twelves

Night Vision (Daft Punk cover) - The Twelves

SO I guess this is what I do on this friday night...might as well, it keeps me from drinking while on antibiotics. For the journalistically-minded among you, check out what I do during the day time: Editor's Weblog.

Shout out if you're in Paris and wanna go see some DJs...I think there's some good stuff comin through.

Enjoy!

P.S. I can't wait for this movie:

Igloos!

That's right; its time to dance outside, at night, in January. Personally I'm gonna hit up Modeselektor (grab some of his tunes here) and Housemeister tonight, and next week Adam Freeland (!) and Evil Nine are coming through. Its about time we got some good European DJs around here.

Anyway here's what's on my playlists now:

Sex Bomb (Adam Freeland Remix) - Spinnerette; Kinda explicit but totally sweet.

Drop The Tough [The Twelves B-LIVE Remix] - Groove Armada; More Brazilian goodness

Krafty (Phones Reality Remix) - New Order; This one is amazing, but it ends short. If you can find another full version, please pass it my way!

Technomusic (Original Mix) - Polymorphic; Dark and gritty...nice.

stick around for some mixes later on this week.

Enjoy and keep warm.

Shadow-Dancing Away Your NYE

Hallo hallo! Since nye is so close at hand I thought I'd post some heavy stuff to play once your party's in full swing. The UK duo Shadow Dancer, signed to Boys Noize Records, are not only prolific but pretty good too. I recently picked up their new unreleased remix of Shine Shine so here it is (plus a few other tracks that have been floating around my computer for awhile).

Boys Noize - Shine Shine (Shadow Dancer Unreleased Mix)
Me My Head - White Lights (Shadow Dancer Remix)
Shadow Dancer - Soap
Suicide Club - Sous Acides Club (Shadow Dancer Remix)
The Faint - The Geeks Were Right (Shadow Dancer Vocal Mix)
Shadow Dancer - Poke
Shadow Dancer - Are You Now?
Shadow Dancer - Daytime Drinking
Shadow Dancer - Cowbois

Shadow Dancer might be peeved I just posted a bunch of their stuff--I don't think they like bloggers too much :*( For more info, read this interview from Baked Not Fried and go buy their new release, Soap, on Beatport.

If you're in Montreal for NYE you should go to I Love Neon with Chromeo, Tommie Sunshine, Kap Bambino, Jordan Dare and NROTB. Yes, I know Chromeo's played out, but it will still be fun. I went to see Simian Mobile Disco at Coda last spring. Chromeo was in town for a gig and decided to show up at Coda to see SMD too. I was standing at the back of the club to cool off and randomly they came over and stood right next to me (OMG!!!!). Yeah...that's my lame story...I stood next to Chromeo. Either way, go to I Love Neon. Nextron and I went to last year's party at SAT and it was super fun!

To make up for my terrible story, here are a few more bumpin' songs for your party playlist:

Tiga - Mind Dimension 2 (Soulwax version)
Cicada - Metropolis (The Twelves B-live Rio Mix)
Leif - Black Magic
Just A Band - Burn it Out (THIS/is remix)
Goshi Goshi - The Lock Shot
Dizee Raskal - Dance Wiv Me (Aston Shuffle Mix - Kissy Klub Version)
Cold Blank - Marshmallow Man (Ghostbusters anyone?)

And of course, this is essential too (Royksopp is back!)

Royksopp - Happy Birthday

Bonus: Awesome video! Dance Area ft Austin Boston - AA/247



love

neonguns

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

Well Funky Brazilian Beats

Here's the new remix by the Rio duo The Twelves, Hurricane Jane by the Black Kids.  If you're a fan of Fred Falke you'll absolutely love these guys.   They make funky, groovy electronic music, epitomizing down tempo, "late night" dance tracks.  A lot of their music is available for free download off their myspace but here's an original that isn't, I Feel Fine, probably my favourite original Twelve's composition.  I'll also post below a video of a live session recorded for a Brazilian television station.  They have a unique live show; performing original pieces, doing on the fly remixes, and mixing in the traditional sense.  This video features their remix of New Young Pony Club's Get Lucky and a class unreleased remix of Radiohead's There, There.  Enjoy. 

Seeing as I've been watching a lot of the Mighty Boosh lately, I had to post a clip from one of their earlier episodes.  For those of you unfamiliar with the program, it's a cult classic in the UK, featuring Noel Fielding and the ruddy genius Julian Barratt (the one with the mustache).  Each episode is practically a fairy tale; a bizarre adventure featuring two ex-zoo keepers, shamans, a talking gorilla who moonlights as a DJ, and many more outlandish characters.  You can find full episodes on the internet so if you're as sick as I am with north american television, look no further, watch the Boosh.