Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Did you go to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College too?

Here are some back to school mixes for everyone:

Max Power - RemixMix

1. Max Power - Intro
2. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Soulwax Elektronic Remix)
3. Röyksopp - What Else Is There? (Trentemøller Remix)
4. New Order - Regret (Tocadisco Remix)
5. Freeform Five - No More Conversations (Mylo remix)
6. Noir - My Mtv (D Ramirez Evil Business Remix)
7. Riot in Belgium - The Acid Never Lies (3pm Rough Rave Version)
8. Mylo - Drop the Pressure (Max Power's Hot Like a Motherfucker Edit)
9. Franze Ferdinand - The Fallen (Ruined By Justice)
10. Benjamin Theves - Texas (SebastiAn Remix)
11. CSS - Lets Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
12. Claude VonStroke - The Whistler (Diplo Remix)
13. The Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control (Soulwax Nite Version)
14. Daft Punk - Da Funk (Casino Inc. Amazing Disco Remix)
15. Björk - Earth Intruders (Spank Rock Remix)
16. Diplo - Shake It Over and Over
17. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts (Troy Pierce Unofficial Business Mix)
18. Spank Rock - XXXs Speeditupussy (The xxxchange Exclusivo)
19. Spank Rock - Bump (Switch Remix)
20. Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe (Switch Remix)
21. Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Eli and Diplo mix)

Max Power - DrunkMix

1. Justice - Stress
2. Mylo - Paris Four Hundred (SebastiAn Remix)
3. Teenage Bad Girl - Vacuum
4. Bloc Party - Banquet (Boys Noize Vox Mix)
5. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again (Digitalism Remix)
6. Justice - Waters Of Nazareth (Erol Alkan's Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr Re-edit)
7. Boys Noize - Erole Attack
8. Tiga - Move My Body (Only 4 Erol Mix)
9. SebastiAn - Ross Ross Ross
10. Teenage Bad Girl - Hands of a Stranger
11. Simian Mobile Disco - Tits & Acid
12. Franze Ferdinand - The Fallen (Ruined By Justice)
13. Bonde Do Role - Melo Do Tobacco

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Dr. Charles C. Lilly

New Balance 574JOB

I've gradually come to the realization that it's pretty damn hard to find a decent pair of kicks in my size. 16's aren't hard to come by, but it's really the width that'll getcha. I'm at least an EE or EEEE, and that's just not available most of the time. The Oddball Shoe Company has been working out for the most part, and the New Balance Classics are surprisingly dope, but beyond that, the land of giants has but limited options.


Soulja Boy - Crank Dat (Cousin Cole Remix)
Digitalism vs. B.O.B. - Pogos vs. Haterz (DJ Original Bozak Blend)

That Soulja Boy remix is going to be hot. REAL hot. And I'm just really into that mashup, for no reason at all other than it rocks.

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Sunday, August 26, 2007

Oh My God, There's A RIOT IN BEGIUM!

If you haven't heard them yet, definitely give Riot In Belgium a listen. In addition to being talented producers, the duo are also fantastic DJ's. On, of all things, the Ministry of Sound label, can be found Mashed III (buy), the second disc of which is a killer mix of theirs (the first disc is a rather disappointing Tonite Only mix). Having torn it up at the After The Jump Fest yesterday, in September Riot In Belgium will embark on a magical mystery tour of Europe. Check out an interview at Product Shop NYC.

Riot In Belgium - La Musique
Riot In Belgium - La Musique (Revlover Edit)
Kim - Wet N' Wild (Riot In Belgium Remix)
Yelle - A Cause Des Garcons (Riot In Belgium Mix)


Also, apologies for the erratic posting. Things probably won't change any time soon, but we are aware of the delays, and wish things were otherwise.

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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Baltimore Electro

OK, this one's finally ready for primetime. Goes out to all the kids.


Goliath - Bmorelectro

1. Justice - Genesis
2. Codebreaker - Exiled (Miami Horror Remix)
3. Mr. Oizo - Nazis (Justice Mix)
4. L'il Mama - Lipgloss (The Six Million Dollar Kid's Flipgloss Remix)
5. Daft Punk - Human After All (SebastiAn Remix)
6. Justice - Waters Of Nazareth (Erol Alkan's Durr Durrr Durrrrr Edit)
7. Para One - Midnight Swim (Surkin Drowning Mix)
8. Riot In Belgium - La Musique (Revlover Edit)
9. Heavy D & Friends - In Living Color Theme (Sta Remix)
10. Britney Spears - Toxic (Les Clones Club Edit)
11. CSS - Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above (Spank Rock Remix)
12. The Who - Baba O'Reilly (Bird Peterson Baltimore Wasteland)
13. The Beatles - Twist And Shout (Diplo B'More Edit)
14. B-Easy - Bongo Joint
15. Say Wut - Bueller Theme
16. Tittsworth - September
17. Best Fwends - M.Y.S.E.L.F. (XXXChange Remix)
18. Scotty B & King Tut - The Almighty Unruly Simon Joint
19. A-Trak - Sir Duke
20. Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Tittsworth Remix)
21. Herbie Hancock - Tell Everyone
22. Kano - I'm Ready
23. Sugarhill Gang - Apache

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Friday, August 10, 2007

Daft Punk/Brooklyn/icanneverlistentomusicagain

Daft Punk’s set in Brooklyn on Thursday night was beyond the normal adjectives describing such things. The normal descriptions of amazing, earthshattering concerts do not apply. Yes, Daft Punk’s set was downright apocalyptic. People would have kept dancing as a nuke hit central Manhattan, but even more so than that, Daft Punk’s set was a big fuck you to the apparent end of music as we know it.

The digital age, the decline of the record store, the death of the major labels, the rise of absolute pop crap, the ever-changing irrelevance of once prominent genres (dance), Daft Punk does not care. They do not care that they are electronic musicians, impure in their rejection of live instrumentation. They do not care that they are pop icons, subverting the music video and pop imagery for their own purposes. They do not care about their last albums bad reviews and initial fears of their decline. They do not care about any of this. They have two goals, make you dance, and make everyone else look pathetic. They are not just playing their music; they are putting on a show. The lights, the effects, and even the crowd are just as important as the music, and in its totality, this was absolutely ridiculous.

The set blew the famous one from 2006 Coachella away, approaching two hours with intense starts and stops and the most epic encore I have ever witnessed. They felt more live than when you usually listen. You could hear them actually arranging things with whatever samplers and keyboards they had. If you listened extremely closely, you could hear 3 or 4 missed cues, little inconsistencies, proof that they were working up there. This meant you could literally feel them turning knobs and pushing buttons. And the lights…fuck…the lights…yea…you just have to see that shit….

This was the closest thing in my lifetime to understanding what it would have been like to see Hendrix or The Beatles live. The show they are putting on now absolutely puts to shame everything else going on in music. They are touring, with no hit record, no hit single, no hit video, and no apparent goal than to simply conquer all of metropolis. There were groups of teenage girls at this concert. Not cool musical prophet outcast teenage girls but popular image driven partying teenage girls. Not all of them could have possibly known what they were going to (“just the group who did One More Time”), but, seeing a group of them rush over to buy t-shirts at the end of the show was an enlightening experience. It made me realize, you could take all the teeny bopper die-hard fans, and throw a show with Britney, and Christina, and Justin, and Kelly, and basically anyone you dared, put them up against Daft Punk, and Daft Punk would win all the fans away. Easy as pie. In the age of the lip-sync to help with your dance moves and computer enhanced backup tracks, Daft Punk are the true pop heroes. Right now, they are doing something very different in music. You should take notice.

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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Amanda Blank


She's definitely
not for everyone, but I find myself strangely attracted to Amanda Blank, MC extraordinaire and sometime member of Spank Rock. I know hypersexualized rapping is almost passé these days, but she does it REAL well. Seriously. I'm turned on. She's got the filthiest mouth you've ever heard, but it doesn't even matter, her rhymes are so tight.

Anyways, here are some tracks to help you with understanding Amanda's appeal. Cause there's a lot of it.


Amanda Blank - Get It Now
Amanda Blank - Get It Now (Robert Koch Remix)
Spank Rock - Bump (Switch Remix)
Dominatrix - The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight (Goliath Edit Feat. Amanda Blank)

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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

There's Nothing Else

Lately it seems as though everyone has come down with a nasty case of remix fever, and I'm no different. In fact, I'm rife with disease. Here's a mix that, amoung other things, is peppered with several versions of Röyksopp's 'What Else Is There?'.

Listen up: Max Power - J28Mix


Tracklist:
1. Röyksopp - What Else Is There?
2. The Knife - Heartbeats (Rex The Dog Remix)
3. Allan Braxe - Love Lost
4. The Juan Maclean - Tito's Way
5. The Juan Maclean - Tito's Way (Linstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix)
6. Röyksopp - What Else Is There? (The Emperor Machine Vocal Mix)
7. Justice vs. Simian - Never Be Alone
8. Mylo - Otto's Journey
9. Röyksopp - What Else Is There? (Trentmøller Remix)
10. Claude VonStroke - Birdshit
11. Röyksopp - What Else Is There? (Thin White Duke Remix)

-Max

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Monday, August 6, 2007

Robot Aftermath




Well, it's been a while.

Our rooftop party in Brooklyn was pretty dope - for about two hours. Unfortunately, the building manager decided to put an end to the festivities around midnight, and only my man Max Power was able to spin at all. Check out the fun, though:































And, due to some damnable technical difficulties, we don't even have a recording of the show. Sit
back, bump these two tracks, and imagine what the rest of the night might have sounded like.


Malente - We Came To Party
Röyksopp - What Else Is There? (The Emperor Machine Vocal Mix)















Carlo never quite made it...

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