Shock Blast just dropped their top summer tracks in the Jam Blaster Summer EP.
They’re all feel-good party hits for the hotter months, and these ones are my favorites.
Get the whole playlist here.
Alli Davis - I Like 2 Play in L.A. (feat Hot Rod)
Dev - In the Dark (Produced by The Cataracs)
Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (TGIF) (Laidback Luke Remix)
Apparently, June 21 is the first day of summer. Couple this this track from Metronomy with the ones I posted a few months ago from Kylie and Dop for the perfect songs for the next few months.
Buy the full album in better quality here on iTunes.
We’ve finally got some good weather here in the The Big Smoke AKA The T-Dot AKA Toronto, and I’ve really been digging the Waves ≠ Raves collection of mixes by the Gotta Dance Dirty Crew. All these tracks remind me of the time I was traveling in South East Asia and listening to nothing but great house music.
Here are a couple of my favorite tracks off of their recent editions:
Dutch Rhythm Combo - Cartagenera (Ray Mang Remix)
Marius - Jet Set (Ray Mang Remix)
Amtrac - Midnight (feat. Jenna O’Gara)
Find more Waves ≠ Raves here
Photo Credit & Copyright 2011 Kara Brugman
I have to admit that I didn’t really become tuned into the phenomenon that is Katy Perry until she appeared on The Simpsons a few weeks ago. Since then, I’ve become a Katy Perry awareness sponge, absorbing the ways that she has permeated our culture. I mean, do you have any idea how many chicks rocked the blue wig on Halloween? I thought it was just some sort of fad thing at the time.
Anyways, here’s the KP fix you’ve been jonesing for.
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (Temabes Remix) (via SEX DA HOUSE)
Notorious B.I.G. - Back to Cali Gurls (Katy Perry Remix)
Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl (NONEWYORK Remix)
Katy Perry - California Gurls (ALGERONICS Remix) (via SalaciousSound)
Katy Perry - Peacock (Insan3Like House Remix) (via Ratcachters)
KA SO RE dropped me their track “Bunnies” a few weeks ago, and its a fun little ditty.
On a related note, the January/February 2010 issue of Playboy had some amazing pictures of Tara Reid.
Its been a while since a song made me laugh out loud. Thankfully, The Deli Boys dropped me their track PR Girls, Inspired by the chicks in public relations that they know.
Is it reinforcing the stereotype of PR girls as nothing more than dumb, gold-digging sluts that are into lattes, brunch and fashion? Definitely. But that’s what makes it good.
From their blog post about the track:
“It talks about the large boot, small dog, fancy bag culture that has taken over the city streets across our nation. We recognized a type of girl that was repeatedly emerging from the deep jungles of urban culture. Owning the street with their over-priced bags, they developed their own language of terms by using weird melodic lisps and slurs. These women, no matter if they were in the Public Relations field or not, were dubbed “PR Girls”. This term catapulted the idea of writing and producing this song. We hopes you like.”
Here’s a few other tracks to go with the theme:
Toktok vs. Soffy O - The Lookalikes
Wax Dolls - Spoiled Rich Bitches (Trash Yourself Remix)
If you like The Deli Boys, I have a feeling you might also like The Girls Can Hear Us.
As I Tweeted earlier, this trailer for The Electro Wars (a documentary about electronic music) has me absolutely stoked about the state of music today. From the film’s decription:
“It seems that every other day a new remix is popping up on the blogosphere, how does this affect marketing for other independent artists? Do they welcome the remixes or oppose them? Is music overload possible? What will eventually happen when all these budding producers grab a hold of a Pro Tools tutorial and develop their own remixes week in and week out? Will the remix itself become obsolete? Will original tracks have to step up to the forefront rather than recede into the background? Themes of this nature are explored in the film.”
The trailer seems to answer most of these questions, and all the artists interviewed seem to agree that it doesn’t matter what category music is in anymore, and that it is all amazing and all in one stream, and that there is a place for everything.
Anyways, here’s a few tracks from the soundtrack:
Skream - Midnight Request Line
Props to Vogelspand, Squeegie and The Blue Walrus for the tracks
The Electro Wars website
The Electro Wars on Twitter
It has been a while since I last heard from NONEWYORK, and that’s why I was so excited when they sent me an email the other day with a couple of new tracks.
Born in Blood is a slower track from what I think they normally do. Its dark and full to the brim with dub and samples from Dexter.
Their refix of Rusko’s Cali Anthem is also a solid track, and the Tupac sample really cements the California feel. In fact, it even inspired me to add a California category to this blog.
Rusko - Cali Anthem (NONEWYORK Refix)
The NONEWYORK boys are featured on Bay Area Bass Vol 1 and you can grab the whole thing here. They are also NONEWYORK_BASS on Twitter, and they’ve also got some mean bass on their MySpace page.
You can also find a couple of other tracks by them on 199X here and here.
The image above is from the The Descent, probably one of my favorite horror movies. Its full of blood and claustrophobic terror.