Archive for the ‘House’ Category

Hellaware, Part II

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

I’ve been looking for an excuse to do a gun-related blog post for a while. That photo above, taken on what may or may not be a typical Monday night for my roommates and I, gave me that excuse.

Enjoy these tracks while you can.

A Girl and A Gun - Beep (Overthrill Remix) (via Palmsout)

A Girl and A Gun - Send More Cops (Something Wrong Remix)

A Girl and A Gun - Electroglam (Norrit Remix)


Cobra Krames - Guns Up Anthem

Gorillaz - Kids with Guns (Hot Chip Remix)

See more of my crazy roommates on Hellaware, Part I. Oh, and if you like guns you’ll also love this shirt.

House Waves

Monday, May 9th, 2011

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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

Hellaware

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

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How many posts about electro-music and vampires can really be written? I mean SERIOUSLY - I’m even starting to get tired of these.

Nah, just kidding. I’ll never get tired of this type of stuff.

Silver Medallion -Dusk Til Dawn (via)

Thugmasta J and MC Wreckshin - Haunting You

Jane Bang - She’s hott (NEAR DARK Vampyros Lesbos Remix)

DJ Sega/Crooks and Gunns - Psychos Hit The Floor (Its Overture Blend)

Renaissance Man/Touche - Vampire Guru (Its Overture Blend)

Art Department - Vampire Night Club (Seth Troxler Mix)

More Vampiric beats for you on 199X:

Dracula’s Moon Base

My Weekends Are Full of Vampires

Not Enough Vampires

NONEWYORK Is Born In Blood

Jaevla Finnska

Vampiric Insomnia

Too Much Fake Blood

Everyone Loves Katy Perry

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

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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)

Katy Perry - Teenage Dream  (Kaskade Remix)

Spacey Swedish House

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

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Sexy house music with breathless female vocals gives me goosebumps, and that’s why I love the EP that Fredrick Carlsson sent me last week.

Fredrick Carlsson – House (Feat. Roos)

Fredrick Carlsson - Kristallpojken

A Song For Sunday

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

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I’m a sucker for breathless female vocals backed by a housey electro track, so its not a real surprise that I loved this one.

Give it a listen - the reward comes at about 3:18.

Blond:ish & Robson Vidal feat. Coco Hayek - I Miss You (Criss Wave remix)

Buy it on Beatport.

The picture above was ripped from the delightful Jennifer Herd. You can see more on her website, or you can catch her on Twitter.

Bunnies

Friday, July 16th, 2010

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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.

KA SO RE - Bunnies

Electrowars

Friday, March 26th, 2010

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:

Blende - Iratus

Skream - Midnight Request Line

Toxic Avenger - Toxic is Dead

Props to Vogelspand, Squeegie and The Blue Walrus for the tracks

The Electro Wars website

The Electro Wars on Twitter

Ballin’ Outta Control

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

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At first glance, Dr Hollywood and The Girls Can Hear Us come across as pretty similar -they both produce totally danceable, electro-rap and they pretty much look like the same guys in their promo shots.

I guess the major difference is that while Dr. Hollywood is from the sunshine state, The Girls Can Hear Us rep London, Ontario.

Dr. Hollywood - We Run LA (Dance Remix)

The Girls Can Hear Us - I Know This Song

Although I’ve been listening to that We Run LA track on my iPod almost non-stop this week, I think The Girls Can Hear Us edge them out for having also done a remix of Wouldn’t It Be Nice

The Girls Can Hear Us on Myspace and their official site

Dr. Hollywood on Myspace

House Party In Space

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

I’m about 500 pages into the first book, The Reality Dysfunction, of Peter F. Hamilton’s “The Night’s Dawn Trilogy” and so far I’m loving it.

Part of the reason I like it is because some of the main characters, the “Edenists” are similar to the post-human Culture of Iain Banks’ books. One of the key differences is that instead of having their main technologies be based on computers, the Edenists grow their sentient starships and habitats out of a substance called “bitek” (that I can only assume is short for “bio-technology”). This gives both their habitats and ships personality and sentience, with the Edenists connected to them via a telepathic affinity bond.

Like a lot of the sci-fi I’ve been reading lately, its full of huge ideas and takes place on an epic scale. Reading it, I feel the same way that I do when I look at that picture of the astronaut floating above the earth.

I added the tracks from the XX below because they definitely have a spacey-feel. If you listen closely to the lyrics of “Shelter,” it almost sounds like they were written about the Edenists and their living technology. The original version of this track is pretty good, but I really like the the rework that Death to the Throne gives it.

The XX - Shelter (Death to the Throne Remix)

The XX - Basic Space (The Astronomer Remix)

Joachim Garraud - Back From Space (Frederico Fanchi Remix) (via the always-classy Palms Out)