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DOWNLOAD: Kush Arora - Shake Sitten (feat. Mega Banton) (China White Remix)
I’m not a betting man but I’m fairly sure a Kush Arora-presented joint remixed by his own disco alias China White is gonna be pretty druggy. And, you know, it really is! This version of “Shake Sitten,” featuring the vocals of dancehall lord Mega Banton, is a witch doctor brew of dub, barefoot club pop and otherworldly tropical sunrise-appropriate electronica. Drink it in below, bathe in the other half of the Spanish Street Riddim remixes with Lady Chann over here.
DOWNLOAD: Willy Moon - Yeah Yeah (Sinden Remix)
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When I learned from my dad (sidenote: you can’t even get a glass of juice in my house without learning something from Dad, whether it’s how Hitler came to power or why the computer was invented; that’s just how dads roll) that kids caused screaming, clothes-tearing, leveling-shit-to-the-ground riots after hearing “Rock Around The Clock” in concert, I could barely keep a straight face. “Rock Around The Clock”? Riot-inducing? We have context these days: whale tail baring, more drugs and bigger sound systems, so now when the term ‘rock n' roll’ is volleyed, you’re more likely to get a collective teen eyeroll than mass fainting. And yet, there still exists Willy Moon and he is still very f’ing rock n’ roll, girls go wild when he pomades his hair while swiveling his hips and throwing Sinden’s punching beat and echo fuzz into the mix certainly turns “Yeah Yeah” into something worth having a mini-dance riot over. At least in your head.
PREMIERE: Seye - White Noise (Baxta Remix) + Original Stream
The recipe for Seye’s “White Noise” via dupstepper Baxta probably goes like a little something like this: in one steel drum pour two heaping scoops of club filter, ten ounces of island autotune and a dash of booyaka booyaka. Bake in a ninety-degree basement for about four minutes, during which you are required to shout at least once, “Chef, cook it for me!” Ingest until your brain vomits. Oh man, we totally should write a cookbook. While we go sell that up the chain, download the goods and stream the original after that.
PREMIERE: Treasure Fingers - Rooftop Revival (Kastle Remix)
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This one’s for the homies. For the bouncy, the dicey, the cosmic kids who never go home. Club’n’dub kingpins Treasure Fingers and Kastle fire up some truly bullish dance on this redo of “Rooftop Revival,” pumping with electro burps and a digi-sax before snapping in line with a rump-shaking wall of bass. Get this and more high-octane jammies on the single for free, only through the good folks at Scion A/V.
DOWNLOAD: Solidisco - Hooked (Codes and Starks & Nacey Remixes)
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Hate to break it to Solidisco, but despite their moniker, we don’t think they’re really promoting disco. Instead, we’d argue that the (currently anonymous) club duo presents something bigger and fresher: crunchy house bangers with a throwback tint. The proof is in their newly-pressed Hooked EP and its litany of refits. Listen to the Codes take, a napalm blast of laser squelches and schizophrenic beats, or the Starks & Nacey route, a trance-rock bass monster, and know that when any of these dudes sees a mirrored disco ball, they smash on site. Buy the rest, over on Beatport.
PREMIERE: Escort - Love In Indigo + Why Oh Why (Pound Sterling Remix)
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Damn! If this ain’t a hands-in-the-air, jumpsuit-jiggling, pelvic-swiveling disco burst of funky, funky joy, then we don’t know what is. Expect the world from Escort, the bajillion-piece party outfit from outer space (or NYC, depending on the source) – they always over-deliver. “Love In Indigo” is the album track we’re loving today, and just to sweeten the pot, we’re passing on the heavily-club-rotated Pound Sterling remix of “Why Oh Why” – a thumping ‘80s bang job that must be blared from a pink Cadillac to feel its full effect. Escort's been praised as having the best disco debut of the past decade, and you can get it now, over on iTunes.
PREMIERE: Ruby Goe - Assassin + Get On It (Beatnik Remix)
Club pop confection for the first, and veritable bass smack for the second, describes the two directions that London’s Ruby Goe (a sort of street diva-slash-Robyn-slash-Santigold superhybrid) goes in on “Assassin” and “Get On It.” The latter is our personal fave, with pumped up kicks courtesy of selector Beatnik, but if you find yourself in need of a soundtrack for dancing in a holographic sun storm, go with the former. The original “Get On It” single is out now, with Ruby’s album to come early next year.
PREMIERE: Dev - Dancing In The Dark (Marc MK Kinchen Remix)
Dev likes a lot of things: her bass down low, feeling as fly as a G6, and now seemingly most of all, “Dancing in The Dark”—her latest single taking over the Billboard Dance charts. And we like what Dev likes, because she’s a malleable little club sprite who, every few moons, descends from that big silver rave in the sky to pour buckets of breathy sex whispers and fat beats upon us all. This housey, old skool Marc MK Kinchen remix nearly drowns the floor in misty stutter, tribal turns, handclaps, and—the cornerstone of all great party anthems—synthesized Puerto Rican Day Parade horns. Catch the original on iTunes, and keep counting the days until Dev’s album finally drops.
Dev - Dancing In The Dark (Marc MK Kinchen Remix)
