DOWNLOAD: Bassnectar - Cozza Frenzy
Bassnectar–it sounds like something you'd smear over bread, if your bread needs succulent, doofus-making bassbin detritus. Of course, it's the pseudonym for Lorin Ashton, the San Francisco DJ/producer who's been spraying Supersoakers of medulla-pounding low-end around the States since the early aughts; his new album, Cozza Frenzy, is due on October 27th. The title track is below, we just listened to it a bunch of times in a row (at 9AM!) and think we've sufficiently ruined our ears for the rest of the day. Now everything will just sound lame and quiet as we try fight oncoming tinnitus. Thanks, dude!
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Flashguns - IDNLY (Lagos Boys Choir Remix)
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"I Don't Not Love You" - it's a suitably non-committal long-name for a remix that seems to pop and strut and bust and fart in a million different directions all at once, Flashguns' original turned by Lagos Boys Choir into a travelling parade of attack drums and synth panic. Amidst it all there's a serenity there, though, and it's odd. I can't explain it - the thing's hectic but still, somehow, calm. After four minutes or so "IDNLY" seems to bewilder itself and goes jerking and spitting off into the distance, like a drunk angry at an enemy only he can see. You and other bystanders, meanwhile, are left with the lasting impression that that, whatever it was, was fucking great.
Sounds Like: Teengirl Fantasy, El Guincho, Alan Vega
Flashguns - IDNLY (Lagos Boys Choir Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Dada Life - Happy Hands& Happy Feet
Heavily affected vocals that blur gender lines are often seen as the purview of mysterious dubstepper Burial or eerie The Knife. Yet "Happy Hands & Happy Feet," a track from Dada Life's forthcoming debut album, proves the effect works just as well in balls out maximalist electronic music as well. Grunged up with copious distortion, Dada Life pits growling synth lines against androgynous vocals extolling "happy hands and happy feet dancing to the disco beat." Happily, Dada Life seem more enamored with the vicious offerings of Alter Ego than Justice, which makes for tighter structures that fit nicely into DJs' hands. Don't be surprised if you find yourself singing along to this song in your head, your own vocal cords wiggling to keep up.
Sounds like: Simian Mobile Disco, Alter Ego
DOWNLOAD: autoKratz - Swastika Eyes (Primal Scream cover)
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It always surprised me that artists attached to Kitsune and Ed Banger never mentioned Primal Scream as an influence on their rocked up, heavily distorted tunes. After all, the British band's 1991 album Screamadelica played a leading role in bringing down the wall between electronic dance music and rock, a sound they drove to its distorted end with XTRMNTR in 2000. Some nine years later, British duo autoKratz are here to remind neu ravers what they missed back in the day with their cover of Primal Scream's "Swastika Eyes." True to the original, theirs is a blitzkrieg of jagged synth oscillations and dispassionate vocals that could start a mosh pit as easily as shake some skinny-jeaned booties.
Sounds like: Simian Mobile Disco, Tiga, The Prodigy
autoKratz - Swastika Eyes (Primal Scream cover)
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DOWNLOAD: Krazy Baldhead - Sweet Night (Club Mix)
Although he's since been overshadowed by megastars Justice and label manager Busy P, France's Krazy Baldhead was one of the original Ed Bangers. With a complex sound that encompasses the energy of electro, the sweetness of pop, the raw distortion of neu rave and the density of a true artist, he's one of the label's most original acts, also. In anticipation of his debut album, The B. Suite, Krazy Baldhead gives listeners a taste of his delightfully tangled aesthetic on the new single "Sweet Night," from which we have the club mix. Like a sugar rush delivered via static shock, the tune's zig-zagging melody zips through the ears and compels the limbs to quiver to the beat. Halfway through, the rhythm bucks and shifts into an electro shuffle that grows faster with each few bars. Don't let Busy P fool you: there's much more to Ed Banger than "durr durr durrr."
Sounds like: Panther, Empire of the Sun, DJ Medhi
DOWNLOAD: Dusty Kid - Lynchesque
Dusty Kid still had training wheels on his bike when the rave scene was brandishing its glowsticks and air horns, but that hasn't stopped him from injecting its ethos into his music. His forthcoming debut album, A Raver's Diary, is marked by a freewheeling spirit, extreme dynamics and a roaring collection of synths, all the better to roll around the dance floor (or your bedroom). A foreboding melody tumbles down the scale from a high peak in "Lynchesque," the first single, evoking the dread of a David Lynch film with much more bass.
Sounds like: Claude Von Stroke, South Central, Sweet N' Candy
DOWNLOAD: Basketball - Joy
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Sounding like a demented hammering together of a dozen or so Sublime Frequencies comps, Basketball's tongue is split in Anglo-Croat halves, their tracks built upon Persian scales and they weave Romany rhythms in with what sounds like the last, panicked cries of a snake charmer's pungi. They aren't the sort of band you imagine Vancouver producing, then, but, recently relocated to Barcelona, their continent-hopping mania sounds infectious enough to provoke delirium among onlookers, this track "Joy" to be beamed to earth from space next month so that the world's populous may celebrate the coming of the spring as one, throbbing mass of limbs and giddy guts.
Sounds Like: El Guincho, Gang Gang Dance, Sublime Frequencies vs Girl Talk
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Pictureplane - New Mind
Poptimism writ in large, neon, flashing lights, it was around this time last year that Denver rave nymph Travis Egedy - AKA Pictureplane - published this essay discussing the imminent arrival of a leisure-fuelled utopia. Entitled 'Cultural Revolution as Pop Possibility' and inspired by Madonna's "Holiday", it's an example of the way Egedy puts cliched pop cultural motifs to new uses; delivering a dance heavy in rave paraphernalia (sirens; crudely cut diva vocals; thrusting, synthetic horns) but with emotional priority reclaimed from the machines, Egedy whispering coy promises in the midst of the mix. Striking out on his own work after remixing the likes of Crystal Castles and HEALTH, Pictureplane's debut 7" "Trance Doll" arrives courtesy of Lovepump United on March 10th - below is the B-side, the whole thing here.
Sounds Like: Depeche Mode x Culture Club, '90s house, These New Puritans
DOWNLOAD: N.A.S.A. - Whachadoin? ft. M.I.A. & Spank Rock (Villains remix)
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In advertising, life is lived in 30 second bites crammed with sound, video and a sprinkling of information. First thriving in that climate, Squeak E. Clean (aka Sam Spiegel, Spike Jonze’s brother) and partner-in-crime DJ Zegon bring the same hectic skill set to the hip-pop project N.A.S.A. Their album, The Spirit of Apollo, bursts forth with over 40 guest appearances, making strange bedfellows of Tom Waits, Kool Keith, David Byrne, Lykke Li, Method Man, Seu Jorge and more. Check Villains’ distorted take on “Whachadoin?” for a raved-up sample of M.I.A. hollering at her boys and Spank Rock acting re-tah-did. You might have to close your eyes and hold your ears to keep the entire N.A.S.A. album in your head.
Sounds like: Boyz Noise, Santigold
N.A.S.A. – Whachadoin? ft. M.I.A. & Spank Rock (Villains remix)
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N.A.S.A. - Money (The Count Of Monte Cristal 'Dungeon' Remix)
N.A.S.A. - Whachadoin? (feat. Spank Rock, M.I.A., Santogold & Nick Zinner)
DOWNLOAD: Groove Armada - Pull Up (Crank It Up) (Mad Decent Remix)
For their remix of Groove Armada’s “Pull Up (Crank It Up),” the dudes behind Mad Decent took the title’s advice quite literally. Marrying baile funk, marching band stomp and relentless rave dynamics, they pour aural gunpowder over the original to blow listeners onto the nearest dance floor. Jittery synths climb ever higher up the scale in tandem with the MCs’ frantic hoots ands taunts, setting off a flash point of vicious snare rolls to break things down. No one has accused these cats of tepidness, and this raucous, genre-hopping banger will help ensure no one ever will.
Sounds like: Bondo do Role, Spank Rock, Santogold
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