Do not let you fool by the intro (no, you’re not the only one immediately thinking of Beta Bow’s Second Streets Have No Name here): Driven by a pulsating bassline, this remix keeps building for almost two minutes – just until the soft vocoded vocals are being drowned in a crackling wave of distortion. Kudos to The Chaotic Good!
There’s something inside you,
It’s hard to explain.
They’re talking about you, boy,
But you’re still the same.
Kavinsky – Nightcall (The Chaotic Good)
To celebrate the end Eyjafjallajökull (no, this is not the new Scandinavian indie band everyone’s talking about – google it if you don’t know what I’m talking about) cancelling concerts by delaying foreign guest DJ’s flights (which brought me a gig as replacement for Sharooz who couldn’t fly out of the UK, by the way), Just Phil of Viennese electro outfit Pure Peer Pressure has put together a banging mix, masterly melting 37 glowing tracks into one hour of massive techno conglomerate. Featuring some of their own remixes, the mix also showcases the crew’s production skills. Turn it up loud, but make sure not rape your MacBook speakers – one, two, whoop whoop!
[tracklist after the jump]
Guess who’s back, back again – starting a blog post by quoting a famous white rapper is not exactly what I had in mind, but after spending the last two weeks working with mentally challenged people on a vacation camp, having access to only an agonizingly slow internet connection, I’m finally back to feed the starving masses some music (I admit, I’ve always loved to think of myself as some kind of benefactor, dispensing fresh tunes to needy souls). I sincerely apologize to you, my dearest readers, for any emotional damage caused by staring at Erika Jayne’s picture on the front page of my blog for almost two weeks.
Enough brownnosing, here are some big beats to dance to tonight: Canadian Disco Demons resident John Roman has rolled out a new set of serious DJ weapons, used by the likes of Congorock, Brodinksi, LA Riots and Designer Drugs to destroy dancefloors all over the world. In March 2009, I wrote “I’ve never heard of Canadian producer John Roman before, but judging from this banger he’s gonna be huge soon.” – now it seems as if I’ve been right (narcissistic me!). Here’s one of his latest remixes, a stomping rework of Boys Noize and Erol Alkan’s Lemonade, including sick build-ups and break-downs, as well as his take on The Bloody Beetroots’ Cornelius – the remix that drew my attention to this genius in the first place. JOHN ROMAN – remember the name, you’ll be screaming it later…
Boys Noize & Erol Alkan – Lemonade (John Roman Remix)
The Bloody Beetroots – Who’s Afraid Of Cornelius? (John Roman)
Thanks to our beloved Larry Tee, here’s something to dance to tonight: Larry teamed up with Swedish producer Per QX to chop up and re-construct LA pop starlet Erika Jayne’s latest song Pretty Mess, resulting in a solid club track built for packed dancefloors. Filtered drums, bits and pieces of the original vocals and an ear-shatteringly high-pitched synth to make crowds go mad are the ingredients of this DJ weapon.
Erika Jayne – Pretty Mess (Larry Tee & Per QX Remix)
In case your ears are still bleeding from yesterday’s post, here’s the perfect cure to (almost) all your problems: Alan Wilkis, a regular name on Disco Demons, has once again hand-picked a perfect song to make it sparkle even brighter by gently covering it with glittering star dust – it would be insulting to call this masterpiece a “remix”, as he only kept the catchy vocals, turning the song’s mood from “minimal trip-hop to ultra-layered bubblegum pop, from dark to ultraviolet-bright”, as he says. This rework has been my glimmer of light today after going through an endless flood of emails and music. I highly encourage you to give the original song a listen on Phantogram’s Myspace for two reasons: To get an idea of how different (and still harmonic, though) the two versions are, and to just close your eyes and float away in an amazingly beautiful nightmare.
Phantogram – Mouthful Of Diamonds (Alan Wilkis Remix)
Today’s award for the sickest piece of music certainly goes to Mustard Pimp (whose emails mysteriously still keep ending up in my spam folder, even though I already white-listed them twice): Their latest official remix for US-stoner band Kylesa combines metal-esque roars with an aggressive lead synth that makes Rusko and Skream sound like little choir boys, while sending bleepy 8-bit shivers down your spine. Lock up your daughters, cover your ears – this one’s gonna cause serious damage to dancefloors all over the world.
Kylesa – Scapegoat (Mustard Pimp Remix)
I’ve stopped wondering about why there is so much excellent electronic music coming my way from France a long time ago. Sure, the scene is much more distinctive there thanks to some pioneers whose names you can guess, but there has to be a reason why almost every third or fourth music submission that does not make me puke comes from the France. I do have a theory involving excessive consume of fromage de roquefort, but I haven’t been able to scientifically prove it yet.
Loosely tied to the Ed Banger posse, up and coming Parisian producer Super Commodore is definitely one of the most promising artists to keep an eye on at the moment: What might sound like Chromeo in the beginning turns out to be a full-scale synth mayhem that one could easily take for an unreleased Kavinsky track (Why am I constantly comparing everything to Kavinsky recently?), at least until the moment where the catchy Salt n Pepa Push It vocals kick in and make even the last sceptic spastically spill his beer all over the frantic crowd and start bending and twisting his extremities to the sound of banging compressed kick drums.
Super Commodore – Making My Day (“Push It” MashUp)
In cooperation with Dancen Dancen, the world’s best electronic music blog (apart from mine) run by Austria’s hottest DJ (apart from me, of course), the one and only DJ Len, I’m proud to present another Disco Demons & Dancen Dancen exclusive: French digital glam-rockers Give Me A Kiss get an epic remix treatment from their fellow compatriots No1Else, resulting in a ticking time bomb that keeps building straight forward for about a minute, then misleads the listener with another minute of lull before the final storm, which is presaged by a rising wall of filtered synths that Kavinsky himself couldn’t have done better – really, I’m not only saying this to make up for another act of shameless self-promotion at the beginning of the article. Enough talking – if you feel like getting a second opinion on it, head over to Dancen Dancen and see what DJ Len’s got to say.
Give Me A Kiss – Sweet Anarchy (No1Else Remix)
Got some exciting news to share with you all before starting my weekend by partying with SebastiAn from Ed Banger Records in Vienna tonight: I’m giving away a pair of weekend passes to the Urban Art Forms Festival 2010 in Wiesen, Austria, Europe’s leading audiovisual festival. This years (questionable, I admit) headliner is David Guetta, alongside the likes of Carl Cox, Sven Väth, Boys Noize, Armand van Helden and Digitalism. The list of performing artists reads like a who’s who in electronic dance music: Adam Freeland, The Japanese Popstars, Buraka Som Sistema, Moonbootica, Parov Stelar, Infected Mushroom, Spor, Benga and many more. To get your hands on the tickets to festival-heaven, simply email me at discodemons@gmail.com (subject line: UAF) and tell me why I should ignore 10.000 other entries and give the tickets to you instead – the winner will be contacted on May 15. Good luck!
Liebe Freunde der elektronischen Blasmusik, ich verlose zwei Festivalpässe für das führende audiovisuelle Festival Europas, das Urban Art Forms Festival 2010 in Wiesen (Österreich). Dieses Jahr mit dabei sind unter anderem David Guetta, die Techno-Götter Carl Cox und Sven Väth sowie namhafte Größen der Electro-Szene, wie Boys Noize, Armand van Helden und Digitalism. Weiters werden Adam Freeland, The Japanese Popstars, Buraka Som Sistema, Parov Stelar, Moonbootica und viele andere am traumhaft schönen Festivalgelände Wiesen für Euch die Plattenteller drehen bzw. live performen. Um an die begehrten Tickets zu kommen, schreib mir einfach an discodemons@gmail.com (Betreff: UAF) und erklär mir, warum ich 10.000 andere Einsendungen ignorieren soll und die Tickets stattdessen dir schenken sollte – der glückliche Gewinner wird am 15. Mai via email kontaktiert. Viel Glück!
As promised yesterday, here’s another Disco Demons-exclusive bomb to make the girls dance and the oil spill go away: Swiss electro wizzards Zooki & Roxx put their magic remix fingerprints on Natalie Storm’s Look Pon Me, turning a plain stupid mainstream crowdpleaser into a more than club-friendly catchy electro anthem that will cause serious damage to dancefloors all around the world. By the way, if happen to be in Istanbul, Turkey this weekend, catch these guys live there tomorrow night.
Natalie Storm – Look Pon Me (Zooki & Roxx Remix)
