Filed under: club, concerts, getting dancey, made in berlin, music, party | Tags: dance remix, disco, electropop, le salon de paris, music, partyy, stattbad, thieves like us
Filed under: club, concerts, getting dancey, made in berlin, music, party | Tags: dance remix, electropop, junior boys, modeselektor, mp3, music, partyy, pete doherty, tempelhof, whomadewho
Up until yester-eve at 1800 hours the tricked out electrofest that is BERLINFESTIVAL 2009 was not on my skejj for the weekend but the unexpectendess doubtless made it all the more awesome.
arrived around 9ish, when nothing yet exciting was happening. o yea except we were at the AIRPORT. word.
defunct tempelhof is WAY cooler than functional tempelhof.
got my tix at a steal from twitchy kids confused about which language they wanted to speak, in the parking lot, unclear whether they were aware of said generous discount.
anyway soon junior boys went on. front and center ppl were dancing, they were way sick.
thought i didnt know them but i totally know that song “too young”.
UPDATE whooops that song is actually called “in the morning”
give it a listen *Junior Boys – In The Morning*
whomadewho was fun too, cute in lil hats and suspenders.
then these plant ppl did a little weird dance and celebrated green growing things or something.
they were chill, i guess.
but it wasn’t all weirdos playing with hay. hot kids in hats were all around.
pete doherty looked a little tired, but he held it together. didn’t exactly bring it, tho.
O yea, drunkies, just in case u forgot u were at the AIRPORT, here’s an airplane bitches.
But real talk now. MODERAT brought it like i’ve NEVER heard or felt or seen. didn’t know what to expect from them but duuuuude. Didn’t actually plan on staying for their set but I can’t even imagine what my life would be like now if i had missed it. Freal.
While they mixed it UP with outrageous soul gripping beats from the fourth dimension, and everykid grooved his/her own personal groove, little individualistic waves in one great grooving sea, the screen behind them showed mindbending scenes of surrealistic awesome. exploding plaster, wooden spiders, flickering t-rex skulls i don’t even know but it WAS majestic. damn o damn.
UPDATE did a little reading up. MODERAT are equal parts Modeselektor (an age old Berlin electro group from the illicit underground days,1 of Thom Yorke’s fave bands.) and Apparat (aka Sasch Ring; a Berlin-based electro guy). Their self-titled album just came out this March. a frantic frenzy of excellence.
BUT DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT!!! listen: **Moderat – Rusty Nails** (mp3)
o yea then peaches played some schizoid electrobeats while her dancers pissed on stage and she spit champagne on ppl while wearing some fifth element style modular sparklesuit.
o kids that means bedtime. tomorrow is another day. HEALTH and Digitalism, and Deichkind, o my.
Filed under: getting dancey, music, party, songs on the internet | Tags: dance remix, electropop, miami horror, music, partyy, pregame playlist, treasure fingers
WHOA watch yourself this is some treacherously catchy I-cant-believe-its-not-80s synthesizer mayhem here, the original will make you joggle your leg if you have lots of self control, the remix will make you moonwalk. true. f-in. story.
So Miami Horror, what is its deal, how is it all over the bloggs all of a sudden hmm?
let’s ignore the fact that blogs have been blogging about it since like ’07. who cares
the remixes are great (yea try like Pnau, Midnight Juggernauts, &c.), remixes of the originals, remixes of the remixes are great,
Miami Horror is a cute lil Australian hipstertype guy (band, whatever) and we just love it. listen listen.
O-RIGINAL
RE-MIX
**Don’t Be On With Her (Treasure Fingers Remix)**
Filed under: getting dancey, music, party, songs on the internet | Tags: dance remix, electropop, mp3, music, partyy, pony pony run run, pregame playlist, stereoheroes, work
Good god what’s gotten into me Ive actually been working these days and so haven’t been able to blog all day as I truly wish I could..
This means I’ve been sitting on a number of delicious dance remixes which I will deploy as the mood strikes& time allows.
Here a perfect one to make even Tuesday twinkle with magic.
Pony Pony Run Run name Weezer as one of their greatest influences, though I dont rly hear the likeness except maybe in terms of like, both make me want to move my feet, and it’s sort of impossible not to sing along by the time they reach the second chorus, &plus their songs display a special stealthy ability for getting played on repeat by me until I hear them quietly continue in my ears when they’re not even playing anymore.
They maintain a certain mystique, identifying their 3 members by only the letters G, A, &T.
What this is is fun fun synthpop, Cut Copy comes to mind a little, very much in the vein of the chimey dancey discoey stuff coming out of the French electropop scene these days. The early 80s come back to life with a yearning heart, a sexy french accent, adorable falsetto moments, & the whole thing lends itself amazingly to the creation of slightly more intense remix versions. I heard it first a week ago and thought it was sugarsweet, embarassingly happy stuff…but i sat on it, and listened to it again, and again, and it has gotten its claws into me somehow. I’m even falling for the cutesy video
And now presenting the downy little songlets themselves: “Hey You” is off their new album, “You Need Pony Pony Run Run” (check out their myspace to buy it for your own) which dropped earlier this month. First the original, then a remix which makes you want to run run like a pony pony.
**Pony Pony Run Run – Hey You**
**Pony Pony Run Run – Hey You (StereoHeroes Remix)**
original + remix courtesy Trash Menagerie
Filed under: getting dancey, music, party, songs on the internet | Tags: cubic zirconia, dance remix, jubilee, mp3, music, nacho lovers, partyy, pregame playlist, proper villains
beyond the fact that the title of this track really speaks to me, the song and all the remixed incarnations with which it’s about to be released (jun 22) are wacky and fun and new. you want to think about it, maybe, or you want to just dance to it.
1) *Cubic Zirconia – Fuck Work (Proper Villains & Jubilee Remix)*
2) *Cubic Zirconia – Fuck Work (Nacho Lovers Remix)*
Cubic Zirconia are a fledgling hybrid from Brooklyn (who isnt?) that might be best characterized as a “spaced-out RnB acid house revivalist outfit”. Singer Tiombe prefers the designation “Soul white boy nerdy disco dance house fun party time music.” sounds good to me.
in any case they may be a little difficult to classify, but thats what makes it interesting, duh. the group’s founding members are Nick Hook, Todd Weinstock, and Tiombe Lockhart, more recently joined by percussionist and keyboardist Daud Sturdivant. for some reason they seem really into sake. they have another song called ‘i wanna freebase you’, which you can hear on their blog.
if you happen to be located in nyc, CZ is playing bklyn yard on june 13 and santo’s party house on july 2.
1) courtesy of RCRD LBL, who also have the Dâm Funk remix available for streaming, btw. 2) courtesy Discobelle.net
Filed under: getting dancey, made in berlin, music, party, songs on the internet | Tags: dance remix, electropop, fred falke, mp3, music, pregame playlist, the whitest boy alive
yea its monday but this is also berlin. anyway here is a lowkey, turn the lights down low and find the one you dressed for tonight kind of track.
**The Whitest Boy Alive – Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)**
the Whitest Boy Alive has existed since 2003, so why don’t you know about them yet? theyre based in Berlin and their singer is Erlend Øye, that guy from kings of convenience. they’re into making electronic dance music, among other things. they have a new album out called Rules. rule #1, listen to this song.
Filed under: getting dancey, music, party, songs on the internet | Tags: dance remix, electropop, lykke li, mp3, music, partyy, pregame playlist, punks jump up
if the mere fact of friday isn’t enough to make you want to dance
**Lykke Li – Breaking It Up (Punks Jump Up Remix)*
this song is making me feel great just now
