Public Enemy nr.1!
Female dancers perfoming on a stage that looks like a construction site, acting to be construction workers using powertools. That's the musicvideo for the song. You've probably seen it since at least 80% of all the people that watch any of the music channels in the world already've seen it. What a lot of people don't know is that this is the second video for this song!
The first video shot for the song reached to a cult status because the video clip includes only one single shot of Benny Benassi and The Biz, replicating the Hypnotica album cover, turn in slow-motion to face the camera with a smile.
Hypnotica was actually Benassi's debut album with Satisfaction being the first single off of it! "Able To Love" and "Get Loose" are just some of the other songs made together with earlier mentioned the Biz, who consist of vocalists Paul French and Violeta.
Benny Benassi, who's actually named Marco Benassi, started playing as a dj in the late 1980s in his hometown, Milan, together with his cousin Alle Benassi. The two of them would later on create the duo Benassi Bros. with several hits on the charts.
In late 2007 Benassi released a remix of Public Enemy's "Bring The Noise". Awesome track with a razorlike bass sound followed up by the cool lyrics from Public Enemy! The track would later on in early 2008 be awarded with a Grammy for best Dance Remix!
// Joachim Garraud
What do Chaka Khan and Daft Punk have in common?
Where does Chaka Khan come into the picture you might wonder? Well you see the main sound of the track was sampled from Chaka Khan's song Fate.
Also worth mentioning was that the musicvideo was direct by Academy Award wining Michel Gondry, same Gondry that made the Around The World musicvideo for Daft Punk!
// Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
Who was first, Sabbath or Zeppelin?
Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin were the very first two bands to define heavy metal as a music genre! With their heavy riffs and awesome lyrics they rocked the world! Now, 40 years later, after some comebacks both bands have retired but it doesn't stop todays dj's to create great covers. Some are bad, but then some are really good. The Australian dj Dirty South gave it a shot and it ended up pretty good! "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" was recorded on Led Zeppelins debut album! They were inspired by Joan Baez who recorded the track 1962, originally written by Anne Bredon in the 1950's!
Another great track that Dirty South made a cover on was the song called "The End" released by The Doors on their self-entitled album in 1967! It was an emotional song with an Oedipus complex in it, confusing and at the same time enlightening listeners. The song was also used in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now in which its dark, poetic passage marked the film's descent into the surreal.
Also worth mentioning is Arno Cost's remix of the Dirty South cover, which in fact is being played right now besides me! Enjoy!
// Eddie Amador
One that is shared with millions of people around the world!
I've been thinking a lot about the first track to be uploaded on the site. It can't be just any new track. It has to have that special feeling, one that is shared with millions of people around the world. Come to think of it, it's called "Around The World"!
In 1997 Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo released their first studio album as the world famous duo Daft Punk, called Homework! Track number 7 on that album would also be release as their second single and what a track it was. Around the world is particularly known for the repeated phrasing of its title. On the album version it was repeated 144 times and on the radio edit 80 times.
Another cool impact of the track was it's musicvideo. Directed and choreographed by Academy Award winning Michel Gondry the video is still one of the most famous dance musicvideos ever made. As described by Michel himself, robots walking around in a circle on a platform (which represents a vinyl record), tall athletes wearing tracksuits with small prosthetic heads walking up and down stairs, women dressed like synchronized swimmers moving up and down another set of stairs, skeletons dancing in the center of the "record," and mummies dancing in time with the song's drum pattern.
Awesome track, awesome video, enjoy both of them and I hope to see you people around here more often as a lot more housemusic will be presented and discussed!
// Roger Sanchez
This looks like the beginning...
... of a beautiful friendship! How many people have started their new blogspots with this phraise? A hundred, a thousand, a million? Perhaps I'm the first one? Perhaps I should start typing what I was supposed to and not stray away from the subject, which I have to admit I've forgotten by the time it took me to type all this!
Lookin forward to the next minute in life, next hour, next day! Well since we've started the -08 a couple of months ago we'll start with that and see what happens from now on!
// Thomas Bangalter
