It's beautiful world we live in, isn't it?
156,8dB
Seriously, don't know why but the track has such and effect that you just can't get it out of your mind! Every cool track has to have a cool musicvideo, and this one is no exception! Directed by the french film director Romain Gavras, this is one picture of todays youth in the suburbs of Paris. Tricking out your car and competing for fame and glory, instead of robbing convenience store and get a kick out of that!
P.S. I wonder what all those trophies were for?
// Eric Prydz
Space Invaders are back!
Back on the scene kickin' and screamin, the site is online once again! This time it won't end up as a Guns & Roses comeback, that is as a fiasco!
The track of the day is a simple french house track! So simple, so french, so cool! Shit, it's fucking awesome! You'll have to pardon my french but I think this track really winds you up! Signatune was remixed by the big man himself, Thomas Bangalter, and is a work originally made by Dj Mehdi!
Born in the suburbs of Paris with Tunisian background, Mehdi Favéris-Essadi was coming from a rap music background. He would work hard being recognised for his efforts and budding into one of the French underground hip hop music scene's premier producers. He would keep pushing the boundary's of music genre by mixing hip hop and electronic music, collaborating with great acts like, Daft Punk, Cassius, Chromeo and Asian Dub Foundation among others.
- Coming from a rap music background, it's always nice to collaborate within other music genres...Paris is very inspiring because a lot of people are making great stuff, music and in other arts related fields also. My music and philosophies revolve around beats and blues, that's how I would try to describe it.
I hope you guys enjoy this track as much as I have, cause I for sure will play at my coming gigs! Peace, Love and Understanding! Space Invaders are back!
// Joachim Garraud
Down but not dead!
Cassius in the house!
Anyways, the site is back on track and I've got a cool track for you. Isn't that an interesting word for you, cool? Something meaning so much and describing so much can be narrowed down into four letters! By the way, did you guys know that Abraham Lincoln used the word cool? During his Cooper Union speech:
- In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool.
That fact itself is cool! Someone as great as Abe himself, and in a past time before the definition of the word cool was even defined, used it to define a state of happenings that today are in concordance with the same situation and emotion!
Damn I think I just went to deep into this. Back to the track!
In 1999 the french house duo Cassius released a track called "Feeling For You". The song itself was good but the video was even better. With his red tracksuit, the "house-music-superhero" went from party to party to play good music for people and at the end to be fighting it out with the man! It's a really cool video directed by Evan Bernard, who's also done videos for Beastie Boys, Basement Jaxx and Moby among others!
// Roger Sanchez
We're not dead yet!
It's been a hectic time lately and the update on the blogg hasn't been any good, it's been awful to be honest! Well, things are about to change, unfortuneately it all starts on Monday! So until then, here's something for you to suck on! See if you can find a connetion between the song and the picture? There's a nice surprise in for you!
// Felix Da Housecat
A day at the beach
After a couple of rough days both with the site hosting and partying, today was a very good day. A day at the beach with the fresh ocean breeze to cool you down from the hot sun shining down on you. Makes me think of Bob Marley and his words in "Sun Is Shining";
- Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, yeah. Make you wanna move your dancing feet now!
// Cassius
I am not drunk, just high!
Hell, I'll never forget the scene in White Chicks when Terry Crews lets loose to Satisfaction! Maybe he'll get drunk and pass out to this one?
Btw, did you guys know that he has a project called Squeegee Lo? You have to check it out!
// Roger Sanchez
How do you walk on the Moon?
Well I'd say ask Marcel Marceau, but then most people would act like my friend and say;
- Who the hell is Marcel Marceau?
The world wide famous mime artist Marcel Marceu also known as Bip the clown is the guy that pioneered the Moonwalk and the purpose of giving the illusion that the dancer appears to walk forward while actually moving backward, something like walking into the wind!
It wouldn't be until 1983 on the television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever where Michael Jackson would perform this dance move and make it one of the most recognizable dance moves in history, often made in direct reference by the media and the fans to Michael himself.
If you ask me Michael Jackson was at the top of his career in 1982 when Thriller came out. That album cemented Jackson as the predominant pop star of the late 20th century, enabling him to break down racial barriers by appearing on MTV and visiting the President at the White House.
It is also the best selling album of all time, though sales figures for the album vary The Guinness Book of World Records lists it as 65 million copies sold as of 2007. Seven of the nine songs on the album would go on to become top ten singels. Songs like Thriller and Billie Jean would go all the way to number one on the list! Songs that would later on become remixed and made cover of!
// Bob Sinclair
404 - site not found
There's been some trouble with the blogg server so there haven't been any updates, but now we're back on track!
Who the hell is Norman Cook?
- Who the hell is Norman Cook?
Now to explain to you people who are reading this right now, Norman Cook was born as Quentin Leo Cook but is mostly known as Fat Boy Slim! In 1998 his song "Rockafeller Skank" came out and was a huge hit and making Fatboy one of the biggest stars at the time! You know which song I'm talking about right? "Right about now, the funk soul brother, check it out now, ´the funk soul brother, right about now, the funk soul brother, check it out now" etc. Oh well, I'll just upload the video so you guys can watch!
Anyways, Mighty Dub Katz that made the song that was mentioned earlier, "Let The Drums Speak", was a project mainly produced by Norman Cook, some input by Gareth Hansome, and are best known for their dance hit "Magic Carpet Ride" from 1995. "It's Just Another Groove" came the following year and would be another great commercial succes for Norman a.k.a. Fatboy and since I'm feeling like I've been run over by a bus tonight I'll leet you guys check these songs out on their MySpace page, where you can listed as much as you can, all night long if needed! Have fun!
// Funkstar Deluxe
2'nd best remix on Beatport!
You guys have probably heard this track before but here it goes again! I just had to share with those (few) who haven't heard yet. It's "Butch - On The Line [Oxia Remix]". Enjoy!
// Armand Van Helden
Shanghai loves housemusic, even though the love is gone!
They ask him one of my own favourite and most interesting questions, what he thinks of filesharing/downloading of songs over the web?! I won't tell you the answear, check it out yourself!
// Deadmau5
Lee vs. Li
What is it with MySpace nowdays! It's become a totally new scene with quite a few artists making their breaktrough there! It's not like in the old days when artist had to work their arse off writing, acting and performing just to get noticed by the big record/movie companies!
Just think of Bruce Lee! He came up with a story and background to a totally new genre for the American television with his concept of a shaolin monk in the wild west. He would later on be screwed over by Warner Bros. who stole the idea and made "Kung Fu" the series, without even giving Bruce any credit at all!
Well, actually the reason why I'm typing all this in the first place is because of the song that has been played all day long at my place. It's made by a really cool new artist that I've come to uppreciate, Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson! It's a big name to remember right? Well she actually goes under the alias "Lykke Li" and is a young indie artist, with influences from soul, electro and pop music dripping all over her songs! With the age of 22 Li's become a really big star on the indie scene, performing right now all over North America!
I really like her voice. She has an amasing voice, really suiting for some of those nice chill house tracks! Good thing that I'm not the only one to think so. Besides the Matas Berlin remix of her song "A Little Bit", Fred Falke has made his own remix of an other of her songs called "I'm Good, I'm Gone".
Check them out, they're really good!
// Sebastian Legér
Not everyone understands house music...
With its irrepressible groove and deep, soulful lyrics, "House Music" was an immediate global hit taking this LA dj out into the world.
While perfoming in over 40 countries on six continents, Eddie would still find the time and inspiration to become one of the biggest djs to create unique remixes for artists and other djs! He would influence thousands of people and change their life, through his music and his performances. A legendary DJ, producer, and remixer, Eddie is considered by many a house music prophet, yet still we'll all remember him mostly for that one special song, perhaps the anthem of house music, called "House Music"!
// Sebastian Ingrosso
Morillo... do I need to say more?
The clip is from a gig in Switzerland in 2006 in Aarberg. The events managers were supposed to hold five events such as these total, but they only made three possible with Benny Benassi and Mousse-T as main events for the other two! Anyways enjoy the clip, hope you guys like it. I've got more Morillo stuff coming up shortly!
// Laidback Luke
Let's get ready to rumba!
I've been walking around a couple of days with a rythm in my mind. I can hear the drums, and I can hear the bass, but I can also hear something different. Something that sets this song of from the rest. Something that gives it it's special flavour. I can hear a trumpet! Then all of a sudden I can hear something new, I can hear a saxophone playing. This seems familiar to me this sound. I've heard this before somewhere, but where and when? Now I remember!
A couple of years ago I was on a trip in southern Europe where I got to get to know a local dj who at the time was a part time dj, part time working at his fathers butchershop! Anyways, one night I got to hear this guy playing and that's where I heard this sound! I've never before heard something so simple yet so cool where the sound made the whole crowd dance.
Later the next morning I got to speak to this guy and asked him the name of the songs and who was behind all this, who was the artist that produced all this? I remember laughing because of the simple name which actually fits for the sound the artist produces in his songs, The Rumbar, perhaps as in rumba?
I looked up this artist and found out that it was a project between the two italian dj's, Marascia and Sandro Murru, who's also known as Kortezman. It was in 2002 that the two of them got together under the name The Rumbar and during a period of three years released a couple of songs that had that special rythm I was talking about earlier!
As "A Bailar Mi Gente" being their first release and a success which got licensed all over the world on labels like Emi and Virgin, they would go on to release two of my favourites, "El Timbal" which has that great saxophone in it, and "Puertorico" with that trumpet and fitting vocals! I'll always remember me dancing in that club with Puertorico playing on high volume! I won't ever forget that cute waitress that worked at the bar either! Enjoy people!
// Dirty South
Thomas La Roche?
Or was it Louis Bangalter? It doesn't matter, all that matters is that the seventeen year old Louis La Roché from UK is bringing french old school house back on the scene and with that one of the nicest summertunes in a while!
"Love" circulated the blogs as the newest release from Thomas Bangalter, while in fact it had nothing to do with Thomas. Some rumors say that Louis released the song just to get attention and some rumors even say that Louis is in fact an alias that Thomas uses!
No matter what you think of all of these rumors, the music that is being produced sounds amasing and is really going to be played alot this summer.
Also wanted to let you people aware of Louis latest release The Peach EP. Enjoy!
// Eric Prydz
Love is in the air!
The summer is here my dear friends! I know I'm a bit to eager considering it's just May month but still, the sun is here, the temperature is rising and hopefully it will continue to do so. It's really nice to see so much more people outdoors, enjoying themselves and smiling! I'm not sure what it is but when you see other people smile you just can't help smiling yourself! It's like sneazing! New relationships bonding, old ones emerging into one, you can truly feel the love in the air you breathe!
Every time I feel this way I always come to think of a song! Made by our own swedish house gangster Axwell who after huge succes with tracks like "Feel The Vibe" and "Wait A Minute", in 2005 colaborated with the english house music singer/songwriter Steve Edwards making by my own deifnition one of the greastest modern day house songs, "Watch The Sunrise".
With a guitar taking you through the song with a latin touch and lyrics like...
"There's nothing more that I want, Than to touch you, To seek truth, In your eyes, The only thing that I want, Is to be with you, And watch the sunrise!"
... you just can't resist falling in love with the song, if not someone else!
// Robbie Rivera
No masks, just pure and live!
// Steve Angello
