I've covered Aeroplane before -- they're a Worst Beatle favorite. Well here are some more tracks from these funky, funky Belgian house producers. God I love the retro disco space funk on those fuckin pads! Makes me want to dance!
This is another funky house track by Treasure Fingers.
I imagine this would go great mashed up with Three 6 Mafia's Stay High. I can hear it perfectly in my head, and if anyone does it, props to you. I'd make it myself once I buy a computer and stop borrowing my friend's net book.
DJ Kue, who has great remixes of both The Lonely Island hits, recently cranked out this edit.
Don't put this on your iPod, it's a bit repetitive, but it's wonderful to have a DJ-friendly edit of this B.O.B. jam. It's around 130 bpm but drops in tempo momentarily to play a cut of the original.
The latest Noisia album, Splitting the Atom, is interesting. It's part traditional drum and bass, part insanely hard electro, part house, part ambient IDM.
"Red Heat" is one of the housier tracks on the album -- it has that filtered nu-disco vibe with the hard electro sound of the last few years.
I like it a lot. It's funky, it's house-y, and most importantly, it goes fucking hard.
I was sent this video by Loose Cannons. It edits the awesome 10 minute Kill Bill-esque video for Lady Gaga's Telephone to fit with their remix. The remix itself isn't amazing, but the video is, and I prefer the remix to the original.
I think Lady Gaga is good for pop music. Glamor and trash are two entertaining qualities that today's sugar-sweet autotuned ballads -- from Iyaz to Justin Bieber -- just don't have. Check out her cigarette sun glasses.
Two L.A. douchebags? Check. Girl with fake tan and fake breasts? Check!
Actually there is a tongue-in-cheek quality to this group that I enjoy. They remind me of LMFAO, only less talented lyrically and more interesting with their production. Don't let their looks fool you. Their mainstream trashiness might be a badge of ironic indie honor. They did remix La Roux. Not exactly Guido material.
Here's why you should listen to HYPER CRUSH. Their drops are AMAZING. Instant party starters or peak time jams. The Drake and La Roux remix are the standouts.
So I paid $7, snagged my ticket, put on a wifebeater and sunglasses, and went to the 'Sco to hear Designer Drugs. They played a mixture of their own stuff and, especially at the end, ridiculous banger after banger. Think: lots of Crookers, lots of Steve Aoki. There was no finesse. The audio was cut off several times and the guy on pictured on the left (the biggest hipster I have ever seen) often made incredibly lazy transitions. Come on, dude, you can't keep pushing the crossfader from one side to the other and expect people to keep dancing.
However, I will give him credit. There is a part of me that wants to hear one blog house electro banger after the other, and that's exactly what was delivered. Some of those peak time moments were insane, especially the Crookers remix of Thunderstruck. A remix of Pon De Floor was played, too, and that will always get people rowdy. All in all, a good time.
My Verdict:
GO SEE DESIGNER DRUGS IF YOU LIKE ELECTRO BANGERS.
Kavinsky has the hook-up with every major name in French electro house: Justice, Daft Punk, SebastiAn, Mr. Oizo ... He's moved away from producing pounding, video-game style bangers to something a bit more intelligent. I really like Nightcall -- a multi-faceted electro house ballad(?) that I can only say sounds like Daft Punk mixed with dreamwave. If that makes any sense to you, download this right now.
I feel you, Reni. Sometimes all you need is a place for you and your "hot-to-trot" to be alone at last. With this remix by Monsieur Adi, Reni's voice has been altered to sound like she's singing trance, and with the string intro you might think it's trance. But no! This is pretty, well-produced house. Good for headphones, or when the crowd is getting romantic ...
This is the best electro banger I've heard in a LONG time. I thought electro bangers were pretty much dead until I heard this monster. A spooky keyboard build-up finishes with an absolutely insane drop of pulsing hard electro and chiptune. Did I mention Ludacris is in it? This is serious, throw your drink in the fucking air and start dancing. The Filth is a new producer out of Boston, so new his myspace at the time of writing has just a single post. A very creative remix. I hope to hear more from him.
I never listened to Slipknot. I knew a few guys back in junior high who were all about them. I just couldn't get into the whole heavy metal/nu metal thing. I used to listen to ISIS, which was about as close as my arty, liberal arts ass would ever get.
Years after they've peaked in popularity, and about 8 years too old for it, I've decided to give Slipknot a listen.
If you've never heard of them, think if Dream Theater and Disturbed had a lovechild that was about as cheesy as P.O.D.. It's pretty bad. The other thing you may not know about Slipknot is that, besides headbangers for 14 year olds, they have some goth/emo ballads with acoustic guitars and whiny, Wurthering Heights-esque lyrics.
My sudden interest in Slipknot came about from this monster electro remix of a Slipknot song. I can imagine this completely wrecking a dancefloor -- either for good or for bad. This is the first new electro banger I've enjoyed in a while.
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The production on this track is remarkably clean. Good headphones or huge speakers would do this justice. This style of house is really growing on me. It doesn't hit you over the head with any particular sound but makes you smile with the totality of every element working together. The vocals remind me of the 90's dance music they played at the hair salon I went to when I would get my hair cut in high school. And I think I hear cowbell near to the end.
Louis La Roche is everything good about French house. Filtered, funky, and fucking danceable, La Roche makes classy 21st century tracks for people sipping on mixed drinks to get their groove on. A little too sophisticated for your dorm-room house party, perhaps, and a little too repetitive to play on its own, La Roche none-the-less is a brilliant producer any house DJ should be very familiar with. Plus he has the my all-time favorite remix of Thriller.
