Blog: Gosh Damn DJS!

Das Racist- You Oughta Know Das Racist is the new Kool G rap, as well as one of my favourite groups of 2010. This is silly dumb shit rap that at the same time pulls an intellectual punch that's twenty times more effective than "conscious rappers" who are trying reaaaallly hard to sound like they're from another planet or possessed by a mystical spirit that kicks street knowledge. Das Racist talks about Tao Lin. Das Racist talks about Kierkegaard. Das Racist talks about eating pizza and reading [...]

Bok Bok - Stag & Dagger Mix Cool t-shirt, wish I had one. OH WAIT, I DO! Tracklist: Floating Points- Shark Chase DJ Eastwood - U Ain't Ready 2010 (Bok Bok Special) Lil Silva- No Hooks T Williams- In The Deep Dva - New World Order Lil Silva - Against Yaself Altered Natives - The B*tch Egyptrixx - Untitled Tony Senghore - If You Came Here (L-Vis 1990 Vumpy Remix) Dowee - Enigmatic [...]

Deadboy- Long Way 2 Go If we're talking linguistically, the name Deadboy conjures up bad visions of "Nightmare Before Christmas" style doodles that goth teens write on the back of their history papers while daydreaming about cutting themselves or whatever. However, as far as I know, this is not Deadboy's cup of tea. Instead, he's busy hustling a superb blend of bleepy "hyper'n'bass" r&b infused dance music. You may have seen the widely loved U Cheated get passed around blogs a little while [...]

Crystal Castles - Empathy from Jef Deng on Vimeo . Didn't think there'd be much reason to post a Crystal Castles track from their new jawn , but this "Paris is Burning" mash works pretty successfully, as long as you know that voguing in 2010 is a whole diffrn't thing than this.

James Blake - CMYK (stream) Maybe it's summer coming out again, but seems like there is a GIGANTIC Aaliyah renaissance happening these days. Jesse Rose's new EP on MTP samples "We Need a Resolution", Brenmar just released a jaw dropping bootleg of R U That Somebody? that you can find at Palms Out, and now Jimmy Blake is sampling Aaliyah as well...which is totally fine!! All of these songs give me even more of an excuse to slowly shift things into R&B mode. James [...]

Jamtech Foundation - The Agenda (ft. Sizzla) Right on the heels of a ridiculously good Discobelle EP, Jamtech Foundation drops an entire album of dancehall-tech house collaborations and it's completely free? KEWL BEANS. And Sizzla's on it, and he's NOT talking that homophobic garbage ? KEWL BEANS x2. Cool to see that the Reggae Compassion Act isn't being totes abandoned. But geez, the last thing I want to do is make things get all Arsenio Hall Vs. Queer Nation in here. I have a [...]

Poni Hoax- Bankers (Renaissance Man 'Everything You Wanted To Know About Sax But Were Afraid To Ask' Mix) (streaming preview) Was lucky enough to get to try this out on 300 some people last Saturday. From what I remember, it was like the whole room experienced a full body orgasm on the dancefloor. Then again, I might've been slightly too concerned with squinting in the seizure inducing lights and jumping around to pay toooo much attention to the body language of the crowd. Still, phenomenal effort by [...]

Dubbel Dutch - Throwback (Stream) Dubbel Dutch - Deep Underground (Stream) BRRR!!!!! Drinking iced coffee with a fan pointed at me - feels like the first time I've sat down all week. Which means that the first thing I want to talk about is how amazing the Palms Out Sounds summer lineup of music releases looks to be. In addition to the Marcus Price & Carli remix package, which comes with the already-up-for-grabs-and-fanta stic Kingdom remix , May 25th marks the date of Dubbel [...]

LOL Boys Exclusive Mix for Mixpak (direct link) "Kewl dudes of the interweb" LOL Boys just gave me a great mix for the Mixpak blog. That may or may not be both of their faces layered overtop each other. I'm in love with this selection - James Blake starts things off with an explosion, and it just gets better and better from there. Fantastic stuff. Oh yeah, also, while you're at it - read the interview here. Tracklist: [...]

• LOL Boys - Mix for Mixpak

SALEM - Better Off Alone (edit) You're high on cough syrup, or tripping on acid in the middle of a dancefloor where you've become positive that cockroaches are flickering across the strobe lights insidiously. You're in the middle of the woods where one of your older brother's best friends is trying to summon dead people by chanting stuff with his eyes closed. You wake up and for several seconds, are convinced that you are fully paralyzed from the neck down. SALEM is all about those odd, uncomfortable, [...]

Image Louise Pomeroy Aaliyah - Hot Like Fire (xx cover) Thanks to Imyouare for the headsup on this beautiful image. The effortless cool of the xx has finally punctured my deep into my psyche, and I can't help but stare in awe at their s even-seconds-on-repetition version of "Islands" , which is beautiful and also amnesia inducing (were they doing those same dance moves five seconds ago? Or was it something slightly different?) Anyway, this [...]

Lazy Flow - Mambo Fever (Radioclit Remix, Myd & Mo Laudi Rework) No matter your feelings about "tropical house", or "world house", the drop at 1:42 has to make you smile and want to shuffle your feet a bit.

Talking Heads- Burning Down The House (Todd Edwards Mix) Shit, Todd Edwards, is this a good idea? I feel like as I get older, I'm seriously turning into a curmudgeony haterade drinker. But I'm not sure if I'm down with this stuff. Like, DJs- is it really that impossible to incorporate an original version of Burning Down The House into your sets? Are people going to listen to this and feel like you added something new, instead of feeling like the rhythm of a classic song has somewhat been shifted to [...]

Round Table Knights Spring Mix 2010 RTK mixes are the new way of measuring seasons. As ALWAYS, consistently fantastic stuff. Tracklist: 1) Bibio - Lovers Carvings 2) Bibio - Lovers Carvings (Catz n Dogz Re-edit) 3) Kink - Bitter Sweet 4) No Regular Play - Smiling Faces 5) Aleks Patz, Alex Caytas - Take V 6) David Keno - Upside Down 7) Belocca, Soneec - Bla Bla 8) Malente & Dex - In Nightclubs 9) Mowgli & Solo - Tatanka (Luca Lozano Black & White [...]

Kingdom Mix For LuckyMe I think that dubbing someone " the most satisfyingly 'on my own shit' DJ I've seen in ages " is about as high of a compliment as they come. Tracklisting: 01. Egyptrixx - Everybody Bleeding (Kingdom Remix ft. Shyvonne) 02. Marlon D - Funky Angel (Edit ft. Lumidee) 03. Cooly G - Weak 04. DJ Clock - My Feelings [...]

• Kingdom - 69 April Fools Gold Mixtape Part 2

Crystal Castles - Baptism U no.

Waterloo's fav electro rockers Bocce had their CD release party this past weekend, to the tune of a whirlwind of a dance party that has come to be expected of their live shows. It was almost as great as the one time they let me have cowbell privileges for Disco Juan, which ranks rather elevated on the scale of greatness. You can download their album Disambiguation right here for the steep price of free or for a small donation, which does not go undeserved. You can [...]

0 Ginuwine - Pony (Slackk vs Bok Bok Hands Riddim RMX) Ponies be following me everywhere. Well, not the Bok Bok vs. Slackk refix in particular. But at the Mercer Union party I played some music at a few weeks ago, there was this larger than life inflatable pony looming around the venue, and then THIS THING was all over last Thursday's window smashingly fun Gosh [...]

Lou Reed- Walk On The Wild Side (Holtoug Bootleg) Q: How can you definitively say that someone has made "a good Lou Reed remix?" A: By not being able to tell that it is a Lou Reed remix. Congratulations to Holtoug for not ruining one of the " easiest to ruin by remixing it " tracks out there.

Important Question: I was so excited for an Amanda Blank collaboration was when the Major Lazer album was about to drop (it's been a year almost, huh? Wacky.) There was a track on that album labelled: Major Lazer- What U Like Feat. Amanda Blank & Einstein But if you listen to the youtube link there, you've got a 2:29 song with NO Amanda Blank. She's definitely not doing the "hey" vocals in the background. But weird incongruities start popping up- see this Pitchfork review that says: [...]