Presenting us with the hottest in new music from around the globe, Pete Tong showered us in delicacies last night during his weekly BBC Radio 1 dance music marathon. Kicking the show off with the world premiere of Kaskade’s autonomously sung and produced new single “ Atmosphere ,” moving on into Sander van Doorn’s electrifying “ Neon ,” and the bouncy, big room Hardwell remix of Krewella’s “ Alive ,” followed by other progressive anthems. Pete’s coveted "Essential New Tune" went to none other than ex-SHM member Axwell for the remode his new single “ Centre [...]
On Thursday we were invited down to Shoreditch for the label launch party of Chormoza Recordings . With upcoming releases in the deep/disco/garage side of house, their sound is right up our street. We met up with label owners Zoe and Justin and enjoyed sets from the Chromoza DJs, including 21 year old Stranger and special guest D Ramirez . The party was banging and everyone was having a damn good time. Zoe and Justin were understandably buzzing and it was great [...]
Vancouver's Pat Lok perfectly sets the tone for the weekend with this undeniably hot edit of the highly acclaimed track Kiss Kiss from Norwegian producer Cashmere Cat . He sent it our way this morning and we knew immediately it was going to be a great tune considering the two parties involved. Sure enough our assumptions were correct, this one is a necessity for those weekend playlists. He's kept a good amount of the originals elements intact, yet rearranged things and brought in a much more danceable vibe perfect for that club atmosphere. Grab the free download below and get your weekend [...]
Esteble is Joep Esseling & Bram Harmsen. They emailed us their latest set and we're smitten. They have great taste and lean towards the warm and melodic side of house. Tracks from HVOB, Guy Gerber and Caribou feature in this excellent and very lovely mix. Free DL below. Follow Estebele on faceboook
Jumpin' deep house from Mercury . We feel the heat. Buy it here. Dusky's new release is a deep disco-tinged tune with an old skool vibe and dance floor filling credentials. Out early June. Francesco Rossi 'Paper Aeroplanes has been getting support from FatBoySlim, Laurent Garnier and Maya Jane Coles who featured it in her excellent Radio 1 Essential Mix last weekend. Buy it here.
This is the first we’ve heard of Grum and the first single to be taken from his forthcoming album ‘Human Touch’ . There’s a number of remixes to go with it and it’s the Andre Crom remix that’s got our fancy – bringing the track a little more underground with some heavuer bass. Stream below.
We're bringing you deep, disco vibes aplenty this week, with a brand new line-up of some of the freshest jams we've been bumping as of late. The knights of feel good, French Express , make a dual appearance this time around with an incredible new one from Moon Boots , and a brilliant remix of one of the best tracks of last year, Chris Malinchak's So Good To Me, courtesy of UK producer EJECA . Up-and-comers Branded James and Dude Skywalker also bring the heat with some great new tunes. Each one of these tracks is a [...]
Shibby Shitegeist's remix of Zeina 'Muffled Love' is a big chunky minimal tune packed with squelchy beats and great groove. The EP also features a remix from Alicia Hush and has been doing pretty well in the minimal new release charts making it to no.10. Listen to more and buy it here . New work from Box of Luca . Great rhythm going on here and the percussion is giving us just a teeny hint of the balearic. Nice intergalactic bleeps and blops. Pumping minimal to get you doing some serious thrusting on the [...]
Set for release on 22nd May is the brand new EP from Burnski & MANIK - Yellow Jacket Girl . It’s the duo’s third single together and is a deep track with a saucy retro feel, featuring the down n’ dirty vocals of MANIK. The EP features two top notch remixes from Laura Jones and Maxxi Soundsystem - both whom were individually picked by the duo for the remix honours; Maxxi's remix brings a bassier [...]
Mr Loco Dice has announced the full line-up of friends who will be joining him during his Used + Abused residency at Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel . Highlights include Dixon, Jamie Jones, tINI, Dubfire and Richie Hawtin (click on the image above to make it bigger so you can read the dates). It's all going down every Thursday from 2pm til midnight at Ibiza's plushest venue, kicking off with the opening party on 6th June. We're going to be there on the 13th June for Dubfire, Robert Dietz and Matthew Styles, expect poolside posing. Check out the [...]
Holy 80’s/disco/love! Blondie gets remixed by Oliver and Thee Mike B. Love this. Super groove. Enjoy. Heart of Glass - Blondie - Oliver & Thee Mike B
Our mate GEM DOS has laid down an ace new track with a cool abstract video to go with it. The track is melodic electronica featuring soulful vocals, which are actually one female vocal line pitch shifted and contorted a number of ways. The video features a man with a very nice beard hanging about looking very serious near a lake. It’s a perfect accompaniment to the emotinal down tempo track which is out on 1 July on Clubstream Label Group . Download the kittencast from GEM DOS here
The superb Isolée makes beautiful melodic electronica. This release on Pampa Records from February is just that, sweet, dreamy and like having a big warm hug. Brand new material. Dreamy lucid melodies from Orlogin . Free DL below. Xinobi remixes John Grant's (an American singer/songwriter) 'Pale Green Ghosts' giving it a helping of synths and funk. Free DL below.
Ants are invading lush Ibiza clubbing destination Ushuïa this summer as they launch a new Saturday party from 1st June . In contrast to the virgin white surroundings, clubbers are encouraged to throw on some black clobber and join the ant colony (with discount entry offered for making the effort) through the afternoon until midnight. Oh we love a good day party. Attracting the ants like a big sugary snack are a whole load of top notch DJ talents such as Reboot, Deetron, Joris Voorn, Uner, George [...]
We've been big Oneman fans since his excellent FabricLive album of last year. He has a regular slot on London's best radio station Rinse FM (Tuesdays 21.00-23.00) playing all kinds of crazy shiz and hot tunes with loads of bass and garage thrown in of course. When we saw he'd uploaded one of his podcasts from last month onto his soundcloud page with a full track listing of 56 tracks we got mega excited and started jumpin around all over the place and going all gansta on ya! There's some James Blake, Pearson Sound, [...]
It’s time that certain critics got over the band’s name and the singer’s then-seagull haircut, and just listen to the music here without prejudice. You know the hits from the mighty debut album by Liverpool’s other Fab Four, "Space Age Love Song" and "I Ran (So Far Away)," and - to a lesser extent - "Messages" and "Telecommunication." But choice [...]
Jamie Jones wants to make you moan and groan. The Hot Natured underground house music fave has dropped a new release just in time for the summer season to start. It deep, bouncy and cheeky and has Mr Jones' signature sound stamped all over it. The release also features two remixes of ‘Tonight in Tokyo’ taken from Jamie’s album ‘Tracks from the Crypt’ released last summer. It’s a different sound, euphoric rave perfect house music and gets a big thumbs up from us too. Out on Monday on Crosstown Rebels .
We hope you're ready to dance because The Jam Jar is back once again, with our first double digit entry. This week's collection puts the spotlight on some bright, dreamy, and deep tunes – with new ones from familiar faces to The Jam Jar, Lane 8 and Clancy , an incredible remix from Gigamesh of Crystal Fighters , who's new album Cave Rave is one of our most anticipated releases of the moment, and though Lifelike's remix of Get Lucky is the only one we've chosen to [...]
Sinead Harnett’s , of ‘Disclosure – Boiling’ fame, debut solo track ‘Got Me’ is super bouncy and very catchy. With a voice that luscious she's gonna sound good singing anything. It’s been given a club worthy remix by Eats Everything and Lucas and is out now on Black Butter Records.
Today seems to be a minimal kind of day. Our friend Shibby Shitegeist has a new podcast out for Bonjour Minimal (Bml) your first port of call for all things minimal techno. It's a very cool blog, we recommend you check it out. Shibby's podcast is packed with her trademark quirkiness and lots of big chunky techno tunes. Stick it on, it will give you a big tuesday afternoon lift. follow Bml on facebook listen and DL the Meow Mix by Shibby here
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