I am about to send off the video mixtape I've been working on for the past 3-4 days for a William & Mary mixtape exchange I joined a little while ago. Above is a peak at the final product. I made the tape by splicing YouTube videos together in iMovie. I could have opted for something more professional (i.e. Final Cut Pro) but I feel the cheesiness of iMovie almost makes it better. The tracklist is as follows. If you'd like a copy shoot me an email or something.
1. DJ Laz - Journey Into Bass 2. Inner City - Good Life 3. Roger Troutman feat. EPMD - Get Up 4. 2 Hyped Brothers & A Dog - Doo Doo Brown 5. Schoolly D - I Don't Like Rock & Roll 6. Dazz Band - Let It All Blow 7. D-Mob feat. LRS - Time To Get Funky 8. Farley Jackmaster Funk - Love Can't Turn Around 9. Shannon - Let The Music Play 10. Fast Eddie feat. Sundance - Git On Up 11. Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - It Takes Two 12. Dizzee Rascal - Old Skool 13. 504 Boyz - Wobble, Wobble 14. DJ Kizzy Rock - Yeah! Shawty, Yeah 15. Missy Elliot - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) 16. Jodeci - Freek'n You
My big kick recently has been Miami Bass after a Gutter Broadcast post reinvigorated my interest. What is striking to me is the way in which Miami Bass incorporates electronic elements and is many ways a hybrid of hip-hop and electronic music. Check the Juan Atkins' samples in Splack Pack's "Let Me C-Ya Work It" or the massive 808 kick drums on almost every track the genre has to offer. Miami Bass' is influenced as much by early hip-hop and electro greats as it is Detroit techno and Chicago house. I actually took the time to make a YouTube playlist so I can watch them all in a row (although I threw in one electro wildcard: J.J. Fad's "Supersonic").
P.S.: On a completely unrelated note, has anyone heard the new T.I. leak?
Last night I went to the Boys & Girls Club Panty Party at Shadowbar sponsored by American Apparel. As one would expect, the party was full of well-dressed hipster types in their underwear and DJ DAYTA from Rockbox was spinning electro, hip-hop, and pop dance music with a touch of Baltimore club. There were live performances: one from Nasty Nation, a kind of electroclashy guy appropriately dressed in American Apparel briefs, the second from a burlesque troupe. In the past week, my sister taught herself to Spongebob so she was all up in the club showing off her new moves even getting a couple of compliments from passersby. For those of you not privy to the Spongebob dance craze i.e. those who don't live in Baltimore or Philadelphia, a brief survey of YouTube will do you good. Here are a couple of tracks from the set list so you guys can get an idea of how it went.
So a couple of days ago I got an email from a friend of a friend who's a deejay in Washington, D.C. I had recently been lamenting the lack of dance parties at William & Mary, and as a graduate of the College a couple of years ago, my new deejay acquaintance echoed my concerns. She offered to come down any weekend and spin for free for love of the school and a good time. The reason why this is relevant is that her genre of choice is French electro/electro-house along with other stuff mixed in (if you really care: crunk, bmore club, baile funk). Coincidentally, I had just been working on my french electro collection by downloading tons of remixes and edits from artists like Uffie, DJ Medhi, SebastiAn and Justice among others. In honor of this exciting development and the possibility of amazing dance parties at William & Mary, I am obliged to share the wealth. Enjoy!
This isn't really a live event seeing as it already happened when I was in New York on 15 March 2007, but it was a blast and I was anticipating writing about it when I saw some pics and YouTube video(s) of the show on the Brooklyn-based hipster blog, Dirty Down. The show itself was awesome. As you can see from the video: lights everywhere, bass thumping, crowd full of young people ready to get down to some excellent electronic music. It's just weird seeing pictures, because I kind of remember people from the crowd and could probably tell you specific things about people if it didn't border on creepy. Booka Shade is amazing, the whole concept of minimal-ish techno with live instrumentation really pushes their performance into the next stratosphere. Obviously I'm not the only one who thinks so because the place was packed and everyone knew the big songs by heart. All that excitement plus the Bmore club sounds of Scottie B + King Tutt, who I actually have a compilation of but didn't realize it until afterwards. Overall, an excellent show by XLR8R and Cut NYC. I would have really loved to be in New York for Ellen Allien and Miss Kitten (BPitchControl showcase), but alas I have obligations in Virginia. Although, according to Dirty Down it was quite the party as well. Check pics here. Also, if you don't have Booka Shade's Movements yet, you need to get on that shit.
First off, can I say that I think it's really cool that people are making modern Italo Disco even if that means they have to shield their identity and not give face-to-face interviews. Swedish disco princess, Sally Shapiro's just-barely-released album Disco Romance features eight (count 'em, eight) neo-Italo Disco classics ready for the dancefloor. I can't see this stuff not being a hit in the hipster community. It's just crafted for success. Plus, i think Pitchfork just endorsed it.
I am about to send off the video mixtape I've been working on for the past 3-4 days for a William & Mary mixtape exchange I joined a little while ago. Above is a peak at the final product. I made the tape by splicing YouTube videos together in iMovie. I could have opted for something more professional (i.e. Final Cut Pro) but I feel the cheesiness of iMovie almost makes it better. The tracklist is as follows. If you'd like a copy shoot me an email or something.
