Couple Words on Tune Selection

So what's the logic behind the WLTE2 selection, a rundown tune to tune:

• We live in Brooklyn by Roy Ayers is an absolute classic, soulful tune about brooklyn, despite ayers being from LA. If you haven't heard it you HAVE to listen to 'everybody loves the sunshine'
• Chromeo, on Tiga's Turbo will definatly come up later on this blog. This is a remix of their fancyfootword tune which Will get you moving...
• Oh Yeah Booka Shade is pure genius if you've seen Ferris Bulers Day out (SICK movie!)
• Noisia Yellowbrick, is another highly compressed brain tickler from the Dutch tech heads.
• Somersault remixed by Dangermouse allows MF Doom (interesting character also to feature at some point) to flex his lyrical brilliance over a zero 7 soulfull rift.
• Raise the roof was discovered from Tiga's podcast (check it out if you get a chance). An 80's freshness (the good side of the 80's) with a incredibly beautiful melodic ending.
• Low Budget ran the Hollertronix parties in Philly with Diplo, boy is a mashup BEAST!
• Again found on the Tiga podcast Let it Happen Lindstom vocal mix is a disco meets rock classic, it'll grow on you.
• Tribulations has had a ton of remixes, rightly so. I like Tigas slow buildup to the LCD crashing chorus.
• The cool kids Black Mags B-more fix is hiphop meets a true classic producing some real bumpngrind.
• Finally wasnt sure about the Shonky track, but I like shonky's rolling minimal touch; he chooses his synths and sounds carefully and it shows.

Hope you enjoy, you'll like at least one of them...

Variety.

First off, we have a sweet new german producer on the DNB scene bringing us some Berlin influenced rowdiness. Too much dnb sounds the same nowadays, and a fresh new sound is always welcome, especially if its from Berlin because Berlin is just super sweet. Martsman is currently signed to several labels, but more importantly has made his debut in the Uk with the releases of a couple tunes on Hospital's baby sister label Medschool. Check out 8-bit bouncer as its full of ounce.

I was in a wicked shop in Brussels (birth place of all things sweet) and there was a sick cd playing. It's more on the chilled and funky spectrum of aural pleasures. Kira neris is a relatively new addition to the Nu-Jazz posse. Not much to say about these guys, just that they're pretty sweet and sensual and if you like Cinematic Orchestra, Bonobo (and the rest of Ninja Tune) then Kiraneris lives right up that avenue. Check out their myspace.

Finally, taking the dpm's lower still, we have Fennesz. Now this might be a little too abstract for people like danny as he prefers 'bangin stuff'. However if you go to this guys myspace and check out his tune called 'Tree', well i reckon you might see the white light emitted. His music generally consists of quirky laptop sounds bouncing over gorgeous soundscapes. If you like this sort of stuff, check out his album co-produced with Sakamoto, its pure loveliness. Sakamoto is also pretty sweet!

Enjoy. Miaaaow (yess yess).

Here Comes FlossTradamus!

(Click on the Pic for recent Flosstradamus Mix)

Was Fortunate enough to catch Flosstradamus first hand at Sonotech in Chicago pre-christmas, as a friggin blizzard was braved to check out the hyped midwest act. Despite the 8inches of fresh snow lining the pavement outside the place was pretty rammed and these boys sure didnt disappoint. Jetlag was forgotten as the party rocked through 80's, b-more, rave, and various other genres of eclectic tunes (eclectic is the key word nowadays...). Anyway these guys are def on the up, check em out on myspace, they even made the cover of URBs next 100. Don't Believe? Check the eclectic-ness of the tunes bellow...

Have you Ever Seen a MusicVideo like this?

Found this Video from a decent canadian band called 'Lesbians on Ecstasy'I found out about on Big Stereo.

Incredibly Amusing...

Round Table Knights Rocks the Party (& Wake up Cat is Hilarious!)

(Click on pics for links to RTK mixes and Wake up Cat)

We went to see Vitalic and the Round Table Knights yesterday in Bristol on Friday, a whole Posse of us Rollin' deep (big shouts to sketch and the monkey!knife!fight guys for the entry). It can only be described as.... bangin'!!!!
Vitalic's cool, seen him a couple times and Glastonbury and in belgium; but while he was headlining, the guys my humble (others disagreed) opinion, who really rocked the party were the Roundtable Knights. We first caught a glimpse of these guys in action at Sonar 2007. Come sunday early early morning everyone went outside to check out miss kitten. A couple of us left over from DJ Nu-mark stayed behind and were in for a treat. This boys can mix, from baltimore through to bangin electro or 80's funk, or even Oxy Cottontail, they throw it down for you to shake to. Not only that, but DJ Atomic seems to sing along to every single song (in a very jokes manner, inspiring even more rowdiness).

Unfortunatly the Party ended at 4 (licensing laws are DRY), so being unable to locate another party to rock up to we headed home; deciding to chill out by having a youtube off (ie person with the best youtube clip wins). If you hear me miaowing in the next month the reason's probably this:

How its goin' down in Paris

Well you know the french do electro their own way, starting with daft punk and lately being overrun with non stop Edbanger EletroClash blipness, but there's a new trend emerging thats apparently even cooler than baguettes: Tecktonic!

You gotta check out this video on youtube of a Kitsune single by Yelle called 'a cause des garcons' (because of boys). The dude dancing in the video is Vavan, the supposedly best dancer of the tecktonic scene in 2007. So what is tecktonic... its uprocking meets popping meets metrosexual meets Belgian jumpstyle. For french speaker's there's also a documentary on the style here. Needless to say everyone awaits with baited breath to see what happens next, does Edbanger and Kitsune embrace it? Does it fade out as quickly as it comes? Do the frenchies realise that acting metro and yet thinking mullets are cool just doesnt work? We'll let you know what happens next....

Battle of the Year

Hmmm, today it just seems to be posts about female artists so might aswell not fight the trend...

I was thinking about what the most HILARIOUS MC battle of the year would be and I came up with this:

Uffie

vs Roxy CottontailJust compare the lyrical GeniuS! of 'you just heard what I said dude/ I said your played out for being so rude' on Oxy's mind your own business to Uffies 'all the girls getting horny/ but all this shit is so corny' on her ready to uff tune and you wonder if all you need is to be cute, a bit of Sas and a decent producer to make it in the electrorap game.
To be honest though I do have to give them props for getting heard and while they will never compete with the lyrical genius of Aesop Rock, that not really what they are trying to do.
I was in New York talking to some cool girls when the subject of cheesy music came up.
On the mention of some long forgotten cheesy tune one girl turned to me and said 'yeah, but it's so much fun to listen to when your drunk'. That sums up Uffie to me, I'd never listen to her at home, but hey if Im drunk I'll throw my hands up too! As for Oxy I kinda rate some of the remixes of her tunes, her Sassyness is slightly better applied than Uff, whom was described to me the first time at sonar as 'imagine if your little 17 year old sister in highschool started rapping about glocks n stuff...exactly'

Ladies on the Decks

There just ain't enough female Dj's spinning in clubs nowadays and I ask girls why not? From Miss Kitten through to Ellen Alien, they're mad decent, yet despite most festival crowds being 50%50% if you look at the big lineups at any decent festivals, the dj's are mainly male.

D'n'B may be changing but lets face it dancefloors are def male dominated, which is why these two ladies are like a breath of fresh air. BTraits and Dj Empress are going against the UK trend, heating up dance floors on both sides of the pond. B.Traits recently dropped a sick Digital Soundboy mix on DnB arena (see her Myspace for details) which I've had on rerun for a while, sultry mix of jungle inspired groves, a perfect fit to ShyFX's style. Empress hails from the Apple and has produced some sweet tunes too, including the much acclaimed remix of Roy Ayers we live in Brooklyn (sick sick tune, check it out). Now I just gotta wait for them to come to a dancefloor near me...

Amanda aint shootin' Blanks

At least that's where my story began, and Philly aint never been lacking a music scene with everything from the fresh prince, through to the roots and Dieselboy, coming through for the city of Brotherly love at some point. But things really seem to have exploded as of late, with a couple real jems coming out of the blue, being brought out by pioneers of the scene such as Diplo and SpankRock.
'Amanda blank is straight buffness' says songkicker, and I would defnot beg to differ... With SpankRock collabs and some hot Diplo and Low-B produced tunes, Blank is defnatly on the up sporting a lyrical style, that some may call dirty, I call it attitude. Check out 'for the unloved' another brilliant Diplo production, with Blank's lyrics setting a perfect melancholy scene. 'Bump' by remix master Switch is also pretty bangin, while her releases on Bmore gutter music are undoubtably fresh.

Tools 'n Tricks of the Trade

We all know about Myspace, the only thing I really rate it for is the Musicplayer's and discovering new artists. Tables are slowly turning though and new stuff is emerging to reign supreme on the digital music and information market. Here are my two fav toys of the moment (assuming you know last.fm already):

Seeqpod: Just about the sickest new music gadget on the web, I tip my hat to these dudes. Essentially it searches the web for music files you wanna get, and allows you to line them up in a player which streams the tunes straight to your speaker. Not only is it a wicked way of hearing new tunes from your fav artist (or looking up tunes mentioned in blogs like this!) but it even allows you to save playlists, meaning you never have to download a tune again......SICK!!!!

Songkick: Musiclovers live for livemusic and these guys have created a program that scans your computer and tells you about upcoming events that could be of interest to you! You never gotta look at the listings again. They even propose similar acts you may be interested in, making it doubly usefull.