Gimme some of that Ayres & Titties

We ain't been writing (or going out much lately) due to mad amounts of stuff goin' on in our respective lives BUT we rocked out to Deviant in Brick lane the other day to check out the Rub, they didn't disappoint with some Booty shaking freshness, see the DJ Craze music description:

'Club-style Miami bass, formed with the technical love of hip hop with clean cuts and ridiculously dextrous scratching, but a mix up of straight up rap, ghettotech, raw booty house, old-school electro, Baltimore/Miami bass crossover and sweaty lo-end dancefloor music, making it all but impossible to keep still.'

Yeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh....

Ayres gets the most props usually but I reckon Cosmo Baker rocked it freshest with an array of fun tunes put at our disposal. Noticed on their site they got a whole history of Hiphop thing thats DEF worth checkin' out (if you love Hiphop like we do). So what year was the best?... opinions...

Post gigs the works piles on, so been listening to alot of shit, especially uber fresh Tittsworth who unfortunatly we missed on out Miami WMC trip.

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So heres my bet. YOU LISTEN TO ONE OF THESE TWO MIXES, BASS PUMPED UP AND DON'T SHAKE SOME PART OF YOUR BODY FOR THE WHOLE MIX. The whole dam thing kid. Honestly Titts gits ya movin' and BMore is um yeah takin over. You do that come tell me and I'll buy you a drink...
Then again Ian over at Songkick says British women can't shake it like the yanks, but that's a whole other story about not showing up.

We hate it when people don't show up man...

The eight-teeees

Who doesn't have love for those 80's classics like Back to the future, and Trading places?

I found a jokes remix of a famous soundtrack that you might recognise from Indiana Jones

Check "Super Jones" at http://www.myspace.com/djamazingclay

www.musicismylife.blogspot.com

First of all, i wanted to point out how i love the way Danny assumes we have all voted in DeadRat6, or mau5 or whoever into the best artist at the moment. I didnt know him before i read the post. Nice one danny. For now, im nominating Breakbot the one and only slickest Rico Suave around.

Ok. So. Recently. Like for the last few weeks, i've been getting well into my continental electro which encompasses a HUUUGE amount and variety of stuff. From Ed Banger (1), to filthy German electro (2), to electro funk (3) (or electro rock/indie disco as others call it - im sure there are loads of terms). When i say continental, i guess im kind of mistaken, because within a few weeks you get to listen to a whole lot of shit that might include some UK electro or some yanky doodle electro (4). And when i say electro, i might mean Big Beat, or Techno, or Deep Funky Electro Tech. Etc. Aight.

I've been raving on about these discoveries of mine as if i had been hunting high and low for months and was gathering up all the meat to show y'all what other species live in distant lands. As a result some of you are super excited to hear what i have to say. Unfortunately, it might not be your cup of. But nevertheless, for me and anyone who happens to think like me, and hence have super duper good taste in music, you should also salivate to these beats.

1-Justice Essential Mix - Pretty sweet mash up of all things electro + electro funk and refreshed with some old school Frenchie songs. NICE NICE NICE. (isnt nice such an undescriptive word?)

2-One tune has been a stand out GEM for me over these weeks. 'Dont Go' by Puzique which can be found on their myspace. I've just tried describing it, but cant quite get it right. Super tight beats, over an extremely uplifting synth, running parallel to some funky old school vocals. All in all something you'd love to hear out right? Well. For my lovely girlfriends bday we went to a newly introduced electro night in Brighton, and some dude from Dublin called Arveene played this tune as we were all leaving: ... Don't Go away... Don't go away... I listened, and thought oh MAAAAN. Yes you can imagine. I went right next to the dj booth and ripped it up, then left. But mate. Yes. I mean like. Oh my. Seriously sweet.

Enough about that tune, check out Puziques other tracks, which are filthier, a lot filthier but pretty damn sweet nonetheless.

Speaking of Filthy, there's this new free porn site that i discovered, really good if you like filthy stuff. On the other hand, Filthy musicwise, d.i.m. appears, who, along with Boys Noize make up Puzique. His track 'noize' on his myspace is another gem for me. Check it out.

3-The electro funk tracks i discovered are numerous, but one artist that has 4 amazing tracks on his Myspace is Breakbot. Listening to his tracks, and thinking of Justice's distinctive bass, made me realise how French electro stems from a country that already had very good taste in music. Back in the 90s, Double HH crew were a dj crew comprising a few hiphop heads, namely Dj Abdel and Dj Cutkiller (the bald guy that rips it up in La Haine - what a clip + movie) who not only mixed up the best in REAL RnB, HipHop, but also old school 80s funk. Now, 80s funk is called funk for many reasons, but for me, the one thing that distinguishes it from a lot of shit, is that funky ass bass. Its all about the bass. When i say bass, i dont mean DOOF DOOF DOOF as Danny and Renate rave on about. I mean instrumental bass, or double bass to make it double funky. Justive use this sound, and it makes their tracks that much more virulent. We can't forget Daft Punk either, who back in the 90s came out with such funky electro, that i was wondering at home if maybe french electro is so funky because of this history of good taste. Or if im just observing a couple coincidences. Either way. Breakbot (coming back to him) has some wicked tracks. The PNAU tune, despite sounding excessivley poppy, just makes me want to be on holiday for the rest of my life, spending it with the people i love. When that bass comes in, once again, sweet instrumental bass AIIIGHT, it just digs into your head, confirming the holiday thought. Lets go to SONAR. Haha, Yes yes. Hence electro FUNK.
The LOTP remix is equally good, more indie disco-ee. The guys vocal, as well as his voice is just amazing.

On this electro funk note, or indie disco one, Scenario Rock are another stand out band. I discovered them from Justice's essential mix, along with Breakbot, what a mix. Their new album Histrionics is pretty sweet, been listening to it quite a bit lately. Their track Both Gotta Move On, is lovely. As is their SKitzo Dancer which appears to be very famous in france. Damn NICO.

4 - To finish off this short post, A-Trak is some amazing dj, but to be honest i dont like the amazing hiphop mash up dj's. I mean you can't really dance to the stuff, its just impressive because he juggles 5 tracks, scratches a word for 5 minutes, and then does more amazing shit. Recently he's gotten into mashing up tracks electro stylee, with some nice remixes. The Boys Noize - Oh! remix he did is off the hook. Check it on his myspace.

Discovering music is one thing i could never do enough of. It makes my day or even entire week. Music is my all. I LOVE MUSIC. Lets all get naked and make love to music.

Ok guys, sorry for the long ass post, but hopefully some of these things will appeal to you. And if they don't, screw you guys. Im going home. xx

Who5 that Mau5

Last year the man on the tip of everyones ton had to be Trentemoeller. Deservedly so, dude is sick and his album the last resort showed he had more than just a penchant for club killers like that Royksopp remix you all know.

So who looks like the heir to that warm, techno-ey, makes you feel fuzzy inside, electro throne.... Without a doubt its gotta be the DeadMau5.

Another computer geek turned music illustrio the 27 year old hailing from Toronto was first discovered through his tune 'Faxing Berlin' sent Pete Tongs way.

He seems to drop alot of sick tunes and when he plays live he wears the most jokes mask imaginable.

And the name? A mouse died in his computer, so he named himself after it (and for IRC the deadmouse didnt fit). Listen, cause dude's sick...

What Went Down in Miami (pictures/links to follow)

A week of ups and some little downs (fortunatly mostly ups!), WMC can only be described as Sick. While it comes across as a get together for superstar dj's to pat each other on the back, there's absolutely tons going on, as the streets are lined with music heads, cosmetic surgery and pretty people.



Firstly the top two lessons learnt:
-RSVP email EVERYTHING the week before the conference, even if you have no idea where it is you may wanna check it out at some point and emails are free.
-My bro collects old door wristbands from party's gone by. We usually use them for sneakin' in to places (always been my hobby, greatest coup song ever!!!) The doormen in Miami tend to be lazy and exhaust (talked to one they work about 90 hours that week!) so they dont really check, honest you could get into SO much by doing this. You heard it here first!
-Dont do this as a student, man it aint about miami on a budget, I aint doing this as a student again... having said that, the free parties tended to be the best parties.




What we hit up that we rated:
-Weds bmore party with low budget, stretch armstrong, alexander technique. All impressed, Stretch Armstrong told us he's trying to come to london soon to do Fabric with Sinden. It was damn fun, the evolution of hiphop with a lil bit of everything chucked in. We need this music in the UK.
-We checked out the Rub that night aswell and came across some uber uber safe people in the form of Shakespeare, Amon and Dawn. With so much fake around miami, talking with them was awesome, as it showed that a. the conference has a bit of everything b. the country and hopefully the world is heading in the right direction (change right?). Shoulda gone to see them play, cept they never called back with details. Thanks for the ride home!
-Went to the Raleigh pool on Thurs for Digitalism and Boys Noize but left to go check out Richie Hawtin and Steve Lawler at the Surfcomber. Straight up SICK though by the end of this we were in no state to go out that night (missed pryda WACK!). Pool parties ARE THE WAY FORWARD!
-Hit up the Radio 1 pool party, watched Kissy Sell out, a very Lame Justice showing, pete tong, deep dish and the likes (aswell as calvin harris at the raleigh). Nothing especially noteworthy though.
-My brother emailed me from Paris with info on a Mad Decent Warehouse party (nice shout Rez) which merits a couple comments:
-The design district is way sicker than the beach.
-The venue was awesome only one thing really really pissed me off: noone ended up in the indoor pool, that wouldve made the party... (couldve been the all night mad decent pool party ey?)
-Calvin Harris showed up relatively unnoticed which was quite jokes as that wouldnt happen in the UK, didnt know he was a mad decent fan?
-Drop the lime was awesome, South Rakkas were decent, everyone rocked it but above all I felt Blaqstarr stood out. Impeccable mixing, BANGING tunes (well it is blaqstarr), but above all the feeling that if this guy played at a big bouncy rave it would go absolutely climb the rafters, gobsmacked infuckingsane. At this point the crowd was thining a bit though. Briefly asked him about europe, he said he may head this summer, fingers crossed...(ps if diplo reads this bring blaqstarr to sonar, if they wont have him he can always play at anti sonar, they'd love the energy)
-They shouldnt have hinted at possible guests playing if werent gonna play! (also diplo showing up woulda killed it, after all it is florida) and switch/santogold dissappointed.
-Finally checked out Mehdi and A-Trak along with peanut butter wolf and madlib for a classic hip hop party on Sat. Its mehdi and A-trak, it's gonna be fucking good. Awesome crowd, awesome vibe. Mehdi told me he had done 4 parties in 2 days and was down with his girlfriend (famous graff artist fafi). Mans uber safe and obviously works uber hard, props.



What we missed out on:
With this much shit goin' on some things were bound to be missed in the bucketloads. The following were either at the same time as something else, or we were too exhausted/hungover to get our asses out to check 'em. Through the Grapevine these couple sounded supreme:

-Bass Sessions with Craze, tittsworth and krafty kuts. A mashup of breaks/bmore and basssss. Apparently bounced all night.
-Richie Hawtin Minus 10year party. After the pool party he apparently spun a mammoth set at nocturn.
-Eric Prydz at Space. The real killer, as after Exit festival WLTE crew love Pryda.
-Nikki Beach on Saturday, just cause the diskomafia crew and robosonic were playing. Woulda been fun to suprise robotti there .
-Deadmau5, MSTRKRFT and Morillo, cause I was curious.