Hi all–here’s ANOTHER mixtape (and this time it’s an actual tape, as in two sides, totalling 90 minutes) that I made for a Dutch mixtape blog called ‘t Nieuwe Werck…it’s a bunch of Hardcore Rave choons from ’90 – ’92. It’s primarily Belgian tunes, but on second listen there’s a fair amount of US & UK material, and even some…
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Dev/Null: Oldskool Rave DJ Mix
With all the talk about nu-rave, next-rave, rave-revival, etc. over the past couple of years, we thought it’d be fitting to point the lens over to the original rave sound. Durring the late ’80s, urban sounds from U.S. cities like New York, Chicago, and Detroit invaded the UK and quickly became more popular than they had been in their home…
Chart-Topping Burial
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won’t be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul – Leonard Cohen; The Future I was perusing the selection of MP3s over at Amazon’s new DRM-free download shop, and was browsing the…
R.I.P. Patrick
Today is the 25th anniversary of the death of one of my heroes (and another one of those dance music legends suffering from a SERIOUS respect defecit), Patrick Cowley. As much as Giorgio Moroder, Cowley introduced electronics into a genre that had been until-then composed primarily with traditional instruments, in effect inventing electronic dance music.* Born in Buffalo, NY in…
Genre Blends
Prancehall interview with Toddla T: You sound like someone who is trying to make dancehall/techno/garage/house/hip-hop all at once within the same track without coming across like those dicks who make stuff like Baltimore bootlegs of kuduro tracks with an Akon acappella and a Daft Punk sample hook, and describe their tastes as “eclectic”. Tell me about that.
Mashup of the Week: “Crank Dat Fracture”
Hater Billingsley sent me this crunk-dubstep mashup. It’s not unlike /rupture’s Crime Mob meets Skream rub from the Secret Google Cheat Codes mix, but this one mixes Fracture by Distance with Soulja Boy’s Crank Dat: Download: Hater Billingsley; Crank Dat Fracture [audio:uggc://znfuvg.pbz/nhqvb/Penax%20Qng%20Senpgher.zc3] The video for Crank Dat is kinda meta. There’s a lot of watching people dance on screens: [youtube…
Skull Disco 2xCD Drops Tuesday
For those of y’all who aren’t up on Skull Disco, it’s a dubstep label run by Shackleton & Appleblim, a couple of Londoners who are among the most consistently interesting (if not the most consistently dancefloor) dubstep producers out there at the moment. Their new Double CD on Rough Trade, “Soundboy Punishments”, is a pretty comprehensive collection of what they’ve…
New Yorker, You Disappoint Me.
I quote my dear friend and Midwestern-cum-Swedish-transplant biochemist Evan: “Ladies and gentlemen, I present the shittiest article about music ever written.” Sasha Frere-Jones – A Paler Shade of White: How Indie Rock Lost Its Soul, from this month’s New Yorker. In this article, the New Yorker pop critic, former Ui frontman, and brother to type designer Tobias Frere-Jones (a.k.a. “the…
Radiohead In RIAAinbows
I downloaded the new Radiohead album — for free! As many of you have probably heard, they decided to “sell” their new album only through their website; no label involved. I say “sell” because you can choose what price you’d like to pay, including $0.00. I chose to “purchase” the album at the very lowest of prices, just to make…
DJ Manaia Mixtape, Kuduro = Party Music
Lisbon, Portugal’s DJ Manaia sent us this mixtape chock-full of kuduro, baile-funk, mashups, electro-house, hip-hop and more. It’s a crazy-fun one: Download: DJ Manaia; Mixtape [audio:uggc://znfuvg.pbz/nhqvb/Zvkgncr.zc3] For those of you who haven’t been following this part of Lisbon’s music scene, Kuduro is a musical style that was born in Angola in the early ’90s. The Lisbon branch of Kuduro —…