One of the Australia’s most talented, technically proficient and versatile DJs/producers. Sampology will be bringing his Super Visual Smackdown show to the upcoming BACARDI EXPRESS concerts, a cutting edge A/V show that chops and cuts both audio and video in perfect harmony over the speakers and onto screens.
Boney M / Ma Baker Simply a track I will never get sick of. I can’t get enough of the groove on this one sampled by The Avalanches for Live at Dominoes. I have always had a bit of an obsession with tracks other people have sampled. Some might call it a dedication to music, I just think I’m a geek. The film clip is ace, as well.
Don Diablo, who’s currently on tour through North America, gets nasty with New York nightclub legend Larry Tee’s forthcoming single Let’s Make Nasty on Ultra Records, adding tons of sub-bass, freaky synthstabs and his trademark guitarlicks, turning Let’s make Nasty into a clubrocker. Play this on a big soundsystem in a dark underground club and damage will be done to the dancefloor.
Silent League / There’s A Caretaker In The Woods I’m loving this choral masterpiece by the mysterious Brooklyn band that releases something every three years and rarely, if ever, performs.
Crimea X is the coming together of two offbeat, disparate characters, DJ Rocca (Ajello, Super Sonic Lovers, Maffia Sound System) and Jukka Reverberi from 90s Italian glam cult rockers, Giardini di Mirò, who have often have been compared with the sound of Mogwai, Arab Strap, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
The Smiths / Ask I saw them playing live on Italian TV. It was during the 80s when I was extremely young, and I’ve never stopped listening to this song.
Miami Horror is a DJ/Producer from Melbourne who started out his music career playing house party and regular weekly club nights such as Streetparty and Third Class. Having remixed for the likes of Pnau, The Presets, Faker, Datarock, Party and Midnight Juggernauts in the space of a year, Miami Horror’s remixes are dance floor hits.
Neon Indian / Deadbeat Summer Neon Indian has several great tracks but I selected this one for several reasons. Besides its 70s melodies and keys hook, its ridiculously loose production and detuned, wobbly synths makes it sound like a lost warped record playing with your head.
Back in the late 90s, James Ford and Jas Shaw were studying biology at and philosophy respectively at Manchester University, while crafting strange electronic music in the spare room of their shared house. Fellow student Simon Lord, a folk-influenced singer-songwriter, caught wind of the duo’s sonic experiments, and along with bass player Alex MacNaughten they formed the band Simian. In order to sate their love of electronic party music, James and Jas booked themselves DJ dates while touring with Simian. They’d finish a gig and then run off to play electro records to small, sweaty rooms full of people who often seemed to be having lots more fun than the audiences at their gigs. As a pisstake, they called themselves Simian Mobile Disco.
Fuck Buttons / Flight of the Feathered Serpent Lovely, noisy, messy, dreamy, and it’s got a great name.
Taking the gauntlet laid down by Girl Talk and sharpening it even further, the response to Ethan Ward’s (aka E-603) Torn Up has been remarkable: overnight, three tracks from the record were lodged in the Hype Machine’s top five list. Torn Up contains over 280 samples from the past six decades, and also includes some music composed by Ward himself. Live, Ward masterfully mixes about 500 samples together into one party anthem entirely on the spot.
The Misfits / Hybrid Moments I listen to this song at least once a day. The song is the perfect length and rocks my fucking brain the whole way. Danzig’s lyrics and voice are nothing but amazing. The first time I heard it, I knew I would never be the same again.
Felix da Housecat’s 2001 album, Kittenz and thee Glitz, turned the dance music world on its side as his collaborations with the now infamous Miss Kittin on Silver Screen and Madame Hollywood and Melistar on Harlot and What Does it Feel Like spawned a synth club revival. Along the way, Felix gained mainstream press acceptance and was heralded by Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and Spin as one of the most creative artists in music today.
B-52s / Love Shack This song just makes you feel happy. I was always a fan of Rock Lobster, but something about this song helped cross the B-52s over. It was one of those songs you hated at first, then loved. You know, you just couldn’t stop wanting to hear it.
Fagget Fairys have impressed crowds all over the place – from New York City to Berlin, from Copenhagen to Paris, and everywhere in between. With their debut EP, Samo Ti, released in 2008 by New York label, Palms Out Sounds, and featuring remixes from club darlings Drop the Lime & AC Slater among others, the Fairys’ rumored full length debut became a hot ticket, and it was quickly snatched up by Danish club-icon Kenneth Bager, for his Music For Dreams imprint.
Fatboy Slim / Rockafeller Skank The thing we really love about this track is the journey it takes you on from the beginning to end. It has a trancy feel that makes you wanna close your eyes and stomp away!
London DJs The Nextmen have a cool new video out for their soon-to-be-released single Lion’s Den, which features the vocals of Ms. Dynamite and Andy Catois and is set to burn down dancefloors.
Jack Penate / Todays Tonight This is an extremely difficult one to explain. I guess it’s Afro-Folk-Pop, or something horrible like that. It’s a great track with a lovely atmosphere and a welcome return from Penate. This one was produced by the mighty Paul Epworth, who manages to give it a unique and classic sound.
DJ Shamsu, whose name is derived from the Arabic word for Sun, creates ‘Dance Party Mash Up Mayhem’ with influences as far reaching as The Sahara and as close as 42nd Street. He is quoted as saying: ‘I don’t think there’s room for pretentiousness in music, I just want to dance. If the music that makes me dance, makes other people dance, then maybe we can dance together’. So, dammit, let’s just dance, dance, dance.
Thunderheist / Jerk It When I first heard the beat to this song, I was taken aback. ‘Who are these people?’, I thought. Why don’t I have every album they’ve ever made? ‘Who cares’, I thought again. Shut up and dance.
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