Beatport shopping #1

Doing some regular “shopping” on Beatport and thought it would be usefull for some of you all to see which tracks I buy for my djsets and such. I’ll try giving regular updates of my future purchases!

• Verlenen – I Thought I Told Ya’ll (Craig Hamilton Remix)
  Cool old school sounding french house track. Very funky as well!
  http://www.beatport.com/track/i-thought-i-told-yall-craig-hamilton-remix/3626719 
• Boris Dlugosch – Keep Pushin (Joel Alter Remix)
  Another old school sounding house track, but this one goes much deeper! Something completely different as the original. Perfect track to get your groove going.
  http://www.beatport.com/track/keep-pushin-joel-alter-remix/3456977
• Azari & III – Into The Night (Prince Language Remix)
  Such a big fan of Azari & III. Real laidback remix keeping the orignal vocal work as the main part of the track as it should be.
  http://www.beatport.com/track/into-the-night-prince-language-remix/3618312 
• Asykan – Des Errus
  Sick release on the BNR TRAX label. This tracks seems to be endless which is perfect as I don’t want it to stop! Only finding trouble mixing this in long, because the BPM seems to be fluctuating constantly.
  http://www.beatport.com/track/des-errus-original-mix/3736234
• Baskerville – Priam
  Another cool release on the BNR TRAX label and if I’m not mistaking Baskerville is a duo from the Netherlands. I’ve posted something about them way back, but it seems they are still doing very good! Jumpy electro rave, makes me want to jump around every single time.
  http://www.beatport.com/track/priam-original-mix/3688994
• D.IM. – Dragon
  The return of D.I.M. nothing more to add. Quality track as usual from this guy.
  http://www.beatport.com/track/dragon-original-mix/3689130
• Dog Blood – Next Order
  Was rather curious about Boys Noize and Skrillex teaming up and it actually isn’t sounding bad at all. When you see your crowd (or yourself) getting tired, drop this one. Instant energy refiller this one.
  http://www.beatport.com/track/next-order-original-mix/3700560
• Duke Dumont – Giver
  Duke Dumont, my hero of this year. Part 1 of this EP series was spot on, bringing us Streetwalker, now part 2 is released and it’s maybe not as good as Streetwalker (hard to match), but again soooo goood.
  http://www.beatport.com/track/the-giver-original-mix/3748960
• Duke Dumont – No Money Blues ft. Extra Curricular
  http://www.beatport.com/track/no-money-blues-feat-extra-curricular-original-mix/3748959
• Jacques Lu Cont – In The Night
  Latest release on the Bromance label. It’s not a “dark sounding” release like previous ones on Bromance. But it’s very uplifting electro rave! Dig it! Disco! Disco!
  http://www.beatport.com/track/in-the-night-original-mix/3791183 
• Light Year – Moderation (Jori Hulkkonen Remix – The Finger Prince Edit)
  The original was awesome and it’s now getting a lot of remix treatments. This one is my favorit as it uses the most sounds from the original with some awesome sounding hi-hats  added to it.
  http://www.beatport.com/track/moderation-jori-hulkkonen-remix-the-finger-prince-edit/3695021

So, that’s my list of tracks I bought last week. If you have some cool tracks to add which are similar to above, don’t hold back!

Animal Language

Label in the spotlight! Animal Language! This label is found by the dutch duo Mason. Some years ago they had a big hit “Exceeder” which is still a regular on the local dancefloors here. Many of the more succesfull producers of that time took a more commercial direction but these guys sticked to their orignal sound and are still bringing out way more bigger tracks then those who went commercial in my opinion. To celebrate their succes and the upcoming 22nd release they are sharing the next two tracks for free! Loving it big time!

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Mason – Doorman (shortcut)

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Loulou Players – Saturday Night Beaver (Animal Language Shortcut)

Free

“Free” is the new EP from French producer Combostar. He has support coming from everywhere including MSTRKRFT, Mumbai Science, J Paul Getto, Justin Faust and so on. The track is a real french-house/nu disco bomb and is supported on this EP by 4 remixes: Louis La Roche, Go Go Bizkit, Second Date and Timo Juuti & Hector 87. And does anyone recognize the vocals? That’s right it’s Mani Hoffman, the same guy you heard on “Starlight” from The Supreme Lovers. Anyway, “Free” EP is not as free as it sounds, but I do have the Louis La Roche remix as a free download! Check out the original and the other remixes below.

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Combostar – Free (Louis La Roche Remix)

Lapalux – The Hours

Free track coming from the Brainfeeder label which most of you guys should know already via Flying Lotus. The sounds I’m hearing from labels like Brainfeeder are definitely my favorite sounds of the moment. You already see a lot of producers and dj’s from other genres who’re clearly getting some inspiration from that “genre”. I’m really hoping it doesn’t blow up like dubstep/dnb stuff, but by the looks of it the hype kids already have their handfull with “Trap Music” (I should state that I like a lot of the Trap labeled tracks, so don’t want to be disrespectful!).

Aaaanyway, Lapalux is a young guy from the UK bringing what you can expect from an artist on the Brainfeeder label, nice and relaxed rythm with some cool sample work. On a side note, I recently watched this very cool shortmovie about Flying Lotus, definitely recommend watching it, check it out right here.

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Lapalux – The Hours

Studio Brussel: Netsky Live

Blende – Fake Love

Disco tune with a bad ass punch, that’s pretty much how I would describe this new Blende production. Have been following these guys for some time now and their early productions were “right in your face” electro tracks and this time they seemed to have changed direction to “right in your face” pop/disco tracks. Nice to seem them on the Eskimo recordings label where you can pick up the EP on the 17th of September. Another surprise is to see Villa back in action, while their remixes are mostly very relaxed and down tempo this one is, just like the original, very strong and straight forward. No time to relax! Check out the complete streams below!

Blende – Fake Love by eskimorecordings

Laundry Day 2012

Had a good night’s sleep after partying hard at the Laundry Day 2012 festival. Here’s a quick and short recap by … me!

• So many stages, so many dj’s and at the end of the night you only saw like 5 … but that’s something we knew in advance of course!
• Rubix playing baiser sur la disco as we arrive, instant mood was set.
• Paul Chambers throwing one techno synth after the other towards us, shame the crowd only reacted to the last few track which weren’t his own.
• Compact Disk Dummies, winners of Humo’s Rock Rally 2012, were enjoyable but didn’t overwhelmed us. Sometimes felled a bit like Crystal Castles “youngster edition” and I’m not particularly  saying it in bad way though!
• Raving George, funny how she was the only one sticking out way above the dj stage. Is it because you know why? Or is it because she finds it comfortable djing that way? I for one don’t and like to keep my dj gear at elbow height… . Anyway some nice electo tracks, but the real “hard rave electro” is growing away from me.
• Mumbai Science, as expected (fanboy as I am) the best set of the day! Heard some new stuff, heard their own tracks, quality mixing, just what I expect from a Mumbai Science dj set. Big up for their energy behind the dj booth (especially Jonas as always) knowing they were just back from Miami if I have read correctly! Everyday, Anytime, Mumbai Science!
• Ramon Tapia, time for some relaxing under the trees at the Mojito sanctuary. Very cool atmosphere over there with colored lights and white laundry hanging in the trees. A much older crowed their and much more relaxed then all the other stages. Ramon Tapia did what he does best, no nonsense house music. Very very very enjoyable after all the other madness of that day.
• Surfing Leons, not really on our to see list but he was playing the TNGHT EP so decided to stick around for a few minutes. The man was clearly enjoying himself and was just playing what he felt like. Suddenly out of nowhere: Carly Rae Jepsen – Call me maybe, I really didn’t expect to hear that at Laundry Day and me and my friends were like “what the?”, half way in the track Surfing Leons started to mix it down with Gesaffelstein – Controlmovement. It was rather messy but the smile on Surfing Leons was hilarious so on my part: he got a way with it.
• One Man Party, only saw the beginning of his set but it wasn’t that good… the tracklist was awesome, but the mixing was so sloppy that it was painful to the ears. Hope he could recover for the second part of the set. I much rather saw him play the drums for Soulwax which for the record he stopped doing.
• Sound of Stereo, very good live set, clean, good variation and of course heard their big “hits”. Also cool to see the singer from Willow come on stage and do the live vocal work of the SoS remix, didn’t expect that and it worked perfectly on stage.

Unfortunately had to leave a bit earlier so didn’t get the chance to see Goose. Some of my friend stayed and told me they played some new material. Hoping to catch them soon on another time! This was my short Laundry Day recap, had a good time, spent way too much money (drink and feed were ridiculously overpriced) and heard good music. Till next year? Maybe … I’m hoping to see them attract more international Dj’s and don’t just stick to the solid values, some of them are long overdue.