Skrillex – Drop Dead (Blende Remix)

Blende, long time no hear. I really got scared when I saw they remixed a Skrillex track, thinking “oh no another producer gone dubstepzzz”, but luckily this is anything but dubstep. Blende delivers a smooth electro track with some rough edges but also nu-disco like synths. The track was supposed to be for the Skrillex “Drop Dead” EP but apparently it never got released which means this remix wasn’t released as well. Blende decided to share it for free which can of course count on a warm welcome by us!

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Skrillex – Drop Dead (Blende remix)

The Electro Wars

“The Electro Wars is a documentary about the current electronic music scene, on what some people refer to as “electro” and its participants. Made by filmmaker Stephen Alex Vasquez, it’s premiering this week at the Miami winter music conference. It will be featuring music from some of the top producers in the scene such as Toxic Avenger, A-Track, Laidback Luke, Spank Rock & Steve Aoki.”

By the looks of the trailer, the main focus of this documentary is on the American scene. Maybe a bit less interesting for us Europeans, but still a lot of interesting names that take place behind the mic. A lot of dj’s/producers stepped up-to electro after being bored from the Hip-Hop scene. I think in Europe we know a complete other evolution, coming from more underground scenes as well as just plain rock&roll.
Another aspect topic’d in the trailer are the “blogs”. Literally thousands of blogs by people who don’t even know what they are talking about (quote lil jon). Do we know what we are talking about?

A producing duo that was asked to make a track for this documentary was: Blende! They shared the track with us before it’s big premier upcoming week. A track that, I think, perfectly sets the mood for a documentary as this one. I’m a fan!

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Blende – Iratus

More info? More trailers? Right here:
http://vimeo.com/channels/theelectrowars
http://www.theelectrowars.com/

What keeps you going

Studying for my final exam today (which is tomorrow), but I feel so bad leaving you guys hanging without any tracks for almost a week now, that I decided to “quickly” make this post. We got some quality tracks in our inbox from all sorts of different artists and labels and here the ones that caught my eye:

I’m starting of with this funky remix by Sabotage for “MMMatthias – James”, which probably falls a bit out of line with the rest of the upcoming tracks in this post. Very funky and old-schoolish, digging this kind of music a lot lately.

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MMMatthias – James (Sabotage Remix)

Then a remix for We Love Animals, the “famous” track of Crookers ft Soulwax & Mixhell. Heard some other remixes the last few weeks, but this is the first one that I like. Religion gave the original a somewhat of a “MSTRKRFT” like sound.

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Crookers ft Soulwax & Mixhell – We Love Animals (Religion Remix)

Talking about MSTRKRFT, the next track is a remix by Blende for “Breakaway” which was featured on their recent album “Fist Of God”. I don’t know how much of you guys know Blende, but if you do know their remixes, you know it’s banging electro trash your getting. It was a long time since I enjoyed a good trash electro track, but this one is most definitely spot on!

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MSTRKRFT – Breakaway (Blende remix)

Next one is from Dutch ravy electro producer Sick Boy, It’s a promo for his upcoming EP “Hysteria”. It will be release the 20th February including remixes from Motor, NoNewYork and Homework.

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Sick Boy – Hysteria

And I’m ending this post with two full EP’s as free giveaway! The first one is the latest Breakdown featuring remixes from Lazy Ants and Jeff T. And the second EP is from Jean Balaise called “G.O.D.” (newcake.nl).
Break Down – Party Shocker (direct link)

Jean Balaise – G.O.D. (direct link – newcake.nl)