Lots of mixtapes passing by today, small list of those who have already found their way to my mp3 player! Some quality dj’s behind the decks: the popular Belgian duo Ed&Kim. Harvard Bass who’s recently release with Bart B More still blows me away every single time. Trash electro godfather SebastiAn. The Portugese duo behind Zombies For Money, who also have a new EP in the pipeline! And last but not least, after Surkin, my favourite Marble player: Bobmo!
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Hello everybody, I am 3000. And I am one of the new bloggers at GetHypedOnThis. You’ll often see me posting lots of techno stuff, or electro with techno hints or whatever. But I like a lot of music, so you’ll see a lot of different music passing by. And I guess that’s it, so far the introduction.
Let’s start things of with a blast, a new track from SebastiAn straight from his new album ‘Total’.
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The boys of Light Year deliver good stuff once again, be sure to check out their remix for Zzafrica.
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The release of SebastiAn’s album ‘Total’ is coming closer and closer (end May to be more “precise”). The first track we got to see/hear was Embody. Everybody was expecting some very raw electro tunes but that wasn’t Embody. Lot’s of people didn’t like it, but I think Embody is 100% SebastiAn and there for completly fell in love with it (same goes for the funky videoclip!). Downside of the track: low bpm making it hard to mix with those other electro tracks of the moment. Solution? The MMMatthias remix!
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My favourite festival is getting closer and I received some great news about it! I’m allowed press access, so I’m hoping to do some nice exclusive backstage work! The last artists I mentioned were from the first two days, this next batch is mainly from the third day.
Sub Focus, Andy C
For as far as my knowledge about DnB goes these two are one of the bigger names in the scene. After all the electro, hiphop and alternative rock violence some straight to the point DnB is always appreciated. The two indoor halls are perfect for this and last edition also proofs DnB brings up probably the best audience atmosphere.
SebastiAn
Probably the most bizar figure of the already extravagant ed banger bunch. Even though he isn’t very strong in the technical dj’ing stuff, probably most of the time because he is under influence (check out this appearance in this Ed Banger Seven video), but as a producer he’s an absolute genious and he will certainly bring the best electro bangers of the moment.
Hudson Mohawke
I haven’t heard much stuff from this guy before I looked him up when he appeared in the Les Ardentes lineup, but after some classic youtube research I really started digging his productions. It’s hard to describe his “genre” it feels like a mixture of hip-hop background tunes, electronic stuff and dubstep? I’m looking forward to his performance and I bet it will the most unique and refreshing one.
Health
Health is not your average alternative rock band. This L.A. based band brings very experimental stuff with the use of your typicall drum, guitar stuff and some amazing synths and electronic stuff. When looking at the video you immediately think “what a bunch of weirdos, especially the one in the front!”, but still the stuff they bring is very addictive? in some way. Curious who this will be live and what reactions we’ll see from the crowd.
Don Rimini
Was called one of the best djsets at Les Transardentes (the smaller one night version of Les Ardentes). His newest EP is coming 5 July, so I’m hoping for lots of new stuff. Not much more to add, he probably won’t disappoint!
Les Petits Pilous
Even though I’m not a huge fan of their latest EP these two guys still bring back some good old memories. In a small venue not far from where I live there was a party … with Les Petits Pilous. The “electronic scene” isn’t so big over here, so of course the turn up wasn’t that big. Still these guys went full on and the accompanying Born To Film crew even tried to Crowd surf (I think there were two rows of people in front of the stage …)
Sound of Stereo
These guys were absolutly everywere last year and are still killing it in 2010, even though I must say I’m not the biggest fan of their latest remix for Proxy. Even though I have already heard them plenty of times I’ll still swoop by even if it’s only for their “big-room banger” Metric, which will sound brilliantly in the big indoor halls.
Janelle Monae
A name from day two, but a nice fresh artist to describe at the end of this Les Ardentes guide. Janelle Monae isn’t a name that would normally pass the frontpage on this blog, but from what I’ve seen from youtube videos she brings an amazing live performance. She brings a mixture of soulfull hiphop and jazz.
Almost three years after Testarossa Autodrive, Kavinsky finally returns with Nightcall EP. Knowing that the title track is co-produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1/2 Daft Punk), has Lovefoxxx from CSS and Kavinsky himself on vocals and is mixed by SebastiAn, you just know expectations are incredibly high. Remixes come from Dustin N’Guyen (word on the street says this is Xavier De Rosnay from Justice) and Jackson. The EP will see its release on March 22nd.
SebastiAn‘s new track Threnody is creating quite a hype on the blogs. I first heard it from the electrocasts.net blog and I was like “what the f* is this?”. The track (which is 13min long) has a 11minute(!) build up before we hear the typical trash electro for which SebastiAn is famous. Besides the dramatic long build up, the track doesn’t bring anything new under the sun. It’s just another SebastiAn track. “Fun fact” about the track is that SebastiAn uses a sample from “Krzysztof Penderecki – Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” a polish composer/conductor of classical music. If you haven’t heard the original one, I would like to refer you to electrocasts.net.
What I got for you guys is a basic, but very effective, edit of Threnody by Capt and Cooked. They got a rid of the 11 minute build up and instead you get 5 minutes of the SebastiAn trash electro like it should have been (in my opinion)!
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A special gift from the Ed Banger crew for this years christmas. Well more of a gift from Erol Alkan that is, he re-edited the track Momy from Sebastian (A track which was included on his previous EP, Motor). Erol Alkan likes to call the edit a “Simple, Yet Effective Edit”. And that’s exactly what it is, a nice build up which makes it a perfect opener for any set!
A new LP from Sebastian on the Ed Banger label is comming on april 24th. This is how the Ed Banger crew likes to describes the new tracks:
“Motor”: basic, excessive, devastating, the definition of what the Ed Banger crew likes to call a “turbine”. As alarming as an over-heating reactor: a bomb has been deposited on the dance floor. “Momy”: Vangelis and Moroder captured in the eye of an electronic cyclone. “Army”: terminal atomization. No one will come out alive.
The gap between rock and electro music gets smaller everytime producers test there limits. Here are some of my favourite electro-rock remixes !
The first track is from dj Sega with some samples in it from AC/DC – Thunderstruck and vocals from Drowning Pool – bodies (hit the floor) Dj Sega – Let the bodies hit the floor
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