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The weight is off his shoulders

Taft — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:53:24 -0800

Anthony Moore, known as Romanthony, has died at age 46. Romanthony provided legendary vocals for Daft Punk's Discovery. The album opens with his voice, and closes with it. He helped shape the sound of house music in the early nineties and his influence is still heard in electronic music today. .

Sounds & Spaces 001

empath — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:59:39 -0800

“When I was doing my Post-Doc at UCL I used to go to the British Museum to relax, and work in the beautiful library there, so I chose the space for the mix. I wanted to capture the ambient atmosphere in the central courtyard, so I did some binaural recording to include in the mix. I also wanted to make the mix something of an exploration through history and ideas in line with the contents of the museum, so I brought in lots of disparate music spanning the centuries and continents. I also mixed it in a way to be like a journey though the museum, turning corners and regularly coming across something totally different and unexpected, with each track being like a different exhibit. Hence the name of the mix, in that, each piece of music almost has a visual content.” -- Max Cooper & The British Museum Tracklisting: 1. Max Cooper “Binaural Museum” 2. A Winged Victory For The Sullen “Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears” (Erased Tapes) 3. Max Cooper “Woven Ancestry” (Unreleased) 4. Adam Johnson “Anex” (Merck) 5. Peiyou Chang “Song of Gu Qin” (Peiyou Chang) 6. Vaetxh “Randolph Pactali” (Unreleased) 7. Bonobo “Cirrus” (Ninja Tune) 8. ThermalBear “U Love” (Last Night On Earth) 9. Rockwell “Fluf” (Shogun Audio) 10. Xu Zhengyin “Dragon Boat” (China Record Corporation) 11. Unknown Origin “Gregorian Chant” (Edit) 12. MMOTHS “For Her” (Max Cooper Remix) (SQE Music) 13. Unknown Origin “The Call to the Lama from Afar” (Jade) 14. Rrose “Waterfall” (EAUX) 15. Nils Frahm “Peter” (Max Cooper Remix) (Erased Tapes) 16. James Yorkston “Woozy With Cider” (Jon Hopkins Remix) (Domino) 17. Max Cooper “Binaural Museum”

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

empath — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:53:47 -0800

The new Will.I.Am single sounded very familiar to trance producers Mat Zo (previously) and Arty. But that's only one example of his serial plagarism of EDM artists:

Freeland: Party All the Time, Mancry
Boyz Noize: Dance vs Yeah
Sandro Silva & Quintino: Bang Bang, Epic
Arty again: thatPOWER, Kate
Deniz Koyu - Great Times Are Coming, Tung
Deadmau5: Time of Our Lives, You And I.

Random Access Memories

empath — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:31:32 -0800

With Daft Punk's new album coming out, The Creators Project is interviewing their collaborators about their careers, production and playing techniques and working with Daft Punk.

Giorgio Moroder

Todd Edwards

Nile Rogers

Infinitely Gentle Blows

empath — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:16:15 -0800

West Coast Rave Pioneer Scott Hardkiss has passed away. He put together one of the earliest must-have Essential Mixes in 1997, and produced some of the all-time classic rave anthems.

You don't need a drop in every track

fatfrank — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:45:11 -0800

"Even drum and bass works best when it's a constant, steady assault, those subtle changes that mark one track from the next being the bits that make Bermondsey boys on bail take their shirts off and twist their own jaws into "Z" shapes". Tongue-in-cheek Vice article on the new rave culture in the US

R_co's archive of EDM mixes on Soundcloud: "It's good to share"

filthy light thief — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:29:12 -0800

There is a universe of recorded DJ mixes to sort through, enough to keep you entertained and dancing for years. Souncloud user R_co fills a pocket of this cosmos with thousands of mixes and some live shows to stream and download, spanning styles and decades, from Bob Marley and the Wailers live in 1975, to a Shep Pettibone Mastermix Danceparty from 1983, Mark Farina live in Los Angeles, 1996, or Masters at Work live in Miami at WMC, 2003, and Carl Craig in Ibiza, 2012. If you're wondering who this prolific archiver of dance music is, "R_co" a.k.a. Rico Passerini said:

I'm not anyone special. I hope it's OK for you! The real "R_co" is just a regular guy with a passion for electronic music. I'm from the UK originally, however I moved to Berlin a year and a half ago for the music scene. I'm often mistaken for being some big shot in the music industry, but I'm not. ... No, I'm not connected at all really. The more popular my page has become, the more I've been in contact with a few DJs and record labels, but nothing major really. To be honest, there is no real one place I get music from. I get mixes from all over the place: podcasts, radio shows, forums like Resident Advisor, plus I have a big archive of mixes that I've picked up over the years too. Recently though I've been lucky enough to get sent mixes personally from certain club nights and record labels like OFF Recordings, Berlin and Soma Records, plus I get a few mixes personally sent from a few DJs too.

Here's a random sampling from the thousands of mixes he has posted to Soundcloud, one per year for the years that are represented in the collection: 1974: Tom Moulton - The Sandpiper, Fire Island, New York, USA 1975: Bob Marley & The Wailers Live @ Lyceum Ballroom, London - July 18 1976: Bob Marley & The Wailers Live @ The Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, USA - May 13 1980: Joy Division Live @ Effenaar, Eindhoven, Holland - January 18 1981: Frankie Knuckles Live @ The Warehouse, Chicago - August 28 (Side A / Side B) 1982: Larry Levan Live @ Paradise Garage, New York 1983: Frankie Knuckles Live @ Power Plant, Chicago 1984: Steve "Silk" Hurley - WBMX Radio, Chicago 1985: Jeff Mills Live @ Roxanne Wars 1986: Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk - WBMX 102.7 FM, Jack Party Hotmix, Chicago 1987 (or 1988): Ralphie 'Rockin' Rosario & Julian 'Jumpin' Perez - WBMX Radio, Chicago 1988: Graeme Park Live @ Kula Shaker, Haçienda, Manchester 1989: Sasha Live @ Hacienda, Manchester - December 13 1990: Laurent Garnier - Denamaxx, French Radio 1991: Andrew Weatherall Live @ Kaos, Leeds 1992: Luke Slater Live @ Passion - January 1993: Kerri Chandler & Danny Tenaglia Live @ Cube (Napoli) 1994: Kevin Saunderson Live @ Harmony - April 30 1995: Aphex Twin Live @ Orbit, Morley, Leeds 1996: Robert Hood Live @ Energy, Zurich - August 1997: Stacey Pullen Live @ Freedom, San Francisco 1998: Kraftwerk - World Tour Live In Buenos Aires, Argentina - October 12 1999: CJ Bolland Live @ Fuse, Brussel, Belgium - June 26 2000: Ricardo Villalobos Live @ Clubnight Spezial, Sound Of Frankfurt - July 1 2001: H-Foundation (Hipp-E & Halo) Live @ DEMF, Detroit 2002: Pepe Bradock Live @ Garito Cafe, Mallorca (ESP) - November 9 2003: 808 State Live @ Benicassim Festival, Spain - August 2004: FC Kahuna Live @ VOX - Apirl 11 2005: Akufen Live @ Fuse-in Detroit, Underground Stage - May 28 2006: Monolake - JJJ The Club FM - April 2 2007: Ron Trent Live @ Development, Manchester 2008: Onur Ozer Live @ Classic Club - November 15 2009: Luciano (Cadenza) Live @ The Warehouse Project, Manchester, UK - December 4 2010: Robag Wruhme Live @ Pratersauna - June 16 2011: Todd Terje Live @ Evening Standard, Toronto - July 16 2012: Âme Live @ CatClub, Wide Gallery, Brussels - May 5 Bonus mixes: sets from R_co's favorite DJs, as of 2010 * Nina Kraviz Live @ Rote Liebe, Cologne - February 27, 2010 * Sven Weisemann - Max FM - July 10, 2010 * Peter Van Hoesen Live @ Fuse (Brussel) - October 20, 2010 * Mike Huckaby Live @ Betalounge, Hamburg - November 8, 2010 * Tevo Howard - Rebirth (Proton Radio) - December 14, 2010

Baby Brosteps Towards The Elevator

mannequito — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:50:22 -0800

"This year, two monumental genres with decidedly global pedigrees arrived on our shores and attempted to crack the American pop code, with one enjoying far more decisive success than the other...One of those is definitely sexier and zeitgeistier than the other, but that doesn't always result in sustained cultural relevance."
K-Pop, EDM, and Baby Brosteps Toward a More Global Pop Landscape

We're a long way from Danny Wood's Zubaz

Diablevert — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:45:10 -0800

BigBang, "Fantastic Baby" (slyt, K-pop).

My name is GRiZ

loquacious — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:25:54 -0800

GRiZ - Mad Liberation. Take a 21 year old bedroom producer from Michigan, raise them on the the internet with a near complete access to the history of modern music with a focus on electronic/dance and apparently you get this incredibly humanistic and cross-cultural album that's both homage, monument and appropriation of hundreds of influences in modern music in an incredibly dubby dubstep framework. (Free album download here.)

Skin feels hot to touch... The light is bouncing off my face. The rush!

laconic skeuomorph — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:59:13 -0800

Ayah Marar is Unstoppable [music video]. Camo & Krooked - Cross The Line featuring Ayah Marar Here she is in a train station. Yogi featuring Ayah Marar - 'Follow U' (Official Video) - bonus Xilent remix

Oh that's tearing my heart out, I love that, just keep that going...

empath — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:39:31 -0800

BBC's Essential Mix has been running two hour DJ sets for nearly 20 years, usually continuous mixes of current club tracks. Nicolas Jaar took things in a decidedly different direction this week, with an eclectic mix of sound track music, jazz, hip-hop, IDM and pop music with just a sprinkling of deep house here and there. Truly essential listening.

Where's the drop?

empath — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:13:23 -0800

The BBC Philharmonic and Nero present A Dubstep Symphony.

"I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape.”

empath — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:22:43 -0800

"Trance music" is not a new phenomenon. The ability for music to drive dancers into ecstatic frenzies has been known at least since Euripides. The Shakers got their name from the ecstatic behavior they exhibited when dancing to their simple, repetitive hymns. Voodoo rituals are built around complex, trance-inducing rhythms. It was well known that trance-dancing can produce ecstastic states, but until the later part of the 20th century, and the invention of the 'extended dance remix', it was rare for commercial music to reach for it. Perhaps the earliest example of modern trance music is the Donna Summer hit "I Feel Love". The vocals an almost wordless expression of desire, the song was driven by an unrelenting, mesmerizing Giorgio Moroder bassline that Brian Eno called "the sound of the future." Still a disco song, it had all the elements that would later be amplified by techno and house producers into the genre we call trance today -- repetitive, effects-laden synths, vocals that function more as sound than as meaning, a 4 to the floor beat and that constant, non-stop 16th-note rhythm. Once electronic synthesizers, particularly the Roland 303, made it from the studio onto the streets, the techno and house producers of Detroit and Chicago pushed the hypnotic sound further with the invention of Acid House Phuture - Acid Tracks, Fast Eddie - Acid Thunder
From here, the story jumps back across the pond to Europe, where acid house became the standard sound of the exploding rave scene of the late 80s and early 90s. Acid house mutated into a wide variety of styles and genres, but one particular strain was a bombastic and melodic mixture of acid house with more industrial sounds, which was already being called "Trance" by around 1990. KLF - What Time is Love, Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea, Age of Love - Age of Love Once it became a recognized genre, trance splintered into a few different paths -- the more minimal, techno oriented sound centered in Germany Humate - Love Simulation (Paul Van Dyk remix), Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Cosmic Baby remix), the wildly psychedelic sound popular in Israel and the resort island of Goa in India - Man With No Name - Teleport, Hallucinogen - LSD (and introduced to the UK in Oakenfold's legendary Goa Mix of 1994), the less complex, more commercial sound briefly popularized as Dream Trance in the US -- Bt - Flaming June, Robert Miles - Children, and the more subtle 'progressive' sound popularized by djs like Sasha and Digweed in the UK. Jam and Spoon - Stella, Space Manoeuvres - Stage One. By 1998 or 1999, a new style of trance called 'epic' erupted out of Holland, Belgium and Germany. Faster speeds, bigger melodies, longer breakdowns, it more or less eliminated any sense of restraint in search of pure euphoria. Rank 1 - Airwave, System F - Out of the Blue, Delirium - Silence (Tiesto mix), Belearic Bill - Destination Sunshine, Orkidea - Unity. It began to dominate the dance music landscape, more and more divorced from the underground clubs where it started -- to the point where Tiesto played the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. And some producers continued to push the sound harder and faster, merging with the harder variants of house and techno to form the new subgenre of 'hard dance'. Yoji Biomehanika - Theme From Bangin Globe, BK - Revolution. All of this triggered an underground backlash against any form of trance music, which has persisted. Trance music is far from dead, but there seems to be very little innovation right now pushing the sound forward.

Straight from Detroit

empath — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:07:07 -0800

Techno Jeep

A brief musical history of Garage

empath — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:06:00 -0800

In the waning days of the Disco era, Larry Levan crafted a new style of dance music, which, like House music in Chicago, came to be named after the nightclub where it was most played, the Paradise Garage. Garage music may have started with disco, but over the decades, it's evolved in some surprising ways: The first Garage records were mostly extended remixes of disco records: Roberta Flack - Loving You Is Such An Easy Thing To Do MFSB - Love Is The Message Lolleata Halloway - Love Sensation Eventually Larry's taste for deep, soulful tracks inspired local music producers to make tracks just for Paradise Garage and the classic Garage sound was born: Wish - Nice and Soft Mahogany - Ride On the Rhythm Over time, the sound got picked by Club Zanzibar in New Jersey where it picked up influences from the new House music coming out of the Warehouse in Chicago and by the early 90s had evolved into the sound that also became known as Deep House: Underground Solution - Luv Dancin Odyssey - Feel My Love Butch Quick - Higher Garage continued to develop and crossed over into the UK, where it began being played at raves in the UK and then back in the US, where the influence of ecstasy caused the DJs to begin pitching the records up and looking for slightly harder and "druggy" records and speed Garage was born: Todd Edwards - Push The Love Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand Van Helden Mix) Industry Standard - So More (I refuse) The speed of the records continued to increase until they went over 135bpm, where something like a phase shift happened -- the 4 to the floor beat became too hard to dance to at that speed, so they started dropping every other beat and in the late 90s(after picking up some R&B and Drum & Bass influences) 2-Step Garage was born: DJ Zinc - 138 Trek Artful Dodger - Rewind MJ Cole - Sincere Azzido de Bass - Dooms Night (Stanton Warriors remix) Dreem Teem - Buddy X 99 2-step garage had massive mainstream success in the early 2000s, but after a backlash it went back underground where a new sound started percolating in London's urban clubs. The sounds got darker, more bass-heavy, dirtier. 2-Step started crossing over with London's hip-hop sub-genre - grime. And finally, some producers decided to drop 2-step's 140 BPM tempo down by half to 70bpm so it would mix with hip-hop, and Dubstep was born: La Roux - In for the Kill (Skream Remix) Plastic Man - White Gloves Rusko - Cockney Thug TC - Where's My Money (Caspa Remix) Mala - Alicia That's a hell of a long way from the Paradise Garage. (apologies in advance if I got some of the details wrong -- this was never really my scene, so I'm not an expert)

Harder Better Faster Further.

loquacious — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:07:38 -0800

Daft Punk revealed in bootleg video at the 1996 Even Further festival. Though it's impossible to see what gear-manipulating is going on, this is an excellent example of a "live PA" of electronic dance music as opposed to DJing.

Reach For the Lasers

empath — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:42:51 -0800

The bastard offspring of New Age, Techno, Industrial and Acid House, trance is one of the most popular and most maligned musical genres of the 21st century. Trance can be bombastic or delicate, psychedelic or rock and roll, spacey or deep, euphoric or dark, commercial or underground, lush or funky, melodic or monotone, hard or laid back. You can try making some yourself with this toy, or go in depth with this tutorial. You can find it online, but if you want to really experience it, you need to hear it at a club.

Berliner Trance

empath — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:47:44 -0800

Berliner Trance. A 1993 documentary tracing the origins of modern trance music in East Berlin. Featuring interviews with many of the biggest names in trance, including a very young Paul Van Dyk, now currently ranked as the #1 DJ in the world.

Travis Castillo's electronic music DJ and live PA archive.

loquacious — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:07:02 -0800

A massive collection of live DJ and PA sets of electronic music sorted by year and genre. Enjoy.
(Coral Cache link. Please use this to help archive and propagate the files.)

DJ Enferno

empath — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:55:31 -0800

DJ Inferno is a former world DMC champion, but he's taking turntablism to the next level. No longer content with 'two turntables and a microphone' he's added a whole suite of new gear to his sets, allowing him to remix songs on the fly. -- Crazy, With or without you, Another Brick in the Wall, ... More viceos...

And my beat goes boom... tschak!

loquacious — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:45:02 -0800

WaxDJ.com - an excellent source for free downloads and streams of original electronic music mixes of all sorts, from seasoned pros to beginning bedroom amatuers, all told numbering in the hundreds or thousands. My current brand new favorite is the very diverse and well-versed Detriot/Chicago techno stylings of DJ Rubsilent. Recomended mix: Future Funk 23: (Direct MP3 link) (Streaming mp3 link) But don't let me divert you - search for your favorite local DJ or browse for new ones.