Prepping for your New Years party? Here are some tracks for your playlist. First up, there's a new remix from Fare Soldi. They've been a favorite of ours all year--and I know they'll be on my shortlist for our best-of-the-year selections that we're compiling right now. We've posted a remix of this track before, but I definitely like the Fare Soldi vibe. Next, there's a new track from Vancouver, B.C.'s own Laberge (who also made another one of my favorite remixes this year). My new year's resolution? Drive up to Vancouver and give this guy a high five.
Herr Styler - Jack (Fare Soldi Jackette rmx) by FARE SOLDI
Disco Jack by laberge
While we pine time to put together the best tracks/remixes of 2010 here is some white Fleetwood Mac heat to keep you warm. The love of their sound is international with an edit from Moracan Rocco Rainmundo, Polish Zambon and Britian's Psychemagik.
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (Rocco Raimundo Edit) by Rocco Raimundo
Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized (Zambon Edit) by Zambon
Fleetwood Mac Everywhere (Psychemagik Edit) by Psychemagik
I spend a lot of my time listening to lo-fi mello type stuff so its great to switch it up now and then with some real heavy bass. Starkey does just that. His original production (album out soon!) and remixes are great.
Maverick Sabre "Run to the Roof" (produced by Starkey) by starkey
Tinie Tempah "Written In The Stars (Starkey Remix)" by starkey
Merry Christmas and Happy Festivus to all our fans and readers. Thanks for a great year and we appreciate you all stoping by and sharing your thoughts about music. We love music and we love to hear others who do as well. Have a safe and happy holidays. Peace!
Here area couple tracks from my favorite jazz piano meistro Oscar Peterson (RIP).
Just a quick late-night post with a fresh remix from DJ Friction of one of the funkiest tracks of all time. Fantastic edit and free download. It doesn't get much better than that. Definitely check out the rest of DJ Friction's tracks--some really quality stuff.
Parliament - Flashlight Frico Re-Edit (Warped) by DJ FrictionBonus tracks:
DJ Friction - Soulsonic feat. Ty (original Album Version) by DJ Friction
Shades Of Love - Keep In Touch (Body To Body) - Frico Re-Edit Warped by DJ Friction
Time for some hip hop. Its been too long. This video and track is from New Zealand rap artist, David Dallas. The video outlines his move from his home city of Auckland to New York City. Part 1 of his 'Coming To America' series takes place in Dallas' Harlem apartment as he discusses his #1 selling rap albums in New Zealand. Part 2 is due out later this month. Can somebody explain why accents go away when people rap/sing?
David Dallas "Big Time" by duckdown
Little Red - Rock It ('96 Bulls Remix) - Click here for 320 mp3 link! by '96 Bulls
The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) ('96 Bulls Remix) by '96 Bulls
Miami Horror - I Look To You ('96 Bulls Remix) by '96 Bulls
I know, I know we just posted about Matthew Kyle but we are in the holiday spirit and couldn't pass up posting a remix of Wham's Christmas classic "Last Christmas."
Bonus remix:
One more remix of this track by Irregular Disco Workers.
Some hot jams to keep you warm for the cold weekend...well at least if you live in the midwest. Jump on board the Analog Giant mystery jet and lets take a quick spin around the world to check out some great music. The first is a disco instrumental track from Lithuania's 20 year old Sion. Really nice track here.
Next stop is the UK for a nice Pet Shop Boys remix by a AG favorite, GRUM. The remix is dyno-mite.
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Grum Remix) by GRUMStill sticking around the UK for the last one with a nice remix of Booka Shade by Russ Chimes. Track should keep you dancing long into the night if you decide to start up your own rave in your study like I tend to do...
Have a great weekend!
photo by Robert Monaghan
One of our favorite dudes covers a Chirstmas classic. This is Mayer Hawthorne covering "Christmas Time is Here" by Vince Guaraldi Trio. Classic Peanuts stuff. Awesome cover.
Mayer Hawthorne - Christmas Time Is Here by Mayer Hawthorne
Shifting gears to some furiously funky disco house on this Friday night, you should definitely check out this hour long live set from Go Go Bizkitt. Oh, and free download, too!
Live @ How To Kill The Party!, Toulouse, France 26/11/2010 by Go Go Bizkitt!And now, here's the tracklisting:
01:Yasumo - where are they
02:Adulture & Ghosts of venice - Bromance
03: Treasure Fingers - Cross the dancefloor (Acapella)
04:J Paul Getto - Just For You
05:Turntable Mafia - Possibilities (DJ EQ remix)
06:Leonardus & Le Babar - that funky music
07:Titan - RA"deo (Sammy Bananas remix)
08:Chic - Forbidden Lover ( Down n Dirty DJs remix)
09:Light Year - the pop shot
10:DJ EQ - Starscape
11:La Zebra - Mind tricks ( Justin Faust remix)
12:Louis La Roche - Malfunction
13:Joey Chicago - in the dark( DJ EQ remix)
14:Nightdrugs - Aya ( NightDrugs remix)
15:Cryda Luv' - Sing Sing ( Go Go Bizkitt! Remix)
16:Go Go Bizkitt - Wow!
17:Rubix - Baiser sur la disco (Rubix Refix)
18:The Phantom's Revenge - Bastard can do 90
19:Moonchild - Girl
20:Knightlife - Discotirso
21:Detboi- Rainbows
22:Aniki- Lesbian Bondage Fiasco
23:Breakbot- Baby im yours
24:Flight Facilities- Crave you (Acapella)
Mathew Kyle, a velvety-smooth DJ and producer out of NYC, creates some of the best slow jams out there right now. His upcoming EP, the Matthew Kyle EP coming in February, is a slow-churned disco blissout. My favorite cut from of the EP has to be "Honey Sugar"--it's a slice of disco deliciousness that just melts away whatever you're stressing about. When I first heard his tracks, I knew he'd be a great person to talk to here on Analog Giant, so I threw him a few quick questions. Here's what he had to say:
E: What are you working on right now?
I just finished up a remix for Soho808, and am working on finishing up a couple original songs for a digital release in 2011 on Audio Parallax. I actually have 2 digital EP's coming out in early 2011 with AP. I also have a vinyl EP coming out with a few of my edits as well.
E: How would you describe your sound? And what would it taste like?
I'm not sure actually... A lot of people I've come into contact with since I started making music tell me I have "my own sound" or that they can tell when I do a remix or something of the sort. Ultimately I do what I want to hear, as I'm my biggest critic.
If my sound had a taste... a 12 year old Scotch served neat and slowly sipped.
E: A lot of your tracks are nice and slow --are there any artists that inspire you to go with that slow sound?
Oh man, far too many to list. The pitched-down, slo-sound is gaining a lot of attention and there are a lot of producers making sick records. The Revenge first and foremost, and his side-project with Craig Smith as 6th Borough Project. Eddie C, Cole Medina, Smith and Mudd, the Dead Rose Music Company, The Francis Inferno Orchestra, Tornado Wallace, Daniel Solar. I'm barely scratching the surface, a lot of people inspire me.
E: Many people have discovered your music through Soundcloud. Has Soundcloud changed the way you discover new music and share your own music with the community?
Absolutely. I got discovered on SC and continue to network with like-minded people. Its actually the only "social-network" site I use. Its an amazing website and has certainly helped me with promotion and just getting stuff heard. Plus there is an abundance of excellent music on there, you just gotta look for it.
Be sure to check out the Matthew Kyle EP here, along with the rest of his tracks.
Honey Sugar by M.K.
Daylight With Bonita by M.K.Leon Ware - Learning How To Love You (Matthew Kyle Edit) by M.K.
To follow up his excellent remix of Deerhunter's "Heliocopter" Star Slinger has set his sights on remixing another indie band with his new remix of Canadian Broken Social Scene's "Texico Bitches" for the Arts and Crafts label. Check it out.
Broken Social Scene - Texico Bitches (Star Slinger Remix) by Arts & Crafts
Our friends(!) over at Friends of Friends have this pretty awesome free record of some of our favorite producers doing pop tracks you have most certainly heard of. Daedelus (pictured) covering Prince, Mexicans with Guns covering Richie Valens and Shlohmo covering Soulja Boy to name just a couple tracks. Get the aptly named Pop Massacre album here and check out Daedelus' work below.
photo by Kozyndan
Last month, Dimitri from Paris made a very rare appearance here in Seattle to deliver a masterful set at Re-bar to an appreciative crowd. On a rainy street corner outside of the club, moments before he manned the decks, the disco legend spent some time talking with us about some of his favorite DJs and all things disco. Dimitri from Paris has been on my short list of DJs to see live for a very, very long time, and it was a house and disco fanatic's dream come true. He was a good sport for putting up with the Seattle rain to make this interview happen. Here's what he had to say...
E: If I threw the ultimate cocktail party and could choose any DJ in the world to play music and set the mood, I'd have to say that you'd be the DJ I'd choose. Who would you choose to DJ at your ultimate house party?
Dimitri from Paris: Probably Danny Krivit. I really like Danny. We can talk about music for hours. He's probably the only guy I can talk music without boring him. So I'd say Danny, or maybe Francois. You know, I've been really influenced by the New York sound of the late 70s and early 80s--that's really my base in music--so those are the guys who pretty much made it or the guys who survived it, because you know, a lot of them are dead, so those are my go-to guys. It's the sound of New York, so it'd be a New York DJ, probably.
E: What is the essence of disco?
Dimitri from Paris: I think disco for me is the ultimate dance music. I mean, it's got everything I want to hear and everything I need to make people dance with. It's got the raw sound of the analog days and real people playing it, as opposed t o computers, and it's really made for dancing and for really no other purpose. There's no particular message in there. The message is silly or nonexistent. The message is not the point of it. The point of it is to make you dance. So it's just the ultimate dance music for me. Everything that is dance music today evolves from it, whether it's the 4/4 or the hi-hat or whatever, even if it's replicated and run through thousands of plug-ins and filters or whatnot, it's still a 4/4 with a hi-hat. And that's disco. And you've got all those things that it’s got on its back, but still, there's like...always a before and after disco. Before disco, it was more laid back and stuff. And dance music was never the same after it. For me, it's the womb of dance music.
E: If you could get into a time machine and go back to any show, club night, or recording session in history, what would it be?
Dimitri from Paris: Well I would probably go to Sigma Sound in Philly, because this is the ultimate disco sound for me. I mean, they pretty much invented it and other people refined it. That's where I would like to be. I'd like to sit down at Sigma Sound and listen to MFSB play “Love is the Message”. That's how it used to be! I would like to go to the Paradise Garage because I really missed it by like a few weeks. The first time I went to New York and I wanted to go it had just closed like a few weeks before. I never got to experience it. You know, you've got all these accounts of it and stuff, but you know your own account will never be the same as what people say. So I guess I would like to hear what it was all about.
E: Over the years, meeting old school disco producers and DJs, have you ever been star struck?
Dimitri from Paris: Yeah, well... I met people that I was not impressed with, humanly, but in many cases the work of people is not necessarily a reflection of what they are as human beings. I met a lot of producers or artists who I totally love their music but I'm like, oh...they're not such great human beings in the end. But the one person that was actually the opposite of that--I knew his music, but I was not his biggest fan, but the moment I met him I became his biggest fan--is Tom Moulton. I think he's an incredible person in the sense that after all these years doing it, he still has the same passion and the same 100% involvement in everything he does and he's close to 70 now. He still rips it out. He still sounds like he used to. I cannot believe how this guy, on his own with his computer, manages to sound the same as he did in the studio with like the best engineers and the best musicians with him, now on his own in front of a Macintosh this guy can make it sound the same way. So I'm totally in love with what he's doing and how humble he is and how ingenious he is having done so much for dance music and disco in particular. So that would be the one person that I'm totally grateful that I've met, 100%, it's unbelievable. I've learned alot from meeting him as well.
E: After "Get Down with the Philly Sound", what's next for Dimitri from Paris?
Dimitri from Paris: What's next after Philly Sound? I did 6 remixes of Chic Organization songs, basically the stuff that Chic produced, like “I Want Your Love”, Sister Sledge...my memory is getting really bad! Oh, “Thinking of You" and “Lost in Music”…Norma Jean, there's also that French singer Sheila...she had that band B. Devotion, Chic produced her album, so I did a mix of that as well. It's basically part of a box set that's unfortunately only available in France. Blame it on the major companies not being interested! Basically the head of Warner Brothers France was a genuine fan of Chic and he decided to do it, so far it's only available through mail order or things like that.
E: So fan's can track it down if they need to?
Dimitri from Paris: Oh yeah! I'm sure if you look hard enough in a couple of clicks you'll get to it. So this is my latest thing that just came out, and after that I'll go back to maybe more contemporary stuff, like there's a compilation again with the Playboy brand that I'm doing with Defected, so this is going to be the next release. I always like to alternate the more discoey stuff the more contemporary. So it's probably going to be more into the so-called Nu-disco sound, which I think is coming of age now.
E: That's something we're covering a lot these days.
Dimitri from Paris: Yeah, a lot of good stuff! It used to be, like, too mental and heady but now it gets a little more, well, I like stuff that's happy. So I find enough stuff that I like to do start to make a compilation of it.
E: Our blog is based in Seattle and Chicago, so we have to ask the tough question--what's the better venue?
Dimitri from Paris: I haven't really been both places enough to say Ok, this venue is better than the other. Honestly, it's impossible because I've never played the same place twice in Chicago and I don't even remember which venues I played in Seattle like 10 years ago, so it's hard to say! But I really, really had one of my best nights in Chicago when a lot of the crew from Peabody Records came out, I think it was at Zentra? And it was the first time I've played to an audience that were black people from back in the day and it totally changed the game. It really made me think that, OK, I'm doing this for a reason--these guys are enjoying it for real. On a totally different level. On a super genuine, sincere, like...we dig the music, that's it. There's no hype, there's no "you're from paris", you're this, you're that. You play good music, you're good...you play shit music, get out! And that was, for me, so real. I'm like, finally, some people enjoy the music and not the concept of who's playing it. So, uh...I haven't gotten that many times in my life and that was one of the few times that did happen, and yeah, sorry...Chicago won!
Big thanks to Dimitri from Paris for taking the time to talk to us!
I'd also like to thank Karl Kamakahi for helping to make this happen and Melenie for the tip.
Update: Seattle's own Karl K was kind enough to send along a recording of the opening set he did for the Dimitri from Paris show--it was a great house set that I thoroughly enjoyed at the show. Check it out here.
Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You (Dimitri From Paris Remix) (Snippet) by dfp
Sheila & B Devotion - Your Love Is Good (Dimitri From Paris Remix) SNIPPET by dfp
Need some fresh music for your weekend? We've got you covered--just check out this great set of new remixes. First up, there this tasty Cassian and Miami Horror remix of "Holidays". Satin Jackets and Chris Jylkke dropped this unbelievably groovy edit of Toto's Georgy Porgy (puddin' and pie!)--love that funky bass, smooth piano, and wailing guitar. Rounding out the set, we've got this Talking Heads remix from NELUE. This is definitely one of my favorite Talking Heads remixes out there. Have a great weekend!
Holidays (Miami Horror and Cassian Remix) - Miami Horror by cassian88
Toto - Georgy Porgy (Satin Jackets & Chris Jylkke Edit) by Chris Jylkke
Talking heads - Girldfriend is better (NELUE rework) by NELUE
Another awesome photo by Jakob Wagner.
Check out this jam from U-Tern and Oligee's project, Oliver. This is a pure feel-good tune--disco foundation with a warm, synthy, electro-boogie touch. Pretty damn catchy. Oh, and it's a free download, too.
Oliver - All Night by U-Tern
Between finals week, a new baby and the employee reviews at work time time is a bit limited at the moment. Still not limited enough to keep me from sharing this remix from one of our favorites, Shook. He took this MIA track "Internet connection" and gave it a nice flip. Check it out. Hope you enjoy it!
Buy: You can get Shook's ep here.
A little spaced out electro holiday jam courtesy of my Norweigen bretheren, Röyksopp.
Le Cantique de Noël by Röyksopp
Quinten Rosborough, the Alpha Snail, is a young French house producer coming out of Chicago. He's been making beats since he was just 16, and it shows in the level of polish on these glossy and downright funky club tracks. He just released the Sam Bowie EP on Champagne Records, an Italian house label, and had a track featured on the Permanent Vacation Compilation from Indo Silver Records. He's got a nice pack of tracks on his Soundcloud page--enough to make selecting which three to list here a tough task. I'm definitely into this LeBatman remix and his take on Poor Leno, but the original work on the Sam Bowie EP is also impressive. The Alpha Snail is a serious talent to keep an eye on.
Sam Bowie by The Alpha Snail
London-based producer Leo Zero banged out this brilliant remix of Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force's legendary Planet Rock, completely re-engineering the song into a house track with serious bump. It's damn catchy!
Rest in peace Mr. Santo. I did not grow up a Cubs fan but learned to love them because of my wife. Mr. Santo made listening to Cubs games a joy. One of the best voices in sports. Cubs games are not going to be the same with out you.
It's been a Rio-themed week for me--my wife recently watched a documentary on Rio and then she forced me to watch all the original music videos on youtube (highly recommended, by the way), and the album has been on loop in my brain. So of course it makes sense that Fare Soldi would drop this jaw-dropping Rio remix. It showcases the song's killer bass line, which is often overlooked in favor of the song's famous vocals and guitar work. Oh man do I need this remix!
Just checking in with a couple of tasty remixes--they're all over the place, sound wise, but they've all got their own magic. First, Stonesthrow posted the remarkable Madlib remix of J Dilla's The $. We've also got a fresh remix from Them Jeans, bringing a nice bouncey, dancey sound. And finally, there's this hilariously awesome (and just plain awesome) running-man-inducing remix of C & C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat" from Brevil.
