Montauk - The Face (Original Mix)

I’ve featured this song on the blog before, but it’s so good it’s worth mentioning again - because it’s actually available to buy now. Apparently it’s deep house, which I guess it is, but I’m not normally a fan of deep house, as I find not enough happens. This tune though has plenty going on with those vocal snippets giving you plenty to get into!

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Disco Deviance - Disco Ball Stars Vol 1 (DD25)

Disco Deviance have been putting out excellent disco edits for a while now and the label keeps up the pedigree with this super-fun release. Comprising of three looong up-beat disco edits.

First up is Knock Me Out (Deep&Disco Edit), which as it says is deep&disco. It’s a slow-burner with a great synth bass and it’s very much in the vein of Tiger & Woods and Revenge. Using a well-known tune “I’ll be good”, but in a lovely new disco-edit way, it’s got that deep sound that would work well at either end of the night.

The second track is Make Your Body Move (Get Down Edit) which is a full on disco orchestra awesomeness. Strings of beauty, plenty of sexy vocals, funky guitars and that badass disco beat driving it throughout.

Finally we have Must Be Love (Rocco Raimundo Edit) which takes us to the 80s disco edit genre. It’s filtered and rising, falling, deep, washed-out and full of funk.

As ever it’s available on vinyl, something I hope Disco Deviance keep up, as I have a DD vinyl collection to keep growing!

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Mighty Mouse - Disco Circus Vol 3

A long long time ago I found some amazing songs on vinyl, there were a few different songs on each one and each was brilliant. I thought oh what’s this? It turned out they were promos for Disco Circus Vol 1. Since that moment I’ve been a Mighty Mouse fan. From Disco Circus Vol 1, we went to Vol 2, which sound-tracked a Californian road-trip for me and now we come to Vol 3. The tune selection is still high and if you’ve ever seen Mighty Mouse play out then you’ll know he can DJ brilliantly.

I’ve written about Disco Circus 3 before, given you the tracklisting and waxed lyrical about Mighty Mouse, but now we have the full thing to stream - so why don’t you just hit play above and enjoy - once you’ve realised how great he is - click BUY below and give some love back!

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CD1 
1. Kamp! – Cairo 
2. Matt Van Schie – Drifting Down The Sidewalk (Demo) 
3. L’Equipe Du Son – Lesson 1 (The Legendary 1979 Orchestra Remix) 
4. Cloud One – Patty Duke 
5. Peter Gunn – Peter Gunn 
6. Blo – Get That Groove In 
7. Black Soul - Africa Africa 
8. Drop Out Orchestra – Ego (Blackstrobe Remix) 
9. Hypnotic – Droid (Automatic Piano) 
10. Angela Paris – Wherever Forever (Vocal) 
11. Pat Lok – Yes Game (Bit Funk Remix) 
12. Gigamesh – When Your Dancing (RAC Remix) 
13. Shake Aletti – Lights & Sparks (Mighty Mouse Dub) 
14. Only Children – Don’t Stop (Mighty Mouse Remix) 
15. Figure Of 8 – No One Cries For Me (Mighty Mouse Remix) 
16. Worship – Out There 
17. Orsan Bramley – Inverted Snobbery

CD2 
1. Tareq feat. Natassa Bofilou – Feel Me (Mighty Mouse Remix) 
2. Blamma Blamma – Beyond 17 (Mighty Mouse’s Lost in Space Instrumental) 
3. Mighty Mouse – Smiling Faces (Unreleased Dub) 
4. The Magician – I Don’t Know What To Do (Erkka Remix) 
5. Alien Alien – Black Guru (Original Mix) 
6. Todd Terje – Inspector Norse 
7. The Penelopes – Now Now Now (The C90’s Remix) 
8. African Suite – In The Pocket 
9. Gepy & Gepy – African Love Song 
10. Oliver – Dirty Talk 
11. Nyteowl – Love Of Mine (Mighty Mouse Remix) 
12. Scenic – Another Sky (The Magician Remix) 
13. Lovetone and Turismo – Can You Feel Me (Original Mix) 
14. Robortom feat. Au Revoir Simone – Paganini Rocks (Mighty Mouse Remix) 
15. Shobizz – The Street Of A Thousand Disco’s 
16. H Wildflower – Harlem Nocturne

Goldroom - Fifteen (ft Chela)

So Goldroom has moved on from his signature “tropical disco” sound (which I know he hates, but I can’t think of a better way to put it) to an 80s synth Love Theme from X Soundtrack song; with a super-slow synth-disco feel, it’s dreamy.

It’s like it’s been made for Drive 2. I can imagine the video featuring a girl in a bedroom of a warehouse apartment with a four poster bed, the wind running through the room, making the material hanging from the bed posts hide her. Occasionally we’ll cut to scenes from the film. Oh and it will all be soft-focus!
Lovely stuff!

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Van She - Idea Of Happiness (SebastiAn Remix)

Here’s the latest from SebastiAn on the Australian band Van She’s “Idea of Happiness”. It’s still the same electro-rock sound from SebastiAn, but he seems to have toned it down a little from a few years ago, this could be a Fred Falke remix of a rockier pop song. It’s got that SebastiAn sound that would sound a million times better in a club, so here’s to hoping someone plays it out soon :)

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Passion Pit - Take A Walk

After a fairly lengthy hiatus, Passion Pit are back. It’s got their indie-pop vibe, but they’ve moved on from their USP of children featuring in their tracks this time, but the sounds of things. It’s a stomping, driving pop-rock tune, with a catchy chorus. I don’t quite understand the meaning yet - if “Take A Walk” is going for a walk to clear your head, or telling someone to Get Lost! Still it’s very stompy and repetitive over the chorus, so you’ll be chanting “Take A Talk” before you know it!

There is a new album out in July, called Gossamer, which I’m looking forward to hearing more from.

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The Knocks - Learn To Fly

You should know the Knocks by now, I’ve been blogging them for over a year now and they’ve been around for longer - producing excellent pop music. I don’t think they’ve got enough shit rap or “swag” to cross-over, but they should have by now.

Their new one “Learn to Fly” starts of quietly and builds into a big tune, and then builds again into an even bigger tune. It’s great pop and one of those tunes that would fit perfectly in a reality TV show over the results section - as it’s plenty euphoric when it kicks in.

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U2 - Crazy (Alex Metric remix)

Well it’s the tale of the unreleased remix again. Here’s one that Alex Metric did for U2, which the label loved and the artist didn’t. I’m reminded of a similar story when Armand Helden remixed a certain Tori Amos, rejected by the artist - it got leaked and went on to be a massive hit with DJs and being so big, Tori eventually decided to have it released and it re-launched her career! I think U2 are in need of the same thing - they’re still living of classic hits.

Anyway this remix is classic Alex Metric: more complicated and intricate with each listen, he’s created layers and layers of drums and synths over the U2 vocals. It’s got pulsing synths, plunky ones, plinky ones and whooshing ones :) - then there’s plenty of tom fills to keep us happy!

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Monday Mixtapes

So here are a selection of the latest mixtapes. To be honest there are more mixtapes at the moment than ever before. It seems that every DJ, producer, blog and friend is doing a mixtape every month. I was planning on putting together a “2012 so far” mixtape, but I might just be adding to the mixtape traffic.

Also I’ve started to see people’s mixtapes being rejected by SoundCloud more and more often, meaning that they are placed on MixCloud (see Black Magic Disco mixtape here). I’ve not got anything against MixCloud, but it could do with a bit of a make-over and adding a download function. But I think that’s the point - MixCloud pays PRS and doesn’t let you download - it’s more of a radio than SoundCloud - which is there for original works.
Anyway here’s the mixtapes:

A.N.D.Y. Tape Three

1. Finnebassen : If You Only Knew 
2. John Monkman Feat Morgan Mackintosh : Kiss Me 
3. Punks Jump Up feat. Dave 1 : Mr. Overtime (Olivier Remix) 
4. Chase Bush : Polly Molly 
5. Crookers feat. Style Of Eye : That Laughing Track (Sona Vabos Remix) 
6. Nina Kraviz : Ghetto Kraviz (Amine Edge Edit) 
7. Osunlade : Envision (Argy Vocal Mix) 
8. Alex Metric : Rave Weapon 
9. Surkin feat Ann Saunderson : Lose Yourself (Brodinski Remix) 
10. Foamo : Ocean Drive 

Drop Out Orchestra - May 2012

01. Drop Out Orchestra feat. The Reverb Junkie - Sun Machine 
02. NSFW - Let U Go (Dropouts Gonna Beat Dis Edit) 
03. A.N.D.Y. & Vicente - El Barrio (The Supermen Lovers Remix) 
04. Drop Out Orchestra - It Will Never Be The Same Again (Moullinex Remix) 
05. Zombies In Miami - Heartache 
06. Astrolabe - Cave Disco (Discotexas Edit) Hot Rod Mash-up by DOO 
07. Gossip - Perfect World (Rory Philips Remix) 
08. Dato - Set Me Free (Drop Out Orchestra Remix) 
09. Debonair - Your Love 
10. Dublin Aunts - Heartbreak Reputation (Drop Out Orchestra Remix) 
11. Shit Hot Soundsystem - Charlotte 
12. Drop Out Orchestra - It Will Never Be The Same Again (Punks Jump Up Remix) 
13. Just Kiddin - Paloma (Bit Funk Remix) 
14. Punks Jump Up - Mr Overtime (Club)

GIVAFIZZ - FIZZMIX // NUMBER TWO

See blog for tracklisting.

Black Magic Disco - Black Magic Boogie - May 2012 DJ Mix

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The Blac Swan - Night Drive (Big C remix)

The Blac Swan are a production duo from New York who have a very varied style, even across their Blac Swan EP. I heard the song Night Drive and thought that I could add something to it via a remix, and after a quick chat with the guys from Blac Swan I got the parts to work with.

This remix is different to most of the previous remixes I’ve done, in that it’s more dubby and has a big drum’n’bass ending. However you can still hear my italo-disco & 80s influences on it, and little mentioned on this blog is that I love a bit of d’n’b.

Give the track a listen and get in touch to let me know what you think of it - leave a comment, or tweet me. I’m always interested in feedback.

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