Foreigner :: Urgent (Luxxury Edit)

LA artist/producer Baron Von Luxxury which we posted about his excellent disco/dance track "The Last Seduction" back in 2011 here is back. Seems he's working on some dub edits of classic tunes, like this latest one he did for Foreigner's classic 80's track "Urgent". For these edits he's trying to highlight some cool aspect of the track that maybe you didn't notice in the originals. Like the killer bassline on this Foreigner track. Loving the edit, think he did an amazing job! Can't wait to throw this into my DJ sets.

Check out the soundcloud for that below. If you like what you hear he's offering the track as a free download. Can't wait to hear what other classic jams he ends up working on, but for now this will hold us off nicely.

Fantastic Mr Fox :: Power (12" Edit)

Manchester producer Fantastic Mr Fox is on repeat for me this weekend. Check out his latest vinyl only release, Power (12" Edit) out on Back Acre Records. "Power" hits you with a stiff but deep bassline, definitive cutting vocals that do a tremendous job of not overshadowing the synths, and even has a bit of rattlesnake tail action laced into the track. What more do you need? Also included is a XLR8R podcast that Fantastic Mr Fox did a few months back. Enjoy.

Mighty Mouse :: Remix + August DJ Mix

London artist Mighty Mouse that we posted his excellent Prince "Controversy" re-edit a few months ago here is back with another excellent remix. This time it's for Future Unlimited's track "Golden". He has a dub version and a vocal version, both are good, but I"m always attracted to vocals so that's the one I'll probably be playing out. Check them out below, plus his latest August Nu-Disco DJ Mix that will help your work week just slide on by. Best part is they are all free for the taking! Enjoy and keep up the great work MM!

Conner Youngblood

Conner Youngblood is an artist from Dallas, Texas who recently contacted us and sent along this odd, but marvelous track called "Monsters". It features elements as diverse as dub mixed in with bluegrass banjo and as promised it works. Hypnotic little number that I'm really digging. You gotta love creative people that try different things from the usual. Good going Conner, keep up the great work!

Here's "Monster's" free to download if you like what you hear.


MP3: Monsters - Conner Youngblood  320 kbps

Stream New Gorillaz Album on NPR

As is becoming the standard you can stream the new Gorillaz album Plastic Beach on NPR here one week before it's release next week. Heard the whole album today and it is a-ma-zing! You can always count on Damon Albarn giving us quality stuff. If you don't already have first single 'Stylo' you can download it on a previous post I did here. Also cop the great dance remix of 'Stylo' by Alex Metric I posted last week here. That should get your week started off on the right foot.

Cheers!

Update :: Just after I posted this the new Gorillaz video for 'Stylo' was released feat Bruce Willis if you can believe it?! Pretty amazing! Unfortunately the embedding is disabled, but you can see the video on youtube here!

Chill Out

Here's some ambience for you. But the type of ambience that makes it feel like the world is going to end by the time the track finishes. It is a cover of a Savage Republic track from the early 80s.

(Sam) Shackleton is co-owner of London based Skull Disco Records. Known for putting out trippy dub step full of spaced out drums, tribal beats, drippy melodies, echoes, etc, etc.

This track has the original singer from Savage Republic, Jackson Del Rey, reprising his duties.

These guys were on some SERIOUS drugs when they recorded this. Serious.

MP3: Next to Nothing (Original Mix) (YSI)

Explanation by Sam Shackleton of the Skull Disco name origins:

Who are you?
Skull Disco

Where did you get your name?
I read a book about a tribe in Cameroon who had a party where they dug up the ancestors skulls and place them in a circle around the festivities whilst the participants drank beer and played music. I thought that was the proper way to do a disco. It's also a bad pun on School Disco.

There's A Place Called...

So Black Dice have signed onto Animal Collective's Paw Tracks label. (WHAT?! They left DFA? Blasphemy! snicker Still love you Mr. Murphy!) They are planning to release their next album entitled Load Blown on October 23rd. And have released a nugget from that album a bit early for us.

About the new album, there are rumors of more accessibility, shit does that mean they have gone soft on us? Not likely, from the press release, "this is a work of over-stimulation, a product of frenzied media culture, a sonic sifting of the gratuitous amount of “stuff” out there."

Whew.

The track sounds like a dub track that has been sent out into space, done a few laps around the milky way before crashing somewhere in the Caribbean, downing a couple of Red Stripes before showing up at an after hours show in Downtown.

MP3: Kokomo (courtesty of Paw Tracks)

(And please ignore the reference to the The Beach Boys most forgettable song ever -- they are in my top five favorite bands ever... except for Kokomo and John Stamos playing the congas in the video. I forgave them already.)