We're gonna have a new contributor who might be doing some German stuff (as well as other things) for us. His name is Rhett, he's multilingual, he has great taste in music, and I'm happy to call him a friend of mine... so all you German DJs, collectives, labels etc get at the man once he's officially on the site :)
He put me up on this song I totally would have missed that you may or may not have heard. Unfortunately the embedding is disabled for the video but follow this link to watch the awesome dancing here
Here's the song since I can't post the real video:
Anyway, be on the look out for him and welcome him into the Neon Lights Crew!
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Machinedrum+TStewart+Neon Black+Sepalcure+Syndrone
Travis Stewart is a genius.
His work as Machinedrum is a glitchy haze of electro-futurism, soul claps reminiscent of the boom-bap era and soulful vocals. He has collaborated extensively with underground Hip-Hop artists Theophilus London and Mickey Factz [who have both been blowing up on the blogosphere in last year] and has successfully created his own brand of future-hop-ghetto-funk.
Check out a couple tracks below, and if you agree buy his album Do You Want To 1, 2?
More recently he has delved into the sweat drenched world of juke. Ghettotek, Juke, Footwerk, Booty Bass... they are all very similar. I feel like it is really up to the individual artist to say what the style of music he/she is making is called. Sometimes titles and names can become somewhat of a obstacle, which is why I like all these new "genres" that are emerging, it allows for more creative freedom. But I digress, Machine Drum!! JUKE!!!
So, he made this amazing mix of a shitload of juke/ghettotek classics for the LuckyMe crew and called it, appropriately;
He then proceeded to put out an album on LuckyMe [in 2010] called, "Many Faces LP," where he blends his own style of neon bass music with the future sounds coming out of the UK right now and also includes tracks like "Lemme F_ck It," that proves he fully understands what it means to make a footwerk classic!
**BONUS MIXX**
Somehow, in the midst of all this sweaty juked out madness he still had time to create yet ANOTHER project of a completely different nature: SEPALCURE!
Sepalcure is a collaborative project between Travis Stewart [Machinedrum] & Praveen Sharma [Praveen & Benoit]. Their beats bubble with funky 2-step vibes and ooze tropical bass riddims that would make even the shyest party-goer forget their manners and slide out on the dance floor. That being said, these same tunes make perfect soundtracks for rainy afternoons and lonely nights.
Sepalcure - Every Day of my Life from sougwen on Vimeo.
XLR8R loves these guys, and we all love XLR8R, so thank them for these tracks!
Show love, go to shows, buy vinyl, tell your fucking friends.
Archives: Installment 1
Sitting around on a proper lazy feeling Sunday, I was hooking up my home girl with some fresh tunes for her daily commutes when I remembered this...
Which got me to thinking about (and now) doing some posts of older releases I would like to encourage all of you to look into as they have been the soundtrack to many of my most amazing adventures, travels, bus rides, nights in the studio, rhythms to my life etc. Maybe you'll get to know me a little better, and maybe these musical pasts will help us understand where music is going today and into the future, as well as small anecdotes about my personal experience with them.
I first heard "Funcrusher Plus" when around the time Patch was teaching me how to spin vinyl. It was either down in his musical basement cave, standing on massive piles of old NME, Rolling Stone, AP, and XLR8R mags that had spilled all over then place under the decks that I put this on, or perhaps at my place. He did so much for me, letting me borrow his decks, bringing over more and more stacks of records for me to practice with, and this was one that I found and fell in love with. Even after he took his decks and I got my own and started building my collection of 12"'s, I kept this one in my stacks cuz I just loved bumpin the fuck out of it, pissin off my neighbors as I jammed as many speakers in my apartment as I had power for.
Buy it here (Def Jux)
Future Genre-Bending Music What??
This is another of Patch's vinyls "I couldn't find" when he was over to take records back to his place. Also, with all the hype recently on the evolution of broken beat music and.......dubstep....... I thought I might toss this one out there for you guys to see what was "progressive" 12 years ago. Here's one of my favorites, the title also relevant to my lazy ass today.
I know the quality is shite at the drop, but maybe that will prompt you to buy it, here.
Tune in next time for more favorites, gotta get back to new stuff for obvious reasons. Off to the record store to buy music when I should be buying food (I HAVE GOT to hear Jahbulon, really been waiting on that on it), going to get better at dumpstering real quick.
xoxoxoxoxoxo
Which got me to thinking about (and now) doing some posts of older releases I would like to encourage all of you to look into as they have been the soundtrack to many of my most amazing adventures, travels, bus rides, nights in the studio, rhythms to my life etc. Maybe you'll get to know me a little better, and maybe these musical pasts will help us understand where music is going today and into the future, as well as small anecdotes about my personal experience with them.
I first heard "Funcrusher Plus" when around the time Patch was teaching me how to spin vinyl. It was either down in his musical basement cave, standing on massive piles of old NME, Rolling Stone, AP, and XLR8R mags that had spilled all over then place under the decks that I put this on, or perhaps at my place. He did so much for me, letting me borrow his decks, bringing over more and more stacks of records for me to practice with, and this was one that I found and fell in love with. Even after he took his decks and I got my own and started building my collection of 12"'s, I kept this one in my stacks cuz I just loved bumpin the fuck out of it, pissin off my neighbors as I jammed as many speakers in my apartment as I had power for.
Buy it here (Def Jux)
Future Genre-Bending Music What??
This is another of Patch's vinyls "I couldn't find" when he was over to take records back to his place. Also, with all the hype recently on the evolution of broken beat music and.......dubstep....... I thought I might toss this one out there for you guys to see what was "progressive" 12 years ago. Here's one of my favorites, the title also relevant to my lazy ass today.
I know the quality is shite at the drop, but maybe that will prompt you to buy it, here.
Tune in next time for more favorites, gotta get back to new stuff for obvious reasons. Off to the record store to buy music when I should be buying food (I HAVE GOT to hear Jahbulon, really been waiting on that on it), going to get better at dumpstering real quick.
xoxoxoxoxoxo
Why does this have to be the best Kanye song from G.O.O.D. Fridays?
I was in the woods this weekend? I musta made everyone really sick of this song because I played this (and these crazy new Chris Brown/Benny Bennassi track) like over and over. These two songs have a lot to do with what is going to be "my" big project for the site... The Present State of the Mainstreaming Of Electronica... sounds like a masters thesis doesn't it?
UPDATE: Apparently we are so damn popular that we can't post shit we didn't get cleared because someone is always looking... therefore the song got pulled. What's up Universal? How are you guys doing? It's nice to know we got an audience so quickly :)
But seriously... is this badass song less awesome because the Beeb is on it? Is the Beeb cooler because people like 'Ye are getting him on their tracks?
And while you're thinking about that is it permissible to be listening to Chris Brown (you know, the guy who beat the fuck out of his super hot girlfriend Rihanna) if Bennassi wrote a scorcher of a radio house track?
Are you gonna cringe and switch teams when that Rusko & Britney Spears track shows up? Or if Diplo takes a couple more mainstream remixes, or productions, are you gonna forsake him (especially after the Blackberry commerical)?
I just put it out there because hip-hop, pop music, and electronica have become a soupy mess that I'm gonna try to pull apart over the next month or so (I wrote a paper about hip-hop and rave culture in the early 2000's that I need to find lol)... although I've gotta admit Simon Reynolds really should be the one writing it. Probably already wrote it lol...
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