TopNess of '09 - Part 2

Albums

1. Major Laser – Guns Don’t Kill People, Lasers Do

2. State Of Mind – Faster Than Light

3. The Checks – Alice By The Moon

4. Diplo – Decent Work For Decent Pay

5. Optimus Grime – Eclipse

6. The XX – xx

7. Moderat – moderat

8. Shapeshifter – The System Is a Vampire

9. Tiga – ciao!

10. The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come

Mixes/ Podcasts

1. Fact Mix 107 – Simian Mobile Disco

2. FabricLive.45 - A-Trak

3. XLR8R – Future Blappin’ With Lazer Sword

4. Night Slugs Dubplates 2009 Mix

5. FabricLive.49 – Buraka Som Sistema

6. RA. 171 - Disco 3000 aka Erol Alkan

7. FACT mix 70: The xx

8. FACT mix 58: Untold

9. XLR8R - Hit the Dance Floor with The Presets

10. RA. 145 – DJ Koze

New Artists/ collaborations

1. Duck Sauce

2. Major Lazer

3. L-Vis 1990

 4. The XX

5. BOK BOK

6. Jack Beats

7. The Very Best

8. Computers Want Me Dead

9. Beyond The Wizards Sleave

10. Die Verbolten

Major Lazer YO

Major Lazer - Pon De Floor (Cold Blank Remix)

Major Lazer – Hold The Line (dj edit)

Major Lazer - Keep it goin louder (Diplo remix)

wow and this one::

61 Remixes, B-Sides and mixes of Major Lazer’s “Gun’s Don’t Kill People… Lazer Do”

TopNess of '09 - PART 1

This is part one of three posts Birkenhood will be doing before our much needed xxmas break / forest rave at Rhythm and Vines.

Blogs and Websites Yo

1. Gosh Damn!

2. Le Cool Cats

3. Mad Decent

4. XLR8R

5. Nerdy Frames

6. A-Track

7. Stuff

8. Cheese On Toast

9. Neon Sleep

10. In The Mix

Songs

1. Major Laser – Can’t Stop Now

2. Chromeo – I Can’t Tell You Why (Eagles cover)

3. The Checks – Back of The Restaurant

4. Optimus Gryme – Mezzanine

5.State Of Mind – Kinetic

6. L-Vis 1990 – Untitled Groove

7. Boys Noize & Erol Alkan – Death Suite

8. Parallel Dance Ensemble – Weight Watchers

9. Duck Sauce – aNYway

10. Animal Collective - My Girls

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TRACKS FROM THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS HAVE TOTALLY SWEET MUSIC VIDEOS:

Animal Collective, Duck Sauce, Parallel Dance Ensemble and State of Mind

Remixes

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)
2. Florence and The Machine - You Got The Love (The XX remix)
3. Peter Bjorn and John – It Don't Move Me (Mike Snow Remix)
4. Passion Pit – The Reeling (Flufftronix remix)
5. Diplo and Blaqstarr - Get Off (Jack Beats Remix)
6. Gucci Vump – Sha Shit! (L-Vis 1990 remix)
7. buraka som sistema - d,d,d jay (big pachanga mix)
8. State of Mind - Deadzone (dose remix)
9. Metronomy - Not Made For Love (Joakim Remix)
10. Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity of Huge (Dekker and Johan Remix)

Part Two Out REAL Soon

ADULT SWIM = FREE ALBUM

wow this isnt something you get everyday. it's a free remix album from Adult Swim called ATL RMX.

this is pretty much totally awesome!!

click here for a link to the goodness

tracklist::

1) Young Jeezy: “I Got This (El-P Remix)”

2) Rich Kids: “Patna Dem (Mad Decent Patna’s Remix by DJA)”

3) Dem Getaway Boyz: “Imma G (Memory Tapes Remix)”

4) Good Time Guys: “Is That You God? (Dabrye Remix)”

5) Young Dro: “Take Off (Michna Remix)”

6) Cee-Lo: “Hello Miss (Armani XXXChange Remix)”

7) Lil Jon: “Give It All You Got [ft. Kee] (Danger Beach Remix)”
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8) Gucci Mane: “Photoshoot (Flying Lotus Remix)”

9) Gorilla Zoe: “Lost (Starkey Remix)”

10) Shawty Lo: “Dey Know (Prefuse 73 Remix)”

11) Kollosus: “Breakin’ Bread (Phaseone Remix)”

12) Pill: “Lookin’ (Chris Devoe Remix)”

13) B.o.B.: “Satellite (Hudson Mohawke Remix)”

14) Playboy Tre: “Sideways (SALEM Drag Chop Remix)”

15)OJ Da Juiceman: “Good Night [ft. Gucci Mane] (HEALTH Remix)”

16) Lil Jon: “Give It All You Got [ft. Kee] (Drums of Death Remix)”

17) Hollyweerd: “Have You Ever Made Love to a Weerdo? (Dam-Funk Remix)”

Radi0 S0ulwax

Soulwax had an hour long guest mix on Belgian radio station Studio Brussel the other day. If your heading to Rhythm and Vines for new years and abit curious as to what 2manydjs a selecting in their mixes atm this is a great insight listen. The Dewaele brothers speak throughout the mix and unfortunatley its in their native Dutch tongue but hey we can just pretend we're kicking it in Brussels listening to some radio.

click here to tune in

KonichiWa Dipl0

ok so I totally heart the music that Diplo produces, his colab with Switch this year as Major Lazer has totally changed my perspective of what good music is. Robyn’s track Konichiwa Bitches was easily one of my favourite tracks of 2005 and now I see that Diplo and Robyn are working together for Robyn’s sophomore album. sweet!

it's due out next year and bound to build some momentum with Diplo kicking things off on his Twitter page::

“Shout out 2 robynkonichiwa for breakin the couch in Vegas and making my favourite track of 2010 ! Dancehall queen! She whoa whoa”.

He also says things are sounding “like lil orphan Annie meets Dawn Penn inna London rave… I think we broke dubstep”.

Not totally sure what that means..

hAv a Turbo XXXma$$

Turbo Recordings has released an advent calender to help us all get into the christmas sprit.

Rather than chocolate treats for each date, you can click on the day and recieve a sweet .Zip file which will somehow relate to Turbo Records. Fingers crossed for some free music!!

Click HERE for a link to the advent calender.

Turbo is the recording home of such electronic artists as Tiga, ZZT, Chromeo, The Proxy, Duke Dumont, Brodinski ....

W.T.Fuck

new NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB!!!

Sweet. From December 14th on their website, New Young Pony Club's new single Lost A Girl will be avalible as a free download. The track is from the upcoming new album The Optimist, due out March 1st 2010.

I was totally into their debut album Fantastic Playroom, esp the tracks Ice Cream, Tight Fit and The Bomb. Plus I saw them live at Rhythm and Vines in 2007 and they fully owned so yeah, this is all quite exciting

Renaissance Man does AUCKLAND, The XX, Florence and The Machine and a MINIMIXX

I listened to The XX's remix of Florence and The Machine's track 'You Got The Love' so much that I began to feel worried I was gonna KILL it, kind of how ZM, The Edge et al. rape the shit out of any good mainstream track. So I journeyed into the blogsphere in search of a track that would replace it.

aaand I found this::

Florence and The Machine- You Got The Love (the xx remix,Renaissance Man Edit)

haha, I didnt branch off very hard..

Oh yeah, and Renaissance Man is playing in Auckland on Thursday night..

Thursday 3rd December at BE

Support from DEFCON-1, Nick D, Daniel Farley, Maya and Vanya

$10 on the door

if you want a little taster of what the night may sound like, try this::

Renaissance Man - Minimix

Tracklist:

Luca Lozano: Berlinetta (J Phlip Remix)

Heinrichs & Hirtenfeller: Cut Bread

Zoo Brazil: Rock The House (Club Edit)

DJ T: Shine On (DJ T’s Twisted Re-Work)

Edu Imbernon: Mayenco

Claude Von Stroke & Justin Martin & Toktok: Circusbird (Renaissance Man Bootcut)

Riva Starr: Black Cat White Cat (Edit)

Splore 2010

w0w Splore 2010 is shaping up to be one hell of a festival. I have never gone before but looking at the line-up so far, I think its time to hunt out my old tent from under the house and get my ass down to Tapapakanga Regional Park.

It's a three day/ two night event and so far the line up looks like this::

Basement Jaxx - DJ Set (UK)
Lupe Fiasco (USA)

Jamie Lidell (UK)
Nickodemus (USA)

Mystro (UK)
d Bridge & Instra:mental present Club Automatic (UK)

The Gaslamp Killer (USA)
Spektrum (UK)

Kid Carpet (UK)
Daniel Haaksman (GER)

10 Sui (UK)
Dub FX (AUS)

Spikey Tee (UK/AUS)
Mikki Dee (IRE)

Sola Rosa
Tahuna Breaks

Minuit
Electric Wire Hustle

Pitch Black
King Kapisi

Nathan Haines
Clap Clap Riot

Zoh Zoh
Olmecha Supreme

Nick D
Philippa

Dubhead
Murray Cammick

 Bobbito Brazuka and Jennifer Zea

Six 60
Easy

The Nukes
Doc Westie

Kidz in Space
North Shore Pony Club

head to the Splore website for more info mofo

tUnE SeleKti0n 27/11/09

hi i play music on radio, 95bFM is the frequency.

this is the selection of musical compositions i chose to play:::

phoenix - love like a sunset (animal collective remix)

david bowie - rebel rebel (soulwax re-edit)

andrew weatherall - let's do the 7 again

zomby - helter skelter

big boi - shine blockas

hot chip - take it in

mike snow - black & blue (caspa remix)

the xx - crystalised

das pop - fool for love (sebAstian remix)

yeah yeah yeahs - heads will roll (a track remix)

peter bjorn & john - it don't move me (mike snow)

nevernudes - grade f meat

islands - vapours

the white stripes - jimmy the exploder

jumbling towers - gilberta

major laser - baby riddim (switch remix)

vampire weekend - cousins

no age - you're a target

atlas sound - shelia

samantha fu - theme from discoteque (mixhell remix)

your twenties - billionaires

radioclit - Secousse (Riva Starr Remix)

basement jaxx - saga

diplo & buraka som sistema - inna de ghetto

busy p - to protect and entertain feat. murs (crookers remix)

SALEM: We Make it Good Mix Series v. 11

i really like the gloomy beats and dark atmospheric sounds of Salem and they've just released a new mixx for Fader. their Water EP is totally wickid and i oftern play When U Sleep and Skull Crush from that release on my radio show. Salem's music sounds best in your bedroom, alone, with dim lighting and a light drizzle outside.. but in a good way if you know what i mean..

Paul Dervo from Mad Decent found a slightly darker place from their sound::

"Pink socks, a dirty mattress, wallpaper peeling off the walls, empty cough syrup bottles, and soiled wall to wall carpeting all come to mind after repeated listens to this new Salem mix".

tracklisting, download link to the mixx and some extra Salem treats through the link::

Sasha's Exploding Rubik’s Cube

Sasha talking to ITM about his up and coming Big Day Out shows:::

“What I’m gonna do at Big Day Out is a real production. I’m working with the design company from Montreal who do the LED light installations for Cirque du Solei, really cutting edge stuff. I’ve worked with them before on a tour in America last year with John Digweed, and we did that on a really tight shoestring. And I went back to them and basically said, if I was to give you an unlimited budget, what could you come up with? And they presented me with this stage production which is just gonna blow people’s heads off, it really is. And the first time anyone is gonna get to see it is in Australia [and New Zealand!!!].”

“It’s constructed out of lots of tiny screens, and the visual content, I’ve seen some of the treatments for it and it already looks stunning. They’re custom building this whole stage in Montreal and then shipping it over. I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while, but it’s just been a matter finding the budget to do it. But Big Day Out came to me with a budget, so I could invest that money back into the show, rather than just turning up and DJing.”

“I’ve always wanted to do something more, and do something different. I’m not the DJ who plays all the big anthem tunes …. What I want to do is have something that is separate from my club shows. So this festival set is gonna be an hour and a half long, the music is going to be linked to the visuals and it’s going to be a whole different experience.”

“You’ve gotta play a big sound if you’re playing to 30,000 people, you’ve gotta come in with a crash-bang-wallop right from the get go.”

FUCK?

around the world

Daft Punk rumoured world tour dates:

07.30 Paris: Le Zénith,

08.01 Amsterdam: Heineken Music Hall

08.03 Munich: Allianz Arena

08.05 Dublin: O2

08.07 Nice: Parc De Sports

08.15 New York: Yankee Stadium

08.22 Sydney: Football Stadium

08.24 Auckland: Vector Arena

08.28 Melbourne: Olympic Park Stadium

09.03 London: Wembley Arena
09.06 Manchester: MEN Arena

you should know that Daft Punk are onboard with the film Tron Legacy and if this sounds good to you, you might wana check these samples/previews from the material they have written:::
Daft Punk - Tron Legacy Theme
Daft Punk - Fragile
Daft Punk - Tron Legacy Theme [Cryda Luv Extended Edit]

S1nD1n intervieW

The Vine is a sweet Australian website which i guess is essentually a commentry on pop culture (good pop culture tho...). they tend to score alot of decent interviews and this is their latest, a disscussion with Sinden - one of my fave dj / producers, who also does an awesome weekley radio show on Kiss FM.

check the full interview through the link::

T()P B()Y

OK OK BANG GANG

to celebrate the release of the Bang Gang 12"s Compilation, Doom and Gus Da Hoodrat are playing at Cassette Number Nine on satnight.

support from:::

Daniel Farley, Cam Roberrtson, Cyril Orson && Meltron

PIG OUT TONIGHT!!!

y00 ! tonight! Pig! OuT!

To get you all super excited about there new single TOP BOY, Pig Out will be playing at Be Club tonight with support from Dick Johnson, Jason Howson ++ more

its only $5 on the door, so no excuses!!

pigOUT

PIGout

T0PB0Y

pIgOuT

PiGoUt

FuCk

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dumb!!

i just read that the Groove Armada Big Day Out side shows in Australia will feature Simian Mobile Disco!! the Auckland Groove Armada side show features Nick D... no disrespect to Mr Dwyer but I've see him DJ and I've seen SMD and there is a bit of a difference between the two in terms if stage presence, material played and genral awesomeness ..

damn! Aussie get to have all the fun

a bit on the side

do you like Groove Armada so much that you'd see them two nights in a row? hate the Big Day Out so much you'd even miss Groove Armada? Can't afford tickets to Big Day Out to see Groove Armada?...

wana see Groove Armada play a full live set in Eden Terrace on 14th January? 

well that is good because they are playing a Big Day Out sideshow at The Powerstation with support from Nick D..

Tickets on sale 30th November from Ticketmaster.

do you like Peaches so much that you'd see her two nights in a row? hate the Big Day Out so much you'd even miss Peaches? Can't afford tickets to Big Day Out to see Peaches?...

wana see Peaches play live in the CBD on 14th January?

well that is good because she is playing a Big Day Out sideshow at The Transmission Room.  

Tickets on sale 13th November from Undertherader.co.nz

Busy P and DJ Mehdi :: BBC Essential Mixxx

sweet, Busy P & DJ Mehdi have just done a mixx for BBC's Radio 1 so you should download it.

the mixx was recorded at the Chibuku party at Warehouse Project in Manchester on November 7th.

we have only got Mehdi's tracklist and you can check that through the link.

i saw them play b2b at Rhythm & Vines last year and it was fuckn' wickid, so im assuming this mixx will be good.

download here

also if your've got some spear cash could you please get Busy P & Mehdi back to NZ?

thanks

these two pics are from R&V 2008/2009.

check more at NeonSleep

S.O.M@Z.E.N

I last saw State Of Mind play at Coherent a couple months ago and it was an epic night of wall to wall drum'n bass. From what I remember, their approach to mixing that night was to cut out the atmospheric breakdowns and just hit it with w2w dnb. Maybe I don’t remember correctly, maybe I was a bit drunk... Either way it was a massive night.

Soo i'm rather excited about this gig on Friday night (20th November) where State Of Mind will be playing live with MC Woody and supported by Sambora and P.Diggs from Shapeshifter, DJ Format and Lophonix.

This will be one of the biggest nights in Auckland for the tail-end of 2009, with State Of Mind flying high off the back of the success of their second album Faster Than Light. To add further catalyst to the night, Shapeshifter released their new album The System Is A Vampire a couple days ago so P.Diggs and Sambora will be hanging to lay down some of their new material. Their new album is really good by the way.

Ok so it’s at Zen on Friday, presales are $20 from Beat Merchants, Real Groovy and Cosmic Corner

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erol alkan

"There's only 100 of these (rare vintage synth) in the world, I bought two and gave the other one to Soulwax”

"When Mixmag named me Best DJ in the World, I was chuffed! But what do you do? You don't go and produce a Mystery Jets album after that, you get a manager and you set up a massive tour around the world for the next 18 months... I went and made a Mystery Jets album"

Tiga

"The highlight (of Parklife Festival in Australia) was living life like a 14 year old stoner at summer camp: me, Erol Alkan, Joakim, Busy P andAeroplane, sitting on park benches, having cop 'lookouts'"
"I am going to India for a few months to chill out and prepare mentally for the storm of activity that will be 2010: start new album, new ZZT project single and album, remixes for Boys Noize, The XX and others, Turbo Tower construction and new studio (no joke), developing the podcasts, a massive Turbo Tour for summer 2010, and my first real mix CD in years"
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interviews are cool and if you read them before your friends, you can act as the guy that knows heaps of interesting shit about sweet electronic artists.
if this sounds like something you would like to be you should read these interviews, cause Erol & Tiga are indeed pretty sweet electronic artists.
oh yeah, click on Erol or Tiga for a link to each interview, oh yeah

WTF? (What The Fuck?)

I don’t understand what’s going down. They (media, press releases etc.) say that the third announcement in October was the final line up for Rhythm and Vines 2009, which makes it a total of 72 artists..

2008's full line up had 115 artists... were is the money for the missing 43 artists going???

Surely there is going to be a 4th announcement. There was last year...

The forth and final announcement for the 2008 festival was on 13th November 2008 (a year ago yesterday) and included big names such as Public Enemy and Ladyhawke, but the supposably third and final announcement for this year was a month ago.

The second Big Day Out announcement for Januarys 2010 festival was on Wednesday this week, so maybe the Rhythm and Vines promoters didn’t want the final line up to be in the same week as a BDO announcement. But still, it has been widely reported that last months announcement was the final..

so yeah, back to the start… what’s going down? Surely if Rhythm and Vines were cutting back by 42 artists for the 2009 festival, they would say so and make our tickets cheaper. Or have they got some massive artists up their sleeve, kinda like how they announced Public Enemy in the final announcement for 2008.

I hope they are sitting on some big names and my pick is that a fourth and final line up will be announced within the next fortnight.

Otherwise I’m gonna be slightly pissed.

Compare the 2008 and 2009 line up after the jump

 

tunE $election 12/11/09

incase you were wondering, these are the tracks i played lastnight on 95bFM

my next show is on nov 27th 7-9pm.

hudson mohawke - velvet peel
washed out - new theory

javis cocker - further complications

the death set - listen to this collision (gloves remix)

vampire weekend - horchata

nevernudes - grade f meat

grinderman - no pussy blues

die! die! die! - auckland is burning

jamie liddel - a little bit more

passion pit - little secrites (hey champ remix)

moderate - rusty nails
joe goddard - sour grapes

girls - summertime

darkstar - andy is a computer

boris dlugosch - bangkok

wu tang clan - sound the horns

the big pink - crystal visions

florence and the machine - you got the love (the xx remix)

roots manuva - awfully deep

the toxic avenger - The Fall (Switch Remix)

state of mind - deadzone (dose remix)

crystal antlers - andrew

Big Day Out 2nd Announcement

Passion Pit, Simian Mobile Disco (DJ), Sasha, Jet, Midnight Youth, Head Like A Hole, Beenie Man, Devendra Banhart, The Veils, Deja Voodoo, Kidz In Space, Cairo Knife Fight, Mountaineater, True Lovers, Tim Phin, Bandicoot, Lord of Tigers, The Silent Disco.

n0t s00 wi1d