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)