stromae- “alors on danse”

OBSESSED

la roux – “i’m not your toy”

I’m pretty sure Andrew Malone was chosen to be my roommate so that, four years later, he would introduce this song to me. I mean goddamn.

8.2.2010 – I thought this sounded familiar.

-jakeyp

Kid Fresh – Winter in Shanghai mix

The Russ Chimes mix was just the beginning. I’ll be posting every great mix that I have in the crate, in due time. Aren’t you glad you asked.

Kid Fresh knows what’s he’s doing; he knows exactly what he’s doing. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of the internet’s electronica community: this mix can’t be downloaded anymore (as far as I know), so I’m burning my own bandwidth for this one.

Fresh, apparently in Shanghai at the time, forged this mix back in 2008. It’s a little dated, but it hasn’t lost its punch. On every listen, I have some new gem thrown hard at my get-down bone. Fresh’s sample material runs the gamut; he pulls and splices from glitchy dance tunes, shaky indie classics, and dense house rumbles that sound hot off some Brooklyn operating table. This mix isn’t as homogeneous as Chimes’. At points in the mix, Glock shots are interspersed with snare drums.

If internet prose doesn’t entice, here’re a few of the artists included:

• Hot Chip
• Massive Attack (their Bristol-sound standard, “Unfinished Sympathy”)
• LCD Soundsystem
• Crystal Castles
• Justice
• The Rapture

I was sold when I heard, near the beginning of the mix, the Chinese twang of a girl chanting, over and over,

We think you’re a joke
so shove your hope
where it don’t shine.

Put it on at your dorm party. Put it on at your beach party. Put it on when you’re driving around, windows hidden, on a breezy night; the stoplights will appreciate it. Most of all, put it on when you’re drinking yourself stupid at your desk.

jamesob

deadmau5 – “arguru”

I’m getting increasingly hyped to see Deadmau5 play a set this weekend, and this is becoming one of my favorite deeper cuts off of Random Album Title. Lord knows what the title of the song actually means, but it sounds like something Richard Nixon would say when he’s dissatisfied. I’ll dance to that.

- jakeyp

Russ Chimes – esper. Mix

The only thing I could hope to hold against Russ Chimes is that he’s too danceable. This mix speaks for me.

Don’t workout too hard, kids.

Tracklist:

01. russ chimes – intro
02. alex metric – pins
03. a-trak – woah
04. cosmos – take me with you (aston shuffle bootleg)
05. chromeo – fancy footwork (russ chimes remix)
06. division kent – mon blue (keenhouse remix)
07. treasure fingers – cross the dancefloor (lifelike remix)
08. roman salzger & lifelike – radio 84
09. dfa 1979 – black history month (fred falke & alan braxe remix)
10. thunderheist – jerk it (jokers of the scene remix)
11. russ chimes – she’s got the heat
12. aston shuffle – stomp yo shoes (shazam remix)
13. russ chimes – mulsanne
14. shazam – pool party
15. the golden filter – solid gold (russ chimes’ 24 carat remix)
16. louis la roche – peach (sidechains remix)
17. xinobi – valsa in new jersey
18. foamo – everything cool
19. lifelike – in my car

Stolen from DISCODUST.

justice – “we are your friends”

Gotta steal Kyle’s thunder; wasn’t aware Justice floated this EP passed me. D.A.N.C.E-worthy for sure.

-jakeyp

fischerspooner – “the best revenge”

Fisherspooner’s high-school superlative: “Most Likely To Induce Spontaneous Dancing While Dressing Like A Cyberpunk Samurai”

-jakeyp

fizzy dino pop – “space”

This is what happens when you try to play a Passion Pit cd in your Sega Genesis.

-jakeyp

goldfish – “fort knox”

Here’s a guest post from my girlfriend who recently returned from a trip to South Africa with some great new music. Goldfish is a dance band from Cape Town that mixes sampling with live saxophones, bass, vocals, etc.

-Kevin (Chelsea)

benny benassi – “hit my heart”

Hell, why not? I kinda dig this, but at the same time I feel like its what Europeans listen to while they are shopping. I mean its repetitive but that’s Benassi for ya. It’s a good song to have a little jam session to, so throw it on a play-list and enjoy.

-keyley