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Ferry Corsten - WKND CD Review

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:24:47 +0000

Ferry Corsten's new CD WKND is close to being a modern masterpiece. Featuring collaborations with Armin van Buuren, Jes, and Duane Harden, the album is definitely worth listening to.

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Song of the Day: Sleigh Bells - "Comeback Kid"

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:43:44 +0000

"Comeback Kid" may be a logical next step for Brooklyn's noise pop duo Sleigh Bells. Listen to the track and you'll hear everything that made them lovable on their last album, Treats. But "Comeback Kid", the first single to their brand new album Reign of Terror, seems to have something else. It's like someone took one of those injectors for pastry filling and threw a bunch of pop sensibility into the track. The result, something like a chocolate eclair made from an aggressive sound wave and that fat free sugar they give to new pop artists, is both wildly aggressive and surprisingly catchy.
Video - Youtube

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Dance Songs for Valentine's Day 2012

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:00:58 +0000

Whether you are celebrating or protesting Valentine's day, here are some dance songs to fit the mood or some dance songs for those who are anti-Valentine's day.

Valentine heart clip art copyrighted by Bobbie Peachey, Webclipart.about.com.

Song of the Day: Infected Mushroom - "U R So F***ed" (NSFW)

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:52:42 +0000

In just about every electronic dance music sub genre, tracks often begin to sound the same after a while. Samples, keyboard hooks, beat structures and vocal effects become almost cliche with their predictability. This seems to happens just before a pop singer is brought in to cross the genre over to the mainstream. Though in the world of serious electronic dance music purists there are some who have the sense of humor to poke fun at a genre and really have some fun while doing it. Imagine Weird Al Yankovic doing a dub step track and you got an idea of what the extremely Not Safe For Work "U R So F**ked" by Infected Mushroom sounds like. The Israeli electro/rock production/dj duo have come up with a track that is satiric and brilliant at the same time. It's as if they were sitting in the studio and pieced together every dub step cliche and put on a scratch vocal as a joke. The thing is - it works brilliantly on so many levels. Releasing the song on Valentine's day makes it even better. The again Not Safe For Work video features the stock comedic device of wrestlers underprepared for a fight and they reach a resolution which is both disturbing and comical. Though I am pretty sure this is a novelty single for Infected Mushroom, it has intrigued me to explore the forth coming Army of Mushrooms album.
Video - Youtube

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Song of the Day: DJ Sammy - "Look For Love"

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:56:31 +0000

Ok so this is more of a focus on an awesome video than the track. Granted, kudos to DJ Sammy to continuing to make music, while nothing seems to quite live up to the vibe and feel of his high streak with "Heaven" and "Boys of Summer", "Look For Love" is a fun track with a decent beat. But what truly shines is, as I've mentioned, the video. It tells the story of Charlie, a young man who meets Amy while both wear headphones. As they continue to see each other over the days, they grow more connected to one another, communicating via sitcky notes rather than talking. When Charlie asks Amy what she's listening to, she tells him it's a secret. Of course he's listening to DJ Sammy. Watch the video and see if you are as moved as what Amy's secret song is as we were.
Video - Youtube

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Song of the Day: Chris Brown - "Turn Up The Music"

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:56:04 +0000

As the lead single from Chris Brown's 5th studio album, titled "Fortune", "Turn Up The Music" hits hard. This is one of those tracks we just need an extended mix for. Like Rihanna, this track features nods to both mainstream electronica and more underground DJ-oriented production, this time from Fuego and The Underdogs. Granted the track sounds like Calvin Harris and David Guetta got together and perhaps did unspeakable things on the equipment, the result is some incredibly hard beats over some delicious synths. Oh, and Chris Brown is singing, too.
Audio - Youtube

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Song of the Day: Ladyhawke - "Black White & Blue"

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:55:23 +0000

Could it be? Is it she? The woman who's name was lifted from an 80's movie and who's sound boldly dared you to call her retro, even though she clearly envied the 80's and wished she still lived there has released a new track. "Black White & Blue" is brand new music and is a giant evolutionary leap forward for the singer, who's music takes a simultaneous step forward and back, the track coming across as modern and fresh while totally digging on the 60's/70's Woodstock/flower power/British mod vibe. It's really a clever and ambitiously adorable collection of influences giving hope that Ladyhawke's new material will usher her even more into the spotlight in 2012.
Video - Youtube

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Song of the Day: Grouplove - "Tongue Tied (Gigamesh Remix)"

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:54:42 +0000

Damn, floored in under 1 minute. Is that a record or something? This funky, bad-ass groovy remix Gigamesh provides of one of the latest Apple music finds (think of the commercial where the singer goes "Take me to your best friend's house" - that's "Tongue Tied") is so jaw-droppingly funnalicious that's it's hard to remember that remixes come any faster than this. It's pure pop bliss, riding every possible aural wave to every possible endorphine-releasing synapse in your brain. If you aren't jamming out, snapping your fingers, clapping, bopping your head, our outright cheering this collaboration on by the end, then we'll give you your money back. By the way, it was free, so don't actually ask us for money.
Audio - Youtube

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Song of the Day: Die Antwoord - "I Fink U Freeky"

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:54:33 +0000

Die Antwoord, to the uninformed eye or ear, may come across as some German group akin to Scooter. However, the trio comes from Cape Town, and this cultural association influences much of their music in a style called Zef (an Afrikaans word translating somewhat loosely into "working class whites"), which utilizes out-of-date sounds in a modern way. Hence why "I Fink U Freeky" surges forward like the new Mortal Kombat song for 2012 (with elements of the techno classic "Jump" by the Movement.) You may recall Die Antwoord from their uber-kitschy track "Rich Bitch" which was both terrible and brilliant. "I Fink U Freeky" is a step up, and 100% more cohesive a track, but you may want to try to ignore the video which seems to make Yolandi Visser, the female singer, into the anti-Dev. Or maybe her neglected twin sister. We wonder if the destruction of the Beats heads phones is a dig on their former record label Interscope? Anyway, for the Scooter, Lords of Acid, and Nicki Minaj fans out there, enjoy!
Video - Youtube

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Song of the Day: MIA - "Bad Girls"

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:34:27 +0000

Recently Madonna described Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" as reductive. That seems like an optimal description for the much buzzed about "Bad Girls" by MIA. The track is a pretty standard 90s era hip hop track with middle eastern influences sprinkled throughout it. The lyrics aren't necessarily flat, just not interesting or saying anything that is thought provoking which you would expect from the edgy-statement making MIA. Maybe the thought of just being boastful about the swagger of "Bad Girls' is edgy enough or it's a response to the similar sounding Panjabi MC "Mundian To Bach Ke" (aka "Beware of the Boys")? The video might be controversial with dancers in the full body dress of religious garments being seductive but the rest of the video feels like something Missy Elliott would have done in the late 90s (costumes, dancings, extreme car stunts.) From another artist, "Bad Girls" could be a fun pop song but from MIA you expect something more interesting - rather than a mash of 90s/00s musical and visual styles. Speaking of reductive, didn't her flicking off the camera during the Superbowl performance with Madonna remind you of Janet Jackson in 2004?

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