Fabric calls it "fresher than fresh"...Elite Force says it's "one of the finest blogs out there"...NAPT declares "Noise Porn rocks!"... Utah Saints know "it's our favourite music blog"...The Fat! Club calls us "ace"...
I’ve been keeping tabs on Nathan Vice, the New Yorkian who’s been throwing down some fantastic tunes as of late. In particular he dropped his Bmore Disco Re-Edit of Earth, Wind & Fire’s mighty disco drenched classic Let’s Groove.
Vice drops in the Daft Punk-esque filters, as we spiral in and out of the vocals and the energetic lead, all of this comes with a super bouncy kick and under everything we hear shimmers of the original tracks trumpets and vocals. Vice keeps all of this filtering in and out, similar to say, Daft Punk’s remix of Gabrielle’s Forget The World. The vocals are glitched out and the chorus times in fantastic over the flicky bassline and the spring loaded kicks.
I’ve probably been living under a rock, but it’s refreshing to see the classics remixed, especially Earth, Wind & Fire. Gotta love disco. I hear it’s coming back in style.
This entry was written by Bleekster, posted on July 3, 2009 at 12:13 am, filed under News. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Check out this awesome video from Burn The Negative, a band we’ve been following for a while and who are currently with Gung-Ho Recordings (home to Japanese Popstars and Tom EQ). If you’re feeling it check out their album, available to buy here
This entry was written by Noise Porn, posted on July 2, 2009 at 5:51 pm, filed under Video. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
In the breaks corner today we have Vandal with his epic new summer DJ mix. Knowing Vandal, it was never gonna be all sweetness and light… this is definitely one for the bass-keen, switching up between techno, rock and indie-electro influences. We recommend!
Vandal makes his second appearance in Edinburgh at club Touch at the end of the month. Look out for upcoming release ‘Fugazi’ on Kilowatt with Hyper, and a remix of indie band Them:Youth coming soon.
This entry was written by siren, posted on at 3:51 pm, filed under Mixes. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Hands down one of my favourite bands ever, Primal Scream have been providing me with a constant reminder of my musical foundations for years. Beastie Boys, on the other hand, while I respect as a band – have surely created some of the most over-used acapellas in the music production / shoddy bootleg business.
But sod it, these are two great tunes and everyone needs a cheeky mashup in their lives sometimes. This certainly isn’t a moment of musical genius but it’s definitely a pleasant way to end the first day of July.
This entry was written by Noise Porn, posted on July 1, 2009 at 5:30 pm, filed under MP3. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Llupa is the award-winning Australian breaks DJ, currently with Polar Red, who gained fame and notoriety for his NSB show “Disc Breaks.” We’ve got his latest promo mix to give away here, and watch out for his new EP dropping soon!
This entry was written by Noise Porn, posted on at 3:50 pm, filed under Mixes. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Our friends over at This Is Breaks have just started an excellent series showcasing Future Funk Squad’s new album, “Disorders of Skill.” It features a track each day to listen to, plus an explanation of how each tune came about from the man himself. Check out the first one here.
If you want to pre-order the album, Future Funk Squad is giving away a full album of bootlegs and remixes that have accumulated over the years. Head here to take him up on this absurdly kind offer! Here’s some of the tracks that are up for grabs -
1. Blue Song (FFS Remix) – Mint Royale [previously unavailable]
2. Break Da Mould – Valve Man [FFS Alias, previously unavailable]
3. Da Funk Squad [FFS Breaks Bootleg]
4. Gorecki (Breaks Mix) – Lamb [Hacker Release]
5. Impact (Breaks Mix) – Orbootal [Hacker Release]
6. Mr Breakside – The Killers [FFS bootleg of Mr Brightside, previously unavailable]
7. My People (DIM/FFS Breaks Edit) – The Presets [previously unavailable]
8. Protection (Breaks Mix/James Zabiela Re-Edit) – Massive Attack [Hacker Release]
9. Raven (FFS Breaks ReEdit) – Proxy [previously unavailable]
10. Satisfaction (Breaks Mix) – Benni Benassi [Hacker Release]
11. Your Not Alone (Breaks Mix) – Olive [Hacker Release]
And if you’re into the breaks side of things, This Is Breaks is definitely the place to be.
This entry was written by Noise Porn, posted on at 2:25 pm, filed under News. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Always Fridays returns with a special one off event in support of Save the Children and our Mongolian Mixtape Marathon. Noise Porn is preparing to drive to Mongolia (we leave next Saturday), and to make sure we go off in style it would be great to get as many of you London folk down on Friday as possible. It’s at Egg, check out the mental line-up below!
CHECK OUT THE FACEBOOK EVENT HERE // BUY ADVANCED TICKETS HERE
▄ █ ▄ ▀ █ ▀ ▄ █ ▄ ▀ █ ▀ ▄ █ ▄ ▀ █ ▀
FRI 3RD JULY
TREVOR LOVEYS (Dubsided)
AQUASKY (Passenger)
RAFFERTIE (Seclusiasis)
DEKKER (Always Fridays/Sankeys)
JOHN & ON (Always Fridays)
JACOB HUSLEY (Always Fridays/WYS)
CARLOS LAMAR (Unkdango Recs)
INIGO DIAZ (Unkdango Recs)
▄ █ ▄ ▀ █ ▀ ▄ █ ▄ ▀ █ ▀ ▄ █ ▄ ▀ █ ▀
Always Fridays at Egg
200 York Way
London
N7 9AP
Tech-Electro-House-Disco-Minimal-Bass
Price: FREE b4 11/ £8 before 12/ £12 after (£8 concs)
10pm-7am (After Party until super-late)
Funktion One Sound.
Large Garden / Smoking Area.
Drinks offers all night.
Dress to Excess- No suits or casual branded sportswear.
Over 18s event- Please bring ID.
▄ EMAIL JOHN@EGGLONDON.NET FOR GUESTLIST ENQUIRIES ▄
Here are some questions that some top notch blogs (including us) posed to the fantastic electro duo that is Digitalism:
1. If you could have any artist (alive or dead) to collaborate with, who would it be? and why? Maybe Vincent van Gogh because his paintings are so beautiful. As for musicians — that’s hard to say. Changes daily.
2. Which is your favorite remix that an artists has done for you? Do you like it when artists remix your work or would you prefer it to go untouched? At first we didn’t like the idea of getting our songs remixed, but then people started just doing it, and the results were really cool, so we went along with that. There’s lots of good ones, but one that’s outstanding could be WhoMadeWho for “Idealistic”; they replayed the song with their band rather than doing a classic “remix” — dope.
3. What keeps you excited about music these days? How do you keep it fresh for yourselves? We haven’t been to the studio for like three years while we been touring, so that definitely excites us now, doing new stuff, working with new synthesizers, getting new songs ready, playing them on our DJ sets that we’re touring with at the moment….. It’s great! We couldn’t wait to do new music, and after a while, you want to present these new songs and you’re looking forward to touring again.
Here’s what the other blogs asked –
4. When I sing in the shower, it’s usually:
basslines
5. My favourite place to play on tour is:
on stage!
6. Press play on your iPod/media player and list the first three songs that come up:
-taxi girl -mannequin
-azzido da bass – i want U JENCE remix
-a digitalism unreleased song
From The Culture of Me
7. I’m interested in artists’ perceptions of mp3 blogs. Of course, there’s some out-spoken opposers - like Radio Slave and Duke Dumont – but do you think the better blogs (who are careful not to thoughtlessly post high quality new releases) are helping or damaging the scene?
we like blogs and respect them for their work; they can show people things that they normally wouldn’t have discovered. the major labels have lost their grip on sales and downloads anyway, so there’s no point in blaming blogs for damaging the musical industry. people just have to be careful when there’s so much stuff out there — they tend to “zap” through songs rather than appreciating a single song like they used to, back then.
8. I always used to enjoy a good Digitalism remix. 2006 saw you bang out a lot of top notch remixes, but that seems to have petered out now? Will we be hearing any new remixes or original material this or next year?
there’s lots of new Digitalism stuff coming up soon, but it’s our own music rather than remixes. we want to concentrate on the Digitalism stuff first before we point attention on other bands’ works.
9. Who are your favourite up-and-coming artists right now?
hey today! and drums of death might be amongst them.
From You Can Call Me Pelski
10. Have you ever heard a remix of one of your own tracks, that you liked more than your own original mix? Or maybe a remix that inspired you to make a track?
It was usually the remixes we’ve done for other bands that inspired us to own songs. Like, we would have ten different ideas and approaches to a remix, and we pick one but might work on another one for an own song. It’s pretty inspiring.
11. Do you like music blogs and the blogosphere in general? And do you think music blogs have had any part of your success today?
We respect blogs for their work on spreading interesting things, combining music, text and videos, for promoting stuff and all that. It definitely must have played a part in where we are today, no doubt. There’s so many interesting sites out there, and everyday you can discover new stuff or read reviews. Our only concern is the fact that people nowadays tend to just zap through all this content — including music –, because there’s just so much out there. You don’t have your favorite song or album for a month anymore, it’s maybe for a day or a week. But that’s just about how you handle blogs and all the media as a consumer.
From Data Sapiens
12. How would you describe your music to a deaf person reading this interview?
We once had a family’s friend at a concert in San Francisco. She’s deaf, but that didn’t matter because she could actually sense the music, sense the basslines and the air pressure coming out of the speakers. Music of course is hard to describe in that way, but a good analogy/visual description would be a picture of an ocean sundown and the smell of spring at the same time.
13. What are three words to explain what’s different about your next album and when can we expect it?
Faster, not black-and-green, better mixdown. We’ll release it as soon as it’s ready of course! Please hold the line.
14. What is your favourite music festival moment so far and why?
Any festival that’s got goooood, sunny warm weather. Just because.
From Ears of the Beholder
Digitalism will be appearing live at this year’s Wireless Festival, held in London’s Hyde Park on the 4th and 5th of July – for further information on the line-up and how you can get tickets please visit www.wirelessfestival.co.uk
This entry was written by Dubious, posted on June 30, 2009 at 11:43 pm, filed under Interviews, News. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
