First heard this track in Pearson Sound’s Fabriclive 56. This Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa is super bubbly on the whole and will definitely get you bouncing for the summer (yes, I do realize it’s only January but a boy can dream).
Boy out of Boston/New York is making all the right moves and pressing all the right buttons. Killer dj sets opening for SBTRKT earlier this year and making appearances all over Boston and New York. Dr Jeep will make you feel all better.
(via xlr8r)
New joint from Odd Future’s Domo Genesis and Casey Veggies. I’m totally digging the production on this one. Grab Domo’s latest album Under the Influence over at oddfuture.com.
Not only am I late to this party, I forgot to bring my Eyes Wide Shut mask:
Matthew Dear – “Slowdance” by Charles Bergquist from Ghostly International on Vimeo.
Check out more Mathew Dear if you’re like me and haven’t yet.
Summer is still here. It’s just coming down and worn out from the gin. But it’s still here.
Hear all of Beat Connection hear.
Summer’s not over yet and so keep it goin’ with Major Lazer and the ridiculously lovely Nina Sky with this remix of a classic. Additionally, in case you forgot, the video for the original version of this song…well, there are no words.
Major Lazer ft. Nina Sky & Ricky Blaze – Keep It Goin’ Louder (So Shifty 1961 SKA Remix)
Major Lazer ft. Nina Sky & Ricky Blaze - Keep It Goin' Louder (So Shifty 1961 SKA Remix) [3:52m]: Download
Get in the groove with Mala (Digital Mystikz) and Alicia. Check out of Digital Mystikz older work.
I was like to my friend, “I’m totes over chillwave.” But that was a lie. This very sexy, house beaten, reverb soaked track by Greek duo Keep Shelly in Athens took care of that.
New Twin Sister Jam from the debut LP that comes out September 27! Were all very excited. Gypsy Disco Bond Theme:
My guide to getting ladies: Put this song on at the bar, get a French 75 in a high ball, twiddle your curly mustache, wait.
Get this.
This is like finding a Polaroid of a bunch of cool kids having a blast on a much cooler beach than the one you’re on, and really wishing you were in the picture too.
Most people know El Guincho by now. Coconot is Pablo Diaz-Reixa’s other outfit, the album happened back in 2008 (making me pretty uncool for boosting it now).
I like this song. It has the slow sprawling fuzz of your old favorite Brooklyn band, but with the R&B sass of your new favorite Brooklyn band.
Milagres – Glowing Mouth (Radio Edit)
Watch for the new disc in September. Get the old one here.
Lil Wayne is BACK. No lean, no autotune, no whack R&B hooks.
Hear what I’m talking about here. And Carter IV is coming in August, maybe?
Start your summer off right with some delicious ice cream, my friends. Pick up Battle‘s new album: Gloss Drop which will drop June 6/7th.
I know this is a bold proclamation, but “What A Fool Believes” from the Doobie Brothers’ 1978 album Minute by Minute might be the greatest pop song of all time. Bang it on your yacht.
Dawnrecorder must pay respects to our home roots for this post…though: even if you’re not in Boston, you may want to make the trek there just for Together Fest 2011. The Together Festival is a week-long (April 18th-24th) series of events in Greater Boston showcasing music, art and technology by uniting the surrounding communities and beyond. My boy DJ Codiac (purveyor of the delicious dub radio show SUBduction on sub.fm) has been hard at work with the Together crew to bring an unbelievable lineup to Boston including: Trentmoller, Pantha du Prince, Switch, Anton Pieete, Mary Anne Hobbs, Take, Mike Slott, Lorn, Future Rock, Ramadanman, Egyptrixx and many more noteworthy names. The festival includes a daytime event schedule that includes discussion panels, technology demonstrations, art installations, a tradeshow/expo, and film screenings. Looks like second time around is a charm for this annual event series in Boston. Boston gets Together!
Check out the full Together Boston 2011 Schedule
Follow the Festival’s Twitter
‘Like’ Together Boston 2011 on Facebook
I imagine basement parties explode when this kid plays this. Of course he’s too head-in-the-laptop to notice, but pretty blondes are spilling sprite with whatever and throwing there hands everywhere, and somewhere outback, those clothed kids in that Jimmy Eat World video are hanging out by the pool.
Get this 7″ and make your parties cool.
Big K.R.I.T. is bringing back southern rap. “Dreamin’” is a low key, very soulful and eloquent track that’s reminiscent of 90′s Outkast. Big K.R.I.T.’s new mixtape “Return of 4Eva” came out yesterday and the whole thing is dope. Get it free here.
Pusha T is one of the best rappers there is. He’s so good that even 50 Cent sounds good on this song. He must have some kind of magic rap-power aura. That Neptunes beat is incredibly gnarly too. Get Pusha’s new “Fear of God” mixtape for free from Grooveshark.
Yuck is a band of English youngsters that sound like a fuzzier and more grown-up version of the Midwest emo I grew up listening to. Despite this being a fairly new album, it evokes sense memory of driving around the suburbs, drinking a limited-edition orange Mountain Dew. It’s perfect music for an unseasonably warm day like today.
Get Yuck’s self-titled album here.
As if earthquakes, Libyan revolts, horrific bus accidents weren’t enough, the world lost one of the smoothest voices to ever grace the records of hip hop today. Nathaniel “Nate Dogg” Hale passed away at 41. The man turned so many ordinary hip hop tracks into bangers just by laying his vocals on the hook. While “Regulate” (featuring Warren G) will undoubtedly get some extended airplay today I wanted to pay tribute to Nate Dogg by playing the first track I ever heard his voice on. Probably not the most appropriate thing for an 11 year old white kid to be listening to what with the vulgar language and slightly (extremely) degrading image it paints about women. But to me, that’s kind of the thing that made Nate Dogg so unique. It didn’t really matter what he was singing or saying – it just always sounded good. RIP Nate. Pourin’ one out for you.
Last weekend I was in Florida sitting on the beach as the sun was setting when I queued up Diamond Messages’ Smoke and Mirrors EP. The track Liquid Summer mixes together a chill hip-hop beat with ambient guitars, angelic female vocals, and xylophones (my favorite childhood instrument). Basically its like musical crack to me. I didn’t even make it to track 2 of the EP because I must have listened to this one fifteen times until the sun finally set. If the winter blues has you down – put on a good pair of headphones, queue up this track, then close your eyes. I guarantee that after 40 seconds you’ll feel like its summertime …
You can download the Smoke And Mirrors EP here
“This ain’t your daddy’s Chillwave” is what I would say if I was a huge asshole. Vondelpark‘s “Backflip (In The Sauna)” is not chillwave, but is incredibly chill. The part when those big hip-hop drums come in after the song spends its first minute and a half building up is really something special.
This young man’s “Sauna EP” came out a few months ago on R&S Records, home of some chill music heavy-hitters. Get it here.
Everyone keeps complaining about this precious hour of sleep they lost last night. So here’s a really great sleeper by Chicago melody-maker Young Man. I know you’re tired, but with lulling strums like these, it’s not so bad being sleepy.
This is some great shoegazey chillwavey music coming from the forever-spring-and-summer streets of San Francisco. It’s by this band Blackbird Blackbird. Oh, also, they did a fucking mix of a Pavement song!
Brooklyn’s Kingdom takes on Jacques Greene‘s “Tell Me” and sprinkles a bit of his own flavor on what was already a hot track. The end result is a club-friendly house cut that bumps and grinds like a boss.
Make sure to check out Greene’s new EP The Look on LuckyMe.
At 4 in the morning, I’m finishing an unnecessary old-fashioned with my friend at a bar with 2 other people: the bartender and the DJ. So we ask the bartender what the current song is, and he points us to the DJ: an overzealous fellow with a gut, a prospector’s mustache, and suspenders. “Arthur Russell, King of New York”. Apparently Russell was a bigwig in the 70′s nyc underground (which i imagine looked a lot like David Bowie’s Labyrinth) and kind of served as a godfather to disco getting weird and becoming dance music for the next couple decades. He has a couple of monikers, make sure to check out Loose Joints for some bangers.
UK-based producer Zomby is a weird dude. It seems like he spends most days as a hermit— straight blunted and cranking out whatever the hell kind of tune he feels like at any given moment. Sometimes they’re rave-roots nostalgic garage/hardcore bangers. Other times super minimal 8-bit dubstep tracks that sound like your NES on cough syrup.
Every once in a while he drops a gem like “Natalia’s Song”. Admittedly, this dark and moody Burial-esque side of Zomby’s is without a doubt my favorite. I heard this first when Mary Anne Hobbs snuck it into her last radio show last year and it’s become somewhat of an instant-repeat jam for me.
As far as I know this track is currently unreleased, but make sure to check out all of Zomby’s other releases (especially Where Were U in ’92).
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