Tune Dump: Air, LA Riots, Jokers of the Scene, Booka Shade, Downlink

air live at the forum in london

let’s start off with a nice, light, and easy song. take a deep breath of air.

Kelly Watch The Stars – Air

jan driver is on the boys noize record label and makes some industrial house that turns out to be rather dancable. (boys noize is coming to Beta on mar 19)

CS40M – Jan Driver

awesome track.  don’t get scared when it growls at you.

Grand Theft Ecstasy – Feed Me

fool's gold vol. 1

the next 3 tracks are off of the new fool’s gold (a-trak’s label) vol 1 compilation.  check it out, it’s got a ton of other killer songs on it.

Move Your Body – Sammy Bananas

Control Your Tuba – LA Riots

jokers of the scene have some pretty hard and bass-driven electro that borders on industrial or even metal.  these guys really know how to bring the bass and shake foundations

jokers of the scene

Power Slave – Jokers of the Scene

B4U (Jokers Of The Scene Remix) – Vitaminsforyou

this guy has been rocking my world lately as I’ve started to venture into minimal electronica and downtempo. (read: more chill, calm, and collected music; music for electric relaxation) he brings the beauty and general ambience of downtempo together with masterful production and minimal house beats.  music like this makes me feel better about the world.

Moonstruck – Booka Shade

killer goldfish track.  in a smilar emotional vein as the last track, with a more solid house beat, percussion, and worldly vocal samples.  set autopilot to cruise.

My Rainbow – Goldfish

drop some color.

Color Dropping – Eskmo

another great song I just kind of happened upon. it is a big, groovy fucker.

Drunk as a Monk (Rabbit in the Moon Mix) – Banco de Gaia

first rule of fight club: don’t talk about fight club

second rule of fight club: DON’T TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB

Jack’s Smirking Revenge – The Dust Brothers (aka the chemical brothers)

and now for some dubstep.

downlink

downlink was just at the ogden in denver with excision and antiserum and from what I hear they pretty much tore the roof off of the place.  check out these goodies.

Ignition – Downlink

Gamma Ray – Downlink

chase & status…white lies…match made in heaven.

Embrace – Chase & Status

-djsj

GOLDFISH: Dripping-Wet Music Gold from South Africa

Its been probably a year or two since my friend Baker turned me onto this awesomely-cool little group from South Africa called Goldfish.

If you didn't know about goldfish before now, be warned...you might fall deeply in love.

Goldfish is Dom Peters (left; double bass, keyboards, groove box) and David Poole (right; sax, sampler, mixing) and they sound like heaven on a bun.  They bring together their amazing musical talents to create a jazz-club-cool lyrical electro that never fails to satisfy me.

so much talent on stage

These guys have exploded in Cape Town and have toured internationally as well, even holding down a residency at Pacha in Ibiza. (yes, the super-club Pacha) Their album ‘Perceptions of Pacha’ is based on the sound that they created during their residency and, “captures the care-free vibe of the magical island of Ibizia.”

Here’s a Goldfish mix with some other stuff thrown in there, and some goldfish goodies as well.  enjoy.

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Cruising Through – Goldfish

Soundtracks And Come Backs – Goldfish

Crunchy Joe – Goldfish

-DJSJ