Daily Entree

New PBJ song is pretty funny...never knew they had it in 'em.

Hey (Shut the Fuck Up Boy)- Peter Bjorn and John
Mind Dimension 2 (Soulwax Version)- Tiga
The Lock Shot- Goshi Goshi
All the Girls- Sammy Bananas
Faithful (Original Mix Par Fantom)- Fantom

Bag Raiders Remix

Bag Raiders Remix fellow mates from down under ZZZ... Nothing like some Casio piano sounds

ZZZ - Lion (Bag Raiders Remix)

Best of the Best of...

Every year (well for the last 4 or 5) when Pitchfork releases their best 50 albums/100 singles, I always feel obligated to go through all the artists and try to discover/rediscover some I've never heard of. Why?- I'm not really sure, but probably because all my other friends/journalists/music critics/anybody who listens to similar music does. Obviously my bias is towards electronic music, but im all open ears. From this years countdown Ive heard some new artists I find particularly interesting-- Air France and Portishead (rediscovered in this case) for example. However, I never view Pitchfork as the "ultimate" source of music journalism I feel alot of music people do. I still like Rolling Stone and shitty electro blogs run by Australians. After reading their review of Aoki's awful mix album, I felt like instead of bashing Aoki's poor choice in music they choose to criticize his style and mannerisms when Djing (but hey I'd really like a swig of some grey goose every now and then, right?). As much good as Pitchfork does for indie rock and under-the-radar music, they seem to carry this elitist attitude in their way about doing it. So here are a couple of track I found indirectly through Pitchfork, whether it be a song from an album or a single from the top 100 list. This years list was significantly different than last years, more electro-ish list. A lot of the dance/electronic music reflects the disco-revival of this previous year (see "Blind" and alot of Aeroplane write ups). While, yes, these songs were good and catchy, but I'd rather see more "banger"-oriented tracks associated with poor dj'ing and Steve Aoki. Yeh, the music isnt flawless and the Bloody Beetroots tracks often sound like theyre skipping a beat, but its always upbeat and ideal for a energetic, party hungry college student such as myself. I'll listen to Fleet Foxes when im 37 and have a couple kids, you know?

No Excuses- Air France
Machine Gun- Portishead
Collapsing at Your Doorstep- Air France
Strangers- Portishead
Poison Dart- The Bug
The Kramer- Wale

Daily Entree

borrowed a charger for a day...thank god


Cornelius (Radio Oi!)- Bloody Beetroots
Ghost- Sebastian Leger and Chris Lake
3 Minutes with Apollo Creed- Phantom's Revenge
Shove It- Santogold
Lunar Camel- Siouxie and the Banshees
Strange Overtones- David Byrne and Brian Eno
Saturated Phat Impact- Phantom's Revenge

Embedded videos FTL

My macs down for the count for awhile so im unfortunately working on a lenovo for now. I would be posting a shitload of stuff out of sheer boredom, so Ill try to get back on the mac asap. Here is a track from Francois K's essential mix which ill try to put up soon (the mix that is).

Daily Entree

Jizz in my Pants- The Lonely Island
Sussudio (extended version)- Phil Collins
Ride (Matt Hughes Remix)- Heavinz
Don Quichotte- Magazine 60
Monkey Bee (Diplo Rmx)- Monkey: Journey to the West
Goblin City (holy ghost! RMX)- Panthers
LES Artistes (XXXchange RMX)- Santogold ft. Movado
You'll Find a Way (Switch and Graeme Sinden RMX)- Santogold

Daily Entree

Set Me Free- Dax Riders
Ill get you ft. Jeppe (Royal Rumble Edit)- Classixx
Bolero- Fancy
The Adventures of Pippi Longstump- Fear of Tigers
Big Booya- Jess and Crabbe

"Im the hood Obama, shovelin McCain"

This dropped a few days ago, but I've been too busy bumping the living shit out of it to get to posting.

A prelude to their long-player of a similar name, "Road to Til The Casket Drops" jacks beats from, among others, "Swagger Like Us" and that crazy Ron Brownz/Jim Jones jam "Pop Champagne." Not much is different about the lyrics. That is, look for Coke references that would make Lindsay Lohan feel uncomfortable and wordplay that would make Rakim stand up and applaud. After a pair of uncharacteristically UN-groundbreaking releases, the DJ Drama-endorsed ("We Got it 4 Cheap Vol 3" and the Re-Up Gang's debut LP) brothers Pusha T and Malice seem to be back to Hell Hath No Fury form. 

Look out especially for "Affliction," as well as the two aforementioned jams.

Clipse - "Road to Til the Casket Drops Mixtape" (via Complex)

"Daily" Munchies

This an answer to KB's "Daily Entree" - hopefully it will make contributions from this author more frequent.

Say what you want about the artist formerly known as Lil Wayne. Recent releases may be plagued by gibberish and autotuning, but instant classics like "A Milli" and "Stuntin Like My Daddy" continue to shape and influence most good commercial rap (read: NOT DJ KHALED) out there. The machine-gun flow, stream of consciousness wordplay, and aggressive swagger characterize Wayne's work from his mixtape tear that led into the stellar Carter III LP last summer, a concentration of excellence that is rarely matched in Hip Hop. 

Attached are a pair of tracks that are testaments to Wayne's influence. Recently ascended deity Kanye West loops the Santogold-sampled hook throughout the Jigga's verses in the recently released "Brooklyn Go Hard," a la Da Drought 3. And heavy-hitter Polow da Don channels the spirit of "A Milli" producer Bangledesh in what sounds in many ways like a remix of the aforementioned jam.

And I had to post the Wayne track. Consider it a plea for Columbia to release it as a n-teenth single from C3.

Jay-Z ft. Santogold - "Brooklyn Go Hard" (Prod. by Kanye West) (thanks to Discobelle)

Rich Boy - "Drop" (prod. by Polow da Don) (thanks to Discobelle)

Lil Wayne ft. Juelz Santana and Fabolous - "You Ain't Got Nuthin on Me" (prod. by Alchemist)

Daily Entree

Here are some older soulwax tracks along with a cheesy top-20 remix and some french shit.

Black Cow- Steely Dan
Slowdance- Soulwax
Krack- Soulwax
Hot 'n' Cold (Yelle RMX)- Katy Perry
Without Reason- Pegase
Crackhead- Jess and Crabbe

Daily Entree

Eleanor Rigby (Soulwax RMX)- Beatles
Priors- Raw Man
Pennies- Cool Kids

Daily Entree

The Knife- Silent Shout
The Knife- Pass this on
Final (Metallica)- Justice
NY Excuse (Soulwax)- Justice
Crawfish (Pilooski edit)- Elvis Presley

Guess who's back?

In honor of my latest attempt at being a somewhat faithful Vapesta co-founder and writer, here are a couple of seminal tracks from artists in need of, or on the verge of, a comeback.

Eminem - "Cum on Everybody" (from the Slim Shady EP)

Jadakiss - "We Gonna Make It" ft. Styles P. (from Kiss tha Game Goodbye)

Cam'ron - "Dipset  Forever" (from Purple Haze)

Felix

Here are the results of my latest Felix da Housecat downloading fiend. A couple bomb electroclash songs heeeehah.

Felix da Housecat
Happy Hour
Harlot
Silver Screen Shower Scene
Sinnerman (heavenly house mix)
Ready 2 Wear
Madame Hollywood

Miami Horror EP

1 Dont Be on With Her
2 Summerfest '86
3 Make you Mine
4 Bellevue
5 Illumination

In all their synth glory, Miami Horror released their EP earlier this week. Ive been waiting to get my hands on Summerfest '86 for awhile after originally hearing it on their myspace. Definitely worth picking this up on vinyl, this group is my favorite in this 80's sound revival.

Daily Entree

Sebastian Tellier- Look
I-F- Space Invaders are Smoking Grass
Talking Heads- This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

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Siriusmo- Femuscle
Hugo Borealis and Ruba- Inside (Push inside mix)
Fuckkk Offf- Rave is King
Busy Signal- I fucked your girl
Garota de Ipanema
Frankmusik- When your around (boyz noize mix)
Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band- A fifth of Beethoven (soulwax RMX)

Daily Entree

shout outs to bobface and friends for some of these tracks

Lindstrom- I feel space
De La Soul- Watch Out
Van She- Kelly (Breakbot RMX)
ZZT- The Worm
Bloody Beetroots- Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi

Daily Entree

Shooting Stars- Bag Raiders
Hoy!- Duke Dumont
Your Visits Are Getting Shorter- Bloc Party
LES Artistes- Santogold

After reluctantly downloading some Bag Raiders and Santogold, I found these songs pretty tight. Again the whole blog scene has been relatively disappointing as of late, or maybe its just me waiting for Daft Punk's new album and ignoring other good music.

Falke

need to get this track

Daily Entree

Golden Age- TV on the Radio
Taken Away (Radio Edit)- Digitalism
Come Clean- Jeru the Damaja
Over and Over (disco mix)- Sylvester
Where is My Mind- The Pixies
Wired- Jens

Daily Entree

Olympics are pretty great around these times...

Steppin' Out- Joe Jackson
Kids (Burntpiano's Robo RMX)- MGMT
Sirius- Alan Parsons Project
A Thing For Me (Breakbots BLIVE Miami RMX)- Metronomy
Hes So Shy- Pointer Sisters
Around the World- Senor Coconut and his Orchestra

Daily Entree

Here are some of the lesser tracks on the from the Avalanches first album as well as some tracks off kiyoshi's volume 1.

Stay Another Season- The Avalanches
Electricity- The Avalanches
Welcome to the Pleasuredome- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Discotheque- Acos CoolKAs
Demonz- The LoFi Samurai

Daily Entree

Pardon my infatuation for 80's pop.


Everybody Dance- Chic
Soup for One- Chic
Free yourself, be yourself- The Brothers Johnson
Dance Hall Days- Wang Chung
Talk Like that (Jens RMX)- The Presets
Heaven is a place on Earth (Hidden Cat RMX)- Belinda Carlisle

Xinobi

Xinobi
Day Off
Losing Sight

schoolyard scrimmage

Cold Crush Brothers-Live at the Dixie
Whodini-Friends
Chicago-Street Player (edit)
Lakeside-Something About That Woman
Junior-Mama Used to Say
Rene & Angela-I Love You More
Bob Sinclar-I Feel For You
Captain Rapp-Bad Times (I Can't Stand It)
Musique-In The Bush

Larry Levanthian

Daily Entree

#4 on the Jets? ROFL

Hes the Greatest Dancer- Chic
Artificial (original mix)- Kris Menace and Felix da Housecat ft. Fred Falke
Love Cant Turn Around (Lifelike RMX)- Farley "Jackmaster" Funk
Revolution 909- Daft Punk
Dont Let the Man (Justice RMX)- Fatboy Slim
You Make me Feel- Sylvester
Good Times- Chic
Baba O'Reilly (SebastiAn RMX)- The Who

Sylvester

Great song...sample for JJK's "Find a Friend" and played by larry levan a ton in his mixes.

Daily Entree

Havent really been finding that much new-ish stuff that Ive liked as of late so I went back into the vault to dig up some goodies. Alot of what im seeing now is either bad electro or some shitty new rap. Got a couple vintage french touch tracks here along with some great classic rock in the allman brothers.

Blue Sky- Allman Brothers
Melissa- Allman Brothers
Midnight Express- Dieselboy
The New York Editor- Amon Tobin
Rock Shock(Thomas Bangalter Stop-Start Mix)- Roy Davis Jr
Into the Galaxy (GMF RMX)- Midnight Juggernauts
Love on a Summernight- The McCrarys

Daily Entree

Stomp- Brothers Johnson
A Milli (MGH edit)- Lil Wayne
Strawberry Letter 22- Brothers Johnson
Music Talking (Fred Falke RMX)- Roland Clark and the Montanas
Step by Step- Koxo
Feel the Pain- Dinosaur Jr.

Daily Entree

Ive been listening to a lot of Fred Falke lately so watch out for the bias in this post.

Intro- Alan Braxe and Fred Falke
Embrace ft Ladyhawke (Fred Falke and Miami Horror RMX)- PNAU
Anticipating (Alan Braxe RMX face B)- Britney Bitch
Ali Baba-John Holt
Back of the Van (Fred Falke RMX)- Ladyhawke
Heartbreaker- Metronomy
Go Crazy! (Ft. Majida)- Armand Van Helden
Necessary Evil- Armand Van Helden

Daily Entree

"Don Jay! Don Jay! Don Jay!"- Inebriated chants during Spitzer's set at Webster Hall June 21st anticipating French DJ Danger's set

Night Vision- Daft Punk
Hunting High and Low (Louis La Roche RMX)- Aha
Please- N.O.S.
My Rendition- The Martinez Brothers
Pussy Ride- DJ Funk
A Millie (Say Wut RMX)- Lil Wayne
Bonafide Lovin' (Yuksek RMX)- Chromeo
Music Sounds Better With You (Miami Horror RMX)- Daft Punk

Daily Entree

Gap Band-Early In The Morning
Gap Band-Outstanding
Armand Van Helden-Flowerz ft. Roland Clark
Demon Vs. Heartbreaker-You are my High
St. Germain-Alabama Blues (Todd Edwards Remix)
Cassius-Foxxy
Josh One-Contemplation (King Britt mix)
Cat Stevens-Here Comes My Baby

Daily Entree

"When you work alot you end up resorting to Bill Withers' tracks a lot more frequently"

Use Me- Bill Withers
Kim and Jessie (DatA RMX)- M83
Tin Man- America
High (Salsoul RMX) - Sky
Club Lonely (latin groove mix)- Lil' Louis

Nas is Like....

I tend to go into these ruts after long and vigorous displays of being in college (see: The Rules of Attraction) when I spend hours reading Wikipedia articles. On my most recent Winge (Wiki + Binge = Winge), I ended up on “NaS (Rapper).” I spent the better part of my night immersing myself in all things Nasir Jones. No homo.

Born in Crown Heights and raised in Queensbridge, Nas’ hip-hop pedigree is pretty evident. From the upstart hustler/poet in Illmatic, to the awesomely indulgent opening scene of Belly, to “Ether,” to jumping ship Jay-Z’s toilet slave, to the upcoming “Nigger,” Nas has never wavered as one of hip hop’s all time premier lyricists. Here’s some stuff I felt summed up his career (thus far) pretty well.

MP3s:

“NY State of Mind”

“The World is Yours”

“Nas is Like”

“Ether”

"Rewind"

“One Mic”

“Made You Look”

“Thief’s Theme”

“Success” (Jay-Z ft. Nas)

Daily Entree 6/24

I kissed a girl- Katy Perry
Medicine Man- Armand Van Helden
Tin Man- America
Give me the Night- George Benson
Knights in White Satin- Giorgio Moroder
I love to move in here (proxy RMX)- moby

Daily Entree V2

Let no man put asunder (Frankie Knuckles RMX)
Mr Blue Sky- ELO
Diary of Horace Wimp- ELO
Sunshine- Roy Ayers
Phoenix- Daft Punk
Lend Me an Ear- The D.O.C.
Tenderoni (Proxy distort RMX)- Chromeo

Puzique, Pilooski,...

Heres a bunch of stuff ive been listening to lately...I kinda just wanna focus more on posting a ton of tracks rather than give big write ups about the individual tracks.

Beggin'- Pilooski (i dont know whether to classify this as his originally but thats what it is on the myspace)
Chrystal City- Braxe and Falke
Heatwave- Braxe and Falke
Dont Go- Puzique
Let 'em In- P McCartney and Wings
The Whistle Song- Frankie Knuckles
Iron Zombie- Breakbot
Get Get Down- Paul Johnson

Frankie Knuckles mix

Via Discobelle here is a Frankie Knuckles mix entitled Prive by Frankie Knuckles. Good shit, no doubt.

RANDOM HOUSE tunes Ive been listening to lately

Much to my chagrin this post is more than solely house, we have a little 80's, disco, new-ish electro and more. With not as many little posts in the last week or so, I decided to just throw a bunch of random tracks that have been catching me ear lately. We have a little Cut Copy off their album In Ghost Colours, a nice Yelle remix that is kinda old but I havent really given it a listen until late, some Gary Numan, Lil Wayne, an old primitive Justice joint which I am a little skeptical about (via hypemachine), a mashup (dont usually post these with the recent mashup craze amongst non-alternative music listeners as well as shitty quality because of this newfound interest), and some more. Be sure to check all of these out as theyre really spanning across genres and you should be bound to find something you enjoy.

Tristesse Joie (Rolf Honey RMX)- Yelle
Hold On- Holy Ghost
Imperial Stress vs John Williams- DJ Beloki
Sure You Will- Justice
Three Little Words (Damage RMX)- Frankmusik
Bezerker- Gary Numan
Mr. Officer (CSK RMX)- Snob Scrilla
Phone Home- Lil Wayne
Keep on Dancing- Gary's Gang

Romeo Erotic

A relatively newer group, Romeo Erotic has been throwing out some serious remixes to classic R&B tracks from the 80's and 90's. Putting a funky disco spin on many of these tracks could lead to only one possible thing...a disco resurgence perhaps? First found their stuff on the hipster trendy blog missingtoof, which was kinda surprising finding this type of music on there. But, if its good, who cares? Add onto their tracks a couple other classic disco tracks ive been listening to lately.

Romeo Erotic
You Are Danger (remix)- Gary Low
Im Freaky (remix)- O'bryan

A Taste of Honey

Boogie Oogie Oogie

BMX: The Best Thing Since Vegemite

This Australian quartet has been getting some serious exposure on the blog-o-sphere. I have not stopped listening ever since I got my hands on these tracks. They are so new they do not even have a myspace page but hopefully there is a lot more coming from these guys (and a girl). Perfect summery pop/electro that can been pumped while cruising with the windows down, chillin' on the beach, or having a damp sweaty party. I cannot wait for more. The tracks are below from best to worst.




BMX - Theme to BMX
BMX - War
BMX - Refero Beach


Until Next Time....

MGMT - Electric Feel (JUSTICE Remix)

Wesleyan boys get the remix treatment from Justice, the hottest electro act out of Paris since Daft Punk.

Download HERE

Primal Scream

I never heard of Primal Scream until looking through the Daft Punk wiki and seeing the album, Screamadelica as one of their inspirations. Going by the transitive property of electronic music, if a great artist(s) is inspired by another artist, that other artist must be pretty good, I picked up the album. Needless to say, its a very interesting cd. A couple tracks really caught my ear with the indie sounding chords as well as some nice vocals and catchy basslines.

Come Together
Movin' On Up
Loaded

Crookers + Danger

In honor of Crookers+ Danger show June 21st at Webster hall, here are a ton of tracks by the respective artists. Pretty pumped for this late night show (starts at 11 pm LOL), mainly because of the difference in styles. Danger can get it banging but also has some different stuff, while the crookers just throw out bangers all night.

Danger
Chick Lit (TV Remix Edit)
14h54
11h30 (w/ new intro set rip)
American Boy (remix)

Crookers
We are all prostitutes (remix)
I want your soul (remix)
The Salmon Dance (remix)
I love to Move in Here (remix)
The Whip (remix)

Danger and Proxy

New Danger track I stumbled across as well as a Proxy set rip, most likely from one of erol alkan's amazing sets. Here you gooooooo.

Raven- Proxy (Set rip)
7H46- Danger

MSTRKRFT Essential Mix

The boys from the North come at us with a danceable upbeat BBC Essential Mix ready for your summer basement party!

Download HERE

Until next time....

CCR

CCR is no doubt one of the major staples of classic rock. These guys ooze that early blues inspired rock that always sounds good. Here are some tracks off one of their greatest hits albums I picked up off my buddy Matt.

CCR
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Fortunate Son
I Put a Spell on You

Joy Division

I could only follow up the Talking Heads post with a monster Joy Division post. The epitome of depressing music, Joy Division started up a lot of post punk shit, blah blah blah. Heres the wiki entry to better summarize the group:

"Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences, to develop a sound and style that pioneered the post-punk movement of the late 1970s. According to music critic Jon Savage, the band "were not punk but were directly inspired by its energy."^[2] Their self-released 1978 debut EP, An Ideal for Living, caught the attention of the Manchester television personality Tony Wilson. Joy Division's debut album, Unknown Pleasures, was released in 1979 on Wilson's independent record label Factory Records, and drew critical acclaim from the British press. Despite the band's growing success, vocalist Ian Curtis was beset with depression and personal difficulties, including a dissolving marriage and his diagnosis with epilepsy. Curtis found it increasingly difficult to perform at live concerts, and often had seizures during performances"

New Order was good but didnt have the edgy, almost grimey sound that Joy Division incorporated. So therefore JD > NO.

Joy Division
Komakino
Atmosphere
She's Lost Control
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Shadowplay

Proxy, D.I.M. the Presets, more electro blah blah blah

Ive always seen groups like the Presets and Cut Copy as hipster electro gold, and therefore have been a little hesitant to delve into groups like these and get their shit off missingtoof, redthreat, etc. However, I downloaded a track by the presets called my people, which is incredibly catchy. Something about the intonation of the vocalist going along with those blaring synths catches my ear.

The Presets
My People
Are You the One

As for DIM and proxy these guys kill it. When I hear them i think immediately of killing the dance floors full of drugged out hipsters at any Williamsburg-esque venue. Just give a listen, theres not much else i can do to describe the intensity and craziness of these tracks.

D.I.M.
Is You
Danse en France (D.I.M. Remix) (repost)
More (D.I.M. pop em all dub remix)
Floating (D.I.M. Remix)

Proxy
Destroy
Dancing in the Dark

Bowie

Leona also admitted she loves all things "sci-fi". She said: “Labyrinth is one of my favourite films of all time. I think David Bowie was amazing in that film and he wrote an amazing soundtrack. It’s stuck with me ever since I was six years old. I also like Star Trek and The Dark Crystal.” -Leona Lewis (supposedly an up and coming pop star?)

David Bowie
Young American
Fame
Lets Dance
Changes
Rebel, Rebel
Under Pressure (with Queen)

Disco/Funk Revival- Gene Chandler, James Brown, and more...

Ive always thought of the funk and disco eras as some of my favorites. The spirits were always high and the basslines were always thumping uncontrollably. Disco is essentially the barest bones of the dance genre as a whole. Disco led to early chicago house which led to house today and many other electronic/dance genres which evolved out of early house (acid house, drum and bass later down the road, uk garage,...). I downloaded a ton of random disco stuff and kinda sifted through it to find some interesting tidbits and what not. First up we have gene chandler who was an absolute boss. Known as the "Duke of Earl", Chandler was known for his over the top outfits and great hearty vocals that should only come out of a black man who started out in a doo-wop group.

Gene Chandler
Get Down

Next up I had to add a little bit of James Brown. As much problems as hes had, his music is funk. James Brown is funk. Funk is James Brown. James Brown beats woman and makes funk.

James Brown
Get up off'a that thang nigga

For the rest of the tracks I wanted to put up, I couldnt really pull up much in terms of wiki and even for discogs. Ill just put these up and let you decide for yourselves what to think.

Assorted Disco
Massara- Margeritha
Peter Brown- Dance with me
Meco- Star Wars Theme (disco version LOL!)