2011 ? A Second Take
Updated: 2012-02-11 08:02:33
SoundWord An Article by Phin Upham Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . 2011 A Second Take post from i'm waking up to on 11 February 2012 04:02:33 AM . i'm waking up to It’s February already , so get on with it , you say Not before a second take I don’t know where to start , really . I tried writing my year-end reflection some time back , but was never quite satisfied with how it Continue reading Read The Full Article : http : wakingupto.wordpress.com 2012 02 11 2011-a-second-take Add to del.icio.us Digg this Post to Furl Add to reddit Add to myYahoo Website designed by Bartosz Brzezinski Powered by blogdig.net Cool Stuff Have A
Today I was contemplating on the difference between nu cumbia and many of the other underground music styles. It makes me appreciate nu cumbia more knowing that instead of being born underground it was born from mainstream music (which of course at one point was considered underground). That’s a big difference compared to the other [...]
So many good things come in 3′s. Threesomes, Hanson, Lord Of The Rings, and The Dirt #62. This week, our weekly curation features submissions from 3 of us here at GDD™, including Troy Kurtz, burn unit, and yours truly. I’d say this might be my favorite Dirt in a while, but I’ll let you guys... Continue + Comment
I am quite pleased that Stuart Price is back in a big way so far in 2012. Mr. Price, aka Jacques Lu Cont (also doing business as Thin White Duke, Paper Faces, Les Rythmes Digitales, et al) has written/produced songs for some of the biggest names in dance music (Madonna, New Order, Scissor Sisters, Kylie... Continue + Comment
Paul David, one of the New Wave of Moombahtonista’s plus one from the Original Vanguard, A-Mac team up to release this blistering EP, which came out today. You can’t really miss this one and you need to get it now from BEATPORT. The track “Horizon” is a Tropical Heavyweight peak time track perfect for sunnier [...]
Happy Friday! I hope this week treated you well and I hope the weekend will treat you even better. I have news featuring James Murphy working with the Gorillaz & Andre 3000, Skrillex videos, and Soul Clap. Please read on after the jump. Gorillaz, James Murphy, and André 3000 Team Up Gorillaz‘ partnership with Converse was unveiled in... Continue + Comment
This fine specimen of a thing came out today, check it out and grab it! PR Who is Don Valdez? Well his facebook doesn’t tell us so we’ll make up a story. Don Valdez is a famous fictional character who has appeared in advertisements for the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia since 1959, [...]
The Space Ibiza resident DJ Danny Marquez drops into Miami for set at Arkadia in the Fontainebleau Hotel tonight for the weekly Disco Sh!t party. The Spanish DJ has held residencies all over Ibiza, and launched his big room house imprint ‘F1rst Records’ in 2011. I’ll be supporting the veteran house DJ tonight once the... Continue + Comment
A few weeks back I got a chance to spend a night out with one of the most recent up and coming producers from the Washington D.C. area, Alvin Risk, when he was in town for a few days opening for Nero at the Henry Fonda Music Box in Hollywood (RIP). Check after the jump to... Continue + Comment
Today Fatboy Slim is proud to announce the killer line-up taking over the Brighton AMEX Stadium alongside him on 1 & 2 June this year at Big Beach Bootique 5. Joining the original superstar DJ at the American Express Community Stadium’s first ever live music event will be some of the biggest names in dance music: Fatboy Slim, Carl Cox, Nero, Annie Mac, DJ Fresh, Luciano, Maya Jane-Coles, The 2 Bears, Doorly, Jaguar Skills & Union DJs. More... Continue + Comment
We’re kickin off this weekend RIGHT NOW. The main man TJR has just put out (2) phenomenal mixes for the masses, representing the electro edge and the funky fidgety techno side. In celebration of TJ performing @ our VERSUS party tonight in Santa Monica, he has given us the exclusive unveiling of the track listing... Continue + Comment
So I’ve had some of the parts to this album for months… it’s always fun when you get to hear the mixed and mastered copies, and see what an artist finally names a track. There’s also a few cuts that are brand new to my ears on here. This project is all over the place. [...]
With the Miami Winter Music Conference approaching, Defected Records will release their annual In The House Miami compilation this month. Defected launched the Miami-focused In The House series in 2006, beginning with an edition mixed by label boss Simon Dunmore. Since then they’ve put out a new mix in the lead-up to the WMC each year. For In The House Miami ’12, Defected... Continue + Comment
We got sent a highly anticipated new mixtape by a young dutch dude called Wesley Schless – better know as Wessel S. He was born on October 13, 1989 and grow up in Dordrecht. He’s only been at this w couple of years, but he’s doing very very well. He started playing at school parties [...]
I was kinda shocked, and then appalled to see the new DIPLO & DON DIABLO video. Here in Holland, where I am at, we have had a phenomenon the last 2 years and its known as ZANGER RINUS. This guy is not completely 100% in the brains department, but he loves to sing and make [...]
This vocal was recorded by Chance The Rapper while he was on a 10 day suspension. From high school. He’s 18 years old, and gearing to put Chicago on his young shoulders. The beat from Sluggo, Nerd Rage, and Terrabad is one of the most destructive I have ever heard. The added vocal turns this [...]
Little is known about the incognito artist/duo/group/robots Letthemusicplay besides the name reference to Shannon’s 1983 chart topping single titled, you guessed it, “Let the Music Play.” Mixmag, A-Trak, and The 2 Bears are supporting their first release titled “Space,” and DFA Records‘ Jacques Renault added his magic touch with a dark disco remix. Letthemusicplay also remixed the track, turning... Continue + Comment
Once a distant message written in the stars, the wisdom of Soul Clap has been beamed down to Earth in the form of EFUNK - Everybody’s Freaky Under Natures Kingdom – their debut album on Wolf + Lamb. Before today there was yesterday and after tomorrow is the future, but what happened in-between? The dark age of lost-cool, a time of dimensional [...]
Break out your skinny jeans and your dancin shoes – Friday night we’re gonna do the dirty disco. This week @ CONTROL we welcome two special DJ sets by Cut Copy and Midnight Juggernauts. This is a rare performance to catch these bands doing special dj sets aside from their own live shows, with support... Continue + Comment
[GFX by Dj Sheppa] Photography by ”Felicia Simion” – www.feliciasimionphotography.com Coming Next Tuesday, Valentines Day Tracklist & Players Coming Soon! [GFX by Dj Sheppa] Dj Sheppa has been holding down one of Kansas City’s longest running Moombahton parties called BODY2BODY & also has a midweek party called MIDWEEK MOOMBAH. In other words as he [...]
This week: scary bass from False Witness, a dembow tour from Robzilla and an antidote to the cold from Marc Hype. False Witness Sinister screwed bass is the order of the day here, as you should be able to guess from Rizzla’s appearances on the tracklist… CASSIE – ME & YOU (¥OIN REMIX) DOCTOR JEEP [...]
Wow, wow, wow, wow!!! Madonna has RIPPED OFF our Brazilian homie Joao Brasil’s Love Banana track on the Man Recordings label. Check this out: I just hope Daniel Haaksman, head honcho of the Man Recordings label tries to do something about this, maybe with a possible lawsuit against her. I’m not sure about the legal [...]
Death In Vegas are to headline the opening night of the Camden Crawl 2012
The Camden Crawl offers 300 artists & events in & around Camden Town, London for 1 ticket over 3 days between 12pm – 4am between 4th – 6th May Bank Holiday weekend.
Officially the summer’s opening festival, The Camden Crawl [...]
Blink-182 have been confirmed to headline an Eden Session on Sunday July 8.
The Californian three-piece come to Eden following the release of their acclaimed sixth studio album Neighborhoods last September, their first record since the band split in 2005.
Blink-182, otherwise known as Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker, are probably best [...]
On 20 February Fire Records will reissue It (1983), Freaks (1987) and Separations (1992).
Britpop has been retired for some 15 summers now. It showered itself in glory for two bright years but the fame became too powerful and Britpop eventually swallowed itself whole, omitting the painful stench of excessive flatulence as it went.
However, sat slippered [...]
Ed Sheeran has announced that his next single will be ‘Drunk’, released on February 27th via Asylum/Atlantic Records. He posted the video up online today – watch it here. It’s the 4th single to be taken from his triple platinum album ‘+’ which shot back to the top of the charts at the beginning [...]