You can now find us over at:

www.letsbeseriousnyc.com

Tell all your friends!

–Andy

Whilst surfing the internet I somehow came across a video of various DJ’s playing  a wild, fist pumping, booty bouncing set at Le Social Club in Paris. These DJ’s in this video turned out to be DJ Funk, Gant-Man, (well known Ghetto-tech DJ’s from Chicago) as well as Booty Call, a collection of various DJ’s of the same genre, from France. It seems that ghetto tech is doing well in France as DJ Funk and Gant-Man seem to be regulars at Booty Call parties at Social Club.

What really caught my attention was the 145-150bpm remixes on display in this video. I had heard a lot of DJ Funk’s Booty House Anthems 2, which is great, but it may not compare to how crazy these ghetto house remixes are of some of your favorite club tracks.

Not much else I can say about these except check them out.

Mr. Oizo – Positif (Kaptain Cadillac Remix)

Crookers – Knobbers (DJ Gant-Man Remix)

Missy Elliot – Best Best (Marvy Da Pimp Remix)

Booty Call is – Marvy Da Pimp & Eski Tark & Freeze DBH & Kaptain Cadillac & DJ Kesmo aka Dirty.K

-Alex

In the words of Zombie Nation:

“One cold day in December I had a brainwave. An idea for internet democratic music, made as a collaboration with my boys and girls on Facebook and Twitter. If you’re reading this you probably already know that it is my declared passion to mash samples together on my MPC, so the logical first step was to issue the callout: “send me your sounds!”

In the week that followed, my dropbox was inundated with whistles, basses and burps.
The next step was to split the sounds into categories and present them in 10 polls, and then open the voting up to the world. I created loops from the most popular sounds, and then opened them up to another popularity contest. The people spoke, once again, and chose their favourite five loops.

In the following weeks, between sessions taking my beloved MPC all over the world, I worked out an arrangement. A song! Part of this work was done streaming video from the studio, with about three hundred people watching and contributing to the decision making process. After a final round of feedback on the arrangement through Soundcloud, the song was finalised. Tada!
The last step was to make the parts available to the public, so anyone could have a bash and submit a remix. We selected the six most interesting and unique remixes, and included them in the package.

Now only one thing was missing – a name! This was one element of the project that was beyond the capabilities of online democracy. The polling system hit its technical limits. So I decided to discuss the name with my new studio buddies, the people behind the original sounds submitted! And then att last, we had reached the end of the road.

This project was not an attempt to make a logical song, a marketable piece of music, or even one that would appeal to most. Rather, the idea was to produce a democratic piece of music; one in which anyone could take part, and influence the outcome. And I am happy to say that it worked out great!”

Even though it wasn’t an attempt to make a logical song, it came out dope.  The Obi Blanche remix is a solid banger that is definitely gonna be getting some play time in clubs everywhere.  The whole release contains the original track plus six remixes and you can pick it up here.

Zombie Nation and Friends – The Mind of Many (Obi Blanche Remix) 320 kbps

–Andy

2010 sure has been great to us so far.  With new releases from Surkin, Afrojack, and D.I.M. (to name a few), I feel a little spoiled…. and it keeps getting better and better.

Les Petits Pilous haven’t produced any original material since the ‘Wake Up EP’ was released waaayyy back in the summer of 2008.  Wake Up was one of the first tracks I heard that really sucked me into that dirty electro house sound.  So I was excited when the new Les Petits Pilous ‘Bielle EP‘ was released this week.  The EP has something for everyone… wheher you’re into the grungy techno sound of Bielle or the nu-disco beats of Goog.  Hopefully we don’t have to wait another almost two years to hear more.

Go pick up Bielle EP on Beatport here.

Les Petits Pilous – Russian Forest 192 kbps

BONUS:

Les Petits Pilous – Wake Up 192 kbps

–Andy

Boys Noize and Erol Alkan bring us the second installment of their collaboration with the ‘Avalanche / Lemonade Maxi Single’ which was released last week on Erol’s Phatasy Sound label.  These tracks come at the perfect time with the legends teaming up at WMC for the FIXED WMC Freakout Party thrown by the wonderful guys over at FIXED, JDH and Dave P.  Whether you prefer the stabbing synths and bleeps of ‘Avalanche’ or the ‘Oi Oi Oi’ sounding ‘Lemonade,’ you can’t go wrong.

I still can’t choose which one I like more so here’s both of em in 192.

Boys Noize & Erol Alkan – Avalanche 192 kbps

Boys Noize & Erol Alkan – Lemonade 192 kbps

Go on over to Beatport and pick up the release in 320

–Andy

I’ve ripped Jokes on You for you to enjoy, can’t seem to be found anywhere else except mixes for now. His EP should be dropping early this April according to his twitter.

Slow Roast Records Myspace

Kill The Noise – Jokes on You

-alex

There has been plenty of good releases in electro-house, fidget club banger genres as of late. Last weekend’s Wolfgang Gartner/Designer Drugs show has had me reconsidering whether or not electro is “dead”,  but not everything I listen to should sound like Lyposuct or Bangduck, right? Recently I have been looking to find an escape from the pitchshifting buildups and distortion in favor of something different, the grooove.

I had the pleasure over the summer of getting into London to Paris  by Mowgli. That was the summer groove. I had previously never been able to get into much house music since tracks are usually so long and my attention span so short. But lately the more subdued groove is killing it for me. Camel, and most recently Chaos in the CBD, a young duo of brothers from New Zealand, have the percussive tech(?) house vibe locked down. Chaos’ recent bootleg of The Nightcrawlers – Push The Feeling On has been on serious repeat for the past week, and has had me looking for more classic house jams. (Check out Nightcrawlers – Push The Feeling On here)

Camel’s Obrigado, from his Zig Zap EP mixes a lot of bouncy percussion and quick vocal snippets making this track fun to bob your head to. Check it.

Camel – Obrigado

The Nightcrawlers – Push The Feeling On (Chaos in the CBD Bootleg) – 320

Also if you haven’t heard it already, check out Chuck Roberts – My House acapella for a semi-religious house related awakening.

Montreal born Tiga really needs no introduction.  In 1998 he started Turbo Recordings which has had releases from some of the biggest names in the electro house, tech house, indie dance/nu disco game (D.I.M., Proxy, Boys Noize, Brodinski, Chromeo and Kolombo to name a few).  The ultra flamboyant DJ and producer has released two full length LPs, ‘Sexor’ (2006) and ‘Ciao!’ (2009), that get better and better with each listen.  ‘Ciao!’ was the result of 15 months of collaborations with the likes of Soulwax (mmm…Soulwax), Jesper Dahlback, Gonzales, Jori Hulkonnen, Jake Shears and James Murphy. wa wa we wa!  He’s teamed up with the badass Zombie Nation to form ZZT who have some new releases coming soon (here’s a video of Erol Alkan tearing up a club with the new ZZT).  Just a few weeks ago Boys Noize released the ‘Transmission Remixes Part 2′ EP and the Tiga remix is by far the best.  This guy has gotten his dirty little hands into so many cookie jars that it’s hard to imagine he hasn’t influenced the majority of the DJs and producers out there in these genres.

Boys Noize – Transmission (Tiga Remix) 320 kbps

Tomas Andersson – Washing Up (Tiga Mix) 320 kbps

ZZT – The Worm (Original Munich Version) 320 kbps

Tiga – You Gonna Want Me 246 kbps

Tiga – Move My Body (Boys Noize Remix) 160 kbps

Tiga – What You Need (A-Trak Remix) 320 kbps

–Andy

Hostage does it again with a mix that’s full of fidgety hard hitters and wobbly bangers.  Make sure you download his latest track ‘Otis’ from his myspace in glorious 320 for free!  whoop!

Hostage – March 2010 Mix (right click and save as)

–Andy