In No Particular Order

Always avoided lists, but this year I’ve decided to feature twenty of my favourite tunes from 2011. All that’s required is that they were released this year and I found myself going to back to them again and again. It’s a strange mix, but then there’s no accounting for taste. As the title suggests, the tracks listed aren’t in any particular order, just as I remember them.

I’ll see you in the New Year x

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The Weeknd – House Of Balloons

3

Switch Ft Andre Martin – I Still Love You

4

Jane’s Addiction – Irresistible Force

5

Bart B More & Tommie Sunshine – Bodywork

6

Fatboy Slim Vs Moguai – Ya Mama (Push The Tempo)

7

Patterns – Induction

8

Cicada – The Things You Say (Mr Miyagi Remix)

9

The Whip – Secret Weapon (Alex Metric Remix)

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Breton – The Commission

12

The Joy Formidable – Whirring (Innerpartysystem Remix)

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120 Days – Osaka

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Marlene Shaw – California Soul (A.Skillz remix)

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Justice – Civilization

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M83.Ft Zola Jesus – Intro

 

Tears For Fears/Audionite – Kling Klong Shout (Tommie Sunshine & Disco Fries Bootleg)

To be honest there are probably two or three mash-ups in the history of time that I enjoy. Four, now if you count Tommie Sunshine & Disco Fries blending of Tears For Fears ‘Shout’ and Audionite’s ‘Kling Klong’. Tommie has been dropping this on his tour over the summer and the reaction has been phenomenal. You can’t really fail can you – mix a banger with something people recognise and, best of all, can scream along to and you’re winning.

Grab a download of it now

Tears For Fires/Audinite – Kling Klong Shout (Tommie Sunshine & Disco Fries Remix) MP3

Links -

Tommie Sunshine Twitter

Tommie Sunshine Soundcloud

Audionite Twitter

Audionite Soundcloud

JSK feat.Dances With White Girls – Shake That Thing

Always a good moment in a blogger’s life, when two people you’ve followed and posted get together for the good of mankind.

In this case we have JSK, with his bass heavy, ground levelling electro and Tommie Sunshine’s new Brooklyn Fire label, whose twain’s are meeting for the release of  ‘Shake That Thing’.

The fourth issue from BF is a characteristically loopy JSK offering, featuring Dances With White Girls. Only a preview on offer at the moment, but we’re straight in there, with a crazy build up that eventually plummets down into a groaning level of bass badness that will once again test any sub your speakers or cans have left unprotected.

JSK – Shake That Thing

Mixed by BNRs own Jan Driver, JSK admits that ‘Shake That Thing’ is ‘really THE biggest track of my music collection’ and we couldn’t really argue. Expect a release sometime mid August

Also check out JSKs remix of Sawgood – Not So Funny

Sawgood – Not So Funny (JSK Remix)

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Image by AZRainman via Freaking News

It’s Fathers Day, so Daddy’s allowed to post.

Tommie Sunshine has a new tune out, on Ultra Records, released July 5th.  ‘Tonight’s The Night’ is a harder, more aggressive affair than usual from Mr Sunshine, which maybe thanks to the influence of Bart B More and Jan Driver, who produced and mastered the track. It definitely has that Boys Noize feel to it and we love that a lot.  It features the vocals of Tiffany Roth, of  Midnight Magic, who has a proper disco diva range, illustrated brilliantly on MM’s own ‘Beam Me Up’, from last year.

We’ve only got a taster to post for now, unfortunately, but if you press repeat a few times, it’ll be like you’ve got the whole track!

Tommie Sunshine – Tonight’s The Night (Preview)

Tommie is producing and releasing music quicker than his hair grows this year and that’s pretty damn quick, so we’ll move on to a new release on Brooklyn Fire, before something else comes out.

‘Bangtuk’ by Fuser is a Dutch house leveller, with a rich seam of old school rave running through it. Think 1991, think Quadrophonia, Ellis Dee and you’re in the vicinity. It’s going to appeal to the techno heads and the old timers in equal parts and it’s getting heavy support from Tiesto, Bart b More and Laidback Luke. This will be the third release on Brooklyn Fire and you can get you hands on it June 28th.

Fuser – Bangtuk

Riptide – What You Want

Riptide is Holland’s Max Bedeker and he came to our attention back in ’09 with his grinding remix of Jennifer Delano’s ‘Amsterdam’. He followed this up with a fantastic remix of Shinichi Osawa’s ‘Love Will Guide You’ that’s still boasting multiple plays on the office stereo months later.

Shinichi Osawa feat Tommie Sunshine – Love Will Guide You (Riptide Remix)

His new tune ‘What You Want’ was featured on Brooklyn Fire’s compilation Fire House Two and recently got played out on #1 DJ In The World, Tiesto’s Club Life Radio show. You can grab a free download of it below

Riptide – What You Want

Check out the rest of the Fire House Two compilation and keep your ear to the rail track for the approach of the next release on Brooklyn Fire, coming soon.

Fire House Two compilation

Brooklyn Fire Twitter

Brooklyn Fire Facebooker

Acidkids feat.Tommie Sunshine – Never Slow

More house goodness from Tommie Sunshine, this time in collaboration with Acidkids. It’s got a May 20th release (shit, that’s today!!) on Acidkids Records and features remixes from Sharkslayer and personal fave by Mahesa Utara, an up and coming producer on Tommie’s own Brooklyn Fire label.

Have a listen to the tracks below and use the download link to show some real appreciation.

Tommie Sunshine ‘Spring Sprung’ Mix

The sun is blazing outside, birds are cleansing my garden of hawthorn flies and I’ve got  a day off tomorrow, so that a couple of rich kids can get married at my expense. I’m hoping to get at least a piece of wedding cake posted to me, in one of those little cardboard boxes that predictably fall apart in the post. Squashed cake is better than no cake.

To add to the all round goodness of the day there’s a fresh new mix from Tommie Sunshine to consume and enjoy. I’ll leave it up to Tommie to describe the mix himself -

TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP BASS

‘Since the radio is full of mainstream dance music right now, I decided to pull things WAY underground for this mix. The world is operating at a fever-pitch and this is the soundtrack of you closing your eyes on a Saturday night and cutting the cords that hold you to this Earth. This is straight up, psychedelic dance music that is intended to cause a state of disconnection with the real world and its made with ultimate love. Do whatever it is that takes you to that place and turn this the fuck up and play it LOUD!’

Tracklist:

1. Shinichi Osawa feat. Tommie Sunshine – Love Will Guide You
2. TWR72 – Future Tool
3. Evil Nine – It’s You
4. Cassius – Les Enfants [Gesaffelstein Remix]
5. Moby – The Day [Lifelike Remix]
6. Afrojack – Bubblegum
7. Bob Sinclar – Fuck The Disco
8. Green Velvet – Flash [Nicky Romero Remix]
9. MyBack (Albin Myers, John Dahlback) – Clap Yo Handz
10. Bart B More – Traction
11. 2 Guys In Venice – Polizei
12. Codes – God Bless
13. Crookers Pres. Dr. Gonzo feat. Neoteric & Wax Motif – Springer
14. Fuser – Bangtuk
15. Crookers Pres. Dr. Gonzo feat. Savage Skulls – Bust ‘Em Up
16. Berou & Canblaster – Kapongo Dance [Congorock Remix]
17. Brodinski – Manifesto
18. Felix Cartal – The Joker
19. Fat & Ugly – Elephant Attack
20. Gigi Barocco feat. Jane Bang – Crunk It [Tom Deluxx Remix]
21. Punks Jump Up – Blockhead [Hey Today! Remix]
22. Bart B More & Tommie Sunshine – Drop Acid
23. King Cosmic — Acid (In My Soul) [Kink remix/Snuff Crew Edit]
24. Shinichi Osawa – Love Will Guide You feat. Tommie Sunshine [Edwin Van Cleef Remix]

As usual, click the arrow on the player to download the full mix. Enjoy!

One of the greatest, truly life affirming things for me is that moment in a club when they drop the big bomb track and the whole place goes mental. You can be wobbling your ass along quite happily to hours of tunes, pretty much oblivious to anyone around you, then some track will come in and next thing complete strangers are hugging, jumping in the air together and hi fiving like they’ve known each other since they popped out of the womb.

LMFAO ‘Party Rock Anthem’ wasn’t one of those tunes, I’ve got to admit. It’s the song I hear on the radio and think it’s Black Eyed Peas. I quite like the poolside chorus, but the rest of it is faux radio fodder. I’m sure there are people that could get off like a bastard to it, but not me.

Anyway – Tommie Sunshine and Vande & Gross get their hands on it and they tweek it here and there, they heavy up that bass, sprinkle some hands in the air house dust over it and suddenly it’s a whole different beast. Now, at about 3.27 to 3.55, we’ve  got ourselves A MOMENT. You’ve got lazers going off, the dry ice is choking you and that fella next to you with the saucer eyes and sweat soaked tee is your best friend for life. Good time party music of the highest order.

LMFAO – Party Anthem (Tommie Sunshine & Vande & Gross Edit) MP3

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Cracking remix of Hurts ‘ Better Than Love’ from Burns has popped up. Hurts have been locked away in the room called Midly Disapointed since I heard the album, but Burns has reinvigorated this, one of their better tracks. I think I wanna dance now…

Tommie Sunshine – Eyes Towards Summer DJ Mix

I first heard of Tommie Sunshine through his collaborations with Figure and since then I’ve been snapping up everything he puts out. Hailing from Chicago, but resident in Brooklyn, Tommie’s been around music all his life, which reveals itself in his eclectic/no genre but dancing style. This year he’s been responsible for one of my favourite reworks in his (and Figures) edit of Britney’s ‘Hold it Against Me’, (where they omit the shitty dubstep that caused all the controversy), and supplied the vocals on Shinchi Osawa’s excellent ‘Love Will Guide You‘, which is one of my tunes of the year so far. Along the way he’s worked with/on Green Velvet, Peaches, Lady Gaga and Bart B More, adding vocals to Sharam Jey, Tomcraft and The Ashton Shuffle and this one by Les Visiteurs, that is one of my faves from Back In The Day.

Add to that his new mix, which you need to play very loud and you could say that Tommie Sunshine has burst onto my particular scene in a big way.

Tommie Sunshine – Eyes Towards Summer DJ Mix

If you haven’t already, you should get over to Tommie’s Soundcloud and check out his stuff.

 

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There’s a sense of spring in the air right now. It may not last long, probably snow next week, but for now I’m going to enjoy the feeling of rejuvenation and post some music. Why not?

My French isn’t up to much, so I really don’t know what Arnaud Fleurent Didier is talking about during ‘France Culture’. There’s something about not speaking English, or German and left is mentioned and I hear life in there. I suspect it’s an ode to French culture, or being French. If you could send me a translation, that would be wonderful. It doesn’t really matter to me what’s being said, because it sounds brilliant. You can get the idea and to be honest I could listen to someone talking French all day without having a clue what they were talking about.

France Culture was released in 2009 and now Para One has produced a brilliant remix. This stripped down affair is solely about the mood. If they make a video for it, it will feature blue skies, fluffy clouds and someone sitting on a train, looking melancholy, while through the window France flashes by.

Arnaud Fleurent Didier ‘France Culture (Para One Remix)‘

Featured Tommie Sunshine ‘Limit of your Mind’ just the other day and now here’s a smart new club mix from Tocadisco, which I’m loving the ass off at the moment.

Tommie Sunshine- ‘Limit Of Your Mind (Tocadisco Beach Club Remix)’

Pains of Being Pure at Heart album, Belong, produced by Flood, is out 29th March. The title track is a lot meatier than any of their previous stuff and I like that. It’s got a real Smashing Pumpkins vibe, especially in the distorted guitar.

Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong