Ladies and gentlemen 3LAU is at it again, with his second installment of Dance Floor Filth, a twelve strong collection of hard hitting bootlegs and edits, your night life will never be the same. Again, another extremely talented young man in the electronic field, at just 21 Justin "3LAU" has been rocking clubs round the world with his amazing blend of top 40 hits and electro beats, branching from house to dubstep and back again. His first album represented my first successful attempt to bridge my music with my friends, which went surprisingly well, but this style requires me to tone it down in places where I need to uphold my hipster image, "its just a remix" doesn't work anymore. Also just a warning driving to this is the most fun you'll have in a car, watch the limits.
1. Action
2. Guilty Pleasure
3. H8
4. B#tch City
5. Modern Talking
6. Lick It
7. Love Control
8. Jupiter Unison
9. Petty Language
10. Set Fire
11. These Are The Days
12. Back To New
You may not know this but I have tremendous respect for anyone who can use Delta in their name and have it work out well. Although we've only seen this before once or twice each time its something amazing, so to start, props to Bastille. I really wish I could find more info about them online, I feel like whatever facts I have are wrong but if you don't mind I (guess) they are a dance duo from Los Angeles (don't quote me on that). But fuck the facts, whether they're well known or not doesn't matter to me, what does is the music, and by Thor is it amazing. Their album Other People's Heartache, on top of being free, is a masterpiece of modern interpretative electronic, (I think I just made that up) at first I thought it was a mashup album but then I realized what I thought were samples were in fact remakes, covers if you will, performed by Bastille. Each track is a perfect blend of covers and electronic mixing, classic songs remade for a new generation and really I couldn't imagine any one else singing Rhythm is the Dancer, seriously where did this guy learn to sing like that? Now that I've heard it I can legitimately say I can die happy, and I hope I they play this album wherever it is I end up.
Mustard Pimp, in my eyes an electronic duo not to be fucked with, only downfall they wrote a song for Jersey Shore. I know, I know its never good to start things off with a negative comment but seriously that's the only bad thing I can think of, and really bias sells. That being said I have a shit tonne of respect for The Baron and eKa, every track they make sounds different, has new influences and really even the one I complained about is amazing. Coming from french techno/house and metal backgrounds respectively this unlikely duo have released over 30 mixtapes in two years and have accumulated over 500, 000 downloads in such a small amount of time (my facts are most assuredly outdated, don't blame me). But we're not here for their mixtapes, we're here about No Title Or Purpose their latest free album thirteen full length bass pumping, jaw dropping, house shaking hits, for free. So get it.
Alright, if you don't remember Friday posts are about what I deem to be essential music from my library, short reviews, maybe a story and definitely a download. So lets get cracking.
I was asked a couple weeks ago in my history of rock and roll class what my "guilty pleasure" music was, after a bit of deliberation I realized that it has always been Jhameel. Ever since TheBurningEar posted a link to his second album The Human Condition, I've been a noticeably better person. From the first track this album is absolutely full of inspirational strings and his voice, oh his voice... just take a second to look at that picture, then listen to that album, you'll understand. Since then Jhameel released a five track EP entitled Dance, and I swear he brought disco back. So far in 2012 Jhameel has released a further five tracks available for download for the Waves album, all absolute masterpieces, I mean can you imagine the internet says he used to be a marine? With a voice like that? He should have been singing from day one so I could fanatical about more of his music.
There are a few things that make me glad I'm British, Kasabian being one. If you have been hiding under a rock Kasabian is a four piece rock/electronica band from Leicestershire UK, formed in 1997. Their songs have been featured in many more video games than I would want to list and TV shows since Alias. I remember the first time I tried to find one of their albums at the local Sunrise, I purchased their first album, Kasabian, and ordered in the second, Empire, when Empire arrived I hurried to take it out of the case and snap, it broke, I don't remember being so depressed about an album... ever. But I got another copy for free and was rocking for quite some time, I must say though if you get the chance find their newest two albums, but only after hearing the first two, its interesting to hear the progression between albums. Do enjoy.
The Local Natives, formerly known as Cavil At Rest, they produced one of the few songs that moved me enough that I learned how to play it on bass, and by god is it fun. I did a little research and apparently their amazing blend of surf rock, tribal drums, and sing along lyrics could also be called Loft Rock, look it up. That being said their album Gorilla Manor is a soundscape of indie style riffs just simple enough to let even the least classically trained musician follow along, if there is a single song on this album you can't sing or play along to let me know I'll promptly show you up.
Well that's it for today's post, I kept my promise of a post every day this week, so please head on over to our Facebook page and wish me a happy birthday. I'll see you again on Monday.
Electronic music has got to be the spice of life, I mean take any songs you hear today, on the radio, internet, or via schizophrenic transmissions, they all have elements of electro. But now that everything else sounds like techno, lets make techno sound like everything else.
Hailing from Brighton, UK, Evil Nine, are what I imagine the future of electro to be. With a list of influences so long I couldn't even fathom reading them all Evil Nine are doing the opposite of all the reverse engineering happening in all todays popular music. I must admit it seems like there's nothing they can't incorporate into their songs, from disco/dance beats to top notch hip hop then back to Daft Punk-esque vocals with guitars too heavy to be in a dance production. This is music so smart even my parents like it. So strap on those shiny shoes and do what you normally do when no one is looking... dance is what I meant.
You know that feeling when you hear a song and can't remember who its by? Good chance its by The Qemists, a three piece drum and bass, electro, dubstep, rock, grime band. I spent most of yesterday replaying their two albums recognizing almost every song and realizing although I had heard a lot of them a quick search of my itunes revealed nothing. I'm not sure what it is about Brighton it might as well be todays feature band producing factory. UK based and running with a record label from Montreal, Canada, Ninjatune. Their two albums, are chock full of everything you could every ask for so head on down to grab them and watch the video that encouraged me to do some digging.
Here we are again, another amazing Toxic Tuesday if I do say so myself. Although I myself am a little damaged, I was greeted by women bearing sympathy and cereal, so today's post will continue as scheduled. So strap on those shiny shoes and get your bass faces ready.
More young talent, thats what I like to see. I've been following Cyberoptics on Youtube for quite some time and many of his tracks rank up in the most imaginative dubstep I have up my proverbial sleeve. Dropping his first hit track, Geisha, back in May 2010 at the age of 19, Alex Epps, stormed the scene climbing to the number one spot on Beatport and staying in the top 5 for over a month. Battling giants such as Doctor P and Borgore is no small accomplishment, but continuing to drop tracks that hit just as hard is nothing short of amazing.
The Tie Fighter EP is a four track blend of all that dubstep has to offer. One thing that I love about Cyberoptics is the creativity of each track, every song has its own carefully decided theme. Starting off smooth, straight up to the drop, from then on you'd better hang on.
I thought I'd hit you with a little something different, we don't usually drift far from dubstep on the Toxic Tuesday posts. Qeue Darren Styles, one of the biggest names in dance music, working his way through the electronic music scene since 1992.
This massive album is almost 30 tracks long branching across all that elecronica has to offer. I don't think the general genre classification is truthful. Hardstyle only works for about a third of the tracks. I for one was completely confused when I was greeted by soft guitar and vocals, making some tracks sound more like pop than anything. Then the mood gets switched causing the tempo to blast up to speed, and the bass gets lowered, before that stereotypical hardstyle beat drops and its tough not to dance around the house all day. So download both sides of this monster of an album and treat yourself to the best, cause I think we all deserve it.
