i heard she broke your heart, again

I just heard the latest remix by Kris Menace, and was honestly so impressed i decided that i needed to post it immediately along with an attempt at an explanation as to its greatness.
For a long time i have been very much 'eh' when it came to kris menace. he seemed to do it a lot of remixes, and along with lifelike, braxe and falke and the remaining french touch mafia slowly drifted into the maximalist synth led 'blog house' realm. Just type Lifelike in on hype machine and you'll catch my drift.
But a lot of these remixes were tired twists on an obvious formula, endless reminisces of 'Lumberjack' and 'Discopolis' via remixes of wet behind the ears producers so eager for the name recognition that these stalwarts brought with them that they would happily accept something that sounded well below average.
BUT.
I am very pleased to say that Kris Menace, with his latest remix, has perfected his sound, and found the yearning voice that slots together perfectly with his spiralling french touch synths and makes them sound real, rather than tawdry imitations. The song packs an emotional punch, yet remains well produced enough for most dancefloors.

The track in question is the Kris Menace remix of Metronomy's Heartbreaker, and it is fucking amazing. I kind of needed to swear to balance out all the verbosity.
Enjoy

Metronomy- Heartbreaker (Kris Menace remix) yousendit zshare

BONUS

The originator

Lifelike & Kris Menace- Discopolis yousendit

Versatility and Flexibility

Following fast on the heels of yesterdays DJ Sneak blog link, we have another, from a very different type of dj/producer, DJ Gilb'R, one half of Chateau Flight with I:Cube.

He has just done a promotional mix for Versatile records, which is as fantastic as you would expect from the guy who mixed Body Language 5, and who is also responsible for some heavyweight remixes for the likes of Poni Hoax and Atjazz. The Atjazz remix in particular is truly astonishing, and is one of my favourite ever songs. Its more of a song than a 'track', and that is to its great credit.

It's so good that i feel wrong posting it. It's on Beatport, go nuts.

However, i will post the link to the Versatile Records Blog page with the 2008 promotional mix by Gilb'R. Be sure to check out the rest of the blog as last time i checked there were mixes and remixes by all the regular Versatile guys, as well as Prins Thomas et al.

Click Here to get on the download

Tracklisting:
Marc Houle- Selection
Quixote- Before I Started To Dance (Chateau Flight dub)
International Pony- Bubble in the Bottle (Pepe Braddock mix)
Herb L.F.- Miles (Soulphiction mix)
Chateau Flight- La Roquette
Mondkopf- Ava Maria (I:Cube remix)
Sideshow- If Alone (Chateau Flight dub)
Morgan Geist- Detroit (Carl Craig remix)
Kerri Chandler- Pong (Ben Klocks bones and strings dub)
Martin Buttrich- Again
Consistent- Midnight Blend
Soundstream- Life Goes On
Glossy Edits- Last Night

enjoy the fruits of his labour
z x

Hidden Jewels & Dachschund's

I'm currently enjoying the twin peaks of good boompty house music and its 'polar' opposite, crystalline electro pop that yearns with dark thoughts and deeper emotion. I just did a post on DJ Sneak and his club mixes, so now i turn my ever roving attention to a band called Nite Jewels, who i discovered just last week on the fabulous blog keytars and violins. They have a sweet sadness to them that i find helpful, especially when winter seems to be here already and autumn didnt seem to happen.
This song is called 'What Did He Say', and its really good.
Nite Jewels- What Did He Say yousendit zshare

I'd also like to add that i am exceptionally jealous of the artwork on the Keytars and Violins blog. It's really something else.

BONUS
I'm also going to post a remix of one of my favourite recent tracks, TG's (AKA Tim Green) 'Mr Dry'. The remix is by someone i've never heard of before, Dachschund, but his work on this track is very impressive. The 'Mr Dry remix EP' is out now on Trapez Records, and available via phonica and beatport
TG- Mr Dry (Dachschund's Bottomless Remix) yousendit zshare

Sneakers for Sneakin'

Apologies to our millions, and i do mean MILLIONS of fans, but there have been some heavy problems going on with the site, including my last post gwannin' postal and disappearing. Unsure at the moment what caused this problem, hopefully it will prove to be a blip, with regular scheduled programming appearing soon.

This morning i found myself checking DJ Sneak's blog after there was a random link to it from the informative review site resident advisor . Not only did it have a bad ass picture of Cap'n Sneak's birthday cake (two decks yo!), but he has posted yousendit links to all of his most recent dj sets, as well as a set by old skool house favourite and current renaissance man Derrick Carter. This is pretty damn cool in my opinion, and by the size of the files i'd guess they were pretty good quality too. Check out Sneak's blog, and those afforementioned mixes HERE

everyone's waiting

arcade fire - cold wind yousendit zshare

this is a song from the fifth season of six feet under that i finished watching last night. its a good track that suits the series really well. it has a kind of sweet sadness to it that plays well with the character of nate in particular. i highly recommend both the band and the show.

this was a longer post, but this is the fourth time iv written it and to be honest, typing out variations on the same words this many times kind of saps them of their original impact. ah well.

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Last Week

Every monday from now on, i will post a selection a tracks that i have recently enjoyed. They will mainly be new-ish tracks but i will post old favourites if thats what I'm feeling at the minute. Don't forget to buy the tracks if you like them!

Mickey Moonlight - Interplanetary Music (Ritons Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Re-Rub) ZSHARE  YSI
TC - Wheres My Money (Caspa Remix)  ZSHARE  YSI
Stimming - Una Pena  ZSHARE  YSI
Trentemoller - Serenetti (Maetrik Bass Rework)  ZSHARE  YSI

Mo' Hookerz, Mo' Blo'

New fire from San Francisco, a great remix of a great original track. We featured Hookerz N Blow on BigBabyWheezus a while back, with their ridiculously inventive mash up 'Blow the Whistler'.
It's hard to believe that this is only the second production that they've done. It's well worth checking out, as this Hookerz N Blow 'Short Bus Acid mix' manages to do what none of the other remixes of this track have done; put a fresh and twist on a great record.
Thanks a lot for the heads up guys
z x

Martin Brothers - Dum (Hookerz N Blow Short Bus Acid remix)

Big Boss Sez Make It Rain (In the Gunshine State)

Big Boss, Rick Ross.

He is the man. I've been meaning to do a bad ass Ricky Ross post for time but i kept listenin to tech house bangers and so it got forgotten. But i was in the mood for towering Rick Ross joints all day at work so i got in, had a burn with Ross and got in the mood in a big way.

Look at his monstrous gut and comical rick ross face medallion. He is one of a kind, and im consistently amazed by how fucking BAD he is at rapping. He is just not good. But he has cadence, swagger, and constant name checkin' down, so he's everywhere. And I for one am happy with this situation. He's just uplifting in a dumb kinda way, and because he's on Def Jam and makes big money he gets all the sickest beats around, which is of course something he reminds us of constantly.
I'm gonna post two Rick Ross tunes and a DJ Khaled presents... style remix of Fat Joe which is kind of old now but is still illy. Westwood played it last week haha.

'Money makes me come' featuring some Trina wannabee called Ebony Love is presumably the new single, and has an amazing beat. Probably the best track off his latest album, and possibly even the best since 'Hustlin''. Again played by Westwood last week. I'm pretty certain that without Rick Ross and Lil Wayne Westwoods show would last about fifteen minutes
http://www.zshare.net/download/50963256ba4e14bf/
'Shot to the Heart' uses an old 80s sample and sounds ridiculously cheesy the first time you hear it, but its so catchy, and the fact that it knows how cheesy it is makes it okay. Kind of a guilty pleasure though. I think it was off an old mixtape, most likely one of those Khaled or DJ Drama ones where the 'DJs' don't do anything other than shout their names over the start of the tracks.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/509632288224fbc8/
The Fat Joe track is 'Make it Rain (remix)', which features a veritable roll call of rappers, including R Kelly (who isnt really a rapper but he sings the hook, kinda like T Pains seedy uncle), Fat Joe (obviously), Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, T.I., DJ Khaled yelling a lot, Baby AKA Birdman AKA Lil Wayne's 'Daddy', and some random called Ace Mack. Its so good. Particularly of note are the *constant* references to the Rihanna song Umbrella, which came out like a month before this track.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/5096332402106994/

This is the track that made me realise how fucking amazing Lil Wayne is, and how comically ahead of almost EVERYONE he is. His verse is just phenomenal. I'm seriously running out of adjectives to describe this guy.

'Its young money and we on like the television, the weather channel, but i do not broadcast, i throw up more cash, and change the forecast. Your boyfriend is lame, i make it rain on ya', he never make it rain, like southern california, wheres your umbrella, now get ya rain coat, baby i make it flood, now you gown need a boat'

Obviously it flows better in verse than on the page, so check it out. More Lil' Wayne soon, seeing as he gave the blog its name he deserves his props.

WEEZY F

Ziggy
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