Next issue of Mixmag comes strapped with a glorious little mix by one of our favorites. Aeroplane opens with a brand new tune from Mylo’s upcoming album as well as tracks from Friendly Fires, Sebastien Tellier, ZZZ, The Shortwave Set, Appaloosa, Grum, and Poni Hoax. This is one of the few remaining print publications on the dance, electronic, and DJ culture scene. Cheers to Mixmag for continuing to survive in our digital world.
01.Tiga : Love Don’t Dance Here Anymore (Cdr)
02.Curses! : « The Deep End » - Holy Ghost Remix (Institubes)
03.Tensnake : « In The End I Want You To Cry » (Running Back)
04.Noah And The Whale : « 5 Years Time » - Fc Kahuna Remix (Cdr)
05.Visti & Meyland : « All Night » - Trentemoller Remix (Eskimo)
06.Nu Frequency Feat. Snax : « Passage Of Time » - Juan Maclean Remix (Rebirth)
07.Das Glow : « I Want To Wake Up With You » (Vulture)
08.White Lies : « Farewell To The Fairground » - Rory Phillips White Horse Mix (Cdr)
09.Soul Vigilantes Feat. Xan Blacq : Background Noise » - ¨Pilooski Remix (Lovemonk)
10.John Talabot : « Naomi » (Permanent Vacation)
Dirtybird Records founder, DJ, and producer Claude Vonstroke is on deck to deliver the latest and greatest edition of the fabric series of mixes. We are looking forward to this. Will be in shops in the UK on May 11th and in the US on June 2nd.
“Around 2001, I moved in with a high school buddy of mine to Oakland, and we started going to crazy raves. I was working on my third career then, editing commercials for a post-production TV house. They had all this great equipment at the edit house, so I had this idea. [Up to that point] I had created all this original music but nothing ever happened with it, because I didn’t really know what to do after the music was done. I never really learned when I was a kid because no one was there to mentor me. So I thought to myself, ‘When I was 16 and getting into music, what would’ve been the ultimate instructional video that I could’ve watched?’ I came up with the idea for this DVD, to interview the most famous DJs in the world: asking them how they became famous, how they make music technically, how they run their label, all of that. I ended up interviewing 50 people, from Paul Van Dyk to Derrick May to Orbital, everyone. After two years, I didn’t have enough money to license the music, and I needed to have a piece of music playing under each interview. So Justin Martin, Nigel Richards (from 611 Records), this trance guy from Sweden and I made all of the music for the whole DVD by imitating the sound and style of each interviewee. That’s how I learned to make house music.” – Claude VonStroke
Tracklisting:
01 Ekkohaus Ft. R. Wurz – Cry Baby – Morris Audio
Ekkohaus Ft. Mensa – The Healer – Morris Audio
02 Claude VonStroke & Bootsy Collins - Yabadabadooza- dirtybird
03 Rob Van Valen – Trampen – Frankie
04 Holger Zilske – Mes Yeux - Playhouse
05 Detroit Grand Puhbas Big Onion (Joakim Remix) - Pokerflat
Roman Salanger - Galaxius – Lucent
06 DJ Deeon – Shake It – Databass
Isomer Transitions - Downtime in the Hangar - Moongadget
07 Stimming - After Eight – Dynamic
08 Peter Lauer - Free Entry for Girls (Robag Whrume’s Drikkibass Remix) - Punkt
09 Voodeux - Just A Spoonful – mothership
10 Italoboyz – Bla Bla Bla – mothership
11 Varislove feat DOP. - Inside Ways (Boris Werner. Remix) - Supplemental Facts
12 Kiki – Immortal (Instrumental Dub) – BPitch Control
13 Xpansul & Daweed - Pilsnerd – True Type
Marc Houle – Dirty Dirty – M_nus
14 Dinamoe – Maceo – Alpaca
Clara Moto – Silently Ft. Mimu - Infine
15 James Braun - Symphonia – Tartelet
16 Donk Boys – One Tooth Missing - Frankie
17 Robag Whrume - Guppipepitsche – Freude Am Tanzen
18 ICS – Espagnol – dirtybird
19 Markus Schatz - Running – Highgrade
Catz ‘n Dogz – SF - mothership
20 Marc Miroir - Kraft – Paso Music
21 Stimming - One Weekend - Dynamic
22 Claude VonStroke - Aundy – dirtybird
Claude VonStroke will be celebrating the launch at fabric . Contact press@fabriclondon.com for guest list.
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” A lovely quote that taps into the heart and soul of a blog deserving of some recognition. Scrolling the pages of 88 Days you wont find the latest electro house banger or hipster fan fare. What you will find is editorial that expresses the mess of life’s frustrations, lust, love, sexuality and music. About a year or so ago (via Twitter) we got into a dialog with one of the writers (prior to 88 Days hitting the blogosphere) which lead to collaboration and friendships. They were gracious enough to give us their thoughts on the meaning of it all.
Where are you located in this small world of ours?
In London, Brighton, Barcelona and sometimes the great English Countryside!
What were some of the first music blogs you started following?
Been reading music blogs for 4 years, can’t even remember where we picked up on the whole blog community - absolutely no recollection at all. We started reading Good Weather For Airstrikes, Strictly Social, Big Stereo, Pinglewood, and Disco Dust early on.
You both currently work in the marketing and promotion part of the music biz to pay the bills. What made you want to jump into the blogging game?
We’ve always had music as the focus of our individual personal blogs, but in meeting it sort of made sense to have something entirely separate given we had a huge mutual love of pretty much the same music. In fact, the way the editorial is presented it’s often a juztaposed mess of life’s frustrations, lust, love, sexuality and music, all rolled up and analyzed. So in that respect, it’s a non traditional music blog. It’s very personal to us. We love 20jazzfunkgreats and Pinglewood but sure that neither would EVER write posts the way we do. And that’s fine by us.
Tell us how you came up the name 88 Days?
Its full title is ‘88 days in my veins’ which is a track by the jazz trio Esbjörn Svensson Trio . Unfortunately Esbjörn died a few days after we decided on the name but it’s as much an ode to him, as our love of jazz and progressive music. We’ve seen E.S.T. on a few occasions, and his death came at the peak of the band’s evolution. Utterly amazing live - suggestions of Radiohead (certainly the intelligence and emotion conveyed in their music is very true).
What type of music can people find on 88Days? What criteria do you use when deciding whom to write about?
It’s pretty varied and that’s in the full sense of the word. There is typical indie and electronic but also lots of acoustic singer songwriter stuff. You’ll also get eighteen minute psychodelic madness and stuff that sounds like Steve Reich. We’re huge fans of Roxy Music so ‘el Ferry’ and pals get far too much love! We tend to write about things that truly excite us or find super smart and interesting. Music is after all, highly subjective but ultimately it all comes down to which emotions it enhances or fires.
Give us your thoughts on the future of music blogging and its impact on the future of the music biz.
The major problem for us, is that we simply do not have time to listen to all the music we get sent. We also get sent a lot of music we’re NEVER going to feature because it’s either unfinished, badly structured/recorded, or just crap. Most people simply do not know how to deal with bloggers. The majority of us are good people. We want what’s best for the artist ultimately and the lawyers approach to attacking certain posts is absolutely ridiculous. Blogs are incredibly powerful, we see the affect of this on a weekly basis working ‘on the other side’ but if PR companies don’t start learning to speak to the right blogs, in the right medium with the right message, the essence of blogs as a platform for artists will become less beneficial. It’s becoming harder to filter out the good stuff that every major record company thinks that blogs should be part of their marketing campaign even if some artists just don’t fit the medium. Yet often we see that when stuff is posted from majors, one of those DMCA takedown notices arrives. At the moment there’s a lack of consistency in the treatment of music blogs, certainly from major labels anyway, and frankly it makes us more resentful of them.
We met via Twitter about a year or so ago and you continue to be active participants in the platform. The music blogger community has really embraced Twitter this year. Your thoughts?
We adore Twitter. It stimulates so many discussions from various groups and individuals across the world. It’s a great way of swapping music thoughts, ideals and listening to key opinion leaders. We wouldn’t agree with the majority of things these said ‘experts’ say, but it’s interesting all the same. It’s been a huge 12 months for Twitter. Initially it was just a bunch of early adopters (really tech enthusiasts) before December/January when the entire world joined. We assume it was a pre-programmed wake up call for the entire world to leave the redundancy of Facebook and race onto Twitter. We’ve found lots of people coming to us in various forms for information, advice and even made some pretty key work contacts through this channel. It’s just an amazing platform for people in the music industry to communicate on an open platform.
What are your top 10 records right now?
YYY - Heads Will Roll
Goldern Filter - everything i can find!
The Big Pink - Velvet
Gold Panda - everything he does
Roxy Music - for your pleasure
Phoenix - wolfgang amadeus
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Jensen Sportag - Cocktease (max tundra remix) - yes, still!
Pulp - Different Class
Ellie Goulding - Black and Gold (Sam Sparro cover)
Any last words?
As soon as the love stops. Do something else.
Deadmau5 is getting a lot of promotion since his Grammy nomination. His single “I Remember” is getting a ton of airplay and he continues to churn out remixes. His latest rub is of fellow chart topper Calvin Harris’s “I’m Not Alone.” Prime time for SXSW and Miami Winter Music Conference action.
Calvin Harris - I’m Not Alone (Deadmau5 Remix)
Here he is giving Denver, CO a run for their money at the infamous Red Rocks venue:
Fake Blood took the world on a two hour journey last night. Get on board and take the ride.
Here are some words from the man himself:
The theme was this: Rather than just bang it out for 2 hours (yawn) I thought I would split it into 2 distinct halves, and show a wider range of music I love. Plus it makes it more interesting to put together, and to listen to hopefully:
The 1st hour represents THE CLUB, and is the kind of stuff I am playing out. A bit heavier for that apex of the night.
But the 2nd hour is THE AFTER PARTY, and is me playing other stuff I love, but goes a bit deeper, stripped back, melodic and unusual. Music to watch the night turn into morning.
It’ll definitely throw a few people, but that was kind of the intention.
