OMGTGIMFF. Time to celebrate with another booty bouncin’ set from the Stanton Warriors. This one comes to us from the beaches of Miami, recorded live at the Winter Music Conference last May. It’s a bit on the short side, but all you Stanton fans will be glad to hear it’s jam-packed with all the beats and obligatory ass-shakin’ directives you’ve come to expect from a SW set. ‘Nuff said. Go enjoy your weekend.
Welcome to another edition of Podcast Friday! Today we have a live set from DJ KidHack, a great local DJ, designer, promoter, and controllerist. He’s also the head of up-and-coming San Francisco musician collective Future Universal (whom this author has the pleasure of working with), and a resident at Club PartyLine. And hey, guess what? PartyLine is back tonight! What a funny coincidence.
To mark the return of Club PartyLine this week, KidHack has graciously provided us with his slammin’ 1am-close set from the previous one in March. As you will see from the track list below the jump, it is packed full of electrohouse, dirty bangers, and dancehall hotness (”Tropical Bass”? Love it).
In addition to Club PartyLine tonight, KidHack can be found rocking beats all over this great city of ours, from Bootie to fashion shows, private parties at the most forward-thinking tech companies and beyond.
Hey party people! Not since the glorious days of the Comet Club have I had a recurring night to call my own. Until now that is! Read the rest of this entry »
Super-awesome cover art by my new Bolivian gf Paola Lambertin (who I think will be personally offended if Daft Punk doesnt win this).
So I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not but we’re doing this little contest here at The Beatery trying to find the best producers of electronic dance music of the 2000s. Somewhere along the way (I think it was at Tiesto of all people…) it dawned on me that: fuck, I should really do a podcast with these Dons of Dance, these Behemoths of Beats, these Saints of Synths* all mixed together!
*Thank you, thank you, I’m here all night.
So I came up with some quick rules for this “So You Think You Can Bump” podcast:
Every contestant would get one, and only one song.
I would not be trying to include everyone’s “biggest” or “most memorable” or “definitive” track. Way too hard to put together anything with flow, and quite frankly, I’m sick to death of most of those*
I would not use a track (or the same mix of a track) that was ever on any of our sets. These guys are so prolific let’s hear some new stuff**
Any mix, re-mix, cover or mashup was fair game as long as the SYTYCB artist was somehow associated
* This is not to say I COULDN’T use one of these, it just wasn’t the priority.
** Like every good set of rules one of them needs to get broken, and for me it was number three. I used one track that appears elsewhere in a mix on this site. Can you catch it? It’s pretty obvious…
So with these rules in hand and 15 holes to fill I felt like the manager of and All Star game. Who do I start? When do I use the heavy hitters? With so many of these guys being multi-dynamic producers, what style should I have them represent? With so many different styles how do I get them to gel together?
Well, the need for flow made most of these decisions pretty easy. And now that the dust has settled I have to say I’m pretty excited about this mix! It’s not often that you have an excuse to only use the best producers in you set, and wow, what a result.
I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I did making it! It’ll be a nice way to look back at an incredible period of dance music:
Modeselektor (or occasionally MDSLKTR) are Berlin-based duo Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary. Since their forming in 1996 they have charted steady growth in technique and worldwide popularity, not to mention a breathtaking slew of original releases and remixes. While a consistent style can be hard to pin down - they cannot easily be classified as Breaks or Tech-House or whatever - you know a Modeselektor track when you hear it. Since my early days dabbling with 1200s they have long been one of my favorite production teams, and I am psyched to have the chance to write about them here!
