Posted by: Cor

Well, hey there! Sorry it’s been so long. Looks like we’ve all got our own extracurricular activities keeping us busy. Jay is building hisself a goddamn sweet art car for Burning Man, and I’m attempting to raise a halfway decent human being. It’s not that we don’t have music we want to share, it’s just that we haven’t had the time to share it. If it makes you feel any better, we’re feeling a bit guilty for the severe level of neglect.

And now I’m only hopping on for self promotion! That’s right, I’m dusting off the ol’ DJing rig, and heading out to play a benefit called 404 Beats in San Francisco later this month. The organization behind the event is BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition). They provide creative media education for low-income bay area youth, including digital audio; something any reader of this blog can get behind. If you’re in the San Francisco area, please consider coming out to support this event. The full info is below, and if the cause doesn’t convince you, maybe the fact that it’s probably one of the only opportunities this year you’ll get to hear me play will.

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Okay, I can’t do you like that. I can’t just post for the first time in months without providing you loyalists with some new music. So, here’s a sampling of some Electro Blues tracks I’ve been into recently. It seems to me that the sub-genre is on the rise thanks in part to the popularity of Electro Swing, especially in the wake of C2C’s massive Electro Blues club hit “Down the Road”. Like Electro Swing, it combines sounds of the early 20th century with modern elements… elements such as dope beats and fat bass. Here are a few of my favorites, ranging from downtempo to hard-hitting electro. If you like these tracks, know that I’ll probably play a couple at the 404 Beats party, which (in case I didn’t already hammer home the point) you should totally attend. Enjoy!

ELECTRO BLUES:

Son of Dave - Devil Take My Soul

Swing Republic - Cryin’ at Daybreak

K-Thoery - Good & Gone

D-Funk - Banjo Blues

PLAY ALL

404 BEATS DETAILS:

When: Thursday, June 13th, 8PM-1AM
Where: Public Works, 161 Erie St, SF
Get tickets HERE!

UPDATE: I have promotion friend codes for $10 tickets! If you want one, drop me a comment below and I’ll send it to you.

Posted by: Cor

Hello again, Beatery faithful! This Wednesday, July 25th Jay and myself are very pleased to kick off our new monthly, Beat Du Jour! Drop on by Raven Bar in San Francisco after work and let some funky beats and a few signature cocktails ease you through your mid-week slump. This week I’ll be serving up the electro swing sounds I’ve been cultivating recently, and Jay will dush out the tasty mid-tempo funk you’ve come to expect from the man.

If that’s not enough, there’s a huge lineup of drink specials, including…
- $4 Well Drinks
- $4 Drafts
- $5 Wine Glasses
- $1 OFF remarkable specialty cocktails
- Plus Absolut Vodka specials ALL NIGHT long!

Okay, let’s review: dope beats, close location, cheap booze, no cover. Can’t ask for anything more, right? Great! Then come on out and help us get this thing going!

WHAT: BEAT DU JOUR
WHERE: Raven Bar, SF (Map)
WHEN: Wednesday, July 25th, 5pm - 10pm
More info on our facebook event page.

We’ll see you there!

Posted by: Jay

Happy Halloween everybody!

To mark my triumphant return to my own blog, I’m excited to announce that I will be laying it down live today on KZSU’s “The Big Love Show!” I’ll be on from 3pm-6pm PST and you can tune in right here:

Listen to KZSU

I’ve got a TON of new music to play including, but not limited to:

New Justice!

New Modeselektor!

New Tiesto (no really, it’s good)!

Hope you can tune in <3

Posted by: Matt

Hey hey hey! It’s podcast time once again and this week a local friend of the Beatery is gracing us with his presence. SF superstar-in-the-making DJ KidHack recently scored a major coup recently by landing a slot in the Subsonic Tent at this year’s (always) epic BFD festival at the Shoreline Amphitheater. Sharing the stage with great artists like Wolfgang Gartner, Blaqk Audio, and Innerpartysystem (among many others), KidHack dropped a slammin’ set of Dubstep, Drumstep, DnB, and just really some sick ass bass pounders. He’s generously allowed us to podcast it and we certainly aren’t going to pass that up!

Peep photos from the event and a tracklist below the jump. Download the mix from the Soundcloud player, KidHack’s website, or why not subscribe to our very own iTunes Podcast!?

If you love this and just need, need to hear more, check out KidHack’s SF collective Future Universal on Facebook. They have a pretty happening page going over there right now.

DJ KidHack - Live @ Live 105 BFD 110605 by KidHack

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Posted by: Jay

Bonjour mes amis! Je suis très heureux aujourd’hui parce que… Yelle is coming to town!! Yelle (pronounced “yell”) is a bite sized explosion of French electro-pop that I had never heard of until she come out with her most recent album, Safari Disco Club early this year.

Being smitten with her super spunky electro-swag I checked out her back catalog and turns out she’s been banging out the synth-pop jams for years! Here are a few of my favorites and the show details. See you there? I can’t imagine she’d disappoint live.

Yelle at The Regency Ballroom - Thursday, May 19th, 2011

GET TICKETS HERE ($22 plus an OUTRAGEOUS “Convenience Charge” of $9.70)

Yelle - “Safari Disco Club”

Yelle - “Ce Jeu” - The Twelves Remix

Yelle - “Je Veux Te Voir”

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VIDEOS:

Safari Disco Club / Que veux-tu
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