Nacho Lovers interview for KidCityBlog

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KiNK @ Belvedere Pool near Bucharest

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Futureboogie Mix August

Futureboogie Mix August 2010 by futureboogie

Ilija Rudman - Against the Wall (ISM Records)
Zev - Dont Break It (Kenny Glasgow + Jonny White Remix) (Dubplates)
Mugwump - The Congregation of Discalced Clerks (Kompakt)
Ilija Rudman - Time (Electric Minds)
Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Mix) (Permanent Vacation)
New Jersey Connection - Love Don't Come Easy (Space Ranger Edit) (Promo)
Stefano e Bene feat Hardton - Why Your Love (Katzbatz Remix) (Permanent Vacation)
Gadi Mizrahi + Soulclap - She's Bad (Bad Rabbits Remix) (DS)
Lovebirds - Want U (Hot Toddy Remix) (Winding Road)
Lee Foss - Run Around (Hot Creations)
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running (Ron Edit) (CDR)

Meet The Legendary 1979 Orchestra

Or Andrei, a Bucharest based disco and house lover like each of us, who's just starting to show off his talent. I was the 9th to view his MySpace profile.

The Legendary 1979 Orchestra - Tropical by 1979 Orchestra
The Legendary 1979 Orchestra - Body Rock by 1979 Orchestra

David Keno - Stars above

David Keno - Stars above by David Keno

A Hamburg Producer Slithers Between Bygone Eras and Funky Sounds

XLR8R feature on Tensnake

« Marco Niemerski, the Hamburg, Germany native known musically as Tensnake, doesn't mind when people point out his influences—he is, indeed, trying to make his music sound like the records he loves. "I get really excited when I come close to a point where it sounds like that", he says, and this excitement translates viscerally into the irrepressible joy that his tracks evoke on the dancefloor.

Niemerski's work isn't exactly pop, but the immediacy of what he does is just as important to him as the level of craft. This partly explains why there's no Tensnake album quite yet. At the time of our phone conversation, the affable Niemerski is at home between gigs, soon to complete the last remix he has slated for the year. Until now, he's preferred to release EPs and 12-inches, citing the speed of expression that those formats allow. An album will come—he's worked at it before—but he's too much of a perfectionist to hurry it. "I have to restart again and get some inspiration first", he explains. "I'll wait until I feel it's the right time to do it".

One can't fault him for working at his own pace—his quality control to date has been impeccable. Recreating and reimagining the old, but never recycling wholesale, the Tensnake singles and EPs of the last few years are a happy confluence of warm, vintage disco, boogie, and house sounds filtered through a Larry Levan-like lens of funky eclecticism. That said, Niemerski doesn't self-identify as a DJ. "I used to DJ some years ago, then I quit", he says with a laugh. "There are so many good DJs out there… I don't think the world needs another one".

Even as a producer, Tensnake shuns the idea of playing others' sounds. For instance, it'll occasionally seem like he has employed, say, a keyboard sample from a classic '80s house track, but it's nearly always a sound that he has generated himself. "If you're using samples in a creative way, that's fine, but playing everything and making it sound like a sample is more interesting to me", he explains. This process of reshaping his favorite records' sounds has lately resulted in Coma Cat, an EP that feels fresh yet bears few marks of the present. "Need Your Lovin" has the nostalgic glow of a Chaz Jankel disco cut, while the title track shuns subtlety in favor of tropical-tinged keys and house jubilance. Meanwhile, the warmth of 2008 space-disco track "Congolal" would dovetail nicely with Lindstrøm's most futuristic jams.

While his music often references the past, Tensnake is mostly definitely rooted in the present—next up is a release for Tim Sweeney's Beats in Space label, and Niemerski's own label, Mirau Musik, will be releasing a few records by younger producers this year. As Niemerski observes with delight, clubs everywhere seem to be catching up with his fun-loving mindset. "You find a lot of house music again... there are so many more melodies. People don't care if it's minimal or this or that—they just dance, party, and have fun". »

Electric Elephant anyone?

with:
Francois K (Deep Space/Wave Music) - Andrew Weatherall - Juan Maclean (DFA) - Todd Terje - Don Letts - Prosumer - Richard Norris & Leo Elstob (The Time & Space Machine Vs WigWam) - The Unabombers - Hunee - Ashley Beedle - Beppe Loda - Ramadanman (Hessle Audio) - Fuck Buttons - Architeq & many more..

Friday 27th - Sunday 29th August 2010
The Garden, Petrçane, Croatia
Tickets: £80
www.electricelephant.co.uk

The Garden Festival 2010 Highlight Mix by Justin Winks (Casio Social Club)

"A small selection of tracks that captured the incredible vibe of this years Garden Festival"



01. Smith & Mudd - Shulme
02. Soul Clap - Between The Edit
03. Robbie Williams - Lovelight (Soul Mekanik Remix)
04. The Revenge - Night Flight
05. Bogdan Irkuk aka Bulgari - All Nite Store
06. Alice Smith - Love Endeavor (Maurice Fulton Remix)
07. Crazy P - Lie Lost (Maurice Fulton Remix)
08. Eddy Meets Yannah - Solid Ground (Crazy P Remix)
09. Hot Toddy - Down To Love (Fred Everything Lazy Days Remix)
10. Tensnake - Coma Cat
11. Nelue - Deconstructed (Crazy P Remix)
12. This Ain't Chicago - Ride The Rhythm (Danny Mekanik 21st Anniversary Mix)
13. A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray

Fer Ferrari - DeepClass Radio Show July

Fer Ferrari _DeepClass Radio Show_JulMix by Fer Ferrari

Lord Of The Isles - Body Swerve

Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With (Lord of the Isles Re-Shape)

dOP at Sonar 2010

Mark Duffin | Tony Lionni

Mark Duffin - Captain Five Minutes Ago (Tony Lionni Remix 2) by Solardisco

Surrealism Guest Mix for Radio 21 Bucharest

There seem to be many many things ahead for Surrealism, this Bulgarian duo based in Sofia. Here's a guest mix for a local Bucharest radio, from 4 days ago, with only 5 plays on SoundCloud. I find that revolting.

01.Surrealism - Talk [TBA]
02.Surrealism - The Beauty And The Nerd [Einmaleins]
03.Surrealism - Filler A [Burek]
04.BalErik & Vadim Yershov - Everybody (Surrealism Remix) [Discoteca]
05.Surrealism & Yofunk - My Turn [TBA]
06.Surrealism - Dusty Mechanism [Einmaleins]
07.Surrealism - So Much [Liebe*Detail]
08.Stephan Panev - Mishii (Surrealism's We Go Deeper Remix) [Hole]
09.Surrealism - TBA [TBA]
10.Surrealism - Do It Now [TBA]
11.SUrrealism - Filler B [Burek]
12.Surrealism - Tisco [Discoteca]

fresh mixtape: Freshpot and Popsicles

In compesation for the two weeks spent at The Garden Festival, which made me tired and fed up of everything that sounds like disco.

Freshpot and Popsicles by fonotonic

00:00 :: Marshall Jefferson vs Noosa Heads - Mushrooms (Martin Eyerer Remix)
07:20 :: James Teej - Get Off The Phone (Pezzner West Mix)
13:30 :: Julio Bashmore - Jack Got Macked
18:20 :: Instant Pleasure - Let's Ride
21:20 :: Lewie Day - That's The Thing (Lee Curtiss Remix)
25:30 :: Kruse & Nuernberg - Sliced
29:25 :: Ataneus - Salutary (Mollono.Bass Remix)
33:00 :: Chopstick & Johnjon - Keep On Keepin On (Laberge Dreamz 'n' Stuff Edit)
36:10 :: Instant Pleasure - Feel It
40:10 :: Ali Kuru- Feeling Blue
43:50 :: Nacho Marco - Fearless
48:00 :: Matthias Meyer - Infinity
52:30 :: Mano Le Tough - Started Running
57:50 :: Surrealism - So Much
63:20 :: Stryke - Beautiful
68:30 :: Mano Le Tough - Baby, Lets Love

K.atou guest mix for Keep It Deep

House and techno lover, inspired by Chicago, Detroit and Perlon, K.atou was born and raised in Athens, Greece, and nowadays she's jet setting and djing all around the globe, from Berlin, one of her homebases.

K.atou - Keep It Deep Guest Mix by keep-it-deep