2 Bears

The 2 Bears project are Joe Goddard and Raf Rundell. You probably know Joe from the better known Hot Chip. I've been especially digging "Be Strong". Good solid house track. If you don't have the "Follow the Bears" EP most definitely grab it at beatport.

I know this whole thing is kind of a joke, but i'm excited to see what else they come out with in the future.

2 Bears - Be Strong {download}

Toddla T - Rebel (2 Bears Remix) {download}

I'm back

May kind of missed us. Oh well. I'm back and ready to make up for that. I'm gonna keep the talk short and make up for that with some solid tunage.

Klaxons - Flashover

Yes the Klaxons finally released something. I know. Shocker, huh? Unfortunately though, I think its crap.

Klaxon's - As Above, So Below (Justice Remix)

Because I don't like posting songs that suck here. Here's a song that doesn't suck.

Too be honest I had forgotten about this tune until I heard Busy drop it at the Cool Cats party about a month ago.

Doctor P - Sweet Shop

I've jumped on the bandwagon for a lot of genre's, but dubstep is not one of them. Maybe it's because I could never really get into DnB. I don't know but the wobble bass just doesn't do it for me. Still I've heard this song just about everywhere over the past two months and I'm afraid that it may be one of those tunes that makes me erase the first three sentences of this paragraph in a couple months.

Aeroplane - We Can't Fly (preview) by eskimorecordings

Remember that really bitching Aeroplane Essential Mix that came out last month? Well this is that opening track that I'm impatiently waiting for Aeroplane to release. If none of this makes sense to you, then listen to the soundcloud link below. Look out for the 'Paris' x 'Crave You' mash-up. YY

Aeroplane - Live at Circus Liverpool (500th Essential Mix) by eskimorecordings

Carte Blanche House Party Mix

For those of you who haven't been told, DJ Mehdi and Riton decided to work together under the name Carte Blanche. They're gonna produce and go on tour together. Four tables, one mixer, and a TR-909. Oh and one minor detail... no electro, strictly house music. :/

Back in February they dropped their single "In the Mix". Which sounded pretty good except for the repeated vocals "In the Mix" were pretty annoying/repetitive. But thats house music I guess...

Here's a 'House Party Mix' the two dropped today. I'm currently listening to it so I can't comment, but here's what Mehdi had to say on his blog (download link within):

My Peoples,

Couldn’t be more thrilled to present you this HOUSE PARTY MIX, mixed by RITON and yours truly aka CARTE BLANCHE.

We made this thinking of what could be the best thing to play at your house, on a friday night, when your friends are bumrushing your flat and your neighbours/parents/neighbourhood cops are out of town.

CARTE BLANCHE (RITON + DJ MEHDI) will be on tour around the world this spring, so that’s also a good idea of what to expect—

DOWNLOAD IT HERE or directly THERE and feel free to post, share, forward, tweet or retweet.

HOUSE MUSIC ALL NIGHT LONG!

INTRO: HOUSE PARTY
1. CARTE BLANCHE ‘Do! Do! Do!’
2. PAPERCLIP PEOPLE ‘Throw’
3. FARLEY JACKMASTER FUNK ‘Love Can’t Turn Around’ (Accapella)
4. INNER CITY ‘xxxxxx’
5. DAFT PUNK ‘Face To Face’ (Accapella)
6. LNR ‘You Can’t Stop The House’
7. HOT CITY ‘Hot City Bass’
8. BLAZE ‘Whatcha Gonna Do’
9. PUZIQUE ‘Don’t Go’
10. TODD TERRY ‘A Day In The Life’ (RITON “Feel It” Edit)
11. DEETRON ‘Life Soundtrack’
12. MIKE DUNN ‘Deep Down (The Underground)’
13. ARMANDO ‘Turn My Shit Up’
14. HARDTON ‘Earthquake’
15. THE PERSUADER ‘Bottle Up’
16. DIRT CREW ‘Psycho’
17. MOKO ‘Acid On The Air’
18. JAN DRIVER ‘Tellyfoam’
19. MATTHEW DEAR ‘Dog Days’
20. ARMAND VAN HELDEN ‘Can U Feel It’
21. JOSH WINK ‘How’s The Music’
22. UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE ‘Timeline’
23. KIKOMOTO ALLSTARS ‘I’ll Make You Jack’
24. LAND SHARK ‘Tie Me Up’ (Chicken Lips Trax Dub)
25. DAN BLACK ‘Symphony’ (Hot City’ Remix)
26. CARTE BLANCHE ‘In The Mix’
27. CARTE BLANCHE ‘Gare Du Nord’
28. HIGH POWERED BOYS ‘Get Down’
29. PAUL JOHNSON ‘Get Get Down’ (RITON Edit)
30. ROYAL HOUSE ‘Yeah Buddy’
31. DJ JUKE ‘Blow Your Whistle’ (NY House Mix)
32. HARD DRIVE ‘Deep Inside’

(CARTE BLANCHE EP ‘Black Billionaires’ out on ED BANGER on MAY 31st)

The Juan MacLean

It appears The Juan MacLean dropped their Dj Kicks album today. Pretty interested to see how this ones gonna turn out. I'm not the biggest Juan MacLean fan, but anything on DFA always grabs my attention and usually for good reason.

For tracklisting and a free mp3 download check out their website and go pick up the album over at !K7.

The Juan MacLean - Feel So Good {download}

Hey Today!

Likely to be the electro track of the summer, Hey Today!'s 'Talk to Me' is big. And equally as big is Busy P's remix. Here's what Pedro himself had to say about it:

A few weeks ago, we were touring Australia for Parklife. TIGA was closing our stage every night, in front of 10,000 kids ready to rumble with him, to get wrestled to the ground.

And, as usual, he throws out his secret weapon, "TALK TO ME". The crowd explodes. That’s when I ran onstage screaming, "T-Dawg, what's that sound????"

The only reply I got was a big, creepy grin... Merci!

One late night, on the narrow streets of Melbourne, TIGA and I went out for a little boogie with the Bang Gang squad. Our Aussie friends know how to look after us. We spent the night at Sorry Grandma!, the hottest club in town, drinking Rave Juice and trying to understand drunk Aussies’ sub-English accents.

I knew it was the perfect time to ask TIGA about that insane track he was playing. Ask a drunk man something and you'll get everything you need. Everything.

"HEY TODAY!" he said. "Wait, the German guys responsible for "If I Was Wonderwoman" a few years ago?" I replied.

"Can I have another Rave Juice, P?" he replied to my reply. Nice.

Anyway, I now knew it was some Germans who did that Herbie Hancock-meets-LFO track!

I never gave up. We were back from OZ, me in Paris, TIGA in Montreal, iChatting like we often do. And that little "Transfarts" window pops up on my screen!

"TALK TO ME" became the highlight of my DJ set, the moment where you see stars in the eyes of the crowd’s head. Not only it is my favorite track of 2010, I even had the chance to remix it!

What the hell can you do with such a monster tune? Make something harder? Impossible. Make something better? Not possible. Make something faster? The opposite of possible. Make something stronger? The train has pulled out of Possibility Town. I wanted something deeper, more mental, bringing two worlds together, Detroit and Rotterdam.

Here is HEY TODAY!'s new single "TALK TO ME." Have fun with it.

P

HEY TODAY! - TALK TO ME by HEY TODAY!

HEY TODAY! - TALK TO ME (Busy P Remix) by HEY TODAY!

As always, if you hear something you like, go support the artists at Turbo Records or Beatport.

M.I.A. - Born Free

The video is top notch and I know this video is supposed to display the ignorance of persecuting people based on their physical appearance, but it still has left me typing WTF??

In other news... hard summer tour...?

Here's a little blast from the past

M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA remix) {download}

Some older Disco/Funk/Soul

Here's a few gems that have been on heavy rotation lately. You won't find anything here post-1980.

Leon Huff - "Tight Money"

Recognize that intro from somewhere...?

I'm pretty sure I posted this a while back, but who cares...

The track title speaks for itself.

I apologize for the lack of downloads and the sub-par replacement with youtube videos, but I was advised by discoaladisco's legal team that we don't want to step on any old school funksters' toes. *cough* you can find all these tracks online if you are crafty enough *cough* But vinyl really does sound so much better than mp3's.