V(a)ND(a)L

To see if a song gets my attention, I have some techniques, and they are different for each genre. For heavy electro stuff (from artists that I have never heard of), I just play it when I'm doing something else, and if I stop doing these things to look at the name of the track because I think: "Holy s#*t, what the f*ck is this?!?", then I'm hooked.


That's the way I listened to VNDL, and his tracks definitely gave me that spark, and also an urge to start headbanging (which I did). This dude (Philippe Vandal) is only 19 years old, and lives in Montréal, Canada. He describes his sound as "distorted, trashy (Proxy-like...but not Proxy :p)". He has a monthly venue at the Saphir, an underground club in his hometown. He does his mixing and dj-ing stuff pure for the pleasure, and he started mixing about one year and a half ago.
Nexuspetrol (Felix Montmorency) is a friend of his, and it was him who got him into producing. He learned Philippe how to work with ableton, and they made some tracks together.
I think this is enough talk for now, but I definitely think that we'll hear more from him in the near future! This are his 2 fucking amazing remixes:

Huoratron - Corporate occult (Nexuspetrol vs VNDL edit)

Noisia - B.R.U.L. (Nexuspetrol vs VNDL edit)

VNDL messaged me a few minutes ago, to say that I could host those two other tracks for download! Woohoow!

VNDL - Blender
VNDL - Toaster

For dreamy dub, I have other conditions. Those songs are more or less unnoticed when I download them, I just think: "well, if this blog has posted it, it will be good!". but most of the time I don't like them after some listens. But sometimes... Sometimes I do find something that grows on me...
RSD - naked mario kart

Thanx to wizards are better for this find (they posted it some time ago). This track made me hum "papapara,papapara pararara" for days. I highly recommend this one!

What are you doing grandma???

Wish my grandma was that cool... Imagine you throw a party, and your grandma says: "well that dj'ing stuff doesn't look so hard, I can do that too!"
And before you know it, she is asked to go spin everywhere!
Loads of respect for misses Ruth Flowers, who is 69 years old. Here's an interview with her.

Apparently not only granny's can spin, 4 year old girls have skills too! Check this vid (I posted it a little while ago on our facebook profile) from the daughter of dj Lenny. I definitely think that she'll be getting more famous than her dad.

What do you know about Otis?

Hostage (Aka Alan Parley) didn't got lots of attention from us, something that we should be ashamed of. His productions are all top, and since he is so busy all the time, he has made loads of bangers. "Otis", his latest production, has some funny vocals and pitching synths, you better give it a try!

Hostage - Otis

He also has a new mixtape, with some nice wobbly tunes, fidget stuff and even some tech-house.
Hostage - March 2010 mix

Check this vid of him and Lee Mortimer playing in a club in Hungary:



Enjoy!

Harvard Bass march chart

Harvard Bass got his ass kicked and was robbed in LA, but he was kind enough to post his best songs of the month at the Sound Pellegrino blog. The most of these tracks aren't available for us, mortal people, like the new dj edjotronic song (not djedjotronic anymore, he changed his name a bit) and his own new remixes. But we have that last song from the chart for you, and like Viktor shows: thumbs up!

Maxx Bett - Soccer girl


I'm really becoming a sucker for everything Figure pumps out, his style seems to change everytime (he has made dubstep, wobbly bass, techno, and some things in between). And everytime, he nailed it. His latest release on one for all records is pointing straight to the dancefloors, with some cool club vocals in "War Fair". "The Doses" is one for all you drug addicts out there, but if you aint enslaved, you'll probably enjoy this one too.

Figure - The Doses
Figure - War Fair

Stealing samples...

Stealing beats is something that is done regularly, and most of the times stealing isn't the appropriate word for it.
Laidback Luke for example, has done an excellent job with one of his latest productions: Blogger (with a title like that you are sure to get some extra points on the blogs). It samples Anasthasia from T99, a techno classic from the early nineties, a song that everyone knows from somewhere. In this case I don't mind, because this song has gotten his credits a long time ago, so Laidback Luke can't claim that he invented the synths.

Laidback Luke - Blogger


But sometimes, stealing the beats someone invented and sampling them is something that's not so innocent. You might remember that we posted some tracks by upcoming Russian producer The Mould(check that post here), who has now found a home under the safe wings of The Proxy. Dj Antention however, seems to have taken the exact same beats as him, and he putted it in his track "Go!".
I don't know who was first, and since they are both very unknown producers, I give Dj antention the benefit of the doubt.

Dj antention - Go!

To finish this post, I have something more optimistic. Dj Stern will be releasing his first album on Leonizer records, and the teaser for his track "Manouche" really got my attention right away. Have a look at it, you won't regret!

DJ STERN* from Guillaume Blanchet on Vimeo.

Electro beats taking over Metal tracks

I never loved metal, to be honest: I couldn't even listen to it! But since today, I think I have to change my mind. I just found a remix of a "Slipknot" track, and it sounds pretty good. Thanks to BELZEBASS for making this one!

Slipknot - Duality (BELZEBASS Rmx)

If you like it the hard way, check out their other tracks:

And.. hey.. WAKE UP! This is not the first electro remix of a metal track that can make the crowd go crazy. If you're a fan of our blog, you defenitely should know Gtronic and The Oddword. They also made a remix of a metal track; System of a down - Chop Suey (The Oddword ft. Gtronic)

Well, if all remixes of metal tracks can be such destroyers, goodbye fidget!

SIDE_ B of MAKO_ 001: MARSEILLE !

As we all know, after Proxy did a research for about 3 years, he started a new label called MAKO Records. Existing of Proxy, Noise Invaders, Polymorphic, The Mould, Eclier and Marseille.



We already have posted some tracks of The Mould, but now I'll post some of Alexey Nosulenko - better known as Marseille. Proxy gave Marseille the opportunity to release the album "UFO ATTACK", which is the first release of MAKO Records.

Marseille - UFO Attack (direct link)
Marseille - Over My Soul (direct link)
Marseille - Goodbye (direct link)

Happy Birthday MAKO Records!