manalogue

But not a very researched one. Actually, that’s a lie. For the last two months when I wasn’t bombarded with homework, I was trying to download EVERY ALBUM I MISSED LAST YEAR. The results? Don’t ever try to do that…

I have one fav. album from last year. MODERAT -- MODERAT (or would you write it MODERAT -- S/T?) on BPitch CONTROL from Germany. It’s got just the right amount of thump blended seamlessly amongst the sappy. I suggest the CD version over the vinyl because the vinyl doesn’t include BEATS WAY SICK featuring BUSDRIVER (On a side note, this years album JHELLI BEAM by BUSDRIVER didn’t quite do it for me). MODERAT are a collaboration between APPARAT & MODESELEKTOR.

The I wish all at the staff at MANALOGUE the best of luck in the New Year and to all the people out there behind the screen…keep listening.

Honourable Mentions:
Applescal -- A Slave’s Commitment [Traum Schallplatten]
The Field -- Yesterday & Today [Kompakt]
Kap Bambino -- Blacklist [Because Music]
Nathan Fake -- Hard Islands [Border Community]
Telefon Tel Aviv -- Immolate Yourself [BPitch Control]
Zombie Nation -- Zombielicious [UKW]

Every time I think about this past year, my brain starts to shut down. I can barely discern one month from another, and coupled with this being the end of the decade, I’m overwhelmed with ideas for a wrap-up.

This instead will be a “Bonnaventure Approved” post. I am not going to say anything about these tracks, except they found their way in to my headphones/car/DJ set and I made the effort to put them in to this post. I hope you understand. Happy New Year friends!

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Example – Won’t Go Quietly (The Juan MacLean Remix)

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Get A Room – The Dreamer

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John Roman – Are You Ready For This?

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Piranha Piranha – Stutter

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Sidney Samson – Riverside (Breakage Remix)

Ok, I feel bad for not saying anything… The EXAMPLE track is extremely catchy and remixed by THE JUAN MACLEAN. I live in an area that’s months behind musically, so I have no idea who Example is, but this song is catchy. I sing it in my car to pass the time. The Dreamer is a track that was apparently edited from a movie? The DJs GET A ROOM! made a fun track with a italo feel, but wrote an annoying promo email so I kind of forgot about this tune until it shuffled in to my life, I’m hooked.

JOHN ROMAN is a Canadian that is blowing my mind with this tune. The horns scream “I want to be dub” on first listen, but once the track kicks in with the main lead, you WILL lose your mind. I am DJing New Years Eve, and this will be dropped at a peak moment. PIRANHA PIRANHA makes dubstep that isn’t trying to make it big, but is trying to make something original. This isn’t London dubstep, this is Calgary dubstep, the post apocalyptic themes are still apparent, but there is no biting of style here.

Speaking of dubstep, it’s fun right now. Will it be as hyped this time next year? Who knows? All I know is that I compulsively whistle this amazing SIDNEY SAMSON tune, and whenever something awesome happens, I tend to yell “Riverside Mother Fucker!”. I’m not the only one, I am sure of it. So that about wraps up this post, which is much longer than I expected. If you are wondering what my favourite album of the 00s is, I just have one word: Yoshimi.

Isn’t it incredible that artists like WOLFGANG GARTNER are remixing super pop acts? Like what? In Mr. Gartner’s latest effort it’s difficult not to hear the influence of some of his previous work. Exploding spherical kick drums and licks from a Zelda soundtrack saturate one of London’s newest hearthrobs – MIKA. It all comes accross a bit mindless. I’m not saying it’s bad, infact I really like the tune – but I try to imagine where this track would be played and I can’t quite figure it out. Perhaps, the answer isn’t specific, rather it’s a tune so catchy, yet so full of bass and bounce it could be played everywhere. Why don’t you try it and get back to me with the results.

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MP3: Mika – Blame It On The Girls (Wolfgang Gartner’s Dry remix)

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MP3: Mika – Blame It On The Girls (Wolfgang Gartner’s Dry dub)

I know I just posted the latest from GTRONIC a couple days ago, but since BMKLTSCH RCRDS just sent the whole package, including the original, HOSTAGE, and STEREOHEROES mixes, I figured you might as well get a proper download out of it, right? So here’s that monster remix from  and two more deadly stompers!

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MP3: GTRONIC – Ironman (original mix) ♥♥♥

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MP3: GTRONIC – Ironman (Hostage’s Iron Curtain remix) ♥♥♥

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MP3: GTRONIC – Ironman (StereoHeroes remix) ♥♥♥

Do yourself a favour and grab the 320s.

As a bonus, perhaps an incentive, here’s one you might have heard before. Electro clichés aside, this one lives up to its name. Really, it’s a disservice to play any of these in a pair of cans. At the very least, plug into your hifi at home and turn it up; better yet burn them onto a cd and demand your favourite dj to play them.

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MP3: GTRONIC – Destroyer ♥♥♥

The folks at CHECK YR PULSE would love this. I do too. Minimal house and techno warms my heart like nothing else and this track from MARCUS SCHMIDT and DOUBLE C does it especially well.

Marcus Schmidt vs Double C – Wuddelwald by Marcus Schmidt Double C

New beats from Melbourne, Australia’s PAQMAN who channel influences of big beat and heavy bass into their work. The highlight of the demo is “One Mother” which rumbles deeeeep shaking the family tree.

You can grab the entire demo from their SoundCloud page.

POPULAR DAMAGE had some success with their ‘assimilations’ of Digitalism and Tegan & Sara. With their own release they’ve recruited some heavyweights for remix duty. Coco Machete’s mainstay, FUKKK OFFF adds his signature ravey piano stabs and viscous basslines to PD’s latest single, giving it (and you) a bolt of energy to pass that 4 AM slump.

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MP3: Popular Damage – Everybody Got Young (FUKKK OFFF Remix)

Here’s a stomper courtesy of EIKYOU RECORDS that you shouldn’t pass-over. The colab between DUKE B and TK WONDER is a squelchy electro rap bomb of a tune. The whole package is deadly and it was difficult to pick just one to share, so why not grab a handful of mixes from beatport. Here though is the remix from THE ROTO MAFIA that will keep me bouncing well into the new year.

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MP3: Duke B, TK Wonder – Secret (The Roto Mafia Remix) ♥♥♥

The latest from GTRONIC and STEREOHEROES scratches that itch all the right ways.

Grab the 320 from beatport.

If you enjoy parallels between house music and pizza, check out the latest from DAN MCKIE who serves up a deep Chicago number.

Grab the full release from beatport.