I’m not really sure what to make of this. The last three messages in my inbox have all been from German producers. What’s happening here? Can someone tell me?
The previous two posts strayed slightly from content usually featured on Manalogue so here are a pair of remixes by Hamburg’s COCONUT WIRELESS you might come to expect more of. Viscous basslines and a rich 4/4 makes for a great floor-filler start. These ingredients are like the spoons of sugar over slices of apple in a tasty strudel.
Electro vixen SARAH WALKER gets the remixxx treatment - if you know what I mean.
Just got the okay to post this but before you poach it, CHECK IT OUT ON BEATPORT. Yes, it’s more wobbly bass from MOWGLI, this time in the form of a MARTIN SOLVEIG remix. Mowgli adds some bass thunder to this otherwise straightforward house track.
Mowgli has some UK dates followed by an Australian tour this fall so if you’re able, throw him some love and see the man tear up the dancefloor.
18 Jul 2008 ROUGH DISCO @ Penelope Sheffield
19 Jul 2008 LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM FUNDRAISER London
24 Jul 2008 Summer Rocket Festival Sestri Levante
8 Aug 2008 MOWGLI @ The Priory Doncaster
18 Aug 2008 Plug n’ Play Festival w/ Jeff Mills-Carl Craig-Magda…. Lecce
22 Aug 2008 LA Scala w/ Drop the Lime Berlin
29 Nov 2008 Stereosonic Festival 08 Adelaide
29 Nov 2008 Stereosonic Festival 08 Melbourne
30 Nov 2008 Stereosonic Festival 08 Sydney
6 Dec 2008 Stereosonic Festival 08 Perth
7 Dec 2008 Stereosonic Festival 08 Brisbane
I’m happy I can finally enjoy some R&B pop garbage others loved a decade or two ago. Get ready for some illegitimate sample use. Bobby Brown or any of the three Anthonys from Tony! Toni! Toné! probably don’t read Manalogue so I think it’s safe to post them here.
THE WHITE TIE AFFAIR are from Chicago. Judging from the looks of these guys you might think they’re a bunch of try-hards who thought they might have better luck with the ladies by being in a band. They have really well manicured coifs and is the tall dood really wearing a brass knuckle pendant? Let’s just say they’re into a scene I don’t really understand, mostly because I only have one dimension and points to the dancefloor. Thankfully they sent an unreleased remix we all can jive to.
I’ve been rocking the CRYPTONITES remix of COLDPLAY’s latest single for the past two weeks. The original tune had a tangental arena rock vibe but thankfully the Swiss remixers ramp it up and smash their rework into a monster anthem.
Growing in a small town before the internet was tough. Some mates and I used to rave in the early to mid 90s and for such a long time I was totally naive to the drug culture that was so prevelent. It was all about the music for me; that and dancing for hours in a sweaty mess when my parents thought I was sleeping over somewhere else. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
These parties were rare though so from time to time we would try to get our groove on at one of the bars - the prairie version of a nightclub. They’re sort of like a low budget rip off of Vegas clubs with a bit of steroid injected western beef-headed-ness. I hated it, but grew to tolerate it with unsafe amounts of alcohol. I don’t know how, but the music never changed.
So when one of my raving counterparts started pounding the Cadilac’s club hits, I knew it was time to leave before I started doing the same. It’s funny though, now I’m wrapped in nostalgia hearing many of them remixed. These tunes make me crave thunderous bassbin towers in dirty warehouses and the youthful energy needed to bounce with every beat until the sun comes out the next morning.
Influential Australian labe MODULAR have dropped a couple of promos this week. You probably already saw them somewhere else but if you passed over them, shame.
In anticipation of VAN SHE’s forthcoming full length V , here are two remixes by the band’s dancefloor moniker VAN SHE TECH. The first piece of noodling rockets their own track with some 4-4 sonics and elevates it to throbbing stomper. The debut long player from the Sydney, Australia four-piece is out in August.
Van She Tech also inject some neon shimmer and shredded bass into LADYHAWKE’s “Back of the Van.” It’s a bit reminiscent of their rework of the UTAH SAINTS classic.
There’s a reason for the massive Manalogue absence. Without going into too much detail it involves getting a house ready to sell which required me to take down my turntables and laptop. When my wife initially asked me to do it I agreed because the setup was in our living room and would only appeal to DJs potentially buying the house. There are a tonne of jocks in Winnipeg, but I the chances that one of them wanted to buy our house was pretty slm. It’s funny though, when my wife and I got home last night, one of the Nutty Klub officers came for a viewing. Weird. Anyway, a couple weeks ago when I finally disassembled everything I acted like a child with a full-on sulk-fest as if all my favourite toys were taken away. Well, all my favourite toys were taken away and they’re still covered up in the basement.
So, here’s a quick post…
SAINT PAULI has cranked out a number of remixes lately and here’s their latest. It’s a cutup off of the new B-52srecord with grinding basslines and bursting rainbows of glossy synth work. This track is perfect for bringing me out of this brief hybernation.
