Following his successful remix for iSquare’s massive Hey Sexy Lady EP, LA’s own Whiiite (formerly DJ Mr. White) brings two more monsters to the table. The Atari Teenage Riot remix has just been released on Dim Mak records, and recent collaboration with bass brilliant Flinch made the cut for Skylar Grey’s Invisible EP (alongside huge remixes by Kaskade, Dirty South, John Dahlback, and Fred Falke). Check out the video preview and download links below, and grab our exclusive bootleg he made for Laidback Luke’s ‘Till Tonight.’
Wow! We offered you up some free Swedish House Mafia treats and what a ridiculously overwhelming response we got from all of you dirty dancers. Through a scientifically proven randomization process (close eyes, scroll up and down frantically, write down first name on top) our winners are officially Caroline from California, Michael from Connecticut, and Alberto from Texas ... Congrats!
Michael was actually rewarded for being the first responder and coincidentally you long-time dirty dancers may have seen his name on GDD™ before. That's right, he's 1/2 of the duo Bastille that made that magical 'Cold As Ice' remix that lit your pants on fire in late summer '09. Bonus reward for Michael: another hand-crafted stomper up on his favorite blog.
I also threw in the newest Jokers Of The Scene goth-house/demon-step/horror-dub epic, just cause I like y'all so much.
Click on the word "Tracks" for downloads.
P.S. How does everyone like this lil' SoundCloud gizmo? Post thoughts in the comments.
Here is the latest mixtape from A-trak it’s the second in series of Dirty South Dance.Enjoy…
Track list
Intro
Trizzy Turnt Up
How Low Can U Bake
We Don’t Want No Goblins
She Got a Dum Donk
Whatever You Shoot
Ice Cream On Blast
Carte Blanche ft. Kid Sister: Do! Do! Do!
Twerk That Driver
Vampires Going Ham
Loonies To Blow
Make The Trap Wile Out
O Let’s Overdo It
Donnis: Gone (DJ Craze remix)
Ain’t I A Joker
sad and lonely people of the interwebs, there is nothing to worry about… luvstep is here.
I didn’t really have a good listen/peek when luvstep was first spied a month or two ago notably with the dirty south / flufftronix mix but Nikolay sent through some in a polite well structured email (hint hint) so thought there couldn’t be any harm having a listen.
Inside were three tracks, fittingly titled ‘Victoria’, ‘Alexandria’ and ‘Olivia’ that gave me a much stronger idea of what luvstep is/was. It sounds like dubstep, acts like dubstep but has a tad more resonance and flesh, little less aggressive compared to raw dubstep and quite enjoyable if you like flat bass.
I’ve actually been looking for a reason to post the original of this tune, but Axwell and Dirty South made it a bit for relevant to this here blog. Their remix came out on The Temper Trap’s Sweet Disposition single and if you take a look at their other releases, you’ll notice that they have a lot of familiar dance names in their catalog. Hervé, Evil Nine, Doorly, Mistabishi and Caged Baby are a few that might ring a bell. Well played, Temper Trap.
Aside from being a slacking blogger I still love to share the best. To to share a bite size of what my saturday night was like at the 2009 nocturnal festival, taking place in beautiful (ahem) San Bernadino, California. (It actually was great weather) With media/photo passes to myself, GDD took Nocturnal by one man storm. After the 2 hour wait on the 10/215 freeway change (and the retardation of parking at raves) I got the privilege of taking great photos onstage, and I had time to ask a couple questions to a few familiar names:
Me: What do you like most about playing in California?
RUSKO: Everything, thats why I moved out here!
Me: What? Really? You moved here?
RUSKO: Haha, Yeah man, everything for this music is in LA.
Me: You were absolutely brutal man, LA loves you - you killed it!
RUSKO: Haha thanks man, I'm a Cali-resident now, you know that!
and Dave Taylor....
Me: Do you think there is a decline of dubstep in the UK with all the thriving genres of electronic music there? Do you think maybe thats why the dubstep scene has become so popular in the states?
Switch: (Laughs) ...What do you think?
Me: I think no one can stop the dubstep.
Switch: (Laughs) Well there you have it man, grab yourself a drink. (motions towards his bucket of alcoholic treasures)
Me: Is it true afrojack is suing diplo for stealing the 'pon de floor' riddim and giving him no credit?
Switch: I've actually heard about that yeah...(laughs)
Heres your dose cadets:
Murdering the dub stage at 1 in the morning, Rusko brought the bass pain we know and love, and He was a really cool guy to talk with. This jam is that pure filth.
This is a Switch mash up from his essential mix, cutting up Jayou's 'Crack Hands' and Major Lazer's 'Keep it goin louder,' Then dropping into the dubby King Jammy's 'Judgement Day.' He was hilarious to meet and stuff like this makes him above the curve.
Laidback Luke was the best performance by far, owning the crowd by clashing his rave anthem house tracks with fresh new electro jams we all know and love. Here was the kicker though, in all its California Massive glory.
The hypnotizing of Dirty South brought the crowd into that 2am-4am trance that he loves to finish the rave tents off with, leaving you in a satisfiable coma when you hear him close with this song.
