Metronomy are set to release The English Riviera Unreleased Remixes on Big Beat Records and Because Music, March 16th.
The ‘remixes’ comes in light of a mega tour including performances at Ultra and Coachella from the Mercury Prize nominated electro-pop outfit.
Following on from the bumper efforts of The 2 Bears and Fred Falke, the newly hashed re-rubs are delivered courtesy of Benoit & Sergio, Ewan Pearson, Camo & Krooked, Jesse Rose, Soul Clap, and more.
Check out the full track-listing and give the Benoit & Sergio ‘cover’ a listen.
Tracklist for the Nglish Riviera Unreleased Remixes
1. Corinne (Benoit & Sergio Cover)
2. Everything Goes My Way (Ewan Pearson Dub)
3. The Look (Two Inch Punch’s Shook Shook Refix)
4. Loving Arm (Soul Clap’s Shake A Leg Mix)
5. Corinne (Night Angles Remix)
6. The Bay (Clock Opera Remix)
7. The Look (Camo & Krooked Remix)
8. She Wants (C-Berg Remix)
9. Corinne (Leodoris Remix)
10. Everything Goes My Way (Jesse Rose & Duke Dumont Re-Dub)
11. Some Written (NewVillager Remix)
12. Corinne (Mario Basanov Remix
13. The Bay (Wax Cotton’s Remix)
I hope you all had an excellent Thanksgiving and I hope your food comas have subsided after a night’s rest. Today’s news spans from trance to dubstep with Above & Beyond, Jesse Rose, Depeche Mode, 12th Planet, and Flux Pavilion. As always, catch the full GDD™ Morning Update after the jump.
Above & Beyond warn against “Very weak imitations” in dance music
As far as dance music success stories go, Above & Beyond’s career is a standout. With a string of artist albums, an ever-growing Anjunabeats empire and tireless world tours, their superstar status has been hard-earned. In an interview with Mixmag this week, Jono Grant has drawn on the trio’s experience to send a sagely message to aspiring producers (and established ones, too). The bottom line being: don’t shamelessly ape the formula of David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia and co.
“I’ve noticed that many smaller producers are seemingly feeling a bit lost in where to go with their direction, and are perhaps seeing artists like having mainstream commercial success and saying, ‘I want a piece of that!’,” muses Grant in the interview. “They are then diverting from their chosen flight path and heading towards that, which is of course fine if it’s where they genuinely want to be, as some do. But for a lot of producers, they dilute what they are about because they are not David Guetta and don’t do what he does best. That’s not experimenting in my eyes, it’s panic!”
He then goes on to single out a particular example that’s likely to resonate with Beatport-trawling ITMers.
“For example, over the last two years I’ve noticed Beatport has been littered with tracks trying to directly mimic the riff from Swedish House Mafia’s One, including some of the bigger names,” Grant continues. “Now the instrumental of One was a great groundbreaking track when it came out, but it just feels very weak, perhaps even cynical, for so many producers to try and copy this, and in 95-percent of cases creating very weak imitations. In the process of doing something like this you dilute your own identity.
“Dance music has always been about borrowing ideas, but at the same time it’s also been about moving the sound forward. I’ve always felt the key is to draw influences from multiple sources in order to make something fresh sounding. Fair enough if you take influences from the SHM, but throw something new in there.”
This weekend is set to be a big one for Above & Beyond, with the 400th episode of its Trance Around The World radio show. Naturally, there’s a mammoth party planned – Beirut is the lucky destination – accompanied by an eight-hour broadcast. The headliners will be joined by Jaytech, Mat Zo, Kyau & Albert and Gareth Emery, so fans will want to settle in.
Mixmag recently took a trip to LA to catch up with fidget house originator turned global house superstar Jesse Rose. Find out what we got up to with Jesse right here and check out his brand new documentary, Made For The Night, above. It gives further insight into the life and work of one of the best DJs in the game right now.
Depeche Mode Co-Founders Martin Gore and Vince Clarke Reunite After 30 Years
Depeche Mode co-founders Martin Gore and Vince Clarke have announced that they are working on music together for the first time since Clarke quit the band in 1981. (Clarke would go on to make synth-pop history with Erasure and Yazoo/Yaz.) The two have joined together to form a techno act called VCMG.
Gore said in a press release, “Out of the blue I got an e-mail from Vince just saying, ‘I’m interested in making a techno album. Are you interested in collaborating?’ This was maybe a year ago. He said, ‘No pressure, no deadlines,’ so I said, ‘OK,’ and that’s what we’ve been doing the last six month.”
VCMG will release a yet-untitled album early next year, which has already been recorded. In the meantime, they’ll put out a series of EPs, beginning with a 5-track collection called Spock. That’ll be out on December 13 through Mute, and includes four remixes of the title track.
DJ/producer 12th Planet picks five seminal dubstep tunes
It’s impossible to identify the first DJ to spin dubstep in Southern California, but for all practical purposes, it might as well have been 12th Planet. After being galvanized by the sounds gurgling out of London nightclub FWD and captured by Mary Anne Hobbs’ seminal “Dubstep Warz” special, the artist born John Dadzie became an apostle for the nascent sub-genre in early 2006.
Eschewing the drum-&-bass scene that had supported his touring lifestlye for the previous several years, Dadzie embraced the blistering wobble. One of the founders and the most prominent face of venerable bass-music promoters/record label SMOG, the L.A.-raised Dadzie is one of the city’s biggest dance-music success stories. He’s rocked festivals all over the world, toured with everyone from Daedelus to Skrillex and has officially remixed M.I.A. and John Legend (both will see forthcoming release). His own tunes have been remixed by fellow dubstep star Doctor P, and 12th has seen his videos played on MTV2. Moreover, he’s done it all independently.
Yet it’s as a live performer when 12th Planet is truly most in his element. He raises his fist and rallies crowds; he dances, raps and drops knowledge. He’s a whirlwind of energy capable of making audiences go as wild as Waka Flocka. In advance of SMOG’s fifth-year anniversary party in Santa Ana on Friday(headlined by dubstep legend Skream), Pop & Hiss asked 12th to select five of the songs that converted him to dubstep in the first place.
Wow, I remember hearing this song every night from 2006 to about 2008. This was one of the first Dubstep tracks I had heard with some serious attitude on the bass. It reminded me a lot of the late 90′s jump-up that Aphrodite was making.
My friend Tech Itch was one of the first people to ever mention the word dubstep to me. He told me to check out this group Vex’d, and lo and behold this was one of the first songs I had ever grasped the concept of dubstep on.
I remember hearing this song for the first time at a [drum-&-bass] show in San Francisco. I thought to myself, this dubstep sounds kind of like hip-hop. It was then I realized my longtime friend Matt from Santa Cruz was the orchestrator behind the sound. This track was pivotal to me, because it was probably the first American-made dubstep that caught U.K. rotation.
In my opinion, this track was the platform for modern dubstep. The way the drums are programmed, and the two-note bassline, is basically what set the tone for conventional dubstep.
Check out the footage of Flux Pavilion dropping ‘Superbad’, his latest track with Doctor P, at KOKO while supporting Skrillex. Rusko couldn’t have had a better opening at this year’s HARD Haunted Mansion with this track.
A couple months back, I made a post on a mixtape that I had stumbled upon by a Dutch duo named Homework. I dubbed it one of the best mixtapes I had heard in a long time, and that statement still holds true today. I back these guys 100%, and I am extremely excited to see what else they have in store in the future. Jesse Rose feels the same way, as he has given the go ahead for Homework’s newest EP, Rally Racquet Club, to be released on the lauded Made To Play label on June 20th. So make sure to head on over to Beatport next Monday to pick up the whole package, including a top notch remix from current Beatport chart topper, Oliver $.
I can’t believe the weekend is here again already! As always, CONTROL is set with a stacked double-headliner night tomorrow with Kill The Noise and Jesse Rose each throwing down an hour and a half set. After seeing the live interview that the Avalon did with Kill The Noise on Twitter yesterday, I’m pretty excited to hear some brand new heat from the Los Angeles producer. And of course, it’s always a pleasure to hear some Made To Play jams from the legendary Jesse Rose.
Please RSVP names to JONAH@GOTTADANCEDIRTY.COM to be on our discount guestlist for the evening. All names must be submitted before 5:30PM tomorrow night.
Pricing:
$10 before 10PM
$15 before 11PM
Set Times:
930 – 1130 : Spiggy
1130 – 100 : Jesse Rose
100 – 230 : Kill The Noise
230 – close : Rifat Ziadeh
It's black. You put it on a record player. It sounds good.
So I’m pretty excited for the next release from Oliver $, dropping early next week on Jesse Rose’s ‘Play It Down’ label.
In brief, it’s just a great forward-thinking house record, with it’s simplicity giving it a air of elegance and a clever use of crowd noise/atmospherics. Grooving bassline, snappy percussion… Oh and it samples Moodyman. It’s a recipe for a downright dancefloor bomb.
Doin’ Ya Thang follows the label’s exciting/frustrating release scheme, pressing only 200 copies to the black stuff with a digital release on the tail.
Am I the only one enjoying these creative release schemes emerging in the year two-thousand and livin’?
Chris Lake and Jesse Rose. That’s all I needed to hear to get pretty darn excited for this week at CONTROL. On top of that, two of our favorite residents, Rifat and Brazzabelle, are also playing on Friday night, so we’re looking at a solid lineup for another solid week at the Avalon in Hollywood.
Please RSVP names to JONAH@GOTTADANCEDIRTY.COM to be on our discount ticket list for the evening. Pricing will be $10 before 10PM and $15 before 11PM. All names must be submitted before 5:30PM on Friday evening.
