Do that thing with your arms again

This guy does that thing with his arms, and Blue Satellite is becoming more of a favorite for me. Their new album's out and you should like it.

Saturday: New Rusko

The funny thing about having been to several of these already is that I know he's gonna yell "D.C.! This is the new shit!". This time it really is a new thing - still dubstep obviously, but with more synth and a sweet vocal track over some old school trancey stuffs. I like it.



It's reviewed here by the good folks at RCRD LBL who are probably doing this as their for-real jobs, hence they know what they're talking about, or at least sound like it:

“Everyday” takes the chirping line from the original—“the sun is shining everyday”—as a jumping off point, then quickly veers off the path, sculpting what sounds like a whole new song, but one that is at least in line with Rusko’s sentiment (which is very much wrapped up in the idea of perennial sunshine). In recent interviews, Rusko has admitted he’s abandoned the dark mood and distorted bass characterizing so much of dubstep in favor of more technical songwriting (key changes, bright melodies). Netsky’s makeover of Rusko excavates these latent skills in the young DJ, and the result is joyful.

I'm not sure whether "joyful" is the word I was gonna use, but I'm wicked psyched for the show Saturday at the 930 club.

The A-Trak Show

THE HELENATOR and I are going to see A-Trak tonight, and also Kid Sister will be there, sort of tagging along I suppose.

A-Trak is a phenomenal producer (Fools Gold is his baby) and master of the turntables (REALLY, LEGIT MASTER), and he will no doubt be rocking several pairs of socks off of my feet during the show. And Kid Sister is Kanye's favorite. But really she's BEST WITH LOTS OF PRODUCTION, which is also what I think about Crystal Castles now. Have I offended everyone on the internet yet? No? I'll keep going then. Maybe I'm just bleh about Kid Sister because last time I saw her it was not all that great. Or maybe it's because THE HELENATOR is her biggestest fan and I don't really get it.

Anyway, back to A-Trak because I'm actually excited about him coming on at 11. About a year ago I didn't know who A-Trak was, and then I found out that there's all these resumé-ish reasons why he should be awesome. Fine. But then I listened to his remix:

Indestructible (A-Trak radio edit) by robyn

Which is... awesome! I don't know how he did that. I haven't listened to a Robyn song since I was 12 or something and my sister was playing it and I wanted to turn it off ASAP. So basically this is the first Robyn song that I will consensually listen to; A-Trak did that, and I think it's an accomplishment.

I'm not sure whether with this current tour he's doing more turntable-ing or more contemporary disco house mixing, but I'm down either way. So I'm gonna get low on a Tuesday night, and it's gonna be great. You can't fucking stop me.

ZELDA: A LINK TO THE CLUB

Since this week is INTERNATIONAL VIDEO GAME CLUB REMIX WEEK (ok, it actually isn't, but really every week should be), I am going to follow up Helen's last post with one in a similar genre: ZELDA.


PS. There's a better copy HERE.



THE HELENATOR is hijacking this post to share what is by far the best remix album of the OoT soundtrack:
The Clipse - Lost Woods remix is particularly fantastic. I filled three heart containers just listening to it.

Shake it cross the dancefloooooor

There are plenty of remixes coming from this song, ranging from Chromeo's synthy remix to some more electro stuff with the Laidback Luke remix. But Chromeo's is too saucy and doesn't keep the bpm at an acceptable level. And the Laidback Luke mix is just a little too electro, and not enough funk.

But the Lifelike remix is just right, mostly. I think the deeper more progressive beat is awesome. But I think the beatsmooshing that's going on throughout most of the beat drops is generally annoying and could have been done much much better (maybe with some lessons from Bmore club), and so it really suffers. And so I've set up plenty of loop cues on the track to try and get the good parts out without including the fancy stuff because i can put that in myself and half the time it sounds better. See if you can figure out where I put them!

Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Lifelike remix) by Iggy


But none of this is really the original artist's fault. When you compare the vocal smooshing in the Lifelike remix to some of Treasure Fingers' original stuff, it's apparent that this guy knows how to arrange his shit. The use of melodic sampling (that the Helenator and I like from pogo) in Lift Me is totally sweet, and the beat and vocals in It's Love are right on. This is the stuff that's stuck in my head now, and probably my roommate's too because it's on my decks every fucking night. Not that I do anything successful with those decks, but it's on there damnit!

Treasure Fingers - Lift Me (Original Remix) by valternylima

It's Love (Original Mix) - Treasure Fingers by arrhythmiamusic

THESE KIDS ARE COOLER THAN YOU AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO CHANGE THAT

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