Filtered tunes for your Monday enjoyment

Original Tracks by Moonchild

I don't know about you folks, but nothing gets my otherwise stagnant Monday blood flowing like some French house. Surprisingly, my two favorite purveyors of contemporary french house are both not Daft Punk or Justice and not even French at that. Go Go Bizkitt! hails from Scotland, and Moonchild lives down under. But what unites them is a taste for sweet bass grooves with gorgeous filters laid over everything to give it that Fresh and Funky feeling. It is a well known science fact that such beats, when pulled though lowpass filters on a low frequency oscillation pattern, make people want to screw each others brains out. So be careful playing this stuff at work.

[Moonchild Mixtapes] by Moonchild

While these tunes may not fit as perfectly into the narrative of a Leiji Matsumoto anime feature, they are indeed awesome and quite reminiscent of the things that we liked about Homework and Discovery (but weren't really there in Human After All and such). And they're fun. I like 'em.

CHI TOWN REPRESENT

True story: I once got a red crystal-covered hair bow from Kid Sister thrown into the crowd when she played at the U Street Music Hall. This was before DJ HELENATOR and her burlesque superstar bff GIGI HOLIDAY were invited up on stage to juke with the Chi Town legend. Concert win. Oh, FYI: She's Kid Sister because her older bro is Kanye West. Fun fact!

Like MIA, Kid Sister just released an amazing new mixtape: KISS KISS KISS. As far as I'm concerned this is even better than Vicki Leekx. This is really less a mixtape than a full-fledged remix/new album designed to be listened to as one long set. Here are my two favorite tracks:

Green Velvet - Everybody Wants by Hypetrak
Kid Sister - Right Hand Hi (Caspa Remix) by soul-or-system

Grab a free download of the full KISS KISS KISS tape here.