DJFP Returns! With Tracks and Life Experiences!

Hi all, I've been traveling the last few weeks so that should explain that scarcity, sparsity, and mediocre quality of my recent posts. However, I'm back in my lovely charming mobtown, so things should be gradually getting back to normal. And by normal I mean more nice things being said about music that isn't dubstep.

I should also say that I had the best DJ experience that could possibly be had at the Acorn dance party. I'm really still giddy from having such a great time with such amazing people. They've got a really special place down there, and I think that Paxus is right that it's the future. These fantastic people are like astronauts pioneering new ways of existing on and with the earth. Mad respect to them. Also lots of thanks to Sky, who let me use his controller since my controllers ended up stuck with the rest of my traveling items at the Denver airport. (They are back now, safe and sound. Phew!)

To celebrate these amazing people, here are two excellent disco tracks that are not dubstep:

Moonchild knows how to use a filter to make fantastic house music, and in this track they show that they can put together those talents with a great track and come out with some really excellent remixes:
[FREE DOWNLOAD] All The Lights - Chasing Colours (Moonchild Remix) by Moonchild

Moonchild shows what they can do in the club when the disco jacket comes off and the bassline starts going:
Moon Jams Vol. 1 by Moonchild


Flight Facilities must use magic to make this stuff so disco fantastic:
Flight Facilities - Foreign Language feat. Jess by flightfacilities

Finally, I was just about to post a Hey Today! mixtape, but in all honesty I think it's not going to happen. I don't really like it that much. Okay, well I mean it's pretty good, but I had some high expectations for Hey Today! After all, last night me and my roommate had an impromptu Hey Today! dance party. But it wasn't to these tracks, which are a bit to hard for me at this moment. I guess I'll post it anyway though, because maybe sometime later this week I'll be ready for it. Right now this stuff's a little too intense for my brain.
HEY TODAY! DJ Guest mix @boris dlugosch radio 16.07.11 by HEY TODAY!

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.

FROM THE ULTRABLOG CHAT FILES

i guess you might want some musics because this is a musics blog
DJ Skeet Skeet - Trap House Volume 1 by shdowling

it's a mixtape from this dude so you know it's GOLD see what i did there?:

IT'S ALMOST SPRING IF YOU LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM

Much more effective than any subterranean rodent you might have heard of, Mr. Gonzo has released an album that is dripping with french funk vibes. This is the daft punk you remember, before they released Human After All and made a Tron single that will never work in the club. Except only Mr. Gonzo could be daft punk in the 2010's. It's jumpin', it's downtempo and loungey, it's whatever it needs to be for you to take your clothes off. I'm sure RB already has, and JJ was never wearing them to begin with.

Pairs well with cocktails, swimsuits, and a seductively raised eyebrow.

Extended Play Area EP by Mr. Gonzo

WHERE WAS THIS DEVICE DURING *MY* CHILDHOOD???

You certainly wouldn't have found it around my house. Thus the ineptitude. But maybe, JUST MAYBE, if I'd had a Red Rider BB Gun, I meeaaaaan a TYCO HOT KEYZ, my life would have been changed forever and I'd be the coolest kid on the block and have half a concept of what attack, decay, sustain, or release mean. But in another, more accurate way, I probably would have just broken it or forgotten about it once its D-sized batteries ran out and my parents refused to buy me any more because of the GAWDAWFUL RACKET.

Either way, Wahlström and Valiant (the first of which sounds vaguely scandinavian, to their credit) made a mix that uses this for everything but the drums. And it's amazing. Just think about it: little DJ PRETENTIOUS, age 9, playing this song. I know, it wouldn't have actually happened, BUT I CAN DREAM.

HOT KEYZ

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: NYE DJ ENGAGEMENTS!

Good news everyone! DJ FUCKING PRETENTIOUS and THE HELENATOR will both be doing guest DJ sets (does plugging in an iPod count?) at The Tulip House's incredible NYE Party/Festival/Orgy on Friday. COME!

If you do not come out we will be very sad and play angry musics.

DUBSTEP IS APPARENTLY MORE MAINSTREAM THAN I THOUGHT

NPR, in general, is one of my favorite things in life. It makes my drive to and from work bearable when I'm not listening to my collection of horrible CDs. It keeps me learnin' now that my brain is slowly going to shit after the academic rigors of college.

But today NPR stepped down to my level. This past week they've been reviewing music from different genres to recap the year. Featured today? MOTHER EFFIN' DUBSTEP.

Now listen to the classiest piece of audio we will ever post on this site:
NPR The Year in Music: Dubstep 12/30 by shdowling

I'm glad this style is getting press and garnering more fans, but I honestly had no idea how popular it was already. I got an inkling from my music aggregating site (hypem.com) where dubstep remixes have repeatedly showed up in their "Popular" lists. The "Top 10 Torrents Today/Week" on my music torrenting site have shown similar trends. But those didn't paint the whole picture.

How could such horrible music get so much recognition? Now 45 year old upper-middle class white people are going to run out to buy the dubstep's musics. Maybe they will read our blorg?

PART MAN, PART VAN

AT THE HEIGHT OF THE CUSTOM VANNING CRAZE, CHUCK CARDUZZI WAS ON TOP OF THE WORLD.

HE PUT TOGETHER A ROBOT SO HUMAN, YET SO POWERFUL, IT CAN ONLY BE CALLED VANDROID

THEN IT KILLED THE SHIT OUT OF HIM AND STARTED HAVING SEX WITH EVERYTHING

AND THIS IS THE SOUNDTRACK

SANTA, IF YOU GET ME THIS VHS FOR THE XMAS YOU WILL GET 23,987,342 HUGS AND 534,983,457 MILKS AND COOKIES

Vandroid - Master And Slave (Yuksek Remix) by lightson

AH AH AH AH AH

Basement Jaxx are back. In the past, BJ (lol) put out bubbly poppy catchy hits that invariably became instant hits at dance parties. Remember Romeo? Take Me Back To Your House? And most recently, Raindrops? BJ's newest single is not like the others. Dracula is mean. With driving guitars and a heavy beat, Basement Jaxx pushes the limits.

Beware the night. Dracula lurks.


Dracula - Basement Jaxx by Atlantic Jaxx Recordings

If you're digging Dracula, The Prodigy has a bunch of awesome songs with the same feel. Nick and I are intimately familiar with at least one of these songs, as they made it onto the utterly destructive Apocolypse Dance Mix. It was played once and will never touch a CD player ever. again.

Oh yeah, here's one of those sweet songs:


And let's throw this one in for fun, the best song off Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned:

Friday Throwback Remix

Also in the news:

FRIDAY: WE CAN FIND OUT THE SCIENCE

I know she's actually saying "We can fight our desires". But what I'm hearing is "We can find out the science", and for obvious reasons I think those lyrics are superior.

For more La Roux escapades, I'd of course recommend downloading some LAZERPROOF.

CLUB MARIO IS WHERE IT'S AT

THIS IS WHERE I GETS MY NEW MUSICS, ALL OF THEM.

The track that's sweeping through the european club scene

THAT'S RIGHT IT'S BARBARA STREISAND. BACK AGAIN, THIS TIME WITH A POSITIVE REVIEW. I heard the producers, A-Trak and Armand Van Helden on motherfucking NPR's all things considered on Saturday night. I think the song's great. I think the video's better.



This one goes out to DCJonesy, who hasn't heard this yet.

VICTORY MONTAGE

For some awesome and amazing reason, DSJ (Dirty South Joe) and DJA (I don't know what that stands for) have combined forces to create the most epic thing ever. "Oh, that's just another exaggeration, another overuse of of the term 'epic'", you might be saying. But wait! Has any mix tape prior to this one so inspired you to engage in a training montage, to eventually emerge hungry for victory? I think not. This is the best combination of songs that has ever been assembled together. I can't even write this anymore, I'm too fucking amped to do anything but WIN!



Blood Bros: First Blood by maddecent

Better living through electro (TWERK/ STOP/)

Ladies in the front row touch them toes. After the serious disappointment of seeing Kid Sister perform live, I was very happy to find this JFK remix of their musics. Helen may claim otherwise, but even those 12 year old kids that were snorting coke off each others' faces could tell she played a shitty set. Even now I can barely listen to the original without reaching for that proverbial dial that would be there if computers were still awesome and still had dials. Granted, the synth is rad but everything else is a well-intentioned disaster. Without all the production it would just be Kid Sister's annoying-as-all-hell lyrics. But that can all be behind us now thanks to MSTRKRFT's re-engineering. ENJOYYYYY

Real Post about the MUSICS

Here's one of those songs that you've heard and you should like it. Mostly for that awesome synth line that ties it all together. BLEEPBOOBLEEPYBLEEPBOOBLEEPY. It's like a form of punctuation, and I wish I could use it in a sentence like a comma, or to delineate a new paragraph.