Exclusive | I LOVE TECHNO EXCLUSIVE GIVEAWAY
Posted by mimada on November 5, 2013
ATTN: EUROPEAN READERS! Fresh New Tracks has teamed up with this year’s I LOVE TECHNO festival in Ghent, Belgium to reward you guys for being so frickin’ awesome. We’re giving away an I LOVE TECHNO swagged out package including a 2 guestlist tickets to this weekend’s biggest party. If you’ll be in the area (or have the means to get your bootay over to Belgium) then enter the contest below. And to all our other readers, like, do you see this lineup? Read it and weep.
I LOVE TECHNO started way back in ’95 with headliners Richie Hawtin, Carl Cox, and Daft Punk. Yeah you heard me. This year’s stages will packed back to back with some of the biggest talent in the electronic game such as FNT favorites Disclosure, Knife Party, Maxim (of the Prodigy), Bakermat, Cashmere Cat, Carnage, Dusky, Duke Dumont, I SEE MONSTAS, Yellow Claw, and more. Like I said before, read it… and I’m still weeping.
So enter below and keep up with I LOVE TECHNO online to be sure you don’t miss out on all the action.
Electronic | Drop Out Orchestra – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Remix) feat. a Swedish Introduction
Posted by mimada on October 28, 2013
My time in Sweden has not only presented me with an abundance of new music, but also quite a handful of musically inclined individuals! Today I introduce to you our newest guest writer, the Swedish vixen that is Rebecca. Check out her very first contribution below, and expect to see more in the future!
As born and raised in one of the most EDM productive countries in Europe (split with the fabulous Dutchmen), my passion for electronic music developed with the Big Swedes’ earliest breakthroughs. Avicii’s “Penguins,” then with added vocals and sadly renamed and made famous as “Fade Into Darkness,” (I mean, keep it cute and original and let the birdlike mammal have its place in the industry) was my first encounter with electronic music, and with that the start of the radical transformation from the teenage rocker I was, to the grown-up raver I became. I was 16 when it started, now I’m 20, and with the obsession like an Asperger’s kid, I have no plans on stopping. I’m still listening to and keeping up with the development of everything from trance to dirty Dutch, progressive house to hardstyle, but my heart has landed in the emotional, dreamy fields of the “original” house and deep house, and the land of the mind-blowing drops of the electro house. As I’m admiring the work of my wonderful friend, party-shaker-in-crime and talented music knower Mimada, I jumped for joy when she offered a spot as a guest blogger. I feel it to be my mission to give you the input of the Swedish EDM scene beyond Swedish House Mafia and the songs your radio station killed the day they were released. I’m giving you the new and the upcoming, from a Swedes state of mind.
On to the track! Being not 17, not in sweatshirts and flipped caps, the gentlemen of the southern-based Swedish nu disco/deep house duo Drop Out Orchestra bring “maturity” back to the DJ scene. Having a couple a years behind them may be the best of qualities when it comes to making 70’s disco influential house, as they were actually there when it happened for real. After “Be Free With Your Love” scored the billboard dance chart this year, and their remix of ”Get Lucky” was recognized during an interview with Daft Punk during the one and only Pete Tong’s BBC 1 show, the duo takes on Joy Division and manages to retouch the, sorry for stepping on some people’s toes here, old and gray melody like a facial works its magic on a post-festival face. Eric Prydz, the master of putting the magic back into songs the last decades forgotten (read: repressed), should approve with this Drop Out Orchestra rework.
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FREE DOWNLOAD: Drop Out Orchestra – “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (Remix)
Electronic, Trap | N.E.R.D. & Daft Punk – Hypnotize You (Nero Remix) (Kennedy Jones Trap Bootleg)
Posted by mimada on October 1, 2013
I’m just gonna cut to the chase and say this Kennedy Jones remix is mad dope. Go ahead and file this one under “Songs To Play At Pregames That Make Everyone Turn Up And Your Musically Inclined Friends Ask You For The Track ID.” Nero’s remix of the original NERD track was great and all, but Kennedy took it one step further and it turned out traptastic. Hey, you know while you’re at, you might as well check out the entire Buygore All Stars album fo freeeee right here.
KENNEDY JONES
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Electro | HIs Majesty Andre – Hymn (Tim Gunter remix)
Posted by dshaq on September 19, 2013
The only thing missing from this brand new jam by Tim Gunter, is a “damn son, where’d you find this one” tag in the beginning of the song. Taking a song with a lot of groove and rythmn, Tim decided to go a little slap-happy with the bass and boy does it sound good. Tim had a little something to say about this song:
I recently came across His Majesty Andre’s stuff via Pandora and his track “Hymn” really caught my ear. Hymn is a Daft Punk-esque (think One More Time) jam that uses a sampled orchestra, chopped vocals samples, and a driving bassline to get the listener moving. I come from a hip-hop background so I decided to speed the track up and give it a dirty south hip hop feel with 808 drums, chopped samples and lots of bass. I even added a sweet guitar solo at the end, just for kicks.
Make sure to download this and all of Tim’s other tracks, they’re meant for your weekends.
Chill, Trap | Daft Punk – Doin It Right (jellosea x audioMimic remix)
Posted by VMan on August 8, 2013
Jellosea’s remix of Anna Kendrick’s “Cups” has been making its round in the blogosphere, and I recommend you all go on his SoundCloud page to check it out. I personally took the time to scout it for you, and came up with this remix of Daft Punk’s “Doin It Right,” which I think is amazing. I’m literally sitting here listening to it at the office on repeat and anticipating for the guitar to drop every time. This remix makes the original sound better. I wish there was a free download to this tune, but for now we’ll have to settle with clicking the play button over and over again. This is a must listen!
Albums, Review | A Belated Discussion of Random Access Memories
Posted by Spice on May 31, 2013
By now, you’ve already listened to Daft Punk’s fourth album in full. You may have streamed it on iTunes, or downloaded the rip when it leaked (even though ain’t nobody got time for 192 kbps…), or perhaps you waited patiently and saved your first listen for the official, high quality, purchasable version. Your opinion of the album is probably already cemented.
But that won’t stop me from trying to change it.
House | LeDoom – You & I
Posted by Mach on May 31, 2013
LeDoom putting Daft Punk funk to shame right now. This is going to be my jam of the Summer, and there may be more to add that title to. LeDoom stated this is going to be the first of many dope Summer freebies. This is going to be a great Summer, I can feel it in my dancing shoes.