Electro-House, Mashups | Kaskade vs. Steve Aoki & Tommy Trash – Be Still Ladi Dadi (Kaskade’s Freaks of Nature Mashup)
Posted by Spice on May 30, 2012
I’ve always been a big fan of Kaskade, but ever since “Fire & Ice” established itself during EDC weekend as our de facto car soundtrack he and I have been undergoing a serious renaissance. As we know, the 41 year-old loves treating his fans to free mashups (which usually involve the juxtaposition of soaring female vocals and unlikely backdrops); here, he layers the vocals from his own “Be Still” on top of Tommy Trash’s remix of “Ladi Dadi.” I’m personally more partial to “Be Still Big Bang”, as I find that Franz Novotny’s instrumental offers a particularly stirring context for the vocals, but this is wonderfully done and a great listen.
Events, Preview | Starscape Festival 2012: Preview
Posted by Spice on May 24, 2012
EDC NY went out with a bang and a bass drop on Sunday night, leaving us to stagger numbly out of MetLife, onto public transit, and back into the bleak, bleak world beyond the gates. Exiting a festival is never a great feeling. But now we’re a few days out and it’s officially time to start looking ahead to the next event — in other words, it’s time to get hyped.
For some of you, that next event will be EDC’s flagship festival. But for those of you who won’t be able to jet off to Vegas in two weeks, pay attention to these next few sentences. On June 9th, Starscape Festival brings the garden of Eden to Baltimore’s Ft. Armistead park for the fourteenth year in a row, and by all accounts it’s going to be bigger and better than ever.
There are two things to take away from the above infographic. First: Sixteen hours of nonstop music. Yes, you read that correctly. Sixteen hours. By the beard of Zeus. And second: Holy facemelt, Batman, that lineup is insane. I don’t even want to run through it because I’ll probably wind up transcribing it in its glorious, dubstep/DnB-heavy entirety. But for the sake of conversation…
Flux Pavilion. Chase and Status. Modestep. Shpongle. Funtcase. Camo & Krooked. Noisia. Cookie Monsta. Zomboy. Dieselboy. Skism. Terravita. Bare. Delta Heavy. Figure. Mimosa. GOODNESS. That is quite literally a litany of filth. Then we’ve got Sazon Booya, Tittsworth, and ETC!ETC! bringing the moombah love. And finally, a few nondescript, under the radar acts you’ve probably never even heard of: Zedd, Dillon Francis, Kill The Noise, and Dada Life. Who are those guys? Yeah, no idea.
If Knife Party’s Rage Valley EP can’t come soon enough, if you find yourself head knocking unabashedly at your desk at work, if you hate it when festivals end at 11 p.m. and you don’t know what to do with yourself, if you enjoy watching the sunrise from a beach….then Starscape has your name on it. Middy and I will be out in full force bringing the FNT party. We hope to see you there!
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Electro-House | will.i.am ft. J.Lo & Mick Jagger – Go Hard (R3hab vs The Eye Remix)
Posted by Spice on April 17, 2012
Let me get this out of the way at the outset: I’m really, really tired of will.i.am. Lately he’s always showing up in places he doesn’t belong (like the criminally dull EDC documentary I was idiotic enough to purchase on pay-per-view recently), running his mouth on camera about things he’s probably not qualified to discuss while looking like the try-hard love child of Kanye and Andre 3000. I’m over you, man. I don’t like your style and I don’t like your moves.
Unsurprisingly, “T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)” never did much for me, but R3HAB’s big remix kicks it up to the next level by turning the dial on the tempo and the bass. It’s still got that commercial will.i.am. flavor and the same questionable lyrics (“you can go hard or you can go home”….sweet brah), but the build that R3HAB lays in after the chorus is delectable. Not to mention hearing the man/myth/legend that is Mick Jagger bellowing over R3HAB’s lasery synths is both incongruous and awesome. Snap up that free DL below.
Uncategorized | TECHNO!
Posted by Juicebox on June 25, 2010
If your in LA hope EDC’s going well….you know the routine
Download: Maroon 5 – If I Never See Your Face (Paul Okenfield Remix) GET THIS!!!!!
Download: Benny Benassi – Rockets in the Sky
Videos | EDC 2010 – Los Angeles
Posted by Juicebox on June 24, 2010
Tears are flowing down my cheeks as I write this post solely because I had to sell my EDC ticket due to some alcohol charges we won’t indulge upon. So while the best DJ’s in the world will be pouring their hearts out through their live sets five minutes from my apartment at my beloved university, Ill be sitting through 16 hours of positive living and ethic classes! Scope the video, download the song that drops halfway through, and be safe…raves=sketch. I’m going to get more tissues, enjoy.
Download: Felguk ft Sporty O – 2nite
Uncategorized | Benny Benawsty
Posted by Juicebox on June 15, 2010
EDC in LA is coming up so I figured its time to start posting a few song’s from some of the top DJ’s performing there. For the last few years Benny Benassi has consistently held his place as one of the top 10 DJs in the world and theres a very good reason for it. Whether your a techno fan or not get the first two songs, but save the third for you avid techno listeners.
Download: Benny Benassi – Satisfaction vs Temperature (Sean Paul) GET THIS!
Download: Benny Benassi – Womanizer Remix
Download: Benny Benassi – Come Fly Away