Progressive House | Filo & Peri feat. Audrey Gallagher – This Night (Zack Edward Remix)
Posted by Mel on June 10, 2014
If you weren’t already impressed by that gorgeous cover art then get ready to possibly be impressed by the song it belongs to. Zack Edward is capable of Axtone quality cover arts but is he capable of Axtone quality tracks? hmmmm… Moving on, Zack Edward is a producer from NYC and has just put out what is probably his best track yet. It is a progressive house remix for Filo & Peri’s “This Night”, a trance song from 2010. The original is great and this remix certainly does it justice.
Free Download: Filo & Peri feat. Audrey Gallagher – This Night (Zack Edward Remix)
Progressive House | Swede Dreams & Swanson ft. Jenny Mayhem – All Or Nothing
Posted by Mel on June 9, 2014
Since it’s a Monday night and we’re all tired, as well as there not being any progressive house posted here in quite some time (4 hours), I thought I would finally get around to posting some progressive house. Somebody has to do it. This track came out a week ago but for a variety of reasons I didn’t feel compelled enough to post it. That was a mistake and actually quite selfish of me because it is a pretty good song. It is a collaboration between Swanson, an Australian producer who you should be familiar with if you have been following FNT for any significant length of time and Swede Dreams, a 15 and 18 year old duo from Edmonton, Canada. Even though Swede Dreams produce big room exclusively, this song is not at all big room and more along the lines of the usual progressive house sound that Swanson produces.
Free Download: Swede Dreams & Swanson ft. Jenny Mayhem – All Or Nothing
Hip-Hop, Rap | Saba – Burnout (ft. Eryn Allen Kane)
Posted by admin on June 4, 2014
A few weeks back we brought you “401k” by Chicagoan, Saba. The song was a deep, dark, and raw hip-hop track. With “Burnout”, we see a different side of Saba. While he undoubtedly stays true to himself with meaningful story telling, he is also able to show a more upbeat and easily-digestible side of his music.
Each line has a languid feel to it, while still packing the punch it should. Eryn Allen Kane chimes in beautifully with each hook to round out an already impressive song.
“Burnout” has been floating around the internet for nearly two weeks already; don’t wait any longer to listen.
Progressive House | Zedd – Find You (Martell Bootleg)
Posted by Mel on June 4, 2014
At the moment, I am sitting at my desk with the adjacent window open like not even a lot. The breeze is pretty cold though, but if I close it my room will probably get too warm to comfortably apply too much cologne when I go out. I guess what I’m getting at is, because of the cold air currently infiltrating me, there has been some shrinkage. Shrinkage pertaining to the number of remixes to Zedd’s “Find You” I can post. I already posted Moiez’s and because nobody wants to listen to the same song remixed a million times, I was not planning on posting anymore. When I woke up this morning, I was not expecting all three black guys at my work to initiate a fist bump with me but they did, or to be posting another remix to this song.
The obviously Swedish producer, Martell, is the guy who convinced me to do so. This is his first release since his remix of Klingande’s “Jubel” and like that track, this one too is carried by an excellent melody. The melodic components of this song are just so good and while, yes, I would have preferred different vocals, this is still a play worthy track.
Free Download: Zedd – Find You (Martell Bootleg)
Albums | Axwell /\ Ingrosso Takeover NYC
Posted by Juicebox on June 4, 2014
The streets of New York are singing. Axwell /\ Ingrosso have debuted the sounds of a new song and have hit the streets of Manhattan to partake in the world’s first silent song premiere. The duo, set to co-headline Governor’s Ball this Sunday alongside Outkast, Vamipre Weekend and The Strokes, have cloaked the city in lyric lines from a forthcoming single, a mix & match scavenger hunt for all to take part in. On discovery fans have been posting the lyrics via Twitter and Instagram to reveal a lyric map for all to follow online.
As for the rest of the world, we await the postman. 5,000 fortunate fans will receive a first look into the dawn of Axwell /\ Ingrosso. Personalized letters, sheet music, and scratch-off lottery cards with the chance to win a fly-away trip are on route to the homes of fans in more than 30 countries worldwide. A select very few will receive limited edition poster prints and t-shirts.
Follow the story as it develops:
http://axwellingrosso.com
http://facebook.com/axwellingrosso
Tweets by Axwell
http://instagram.com/axwell
Tweets by Ingrosso
http://instagram.com/ingrosso
House | Soma – Get Back With Him
Posted by BIGLIFE on June 3, 2014
I’m always on the hunt for tunes. It’s seldom I come across a song that makes me look up the artist and listen to their entire Soundcloud account. Soma did just that with his new “Get Back With Him” original mix that’s full of so many vibes. Sampling Trey Songz’s “Can’t Help But Wait” Soma transforms the track into a future house banger. If this doesn’t get you dancing, I don’t know what will. Tune!
Alternative, Featured | Meet Great Good Fine Ok, Your Soundtrack to Summer
Posted by admin on June 2, 2014
By: Annie Dineen
If you’ve danced it out to a funky synth line, tested the limits of your shower’s resonance with high notes, or dabble in keytar solos, you’ll love Great Good Fine Ok. Made of creamy-smooth falsettos and hip-shaking synth beats you won’t need a degree in twerking to dance to, Great Good Fine OK is the indie-synth-pop ice cream bar dipped in R&B syrup that you’ll be craving all summer.
I spoke to the band before their show at Baby’s All Right, a colored light infused venue in Brooklyn replete with elaborate drawings spanning the walls and copper crocodiles carrying incandescent orbs in their mouths. The exuberant twenty-somethings, fresh off a few of their first shows ever at South by Southwest, were particularly excited to be opening for Tove Lo, the Swedish pop goddess whose affinity for black mesh shirts and eating dinner in bathtubs has met with massive recent success. “We’re both big fans of Tove Lo, we’ve been listening to a lot of her,” they tell me. “It’s funny cuz we actually are fans of her, we’re not just saying that.”
Great Good Fine OK is Jon Sandler and Luke Moellman, two Brooklynites who, despite growing up a town apart in upstate New York, didn’t meet until moving to Brooklyn. “We worked together on a couple musical projects, and I was saying some day we should write a song together and it just like, never happened for a while. Then one day we ran into each other on the street like after months of not seeing each other and we were like let’s do this, let’s write a song. That night he sent me the music to “You’re the One for Me” and the next day I wrote the lyrics and the melody to it, kinda sent it back and forth, and we were kinda like ‘oh shit, we have something here.’”
Though they often finish each other’s sentences, Jon taking the lead as they talk and Luke filling in to expand or clarify, when it comes to songwriting, they’d rather be far apart.
“We’re rarely in the same room when we write,” Jon says. “Luke is the producer/engineer and writes. The formula we’ve been working on is…” Luke picks up the slack. “I’ll like write the music to it, the instruments, everything, and then give it to Jon and he comes up with the melody and the lyrics and then sends it back and he’ll have comments about what I did and I’ll have comments about what he did. That’s sort of the formula, that’s what’s been working for us, and it’s really awesome because we both get to focus on what we feel like we’re best at.”
“It’s cool,” they say of their hyper-2014 digital songwriting sessions. “You can sort of turn off the part of your brain that’s really critical if there’s nobody else around.”
The sound that emerges is heavily pop, often compared to artists like Passion Pit or M83. I ask them to describe their sound. “I think the most accurate things people have said is that it’s like a mix between synth pop and R&B,” they tell me. “We’re using a lot of elements that are in Passion Pit and M83 and all these comparisons we’re getting. At the same time, I feel like we’re a little more influenced by more classic 70’s and 80’s.. Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson. So any description that combines those two worlds is really cool and it is really hard to verbalize.”
“Our favorite descriptor we got was that somebody called us ‘PBR Kelly’. Isn’t that amazing? We’ve talked about it a lot. I hope the people that wrote it know that we love it.”
I ask them what they’ve been listening to lately. “I have a car so I listen to a ton of top 40 radio, so I can tell you exactly what I like in the top 40 world,” Jon says, laughing. “I like that Paramore song “Ain’t It Fun,” I like the new Justin Timberlake jam [“Not A Bad Thing”] – it’s amazing! My favorite band in the world is Steely Dan, but you wouldn’t necessarily know that from the type of music we play.”
Dreams for the future? “I always say this and I think it bothers Luke,” Jon says. “But I would love to go on tour with a big pop artist like Lady Gaga, somebody like that who does kind of artistic things within the pop. Does it bother you?” Luke retains a stoic poker face. “I always say Lady Gaga because like while she writes pop songs and she’s like on Top 40 radio, I feel like it’s how in that respect she’s kind of trying to be creative, not just in the confines of a pop machine.”
“It would be extravagant. Lights, smoke, maybe some fire. Fire mostly shooting out of Luke’s instruments.”
Luke laughs. “I’m beginning to warm to the idea. No pun intended.”
So start practicing your #bodydiamond (no, they did not explain), and get ready to fall in love with the infectious groove of Great Good Fine OK. With or without pyrotechnics, they’re lighting a spark in the pop scene.