Freestylers feat. Pendulum - Painkiller (KouncilHouse Remix)

 

Hold on, I need to pick my face up off the floor. (For the love of God if you have any sort of bass/subwoofer output, use it for your own good)

Download the fire here

Monday Throwback: A Tribe Called Quest - What Really Goes On

A nice mellow jam for your groggy Monday. I was shuffling through some Tribe last night on my drive home and this one stuck out as a must-listen for everyone. I wasn't able to find a download link so I will try to do that later today when I get home. Enjoy.

TAI - Big Bass Drum

Over the weekend I realized I had some Dada Life downloaded that I hadn't really listened to. Among this was one of their monthly mixes that I had downloaded from Gotta Dance Dirty but is also available as a Podcast. So I began listening to it, loving every track I heard. One in particular was "Big Bass Drum" by TAI, who I was vaguely familiar with but didn't have much of his music. So here's what I learned, according to Last.FM:

Where do you head musically, once you have worked with acts as diverse as gangster rappers and nu disco bands in your home country of Germany? What do you do once you’ve produced them a string of top 10 hits and multi gold status albums?

You turn your skills to the upfront club sounds of ghetto-electro and ace the dance charts with a string of jaw-droppingly original cuts. Well you would if you are TAI and he’s currently on fire.

Well, sounds good to me.

TAI - Big Bass Drum (Original Club Mix) by TAI

Download Big Bass Drum here 

Dave Grohl in FRESH POTS!

Over the weekend I was watching the Foo Fighters documentary on VH1/Palladia. It focused a lot on Dave Grohl and his transition from the drummer of Nirvana to the lead singer/song writer/guitarist of the hugely popular Foo Fighters. I'll admit that I really like the Foo Fighters, despite not owning much of their music. Dave Grohl, in my opinion, is a great songwriter and a very charismatic dude - I'd love the chance to grab some beers with him. I did some "Dave Grohl" searches online and came up with this video...I thought it was blog-worthy.

Afrojack is Just.... Doing It Right

Afrojack performing at the "Carl Cox and Friends" tent at Ultra Music Festival 2011

I know I'm a little late with this (for blog standards), but here is the most recent Afrojack song, in his personalized line of Dirty Dutch House music. This has a pretty distinct sound (you'll know what I'm talking about), but it isn't immediately recognizable as an Afrojack tune which I think is great...because let's be honest: no one likes the same shit on a different day. I may have originally overlooked "Doing it Right" but here you go for your listening pleasure.



Download "Doing it Right" Here

Fuck Yeah Friday!: New Beastie Boys

Usually when I put together my "Fuck Yeah Friday!" segment, the song I select is some kind of electronic tune: a party jam to get your weekend started right. Well, it suffices to say I had to go back to my roots with today's choice.

Anyone who knows me well knows I am a huge Beastie Boys fan. In my heyday I could recite word-for-word the entire lyrics to "Paul Revere" because Licensed to Ill was one of the first three CDs I ever owned (keep in mind I said CDs - this must have been around 4th grade when I finally got a boombox equipped with a CD player, as opposed to my old school Playschool tape player). I still remember the first day I heard the song "Intergalactic" which, although it is considered newer Beasties, still takes be back to 4th grade when it was released. To this day I still play "Intergalactic" whenever I have a chance...I like my sugar with coffee and cream.

Thanks to my good friend Theo, I was informed that "Make Some Noise" was recently leaked. I am referring to this as the first single off The Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 regardless of whether or not it actually is. To my pleasure and surprise, local rock station WAAF played it today during its Hillman Morning show, which until recently was strictly talk radio (when they started playing music again it was mostly reserved for older songs by the likes of AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, and Pearl Jam). This was just my second time hearing it and let me say it got even better with a second listen, full blast in my car. It mixes newer-sounding instrumental Beasties (think back to 2007's all-instrumental The Mix Up) with old-school sounding lyrics (think back to "Fight for Your Right" off 1987's Licensed to ill).

You be the judge, but regardless I am highly anticipating May 3 when the album drops. Also, check out the trailer for the hilarious-looking Fight For Your Right - Revisited movie.

Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise by Off Air

Just Discovered Some Hot Bass...Aaren San - Apes from Space (Dirtyloud Remix)

Wow. Pandora really coming through on this one. I thought it was Porter Robinson. I thought it was MAYBE Wolfgang Gartner, but then I realized there was no way because I've heard all of his tracks. This just fucking blew my mind. This is my favorite type of electronic music (that Vacay Vitamins is referring to as "Call and Response" - think Wolfgang, Porter, Skrillex, etc). Dirtyloud appears to be a producer/DJ from Brazil. Whoever he is, I hope he keeps the fire going with shit like this.