DJ Spiezio brings us his May 2011 mix. Filled with great remixes, some bangers, and everything in between, this mix series continues to be among my favorites. Speez is a great dude and I wish him nothing but continued success!
Tiesto's Club Life podcasts keep getting bigger and better, including a lot of bangers and the freshest tracks from the hottest producers in the game. It's basically like, if you want to hear the latest and greatest in EDM, listen to the most recent episode. When I was listening yesterday, this track stood and I couldn't wait to get home and listen to it on repeat. I've definitely heard it at Tiesto's shows in past weeks, but I never sat down and said, hey I need this. Well now you too can own it and love it.
After two awesome electro shows the past two nights, I've been giving my ears a rest today by choosing Collie Buddz radio on Pandora. For those of you not familiar with Collie Buddz, he is an almost hybrid type of reggae. What I mean here is he fuses reggae rhythms and melodies with hip-hop lyrical flow and beats. One of the songs that came up was "Warning" by Tribal Seeds, featuring Sonny of the band P.O.D. The selling point was not Sonny, even though I have been a P.O.D. fan dating back to my early teens. The selling point, as with most songs I like, was the beat and the melodies. A bass-heavy track that you can kick back to and have yourself a moment, if you will. The YouTube video is below, I will try to post a download link soon.
Well, I'm hanging on my a thread after seeing Wolfgang Gartner in Cambridge last night. As expected he tore it up, and the crowd (mostly 18 year olds) was through the roof. A pleasant surprise was Harvard Bass' set, full of tech-house beats, no crazy drops, but deep bass. This song "Broadway" was a standout track - I had first heard it last summer at Electric Zoo when Diplo played it. I thought it was lost forever, but it was revived last night. I believe the drum sample is from "Jammin'" by Bob Marley. Rusko tonight...need to figure out where I'll get the energy from.
Wolfgang Garner is in town tonight, at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA. I couldn't be more excited to see one of my current top 3 DJs/Producers at such a small venue. Yeah, it's a Monday night - so what? Life doesn't stop just because you have to be at work at 8:30 the next morning. Fully excited to fully enjoy some awesome Wolfgang madness. Here are a few tracks for you that are lesser-known but still make my speakers rattle:
This mashup, by Madeon, is a mashup of Wolfgang's "Illmerica," "Undertaker," and "5th Symphony." To the average listener, this sounds like 1 song, but in actuality it's 3 mashed together in Wolfgang-esque form. Truly awesome work.
It's been too long since I posted a Skrillex track, considering he's one of my favorite producer/DJs right now (and he's blown the FUCK up). According to Vacay Vitamins, Warner Brothers chose to go the electronic music route with the Mortal Kombat 9 official soundtrack, and their choice couldn't have been better. After listening to a handful of tracks, the obvious standout was Skrillex's production of Reptile's theme song (each character has its own theme song, produced by an EDM (that's Electronic Dance Music for those of you new to the show) artist for MK9).
Because its usually relevant, I will share an Ultra 2011 parallel: Skrillex dropped this track when he performed at the Live Stage, combining it with "Let Me Clear My Throat", which can be seen below. Mortal Kombat 9 is out now and don't hesitate to pick up the official soundtrack because you can't go wrong. Enjoy the fire and always come back to the G Spot for updates. Pump out some bass over the weekend!
Stumbled upon a video of Kaskade during his 2011 tour in Brazil. The sound track to the video, posted below, was really fucking good and the first track made me go and look to see what the deal was. A real tight remix by Dragon & Jontron of some legends in the game, Tiesto & Kaskade. Bass it up.
