Deadrat6 Fail Post

Hi friends. Recently the WCGNS dynamic duo went to Stereosonic music festival in Melbourne, and i must say; it was an absolute joke. Poorly organised, zillions of steroid-junkie, speed-freak muzzas and all the good artists on at 2:30pm in the afternoon. Yayer. Anyway, this post is mainly to voice my displeasure at the closing act for the day, Deadmau5. If you read back over our past posts, you'll notice that we've never been a fan of the guy. His transition from big room choons to the world of Progressive House and Techno has been unsuccessful, his production quality is awful and he has a tattoo of a green Pacman on his neck. Aaannyyywwaaayyy we thought we'd go check out his closing set, and what a let down it was. Boring, slow, and completely detached from the crowd, I can honestly say that it was the worst live set i've ever seen. Ever. Instead of going on a rant, i will leave you with a clip from Sweden's Marcus Schossow. He did a parody of Deadmau5 titled "Deadrat6", and says it "Sounds like half an hour of production and a bad hangover". Yet...it sounds exactly like the Mau5. Food for your thoughtsicles. Checkout tracks "Somewhat Exactly" and "Very Exactly" for more of the same.

Stereo wasn't all bad, the absolute standout for the day was Slovenia's god of Techno, Umek (pictured above). This dude was playing in some shitdog 50-degree tin shed with the same acoustic qualities as a Malaysian sweatshop yet still managed to get the crowd losing their minds.

This first track was massssiivvee. Number one in Beatport's Techno charts and was in the top 10 overall.
Umek - You Might Hear Nothing by Umek

Jack de Molay vs. Libex - Wiplash (Umek Mix) by Umek

SALM

Since the other part of this blog posted Something A La Mode's Rondo Parisiano track I can't stop listening to SALM. I found a couple more funky tunes from them, I just severely dig the strings electro combination and they pull it off beautifully. Rondo Parisiano was probably the best track but these two are fair sick as well. I'm definitely a fan of these guys now.

Something A La Mode - Paris Makes Me Feel Like Dancing

Something A La Mode - G-String

I really want their album

Funky Tooon

Rubix, a DJ/Producer from Holland has release this killllluurrrr track thats so bloody funky. Can't wait for this guy to get big. Also, not sure if it's just cause it's in french but the lyrics remind me of Positif and anything that reminds me of that is gold.

Rubix - Baiser Sur La Disco (Rubix Refix)

Regression

With this warm weather I've been enjoying chilled, progressive tracks so thought post my favourites. Lots are real oldies (hence the title) but goodies and essentials for any electronic music library. I can't define what progressive music is, I believe it's something to do with how a magazine described Sasha & Digweed's music, they were some of the founders of Progressive. It's like trace, it's pretty much just a sound and when you hear it you can call it progressive. I know some of these tracks are 'deep house', 'tech house' and 'minimal' but cbf classifying everything. A few of these tracks have featured on MOS Progression albums, which I highly recommend. You need all of these tracks, they are all fruush.

Cause a lot of these tracks are older, couldn't them all off mediafire

Dr. Kucho! - Patricia Never Leaves The House (Dr. Kucho! Remix)

Kohlbecker & Eilmes - Tabasco (Moguai Remix)
Kohlbecker, Eilmes - Tabasco ( Moguai Remix) by alexhouse
Booka Shade - In White Rooms

Delerium - Silence (Niels Van Gogh Vs Thomas Gold Remix) <-- absolute classic

John Dahlback - Pyramid (Dirty South Remix) <- not as good as the original but all I could find. Still sick though.

Fish Go Deep ft. Tracey K - The Cure the Cause (Dennis Ferrer Mix)
FISH GO DEEP Ft. TRACEY K - the cure & The cause (dennis ferrer edit) by 2pointzeromusic

Trentemøller - Moan (Trentemøller Remix)

Bertie Blackman - Town Of Sorrow (Mic Newman Remix)

Just to reiterate, all this shit is old.. don't jump down my neck cause it's not new music. Just what i've been listening to.

Suck our balls, copyright laws.

We've had a few posts pulled off due to alleged copyright infringements. They were older blogs, but included some goodies on Boy 8-Bit, Fake Blood, Solo and Miike Snow. If you want links to any of our favourite works from these artists email us at wecantgetnosleep@gmail.com

Les Petits Pilous coming to Aus!

Pacey and Jean-Pat, the Parisian duo who comprise Les Petits Pilous are booked in to play in our lovely country. Scheduled for December 12 at Eurotrash (yes, we agree it's gross) this is definitely one you do not want to miss. Despite their venue selection, and the fact that it's being promoted as a "glow stick party", these guys are sure to make Steve Gayoki's recent visit look like a trip to a nursing home. Signed to Boys Noize Records, the label run by the biggest monobrown in electronic music Alex Rhida (Boys Noize), Les Petits Pilous have released some massive tracks and even massiverererer remixes. According to the event poster for their performance "their brand new track 'wake up' is a monster". I agree it's a "monster" track, and if you play it too loud it WILL melt your brain, but for the record it was released on the Wake Up EP on the 29th of July, 2008. But hey...who does their research these days. They had three tracks on Boys Noize Records Volume 1, and have done a myriad of remixes for the likes of Chromeo, Justice, Proxy, Etienne De Crecy, and Heartsrevolution to name a few. The ones to look out for on the night will be:

Les Petits Pilous - Wake Up <--- Will be dropped fo' sho'
Les Petits Pilous - Jolie Fille (The Bloody Beetroots Remix) <--- An essential
Proxy - Raven (Les Petits Pilous Remix)
Justice - DVNO (Les Petits Pilous Remix)

These guys don't really have an 'easy listening' button, but the following tracks are a bit easier to listen to in a non-nightclub environment whilst still maintaining the LPP distortion awesomeness.

Etienne De Crecy & Monsieur Jo - Hannukah (Les Petits Pilous Remix) (One of my personal favourites)
Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin' (Les Petits Pilous Remix)

And here is a taster of the type of audience reaction to expect:

Trashy Shit

I saw a failpost on another blog of a crap remix of this song, so I thought I'd do it some justice with a way better remix. This is a really dirt song, I dig it. You will possibly hate it. It's fair old (earlier this year) but I always enjoy it, especially when the Thriller comes in.

Designer Drugs - ZOMBIES! (Hot Pink Delorean Thrillernight Remix)

Our Dj of the week pick

New segment, most likely to never be repeated... but Stiv "Muztek" Justic deserves it.. Cause he's a real Dj...

I want to be him when I'm older.

What I'm Listening To

Since there isn't much electro goodness choons bouncing around, I've been listening to some older stuff. Since this blog isn't all that old some of it has never gotten a post and may not have deserved one, but here it is anyway.

I'm not gonna write about any of this, just download and decide for yourself.

Vitalic - See the Sea (Red)

If you like that get Vitalic's most recent album 'Flashmob'

Moby - Mistake (Yuksek Remix)

The Heavy - How You Like Me Now (Joker Remix)

Speech Debelle - The Key (Loose Cannon's Remix)

I understand if you hate that one

Bloc Party - One More Chance (Alex Metric Remix)

I like Bloc Party remixes no matter how ungreat they are.

Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed (Jakwob Remix)
Oldie but a great song

Hope that fills up your greedy music bellies

Dry Spell

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, we both have los examanes soon. Although, there hasn't been any good shit going around at all... the electro pool has dried up with this hot weather.

Strip Steve has released his EP called 'Delta Disco' recently that is fair decent. Definitely has a disco feel, my two favourite tracks are Dancin' and AM/FM but I couldnt find that one. Buy the EP off beatport if you're digging. Can listen to AM/FM here. We got to see Strip Steve with Shadow Dancer a few months ago. Actually only one of us saw strip steve.... the other half of this blog was out the front being slapped by a girl to impress bouncers. gg no re michael

Strip Steve - Dancin'

There has also been an 80kidz remix of Metric's 'Help I'm Alive', which was a pretty good song to begin with but 80kidz have made it better. If you don't know 80kidz, they were on the most recent Kitsuné Maison Compilation with their track 'Miss Mars' and it's a sick track.

(Thanks to Smiles for the Help I'm Alive tip)

Metric - Help I'm Alive (80kidz Remix)

80 kidz - Miss Mars

Phantasy dropping bombs

Sorry for getting you excited, Nicholas Cage hasn't started producing electronic music. This is the strange record cover from Boris Dlugosch, the German dj and producer who has made a comeback with this monster club-oriented track. Titled "Bangkok", it was released under dj royalty Erol Alkan's 'Phantasy' record company a week ago, and is a guaranteed club/festival staple coming in to the Australian summer. Already dropped by Busy P and Erol at Parklife, this shit gonna be hayyuuuggee. The build up and drop sound quite similar to Major Lazer's Pon De Floor, so if you dig that you'll dig this and vice-versa.
Couldn't find a download link anywhere because Phantasy has been removing them all, but you can listen below. If you're desperado you can buy off BeatPort, otherwise just wait a week.

Bangkok by phantasysound

In Soviet Russia, music make you

In preparation for the Melbourne Cup long weekend i thought i would provide you with some tunes to pass the time. Presenting the best thing to come out of Russia since Stalin. Oh wait....

The first track is a brand spanking new in-house job from the masterminds at Turbo Recordings. Turbo (founded and run by Tiga) is the home of Russian man of mystery, Proxy. Proxy is the name behind Raven, the absolutely huuugeee festival track of last year. It was announced a while back that Proxy had an EP in the making, but it was all very secretive. A few live set rips of his tracks were available, but they just served to wet the tastebuds for what was soon to come. Finally, we can listen to the single from this ep, titled "8000". It isn't yet available to download so just check out the vid below, however Tiga has been closing his live sets with this track for the past few months and this is my tip as being the new Mars-esque festival sensation. The reason i say this is an "in-house job" by the Turbo boys is because not only was the track produced by Proxy, but fellow Turbo-er (ite?) Thomas Von Party (Tiga's brother) was responsible for directing the video. Shweet vid, and as usual keeping with Proxy's mad-dawgg Soviet theme.


Allow yourself to get over that communist creation and prepare for another. In keeping with the sucking-proxy's-dick theme of this post, the next track is a remix he did for Zombie Nation after the release of their album, Zombielicious, earlier this year. The track is Shottieville, and in my opinion was a seriously overlooked track on this album. Anyway, Proxy has done what he does and added some massive drops whilst keeping with the original theme of the track. Have a geeze, uleh:

Shottieville (Proxy Remix) - Zombie Nation

Who would have picked Proxy to remix a Peaches song? The trailer trash crack whore behind albums such as "Fatherfucker" and "Impeach My Bush", and tracks such as "Fuck The Pain Away" is also responsible for "I Feel Cream" (I don't even wanna know what that means). An uninspiring track on its own, it has been brought to life by the AK-toting Soviet, and is actually...sorta....awesome.

I Feel Cream (Proxy Remix) - Peaches

Lastly, another in-house special from Turbo. It's What You Need (Proxy Remix) by Tiga. Huuugggeee track and was dropped by Tiga and A-Trak at Parklife. If you haven't had it for like...ages, you need to get out more.

Fun choons to get you through the week

Firstly we have a track that Aeroplane dropped at Parklife that was a smash hit. It was a Riptide remix of a track called 'Amsterdam' by Jennifer Delano. Lots of other DJs have been dropping this as well, including Brodinski and Erol. Check it out here, fair dirty, bassy and frush.

Jennifer Delano - Amsterdam (Riptide Remix)

We also have three tracks that pretty much sound the same but are all fun. They all have different rhythms but if you play one after the other it pretty much just makes one long track of awesomeness that will get you bowwwwnsing.

If you're only going to get one get the Noob remix of Lyposuct

Brodinski & Noob - Peanuts Club

D.I.M. & TAI - Lyposuct
D.I.M. & TAI - Lyposuct (Noob remix)

Lastly here's a completely different sort of track. It's a Classixx remix of Drop the Lime's Devil's Eyes. Classixx are a couple of guys that have been doing some remixes around the place recently and being pretty successful. They've remixed the likes of Phoenix and Beni. This is their most recent track, like their others is pretty low key and nice to chill out to. Hope you like it too.

Drop the Lime - Devil's Eyes (Classixx's B-Live Mix)

Breakbot Breakdown

Summer is coming, and here at ICGNS we're gonna help you devise the summer playlist of the century. Introducing Breakbot, yet another talented Frenchman signed to Ed Banger Records, the record label headed by busy Pedro Winter (Busy P). If you haven't heard of Breakbot you need to; listen to more music, remove yourself from the large rock you've been living under, and download every single track below. Everyone likes Breakbot's remixes, which is probably because unlike many other artists *cough Fred Falke cough* he doesn't try to remix every single song ever made. His discography reads a bit like a shortened who's who of electronic music, with remixes from Digitalism, Metronomy, Royksopp, Sebastian Tellier, Justice and PNAU. They all follow the same basic principle: Take the original track and make it a zillion times better. Unlike other artists on the Ed Banger label (Mr. Oizo, Justice, SebastiAn) Breakbot's remixes don't bang to please. They sort of cruise along picking up layers with just enough intensity to please even the dirtiest of club rats, but give the perfect ambience for driving, hanging out at the beach or going about your pathetic lives.

First up is Roche (Breakbot Remix) by Sebastien Tellier. Tellier's music is fair chill anyways, but the sound of crashing waves creates a relaxing atmosphere to this track.

You've probably all heard Baby (Breakbot Remix) by PNAU, but if you haven't it's a staple for any itunes collection.

Happy Up Here (Breakbot Remix) by Royksopp needs no introduction. The original track has done the remix rounds after being released on Junior earlier this year.

Metronomy rock. Breakbot rocks. Metronomy + Breakbot = Thing For Me (Breakbot Remix). High pitched call and response vocals with super simple percussion line make this a must have for the fuzzy tingle summer times.

Boy 8-Bit live is going to rock worlds

I know I've already done a Boy 8-Bit post, but this guy deserves another for his Quicksand remix that he just released. La Roux blew up this year in a big way with their self-titled debut synth-pop album. Their shit has been remixed evvverryywhere, especially 'Quicksand' and 'In for The Kill'. The best remix to come out of all this was the Skream remix of In For The Kill, which was massive over blogs worldwide and is a must have for your music library. However, this post is about the man, the magician, Boy 8-Bit and his recent remix of Quicksand. It's fair sick. Once again, he takes a completely different approach to most DJs and has pulled it off. Check it owwt

La Roux - Quicksand (Boy 8-Bit remix)

Ginger ninja 8-bit hits Melbourne on the 2nd of November at Billboard so here's a few more of his tracks to get you in the mood.
It's hard to find a lot of his stuff on the net so try and download his discography torrent. However he did a remix/cover of Dolly Parton's Jolene.. its sick. I can't find the track to download but you can have a listen here.

He has a huuge range of sounds that he drops, check this remix of Burial's Archangel, which I've been digging for quite some time. Lastly here's one of my favourite tracks, but unfortunately can't find it to download. Get his discography torrent, it has all this shit.
This one is often referred to as Gold Dust - My Devil's Gun (Boy 8-Bit remix) but Devil's Gun is actually the band and 'Gold Dust' the song...

Remixes Are Fun

Get Physical Music, the label behind artists such as Booka Shade, M.A.N.D.Y, Dakar and Djuma Soundsystem have recently released Body Language Volume 8, this time with the the German duo of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary (AKA Modeselektor) behind the decks. These boys have pretty much the widest music palate that you're likely to find, whether it be bottomed-out bass-heavy reggae, hip-hop and dubstep or epic chill times, it is all present in their original work and even more obvious in their Body Language compilation.
Here is a taster of one track from the compilation, it's Djedjotronic's Dirty & Hard (originally released on Boys Noize Records volume 1) mixed with Trilingual Dance Sexperience by The Dorian Project. Strange track, but somehow cool...
Dirty & Hard (Featuring Spoek) Vs Trilingual Dance Sexperience


Remixed song of the day for me is Night By Night, by the Canadian synth-pop duo, Chromeo. One of the Chromeo dudes is A-Trak's brother, and the other one is just a mad snake. Calling themselves "The only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture", these guys pump out some bouncy, fun tunes, and Night By Night has become a remix favourite for other dj's and producers. The first edit is from Germany's Siriusmo, and is a happy, trebley track perfect for a summer's day chill. The second is by Skream, and is alot lighter than some of his other stuff, but will still make your spleen bleed if you turn the bass up too high.

Chromeo - Night By Night (Siriusmo Remix)

Chromeo - Night By Night (Skream Remix)

Mujava's Township

Yes, you probably know all about Township Funk, the track from South Africa's Dj Mujava that every man and his dog have remixed to death. This is the third round of remixes, and by now one would expect that the riff has been chopped, changed and worked to the bone - but it's still alive and well. Sorry to bore you if you've already heard it a zillion times, but below are two remixes I'm diggen right now. The first, by Diplo (one half of Major Lazer) is an upbeat and up-tempo track. At 170BPM it's not really made for the dancefloor, but the high pitched treble notes and thumping bassline make this track worth the download.

Dj Mujava - Township Funk (Diplo Remix)

The Skream remix is a much more chilled track with darker tones, but still has a pretty serious bass line. For your aural pleasure, link is below:

Dj Mujava - Township Funk (Skream Remix)

Set us Free

Phonat has been gettin pretty big over the past year around the world. Not really my type of music but his 'Set me free' has made it pretty big following his previous single 'Learn to recycle'. The Avicii remix of 'Set me free' has been gettin some play time on "da decks" at clubs and people were wondering what it is. Although not that inspiring musically, it's a useful song to get people dancing. Here you go little ones.

Phonat - Set me Free (Avicii Remix)

Ah Whoooooo's There?

Riton & Primary 1 are there, bitch. These guys came together to produce this track which was released on Erol Alkan's Phantasy record label in the UK. Whilst once again not a particularly new track, there are some kerraazzyy remixes doing the rounds and we wish dj's would play it more often!



To give you a feel for the track, here is the original version. Wack video, but deserves a listen:







The first remix is done by Style Of Eye, a producer and dj born and based in Sweden. Whilst he's responsible for unique tracks like The Big Kazoo (link below) he unfortunately went and "remixed" Empire Of The Sun, who we hate. This brings him down in our book, but there's no denying his vocal mix of Who's There, with its bouncing bass and creepy, distorted vocals, is testament to this dudes abilities. Download it below.



Style Of Eye - The Big Kazoo



Riton & Primary 1 - Who's There? (Style Of Eye Vocal Remix)



While we're on the topic, this track has also been remixed by Doorly, a UK pioneer of dubstep. Alot more drivey than the Style of Eye mix, this track is guaranteed to make you wanna get off your arse, go outside, and punch a small dog in the face. Enough said.



Riton & Primary 1 - Who's There? (Doorly Remix)



If you dug that, Doorly has just announced an upcoming Australian tour kick starting on Feb 1st. Yeeewwww.

One of the reasons why we're not attending Aoki on Friday.

Personally, I/we don't like Steve Aoki that much. He can give a live performance which is good, but his music taste is.. questionable. This track entitled 'I'm in the house' is reminiscent of another failed 'black eyed peas' track that goes for cheap crowd appreciation with no effort in the music and is one of the reasons why he's a shit kent.

Here is 'I'm in the House' - Steve Aoki & Zuper Blahq: http://www.mediafire.com/?ymewmqmwmwu for your lolling pleasure

(Zuper Blahq = Will.I.Am = A man in a gimp suit)

Solo

This guys been around for a while but is relatively unheard of but has been churning out decent music for some time now. He combines some fresh sounds that's different to a lot of the junk going around now. Enjoy..

Solo - Joga Bola: http://www.mediafire.com/?rjm4vojyzm2

DJ Gregory & Gregor Salto - Con Alegria (Solo 'more Cowbell' Remix): http://www.mediafire.com/?jmzgomrdt2d

If you're really diggin then here's his recent midget mix: http://www.mediafire.com/?ewm0mnj0ynx

Heads will Roll

Nothing needs to be said. Dance 'til you're dead. <-- rhyme

The full Heads will Roll (A-trak remix) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs is available here: http://www.mediafire.com/?z2ehuuzejhy

We're sick of n00bs being djs and shit bloggers who have no music taste or knowledge so we're here to help them l2p (we realise how gay this is). Firstly major lazer (diplo + switch dream team) is gonna rock falls festival so we thought you should know what you're getting yourself into, here's a live clip from a performance in stockholm, sweden and it looks ba nanas