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It has been awhile since we gave you a good shot of music. We are just busy men. So we return with a couple of nice mixtapes. We got some French input, we have a brand new Yeah! Woho mixtape and an epic journey through time from Steve Aoki.
France is the mother of all electro music. And they have some pretty good talent. Blaster for example is one of the talented, this time we have a pretty good mixtape from him. So get your feet moving and dance into the weekend with this one.
Yeah! Swedish electro on top. Yeah! Woho! made a new EP called Warfare and for that cause they decided to make a mixtape to promote it. This mixtape contains some songs from the biggest labels but are not as well known as you would expect. Though it is an excellent mixtape.
Dim Mak is celebrating his 15th anniversary with an album that shows thier journey through music in a really hard way and to promote this all Steve Aoki himself made a teaser mixtape with that journey mixed together. Expect some hard basses, guitars and drums. Just noise!
Just a quick preview of some upcoming EP releases. Upcoming, so don't expect download, maybe when they are released!
Kicking of with Wake Up Call by Steve Aoki and Sidney Samson, the original has been released last year, but on the 8th of February a remix EP will be released. It will contain remixes of Mustard Pimp and Peace Treaty.
Steve Aoki ft Sidney Samson - Wake Up Call (Mustard Pimp remix)
Next up it's the Electrophants from Holland. Guys are signed at the BMKLTSCH records, and are finally releasing their EP. Was originally scheduled in November, but now late January. They also have a remix of Hide and Screams new track, which will be released the 21st of January on Touché records.
Electrophants - Sledgehammer (The Oddword remix)
Electrophants - Neckbreakah (The Boomzers remix)
And finally, the EP release of the Trashing Teenagers is coming on the 3rd of February. With remixes from Trumpdisco, F.O.O.L, the Oddword, Owl Vision and Wonkap, this EP will be the best release of February, no doubt.
Trashing Teenagers - Wrath of God (F.O.O.L. remix)
Today Dim Mak Records released their newest e.p. Brrrat! a collaboration between Armand Van Helden and Steve Aoki. One thing is clear, Steve Aoki is on a strike lately with lots of collaborations which will end into a new cd. We have the Original and Will Baileys remix, but unfortunately not as a download. You can buy this new e.p at Beatport.com though, and here if you live in Europe. Enjoy!
Armand Van Helden & Steve Aoki - Brrrat! (Original Mix)
Armand Van Helden & Steve Aoki - Brrrat! (Will Bailey remix)
Almost one week until Pukkelpop in Hasselt, so lets talk about one of our favorites, Steve Aoki.
Aoki, called Kid Millionaire a couple of years ago, founded the label Dim Mak Records in 1996. Dim Mak started as a hardcore metal and the records first album was created by the hardcore band Stickfigurecarousel. After a year it grew more into a rock like label, with signed names like Bloc Party. After 2005 Dim Mak signed all kinds of different artists with big electro names like MSTRKRFT, the Bloody Beetroots and indie rock bands like the Scanners.
As a DJ, Aoki started to produce some music on his own as well, first with in a collab with Blake Miller under the name Weird Science, then in late 2007 he started producing on his own. Which lead to his first album called Pillowface and his Airplane Chronicles. The album is about himself, living without sleep for weeks on airports. The album featured names like Justice, MSTRKRFT, Peaches and Bloc Party, and contains some massive tracks like Refuseds New Noise, which is also remixed by the Bloody Beetroots this year, or MSTRKRFTs remix of D.A.N.C.E., or a remix of Gooses Bring it On.
Refused - New Noise (Erol Alkan remix)
Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (MSTRKRFT remix)
Goose - Bring it On (Todd Fink remix)
After his album, Aoki continued with making remixes, but also started organize parties in LA, in the famous Cinespace, expanded his Dim Mak label with a clothing line and was getting even a bigger recognized DJ in the world with preformances from Holland to Singapore and USA to Australia.
Dim Mak clothes with Danny Matterson
In late 2008 and 2009 Aoki started making loads of remixes with the best known remix of N.A.S.A's Gifted, but he also made remixes for Good Charlotte, Chris Cornell and The Killers (ft. The Bloody Beetroots)
Good Charlotte - Misery (Steve Aoki remix)
Chris Cornell - Part of Me (Steve Aoki remix) from RCRD LBL
The Killers - Spaceman (Steve Aoki ft. The Bloody Beetroots remix)
Then in March 2009 his first big track was released, it was the massive collab with the Bloody Beetroots, Warp. Soon after Warp more remixes followed, one of Drake, the banger remix of Pursuit of Happiness, and collabs with Afrojack, Zupa Blahq and Armin van Helden.
As a side project, Aoki collabed with Sir Bob Rifo under the name Rifoki, which stands for hardcore metal electro, some raw shit.
Rifoki - Spermdonor
Steve Aoki loves loads of different kinds of music, which you can see in his DJ sets, from poppy electro to almost metal like music. This and the fact he will end the evening with Noisia, see our next Pukkelpop special, on Thurday makes it a must see on Pukkelpop 2010!
Firstly, the Big S Noise team would like to thank everyone who made our first public party a succes: DJ ORG, DJ Artstar, 't Gildt bar team Max, and all you party animals !
DJ ORG made everyone feel at ease with rawness with his accessible beats, our own DJ Big S dragged us into the dark night a nice combination of the rough and the beautiful , and DJ Artstar made us last survivors bounce like beast!
Secondly, another very big thank you to my friend Desire and also Daniel from the Guerilla Speakerz for taking me in on a day to the Dirty Dutch Event. The event has a mainstream feel with a rough edge, and we picked out the cream of the crop:
Since everyone is going to the festivals around Europe we thought it would be nice to do a special about the one we are joining: Pukkelpop. It's the second biggest festival from Belgium and this year it will be their 25th anniversary. Their Line-up is freaky. To name a few:
Iron Maiden-Limp Bizkit-Blink 182-The Prodigy-Placebo-Queens Of The Stone Age-2ManyDjs-Soulwax-Deadmau5-Bloody Beetroots.
In the next few months till then we will give you info about the artists that we think are important. So stay tuned, first post will be about The Bloody Beetroots
So if you are from Belgium, Holland, Germany, France, or whatever country, come to Pukkelpop! This festival is a Can't miss for everyone.
For more info about tickets, line-up and other things, check the official site here
2010 is gonna be the year of Steve Aoki's Dim Mak Records & The Bloody Beetroots! They both have been working very hard lately. But they did also do that the past couple of years. So why is this year going to be their year?
Steve Aoki, now on his I'm in the house World Tour: through Europe & USA. Making an album in the meantime. He hopes to finish it this year in between his many performances. He said this in an interview with our UK-journalist-friend Robyn Burrows. Steve also told her he has got another record coming out in April, that of his and Sir Bob Rifo's band: Rifoki!
As he started bigger and bigger collaborations end of last year. With Drake, on Forever, featuring Kanye west, Lil Wayne and Eminem. And beginning of this year with Zuper Blahq - I'm in the house. Under this new alter ego Will-I-Am is even DJing under the Dim Mak label! This collaboration will really give him some media attention over the coming months. And as could be seen in the I'm in the house video, he will take The Bloody Beetroots, MSTRKRFT and all them with him in his success. This year Steve is collaborating with Kid cudi, Lil Jon, Afrojack, Laidback luke (who is also on DimMak records for a while now). So watch out for new tracks from these guys on our blog. But for Dim Mak records there are more collaborations with the Dutch, Don Diablo made a remix of Salvation from the Scanners (which was on our blog a little while ago).
The Bloody Beetoots, started their Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77 Boredom Tour. And their album Domino, comes out March 23th. Of course we all know their new website deathcrew77.com, which only heralds a new, greater era for the Bloody Beetroots. They're already in the line-up for Rock Werchter, July 1st till 4th. And it will be of no surprise if they will be on Pukkelpop, August 19th, 20th and 21st, for the 3rd year in a row. (BTW: vote for your favorite artist to come on Pukkelpop here! we did.) And except for being announced to to broader public in the I'm in the house video they also did a performance at end of last years MTV day in Italy. Also more and more journalist write something about these mysterious guys.
So this year is gonna be big for these gents! That means for us, its gonna a year filled with massive tracks and crazy parties!
But watch out what you wish for. When their success really hits the clubs, charts and music stations there is always the change that the music we all most love for its originality, rawness and brilliance will get mainstream and get hyped up and taken down by the masses. As what happened to the hip-hop industry in the past decade. It is also very obvious that all the hip-hop artist are producing more and more of a electro sound these days. But I think with these guys (Steve and the BBR), we are in a little to raw for the masses, so we'll be safe ! Lets end with a beautiful vision of a middle-aged-british-radio-dj before we go to the credits:
Like Annie Nightingale from BBC Radio 1 said: "You'll definitely hear more of these guys in 2010"
A original Dim Mak remix:
Tunng - Hustle (Bloc Party) removed by request
This time in a higher quality:
Vitalic - Second Lives (The Bloody Beetroots) removed by request
A couple of weeks ago we posted Mummas Boy by Audiokrunk and I kept searching for some other songs and i found some nice ones! they maybe a bit old but they are worth to listen t0
Pff even Big S Noise is joining the Bloody Beetroots Xmas Vendetta hype with another post about BB's new EP. But I must admit, it is one the best remix EP's of this year! So, here specially for you all tracks in a better quality and plus the new Romborama video. A big big chaos warning!
I never heard from Asian Trash Boy before until I found his newest EP which is released today, and it's pretty good! The EP contains the tracks Wanc, big track alert, and Play also a heavy track.Further I've got some older tracks made by him, also some fine tunes! Go check it out on Beatport if you want a download, but I think soundcloud will do the trick again.
Asian Trash Boy - Wanc (Original mix)
Asian Trash Boy - Play (Original mix)
Asian Trash Boy - Bitch (Original mix)
Asian Trash Boy - Cresendo (Original mix)
As a bonus I've got two remixes, both weird and connected to Will Smith, but still good! First a remix of Kid Cudi by Steve Aoki and second a remix by Mustard Pimp, they remixed the Fresh Prince of Bell-Air. I know, but it's surprisingly a nice remix!
