Playing at Rainbow Serpent Festival was unbelievable. One of the most enjoyable sets I have ever played and easily the best “festival” I have ever had the honor of attending. Thankyou s…
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The third release in my Beats mix series! Following on from my previous offerings, Beating Me Up and Beating Me Around, I’ve done my best not to be constrained by genre or style, spanning a whole cross section of different sounds, textures and styles, all whilst attempting to convey a cohesive journey. Covering ambient, trip-hop, funk, hip-hop, house, drum and bass, and a whole heap more, each piece of music contained holds a special place in my heart. I really hope you enjoy it! 
Stream below or hit my Soundcloud page for more info.
TRACK LIST
- Disclosure – Latch (TUSKS Cover)
- Japanese Wallpaper ft Wafia – Breathe In
- Decoder Ring – Somersault
- Ta-ku ft Thandiwe Phoenix – Wasted Time
- Zero 7 – Destiny (Atlantic Connection Remix)
- Raleigh Ritchie – Stronger Than Ever (The Internet Remix)
- Pig & Dan ft Malcolm Duncan – Rimshot Shuffle
- Pharrell Williams – Happy (Neus Remix)
- Michael Jackson – Remember The Time (Louis La Roche Remix)
- Boards Of Canada – Olson (Midland Edit)
- London Grammar – Strong (RAC Remix)
- Ambassadeurs – Make Me
- Glass Animals ft Chester Watson – Gooey Rework
- Banks – Goddess (Glass Animals Remix)
- Bonobo – Terrapin (Sanebeats Remix)
- Funkyloco – Just Relax (Original Mix)
- Lusine – Arterial
- Kendrick Lamar vs. Tycho – Vibe Walk (Break Science Remix)
- Quivver – Chasin a Feeling (Original Mix)
- Royal Sapien – The Rope That Burns (Original Mix)
- Outro
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Tags: ableton, Ambient, beats, Boards Of Canada, Bonobo, chill-out, decoder ring, disclosure, DJ, Hip-Hop, japanese wallpaper, kendrick lamar, london grammar, Lusine, michael jackson, Mix, pharrell, Quivver, Trip-Hop, tycho, zero 7
Summer is hands-down my favourite season. Negating the fact my apartment has no AC, I pretty much love everything about it. The seasonal-shift coming out of the colder months is easily the best part. The injection of vitamin D is cleansing. Everyone starts to smile, outside activities become the norm, beer gardens pack out, the beach becomes your home away from home and ice-cream becomes a food group.
With this in mind, I took up the task of putting together my offering for the Mahala Podcast series. Every piece of music I’ve included on the mix either makes me think of summer, is a tune I discovered during the warmer months, or is stuff that I feel benefits from being listened to in a sun-drenched setting.
Attempting to capture the allure of this beautifully sunny season was incredibly enjoyable and I really hope that it can illicit some similar feelings to those listening.
Thanks for having me onboard, Mahala! ❤
https://soundcloud.com/mahalacremedelacreme/j-slyde-mahala-podcast-005
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TRACK LIST
01. Tarranado – Aint’ Enough (Murat Acar Remix)
02. Tarranado – Aint’ Enough (Oliver Schories Remix)
03. The Cure – Lullaby (SOS Edit)
04. Hot Since 82 – Hit and Run (Original Mix)
05. Super Flu – Fibi Maybe (Original Mix)
06. Elefantz – Diggin On You (Original Mix)
07. Elefantz – Diggin On You (Gui Boratto D.O.C Mix)
08. Poison Pro – Innovate (Original Mix)
09. Bonobo ft Andreya Triana – Eyes Down (Sasha Remix)
10. Maya Jane Coles ft Kim Foxman – Burning Bright (Joyce Muniz Remix)
11. Sons Of Maria – Silk Frames (Original Mix)
12. Lusine – Two Dots (Nic Fanciulli Remix)
13. Tom Middleton – Wyv Auw Chu (Original Mix)
14. Sasha & James Teej – As You Fall (Original Mix)
15. Piano Interrupted – Open Line
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Tags: Andreya Triana, Bonobo, Deep-House, Elefantz, Gui Boratto, Hot Since 82, House, J-Slyde, jslyde, Lusine, Maya Jane Coles, Oliver Schories, Poison Pro, Progressive, Sasha, Super Flu, Tarranado, The Cure, Tom Middleton
The second in my “beats” mix series, Beating Me Around, is finally online! A 70 minute journey through some of my favourite music styles spanning everything from ambient and hip-hop through to breaks and house. Starting out laid-back around the 70bpm mark and slowly building its way up from there.
Music from the likes of Burial, Boards Of Canada, DJ Shadow, Alix Perez, Bibio, Lapalux, Mister Lies, Tensnake, The XX, Matthew Dear and a whole heap more.
Skin one up, sit back and relax. Very much hope you enjoy!
TRACK LIST
01. Boards Of Canada – Telepath
02. Burial – Shell Of Light
03. Vital Substance – Hopes & Fears
04. Mar – My Absolute
05. Will Saul Pres. CLOSE – My Way ft Joe Dukie (Tanner & Ross Slow Hands Remix)
06. Fink – Perfect Darkness
07. Raffertie – Build Me Up
08. Alix Perez – Annies Song ft Sam Wills
09. Lapalux – Straight Over My Head
10. Bibio – Lovers’ Carvings (Letherette Remix)
11. Saturns Children – From The Heart
12. Atoms For Peace – Default
13. Mister Lies – Ashore
14. Architeq – Into The Cosmos
15. Jacob Korn – Broken
16. The Roots – Right On ft Joanna Newsom & STS
17. DJ Shadow – Scale It Back (Blunt Instrument Remix)
18. DJ Shadow – Scale It Back (Party Ben Remix)
19. The XX – VCR (Matthew Dear Remix)
20. Azari & III – Reckless For Your Love (Tensnake Remix)
21. Black Street – No Diggity (Bondax Edit)
22. Bryan Lewis Saunders – Cutlery Corner (Remix)
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Tags: Alix Perez, Architeq, Atoms For Peace, Bibio, Black Street, Boards Of Canada, Bondax, Burial, DJ Shadow, Fink, J-Slyde, Jacob Korn, Lapalux, Matthew Dear, Mister Lies, Raffertie, Tensnake, The Roots, The XX, Will Saul
Melbourne based record label, For The Record, have started off 2013 in stellar form with a bevvy of quality releases centering around the house, deep-house and progressive genres. Still somewhat in their infancy, they have shown an intuitive ear for great sounding underground dance music.
For FTR’s 12th release local Melbourne producer, Monsieur Ali, steps up to the plate for a three track EP of deep and varied 4/4 grooves. Tactfully taking a separate angle for each track, the release covers an enjoyable cross section of sounds. The aptly named ‘Know Not Fear (Deep Club Mix)’ follows a strict to-the-numbers approach with deep bass kicks and nice high snares – a catchy melody rounds things off, making it a sure-fire-winner for an earlier styled DJ set. The modest ‘Deep Sky (Minimal Sky Mix)’ strips things back a notch to create a hypnotic, yet intriguing number that rolls along without making too much fuss. The personal highlight of the EP comes in the form of the title track ‘Life On Record (Progressive Mix)’ – an upbeat piece that brings in an old-school prog feel. A nice heavy kick leads the track, whilst a catchy synth stab intricately weaves in and out.
Showing considerable potential Ali has done well in spilling forth a strong and extremely well executed EP – overall it’s fantastic to see such quality coming from such a young label and producer. If this EP is any indication, FTR and Ali are certainly destined for great things.
Life On Record EP is now available via Beatport. For further info visit ForTheRecordLabel.com
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Hybrid – Classics Album
Yesterday saw pre-order’s go live on Distinctive Records website for Hybrid’s long awaited Classic’s album. A special edition 4 disc box-set, apparently only available via the Distinctive Recs website, the album relives some of the groups finest achievements since their first album, Wide Angle, was released in 1999. The 4 disc set covers every corner of the Hybrid spectrum featuring: Classics (with an exclusive remix of Depeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy the Silence’), Instrumental + Remixes, Orchestral, and Cinematic Soundscapes. The track listing is impressive, with a heap of hard to find remixes and unreleased material.
If you’re as big a fan as I am, you would’ve been pretty excited to hear the news that the album was now available to pre-order. Yet, when I jumped onto the Distinctive site I was confronted with a price tag I did not expect and an extremely shoddy web-store. Costing it up, including postage, it was going to cost over US$90 to get the 4 CD box-set delivered. Perhaps if it were a Vinyl release, I could justify the amount, but for a CD release I was a little bit skeptical. Distinctive fail to offer any extra information about the actual release, other than the track listing of the album – no information on the way its packaged or displayed, and definitely no photos of said box – yet they’re asking fans to cough up a premium figure. It just doesn’t make sense. Somewhat disillusioned by the whole fiasco, I did a little bit of digging and found out some interesting stuff via Hybrid’s Facebook page…
This is a limited edition box set which will only ever be available through Distinctive Records and maybe via our website if Distinctive will sell us some copies. Distinctive Records owns all our music and it is them who are organising and pricing this entire release, apart from our name at the top, the release has not been organised in any way by ourselves. We as yet don’t have the details of the extra CD that is being offered by Distinctive, which is why we can’t give you any more details. It may be hard to believe, but we are almost as in the dark as you are! We will pass your grievances onto Distinctive and we’re sorry that you feel ripped off.
With regard to the posting costs. It is a large item (over 12″ square) and will be of substantial weight (aprox 1kg), plus the materials to wrap the box securely and the time it takes to manually pack the item. It all mounts up and costs us money to do. We do understand that it may seem that we are over charging for the postage, but we really are doing our best to keep these prices as low as possible. I hope you understand that we appreciate your support, and it really isn’t us trying to charge excessive postage on a large and heavy item.
Shedding a bit of light on the issue, it helps to know that the box-set is substantial in weight, and size. It’s sad to hear that Hybrid haven’t really had any type of creative control over the release, which makes you question how much, if any, money they’ll see. Despite all of that, the album is impressive and more than likely to be the last album release we’ll see from the group – at-least under the Distinctive label!
Whilst you make up your minds here’s a snippet from their exclusive Depeche Mode remix:
And, of-course, the track list!
Classics01 Finished Symphony |
Instrumentals + Remixes01 Sinequanon (Instrumental) |
Orchestral01 Opening Credits |
Cinematic Soundscape01 This Is What It Means (Rewinded Edit) |
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In the pipeline for quite some time, and spurred on by the unique nature of the collaborative project in which Elite Force and Klaus Badult were commissioned to create a soundtrack for the PS3 game Motorstorm Apocalypse, the hype surrounding the Shockland album release has been huge, to say the least.
Following the progress of the album since it’s early announcement, I’ve been keeping a keen eye on how things have been progressing. Elite Force kept fans appeased with Youtube clips of the game during different production stages along with the then unfinished audio samples. Even at the early stages of production, it was obvious that we were in for something very special.
The game release came and went, and not owning a PS3 I felt rather disadvantaged at the fact I was going to miss-out on hearing some really fantastic music – imagine then my elation when a full length album release of extended and reworked versions of music from the game was announced. BRAAP!
So last month saw the monster drop. And what a drop it was! Blowing all expectations out the window, the album saw Elite Force move into dark and brooding, attitude driven, cinematic, bass-heavy beats territory – a sound we’ve seen him embracing in his solo production and remix work over the last year or so. It definitely shows that he’s at home with this type of sound, and his high-quality production techniques shine throughout – from the hard-as-nails breaks/dubstep crossover tunes like ‘Mercury Man’ and ‘Barrel Down’, to the Prodigyesque beat orientated stylings of ‘Headlong & Deepdown’, all the way through to the experimental and tripped-out offerings such as ‘Neurofunk’ and ‘The Horror‘.
And whilst Elite Force’s contribution to the project is quite significant, Klaus Badelt’s contribution must not be overlooked. For those unfamiliar with Badelt, he’s an Oscar-winning classical soundtrack composer who has worked on movies such as Pirates Of The Caribbean and Gladiator (to name a few). His influence throughout the album is quite obvious and really helps to add scope to EF’s bass-heavy production work. It’s a great team-up, and something that I’d never thought would work as well as it has. The light and shade that the pairing of the two brings is great, and definitely prompts for repeat listens.
For a taste of the album, EF has put up samples of the album on his Soundcloud. Check the player below for a taster of what to expect.
Adding to the madness, we also have an exclusive remix of EF’s which is similar in vein to the type of music contained on the soundtrack – bass-heavy dubstep breaks that are bound to destroy any and all dance-floors they encounter.
Free 320 download fo ya: Lalo Schifrin Vs Elite Force – Bullit Theme (Elite Force’s Dopestep Remix)
Anyway, if you like what you’re hearing in the samples above, make sure you show some support and buy it legit!
BUY SHOCKLAND DIGITALLY
BUY SHOCKLAND PHYSICALLY
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Tags: Breaks, Dubstep, Elite Force, Klaus Badult, Shockforce, Soundtrack, U&A Recordings
The next edition in the Prognosis Promo series has just landed! Put together in prep for the June 18th event being held in sunny Melbourne, resident and highly talented Prog-bomber, Aaron Static, has stepped up to mix the third installment. Perfectly summing up the style of Prog-House Aaron has been pushing both in his production and DJing work, it’s a 60 minute journey full of exclusive unreleased tracks, along with a storming remix from the man himself.
And luckily enough, it’s available for free download! Full details below.
TRACK LIST:
01. Suke8 – Ancestros (Prema Van Smuuf Remix) [Indigo]
02. Arnold From Mumbai – Glitchy Bitch (Vipul Remix) [Dazzle On]
03. Ad Brown – Singapore Sling (Eitan Carmi Remix) [Indigo]
04. Luke Mandala – Angelic Uplift [Lohit]
05. 21street – Spirit Of The Streets (Steve Haines Remix) [Spherax]
06. Stanisha – Parallel Midnight (LoQuai Remix) [Mistiquemusic]
07. Oliver Morgenroth – Care (Lemon8 Rework) [Hyline]
08. Ad Brown – Elevator (Soundprank Remix) [Indigo]
09. MiracleBlue feat. Minette – Chance (Matan Caspi Remix) [Indigo]
10. Teana & Tiida – Coral Reef (James Warren Remix) [Spring Tube]
11. Dave Shtorn – Magic Moments (Aaron Static Remix) [Indigo]
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Star Slinger, Slinger of…
New to my ears, Star Slinger popped up after a friend dropped me a recommendation on Facebook (thanks Ciaren!). All it really took was one listen and my interest was sparked. His sublime, melodic beats, weaved together with pitched up soul vocals, and on-point sampling, went down a treat. A quick trawl through his Soundcloud revealed a veritable treasure trove of high quality original productions and remixes.
A Manchester born 24 year old, Star Slinger has risen to fame in a relatively short amount of time. His releases over the scope of about two years have garnered interest from high end producers such as Diplo, Jamie XX and Benji B, to name a few. Hard to pin-point, his sound lays somewhere between hip-hop yet with an exceptional twist that hints towards an indie influence – almost bordering on that whole “chill-wave” sound that’s going on. Making great use of warm and enveloping synth and bass lines, his remixes are able to totally transform a track and make them into a uniquely sounding piece all his own. Not to be over shadowed, his original productions also stand tall and ooze with the same quality.
Sitting here after downloading 24 of his freely available tracks, Im astounded at the amount of music he’s been willing to give away for free. A sign of the times and the effect the digital age is having on producers, perhaps? Listening through it all, it stands out that SS’ productions are heavily reliant on sampling, and probably something that works against him when attempting a release. It’s comforting however to see him pushing Vinyl releases on a selection of his releases – an avenue I am a big fan of, and all too willing to support!
Anyway, I’ve listed some of my favourites from his Soundcloud page. If you like what you hear, go show him some support!
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Tags: Benji B, Chill Wave, Diplo, Hip-Hop, Indie, Jamie XX, Star Slinger
J-Slyde – White Noise Promo
Put together a one hour promo mix for the upcoming White Noise event on May 6th at First Floor. It’s a combination of all things breaks with both old and new tracks throughout. Due to the nature of the event and the fact that the White Noise krew are more known for their dark 4/4 genres, the idea was to cover as much Breakbeat related scope as possible whilst not going too underground. Starting out on a banger to grab some attention, the first half is funky and upbeat with some more commercial tracks thrown in – the last half covers the Progressive side of things.
If you like what you hear, ensure you make it down on the night! I’ll be on the decks from 12 midnight along with live musicians Ross Koger (Bass) and Toby Bender (Percussion). Should make for one rather interesting set!
TRACK LIST:
01. Alex Metric & Steve Angello – Open Your Eyes (Original Mix)
02. Dirty & Acid – Rock The Disco (Original Mix)
03. Moguai – U Know Y (Original Mix)
04. Dave Spoon feat. Lisa Maffia – Bad Girl (At Night) (Beat Vandals Remix)
05. Plaza De Funk – Get Crazy (Original Mix)
06. Deekline & Wizard – Handz Up (Stanton Warrrios Remix)
07. Plump DJs Vs Elite Force – System Addict (Revamped by Elite Force)
08. Unkle – Reign (False Profit Remix)
09. Neo – Aura (Cosmonaut Remix)
10. Chable & Bonnic – Ride (Have A Break Remix)
11. Ilya Mosolov – I Believe You May Fly (Original Mix)
12. Trafik – Your Light (Luke Chable Vocal Breaks Remix)
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