Onra “Long Distance (feat. Olivier Daysoul)”

It’s good to know that the glittery soul and sexual shimmy of future-funk is alive and well in a city currently best known for its electro-house exports. Parisian producer Onra teams up his solid grooves with Olivier Daysoul‘s wacky falsetto on the dancefloor heater “Long Distance.” Paying homage to his rave-minded peers with his super-compressed beat, Onra still keeps the boogie alive with a bouncing bassline, tons of spacey synth sounds, and a hook that rivals just about any of Daft Punk’s catchy melodies. The music is brilliant in and of itself, allowing Daysoul’s colorful vocal delivery to serve as the icing on the cake.

Long Distance

Hervé “Hot! Drum Attack”

Joshua Harvey produces under a couple of monikers, namely The Count and Hervé, all of which propagate buzzing party beats meant for late-night dance-a-thons. From his Hervé project comes Harvey’s latest single, Zombies, and this hyperactive club tune, “Hot! Drum Attack.” The beat-heavy rave-up scales the heights of intensity many times over within its six minutes, as Harvey uses every punchy drum sound, tweaked vocal sample, and filtered synth at his disposal to get the job done right.

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03 Hot! Drum Attack

Nick Chacona Love in the Middle

Variety can either be an enhancement or disaster on full-length album projects. In Nick Chacona’s case, cohesion steers his debut album, Love In The Middle, toward brilliance. Born wanderer, former XLR8R scribe, and prolific producer, Chacona artfully unites house, reggae, disco, and cosmic dance modes. Right off the bat, opener “Especial” brings percussive disco beats, reverby keys, and steady, dub-inspired bass pathways together at a sunny intersection. Things head in an Italo direction with “Turning and Tossing” followed by “The Fear,” a vocal number featuring the Sheffield’s Kathy Diamond, whose Patrice Rushen-esque voice compliment the electro-soul jam. There are echoes of Chacona’s eclectic house output on Hector Works on “Eskayelator” and “Autumn Pass,” while mid-tempo gems like “Hipstar” evokes Mudd or Prins Thomas’s hazy, shambolic output. Convincingly, Love in the Middle has found that sweet spot in the center of things.

Honey Soundsystem Shows Brotherly Love on First Compilation Disc

Honey Soundsystem, San Francisco’s paragon of gay disco and house parties, has released its first compilation. Brotherhood is a 13-track, unmixed CD of the best in underground queer dance music from around the world, featuring everyone from London’s Filthy Luka to Oakland’s very own Party Effects crew. Only 500 copies are available for purchase here so cum and get it while it’s hot! Complete tracklisting after the jump.

Tracklisting:

1. BearEssence feat. Roberta Kelly- Because of Love
2. MVSCLZ- All Big Men Come Out in the Summertime
3. Robot Hustle- Serengeti Drive
4. Filthy Luka- Missing You
5. Gay Marvine- Lost in Music
6. Discordromo- Ionio
7. Mandy Warhol- Search for the Mountain Top
8. Rodion & Hugo Sanchez- Tape Oxyde
9. Pee Play & Husband- The Duke
10. Jim Hopkins- This is Aciiiiiiiid! (Two-Track Tape)
11. Kendig- SK-1
12. Party Effects- Copacaliasexicalia
13. Matthew Mercer- Wormhole

Flight Facilities “Crave You ft. Giselle (Version 2)”

Flight Facilities are quickly emerging as the best new thing in retro-house sounds, and this version of “Crave You” will only cement their reputation. With a monstrous proto-house bassline charging behind a sentimental piano chords, the path is cleared for Giselle’s sultry vocals to enter and make the track into certifiable dancefloor fire. Sometimes recalling Debbie Harry if she was involved with golden-era Frankie Knuckles, “Crave You” is the sort of piece that will be heard everywhere in the coming months, from house nights to the gayest of afternoon brunch parties.

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Super Gauchin “Pega la Gilada”

In all fairness, it was only a matter of time until wobble bass crept into the farthest corners of the globe. For all the recent chatter about UK funky, post-dubstep, post-garage, or whatever you want to call it, the anthemic, screeching midrange bass sounds currently ruling the dubstep scene can still sound quite potent, especially to those who haven’t been subjected to night after night of moshstep and endless rewinds. So it comes as little suprise that Argentina’s Super Guachin has married wobble bass with the squealing synths of his homeland’s native cumbia villera. Taken from his Bass from la Villa EP, which is available for free download and also features a remix of Schlachthofbronx, “Pega la Gilada” is the bouncy product of some well-executed cross-genre and cross-cultural alchemy. The chiptune-loving producer even mixes in some Game Boy blips and bleeps. If any more music-blog memes were involved, the internet just might shut down.

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Video Premiere: Nick Andre & E Da Boss “Robot Practice”

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After taking two years off to work on separate projects, Nick Andre & E Da Boss are back with Robot Practice. The EP features Gift Of Gab (Blackalicious), Marc Stretch (Foreign Legion), Bicasso (Living Legends), and Z-Man (One Block Radius) and is the first in a series of singles to be released from Nick Andre & E da Boss. Upcoming singles will feature Medusa, Rashaan Ahmad (Crown City Rockers), Jern Eye, Night Cluber Lang (Boom Bap Project), OMNI, and more. Check out the video for the EP’s title track, which chronicles toy robots’ views of San Francisco.

Todd Edwards “Runnin’ With the Devil (Van Halen Cover)”

Earlier in the week, we tracked down this rare version of east coast garage don Todd Edwards covering the Van Halen anthem “Runnin’ With the Devil”—and it’s a stormer. Not for the faint of heart, “Runnin’ With the Devil (Todd Edwards Remix)” features all the hallmarks of a classic Edwards dancefloor jam, but coupled with DLR’s inimitable screech and EVH’s killer Kramer guitar licks, this one is—dare we say—completely over the top. When Edwards gets done with you, you’re gonna need to be 5150’d indeed!

Running With the Devil (Todd Edwards Remix)

These New Puritans Hidden

These New Puritans were tossed into the “art rock” genre following their 2008 debut, but that might have been a pre-emptive classification. Hidden, the quartet’s second LP, is packed with references both obscure and banal, skittering between sparse post-punk and anthemic industrial sounds. Frontman/co-producer Jack Barnett geeked out on the Foley during the recording process, eventually including taiko drums, a wind ensemble, and the sound of biscuit-covered melons being smashed as musical elements. “We Want War,” the album’s epic second track, incorporates ominous gypsy harmonium riffs that crescendo into a gloriously crashing juggernaut that hints at both Wire and Trent Reznor, while other tracks juxtapose menacing minimal percussion with disarmingly delicate toybox melodies. Call it whatever you want—Barnett and his bandmates are just getting started with their musical experiments.

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