Podcast 114: Star Eyes’ Love from NY Mix

Until now, our City Guide podcast series has been focused on the West Coast, but we’ve also got plenty of love for our friends on the other side of the continent. This week we’re sampling the sounds of New York, and who better to survey the Big Apple than our homegirl (and former editor) Vivian Host (a.k.a Star Eyes). Although she’s best known for throttling soundsystems as a member of NY’s Trouble & Bass crew, Host has little trouble bounding from one genre to the next. Whether it’s the disco stylings of Metro Area and DFA, bass-heavy bangers from Drop the Lime and AC Slater, tropical tunes from Uproot Andy and 77Klash, hip-hop anthems from Lil’ Mama and Ja Rule, or dancefloor classics from Larry Levan and Madonna, her Love from NY mix and its cornucopia of sounds capture the freewheeling spirit of New York City nightlife.

01 Gang Gang Dance “House Jam” (Hot Chip Remix) (Social Registry)
02 Adultnapper “Vase” (Clink)
03 Runaway “Poltergeist” (On The Prowl)
04 The Juan MacLean “Happy House (Lee Douglas Remix)” (DFA)
05 Detachments “Circles (Beg to Differ Dub Mix)” (Thisisnotanexit)
06 The Juan MacLean “Happy House” (DFA)
07 Holy Ghost! “Hold On” (DFA)
08 Bumblebee Unlimited “Lady Bug (Larry Levan Disco Remix)” (RCA Victor)
09 Tanlines “Bejan” (Kitsuné)
10 No Regular Play “Things I Know” (Wolf & Lamb)
11 Lauren Flax “You’ve Changed (War Games Remix)” (DANR)
12 The Martinez Brothers & Argy “Debbie Downer” (Objektivity)
13 Cubic Zirconia “Fuck Work (Dance With White Girls Remix)” (The Savant Guard)
14 Bobby Konders “Nervous Acid” (Massive B)
15 In Flagranti “Genital Blue Room” (Codek)
16 The Glass “Wanna Be Dancin” (Plant Music)
17 Sammy Bananas “Dat Funk” (Fool’s Gold)
18 Armand Van Helden & DJ Sneak “The Ultrafunkula” (FFRR)
19 Madonna “Causing A Commotion” (Sire)
20 Metro Area “Miura” (Environ)
21 DJ Ayres “Broke Ass Home” (Money Studies)
22 Dre Skull “I Want You (Dre Skull Remix)” (Mixpak)
23 Kingdom “You” (Fool’s Gold)
24 AC Slater “No Party For Old Men” (Nightshifters)
25 Drop the Lime “New York Massacre” (Trouble & Bass)
26 Lil’ Mama “Lip Gloss” (Zomba)
27 Drop The Lime “Set Me Free” (Trouble & Bass)
28 Larry Tee feat. Princess Superstar “Licky (Herve Remix)” (Ultra)
29 Uproot Andy “Brooklyn Cumbia” (ZZK Sound/Nacional)
30 Udachi & Jubilee “Smoke Rings” (Nightshifters)
31 Michna “Triple Chrome Dipped (Star Eyes & Mayster Liquid Vision)” (Ghostly)
32 Thirstin Howl III “Stole” (Landscape)
33 77Klash (produced by Matt Shadetek) “Mad Again feat. Johnny Osbourne” (Klash City)
34 Ja Rule feat. Fat Joe & Jadakiss “New York” (Def Jam)
35 Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Yeah New York!” (Interscope)
36 Matt & Kim “Daylight (Ninjasonik Remix)”
37 Frank Sinatra “New York, New York” (Reprise)

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Bitcode “For Trash (Jimmy Edgar Remix)”

Hyper-sexual Barcelona electro imprint Tracy just dropped For Trash, the latest EP from Bitcode. This remix of the title track comes courtesy of Warp alumnus Jimmy Edgar, who smooths the original’s obtuse edges with his patented sheen and brings the dark undertones of “For Trash” to the forefront—making for a tune that drunken dancefloor revelers could easily mistake for something from Mr. Oizo’s catalog.

For Trash (Jimmy Edgar Remix)

For Trash (Jimmy Edgar Remix)

Jogger This Great Pressure

Technically, this is Jogger‘s first full-length, but there’s enough music here to fill five albums. The duo (Amir Yaghmai on violin/guitar/vocals and Jonathan Larroquette on laptop/controllers/vocals) packs each of its 10 tracks here with sounds drawing on everything from ambient to folk to rock, utilizing a manic cut-and-paste-and-layer-and-distort-and-process aesthetic that’s, well, crowded. To their credit, it’s harder to pull off crowded than spare, but songs like “Master and Student” would have benefited from the more thoughtful treatment found on the superior “Champing at the Bit (Live).” Plenty artists suffer from a lack of ideas—Jogger has too many. Now it’s just a matter of pacing themselves.

New Untold 12″ Coming From Brainmath

From the UK-based Brainmath imprint, the fledgling, bass music label that brought us Zomby’s Digital Flora release, comes the next chapter in Untold‘s forward-thinking dubstep career. Entitled “Flexible,” the new 12″ serves as Untold’s official follow-up to his recent Gonna Work Out Fine EP. In keeping with his genre’s elusive nature, producer Jack Dunning and the label head(s) behind his new output have shared not so much as a release date, much less any in-depth information, but you can check out the vinyl label artwork below.

Artist to Watch: Dorian Concept

Who:Dorian Concept
Where: Vienna, Austria

Oliver Thomas Johnson has been messing around with music since he took piano lessons as a kid, but only after becoming a self-described “pot-smoking teenager” and being introduced to electronic music did he become inspired to start making beats. The bedroom keyboard wizard dropped his debut album, When Planets Explode, earlier this year on Kindred Spirits, but it’s the non-album single “Trilingual Dance Sexperience,” with its warped hoover synths, hyperactive stop-and-start rhythm, and hijacked B-more beat, that has truly shot Dorian Concept into the stratosphere.

Watch: “Trilingual Dance Sexperience”

Watch: “Tropical Hands”

Lindstrøm & Christabelle “Baby Can’t Stop (Idjut Boys Remix)”

After hearing Aeroplane‘s take on the epic disco-funk of “Baby Can’t Stop” by Norwegian-Belgian duo Lindstrøm & Christabelle (the latter of whom is also Aeroplane’s singer), we didn’t think the vintage synth-heavy dance jam could be further expanded upon. After this gem of a remix from Idjut Boys landed in our hands, our opinion quickly changed. The veteran London-based duo kept relatively true to the original, making their version more of an edit which highlights the bulbous basslines and warm brass section of Lindstrøm’s production work with a few of their own sounds tossed in for extra flair.

Baby Can’t Stop (Idjut Boys Remix)

DJ Food “All Covered in Darkness (Mr. P Remix)”

Taken from The Shape of Things That Hum, the freshly-released second EP in a series of three by the shape-shifting DJ Food project (currently manned by Strictly Kev), Mr. P‘s remix of “All Covered in Darkness” sets out sounding like it’s entering the Twilight Zone. However, as the chilly piano loop and booming, baritone voice fade away, an ominous organ melody (or maybe that’s cello?) and cowbell-led breakbeat (though that could be a piano) overtake the song with the help of a somewhat indiscernible vocal loop—all before slowly bringing you back to the track’s enigmatic opening sounds.

All Covered In Darkness (Mr P Remix)

Italoboyz Bla Bla Bla

Techno is often an over-serious genre, so listening to the first Italoboyz full-length is a breath of fresh air—the duo crafts rich, funky tracks that are full of humor, esoteric influences, and the London transplants’ penchant for intense rhythmic play. A prime example is found on “Chinese,” a piece that utilizes extensive bits of Chinese-influenced piano, cut-up vocal portions culled from Chinese language instruction software, and jazzy house percussion that shimmers in just the right spots. “Techno Tower,” on the other hand, recalls a more playful Gaiser, but it is “Bahia,” a hypnotic techno slice based entirely on licensed John Coltrane loops and deep kicks, that really stays with the listener.

Plus 8 Celebrates 100 Releases With Remix Disc

It has been 20 years since John Acquaviva and Richie Hawtin started Plus 8 in Windsor, Ontario, and to celebrate this milestone as well as 100 releases, the label is putting out a compilation of remixes of past releases from contemporary producers. Featuring such techno luminaries as Speedy J, Teste, and Hawtin’s Plastikman project being remixed by everyone from Alex Under to Marco Carola, the collection is sure to shed some new light on 20 glorious years of making people slam to minimal sounds. Tracklisting after the jump!

Plus8100- The Remixes comes out on Plus 8 on December 9.

Tracklisting:

01. FUSE – Intro (From Our Minds To Yours) (Tiefschwarz remix)
02. Plastikman – Goo (Paco Osuna remix)
03. Speedy J – Evolution (Ken Ishii 2009 remix)
04. Speedy J – Minimal (John Acquaviva & Olivier Giacomotto remix)
05. Speedy J – Pullover (Alexi Delano & Tony Rohr remix)
06. Final Exposure – Vortex (Function remix)
07. FUSE – Substance Abuse (Barem remix)
08. Hard Brothers – Hardphunk (Mike Shannon Reshake)
09. Plastikman – Ethnik (Paco Osuna remix)
10. Richie Hawtin – 005 (Alex Under remix)
11. Richie Hawtin – Statikphunk (Ambivalent remix)
12. Plastikman – Kriket (Danilo Divigorito remix)
13. Final Exposure – Vortex (Hobo’s Vile remix)
14. Teste – The Wipe (Rex Sepulveda remix)
15. FUSE – Theychx (Tobias. FUSE remix)
16. Cybersonik – Technarchy (Marcel Dettmann remix)
17. FUSE – Dimension Intrusion (Layo and Bushwacka! FUZE remix)
18. Plastikman – Elektrostatik (Skoozbot remix)
19. Teste – The Wipe (Marco Carola remix)
20. V-Room – G-Hertz (Skoozbot remix)
21. FUSE – Substance Abuse (Mark Broom remix)
22. FUSE – Theychx (JPLS THX remix)

Annie Pops Back Up

After a series of frustrating setbacks, Annie finally releases her much anticipated second album, Don’t Stop.

Sure, Lady Gaga’s fine and all, but Norwegian pop star Annie has a firm clutch on our bubblegum heart. Her songs are contagious and uplifting, she name-checks Bjorn Torske, and she has a wicked sense of humor. She’s just released her second album, Don’t Stop, after a couple years of label purgatory. Here, Annie cracks us up by talking about arson, abandoning orphans, and making the unusual leap from Island Records to Smalltown Supersound—all in a deceptively innocent-sounding Scandinavian accent.

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