To celebrate the long-overdue video release for Uffie’s 2006 jam “Pop the Glock” and the dirty version of Girls’ “Lust for Life” clip, we decided to compile a few of our favorite strung-out-indie-kid-nude-not-nude-pseudo-sex romps into one easy-to-digest stream. Enjoy. And keep your screen out of view.
Uffie “Pop the Glock”
The Teenagers “Homecoming”
Girls “Lust for Life” (Hardcore XXX edit)
Simian Mobile Disco “Hustler”
Lifelike & Kris Menace “Discopolis”
Aphex Twin “Windowlicker”
This tune from Argentinian ragga/hip-hop MC Alika and her band Nueva Alianza, featuring some extra sabor courtesy of cumbia prodigy El Hijo de la Cumbia, has been making the internet rounds for awhile now but it’s finally been given a proper release on Sonido Martines presents: Nueva Cumbia Argentina – The Buenos Aires Implosion!, a new compilation on DJ /rupture‘s Soot label. Curated by record-digger extraordinaire Sonido Martines, the 13-track collection further documents Argentina’s ongoing love affair with new, experimental, and electronic cumbia sounds and also offers music from Chancha Vía Circuito, Princesa, Daleduro, scene progenitor DJ Taz, and more.
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Taken off the second compilation from Swiss nu-disco acolytes Relish, a release which also features work from Headman and Prins Thomas among others, “10:01” is a sprawling piece of cosmic disco performed by recent label signees, The C90s. The UK duo may have mostly remixes under their belt to date, but on this track, one of their few originals, The C90s sound like they’ve been nestled in a bed of handclaps, delayed synths, bouncing beats, and funky bass work since birth—only leaving their comfy home to run around with the likes of Holy Ghost!, Tronik Youth, and Todd Terje.
Munich isn’t exactly known as a hotbed for global bass sounds, but if upstart trio Schlachthofbronx has its way, that reputation may be due for an update. “Schlachthof” is German for “slaughterhouse,” which is oddly appropriate because these boys spend the bulk of their debut album slicing up beats from the far corners of the globe—Angolan kuduro, Brazilian baile funk, Caribbean soca, Jamaican dancehall, and Cape Verdean funana are all represented, as are dubstep, Balkan brass, and even the traditional sounds of their native Bavaria. High-gloss but always loyal to the low end, Schlachthofbronx’s music distills these disparate sounds into a speedy and infectiously hyperactive brew of next-level party music. A thrilling debut.
Our dear friends at net-radio kingdom Dublab are celebrating their tenth year in existence, and to keep the beats going, they’ve secured a number of incredible artworks for an online auction, which closes on Saturday, October 31 (spooky!). Up for grabs are great pieces (still at relatively low prices) from the likes of Teebs, Javelin, Sumi Ink Club, and tons more. So get bidding while there’s still time!
pictured work by Teebs
Frenchman Cosmo Vitelli is known for his top-shelf disco productions, but in recent months he’s also been making waves with his more ethereal and oddball Bot’Ox side project. “Blue Steel” is the title track from a forthcoming EP on Vitelli’s own I’m a Cliché label, and although the song veers a bit toward “music for a quirky commercial,” once we found out the video was basically a series of inflatable objects, household items, and toys getting run over in slow motion, we were sold.
Blue Steel will be released on November 9.
Phillin’ It: For years, Philadelphia has been shrugged off as New York’s little brother—a place where displaced Brooklynites went in search of cheaper rents, bigger spaces, and a touch less ‘tude. But what’s emerged over the years is far more than simply a sixth borough. So for this year’s special City Issue, we dug around the Fishtown, Northern Liberties, Chinatown, and every other little enclave we could find to bring you the best that Brotherly Love has to offer. Check back every few days for a new feature from the east coast’s newest hotbed.
DJ Sega hates party music. Not the music it refers to—in Philly that’s what they call Baltimore club—but the term itself. The 22-year-old Mad Decent affiliate, a quasi-folk hero among the teens who congregate at party music hub Jamz Roller Rink on Friday nights, prefers that you call his sound “Philly club.” The gesture is an homage to both Baltimore and Brick Bandits, the Newark, N.J.-based DJ crew that dubbed its own variation on the sound “Jersey club.” (Sega is a founding member of the collective’s adjunct Philly chapter.)
“When I came across club music, I fell in love,” says Sega (a.k.a. Robert Taylor, Jr.), wistfully recalling his first exposure to 2 Hyped Brothers & a Dog’s “Doo Doo Brown” as he plays a game of Frisbee golf at Philly’s Fairmount Park. “It was totally unexplainable. I like to instill [that feeling] in everybody else.”
Sega’s own music could be described as a hybrid of B-more true-schooler Rod Lee’s loose, kitchen-sink aesthetic and the crisper, more polished sound of Jersey producers like DJ Tameil. For all of his loyalty to club’s pioneers, though, releases like this year’s New Jack Philly find him toying with the genre’s boundaries while remaining within its rigid sonic grid. “Colours,” his contribution to last year’s Brick Bandits EP (a six-song compilation released through Ol’ Head, a label recently started by Sega and fellow Philly club DJ “Dirty South Joe” Massarueh), might be one of the smoothest club jawns ever made. Built from a sample of Janet Jackson’s “Rock With U” and a robot voice from an unreleased Vengaboys song, it’s practically chill-out music—at 133 beats per minute.
“When club first came out in Baltimore, it was fight music and then it was fuck music,” says Sega. “It feels overwhelming to even say this, but I feel club is kind of evolving in my own hands.”
Sega, whose baby face makes him look about 16, credits his DJ father and his mother’s collection of dance music maxi-singles for shaping his musical DNA. “Every weekend, my mom would get a couple of singles, and she’d have it on repeat all day and we’d never get tired of it,” says Sega. “I guess that’s where I get my ideas on remixes. I love to make somebody’s favorite their favorite all over again.”
Having reconfigured everything from Capleton’s “Everybody Needs Somebody” to “The Magical Amount” song from those annoying anti-cigarette commercials, he already has a catalog so deep that his DJ sets now consist entirely of Sega originals.
“The best thing you can do is Google me everyday,” he suggests between Frisbee tosses. “I got a lot of ideas and I’m gonna try to get at least half of ’em out before I die.”
New Jack Philly is out now on Mad Decent.
Earlier this week we peppered the boys of Zombie Disco Squad with questions for our weekly Inbox feature. While that displayed Lucas Hunter’s and Nat Self’s lighter side, we figured the only way to really showcase their hip-hop-flavored and tropical-tinged house sound was to enlist their DJ services for the XLR8R Podcast series. Much like the London duo’s oft-spun releases on the venerable Institubes, Dirtybird, and Made to Play labels, the mix finds the guys going heavy on percussion and always keeping things upbeat. Perhaps that’s why Made to Play boss Jesse Rose has made Zombie Disco Squad the resident DJs at the Made to Play night at Berlin’s Panorama Bar and tapped them to put together a mix for his upcoming two-disc label compilation, Playing Around Again, which drops next month.
01 Eazy E “Sippin on a 40” (Death Row)
02 Gregor Salto feat. Thais “Thais (Funkin 3am Matt Remix)”
03 Julio Bashmore “Um Bongos Revenge” (Dirtybird)
04 Rene Amesz & Mastiksoul “Swaffel (Honey Dijon Remix)” (4Kenzo)
05 Nick and Danny Chatelain “Rumba” (Goanche)
06 Doomwork “First Vibe” (Starlight)
07 Ralvero feat. Dadz n Effect “Killer Bee” (Sneakerz)
08 Buraka Som Sistema “Aqui Para Voces (Mastiksoul Remix)” (Kitsam)
09 Patric La Funk “Xylo (Bingo Players Remix)” (Sneakerz)
10 Tom Sawyer “South American” (Spinnin)
11 The Very Best “Kada Manja (Tim Green Remix)” (Moshi Moshi)
12 Seductive and Rishi Romero “Horns Up” (Made in NL)
13 Riva Starr feat. Noze “I Was Drunk” (Made to Play)
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On 6Blocc‘s remix of Venezuelan producer Pacheko‘s bass-heavy “Lockdown” single, the LA-based veteran DJ/producer stays true to the original, slow-grooving bassline and reverberated percussion—only going so far to drop in the occasional double-time beat and a dancehall vocal sample. Taken from the fourth volume of Seclusiasis’ ongoing Street Bass Anthems series, 6Blocc’s re-work fits well among the record’s other lazer-dub tracks by Starkey and DNAEBeats.
A swirl of dreamy arpeggiated synths and sparse percussion lead us into “BEAD,” a track taken from budding Brooklyn trio Dinowalrus‘ debut album, %. The song’s hazy electronics, bleating vocal attack, and occasional clarinet squawk create the perfect arena in which the band can unleash its tribal/post-punk fusion reminiscent of The Rapture, albeit on a heavy dose of psychedelics and Tangerine Dream records.
