Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team, “Loud Whisper of the Northern Wind” Mix
- story Peter Macia
Let’s say you were up until 6am last night/this morning and right about now your will to live is at Defcon 5. You’ve had gallons of coffee, slapped yourself in the face a bunch and started seeing weird glowing dots everywhere you look. You should probably lay down and regroup for a while before trying to do anything, but then the Teki and Orgasmic come through with the newest mix for their ever-excellent dance label, Sound Pellegrino, packed with gooey bubbles of hyperactive jams. It shouldn’t change the fact that you’re so tired you want to puke, but these dudes got the power of Greyskull in their shit, or at least the power to squeeze that last drop of Lohan out of your exhausted ass. Check SPTT in Rennes, France, on November 14th and the whole Sound Pellegrino crew at The Egg in London on December 18th. Tracklist after the jump.
Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team, “Loud Whisper Of The Northern Wind” Mix (via Discobelle
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posted on Nov 11, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags DJ Orgasmic, electronic/dance, mixes, Sound Pellegrino, Teki Latex
Mixed Up Monday: Air France & Cold Cave
- story Peter Macia
It was a long and brain-damaging Halloween weekend even for those of us who dared to dress up as ourselves, so this morning, while we pick up the pieces, we are listening to these two mixes made by a couple recent favorites: Air France, who we met in Gothenburg last year, and Cold Cave, who we recently met right here in New York City. Actually, we aren’t listening to anything other than the hum of building right now, but judging by the tracklists, these things are great!
Warmer Climes Mixtape #55 by Air France
FACT Mix #97: Cold Cave
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posted on Nov 2, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Air France, Cold Cave, electronic/dance, mixes, recovery
Hudson Mohawke Exclusive FADER Mix + Q+A
- story Matthew Schnipper
Hudson Mohawke didn’t want to give a tracklist for this exclusive FADER mix, perhaps because he didn’t want us to know the contents of the inside of his mind. Beatboxing, grime, new jack swing, glitchy stuff with big bass, futuristic R&B all make up parts of the mix, just like they do his music. Mohawke’s debut album Butter was just released and it’s a doozy, steady beat-based but completely manic with extra flairs zesting every track. The man has an eye for detail. If you haven’t yet checked out his music, download this killer primer he made of Butter and then check out his mix below. You should also check out his video game, Butterstar Galactica,” where you get to be a piece of butter. After the jump, we checked in with young Hudson about dream states, R&B hopes and weed.
Download: Hudson Mohawke FADER Mix
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posted on Oct 29, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC, MUSIC INTERVIEWS tags electronic/dance, Hudson Mohawke, mixes, r&b
Fever Ray Halloween RA Podcast
- story Peter Macia
If your only options for a Halloween costume at this point are Balloon Boy, some visual representation of Kanye interrupting something or Carles, please get off the internet (after you’re done reading a bunch of posts here). We have a few recommendations. First, as a friend recently said, “I’m sexy every day of the year—Halloween is my chance to be ugly,” so forget the Sexy [fill in the blank] and turn yourself into a walking Swine Flu booger or enormous pair of saggy boobs. Option two, Hobo You: basically just you but wearing all the stuff at the bottom of the closet. Carry a knapsack and look eager for work because hobos are not bums. Someone might even offer you a job! Number three, fat cat. And finally, follow Fever Ray’s lead, dress normally (if not a little more stylishly) but act so fucking creepy that it actually makes people not want to be alone with you. Some of you are already really good at this so maybe just paint a spider web on your face or something. To prep and inspire, go grab the newest Resident Advisor podcast, helmed by Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer Andersson and her touring bandmates.
Download: Fever Ray Halloween RA Podcast
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posted on Oct 26, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, experimental, Fever Ray, Halloween, mixes, Resident Advisor
Memory Tapes, “Walk Me Home” Halloween Mix MP3
The trajectory that led Memory Tapes to rhythmic and mystical mind music clearly made a stop at the shaded shade of darkwave and brooding quarter-goth. On “Walk Me Home,” a Halloween mix made for Arawa, the art of the creepy toy piano melds faces with the darkest synths, and eerily teases out the creepiness of Italo disco. We think for the duration of October we are going to rechristen Memory Tapes as “Ghost Whisperer.”
Download: Memory Tapes, “Walk Me Home”
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posted on Oct 20, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, Ghost Whisperer, Memory Tapes, mixes, new wave
DJ Mehdi’s Black Black & Black Remix Mix
- story Peter Macia
FADER favorite DJ Mehdi has a new compilation coming out on November 2nd filled with many fellow Frenchies and a few familiar regular people. To get everyone hyped for the cosmopolitan electro pop on that, Mehdi made this mix of his remixes of a bunch of classic rap and an Uffie song. See how that works? It’s like an alternate dimension. Download below and see the tracklist on Coolcats.
Download: DJ Mehdi’s Black Black & Black Remix Mix (via A Silent Flute)
Spoek Mathambo, H.I.V.I.P: United States of Ayobaness Mix
- story Peter Macia
Someday we’ll hire Spoek of Sweat.X as a full-time bringer of good things into your lives, but until then, it’s all just jacking stuff from his blog, which hopefully at least some of you have now bookmarked as it’s constantly filled with brand new club jams from Africa by guys like the amazing What What, Cleo et al. What’s great about Spoek’s periodic H.I.V.I.P. mixes is that he always mixes these ungoogleable songs with stuff we already love but aren’t used to hearing next to South African house or what have you, like Dam Funk’s remix of Red’s unbelievable one-man anthem “I Should Tell Your Momma On You,” which closes out this edition right out of What What’s intensely bubbly “Dreams.”
Download: Spoek Mathambo, H.I.V.I.P: United States of Ayobaness Mix zshare / mediafire
Freeload: 60 Minutes of Madness With Mattie Safer
- story THE FADER
Now that the Dow is below 1997 levels, we can all pretend that The Rapture is still a year away from forming, five years from releasing “House of Jealous Lovers,” six from the Echoes LP that the world slept on, and twelve whole years from yesterday when we asked the band’s Mattie Safer what he was up to and he said, “just busy writing.” Why did we ask and why would we want to erase the last decade? Because Safer’s recent mix for the Ed Banger Presents show on Le Mouv reminded us of the gaping hole in the dance universe left by The Rapture’s relative absence over the last couple of years. So maybe we just want to erase the last two years, but this mix is so good we’re hyperbolizing all over the place. < -- BEST SENTENCE EVER!!!!! Anyway, Mattie has killed it, as we say, and will be doing the same at WMC in Miami later this month while representing his Throne of Blood imprint. He is also jokingly “available for parties, weddings and bar mitzvahs” but probably only until we get back to the year 2000. Tracklist after the jump.
Download: 60 Minutes of Madness With Mattie Safer
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posted on Mar 3, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, freeload, Mattie Safer, mixes, The Rapture, Throne of Blood
Freeload: WMIG x The FADER Present the We Make it Good Mix Series v. 7: CROOKERS
- story THE FADER
Some people believe in aliens, we at the FADER believe in an endless proliferation of amazing music that sprouts forth from a secret delicate wellspring in various woods across the globe. We are pretty sure we know which of us is right. Case in point: Chapter 7 in the ongoing mix series from We Make it Good, this time, for the first time, co-presented by us! It’s an irrefutable mix of outré spazzing dance music and the occasional funky break tempered by the hot buzz of sax-synths. We would expect nothing less from Crookers’ Bot and Phra, our absolute favorite Milano party jammers. Download and get the tracklist at the link below, check the previous six mixes at We Make It Good and stay peeping for Volume 8 coming soon enough.
Download: We Make It Good Mix Series v. 7: Crookers
Freeload: Harmonic 313 Mix
- story THE FADER
You know a new day is dawning when beards trade in their Vetiver albums for dubstep radio rips and stuff like Flying Lotus. Harmonic 313 aka Sydney, Australia’s Mark Pritchard whipped up this mix to promote his new When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence LP coming out March 3rd on Warp, and it will certainly sate that same crowd with a bunch of pan-heavy, sloppy vibery. After getting over the Donkey Kong insanity that starts it off we fully settled into the crater in the FADER couch and zoned out for a solid two hours. Then we got fired. Then we got rehired at a lower salary. But hey at least we have the music! Check for Harmonic 313 at Deviation with BBC1 Xtra’s Benji B the day after his album drops, play a video game on his website to get an unreleased track, and check the mix’s tracklist after the jump.
Download: Harmonic 313 Mix
