Exclusive Audio: XXXchange Mix For Red Bull Academy Radio
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Its no secret that this office, or at least a dance-proficient, bespectacled corner of it, runs on energy drinks. And when we say run, we literally mean fuel and refuel like gasoline for a car. Now we’d never go so far as to say energy drinks inspire greatness, but we’re totally into this XXXchange for Red Bull Academy mix we just received, and we have a funny feeling more than a few cans of Red Bull were sacrificed for our booty’s benefit. The set was recorded live at the Sónar Festival in Barcelona and has XXXchange reminding us how we used to love us some Chaka Khan and how we still love a bunch of other stuff. Listen to it below and let it transform your desk into a discotecha.
Exclusive Freeload: Ceci Bastida x XXXChange, “Controlar”
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Just this weekend we were listening to XXXChange’s awesome remix of “L.E.S. Artistes” and thinking that if he made a new wavey electro-pop album, we would almost certainly make it rain on said album. Our wishes are a little closer to being realized with this bodacious, clicky, gongy track “Controlar,” sung en Español by the excellent Tijuana/LA-based vocalist Ceci Bastida, who Mexican punk completists will remember from border revolutionaries Tijuana NO!, and whose voice is refreshingly husky like a summer rainstorm. Our Spanish is reprehensible, but we are still singing the memorable hook around the office, loudly.
Download: Ceci Bastida x XXXChange, “Controlar”
PARTY TIME: The Ace Hotel and Levi’s® Present Desert Gold
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Attention temporary residents of Palm Desert: In addition to the action-packed long weekend of music at Coachella this year, Levi’s® and the Ace Hotel are hosting a three day offsite (and late night) party featuring our dudes and We Make It Good DJs XXXchange, Paul Devro and Pretty Titty on Friday night, doing an all day thing on Saturday with a listening party for Sonic Youth’s new album and performances by the Cave Singers and Northwest/”SoCal Desert” bands, and concluding the whole shebang on Sunday with more jammy jams with bands from Portland and Joshua Tree. Check the full flyer after the jump and RSVP here.
Freeload: East Village Radio 10/31
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Last Friday on The Let Out (our weekly show on East Village Radio, made possible by Dewars), XXXChange came in to play a set of Halloween music while kids trick-or-treated at the studio. Listen live to East Village Radio this and every following Friday from 6-8pm EST, and check the tracklist after the jump.
-Stream the 10/31 edition of “The Let Out” here.
-Download the mp3 for free directly here (right-click and save-as.)
-Add the show to your favorite podcasts by pasting this URL into your preferred podcast software: http://www.eastvillageradio.com/podcasts/2008/68.xml
The Let Out: Halloween Featuring XXXChange
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This week on The Let Out, our weekly East Village Radio show (made possible by Dewars) XXXChange will be coming in for a SPOOKY set, and if he doesn’t play “Monster Mash” at least once we’re going to play it five times in a row. Just kidding! Four times. You can listen live at eastvillageradio.com from 6-8 EST, and if you miss it, you can always grab the podcast afterwards.
NYC: FADER 57 Issue Release Party
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Since last spring we’ve been spending a lot of time at Heathers. So much time, in fact, that we were already there when our FADER 57 issue release party showed up on Wednesday. F57 Gen-Fer XXXChange DJ’d while everyone drank complimentary Bass Ale. At some point we looked around and noticed that we were surrounded by friends and family (actual blood relatives not included), and by 10pm XXXChange’s set was over, everyone was admiring the photo essays in the issue and FADER contributing editor T. Cole Rachel was rounding out the night with Fleetwood Mac on the speakers. We can’t complain.
Live: XXXchange At The Original Penguin Store
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One of the questions we ask ourselves on a daily basis is: What is it like to listen to awesome music while you drink and look at clothes? Now that we can answer that question, we will tell you that it is excellent to do all those things together. While we mingled with a weirdly large number of people in v-neck sweaters at the Original Penguin store we drank Southern Comfort, Hoegaarden, Stella and Becks (so many choices!) and listened to XXXchange play Prince’s “Erotic City” in addition to a lot of music we wouldn’t complain about hearing in any situation, let alone one with free booze and clothes offered at a discount.
NYC: Original Penguin Store With XXXchange
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Tonight at the Original Penguin store in New York (1077 Avenue of the Americas), you can officially take part in three of our favorite activities all at once: buying discounted clothing, drinking (responsibly) and listening to music. From 7-9pm, XXXchange will be spinning records, complimentary Southern Comfort will be flowing, and all full price merchandise will be 25% off. RSVP here, and check the full flyer after the jump.
Freeload: XXXchange’s We Make It Good Mix
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We’re all about change, and if that means that the next in the so far so awesome We Make It Good series is an all soundtrack mix from Alex XXXchange, then we’re cool with it. Hightlights: soundtrack mainstays/possible musical heroes of Studio,Tangerine Dream’s “Love on a Real Train” blending seamlessly into the London Symphony Orchestra’s reprise of The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter.” Who knew that even existed? And after listening to Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” followed by Vangelis’ “Blush Response,” we’re going to have to make some calls and get Peter Gabriel in the studio with Vangelis to record the album we never knew we wanted.
Download: XXXchange’s We Make It Good Mix
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posted on Jul 30, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, experimental, freeload, rock, XXXChange
Freeload: Daedelus f. Michael Johnson, “Make It So (XXXchange Remix)”
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We put Daedelus and his excellent muttonchops in FADER 43 as part of our Electrocuted Los Angeles feature, and he has a new record coming out called Love To Make Music To which is running shit up in our iTunes today. He also produced that TI$A Obama song that is suddenly everywhere and fortunately we just got this XXXchange remix in the mail to pass along to you. The original with Michael Johnson of Holopaw fame is a jammer in and of itself, but XXXchange takes it from space-disco to handclap house with some subtle tweaks. Dude is on a streak with the weird remixes of late with this, the “Comfy In Nautica” jawn and Santi’s “LES Artistes”. He also did an exclusive remix of this cup of coffee we’re drinking and it OFF THE CHAIN SON.
Download: Daedelus f. Michael Johnson, “Make It So (XXXchange Remix)”
