If you have some time to spare from your worker-bee-type lives, have a sit down and open your ear-waxed aural auditoriums to Hardwell's live set at Sensation Innerspace, in Dane country. It would be better if there was video to accompany. Yet it would be even better if we were all there in Denmark. Or if Hardwell could over here and play his live set for every one of us, a door-to-door DJ. That's ambition.
Here's a preview of Guau's remix of Lightshapers & Critical's Punchline. I'm currently scribing this while on the freeway, going a mild 10 mph...wait, 13 mph. I am amazed how advanced technology has come. Before there was only the Zach Morris phones and dub step was only an experiment in London. In twenty years, what will phones do? What will be the sound of future electronic music?
Another vacation has passed and it's time to reset. A perfect track for the occasion is the Turbofunk remix of Reset!'s hot creation called Don't Let the System Control You. What sticks out is the frequency of the synth used, perhaps a lower-mid type. It's a frequency you don't hear much, therefore it sounds more pleasing to the ears. Next time you put on your headphones or turn on your Pandora channel in the car, listen to the frequency of the synth used for songs. Check to see what level the artist uses. Are they pleasing? Why might they be pleasing?
Not gonna lie. Myndset's recent mixes and remixes have been stuck in my head. As well as his trademark alien astronaut neato helmet. Below is his most recent mix full of electro bangers and dancefloor smashers. Click Play.
It takes less effort to describe visual matters rather than to describe aural matters. You tell an individual about a video you recently viewed and you want to describe, with vivid detail, on what happened in the video and you want the listeners to imagine, effortlessly, your descriptions. 'This huge, mouth-foaming Mastiff was violently sucked, head first, into a lightning-encrusted, neon-green vortex and a minute later, the Mastiff came out of the other side of the vortex with its body inside-out. It wasn't nasty, but NOSTY!'
Then a new song comes out and you want to describe how amazing this new song sounds. At this point, effort must be initiated because in our culture, we are naive on describing sounds. 'It sounds nice.' 'It sounds like Owl Vision a little but not really.' New assignment, World (me included). Let's learn to better describe the sounds we like, so we may easily share it with others without having to say, 'You just had to be there.' 'I'm not going to sing it for you.'
When you've attached a HOT song to a NICE PIECE of video, it's difficult to imagine alternative visuals to the SEXY, mind-singeing sights you've already experienced. I've come out of the Melanie-Iglesias-stalker closet and am revealing my true feelings towards her--wait...I mean--this hot and heavy mix created by Grand Staff is a sure pastor blaster. Grand Staff is calling this none-too-intimate track If This Is A Dream. A track mighty appropriate as 'tis featured on the 3-month young Melanie Iglesias Flip Book video, numero uno. Once again, to enjoy most efficiently, watch a few times (nine times ought to suffice) and then look away and listen.
Now, back to recluse into Melanie's closet. Smells like spicy vanilla in here.
'Where have I heard that song?' 'Dude, I know that one, it's from...' 'It's on the tip of my tongue, I'm about to say it...it's...' It's FROM THE FLIP BOOK VIDEO. 'Oh, yeah! I remember now. Such a great song, bruh. Oh, ya, and the girl in it is mmmkay.' That's right friends, Grand Staff is featured in the infamous, viral, yet healthy for the eyeballs (males especially, some girls may apply), Melanie Iglesias Flip Book videos. If you've yet to experience this visual journey of sexy and jealousy, I recommend YouTube'ing it. Watch it once for visuals, then watch it twice for visuals. When you've reached your ninth click, press play and put some effort into turning away from the screen and listen. But I'll bet you a buffalo nickel you'll be imagining the previous images you've witnessed as you process Party Til 9AM.
Many people grew up in the 90s disliking the rock group known as Korn (sorry, could't turn the 'R' backwards). Yet the band was a hot and loaded musical weapon with loyal fanatics, and they did sell out arenas. Korn returns to be an accomplice with the duo, the dark dubbed DJ known as Skrillex, and kruel and kollected Kill The Noise. They feature this new surreal sorry-we're-closed-because-we're-in-the-back-brewing-troll-teeth-and-eye-of-newt-in-our-boiling-potion of an original mix screaming, Narcissistic Cannibal.
Through Steve Aoki's record label, Dim Mak Records, Mustard Pimp's debut album, No Title or Purpose, comes out on October 25. I pick City Kids as my favorite track on the album with its fierce energy of synth melodies and I foresee this to become a popular track produced through the speakers of many Halloween parties coming soon. It will be tough to remix this song, all you silly-goose remixers out there, as it is already sounding hump de bump enough.
At a local theater, a DJ commits to breaking the world record for performing the longest DJ set. In reality, it's difficult to truly give the credit of a DJ performing 150 straight hours without having to comply with the natural human body functions. Thus once you leave, the set is over. But the records officials allow the breaks. Perhaps it would be a bigger feat, more memorable even, to accomplish these world records with physical restraint of controlling the bodily functions as long as possible. Then wasting your useless life doing these acts would mean so much more to yourself, and that girl over there.
So while this DJ does his 15-minute feat, other more brilliant individuals, like Mord Fustang, will be making better use of their times creating artistic genius and providing entertainment as we, the listening crowd out there, struggle with our everyday lives of making something out of ourselves.
If you're a Tiesto fanatic, who has the whole set of Tiesto t-shirts, and listens to nothing but Tiesto, then, click your heels Tiesto times and you'll appear at the Home Depot Center in Carson, just south of the LA haze. There you'll be watching Tiesto and more Tiesto, plus a bonus of Tiesto. Then during your Tiesto recess, you can go visit other stages to watch Diplo, Dada Life & Porter Robinson. But be wary of the whistle because, you only get a small amount of recess and then it's back for more Tiesto. Warning, this is only a Tiesto!
A month has passed and I have noticed by friend growing pale. I asked him about it. It turns out he has been working at night, sleeping through day. In the afternoon he awakens, then he works on his second job, via computer, in his room, blinding the sunshine with black curtains. Then it's back to the night job. Thus, his skin has been lacking the sun's shine and he's turning into Casper the Grumpy Ghost. That must be unhealthy, correct?
What are the chances of the city of Los Angeles having a rave at the Sepulveda Dam? Los Angeles has held raves in a variety of venues around town that seem like average settings, but having the event at this familiar location would be ideal. If you can't put your thumb on it, the Dam has been featured in many music videos, commercials and movies. I can imagine a sea of colored background lighting and glittered throughout the area are search lights. Imagine being a part of a crowd of thousands of people, fist pumping, feet shuffling to artists like Pretty Lights.
Sometimes it's not necessary to remix a song. When you come across a Skrillex track, you come across a sense of spicy insanity. Once it's up to that heat level, I'm not sure a remix could make it even spicier. So all you remixers out there in the grid, you should just throw away that ProTools or Logic file and move on to something else. Fire bad, original good.
From Red Bull Records, I present to you Innerpartysystem. This up-n-comer emits the edges of Justice and Duran Duran to create an electro house album called Never Be Content, featuring this thumping track, Not Getting Any Better.
Some individuals live life too seriously, especially those at the workplace. At least they put forth some effort to burn calories, in which it takes more effort to frown than it is to smile. Of course I can burn calories from holding up a remote control so that the coffee table doesn't obstruct the line-of-sight signal in order to proceed with a fluid motion of channel surfing. So what I'm not saying, but really trying to say is that those sourpuss-co-workers should stop whatever it is they are doing and Drop It Like It's Mogg.
