Record Makers & French duo Acid Washed are proud to announce the release of their eponymous 12″ with remixes from The Hacker, Mickey Moonlight, DANGER, Daniel Haaksman, Digikid84, Lazy Flow, Jungle Fiction and Stuff.
Since the release of their debut album in March, Acid Washed’s luscious disco has steadily gained admirers from all corners of the globe. From Cannes to New York, Berlin to London with fashion designer Jenny Packham, their reputation as DJs and live performers is growing. Their collaboration with British designer Anthony Burrill has provided hypnotic visuals, accompanying them wherever they go on this non-stop tour.
The time has now come for Record Makers to release their signature track, Acid Washed. The euphoric finale to every live set has undergone the deluxe remix treatment from the very best in established and upcoming producers.
The Hacker, long-time Miss Kittin collaborator and old friend of Acid Washed, shows why he is universally held in high regard. His minimal adjustments have maximum impact, a massive horn rising out of this sublime effort. Man Recordings supremo, Daniel Haaksman, adds a touch of funk mondial to the original, resulting in a slow-burning tropical house re-rub. Harpsichords float over eerie, space electro as DANGER cements his reputation as the dark horse of the French electronic scene with a future classic.
Mickey Moonlight took time out from finishing his debut album to contribute, Ed Banger’s finest pushing the highs and lows of the original into a swirling, summery mix. The hell-raising Young Gunz crew turn up with two of their finest, Digikid84 and Lazy Flow demonstrating why the party never stops when they are around. Icelandic teenagers, Jungle Fiction, serve notice of their undoubted potential with a sensational slice of French-house. Wrapping up proceedings with a dark disco cut is Stuff, a Grenoble based producer signed to Space Factory Records.
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Snapcrack saw the light of day in early 2010 when two longtime friends decided to combine their talents and their destinies. They had been performing together since 2004, playing essentially live sets at free parties.
Today they yearn for new musical horizons.
Snapcrack is a shared venture in creating a new style inspired by electro, hip hop, drum ‘n’ bass, rock and many other influences!
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A favorite among the blog-house crowd, Religion sends us a nice discohousey track they have just completed, along with a remix they did a while ago for Ninjasonik
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Oh Land is a peculiar new cinematic electropop Dane who recently sailed across the sea to the artistic haven of Brooklyn, NY. With an opera singer for a mother, a theater organist for a father and Björk’s Homogenic on constant rotation, Oh Land was enraptured by the combination of experimental and classical arts. “My goal is to sound like I’m from 2050, but still feel really classic, like the music is an old friend,” said Oh Land. She spent her days pirouetting as a ballet dancer at the Danish Royal Ballet Academy when an injury forced her to reinvent herself and discover her true talent and passion as a musician. Oh Land soon released her first album, Fauna, which garnered critical acclaim in her homeland of Denmark. Her soundscapes are lavish, crunchy, symphonic, brute and captivated with rhythms that fly apart. She translates the sounds live via her “contraption” – a homemade one-woman-band music box topped with balloon video projections (seeing is believing). Her music is for movement and new songs such as the thumping “Sun of a Gun” and euphoric “White Nights” have proven to make even the most portentous get up and dance. Having been discovered by Epic Records at 2009’s SXSW, she is currently putting the finishing touches on her US debut album and an EP to be released this fall. In anticipation for that release Oh Land also has a great run of remixes for her first single ‘Sun of a Gun’.
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Today brings some super filtery disco sweepy house music from La Zebra. The weather is so damn nice here and I just want to move my desk outside and work with the bugs.
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Since their official debut in January, it’s been hard keeping up with the flurry of releases from Chicago party-throwers Midnight Conspiracy these past few months. Their latest remix, a synth-heavy italo take on Crystal Castles’ “Vietnam” reached the #2 spot on Hype Machine’s most popular charts in it’s first week of release, making it the 4th time they’ve reached the #2 spot on Hype Machine, and their 5th time in the Top 5. The song joins the ever-growing list of Midnight Conspiracy’s other successful offerings, including a dreamy dubstep re-imagining of Esser’s pop anthem “Headlock”, which was featured on BBC Radio 1 on the Kissy Sell Out Show, a spacey update of Crystal Castles’ classic “Crimewave”, which was released in support of the band’s new album and HARD Summer Tour, and Midnight Conspiracy’s first release, an italo-electro version of Chromeo’s “Night By Night”.
Co-conspirators Graham Geren, Louis Kha, and Mikul Wing don’t intend to slow down any time soon; Straight off their first official “Dead Fame” Tour this past summer, and following up performances at SXSW in Austin and WMC in Miami, Midnight Conspiracy will bring their dirty electro rock on the road again this fall touring with Innerpartysystem. Not limited to just beats, they also boast a clothing line, and Midnight Conspiracy street art can be found in cities along their tour route. They’re set to release heavier official remixes of Shinichi Osawa, Editors, Innerpartysystem, Crookers and fellow Chicagoan Gemini Club.
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While it isn’t my favorite piece of work from Tiga, it does shadow my mood of today. I just want to go back to my bed and fall asleep to this.
In celebration of the Planet Turbo today show at London’s LED Festival, we are giving away an exclusive download of Tiga’s Remix of “Shelter” by The XX.
The track is a dubby, Basic Channel-inspired reassembling of one of Tiga’s favorite bands. Be warned that you’ll have this song stuck in your head for weeks of wild afternoons.
“There’s just something special about making out in London, your mouth bursting with toffee and emotion, that ugly ferris wheel thing looming in the distance…This remix is a love letter to British Romance, from the heart of a Canadian Revolutionary.”
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Lil Jon is a pretty cool dude. Cool enough to trick the population of the United States into making him a multimillionaire by only saying the words ‘YEAH!’ and ‘WUT?!’
That’s cool in my book. Easy money.
I don’t know much about 3OH!3 except that the last video of theirs that I came across is super gay. Oh, and apparently tween girls really really like them. High five to them for that one.
DJ Kue has had a few tracks on this blog before. He made it so that if any of you are DJs and throw this track in your set then one of a few things could possibly happen…
1. People will respect your knowledge of current top40 music and appreciate that you are playing this song by popular artists that they know of as well. Those bros don’t want to hear ‘techno’ all night, you know.
2. Teenage girls will know the song and sing along while dancing thus amplifying their fun and pleasure while noticing you were responsible for playing a song that they know and maybe currently love until another popular artist releases their new track that is suddenly more cool than this one. The teenage girls in response to your playing of this track will remember you and instant crush status will happen upon your soul. Through your set you will be their dream man. Their personal DJ. Your love will interconnect through the music that you play. Then the next DJ comes on and you’re on the curb. Sorry.
3. Your friends, and probably also DJs as well, will laugh at you because you are playing Lil Jon featuring 3OH!3. Sorry about that as well. You can respond that you don’t like Lil Jon or 3OH!3 but you respect DJ Kue’s remixing abilities and if it weren’t for that you never would have played the song. Plus the girls like it. It’s all about the girls.
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We posted a Figure remix the other day that he did for HOSTAGE. It was my personal favorite of the bunch and I was glad this morning to see an email from him with his new EP. Go get it on Beatport now! It includes remixes from Hostage, Udachi & the Noise Floor Crew!
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AC Slater has just released his newest mixtape to the information superhighway. We’ve also got his remix of the Crookers single Cooler Couleur featuring the always wonderful Yelle doing some guest vocals.
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