Pretty Lights - Hot Like Sauce

My favorite Pretty Lights track. Glitch (Hop) is creepin into your ear from all angles.

The Glitch Mob & La Roux - In For The Kill (The Glitch Mob Mashup)

This mashup of Glitch Mob's "Bad Wings" and La Roux's "In For The Kill" sounds like it was meant to go together. They make a nice sounding team.

Geeneus & Zinc - Emotions (Feat. Nikki Benoit)

Brilliant tune by Geeneus & Zinc. Nice mixture of the UK Funky beat with the muted trumpets, subtle beat variations and silky smooth vocals from Nikki Benoit.

Mr. Scruff - Get A Move On (Doorly Remix) [HQ]

The classic dance floor hit "Get A Move On" by Mr. Scruff gets a sped up/bassed up facelift by Doorly.

Shock Osugi feat Jasmine Joplin - Deeper (Bleepolar Remix)

I know nothing of Shock Osugi but I found this remix by looking up Bleepolar on youtube. I was surprised to find Bleepolar (who I am familiar with hearing produce cumbia based music/remixes) doing a remix of this more techno sounding track called "Deeper" (I also found another remix of Deeper by Phillip O which is solid too). Neither remix is quite UK Funky fresh but they do both have sort of a UK sound to them so I thought I would post to continue the theme of UK Funky I was posting a few weeks ago.

Crackle Wizard - Flanger Mouth

I had to post this minimal flanger-fest by Crackle Wizard. Ambient, minimal soundscape with a hint of d&b.

Amon Tobin - Deo

I was just playing this Amon Tobin track the other day and a friend of mine asked who it was and commented that it sounded like DJ Shadow. I can see why she would think that but it had never occurred to me before. I imagine the majority of people who like DJ Shadow have never heard of Amon Tobin and that is a real shame. Though I do like DJ Shadow, my ears tend to like Amon Tobin more than DJ Shadow and I think that might be the case for many if they only had the chance to hear him. My disclaimer here is that it is commonly said that Amon Tobin's tracks often take multiple listens to burrow deep into your brains pleasure zone. I agree with that, there is a certain patience required of the listener that is not there with DJ Shadow. His music, in particular, has grown on me at a different pace than almost all other artists but the appreciation level is right there with any other artist I enjoy. It is interesting how there are different paths of musical appreciation to your brains pleasure zone. For many, these alternative paths have been long neglected, are now overgrown with weeds and guarded by ugly, popular culture looking trolls.

Sabo & Cassady - "La Negra Chula"

To round out the Cinco De Mayo celebration here is another Latin club banger by Sabo & Cassady.

Mastiksoul - El Macho (Original Mix)

Hyper Latin Electro for all your ass bouncing needs.

Alex Kenji - Tropical Chicks go like dis(Moombahton)

And here is some Moombahton for Cinco De Mayo as well. It is a little known fact that Cinco De Mayo is celebrated in America more than anywhere else so I thought I should post something American with clear Latin influences. Moombahton is just that type of music.

Frente Cumbiero - Pitchito

In honor of Cinco De Mayo he is an out of this world Cumbia by Frente Cumbiero (featuring R2D2?) called "Pitchito".

Dj Cam - London 1995 [Live]

DJ Cam produces mainly jazzy hip hop, trip hop and downtempo but the man has been known to get wicked on some drum & bass as well. I like how he drops the beat out of the bottom at 2:08 and it briefly takes on the sound of a 90s trip hop song only to ramp back up to d&b with some beautiful, jazzy keys creeping in. This is off his first album, underground vibes, from 1995.

Giorgio Moroder ♫ Chase (theme from Midnight Express)

Great electronic song or greatest electronic song? Giorgio Moroder turned 71 a few days ago so to honor him I am posting his epic track from the movie Midnight Express. I found a 12" of The Chase, from 1978, in a collection of dusty, discarded records a few years back, stared at it for a while moon-eyed and then quickly gave it a new home. Though this man was producing disco at the time, his work was so innovative that he ended up sort of signaling the end of disco music and beginning of things to come. His innovative work with synthesizers during the 1970s influenced New Wave, house, techno and electronic music in general. Here is a video of him in his studio and here is my favorite version of Blondie's "Call Me" (I found a 45 of this at a thrift store and discovered, moon-eyed again, that he produced this for Blondie on the B side) which he remixed with a pounding electronic beat way before it was ever cool to do. Even though he has produced and remixed many tracks, none have ever come close to the timeless sounds of "The Chase". With this track alone he solidified himself as a legend in electronic music.

Roska - Elevated Level (Kingdom edit ft. Brandy)

Another quality Kingdom edit, this one aimed at the dance floor. He didn't do too much to the original Roska beat, which is great alone, but adding the Brandy vocal chop where he did is brilliant.

Kingdom - If You Buck

Here is Kingdom's "If You Buck". It seems like an instrumental remix of "Keep It Rollin" by Kid Ink but isn't labeled as a remix.

WIN WIN - Interleave (Kingdom Remix) | HD

I really like the production flowing from the mind of Kingdom. The guy can seemingly remix anything into his own sound. This remix of Win Win's "Invterleave" has been in heavy rotation in my world lately.