Celebrate good times indeed. The ever ambitious Gun Club party folk have announced their one-year birthday is a redux of one of the top nights in our fair Bay Area last year: JD Twitch & Tim Sweeney are comin' back. February 24th. Location unknown so far. All-nighter.

If you haven't already, do your self a favor and listen to Twitch and Wilkes' BBC Essential Mix from a few months ago for a supreme example of what this dude is capable of.

Optimo Essential Mix

Three Songs (Two Of Which Are Crunk & B Remixes) Making Me Wish I Were Dancing In London Town, Accompanied By Photographs Apropos Of Nothing

P. Diddy - Tell Me (Switch Remix)

Voodoo Chilli - Look What You've Done To Me


Missy Elliot - We Run This (Duke Dumont Remix)

Mr. Teki Back

Teki Latex of TTC fame has a solo album coming out (on Virgin France, no less) backed by some promising remixes on the singles, one of which I have for you below. In this shot dude looks like a honky Heavy D. or a euro-fied Patton Oswalt, I can't make up my mind. Up-and-coming Parisian producer Surkin - who with the rest of the Institubes crew is still un-just-ly lurking in the shadow of Ed Banger - does well to turn the smarmy smooth groove quotient of the original into some filter-house monster stomping alongside a stuttering bobble-head.

Teki Latex - Les Matins De Paris (Surkin Remix)

Also of note is Surkin's appearance on Orgaga's mixtape for the Alors Les Filles, On Fête Noël? party that happened in Paris. He actually swipes the bottom end of "Da Funk" for the second half of this remix, updating it with 21st-century electro-house tempo and the attendant grittiness you might expect. Sorry but it's in mixed form....

Para One - Midnight Swim (Surkin Remix)

If you enjoy these tracks please, please buy this stuff (and other French badness) at Arcade Mode, s'il vous plaît!

Enthusiasm

Round up of a few stellar recent tracks - big ole' long ones. The elusive Serafin emerges from hibernation with his leisurely take on Butt-Rich's newest. The Mole modernizes and modulates a disco classic. Superpitcher learns how to play a recorder. And Quiet Village takes you home deep & dubby.

Martin Buttrich - Well Done (Serafin Remix)

The Mole - Jingover

Superpitcher - Lick The Pipe

Grandadbob - Pictures (Quiet Village Dub)

Bleeda Frum Da Eah

Another Modeselektor release is upon us, although if you saw them at all in live mode last year it is one you will instantly recall. Figuring prominently in these raved about sets amidst broken techno & chunky hip-hop was their own potent concoction: mutant dancehall. From Tigerbeat6's Jamaican-minded imprint Shockout:

Modeselektor - Weed Wid Da Macka feat. Ninjaman
mp3 from zShare

And this one from their BPitch Control album "Hello Mom!" is in the same vein, if you know what I'm sayin':

Modeselektor - Silikon feat. Sasha Perera
mp3 from zShare

A Number of Names - Sharevari

merci beaucoup Pierre pour ce vidéo!

Don't Call It A DJ Tool

I love everything this guy has touched so far, so imagine my pleasant surprise when he gets tipped to remix The Rapture. I was a bit skeptical listening to the first two minutes of layered building, although it remains true to his bleepy, grindin' production ethos. About 2:15 in he drops the bass for a moment and proceeds to some deft vocal cut-up shit that totally destroys your spatial awareness in the best way possible. Get your yourself a nice pair of headphones and try listening in a crowded cafe while the insaneness happens, then find yourself looking around to gauge somebody else's reaction and realizing you are all alone with respects to this nasty bit of tunage. Oh, and the Simian Mobile Disco mix of same track is worth checking out too.

The Rapture - W.A.Y.U.H. (Claude VonStroke Pantydropper Vocal Mix)
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About the only other track from Mr. Dirtybird that I haven't seen licensed to a Fabric comp or in some mega dj's top ten is this bouncy buzzin' monster which probably missed greater recognition due to its initial appearance in an Om Records compilation. It deserves to be heard.

Andy Caldwell - Warrior (Claude VonStroke Sharp Toof Mix)
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If you are in San Francisco and your night isn't already full with Thomas Fehlmann & Gudrun Gut go check out the whole Dirtybird crew at the Mezzanine for a mere 5 bones. Although I am getting tired of finding myself at Mezzanine damn near weekly instead of some more sordid, intimate locale you got to admit they are stepping up the booking game for the whole city with a few choice nights looming ahead these next months.... Carl Craig/ Lindstrom, Switch, Ed Bangers Night!

And while I am big upping SF parties, tomorrow night is the second [Kontrol] night at The End Up with Dan Bell & Matt Dear performing live as Audion. The first one was really a treat because the system is one giant notch above where these type of nights usually find themselves (sorry Rx, BOCA, Dark Room, et al.). Don't miss this one.

Better Bastard

Amusing mashups are still a dime a dozen but I want to highlight two of the best I heard this last year. (Aside: Is that term "mashup" even accurate/valid anymore? Bootie is still using the term to bring more folks into the fray, but I like the embracement of "bastard pop" to describe what was formerly "bootlegs" or "mashups". This seems even more appealing when used to describe increasingly sophisticated attempts to re-wire the circuitry of the pop machine, 'specially when you start to think of Girl Talk and five hundred other similar folk probably lurking on myspace. And when I say sophisticated I just mean something that isn't Song A + Song B = Song C. Anyways on to the tracks.)



Justin Timberlake - My Love (Diplo Remix) : jt vs lcd soundsystem
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Cassie - Me & U (Siik Remix) : cassie vs ratatat
mp3 from siik.org

(Check out siik's site for other choice cuts - his Amerie remix is another sign of brilliance- the dude is one p-fork track review away from blowing up.)









....and if you're still interested here's another that was oddly hilarious combined with my enthusiasm for the original.

Fedde Le Floyd - Put Your Hands Up For The Wall : flg vs pink floyd
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