Happy Valentine's Day....The best part about today is that Mad Decent (Diplo's label) released Luvstep 2. It is an epic follow-up to the original which was released this summer. It's got 34 songs with music from Flux Pavilion, Skream, Starkey and many more. The best description of it is on the Mad Decent website: "Luvstep 2 is the sound of electronic gruv glide inside lazer guided lullabies. It's a return to innocence through experience, best expressed with headphones or in bedrooms. It's melody for the mess we're in - the love, the lust, the loss, the lies, the light & the life!"
The mix is 76 minutes of all of the loving wompiness you need for a ravey Valentine's--So blast it and feel the love.
So, there's a ton of epic music and news surrounding Pretty Lights that I've meaning to write about for a bit, so here we go.
UNRELEASED 2010 REMIXES
Last week, Pretty Lights released a mixtape "Unreleased 2010 Remixes" that is unbelievably amazing. First song one the mixtape is a remix of the classic Chicago Bulls introduction music which turns it into quite the raver and it is the perfect way to start off the mix. Next is a trippy remix of Pink Floyd's "Time" that when it hits, will put you into another world. As soon as the drop hits you'll know what I'm talking about. Also on the tape, is a remix of All of The Lights, Empire State of Mind, and Steve Miller Band's Fly Like An Eagle. Like all Pretty Lights music its all free and you can download it at prettylightsmusic.com.
In late January, Pretty Lights announced the creation of their own record label. This is extremely exciting news because there is definitely not enough quality, chill and trippy electronic music out there and Pretty Lights music will certainly deliver some awesome music. I also really like their philosophy of supplying all of the music free. I think that in the future all music will be free and all artists will make their money by performing live. So far there are three releases on the record label and each one of them are awesome in their own unique way.
BREAK SCIENCE
Further Than Our Eyes Can See
Break Science has some really chill, dub influenced trip hop that is awesome to sit back and listen to its jazzy grooves. He has a few rapper cameos including one from Talib Kweli. Break Science is probably my favorite artist on PLM so far.
Michael Menert sounds most closely to Pretty Lights of any of these other artists except that he is more influenced by random Eastern European music and very chill-jazzy. Its pretty legit stuff.
The Black Eyed Peas’ latest album, “The Beginning,” sheds the political sermonizingof its predecessor, “The E.N.D.,” in favorof a let’s-party hedonism. How would you describe its sound?
It’s electro. Electro is today’s disco — making electronic musicnot for the sake of selling it but for sharingit and touring around the world D.J.-ing. A friend of mine says that nightlife represents the greatest waste of human energy inthe history of mankind.
Your friend probably doesn’t go to clubs. Right now in the world, clubbing is needed. It’s a time when people want to rub shoulders against people theydon’t know and share, even if the sharing is expressing your like over a beat. O.K., but clubbing seems to invite a lot of drinking and drug use.
So do restaurants. I could go to a restaurant and get drunk. I could go to a restaurant and eat all the wrong food and get freaking diabetes and high cholesterol.
Here's a mashup I've been working on during my daily train commute into NYC. It's not completely done yet, but its getting there. Check it out and let me know what you think so far! Let me know of any fixes you think it needs.
Yo! It's been a minute since I blogged last, I've certaintly been busy and haven't really found much material worth blogging about. But, now I'm back to give you the good, bad, and ugly of 2011 so far.
The Good: Skream & Example- Shot Yourself in The Foot Again.
This song is unsurprisingly epic- of course the pairing of British hip hop star Example and dubstep heavyweight Skream is going to end in positive things. I heard that there is more material to come from these two.
The Bad: Drake- Let's Call It Off
Ok, this song isn't the worst, but when compared to the Peter, Bjorn, and John original it is quite a bastardization. Worse yet, is the blog Trials and Tribulations calling Drake an indie rapper. Really?
This is probably one of the best Britney Spears song ever, but it is a sad day for dubstep. The word on the street is that Britney's producers enlisted the help of some high profile dubsteppers including Rusko to make some beats for her new album. Of course, most of the material they made didn't make it on the album and the result is a 20 second dubsteppish moment. The reason why this is such a lascivious disaster is because it is the beginning of the complete mainstreaming of dubstep and subsequent downfall. Although it was always inevitable, it is certainly cause to weep.
