Jan
Look at Me Now {Prod. by Diplo & Afrojack} KID CEDEK REMIX by Kid Cedek
@kidcedek presents…
EXCLUSIVE - Another ATL home grown banger with some big time rappers on it. Cedek continues to hone his style. To download click the arrow above in the soundcloud player.
Aug
Make You Pop (Don Diablo Dubstep Mix)
Diplo & Don Diablo / Make You Pop (Don Diablo Dubstep Mix) / DOWNLOAD
This one is blowing up blogworld so I had to jump on the train and post it cause it is good. Two dance heavyweights coming together to make a track, Diplo has been the king of collabo’s as of late. He needs to drop his own dubstep & dutch house album or that’s just what I would like to see from Diplo. Below I have also posted the original mix both at 320 so grab it if you don’t already have this one.
BONUS HEAVY ELECTRO TRACK
Diplo & Don Diablo /// Make You Pop /// click to download
for more DON DIABLO related posts/trax click here to browse the archives
for more DIPLO related posts/trax/videos click here to browse the archives
Aug
BONUS TRAXXX / DUTCH HOUSE MUSIC EDITION
This is the section where I post a group of tracks by theme that I can’t fit into my daily posts. July’s edition was FLUX PAVILLION check it out HERE. Before that also in July was my massive greatest hits of IDM check that HERE. This month the Freak Beat features the genre of DUTCH HOUSE, a section of house music that has been blowing up as of late.
The best way to describe it is hard fast and often high pitched frantic breakdowns after the build up. I don’t have too much to say about these individual tracks except they are all good and work on the dance floor in any set. Many DJ’S have incorporated the dutch house sound most notible Diplo. This selection is meant as an introduction with the heavy hitters represented so download and enjoy - DUTCH HOUSE.
1. Afrojack / Polkadots 2010 (Oliver Twizt remix) / CLICK TO DOWNLOAD
2. Afrojack / Bangduck / CLICK TO DOWNLOAD
3. Chuckie / Moombah (Afrojack remix) / CLICK TO DOWNLOAD
4. Carl Tricks / Shup / click to DOWNLOAD
5. Lucky Charmes / Rastafari / click to DOWNLOAD
6. Erick Black / Sucker Punch / click to DOWNLOAD
7. Billy the Klit / Bad boy / click to DOWNLOAD
8. Bassjackers / Clifton / click to DOWNLOAD
9. Asino / Wack Ass Motherfucker / click to DOWNLOAD
10. EQ-Lazer / Beat of Feat (Delirium) / click to DOWNLOAD
shouts to my peoples in the Netherlands…
Jun
Music Video from Baltimore’s own RYE RYE backed by Diplo, Blaqstarr, and M.I.A her next album should blow her up.RYE RYE “WITCH DOCTOR”
Dec
Major Lazer ft. Nina Sky & Ricky Blaze – “Keep It Goin’ Louder”
This video is bizarre definitely some lo-fi Chris Cunningham going on here, but I love anything Mad Decent as they are the most innovative label around.
Download the above banging track here (I think this is the diplo remix version)
Dec
Diplo & Laidback Luke - Hey! (Foamo Remix) / DOWNLOAD HERE
This song is an older track has been a hit in club’s and mixes in blogland. I had not heard the Foamo remix and it is ILL. I start my first normal job (non freelance) tomorrow times are tough and blogging ain’t making me any money yet. My personal Internet brand has gone bankrupt but I am rich in spirit and will bounce back financial soon. I have learned many lessons this fall mainly open you mail and pick up your phone two essentials of life I had abhorred. Time to get back to real work and start paying bills instead of running from them. The new me. »»>
Aug
Rob Base x Rampage - It Takes Two (Black Dominoes Blend)
This is the first teaser track from out new label PHOENIX RECORDS and it’s from one of our new fresh to death artist’s BLACK DOMINOES have a listen and read more about him in the interview below. Look for his debut album in the fall and go see him live at the ESPERANZA show with B.O.B coming soon in ATL….
Black Dominoes puts in work…
Kellen Crosby aka the music producer/recorder/remixer/DJ ‘Black Dominoes’ has been in Atlanta since the age of five-
his mother lives in north Atlanta and his father lives in Cabbagetown.
He’s done gigs with Klever, Flosstradamus, Diplo, and many others, and is currently working on a bevy of originals and remixes
for future release. You can catch him recording tunes in his bedroom and kicking it with the 4th Ward Heroes
at their studio on John Wesley Dobbs…and riding his bike all over town. He just designed a bunch of T-shirts for ATL
peoples ESPERANZA (www.esperanza-atl.com.)
He only stepped behind the decks and started messing with music for the first time a year and a half ago, but his first remix
(of Vampire Weekend’s ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa’) rose from the internet
to gain spins on BBC Radio 1 and NPR in the States.
His second remix (of Fleet Foxes’ ‘White Winter Hymnal’) was reviewed
by Rolling Stone.
His latest remix is for the Boston band Passion Pit’s single ‘The Reeling,’
recorded with a mixture of analog and digital sounds in Atlanta’s 4th Ward.
ZONE3 caught up with him at Octane for a minute to ask him about how he got caught up into all this.
Kellen aka b.dominoes
“It was weird, man. I studied political science and philosophy in undergrad but I hated law school.
What happened was I was out in LA with like no money and no car for a year. On weekends i ended up always taking this train
into the middle of the city and crashing at my baby brother’s place on Cahuenga.”
“I would basically just ride my bike around town and see what I could get into. I would go to the Smell, which was kind of like
what the Eyedrum is here—a small nonprofit arty spot for weird noise bands. I would go see the L.A. Philharmonic by myself and then
ride over there or go scam my way into some swanky club.”
“Then Daft Punk played at Coachella. Before that every DJ in LA was playing mash-ups and hip-hop.
After that, Steve (Aoki) and Frankie (Chan, of iheartcomix) started doing all-electronic DJ sets and it got really popular.”
“I found out I hated law school and I wasnt good at it. I moved back to Atlanta and was doing construction 2 years ago when I saw Diplo DJ
at the Drunken Unicorn. I had been a record collector for a minute and Bean from Lennys had asked me to start coming in on Saturdays and spinning.”
“I had never DJ’d before and surely I sucked, but I didn’t care. It was fun and it kind of grew from there.”
“Now i’ve done over 100 gigs—-but I still have a lot to learn.”
“The last couple months I’ve really been into recording original stuff and doing remixes and stuff. I’ve been running stuff by a lot of people
I know that know what they’re doing—guys like Billy (Captain Crunk) and Adam Trimble and Bradley O, who are the two best sound engineer dudes I know.”
“Now I’m excited that people all over the world are dowloading stuff that I made here. I’m really interested to see where all this goes.”
above photo by Chris Merkle aka the Midnight Socialite
Jul
The FREAKBEAT – INTERNATIONAL DJ INTERVIEW SERIES
Episode one KAPTAIN CADILLAC (France)
I am proud to present the first in a series of interviews with some of my favorite international dj’s (and I am open to submissions or suggestions as long as the dj is progressive and fresh). I met Kaptain Cadillac over the internet and he is a beast of a dj. Check his myspace below for many free mixes and check the Freaky Mix below he made especially for this interview. (the following interview was translated from French)
Z3: Please introduce yourself and tell us where you’re from and what you represent?
KC: Yo ! I’m Kaptain Cadillac, I’m a 23 years old Parisian, DJ/Producer/graphic designer, and member of the Booty Call Crew. Big defender of ghetto music’s, especially booty-bass, NOLA bounce and juke which I play under the name of Leatherface with the collective Nightmare Juke Squad. Regarding my aka “KC”, I wanted one which sticks to the kind of music I play and let’s be honest, Kaptain Cadillac or Kap Cap sounds wicked cool ha ha !
Z3: Growing up in France what were your early musical influences?
KC: I started playing as a dj in a local band when I was in high school, and then, step by step, I’ve moved to funk music, house and electro, and finally discovered ghetto-tech which was my first contact with the actual version of bass music.
That was a revelation! The power that electronic music can have on the dance floor mixed with the energy of the Hip-Hop immediately attracted me.
Z3: When did you first start production/making tracks or remix’s? What was the first track you made? What did you use to make it?
KC: I started in about 2001 by doing some additional work on FL for the HH band I used to play with. The way I used to play has changed since the time I started, the way I used the computer is changing too. Since 2 years things really start moving thanks to Myspace which is how I first met people who share my passion, like Marvy Da Pimp, Freeze DBH and DJ Kesmo which are the actual members of the Booty Call Crew.
Z3: Describe your equipment setup for your live shows and in the studio?
KC: I first started to play vinyl so what I thought would be the closest way to reproduce the technique is Serato Scratch Live. It offers you so many choices and possibilities (including stopping breaking you shoulder by carrying your flight case all around!) In studios I’m using FL Studio and Ableton Live with many plugins
Z3: How were you introduced to Juke ,Bmore,&Ghettotech? Please tell about influential classic records for you in the genre’s.
KC: I discovered ghetto tech with releases on vinyl, so I started to get into it a bit closer.
What had the effect of a punch was listening to Godfather Chronicles very first time ! It became for me like a Bible of ghetto tech. I then discovered juke from Chicago, bmore club and Nola bounce. Internet is so fascinating for all the music it allows you to discover and also artists that are not signed on any majors. That was still impossible 10 years ago !
Z3: What does booty shake mean to you?
KC: A magic dance … hypnotical !
FB: What is so unique about French dance music? Please describe the club scene as you see it in France.
KC:The power of French producers is to manage to bring fresh air in old kinds of music we all know. Clubbing artists and producers represent a pretty big movement here in France, especially in Paris where you find all the styles like techno fidget house, electro, dubstep, hiphop etc … At the moment the buzz is around mixing different styles, with a big effervescence particularly for the crossover HipHop & electronic dance music.
Z3: What is your favorite club/venue in France?
KC: Social Club and that, for several reasons. First because this is where we are dj residents with the BC party every month (by the past we have booked Diplo, DJ Funk, DJ Godfather, Sinden and Gantman for the next BC the june 26th). The second reason is the line up of the club. I reckon the program are always interesting and innovative, with quality and not necessarily facility. Now there is a lot of clubs in Paris, it s only up to you to pick up the right party to go to !
Z3: Who do you want to work with who you have not yet?
KC: Well actually I’d love to work with Mc’s from New Orleans or any MC who can rock ghetto beats. The NO MC’s have such a huge energy, it s impressive.
Z3: What releases can we look forward to? And where can we buy them?
KC: We have the booty call ep vol 1, 2, 3 on Databass, with tracks of each member of the booty call crew (Marvy Da Pimp, Freeze DBH, DJ Kesmo & me), with ghetto tech tracks. I also have 3 EP under my darkside aka, Leatherface, available on Juke Trax records. A track of Marvy & me is on the Top Billin’s Sexy Time 12’.
at the moment we are working our own label, booty call records, designed for bass music, with a first EP 100% booty house. stay tuned !
Z3: Where in France are the most beautiful women located?
KC: Well, actually they are everywhere, you just need to look closer cause they are discreet. France is full of pretty girls !
FB: For an American in France what are some of the best places to pick-up French women?
KC: Definitely in Night clubs, where music drives them out of control & wild !
Z3: How are the strip-club’s in France?
KC:Damn ! But I’ve never been in a strip club ! Strip clubs here are not like your guys, where it can be entertaining with good music … In fact it s pretty bogus here. It’s the kind of place you go with your mates before getting married, or very expensive and luxurious clubs not that funny …
Z3: Do you think the American-France beef will ever end?
KC: Clever people don’t have any interest in this stupid feud.
Z3: Where do you see yourself in the pantheon of the history of dance music?
KC: Well, attending the number of good artists Pantheon will probably be totally packed any time soon, and anyway I would prefer to be a butler or a jetter in a club !
Z3: Do you have any shout-out’s? Please list all your links you want people to see.
KC: Shout out to all the booty call family, be trash fam’, drugstore, clone x, la MJC, and thanks to Gaëlle and all my supporters.
Kevin Evanno - Kaptain Cadillac
http://myspace.com/kaptaincadillac
Mar
FAVELA ON BLAST TRAILER
This is a film Diplo has been working on, I believe he did the soundtrack and more, if you are in SXSW check it out here.About
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