Psytastic - Astrix + Protoculture

A quick dose of pure hedonism for you on this Sunday evening. Nothing quite matches the sheer power of Psy-Trance when it comes to electronic music or music for that fact. The force of the sounds is something to behold. Add a mega kilowatt sound rig three stories high and you have what is known loosely as an outdoor trance party. Things creatures are the fruit of mankind's endeavour to create the ultimate entertainment experience and I am happy to report that we have really perfected the art.

The key ingridient is without doubt the music, with its pulsating energy, it takes on a whole new meaning and almost becomes a living breathing 'thing'! Ok before I space myself right out here... have a sample of some of the more commercial variety of this wide and varied genre. These are two of the global scenes stalwarts, one from the Mecca of Psy Israel and the other hailing from the sunny shores of South Africa. Both are masters of their trade and can make noises come out of a computer that you wouldnt believe could.


Impala - Protoculture + Astrix

Stylissimo!! - Vincenzo

A man I have been watching very closely since I heard his The Resident release on the seminal Dessous label, always one to watch, is the Italian stallion Vincenzo. He has such a groovy rhythmic sound that seems to capture the perfect balance between deep, disco, and tech. It is like a wonderfully classic cocktail, it looks good, it has style, and it will get you drunk.

This is a more melodic track of his, I would suggest checking all of the out on Beatport etc. especially his mix of Audio Soul Project and The Resident, but this track is no less him in its sound, so jacking and grooving (said that already!) it just hooks you in.

The Return Of The Sha - Vincenzo

Kicking It Disco Style - Fred Falke

I just cant get enough of this French cat. The man is dripping with cool, he slides uphill he is so smooth. If I could throw a party budget no concern this guy would play in the line up for sure. He just captures such a cool groove, something always quite unique. He is not afraid of churning out a dance floor track or a smooth laid back number like this one, whatever the flavour he kills it.

This is a great recent track of his which in my mind really captures his style in a nutshell, pop music but not the kind we hear on the radio, this is french pop, it has soul and funk and a faint whiff of eighties cheese to it that gives it the edge that it has. Vive Le Falke!

Back To Stay - Fred Falke

From the Vault - Sweat

I cant resist one more. This is being hauled out from deep in the vault of club classics, f&*k the rest this is the best.

Sweat - John Tejada

Huggtronicly Affected - Hugg & Pepp

Saving the best for last here on this Sunday night session. This track just jumped out at me on Beatport recently albeit the Jori Hulkonnen remix version, but this mix by Henrik B, a none less experienced player, is just as emotive. This track is far more dancefloor orientated, in fact it is totally dancefloor orientated, than the other, but it keeps the cool uplifting vibe going, with the slightly haunting essence of the other mix still there. A good track for the 4am crowd...ie me!

Sweet Rosie(Henrik B Mix) - Hugg & Pepp

Travelling Without Moving - Dusty Kid

Here is a very cool little track by the always leftfield producer Dusty Kid. His style is and has been since I first heard him on Desyn Masiello Balance compilation eclectic. Ranging from hard techno with an industrial edge to the chilled out Cowboys and then to this little heart wrencher of a song. What is so admirable of him is how effortlessly he flows between the styles without even blinking and with each track sounding so differnt from the next, it seems he might be 'suffering' from a glorius case of schizophrenia! We love it whatever it may be.

Nemur(Wall of Guitars) - Dusty Kid

......Just so you can see what I am talking about check him out here. No more f*$king around people.

Here Comes The Techno(Extended Mix) - Dusty Kid

Clubs - James Harcourt

A song for the night clubs. This guy has been churning out the bombs for a good while now, tracks like Call & Response, Moob, Wires to name a couple, each of them brings something rude and tasty to the table and this track is no exception.

Neutron - James Harcourt

Electronic Soul - John Tejada / Gui Boratto

I couldn't believe it when I first saw this track, these two total legends teaming up? It seemed too good to be true for a minute. But then you play it and the magic starts to unfold, slowly through the jacking loop of the hi hat and percussion comes the warm fuzzy familiar Boratto synth with just enough distortion on to tweak the vibe.

Then just when you get lulled into that techno bliss that Boratto is so good at, Tejada drops the jacking old skool loop style rhythm to give it that distinct state-side feel. Too good indeed.

Take My Breath Away(John Tejada Mix) - Gui Boratto

Deep Side Of The Force - Jimpster

It gives me great pleasure to present to you now one of the true artists of the medium of electronic music, the Jimpster AKA Jamie Odell. He is the part owner of the dynamic Freerange Records label. A man who knows how to produce a truly complete track in every sense.

His music is as infectious as it is perennial, his tracks just get better and better with age, something that is very rare in todays world of disposable rhythms and poptastic rubbish. He has an uncanny ability to create a hook in a track that will have you humming and whistling it for days. He has remixed some of the greats of house including but not withstanding Blue Six, Marc Romboy, Joris Voorn, Motorcitysoul, Sandy Rivera, Charles Webster and the list literally is endless.

His label Freerange is a purveyor of fine deep and tech house to the decerning ear, with artists such as Milton Jackson, Spirit Catcher, Manuel Tur, Shur I Kan to name a minute few, it also is the platform for his own stellar deep tech productions under the Jimpster alias or the more club orientated Audiomontage moniker. Whatever he seems to touch turns to deep music bliss.

Rhythm Track(Jimpster Mix) - Milton Jackson

The Deep(Jimpster Mix) - Joris Voorn

Shogun(Jimpster remix) - Mark Knight / Funkagenda

Hot Mix - Metric + MSTRKRFT

Back to the sound du jour for a little while - indie dance. Too much tech maddness going down here.

Here are two of my favourites teaming up to bring you a soulful, seductive and atmospheric tune. A little slice of the good stuff, specially for the dance floor.

Monster Hospital(MSTRKRFT Mix) - Metric

Techno - Kyle Geiger

Since we are on a bit of a techno tip here we may as well go all the way and do it proper. Here is a release from an artist who I will be watching eagerly for more from. A very very slick release full to the brim with quality late night (early morning) techno in the style of the greats. The haunting synths and massive kick with the bass wrapping tightly around it.


Ode To The Elders EP - Kyle Geiger

Faki-ng 'Ell - Dustin Zahn / Len Faki

Ok, lets just back down to business here. If you have had a browse through the other posts here you would have come across a gentleman by the name of Len Faki with his track Death By House. Well just in case you were still alive he has teamed up with Dustin Zahn for this absolute monolith of a track.

It is an eleven minute aural torture chamber, real old skool big room sounds, jcked with a bassline that drills into the airwaves with the same amount of finesse as the machine that drilled the channel tunnel. The build up is apocalyptic, the if that wasnt enough it drops into the sickest break beat section that will mummify even the most seasoned.

Brace for impact!

Stranger to (stability)(Len Faki Remix) - Dustin Zahn

Tech Style - Eric Prydz

Here are a couple of Mr Prydz recent tracks both with a distinct melodic tech vibe. The first one is a dancefloor wrecker of note, the perfect warm up track about 15 mins into things, bound to get the feet moving.

On Off - Cirez D

The second track is true Pryda, bubbly bassline with the slightly eighties percussion and the unmistakable synth loops. Satisfaction guaranteed!

Aflon - Pryda

Electro Del Sol - Jaytech

I have my favourites. My go to tracks. The ones that take a stock standard moment and turn it into a beautiful slice of life. tracks that drench the airwaves with soul and feeling, tracks that make electronic music what it is to me.

I have to say that many of these tracks come from the man Jaytech. I hadnt been keeping up with him for a while and having gone back to see what he is up to of late I have to say that he is definitely progressing forward in a way that is totally right for his style. Always uplifting, never obvious in the way he captures the vibe.

Here are some of his more recent tracks, enjoy.

Delta(Original Mix) - Jaytech

Delta(PROFF Mix) - Jaytech

Wannabe - Jaytech

Sunrise(Jaytech Remix) - Boom Jinx & Oliver Smith

Sale Now On! - Discount Rhinos

When in doubt, do as the name says. This is one for the clubs. Kinda reminds me of the great Freak & Mac Zimms who tore the late 90's apart with their own brand of twisted disco electro thing.

This is what they would sound like now, but dont take nothing away from the Rhinos, they have put a killer together here.

Pills & Champagne - Discount Rhinos

Bang Bang - Tiesto

I can never work out if I am a Tiesto fan or not? I have seen him live and it was epic, I have listened to some of his In Search Of Sunrise mix albums and hated the wimped out mush that he is playing, then I have heard his mix Live In Amsterdam by Muzik and it is interplanetary. I just dont know...

Then along comes this track and he once again blows the roof off. A sensory overload that we love so much. It is a rocket of a track, and definitely a step in the right direction in my opinion for the bro. Keep on doin that thing.

Louder Than Boom(Extended Mix) - Tiesto

Summer Track - Outline / Dousk

Here is a little uplifting gem that I am digging out of the box from a few years back, very catchy little riff formed by some very nicely frayed electro synths. A simple track but it does what it set out to do - get you rocking.

Point You(Dousk & Eskay Mix) - Outline

Warp beats - Ramon Tapia

The boys is back! after a long hiatus brought about by a serious lack of internet connection. Lets get started....

First up a new sick little puppy from the tormented disco mind of Mr Ramon Tapia.

The hook is the humming bassline that sways too and fro like your head at 4am after a night of heavy entertainment.

Very spooky and very nice.

Whats Next? - Ramon Tapia

All Night Long - Thomas Schumacher

Favourite track of the moment, had it for a while but only gave it a good listen this weekend, and what a mistake I have been making by not pumping it. It comes from one of the stalwarts of the electronic scene of the last six years or so, the German supremo T. Schumacher. Always fresh and always super high quality his productions set the bar for others to follow on many levels. He has dabbled in electro, indie stuff and of course house, where this absolute gem belongs.

For those who may be new to good music, even to those of us who have heard it all, sit back and appreciate the depth of the funk that he drums up here, this is a small dark club track that is guarenteed to get you moving, the composition is flawless house music.


Pichana - Thomas Schumacher

Get A Dictionary - Deadmau5

Ah, the mouse. He is one sick individual tell me something we dont already know.

This is a very cheeky little offering from him, with some of his usual elements but stripped down into a bouncing dub grroooove machine, set to stun y'all.

How many words are there in the good ol dictionary for ill????

Word Problems - Deadmau5

The Wulf - Wolfgang Gartner

Just a quicky, an electro quicky from the enigmatic Mr. Gartner.

The best thing for me about this number is the laid back BPM, the beat jacking with the electro synths whirling through the air. Good 12pm track for the peeps, say three tequilas down and another on order.......

The break is suitably hypontic for me. The drop rather massive.

Hear this.

Me & Myself(Wolfgang Gartner Mix) - BenDJ

hypnotica - Bansi Riktam

For an avid fan of anything Psy like myself I of course love it when producers give us music with the kinda power of Psy trance packed into indoor types of grooves that are designed to take the roof of the clubs that they are dumb/smart enough to be played in, they are sound system destroyers par excellance, and here is one such gem. I know that it is top of the beatport chart wa wa wa wa whatever the bottomline is this......listen(extrmemly loud if you have the capacity)

Green Space - Bansi Riktam

Green World - Koen Groeneveld

Whoa, been a while since I was at this familiar little known purveyor of everything fine and everything sick. Sorry guys and girls been trying my hand at a few other things and having a huge blast in the process but back to the rhythms please.

posts might be a bit sporadic going forward until I get myself hooked into a mainline of fast internet, still pending.

Check out this totally rude piece of sequencing if you dont mind. The very talented big room tech maestro Koen Groeneveld on the mix here and boy oh boy does he lay it down.

Uno(Koen Groeneveld Mix) - Alex Young

And as if that wasnt enough here is his remix of the huge The Off World by Noir

The Off World(K. Groeneveld Mix) - Noir

Man At Work - Harry 'Choo Choo' Romero

What a guy. HCCR sums up the emergence of the House music scene in the States and mainstream worldwide. He was there when the sound exploded out in the '90's, has remixed for all the big pop stars including Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, P. Diddy, the list goes on. He is now at the forefront of the new House sound once again, being one of the first in the MOS tight Sessions compilations, he has his own label and a string of pumping residencies around the globe.

Here is a selection of some of his more recent work. The collaboration with the great Jose Nunez (another House master) is a simply sublime piece of peak time stomping grinding grooved out slickness that forces your feet to move.

Then there is his recent remix of the Dahlback modern classic, he does such a sweet treatment to the original, taking it firmly into the new sounds of today and eradicating any of the tired electro elements, making it into a bending tech looping thang!

Next is another of his collaborations this time he gives us his take on a beefed up minimal style track, with his trademark infectious groove.

Lastly is his take on the truly classic Hardrive track, a nice commercial rework with a pounding beat.

Respect.

John Dahlback - Everywhere(R. Romero Mix)

Jose Nunez / Harry Romero - Lifting Me High 

Harry 'Choo Choo' Romero / Juan Diaz - Dentro

Hardrive - Deep Inside(HCCR Mix)

Harry Romero Myspace / read more about this soul brother, he knows....

Double D - David Durango

Deep house techno bizniz going on now. This cat has a cool little history behind him, not to mention the ability to create some very deep and atmospheric tracks. This is one of his more recent albums, it seems he is onto a god thing getting put out on great labels such as Dessous and Poker Flat to name a few.

This album is about after hours introspective stuff, it strips the groove right down and pumps it full of soul with some reggae drums crackling in at times on the deep Human. Striptease is an instant classic and is the perfect track for those early evening sun down sessions or even an early morning ease you into the day thing. 

Japanese Revenge has also been released on Systematic and is a more traditional deep house sound. 

Striptease EP - David Durango

Next up is his track Bubble World which is a lovely little tech house number that keeps his upbeat atmosphere from the previous EP going with some great hypnotic synth action.

Bubble World - David Durango

Gin & Tronic - Psycatron

These guys are bad! They were behind the simply massive Little Mountain Records release that featured on Sander Klienenberg's This is 2 album titled 7th Morning. 

They hail from the Celtic Isle, a place renowned for its music not to mention the peoples ability to drink and generally be merry. This track is a well merry one! Fresh of their Location Unknown EP on the Rekluse label its the wonderfully named Ravejuice. 

Tribal tech madness through and through with a swarming breakdown that will send any d-floor into a mess. The looping tribal percussion hooks you straight away too, watch out!!!

Ravejuice - Psycatron

Diving under the influence - Sascha Dive / Nekes

Epic track from two tech / deep house pundits. Nekes is rocking on the Oslo label keeping it very tight and Sascha Dive is known for his supper deep swinging groove. Here the two team up to bring us something uber cool. Enjoy!

Cristal(Sascha Dive Mix) - Nekes

Psy-House / Hideo Kobayashi

If you scroll down and find the post on Steve Lawler re: his track Carnivali mixed by the legend Gabriel Ananda you will find a slice of pure psycadelic house music, pumping rhythm, driving bass and snares and a totally mind shifting psycadelic force throughout, without a doubt one of my fav tracks of the last five years.

Anyway this post is not about that track! But another that follows neatly on in the vibe of that one. This time its from the enigmatic Hideo Kobayashi. The track is a melodic dream that loops and sings to you over a bumping house bass riff, the timing is totally psycadelic, dropping in and breaking down at slightly off times, the groove is perfectly interspersed with reverbed snares and there is a guitar riff that flows throughout that is mesmerising. フルパワー! 

Hanabi - Hideo Kobayashi 

Hideo myspace / Great tunes here!!

Into the abyss - John Tejada

I first got into this guy when he appeared on a Satoshi Tommie (Legend) album called ES-B try and get it. His sound just hooked me in straight away, so techy and so housey (tech-house perhaps???doh) but of the very highest order. His latest album is Fractals and each track is a sonic excursion into the mind of a truly great producer. He catches the same energy of the early US tech producers juan Atkins , Derrick May, Joey Beltram and I very much see him following on their strong tradition of soul-full techno. Check it out, especially Better Days & The Open, two of my favs.

Fractals EP - John Tejada

Fan run myspace with plenty info & music.

Sick - Boys Noize / CJ Bolland

Who remembers Sugar Is Sweeter the Armand Van Helden mix back in like '98 by this guy CJ Bolland??? Anyway, who cares now cause this track makes that sound like a nursery rhyme! This is a little slice of the artist presently known as Boys Noize, record boss, producer, dj manic. This is the new shit.

Horsepower(Boys Noize Mix) - CJ Bolland