Right after this years Rattviksdansen Folklore Festival, most of the keys on Axwells board got lost in an equipment smashing session he did with Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso to warm up for the next show. He hit Sebastian in the head so hard, the whole Casio fell to pieces plus Sebastian lost two of [...]
Scheiße! (quoting Freaky Zekey). How could it take us so long to come up with this one. Couldnt sleep for two nights, asking us where we knew the sample of the new Dipset song from. A techno track.. but which one.. But it turned out to be even better. It’s not just techno, it’s Gabber. Nosferatu, [...]
Dipset reunited for good. First track is out. Scheiße! Cam’ron, Jim Jones and Juelz Santana get together and Salute. Don’t know if the 90ies techno melody is a sample or played Araab Muzik, who produced the track. But as you know, we’re pretty down with 90ies techno, so you [...]
Congrats! DJ Funkstar of Schakkerhart System won the DJ Knock Out contest in ‘t Beest, Netherlands. After being chosen by the grand jury, defeting the four other finalists, he’ll now perform at the Dancetour festival in Goes NL. Also performing are Afrojack, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano,...
The guys from Outhere Records rescently sat down with Kalaf and Conductor from Buraka Som Sistema at a club in Munich. Topics: “Kuduro, Angola, Lisbon and of course Buraka Som Sistema. We found out that Lugandan youth has a drinking problem and learnt that Burkas 3rd album will
Outhere Records from Munich released an Kwaito compilation featuring Dj Mujava of Warp Records, Pastor Mbhobho, L’Vovo Derrango and others: Ayobaness – The Sound of South African House. Guess you remember Township Funk. If you dont, listen to it! If you do, you’ll look forward to Mugwanti/Sgwejegweje on the compilation. Even more important, it’s not [...]
Skippng through ARTES TV program and next to the Donk coverage (see below) we found good old young n sexy Terry Lynn. Hope to here something new from the Jamaican lady in the near future. Until then enjoy the feature. In German, like the last ARTE post. But you might as well just stare at Terry Lynn and listen to tha muzak.
Been some time since we covered Donk. Good news! Its still existing. Why we felt the Blackout Crew? Only because they started rapping on something that sounds like Happy Hardcore while Schakkerhart used to put rap on Gabber back then? Yeah. Something like looking in a mirror...
The Lil Jon / Diplo collab rumoured since a year ago: the little dubstep club attacker called U Don’t Like Me. The two producers talked about collaborating on Twitter last march, than put out videos like the one below and performed their collaboation live. Than some days ago Lil Jons album Crunk Rock hit stores, [...]
Feels like home. Don’t know why they put that under “comedy” on YouTube. And I didnt know that the Netherlands are even more like Ruhrgebiet than I already knew. If you know what Im saying. The New Kidz are famous in the netherlands for some years and now got translated to German. Check them out [...]
Major Lazer released a free mixtape yesterday and today the download is finally working. Diplo and Switch partnered with Electropop duo La Roux for the Lazerproof mixtape, that also features work by Amanda Blank, Gucci Mane, Candi Redd, Rusko, Drake, Opal and Gyptian. Tape consists of remixes and should be fun… In their own words: [...]
News from Diplos “we sign all the top cats” Überlabel Mad Decent. After signing Buraka Som Systema, J-Wow aka Joao from Buraka gives his solo debut on the label: “O Dedo”. Video is done by The Genie and made up by scenes of a german documentary on the Wodaabe people (Herdsmen Of The Sun) from [...]
One guy got injured but Skerrit Bwoy had fun. Me too. On thursday Electronic Beats Cologne took place with appearances by Moderat, Major Lazer, Kele of Bloc Party, Miike Snow, Turboweekend and Little Dragon. We saw the last three shows, Kele, Moderat and Major Lazer. All three ways of playing electronic music live known to [...]
Some more reporting from last weekend:. DJ Funkstar did a road movie on his trip to Schakkerhart System‘s performance in Bochum last weekend. Why the hell did nobody film the party heads?! Praise the lord, we got pics. And a mix to round that one up. Pics: Schakkerhart System @ Bochum Wasted Youth Schakkerhart System [...]
