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Another Dance Music Post to help you get your groove on. This week is a monster, a veritable bonanza of styles and genres, so there should be something for absolutely everyone. In our quest to bring you the bestest, freshest, most banging tunes, Midas and I have decided to include a few more streams from now on, but never fear, you’ll still get to download heavy weaponry to set any party off. Enough talking…time for dancing.
Dance Music Post. 20 (.zip)
Our favorite Canadian swag merchant and all round nice guy Lunice let this mellow (by his standards at least) jam go on Twitter last week, and it’s a thing of refined beauty. Carrying on where he left off on the One Hunned EP the track is testament to Lunice’s love of both rap and the UK bass music scene. Combining late night vibes and shuddering bass with crsipy hip-hop percussion this is one to vibe to fo’ sho.
Lunice – “The Good Kids”
Bingo Players have spent the past year cooking up the catchiest of vocal hooks and synth lines. Their newest release sees them experimenting with a harder-edged electro sound that’s one of my picks for a track you’re going to be hearing all festival season, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Bingo Players – “L’Amour”
If you want forward thinking, but you also want ravey, then this is the jam. R&S Records consistently and constantly kills it with their releases across all spectrum’s of electronic music, and this track from Lone, which will be on his Galaxy Gardens EP is just too much. It comes in hard, builds more with some squelchy synth stabs, and just wait until about two minutes in. Off the chain.
When the Madonna x Nicki x M.I.A. collaboration dropped I couldn’t help but be disappointed. I have not L-U-V’d Madonna since “Like A Prayer” and the cheerleader vibe wasn’t really working for me. Laidback Luke, in a consecutive DMP appearance, makes his remix earn that anthemic chorus in a way that Madonna’s original never did.
Madonna – “Give Me All Your Luvin’ (Laidback Luke Remix)”
Just like Lunice up top, Mad Decent signees Flosstradamus (DJs J2k and Autobot) are making some sort of mutant futuristic hip-hop beats, but where Lunice is referencing UK bass msuic, these guys are chopping up trance and electro into what they describe as “post-apocalyptic trap”. Take the sound of Araabmuzik’s Electronic Dream album, pump it full of steroids and pour multicolored paint all over it and you pretty much have Flosstradamus’ free to download three track Total Recall EP. Got no idea what the hell I’m talking about – just listen to the title track below,and download the EP HERE.
Flosstradamus – “Total Recall”
Slava (not to be confused with Salva who we have featured in DMP’s past) is a Brooklyn boy who’s latest EP is being released on Software, a label run by Oneohtrix Point Never, who is known for his textured, soft electronica. While the rest of Slava’s Soft Control EP leans in that direction, the track that he’s decided to give away is more of a straight up house cut. It’s by no means what you’d call a banger, but the gauzy synths build and build to a warm, body swaying crescendo of dancefloor happiness.
Slava – “Files”
Benga’s back, Benga’s back, everyone screaming out Benga’s back. An interesting choice as first release from his forthcoming full length this one, as it is neither aimed at the festivals (it doesn’t have a huge drop) nor the heads (it’s got a pretty poppy melody), instead sitting somewhere in between. But it’s big, and it’s interesting, and I keep replaying it even though there’s no specific part that I love. Must be that magic ‘fro of his.
Felix Cartal is a name who’s been featured here several times, he makes really well-constructed electro. This track’s no exception, with a melodious pinging synth anchoring the track and a big room drop bound to set things off.
Felix Cartal – “Domo”
Knife Party remix? Party time, bro.
Labrinth – “Last Time (Knife Party Remix)”
This coming together of two very buzzy (in the UK at least), previously underground, soon to be big artists delivers big time. Disclosure are a production duo who we featured last week, and they step up again with this remix of Jessie Ware. You might recognize her voice from the vocals Joker and SBTRKT tracks, and now she’s stepping out solo her soulful voice is set to get her a lot of fans. Disclosure highlight the diva-ish side of the song, and put the bounce and the bass into what was already a fantastic song.
R3hab is a name that is, for me, synonymous with really heavy electro-house. This tracks sounds more pulled back and melodious, and an attempt at working with a vocalist. It showcases some more delicate touches, but this was the name responsible for one of the only remixes of “We Found Love” I actually liked, solely through making it as dark and heavy as possible.
Adrian Lux – “Fire (R3hab Remix)”
