Yo DJ Pump This Party!

Yeah, Mish's gone and cracked the NowNow pics pages. Whatever next?

Clearly I'm not up to the task (if you look closely I'm out of shot to the left. What you can't see me? Yes, thought not). Anyway, the t.shirt alone deserved the kudos. Pump this party indeed.

So I've downloaded a free RIP program from the web and I'm (somewhat) off and running. My entire CD collection is my Oyster, so let's get busy.

First up is a somewhat oldie, but still a goodie. I'm posting it because it reminds me of night's out in London. And right now I'm missing old ye London quite a bit.

Download Vitalic MyFriend Dario.

You can grab his remix of Bjork's 'Who is It' at Disco Not Disco and Nialler 9. Be quick though, Bloggers code of ethics says they won't be there long.

Saturday night we went and checked out Low Budget at Bar Broadway courteousy of the Ro Sham Bo dudes (literally actually, thanks Ryan!).

The flyer/ poster says it all. Wicked tunes. Mad Fun. Mishmillionaire even stole her Dad's car so we could go. Proper hoodlum styles.

This Friday is A Trak @ The Basement in Sydney.

Personally I'm looking forward to seeing what he does on Serato Scratch, especially given he won the World DMCS at the age of fifteen. Props.

Whilst probably more well known right now for being Kanye's Tour DJ, a little known fact for y'all - A-Trak is the younger brother of David Macklovitch, the guitarist and lead singer of the synth-pop duo Chromeo.

So, in keeping with last week's earlier Bonde theme, feel free to download A Trak's remix of Bonde Do Role's 'Melo Da Tabaco' here. Even better though, steal yo Dad's car on Friday and come check him out at the Basement.

Word-Up!

So.. I'm kinda trapped at home after a vehicular-malfunction, thus missing the boat for a roadtrip to da'Gong (see LJ-post for details).. I thought I'd kick things off by giving a bit of an understanding about some of the things that I might drop in the future. (MY understandings, anyhow. If there are corrections or things that I should know, please feel free to hit me up!)

CRUNK
Codename for being completely belted (stoned/drunk.. chronic/drunk).. but also a type of music. Hip-hop-esque stuff originating from the South (of the U.S.Aiiight), so it has a lot of influences from the ghettotech/booty-miami bass thing. Lots of drums and fat basslines. Jyeh. Known a bit more as an 'Eastside' thing.. as I guess the 'Westside' has their Bay-area/Hyphy thing going on. Notables being people like Lil' Jon (and his Crunk Juice. Sue drank from his cup!), Three 6 Mafia, Ciara, Ying Yang Twins...

HYPHY
Pretty similar to Crunk.. but things like Wikipedia tell me its not. I guess the more 'up-beatness' is associated with ecstacy use. Whatevz. But we're talkin hawt tunes by the likes of Keak Da Sneak, Turf Talk, E40, The Federation... Even DJ Shadow got on this bandwagon.

BAILE FUNK
aka Favela Funk
Not the funk as most of us know at all! Think Rio, think Carnivale, drums, booty-bass type thing.. with people singing/rhyming/screaming in Portugese. Diplo (and his Mad Decent label), Bonde Do Role (and other "Bonde" groups). Diplo was involved with M.I.A's 'Piracy Funds Terrorism vol.1' which basically bootlegged/remixed most of her tracks from her 'Arular' album. I was thinking Cansei De Ser Sexy (CSS) should fit in this too (my vote being coz they're brazillian), but Dayna thinks they're more indie-pop.

BOOTY BASS
aka Miami Bass, Ghetto tech, Bmore
As you might already guess, the different names are just for different areas.
Miami = Florida, duh. Ghetto tech = Detroit. So chuck in some techno/electro. Bmore = Baltimore! The Good stuff. DJ Godfather (Milkbar Nick supported him @ Questacon. Haha!), DJ Assault, SpankRock, Low Budget (half of Hollertronix.. the other half being Diplo), Aaron LaCrate...

I could keep on keepin on. But thanks for reading thus far. I'll get to posting some examples soon hopefully.. or yous all have Google, so go look for some yoselves. Bitches.

But as a present, I'll leave you with something from the new Amy Winehouse album Back to Black. I realise its a bit contradictory to all thats written above, but thats why I like it. See? I'm varied. I'm eclectic. Her first album, Frank, was released in the UK when I was there a couple of years ago. I thought it was naff coz my boss loved it. But this album has the Mark Ronson touch. (You'll be hearing HEAPS more about him). "What kind of fuckery is this? You made me miss the Slick Rick Gig.." Sing it, GF.

Amy Winehouse - Me and Mr Jones (Fuckery)

Mizzishwah All Up In Dis Hizzouse

Hello People (especially all you cool LJ'erz)

Dayna has given me access to her little Blogger so I can post stuff about razzle-dazzle new tunes thats my flava-flav right now.

So keep an eye in.. get your rave on.. coz this shitz about to get heavy. We go'on be doing thangs. THANGs.

Now I just gotta convince her to change the layout. (Teehee)

(Ps. Apologies.. I dont know why it spews up all the old posts in the LJ Friends Page.. I'll get my IT skillz on dis)

MY SUMMER DREAM...

His album 'Lucky Boy' drops late this October and the few tracks I've heard so far have been really on point.

Mish & I went and checked him out at Spectrum in Sydney the other night. It was one of those awful nights; windy, cold, raining. Generally the type best spent indoors on the couch.

So there we were, all snuggled up on respective couches in our own houses and we were like "maaaan, we can't miss this gig" so we dragged ourself up & out into the cold, because we knew we'd kick ourselves if we missed the opportunity to hear him rock it like we knew he would!!

Stellar gig. His eclectic style of crunk, rock, hip hop & bmore style tunes will win my heart over every time. There were a couple of hit and miss mixes, but you really had to give the guy a break on them considering how he'd mixed Track A into B into Track C already. And he'd done it with such style, and a smile the whole way. One of those club nights where everyone's there for the tunes, and the dancing more resembles pogo stick jumping than grooving.

The $400 parking fine Mish received afterwards for parking in a disabled spot wasn't so cool, but she's got a get out of jail free card on that one in the end anyhow. Good thing too that as it was ultimately my egging her on that made her park there!

My summer dream? Feadz into DJ Medhi into Uffie on the triple bill line up. Yes Santa, I've been very good this year...

Download DJ Mehdi "Boggin"