Who Loves Random Remixes? Everyone. Duh. (4)

Love your enemy (Birdy Nam Nam),

It's Thursday, and yes it's also Spring Break; time to get debaucherous. I'm going to be gettin' my drank on in Lake Havasu, AZ, hope y'all have a great break too. And today we have yet another installment of everyone's favorite post, Who Loves Random Remixes? This week we got some awesome artists and even better remixes.

Kaskade & Deadmau5 released several songs together and each one was just pure electro-house bliss. Their song Move for Me remixed by Santiago & Bushido morphs the original ambient bliss of it into some fast paced dancing mania. Awesome drop beeteedubs.

Kaskade & Deadmau5 - Move for Me (Santiago & Bushido Remix)

Miike Snow is a huge breakout band of 2009 and these Swedes get down. Awesome alternative band that flawlessly blends electroctronic dance aspects into their music. Definitely recommend all of you to check out their self titled debut album. Redial is a DJ who has pumping out some massive remixes, and this one of Silvia (my favorite song of their album) just enhances an already great song.

Miike Snow - Silvia (Redial Remix)

I don't personally listen to a lot of Massive Attack but I do love Zeds Dead... these guys are just simply massive. Every song and remix they seem to put out just have an even bigger and heavier sound than the last one and this remix sure doesn't disappoint with some serious squelch.

Massive Attack - Paradice Circus (Zeds Dead Remix)

Oh, Crookers, I love you guys so much but I really think your album sucks... no hard feelings though, I'll keep listening to your pure electro shit. This song is why I love them, remixing Secret Handshake's Summer of 98, Crookers put their signature hard electro fidget house sound on it to make this song into an absolute banger.

Secret Handshake - Summer of 98 (Crookers Remix)

Thee Bloody Beetroots are probably right behind Deadmau5 for my favorite DJ spot. When I first heard these guys I instantly fell in love with their aggressive synth heavy sound. These guys get the party started and keep it goin' all day and all night. WARP was argueably 2009's biggest electronic song and it was remixed by everyone and their momma... but R3SET's remix is just too good of a chune to not check out. So peep it.

The Bloody Beetroots - Warp (R3SET Remix)

The XX is one my favorite bands out right now and their self titled debut album is amazing. And I'm a maniac about dubstep so when I heard this remix I was in electro bliss. MartyParty sprinkles in a dash of dubstep that transforms the XX's Infinity into some hard steppin' grime.

The XX - Infinity (MartyParty Remix)

[Just right-click the song titles and click "Save Link As" to directly download the mp3s]

Peace,
20thetruth

We gettin' MASHed UP

Shut the club down (Girltalk),

So I've recently got and heard some dopetastic mash-ups and thought I'd share them with you lucky bunch. We've got some tracks from DJ Stroke, the hood internet, and BEARBOT (a rare female DJ). These DJs are some of the internet's mash up specialists and have been putting out great work for some time. The hood internet is personally one of my favorite mash up groups out there and it seems like every mash up they produce is instant crack sizzle. Check 'em out and listen to these fresh ass mash-ups. Listen, download, just keep it movin' and don't stop groovin'.

DJ Stroke - House of Money x Money to Blow
BEARBOT - Stuntin' Like I'm Swerving (Lil' Wayne & Birdman x El Ten Eleven)
The Hood Internet - Cult Logic Forever (Miike Snow x Drake)
The Hood Internet - Two Weeks of Hip Hop (Grizzly Bear x dead.prez)
Wiz Khalifa x Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Thrill

Peace,
20thetruth

Why Crookers, Why?

I want your soul (Armand Van Helden),

So is it just me or does anyone else in the electronic music blogosphere or fans who think that Crookers' album Tons of Friends is going to be wiggity-wiggity-whack? I mean don't get me wrong, I will be one of the loudest proponents of Crookers and their original works and remixes they have produced. However, while listening to some leaked tracks off Tons of Friends it seems as if they've taken everything that makes them good and thrown it straight down the trash chute for this album, and instead, have decided to take the most pop and sell-out approach in making an album where they provide the instrumentals and have countless other vocalists sing over their beats (to be more exact they provide semi-decent electro house beats over some repetitive ass vocals).

I loved "sbombers", "knobbers", "what up yall", "we love animals", and their countless sick remixes (Thunderstruck, Salmon Dance, Summertime, Business Man, Day n Nite, etc.) So someone in this vast world of ours PLEASE tell me what the hell these Italians are thinking and tell them to release an album full of fidget house anthems like "we love animals". Maybe I'm the one on the crazy pills and their new stuff is amazing and I just can't see it, either way take a listen and tell me what y'all think.

Crookers - Transilvania ft. Steed Lord
Crookers - Cooler Couler ft. Yelle
Crookers - Remedy ft. Miike Snow
Crookers - Jump Up ft. Major Lazer, Leftside and Supahypa

Even the usually oustanding Miike Snow failed to sound ethusiastic on this track. And Major Lazer SUCKS so I hated Jump Up before I even heard it.

Peace,
20thetruth