Archive for June, 2011

Has Canada’s most scenic forward thinking city been taken over by Bros?  Forget the East-end how will Vancouver combat the rising bro menace? Thanks to carles for putting together this photo set and outing the new bro capital of Canada.

Although they watch a lot of sports bros generally tend to be extremely unatheletic exhibit A this guy.

Looks like a Montreal bro made it out to Vancouver… via Christina aguilaera shirts and tapout.

Even though they are only 5,1 bros think they can beat anyone up…. still under the misguided impression that nine protein shakes a day and a Sixer makes you superhuman.

This happened over a week ago, but it definitely needs to be shared. Zeds Dead is sitting on some mean tunes right now. My favorites are “Rumble in the Jungle”, “Adrenaline”, and “Bassmentality” w/ the Killabits.

Mini Mix for BBC Radio 1 by zedsdead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vTJLI_NlQA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibuJd27fcJc

Nobody is more skeptical of Moombahton than I am, or was.  Now that people are actually producing Moombahton instead of taking a song and slowing it down to 108, I can accept the genre as legitimate.  There is no doubt that Dillon Francis is the world leader of the genre and is paving the way for an entirely new subculture within EDM.  That being said, there are others helping to carry the torch such as Dave Nada, Torro Torro (check their Toronto Moombahton party “slowed”), and Diplo.  I am sure there are many other important names for Moombahton, but these are just the ones I have come across in my very limited experience with the genre.   A recent post on Chemical Jump sums up the current state of Moombahton extremely well:

“The fundamental problem I see with Moombahton is that it wasn’t a unique sound that was created over time and slowly evolved like many of the styles in electro house that you see today. Moombahton was created by slowing Afrojack’s remix of the Silvio Ecomo & DJ Chuckie’sMoombah to 108 bpm. For me, the real problem with Moombahton is that you can define it. Moombahton was introduced as a genre in a new age of so many bedroom producers that it overwhelms my inbox every morning with crazy mashups, edits, remixes and everything in between. There are so many people who can simply fire up FL Studio, Reason, Logic, Ableton, Pro Tools, etc and use that established definition of Moombahton to create something that resembles Kuato from Total Recall.” – CJ

Here are two more sick Moombers from Dill Fran/Diplo/Toddla T (apologies for youtube links, I’m in a place where internet doesn’t really support file uploads).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFttQbkTKi0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRyLmpOc8QM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2LPADIu28A

Feed me just dropped a new EP called “To the Stars”.  It’s exactly what you would expect – nasty.  Above is the title track, with some daft punky synth guitar and that much sought after but rarely duplicated growl championed by Feed Me.

JR Mint presents ‘Canadian Mint’. With features from Smoke DZA, Freck Billionaire, Emilio Rojas, JD Era along with production from M-Phazes, Tone Mason, MoSS, Rich Kidd and more.

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Director: @FUCKZENTIL

Producer: @STRANGEARMAND for @STRANGECUSTOMS

Artist: @PLANETMINTY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R0zXt9rdrY

This is track is magical.  I think this could be called trance, but it hits a lot harder than most trance I’ve been exposed to.  This definitely has shades of Deamau5′s Strobe, which is not an easy thing to duplicate.

Funkagenda and Adam K – Drift (Original Mix)

Here’s the video for Chase and Statuses Hitz‘, featuring Tinie Tempah. The single drops July 17th with remixes from Wretch 32, 16Bit, Delta Heavy and Dillon Francis and is a big one. Is it possible to not make a banger with that hoover sound? Beetroots, Gaga now Chase and status.

Diplo & Switch just spent a couple weeks finishing up some work on their second Major Lazer LP in Kingston, JA. That track with Amber Koffman sounds incredible. I love that tropical like latin american pan pipe sound.

This is pretty cool.  Dubstep has been a big trend for the past year, but this kind of thing can really showcase the potential for the genre to be more than just a passing phase. Video link below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/sessions/2011-06-06_nerosdubstepsymphony