Asian Dan

Warp20 keeps getting better and better – Jamie Lidell has been added as the surprise guest at Le Poisson Rouge and free performances by Hudson Mohawke and Clark. I cannot wait! 🙂

Sam, the official Asian Dan intern was able to wrangle Australia’s own, Gloves to put together this 25 min minimix for the b-log as well as answer a few short questions. I sure do love me my Australian bands and producer/DJs.

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Download: Asian Dan Presents Gloves “House of Octavia Minimix”

Asian Dan Interview: GLOVES

1. Who is GLOVES? How would you describe your music?

Gloves is me, Yama Indra. I also have wealth of talented friends that I collaborate on tracks with sometimes. A lot of the originals I have coming up feature contributions from friends. Up until now it’s been almost all disco & house orientated dance music, I have some new material I’ll be releasing later in the year though, there’ll be more dance music but there’s also some pop, soundtrack & RnB influenced tracks.

2. What are your influences, musical or otherwise? What are your first
musical memories?

Musically I have been into just about every genre at one time or another. Over the last year I’ve been listening to mainly RnB (old & new), 70’s Jazz, 70’s Psych & as always a lot of disco & house music. \
Other influences? Well I love giallo films, good food, playing tennis on Wednesday’s with Melbourne’s pop/disco/house mafia, traveling, thunderstorms, swimming, adventure & of course hanging tough with my
girlfriend & pals. The very first musical memory I can recall involved my sisters & I performing a dance & karaoke routine to Madonna ‘Material Girl’ in for our parents & their friends on a camping trip. I think we also did Poison’s ‘Nothing but a good Time’ & Michael Jackson’s ‘BAD’. Pretty lame huh. That & spending endless hours learning classical pieces on the family piano.

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Download: Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars (Kris Menace Remix) @ Pitchfork

An amazing 5 min minimix brought to you by GRUM. This is an example of how musical and complex “DJing” can get. I love it.

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GRUM – MINIMIX

Super smooth and 80s – courtesy of Australia’s own Gloves. Daft Punk & C.o would be proud.

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Gloves – Too Much To Dream

Paul is some French bro – channeling Lifelike, bits of Kavinsky and Jan Hammer. What y’all think?

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Paul – B2Luv

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Paul – I Feel Change

“‘Who’s There?’ is finally out after weeks of support from Crookers, Brodinski, Sinden, A-Trak and more. Remixes by Style of Eye, L-Vis 1990, In Flagranti and Doorly serve to make this one of the most exciting packages of the year so far, topped off with ghostly artwork by Fergadelic from Tonite. Brooklyn duo In Flagranti take the track to the disco dancefloor and back, sashaying through a bevy of samples, cowbells and slap bass. This is big stuff.”

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Riton & Primary 1 – Who’s There? (In Flagranti Remix)

Breakbot is amazing. That is all.

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Download: Breakbot’s Heroes Mix – In New DJs We Trust

Tracklist!
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Miike Snow is officially on my top 3 albums list of 2009. Check out this remix by Mr. Falke, usual production style – simple, lofty disco.

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Miike Snow – Animal (Fred Falke Remix)

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Florence & The Machine – Drumming Song (Boy 8-Bit Remix)