Asian Dan

Tomorrow is the day. One of the most hyped and most epic shows at CMJ this year. Soulwax, 2 Many DJ’s, Late Of The Pier, The Whip, Rob Da Bank, Luciano, James Lavalle, and Pete Tong, all in one venue, all in one night. Epic. I cannot wait. Stay tuned for full and thorough review of the crazy night to come!

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Soulwax – Washing Up

For all you Torontonians, this Thursday October 23, 2 Many DJ’s, Tiga, The Cool Kids, VNDLSM, Mario J and Nasty Nav will be killing it at the Toronto Island Airport as part of Fido’s Jet Session, a pretty crazy venue for a FREE show. Just text JET to 10987 and you are into the show.

Unfortunately I am stuck in Uhmericuh and will not be attending (But I will be seeing Soulwax/2 Many DJ’s and Late of the Pier on Fri in NYC). So everyone go for me and spread the Asian Dan love.

Here is a radio rip of Tiga’s latest track “The Future Mindimension” . This sounds so 90s UK Rave everything from the 303 basslines, 808 and 909 drum samples and the ridiculous vocal sample. I love it and am excited for his album.

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Tiga – The Future Mindimension (Radio Rip)

Cheers, LA Friendly

Late Of The Pier are making their first US appearances next week in NYC as part of CMJ and in Philly. I shall be seeing them on the 24th with Soulwax and 2 Many DJ’s as part of the Pete Tong’s CMJ night which is quite an epic line up. Checkout these remixes of LOTP, I was expecting more from the Boys Noize remix, it is more of an edit. I love Breakbot and whatever he does so check out his remix of Bathroom Gurgle.

October 22 Brooklyn NY Music Hall Of Williamsburg (CMJ)
October 24 New York NY Irving Plaza (Insiders)
October 25 Philadelphia PA Pure

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Late Of the Pier – Focker (Boys Noize Terror Remix)

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Late Of the Pier – Bathroom Gurgle (Filthy Dukes Remix)

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Late Of The Pier – Bathroom Gurgle (Breakbot Remix)

Checkout this candid chat between Late Of the Pier and Breakbot. Breakbot reveals that he use to make music back in the day with Xavier from Justice when they were classmates at graphic arts school.
“It didn’t really work out, I wanted to make smoky trip hop and he wanted to make gay house music.”- Breakbot

The-Fly.co.uk: Late Of the Pier and Breakbot chat

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Wow…what an amazing setup. Ableton controls their lights?!?! I can’t wait to see them in NYC next week.Cheers, soulwax.info

Cheers, Baked Not Fried
After watching Part of the Weekend Never Dies numerous times, I realized that I love anything involving the Dewaele Brothers. Tiga has been a longtime collaborator and I am very excited for his new material.

My boys Le Pants Optional from Icerock sent me over their new minimix and I was quite impressed. Check it out. T-Dot I miss you!!! ::heart::
Le Pants Optional Minimix
Tracklist:
Digitalism – Anything new
The Ting Tings -Great DJ (Calvin Harris Remix)
Supreeme – Who we are (Royal Rumble Remix)
The Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy, Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix)
MSTRKRFT – Bounce (The Bloody Beetroots RMX)
Mr. Oizo – Bruce Willis is dead
Wiley – Summertime (Crookers Remix)
Justice – Stress (Auto Remix)

“Born in the budding and booming electronic music scene of Toronto’s trendy Queen West district, Pudge and Russ have fused their love for making people move and music into the entity called Le Pants Optional. These dudes have DJ’d everywhere from big venues like CiRCA and the Drake to Amber in the posh Yorkville area, and they play everything and anything to get you moving from 80’s tunes to reworked house anthems, maybe you’ll even hear La Bamba to bring it down, to bring it right back up. Their love is electro and that is what you will most likely get when you see these high energy Dj’s drop their sets. Maybe you’ll even take your pants off.”

So I had the pleasure of watching Part of The Weekend Never Dies and it totally reminded me why I love music. The Dewaele Brothers are just music lovers that rock out with their band Soulwax and spin their favourite records as 2 Many DJ’s, they are living my dream life 🙂 They do their own thing and everyone loves it.

So Me (designer for Ed Banger records): You have an encyclopaedic knowledge of music, but you’re equally interested in visual arts. Where does that come from?

David From our parents. Our dad, Zaki, was a radio and club DJ, but, like us, he was into many things. He writes poetry, he paints, and, as kids, we went to pretty much every Michelin-starred restaurant and museum. We were really fortunate.

Stephen We’re interested in anything that touches you. But visual things, like sleeve art, are important. Growing up, I had a photographic memory of all the record sleeves in our house……

Continue Reading: Soulwax’s Guardian Interview

Pure FM provided Soulwax with a list of songs in their music collection and asked them to mix and mash them live. They had no clue what songs they were going to be given ahead of time so the mix gets a little messy at times but is still interesting and fun. I especially enjoy the fact Fleet Foxes was thrown in 🙂Pure FM – Soulwax vs. Drugstore
Download: Soulwax Pure FM MixCheers, soulwax.info
01 Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy, Hey Girl (Soulwax ‘2Many Dj’s Remix’)
02 Some tones of Yazoo – Don’t Go
03 Some tones of DR Dre – Still Dre
04 Yazoo – Don’t Go
05 Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You (theme from Rick Rolled)
06 Giorgio Moroder – The Chase (theme from Midnight Express)
07 Klaxons – Gravity’s Rainbow (Soulwax Remix)
08 Jeanne Mas – Toute Première Fois
09 101 – Rock To The Beat
10 Duran Duran – Wild Boys
11 Soulwax – E-talking (Tiga’s Disco Drama Mix)
12 U96 – Das Boot
13 Front 242 – No Shuffle
14 Hot Butter – Pop Corn
15 Cranes – Adoration
16 Sandra Kim – J’aime La Vie
17 Malvina Reynolds – Little Boxes
18 Boys Noize – & Down
19 Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene part IV
20 MGMT – Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
21 Michael Jackson – Thriller
22 Le Grand Jojo – Le Footbaliste
23 Freeze – I O U
24 The White Stripes – Conquest
25 datA – Aerius Light
26 Dead Can Dance – Sanvean
27 Rose Laurence – Africa
28 Salvatore Adamo – Inch’Allah
29 SoMe – Decalcomania
30 Body Count – Born Dead
31 Justice – Phantom Part 1
32 Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love
33 Muse feat. The Streets – Who Knows Who
34 Sonic Youth – 100%
35 Charles Aznavour – Je m’voyais déjà
36 John Dahlback – Blink
37 Cut/Copy – Hearts On Fire
38 Stéphanie de Monaco – Ouragan
39 Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
40 AC/DC – Highway To Hell vs ??
41 André Brasseur – Studio 17
42 Enigma – Sadeness
43 Bloc Party – Fluxx
44 MGMT – Electric Feel (Justice Remix)

Soulwax crafted a little “Essential Hot Mix” for Pete Tong’s show on Radio 1. I want to get my hands on the Soulwax remix of Walter Murphy’s Fifth of Beethoven!
Download: Soulwax – The Essential Hot Mix
Soulwax – ‘Part of the Weekend Never Dies’
Kissing The Pink – ‘Big Man Restless’
Sonic Youth – ‘100%’
Wire – ‘Three Girl Rhumba’
ZZT – ‘The Worm (Erol Edit)’
Esser – ‘Headlock’
In Flagranti – ‘Business Accumen’
Lele – ‘Disco Vraiment’
MGMT – ‘Kids (Soulwax Remix)’
Simian Mobile Disco – ‘Nike Run Edit’
Todd Terry – ‘Can You Party…’
Simple Minds – ‘I Travel’
Action Man – ‘Zombie Dance’
Flairs – ‘Truckers Delite’
Chemical Brothers – ‘Hey Boy Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix)’
Beethoven – ‘Soulwax Edit’
Zombie Nation – ‘Forza’
Sheila E – ‘Glamorous Life’

2 Many Dj’s x Glenjamn.com
The Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy, Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix) (yousendit)The Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy, Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix) (zshare)Cheers, Buzz En Direkt

Next up this remix!! I can’t wait!