Urban music is undergoing some serious changes at the moment and its spawning some really interesting cross over genres.. A notable offspring of Hip Hop and cousin to the notorious Bmore sound is the New Orleans Bounce flavour…Its biggest blog champion is Emynd

The man has put together a dope mixtape of BOUNCE cuts in conjunction with Mad Decent and we got it fresh and direct for you…
For me this is a little bit funkier than the BMore jump and doesn’t come with the chedda sections alla Tittsworth and Bananas..
Anyway time for you to make your own mind up..this is sure fire Flava in ya Ear!!
Tracklisting for the mixtape and a fuller explanation of BOUNCE can be checked at Emynd’s own blog CrossFadedBacon which is well worth a visit.

MP3 Download

Mad Decent Worldwide Radio #30: BOUNCE IT by Emynd

Peace!

Here is a Mix from the opening night of CMYK on 23/05/08. Enjoy!

CMYK opening night mix

I guess y’all know what crazy Pase rocks fans we are at CMYK..
The man himself has just released his new track “Get Money Kids” at the Fully Fitted blog…

If this was in a genre I think it would probably fit into techfunkglitchrap…stick that in ya ipod and see if it likes it..

grab the track here

MP3

Pase Rock - Get Money Kids

When this track dropped into the Inbox I had to read the description from remix team JAPATTACK more than once..
I thought the little Philly maestros were having a fkin larf!!

I’d already had the pleasure of hearing JAPATTACK’s remix of Pase Rock the week previous. Turns out now they are doing the honors for fag rap artist Sgt Sass…

I hadn’t heard of fag rap before but apparently it exists and its trying

to reclaim “faggot” in the same way female rappers like Missy Elliott and Lil’ Kim reclaimed “bitch” in the late ’90s

Anyway enjoy some JAPATTACK remixes include the one about the GHEYS… they’re pretty good!!

MP3s

Sgt Sass - Faggot Snappin (JAPATTACK Body Remix)

Pase Rock - Sexy MF (JAPATTACK Remix)

South Rakkas Crew - Mad Again (JAPATTACK Remix)

If you’re feelin them then show JAPATTACK some love over at his blog where he drops all kinds of stuff that you might like too attackthat.blogspot.com

Yes yes y’all this is it y’all
Here a little 30 min mix for you all until the next CMYK Party.. its a bit old now but you get the idea…

Tracklist:

The Black Kids  - Not gonna teach him how to dance (Twelves remix)
Prince  - When Doves Cry(Electro remix)
Tittsworth - The Whip
Bump - I’m Rushin
??? - ???
DJ Eli -  Movin On
Pase Rock - Sexy MF (Eli Remix)
The Juan Maclean - Happy House
Estaw - Break It Down
South Rakkas Crew - MAd Again (Boy 8-Bit remix)

This is probably our last vinyl only mix!!! .. Next mix will be a digital delight with my new Torq setup…so watch this space.

Enjoy the link

PARTYCMYK - MiniMixTape

PS sorry for some of the fkups with the mastering…

Its free, its a banger and its brought to you by converse. Only a matter of time before Carles at Hipster Run Off starts asking questions like

1. Do you like the thought of sharing feet with an alt bro

2. Is Santogold giving tug jobs to both these guys or is it just one while the other likes to watch.

etc etc….

I guess any company can be a record label these days. Just look at Apple and Starbucks…

The new  Casablancas + Santagold + NERD track coming to a sportswear sponsored dancefloor near you soon. The video is apparently on its way… Hope Pharell wears BAPE!

Thanks to Hotbiscuits for being first to the blocks.

[MP3]

Casablancas + Santagold + NERD - My Drive Thru

Some woman goes nuts on a bus somewhere in the U S of A.. she gets her weave pulled out… it gets put on YouTube

and then some cheeky club DJs edit it all together to make a bmore banger that all the clubs from LA to NYC are hammering…

Ticket for the bus $2
Angels Cap $15
Looking like a crack freak in front of the whole world and then getting a club banger treatment… totally priceless

Check the mp3

Ludachrist - Marta Girl(Original Bmore Club Mix)

Yes yes y’all… its soo hot in the NYC today the buildings are melting… what we need is some latin fuelled rap goodness to party in the sweet sunshine…

Nothing better than this top nugget from the Time Machine

Been meaning to put a post about these up for a while. The indie true skoolers had a good release a couple of years ago with the LP “Slow your Roll”. Now they are back and the new stuff is sounding fresher than ever.

Feel the love we got for these boys and pay them a visit at their mySpace site…

MP3s

Time Machine - The Groove That Just Won’t Stop (Rok & Krames Chi-talo Remix)

Time Machine - The Groove That Just Won’t Stop (DJ MyKill Remix)

***BONUS***

I always come up wth something extra

Janet Jackson + Kid Sister +Time Machine - (Out Of) Control

MIA - Boyz (Time Machine Remix)

Black lips - Bad kids (unofficial video)

Complete with karaoke bouncing ball. The album Good Bad Not Evil is well worth a listen.

Sorry to get political but the video incidentally is footage taken from riots in Northern Ireland a few years ago, but if you believe everything you read in the paper’s in the UK you would think this is happening every night on every street corner!

This ones for all the kids of the UK demonised by the media, who seem to be taking the blame for everything from drinking, hoodies, knives and the break down in society! Nothing to do with the government who are so busy concentrating on taxing us to high heaven and charging us more and more rather than investing properly in youth organisation’s, community groups and anti social behaviour. If you show them and tell them they are bad, enough times…….they will believe it!

R.I.P Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley (1955)

More New York goodness for the CMYK faithful, this time its the much hyped Brooklyn based indie synth pop lushness of MGMT.

According to one blog the group have stopped people linking to their new video on youtube, shame..

So instead heres some skaters doing burners and comedy skater type stuff to the track instead

The album Oracular Spectacular is out right now and this is the third release off the long player (i think)..

Accompanying the release is some quality remix by not only the french electro monster group Justice but also a crazy insane bmore version from Leif…
The Justice remx is pretty much what you would expect with some dirty crunchy synths injected at all the right places, meanwhile Leifs guttering of the track is totally delicious, he’s upped the tempo and given it some fun horn stabs and vocal samples.

Both fun but the orignal is the joint right there for me.
MGMT hit the UK for a tour this November.

MP3s

MGMT - Electric Feel

MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice remix)

MGMT - Electric Feel(Leif Remix)

**Bonus**

While on the MGMT google tip I picked these up… the talib kweli mashup is pure fire!

Talib Kweli vs MGMT - Time to listen (DJ Topcat Remix)

MGMT - Time to pretend (Tronik Youth Shr-Edit remix)

Since i am in New York I just had to make the first post from here Big Apple related and since i bought this record today in a little shop in Brooklyn and its from a New York label then it just seemed like fate…

Holy Ghost - Hold On got a release in October last year.. but it still gets the odd blog mention.. I was late picking it up myself but since hearing it on an Eli Escobar mixtape I’ve had this track in my head non stop. I love the way this track holds the vocals back until you are really into the groove of the synths..

Holy  Ghost - Hold on

***BONUS***

I’m Good, I’m Ghost - Lykke Li Vs Holy Ghost

And the DFA sessions from MOMA in march are still available here so catch them while you can.

What is it with the French and Electro music over the past ten years they have dominated and been at the cutting edge with bands like Daft Punk, Cassius, Justice and labels like Record Makers.

I have used the Cassius - Toop Toop (Video Footage) above rather than the official video, just because it shows the creativity that goes into making a dance track….and guess what yeah they use guitars!

Plus its a good excuse to drop loads of French electro track’s and remixes for no good reason:

Klaxons: As Above, As Below (Justice Remix)

Daft Punk: What more time (Krames Remix)

Daft Punk: Harder Better Faster Stronger (DJ Barletta Remix)

Cassius: The Sound of Violence (Reggae Rock Remix)

Another week and we are posting another remix of a hot chip track…  but this time instead of a crazy dancehall screw this track is getting some serious reworking from mini-tech house boys Booka Shade.

Booka shade have a new album out soon which isn’t really my cup of tea but our boy Jono feels this shit in his soul so guess i can’t diss… to be honest there is one stand out track for me which you can check below.

No doubt it will get an honourable mention sometime in my set on Friday 23rd at the guild… thats right if you can’t make booka shade and sasha at the warehouse project you can always pop along to the CMYK party…

Check the remix and the album track in all there glory below

Hot Chip - Just like we break down (Booka Shade vocal mix)

Booka Shade - Charlotte

***BONUS***

Just picked up this wicked reshake of another Booka track… enjoy

Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl (Booka Shade rework)

I don’t literally mean Kill all Hipster’s, but who the fuck do they think they are hey!……and more to the point, why aren’t we invited?

Where the fuck are these parties? I mean, I like the music and all that, but i’ll stick my neck out here and say that it all look’s a bit staged and pretentious, eyeliner or rayban’s and tight jeans to the rafter’s……if you want to see pictures of messy people, just get back mine after a night out!

The guys who always seem to be right in the middle of it getting there hands dirty are Kid Millionaire Steve Aoki or The Cobra Snake.

See what goes down here at a Steve Aoki hipster party!

Anyway I’m only jealous, here’s the best of the worst……yeh jammy bastards!

www.thecobrasnake.com

www.ascoolasitgetssf.com

www.lastnightsparty.com

www.shootthenight.com

Can’t guarantee the pictures will be as cool as any of those hipster’s above (that’s up to you lot!) but AdaMBski the photographer will be doing the round’s this Friday the 23rd of May at CMYK - The “Summer of Love” Start’s Here Party, so you can check back in here after the night and see what a mess you got yourselves into!

French social commentary or mindless yoot thuggery……you decide!

If you haven’t seen the 1995 classic French film La Haine buy it or rent it, don’t be put off by the subtitles its one of the most watchable subtitled films ever. This also tackles the social problems facing French inner city youth’s which have been ignored, causing flashpoint riot’s most recently and over the past few decades!

Social commentary and politic’s aside it contains the classic mix Cut Killer: Fuck tha Police which contains  KRS-One: Sound of the Police over the top of Edith Piaf: Non je ne Regrette Rien which is pure genius!

The Music are back to their best on there latest track Strength in Numbers.

The Leeds lad’s have produced this classic Led Zep dripping vocal, guitar based, house track comeback, complete with shaven headed front man……they mean business.

If you like this check out their 2002 screamer The People.

The Music: Fire (DIOYY Remix)

The Music: Breakin (Redanka Vocal Mix)

Tour dates are released and they will be playing The Carling Academy Liverpool on Wed June 18th

Soulful Vibes is a music collective based in Liverpool.

They play creamy disco love bombs and host parties at places like Vinyl, Geisha & The Magnet Liverpool.

You can catch them at the next CMYK party night - Liverpool University Guild on Friday 23rd May.

I’ve been glued to Sean’s Experiments In Disco mixtape for the last month…

Check it out

Soulful Vibes - ExperimentsInDisco Mixtape

And theres more where thats found here

Oh dear there are some remixes that you think won’t work but then do… toodla t and Hot chip anyone?

However at another level there are some tracks that should never be remixed by anyone.

Dead Prez - Bigger than hip hop falls under this banner…. loved by ol skoolers , new coolers and just foolers this track is sacred next to De la souls - eye know and ATCQ - Scenario.

Step in the arena flufftronix

He’s gone where no man should have gone at all… he’s remixed that shit!!

Who does this guy think he is other than a hipster with a lame hoodie! Well he’s done a good job.
For you pleasure here is:

Dead Prez - Bigger Than Hip Hop (Ghetto House refix)

PS you might be able to find his “shark step” anthem shark attack if you have a look here but i wouldn’t …. its scarey stuff

Stag & Dagger is a great concept with some great live acts on the line-up!

It’s this Thursday the 15th May 6pm - 12am.

One ticket gives access to all 15 venues and all areas, bit like a street festival with no door prices, which allows 5,000 festival goers to enjoy over a 100 live acts (Guaranteed you won’t be able to see every band, but hey use your Brains, just pick your favourites and for £15 + Booking fee what else is there to do for that price on a Thursday in London?)

Its a bit of a monster pub crawl with your favourite bands playing live when you pop down your local pub!

Check out the line-up: Stag & Dagger

Line-up Includes: A-Trak, DSL, Cadence Weapon, Dead Kids, Hot Chip DJ’s, Moshi Moshi DJ’s and many more!

In association with Vice Magazine, so Im sure this event will be followed by some very interesting online documentaries, check out the Epicly Later’d - Wild Ride Series and see how the current Emerica team live life on the road!

Kylie’s a pop princess, she’s always ahead of the curve, the french love her and now ghetto stars spank rock have made her down right dirty!

Benny blanco has taken a perfectly pleasant album filler and and given it some serious ghetto tech rudeness.

Check this out and go all damp in the right places….

Kylie Minogue - Heart Beat Rock (Benny Blanco remix)

Who should remix kylie next? Why haven’t Designer Drugs they seem to be doing everyone else at the moment??? When will Madonna ask Spank Rock to remix her… she needs it!

We mentioned Dance Kill Move in a previous post when they where giving Britney a workout..

Well they are back on point. Ricardo from DKM popped an email to us about a new remix they have done for  Arizona based indie rap rockers Silver Medallion. (This is band is soo fresh the only picture i could get was this T-Shirt print ….)

I’ve not heard the original of Boom so i can’t comment on what DKM have added but standalone this is a strong track with DKM’s usually tough electro clash sound pumping throughout..

You can get it here

Silver Medallion - Boom (Danced Killed and Moved)

Thanks for the re-up Ricardo…feel the CMYK love!

Its late and i really should be getting to bed but i just gotta make sure you internet junkies hear this remix..

Toddla T totally kills this Hot Chip track… and i mean kills it. He messes with it like in a “Hostel“ movie or something, then puts it through all 4 “Saw” films and then stamps on it just out of spite..

The single is out now with the remix floating on the b-side… For your previewing pleasure please feel free to grab this mp3 when you get a chance.. but always support the artist, and remember be safe out there!

Hot Chip - One Pure Thought (Toddla T Remix)

Hola party people… We mentioned his brother A-Trak last week so only fair to mention the other Macklovitch brother and his super disco group Chromeo.

I got to say i wasn’t a fan of Chromeo for a long time. But when the remix talent is as good as theses contenders pulled in for the latest Chromeo release then who can argue..

Favourites are the Kissy Sellout work and the Russ Chimes throwdown… floor shaking certs!

Check the links below for mp3s.

Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Crookers Remix)

Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Kissy Sellouts Six Different Ways)

Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Laidback Luke remix)

Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Russ Chimes Remix)

Apology’s Justice, but this clip doesn’t show what a superb piece of design there latest video is, a cross between the cinematic intro’s and outro’s on all your favourite films and shows.

It’s not there first classic video either check out the T-shirt homage: Justice - D.A.N.C.E  and a nifty remix by those crazy Canadian’s MstrKrft who need a few vowels from Carol Vorderman.

And finally one from the bottom and two from the top the classic, one for lad’s and certain ladies: Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler.

Don’t know about you but I’d expect to see some pretty decent remixes on the way out of Coldplay’s new album tracks, especially the exclusive 7″ B side: A Spell A Rebel Yell, FREE with the NME on 07/05/08……reminds me of Ian Brown and the Stone Roses with a hint of Liverpool lads Echo & The Bunnymen.

And of course CMYK would not be complete without the King Monkey man classic: Ian Brown - F.E.A.R (Unkle Remix)

Also check out the video for Crooked by Evil Nine (Looks like a animated and angry version of Zig and Zag!): Evil Nine feat Aesop Rock - Crooked, who have also remixed tracks such as Unkle - Reign Feat Ian Brown.

If you’re lucky and live in one of the European towns mentioned in this link here (Manchester tonight anyone?) then you will be able to catch our favourite hip hop turned electro house producer DJ A-Trak doing his turntable thing this spring…

The boy from canada (seen above holding mates piss) has come a long way since becoming the youngest ever winnner of the DMC DJ Championships.
(I still  giggle at the footage of him DJing from around those days at an event called the Summit…. his mum proudly tapping here  foot as he jammed with Noise and Roc Raider…)

Anyway A-Track is now a top party rocker and plots world domination with his record label Fools Gold.
Top A-Trak remixes that have been floating around and heavy hitters at CMYK parties are the mighty:

Boyz Noize  - OH!(A-Trak remix)mp3

and

The Count and Sinden - Beeper (A Trak remix)mp3

Bonus for you is that we got a fresh new trak from friend and Fools Gold alumni Sammy Bananas. I think you can only describe this as properly bananas..

Sammy Bananas - All The Girls mp3

Thanks to Discodust for the heads up 

The clip above is a gem from the classic documentary “Pump Up The Volume - The History of House Music”

The clip explains how Jamie Principle a kid from Chicago shook the Chicago clubscene with the original “Your Love” in later made famous by Frankie Knuckles and Candi Staton (complete with Spanish subtitles amigos!)

Fast forward to 22 years later and Friendly Fires give it the nod by regularly playing there version of this classic at gigs, check out Moshi Moshi Record Label:

Friendly fires – on board (Nightmoves remix)

Friendly fires  - Paris

Estaw has been popping up with some quality remixes and cuts recently, most of which can be found at his home from home blog, the infamous Palms Out Sounds.

He hits the UK record shops with what is possibly his first full 12″ release
this week with the pretty dope Break It Down.

The release comes with a strong array of remixes from the likes of Herve, Detboi and Chew Fu his palms out bro.

But despite the heavy weights its the original that does it for me and is getting the serious CMYK love.

This is fresh rap rave … an adventure into the dope side of house.

Estaw -  Break It Down

and check out more estaw work

Estelle - American boy (Estaw American Grill fix)

Thanks to Beats presents:Hot Biscuits for the links

PS

Its good to see Chew Fu giving his bro a hand…
He even includes his own remix on a mix he recently did
Have you recently helped your bro’s out?
What best remix you have done for your bro’s?