Introducing... Dizz and Draz

I was recently sent a fantastic mixtape from Aussie based duo Dizz and Draz. I stuck this on my iPod yesterday for one of those never ending train journeys up to London. Probably the best train journey I've had in year actually. They've literally mastered the capabilities of Ableton with this mix, creating something unique, fun and easy on the ear, whilst still being an absolute riot!

Check their bootleg of Deadmau5's FML mashed with the Pink Panther theme tune below, a serious dance floor weapon... I aim to let it loose tonight.

Moving in and out of electro, dubstep, 'fidget' and some more respectable house and techno sounds with a big focus on the fun factor. They've even included Far Too Loud near the end of their mix, I didn't know anyone in Australia had even heard of Far Too Loud, so it's a pleasure to see such a diverse taste from these guys.
Here's one of their past bootlegs from last year.

Sidney Samson - Riverside (Dizz & Draz Bootleg)

You can hit them up on Facebook or Soundcloud for more info and sounds... and I've also included some of their previous bootlegs as well as the said mix below... Essential party music and the perfect mix to get you in the mood for the weekend... I promise you, this is the best mix I've heard this year :)... 42 in an hour, sick as fuck.

Dizz & Draz - Bass Is The Word

Bass Is The Word Mixtape  by  Dizz And Draz

---Intro---
1.Bird Is The Word (Nurofen Remix)
2.Lazy Rich - Funkjet(Jay Robinson & Supabeatz Remix)
3.SPKR Ninjaz - Global Unity
4.Kissy Sell Out - Garden Friends (Stereo Killaz Remix)
5.Sub Focus - Could This Be Real
6.Fugative - Supafly (A1 Bassline Remix)
7.NT89 & Distrakt - Pumpin (Beatacue Remix)
8.Laidback Luke & Lee Mortimer - Blau!
9.Jack Beats - U.F.O
10.Sound Of Stereo - Zipper
11.Dj Zinc - Blunt Edge
12.The Beatles - Getting Better (Punk Rolla Remix)
13.H20 Project - Chilli House
14.Paul Anthony & ZXX - Let Me Bang (Figure Remix)
15.Pink Panther (Dizz and Draz Bootleg)
a.Domitry Baboviy - Pink Panther Theme
b.Deadmau5 - FML
17.Malente & Jay Robinson - Dwarfs (Sharkslayer Remix)
18.Blaqstarr & Diplo - Get Off (Jack Beats Remix)
19.SPKR Ninjaz - Nunjux
20.Aint No Mountain High Enough (Dizz and Draz Bootleg)
a. Marvin Gaye - Aint No Mountain High Enough
b. Empire Of Sun - Walking On A Dream (Punk Rolla Remix)
---Public Service Annocement ---
22.Excision and Datsik - Swagga
23.Bare Noize! - You Stupid C*nt
24.Kick-Oh - Black Celebration (SonicC Remix)
25.Jack Beats & Mc Dynamite - What
26.Bill Eff - Twist
27.Stereo Killaz - Are You Ready
28.Wheres Your Head Roll (Laidback Luke Bootleg)
29.Hey Vs Raven (Will Bailey Bootleg)
30.Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart (Johnny Dirtbag Remix)
31.Ac Slater - Play The Record Again
32.Project Cyborg - Hit It!
33.Kraymer - Make The Speakaz Bump (SPKR Ninjaz Remix)
34.Pink-A-Pads - Pink Is Back (Gtronic Remix)
35.Far Too Loud - Bass Association
36.Pop The Hatch - Rompa Stompa
37.Dj Shadow - Organ Grinder (Herve Remix)
38.Screwface Johnson - Ride And Whistle (Jay Robinson Remix)
39.Autodidakt Ft RQM - 15 Seconds (Gtronic Remix)
40.Tonka - Jack Track (Pop The Hatch Remix)
41.B.Rich - It'll Be Alright (Squire Of Gothos Remix)
42.Squire Of Gothos - Big Yellow Smiley Faces
---Outro---

The Pink Panther (Dizz and Draz Bootleg)

Also here's a few more of their top bootlegs of Raven/Warp, Stickin'/Bangkok and my personal favourite of The Whip's Divebomb... weapons of the devastating variety, I'm sure you'll agree.

Warp It Like A Raven (Dizz and Draz Mash) 320 kbps  by  Dizz And Draz

Stickin (Dizz and Draz In Bangkok Bootleg) 320 kbps  by  Dizz And Draz

Addict Bomb (Dizz And Draz Bootleg) 320 kbps  by  Dizz And Draz

Sunday Morning Hangover 5

Morning all... how are the heads?


If it feels like mine... then god bless you... you were smart and you were able to resist the urge to go out and party like a swine, and consume copius amounts of whatever it is that you consume, to assume 'the mode' in order to make it easy for you to 'party'. Alternatively if you ignored the advice of every health expert in the world, and did what I did on thursday night after handing in my last piece of University work for the year and decided it was a good idea to mix beer, cider, red and white wine, tequila and vodka, then also... GOD BLESS YOU!

I wrote this at around 6:30am after staying up all night to begin watching the 6th season of The West Wing that I put off for 9 months after the most ridiculous year of academic study I've ever had began in earnest. I'm just so glad that it's finally over and I can sit back and do something unconstructive (this word doesn't actually exist, but I was struggling to come up with something more 'appropriate' for the situation) without worrying if it's going to effect the size of my weekly collection money from the bank, after reaching the ripe young age of 75.

I decided to post some rather interesting tunes to let you lay back and listen to... some of it isn't even dance music, but I'm really in that strange kind of mood you get after staying up all night... the one where you don't give a fuck and just want to go to sleep, but also the one where you realise there are things to be done... even if it is something you usually enjoy doing.

Anyway, on with the purpose of this post, which of course be the purpose of this entire enterprise... music.


Enya - Orinoco Flow
This song featured on the Irish singer and composer's second album Watermark, which was released in 1988 and reached #5 in the UK. The album went onto sell over 11million copies and amongst other things is my mother's favourite album that she has a tendency to play every Christmas morning. There's also quite a sick mash-up with The Prodigy floating around on the internet as well if you give it a quick search.

Johann Sebastian Bach - Air on a G-String

Now my knowledge of Classical music is very limited at best, and probably the closest love I have for it reaches to Tubular Bells, so this is kind of an exception. Even though it probably has the best name for a song ever in the history of mankind, it is a rather beautiful piece if I do say so myself.

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

I believe this is the original single version that was released in 1974 on 7" in the UK, which didn't chart amazingly over here, but it contributed to the album's 15 million album sales worldwide, which won Oldfield a grammy award for composition. It's perhaps one of the most iconic sounds you'll ever hear, which famously took its place as the theme song for 'The Exorcist' in late 1973.

I've also embedded a youtube video at the bottom of a performance of an extended version of Tubular Bells, that I believe looks to have been played from Somerset House, although I'm not sure what year it was.

deadmau5  - Faxing Berlin

This tune should be pretty well known to most of you by now, but incase some of you have still to check it out, then I thought I'd post it. Its one of my favourite tunes at the moment for just sitting back and relaxing to. One quote I remember my mate Mark said one time we were listening to it... "I'm not relaxing mate, I'm Faxing", bit cliche-y, but it was funny at the time.

Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla

Easily their most recognisable song and definitely my favourite, this is the perfect wind down song and sounds nice when accompanied with a tasty sunday morning bacon sarnie and daddy's sauce!

Hope you enjoy the tunes... and now I've officially finished university, expect a lot more content coming your way... including some very exciting news from Ben!

The Bleeps Week #1

Morning all... Another day, another post... and it's now officially THE WEEKEND!

Following on from last week's first Squeaks post... here's the first Bleeps post, aimed it focusing on five tunes that would typically be heard @ Fabric on a Friday night... down and dirty Electro, Breaks, Dubstep, DnB, and everything in between. Let's get to it!

Kissy Sell Out - This Kiss (Jack Beat Remix)

This has been invading blogs over the past few weeks like a blood thirsty army on a crusade!

Just listen to that bassline... Jack Beats have done it again... I was never sure about the original... the breakdown just wasn't fitting for the drop, but this is booming insane, can't get enough of it!!! Be sure to catch them over the next month, they're playing @ Always Fridays @ The Egg tonight, and Matter on the 24th with Armand Van Helden, as well as a string of other dates over May and June in the UK.

deadmau5 vs. Jelo - The Reward is Floating (Markus Lange Mash-Up)

Ok, ok, so this is old... but I needed to break it out of the 2008 closet and set it on fire once again... nothing gets me in the mood for a night out more than to hear those those bleeping leads and pulsating wobbly bassline. The purest tech-house banger out there, mashed up and given a whole new leash of life... if any of you (shame on you) have never heard this version before, then get right on it!

Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall (Tom EQ Remix)

Here's a new one from the guys over at Noiseporn, possibly the best blog on the net!

I've only listened to this a few times since it was posted, but one thing that had an immediate impression on me was the kick drums, they are tonk! I could see this being played at an electro/breaksy night as well as at end of a Sci/Techy night. It reminds me of Shake It Down, just without that ridiculous synth. Honestly, this remix is the shit! Roll forward the techno revolution!

Myagi - Monolith (Acid Funk Remix)

I've always had a bit of a thing for Myagi, and when his remix of TCM's High Roller was included in their 10th anniversary release of their debut album 'Vegas', I was officially in love with his sound. He's somewhere in between Dylan Rhymes, Elite Force, Plump DJs and Orbital all at the same time. Poising his breaks sound on techy beats and beautifully layered synths, and his basslines never fail to impress! This tune is no exception. Although the break is a simple one... its all about the synths on this one... especially the one you hear within the first 5 seconds.... tasty tasty!!!!!

Rusko - Cockney Thug (DJ Prime Cuts Remix)

Finally, possibly one of the most recognisable Dubstep bangers out there given a pure love or hate make-over by Prime Cuts. Personally I diggit, and the sampling of Jack Beats' What just gives it that extra sickening edge... "You fackin' prat!"... ahhhhh this is getting so abused when I next play!

The Squeaks #1

Now that things are moving along quite nicely one the blog, its definitely time to crack on with the first post in the 'Squeaks & Bleeps' series that I introduced to you last Friday. 5 Tunes aimed at getting you in the party mood for the weekend. 'The Squeaks' focusses on tunes of a more uplifting nature, the sort of tunes played @ The Gallery on Friday nights at Ministry of Sound or a typical night at the Techno capital known as Berghain in Berlin.

#1 - Alan H - Kiss Down

This week we've a real treat for you in the shape of a new direction being taken by the man most people know as Hostage. Alan Hostage as he's better known has recently taken to producing more Technoey based tunes under his a guise 'Alan H'. In a recent post on his Twitter he explained his reasoning:

"it is me - just under a slightly different guise - doing deeper slower grindin techno!"

#2 - Deadmau5 - Catbread

One of Joel's newest tracks that I hear he's been banging out in his live sets recently, I hope he plays it when I get to see him in a couple of weeks in Camden :D

This track really strikes me as unique, it's tech-house in its core, but its also quite brash and in your face... almost like he's trying to bring an element of big-beat into the equation, and the bassline is gastly!

#3 - Steve Angello - Isabel

New tunes from Angello that's surfaced recently, currently getting a lot of love from Dave Spoon at the moment via his monthly Radio 1 slot.

It's a really interesting tune that seems to pin pick snippets from a range of styles including progressive, electro house, tech-house and the sweeping crunching hi-hats we've been used to hearing from the techno heartland of Berlin over the past couple of years. Don't miss this!

#4 - John Roman - Warp It Down (The Bloody Beetroots vs. Laidback Luke & A-Trak)

A storming mash-up here!

#5 - Dusty Kid - Train No. 1

I literally cannot believe that I managed to miss the release of this tune... Dusty Kid is one of my favourite producers out there... such a tight tune!

The Squeaks & The Bleeps

Well... that's easter over... Christmas anyone? 

To be honest, with the current state of the economy at the moment, I wouldn't be surprised if shops started banging out all the X-mas related stuff now! Personally, anything involved with Christmas that I see happening outside of December makes me feel sick... I completely reject the idea of the whole 3 month build up period to one day of the year. If you think about it, that's a quarter of your life spent building up to one day a year! I could do better than that... How about a build up to the festival season instead. Glastonbury is now under 70 days away. It lasts five days (if you get there on Wednesday to pitch your tent)... and is a much more beneficial use of your money and your life.

Here's a whole new breed of posts for you, featuring tunes we think are hitting it big at the moment. The first is called 'The Squeaks & the second 'The Bleeps', which will be landing on a weekly rotation aimed at spanking your sound system with five new tunes of disgusting electronica. On 'The Squeaks' there'll be a strong focus on everything Uplifting/Progressive/Minimal/Ambient and all the bits and bobs in between. Typically music you'd expect to hear @ Fabric or Ministry of Sound on a Saturday night... or Berlin's Berghain as a typical example. The one thing you won't see on this post however is Trance music. I've nothing against the genre personally, and I've always enjoyed going to The Gallery @ Ministry of Sound in the past. However, it's a scene and history that I've extremely minimal knowledge of... and blogging on something that you have no knowledge or first hand (raving) experience of, is something I'm whole-heartedly against.
Then, alternatively on 'The Bleeps' there'll be a huge mash-up of tunes with a distinct rave and bassy feel. Here's where you'll be updated with some of the newest Fidget/Dubstep/DnB/Breaks style of tunes; the kind of stuff you'd expect to hear on a Friday night @ Fabric for example... lots of beats and bass with plenty of balls, basically.
To get things kicked off here's three tunes from each 'scene' I suppose, the first three relating to stuff featured on 'The Squeaks and the second three on 'The Bleeps'

Tiga- Shoes (DJEdotronic Remix)

It's taken a little while for a full 320 version to find it's way on the net, but thank god it has... Annie Mac delivered it to my cranium on Friday night before I hit Matter... it was the perfect warm-up to Simian & Timo Maas. The original production was good enough for me but Edotronic has really given this track a new lease of life. I'm really feeling the builds in this remix

Fatboy Slim & Koen Groeneveld - Rockafella Skank

One of my favourite tunes around at the moment that's been getting a lot of love from Dave Spoon recently, and courtesy of the Hijak Allstars I was lucky enough to hear it bangin' out on a tasty Martin Audio system over the weekend. It's simply a stunning piece of work... Norman's old vocals really are the cherry topping on a roaster of perfectly layered synths, snare's and penetrating kicks.

Joris Voorn - Addict

Currently the hottest producer in the Techno scene currently... he's drawn unprecedented praise from DJs and Clubbers alike with the release of his 2CD mix compilation 'Balance 014'. I can't recommend that album enough to you, it's simply startling and really showcases everything startling that's coming out of the Techno scene currently. He's also been given the thumbs up by Radio 1 and will be taking to the privileged Essential Mix decks tomorrow night, expect that to explode over the blogospheare over the weekend. For now however, just marvel at this six minute acid infused adrenaline ride.

deadmau5  Feat. Kaskade - I Remember (Caspa Remix)
Currently getting love from a range of Radio 1 DJs at the moment, this tune has been neatly placed in a nice new sub-genre of dubstep people are called 'Balearic Dubstep' (as if we really need anymore sub-genres in the current scene). Probably the least likely two producers you'd expect see working on the same track, it's not quite up there with 'In For The Kill' but Kaskade's vocals are really add to the whole vision Caspa is trying to create here. You know I wouldn't be surprised if we now see Skream giving Milton Jackson a make-over at some point this year... if he ever managed pulled it off, it would be one hell of a tune.

NAPT vs. Kish Mauve - Lose Control

2008 was a huge year for this Breaks duo and i was gutted to miss their closing set for this year's Breakspoll Awards where they took away the prizes of Best Producers, Best Track and Best Remix. Although I'll get my chance when they headline Room 3 at this month's Playaz night @ Fabric. Lose Control is the duo's first release of 09', and it seems they're continuing on their N-Funk quest to change the face of Breakbeat. It doesn't quite stand up to the class of 'Gotta Have More Cowbell', but to dismiss it as just another track would be an insult. Out last month on Funkatech, it's sure to be one of the biggest selling Breaks releases of the year.

DJ Zinc - Submarines

After the legend pretty much abandoned his DnB roots a couple of years ago, many were about what he could achieve moving over to more House-y beats. However, he seems to sceptical have found his feet and with regular House sets @ Fabric, has been coining his own new sound, dubbed Crack-House. Last year's original Blunt Edge was hailed by many DJs from the Fidget scene and this latest work is no exception. Bassy heavy wobbles and Dubby vocals under a House beat confused me at first... but after a few listens it all starts to make perfect sense. Welcome back to the big-time Mr. Zinc... we've all missed you dearly.

Hope you enjoy the tunes... coming soon is a great artist feature on Dubstep producer Thrills!