Musique: Statik Dancin' in Bruxelles

Bruxelles prouve bien être bien intégrée dans la scène clubbing electro européenne avec les soirées STATIK DANCIN' proposées par le DJ DARKO. Et n'oublions pas non plus les soirées DIRTY DANCING @ Mirano et les (maintenant finies...) soirées CATCLUB avec Lady Jane (dommage)

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Ce samedi 2 juin Statik Dancin @ RECYCLART nous amène le DJ et musicien allemand SUPERPITCHER (qui ne se rappelle pas de "Baby's on fire"?) et la chanteuse et productrice berlinoise MIA du label Sub static (présentation live qui fait partie de son TOUR MIA "BITTERSÜSS" TOUR 2007 ). Et bien sur il y aura aussi DJ DARKO aux platines.

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who wants to join?

Music: The season of summer music festivals has officially started!

This year's Primavera Sound Festival has just started in Barcelona, until June 2nd. Its lineup includes groups/singers such as Architecture In Helsinki, Patti Smith, Hot Chip, Ivan Smagghe, Justice, Blonde Redhead, Kid Koala, Bonde Do Role, Klaxons, Shitdisco, Chromeo, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, David Carretta, Los Planetas, Spank Rock, Spiritualized, Diplo, Sr. Chinarro, Luomo, The Durutti Column, Maxïmo Park, Erol Alkan, Umek, The White Stripes, The Fall, Múm, Wilco, Fujiya & Miyagi and Nathan Fake, among others, less well known.

It has become quite mainstream and probably overtaken SONAR festival, in popularity.

But SONAR (a festival for experimental electronic music) is still alive and will come later, between 14 and 16 June, also in Barcelona.

Another famous Spanish festival is FIB, the Festival Internacional de Benicàssim in Valencia, Spain, later on, between 19-21 July 2007. It will have a quite eclectic lineup, yet very up to date, with, among others, Fangoria, Fischerspooner (yes!), Klaxons, B'52!, Nouvelle Vague, The Rapture, Sascha Funke, Simian mobile, Rufus W., Cansei de SerSexy, Vialic, Peter Von Poehl, Antony & the Johnsons and Digitalism.

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In France there are also many many festivals, one of the best known is certainly the Eurockeennes (http://www.eurockeennes.fr) festival in Belfort, between 29 June and 1st July. It will showcase Les Rita Mitsouko, Justice, Peter Von Poehl, Simian Mobile Disco, The Hives, Queens Of The Stone Age, Phoenix, Digitalism, Maxïmo Park, I'm From Barcelona, Shitdisco, Arcade Fire, Air, TV On The Radio, Antony & the Johnsons, Laurent Garnier and Klaxons, among other groups.

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Yet one of my favourites, if nothing for its name is the Siestes éléctroniques" festival, in Toulouse, south of France – see next post.

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Also in Belgium there are a couple of good festivals, very crowded, despite the (usual) summer rain… Among them, Rock Werchter and Pukkelpop.

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And Portugal too, has got its share of summer festivals, one of the biggest is the Superbock-Superrock festival in Lisbon (trend: rock), presenting Maxïmo Park, Klaxons, LCD Soundsystem, Scissor Sisters, The Rapture, Block Party, Arcade Fire, Interpol, TV on the radio, among others. The biggest festival is certainly the Festival do Sudoeste, in the southern coast of Portugal at Zambujeira do Mar, between 2 and 5 August.It invites groups like Oasis, The Streets, Mika, Bonde do Rolê, Patrick Wolf, Cassius, I'm from Barcelona, etc.

So... enjoy the summer, enjoy the music!

Music: Slagsmålsklubben from Sweden

Music: do you know GOLDFRAPP?

...well, if you don't know GOLDFRAPP, it's about time :-)

The band consists of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory and was formed in 1999. Their debut album, "Felt Mountain" (2000) was excellent (loungy melancholic with an electro touch) but failed to conquer wide public, even though it was well received. With their second CD "Black Cherry" (2003), they moved from chilled out electronica to a more 'electro-rock' or 'glam pop-rock' direction. and that's when they got more 'mainstream' and got much public and critics acclaim. Following the success of 'Black Cherry', they released a third album 'Supernature' in the summer of 2005, which would become Goldfrapp's most successful commercial release. And adding to these three albums, there are loads of remixes and remixes... and of videos. I saw them twice in Brussels, the first when they were not yet so well known and the second when they were beginning to be more commercial. Both times they were great and Allison can really put up a great show and is very cool! So I'm eagerly waiting for the follow up... maybe something more 'tech-house'?...

In the meantime, check their Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/goldfrapp

and watch some videos:

> Lovely head

> Strict machine

> Number 1

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Music: compilation Colette # 8 is out

Colette (an eclectic concept-store in Paris) celebrates this year 10 years of activity.They have just brought out their compilation number 8, as usual very good, with never-heard-before remixes and tracks... as always, happiness for our hears!
#8 is as usual compiled by Michel Gaubert and Marie Branellec and displays an eclectic mix of electronic, disco, new wave, rock and pop vibes, featuring this time Barry White and Love Unlimited orchestra, Cut Chemist, Spank Rock, J Dilla, Heaven17, Joakim, Lynsay De Paul, Friendly Fires, Xpress 2, among others. A second CD with a mix by Joakim presents his vision of Disco, in its underground, synthetic, cosmic, punk & other versions...
So go to Paris & check Colette's music selection or order it via their website (and be very patient, it can take some time...)
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Music > I AM X

Music: Concert > IAMX

So I've just seen the concert by IAMX in Brussels as part of their "alternative tour 2007". We had to wait long, even listen to the first part by local group Piano something... IAM X came late and left early... still nearly one hour of some of their best music, well played, with passion, great voice. At moments they grabbed the audience and were effective, even though it never was extraordinary. I quite like their style and Chris' passionate melancholic voice. I AM X is the brainchild of former Sneaker Pimp’s front man Chris Corner. They have already brought out two albums, "Kiss+swallow" and "The alternative. They are something hybrid between The rapture, Cure and Placebo...

Check out their page at myspace and watch the videos of “Spit it out” and “The president” and listen to some other tracks.

And check here the "Missile" video.

Music: Scarlett & Justin episode 1

Scarlett Johansson is the cherry of the cake, starring in the new video clip of Justin Timberlake (What goes around). It seems that the clip is already a big success in the net, whereas it has not officially come out yet – it is expected to be out on March 3. But it is maybe less the quality of the song than the clip itself (and Scarlett’s presence) that explains this success... Justin and Scarlett (who are said to be having an affair, now that Scarlett has left cutie Josh) offer hot scenes in the video, which has already been seen by some 1.5 million people in Internet. There are three versions of the video, one of three minutes intended for television, this one of nine minutes available in the web and a thirty minute one which is not yet available. Vive le ‘marketing’… and Scarlett Johansson! and send Josh Hartnett to comfort him…

Music: Best of 2006

This year the "Best of" comes a bit late... yet it's never too late is it? 2006 was the year of confirmation of norwegian musician Lindstrøm and of danish Trentemøller, as well as the group The Rapture from New York, with a great second album (and a fresh live act). The year of the rediscovery and confirmation of Fujiya & Miyagi, Post Industrial Boys (from Georgia), Cat Power, Fuckpony, Nouvelle Vague, Scissor Sisters (well partly), Tiga and many others. For me it was the year of the discovery of many rising promises like Michoacan (mexican musician from US), Loco Dice (from Hamburg), MSTRKRFT (from Canada), Tekel (from France), CSS (Cansei de ser sexy) (from Brazil), Minilogue (from Sweden), Lily Allen, Delorean (from Spain), Pinkboy (from Portugal) and many others. 2006 was the year of minimal electro-house or minimal techno-house, whatever you want to call it, with flagships like Marc Romboy , Stephan Bodzin (from Systematic in Germany), Martin Buttrich, Nick Chacona, Loco Dice and Digitalism, Sasse, etc...

So here's the list and have fun looking up for it. The January-February 2007 playlist will soon be out...

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MUSIC choices 2006

Albums / Top 5
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Trentemoller “The last resort”
The Rapture “Pieces Of The People We Love”
Fujiya & Miyagi “Transparent Things”
Lindstrøm “It's a Feedelity Affair”
MSTRKRFT “The looks”
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others:
Cat Power "The greatest"
Fuckpony “Children of love”
Hey Willpower “P.D.A.”
In Flagranti “Wronger than anyone else”
Kudu “Death of the party”
Mummer "SoulOrganismState"
Nathan Fake "drowning in a sea of love"
Nouvelle Vague “Bande á Part”
Peter von Poehl “Going Where The Tea Trees Are”
Post Industrial Boys “Trauma”
The Presets (Beams) “spazzzdancefagrock”
Psapp “The Only Thing I Ever Wanted”
Scissor Sisters ‘Ta Dah”
Tekel “Tekel”
Tiga “Sexor”
Tom Yorke “The Eraser”
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Compilations
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Boogy Bytes Vol. 02 Mixed By Sascha Funke
Compost Black Label Series Vol. 1
DJ Kicks mix by Henrik Schwartz
Elaste Vol. 1 - Slow Motion Disco (Compiled By DJ Mooner)
in bed with NOVA deuxième nuit
Kitsuné Maison 3
Kompakt Total 7
Late night Tales : Belle & Sebastian
Late night Tales : Nouvelle Vague
Plague Songs (4AD)
Systematic Colours - Various Artist
min2MAX-Minus
NOVAtunes 1.3 compil +
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Singles

Top 10
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Âme “Rej (Original Club Mix)”
Black Devil Disco Club “The devil in us”
Cajuan “Dance not Dance (Digitalism remix)”
CSS (Cansei de ser sexy) “Let’s make love and listen to death from above”
Derrick L. Carter, Dixon, Henrik Schwarz & Âme “Where we at version 1”
Djuma Soundsystem "Les Djinns (Trentemoller Rmx)"
Gnarls Barkley “Crazy”
Michoacan “2 bullets (disaster)”
Minilogue “Little Sisters (D-Nox & Beckers Remix)”
Peter, Bjorn & John “Young Folks (Punks Jump Up - Special Disco Mix)”
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Ante Perry “Beach power” / Danton Eeprom "Les amants robotiques" / Hey Willpower “Phenomenon” / Hiem “Zombie party” / Hot Chip “Over And Over (Justus Kohncke's Baking Horse Club Mix)” / Jennifer Cardini & Shonky “August in Paris” / Joakim “I wish you were gone (JK dub) / Justice vs. Simian “Never Be Alone (Dj Hell`s Bavarian Gigolo Mix)” / Justin Timberlake “Sexy back” / Kate Wax "Killing your ghost" / Lily Allen “Smile” / Loco Dice “ El gallo negro (Original mix)” / Lushlife “smile” / Martin Buttrich “Full clip” / Midnight Juggernauts “shadows"/ Mike Monday “zumzum” / MSTRKRFT “ Work on you & Easy Love” /
Nick Chacona “Leo (Sasse Discotronix Remix)” / Mish Mash “Speechless (Extended Mix )” / Ooze & Ooze feat. Tishk “Random Wondrous Things” / Poni Hoax “She’s on the radio” /
Radio Slave “ My Bleep (Roman Flugel Remix)” / Rodamaal feat. Claudia Franco “Insomnia (Ame remix)” / Sasse feat Kiki “Loosing touch” / Sebastien San “Universal Language (Remix)” / Tekel “Smet” / Uffie “Hot Chick” / Yoshimoto “Do what you do” (Trentemoller Rmx)" .

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Music: Mexico soundtrack

Forget Mariachis, boleros and all the music clichés about Mexico... Actually the only place I listened to Mariachis while I was in Mexico was in Playa del Carmen and of course, they were playing for tourists… but don't misundertsand me, Maricachis can be cool and quite romantic, at the right moment and mood, of course. However, unless you’ll be going for a marriage or some special party or local festivities, you’re not so likely to come across it.

The contemporary pop and electronic music scene is quite alive and creative in Mexico and is not limited to the well known Murcof, Titan and Nortec Collective (those of Tijuana sessions). Maybe it's the divine support of Macuilxochitl's kiva, Aztec god of music and dance... The soundtrack of my Mexico trip includes groups/singers like Belanova, Moenia, Zoé (ver video aqui), Plastilina Mosh, Sussie4, Fey, La siguiente Pagina, Niño Astronauta, Los Dug Dug’s (el excelente “Brillo de sol”), Los super elegantes y por supuesto mis favoritos Maria Daniela y su sonido Laser! (ver aqui el video de “miedo”). But of course, it also includes the spanish cult-stars Fangoria or the argentinian Miranda or even the mexican singers Gloria Trevi and Paulina Rubio and Pasteles Verdes (a more pop side…) and the soundtrack from the movie Silent Hill.

All contributed to the perfect and unforgettable musical background to the images and urban trips in particular in Mexico D.F. around the “colonias” Condesa, Roma, Centro, Polanco, up and down Reforma, Chapultepec, Insurgentes, Coyacan, Santa Fé, etc. And of course muchisimas gracias a Hector for making me discover most of it.

Listen to some Mexican music with Tunefeed, here on the right column >>>

Music: GIRL MONSTER

The triple compilation "GIRL MONSTER" is a guide through the history of cutting edge music made by women from the late 70ies to present day, featuring female heroes of the late 70ies and early 80ies like Ana da Silva, Björk and The Slits, alongside contemporary classics like Björk, Le Tigre, Peaches, Chicks On Speed, Barbara Morgenstern, Le Tigre, Sir Alice or Lesbians on ecstasy, among others. I discovered in at "Colette" in Paris, where else?...

The Triple CD compilation “GIRL MONSTER” comes from the "Chicks On Speed" Record label and celebrates the history and future of women's creative music output, to "further invent and challenge the future of music and push the boundaries of sound and pop around the world"!!! "GIRL MONSTER" is a music manifesto for the feminine cause, combining pleasure and attitude.

"GIRL MONSTER tells a rich historical story, from the original girl monsters of punk and post punk to contemporary tricksters and electro-rock pranksters… (…) But what sets the compilation apart from all the other compilations around the topic of “Women and Music” is that it is not just a collection of what everybody knows already, packaged under the misleading slogan of “Women in Rock”, instead this compilation creates a movement of its own, containing 2/3 of exclusive tracks, showcasing some of the finest (and mostly unreleased) tracks from a worldwide underground network of female musicians, even following in the tracks of some of the classics like Tina Weymouth (Tomtom Club/Talking Heads) , Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle) , Siouxsie Sioux (Siouxsie and the Banshees), or Ana Da Sliva (The Raincoats) by featuring their latest productions."

Since 1999, the group "Chicks On Speed" has had an its agenda to subvert certain conventions of the pop music world, of consumption and of the arts. New York Underground classic „Launderette“ by Vivien Goldman (with John Lydon as co-producer and Robert Wyatt on percussion !) offers one of the best moments, directly out of the 80s, while more recent promises such as "Le Tigre" and "Erase Errata" use woman condition as inspiration for their music, following a more militant approach. "Japanese Intelligence Mind Control" is another good moment and an instrumental break among a lot of shouting and loads of attitude. There are new and exclusive tracks by Chicks on Speed and Angie Reed (produced by Eric D. Clark) as well as more exclusive new tracks by the up-coming Kids on TV and Scream Club vs. Ben Adorable (feat. Peaches) along-side the smashing Client song (that features Pete Doherty).

Here the track listing:

CD1:

1. Girlmonster Intro 2. Scream Club vs. Ben Adorable "Fine As Fuck" (ft. Peaches) 3. Mignon "Demons Of Love" 4. Le Tigre "Hot Topic" 5. Barbara Morgenstern "Mountain Place" 6. Angie Reed "G. G. (Gaudy Good)" 7. Pam Hogg "Honeyland" 8. Rhythm King & Her Friends "Speedometer" 9. Hanin Elias "Get It Back" 10. Kevin Blechdom "Me Saw Me Momma" 11. Ana Da Silva "Full Moon" 12. Anat Ben David "Virtual Leisure" 13. Sir Alice "Super Hero" 14. Chicks On Speed "Plastic Surgery" 15. Vivien Goldman "Laundrette" 16. Tina Weymouth "Incognito" 17. Client "Down To The Underground" 18. Kids On TV "Break Dance Hunx (Market Value Mix)" 19. Boyskout "School Of Etiquette" 20. Erase Errata "Dust" 21. No Bra "No Woman No Crime"

CD2:

1. Pulsallama "Ungawa Part 2 (Remix)" 2. The Slits "Typical Girls (Live)" 3. Delta 5 "Mind Your Own Buisness" 4. Cherry Sunkist "Nameless Dogs" 5. Japanese Intelligence Mind Control "Get the Picture" 6. Autonervous "Anchors Away" 7. Cobra Killer "Mister Chang" 8. Planningtorock "Changes" 9. Hanayo "Pita Pata" 10. Björk "Storm" 11. Tobi Vail "Panic of the Square" 12. Gustav "We Shall Overcome" 13. Bonnie vs. Hunter "Our Inventions" 14. François Cactus "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory" 15. LiliPUT "Die Matrosen" 16. Karastrophe "Your Girlfriend" 17. Lesbians on Ecstasy "Sedition" 18. Electric Indigo & Dorit Chrysler "Sheets" 19. Cosey Fanni Tutti "Licking The Juice"

CD3:

1 Hotel Motel "Sucker Man" 2. Gudrun Gut "Girl Boogie" 3. The Creatures "Godzilla (Siouxsie & Budgie's Girl Monster Mix)" 4. Soffy O "Maybe A Dog" 5. Ella Bandita "New Year's Eve" 6. Las Perras Del Infierno "Somos Las Perras" 7. Juliette & The Licks "You're Speaking My Language" 8. Miss Le Bomb "Pinkitan" 9. Cat5 "Sexy" 10. Robots In Disguise "Get RID" 11. People Like Us "Fom Fom" 12. Michaela Melián "Manifesto"» 13. Susanne Brokesch "Heroes (History Mix)" 14. Scream Club vs. Leonard DeLeonard "International" 15. Crystal Cookie "Crystal Cookie (Lesson 1)" 16. Caro Snatch "Say Trees" 17. Malaria! "Your Turn To Run" 18. The Raincoats "Shouting Out Loud" 19. Vivien Goldman with Andy Caine & Manasseh Sound "Seven Days" 20. Ari Up "Baby Mother (Toxicgirl Strip Mix)" 21. Miss Pain "Sell It 2 The Kids (Megaphone Version)".

Music: TRACKLIST November/ December 2006

Albums of the months:
MSTRKRFT – The looks
directly from Canada, a frenetic mix of funk, electro, post something and very... new!
check myspace too.

click here for the video of "Work on you"

click here for the video of "Easy Love"

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DELOREAN – "Into the plateau" - directly from Euskadi / País Vasco!

Videoclip of “As time Break”
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Videoclip no official de DeLorean

Other albums:

SQUAREPUSHER – Hello everything
DJ MEHDI – Saharian break
KITSUNE MAISON 3 – compilation
LOUIE AUSTEN – Iguana
MAXIMILIAN HECKER - I'll Be A Virgin, I'll Be A Mountain
MICHAEL MAYER – Immer 2 (Kompakt)
ÂME… mixing (mix cd)
POKER FLAT vol. 5 (compilation)
SYSTEMATIC COLOURS vol. 1 (mixed by Stephan Bodzin)
POST INDUSTRIAL BOYS – Trauma
ELASTE – Elaste (cosmic disco)
GINO SOCCIO – Outline (1979)
PLAGUE SONGS - compilation

Tracks of the months:
DJUMA SOUNDSYSTEM "Les Djinns (Trentemoller Rmx)"
ANTE PERRY - Beach Power
UFFIE - Hot Chick

Other tracks of the months:

YOSHIMOTO - Du What U Du (Trentemoller Remix)
AGORIA - Baboul Hair Cuttin [Feat. Scalde]
AKABU - Phuture Bound (Ame Remix)
AUTOTUNE - Dirty (Woody Mix)
BECK - Cellphone's Dead
CITIZEN KAIN - Station
COMPUPHONIC - 80's cops
DASO - Daybreak (Jona Remix)
DEETRON - Twisted Memories
JAY HAZE FEAT. BIG BULLY AND SVEN VT - Soul in a bottle
JENNIFER CARDINI & SHONKY – August in Paris
LOCO DICE - El gallo negro (Original mix)
MARTIN BUTTRICH – Cloudy Bay + Snapshots
MINILOGUE - Little Sisters (D-Nox & Beckers Remix)
MSTRKRFT – Work on you & Easy Love
MUMMER - Hey, You Did
NICK CHACONA - Leo (Sasse Discotronix Remix)
PHONIQUE - River (Robert Babicz Remix)
RADIO SLAVE - My Bleep (Roman Flugel Remix)
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - Rudebox (chicken lips dub malfunction)
RODAMAAL feat. CLAUDIA FRANCO – Insomnia (Ame remix)
SEBASTIEN LEGER - Hypnotized (feat Gia Mellish - Chris Lake remix)
SEBO K – Horizons
STEPHAN BODZIN - Midnight Express
STEVE BUG - Drives Me Up the Wall (Les Rythmes Digitales Remix)
STEFAN GOLDMANN - Sleepy Hollow
THE WHIP – Trash

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Music: anniversary of Mozart's death today

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria and died on December 5, 1791, in Vienna. He was a prolific and highly influential composer of Classical music. His more than six hundred compositions include symphonies, concerts, chamber pieces, piano pieces, sonatas, operas, and choral music.

On the anniversary of his death, listen to some of his Sonatas...

Music: watch Darko on TV Brussel

check it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsfZnubi_LU&eurl=

Music: Statik Dancin': Is the revolution useless?

Today Statik dancin' celebrates 3 years of... Statik Dancin': with Sun Electric (from Germany) + Thomas Fehlmann (also from germany) and of course... Darko (from Brussels).

Statik Dancin' is a Minimal House and Techno party project of Brussels' DJ Darko. He is also the founder of Lucy Lee Quality Record label (www.lucylee.net). Statik Dancin' is organised bi-monthly at Recyclart, a former railway station and home to one of the most dynamic cultural projects in Belgium.

"Since 2003, Statik Dancin' has been busy celebrating all shades of minimal sound and injecting quality into the Belgian club scene. Conceived with sophistication and an attention to detail that is currently unmatched, Statik Dancin provides a unique showcase for some of the most creative artists around. A rich cabaret exposing the polychrome micro-fibre of life in all its splendor (...)".

Check also "Recyclart": www.recyclart.be

Music: iPod ou Zune?

Music: Microsoft versus Apple, zune vs iPod

La musique en ligne, nouveau terrain d'affrontement entre Microsoft et Apple
LE MONDE | 14.11.06

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Music: TRACKLIST October 06

Album of the month:

Trentemøller – “The last resort”
With this double cd, danish musician Anders Trentemøller walks his own path away from the pokerflat label where he started with a remix for Royksopp. The first CD is instrumental electronic music with an atmospheric and organic taste, evoluting from the previous electro-minimal Trentemøller’s work. Yet, tracks like “Polar Shift’, ‘Rykketid’ and ‘Killer Kat’ may make you feel like dancing. This reminds a bit of Nathan Fake but is less techno and more dancefloor. A great CD which is to be listened in one long go. The second CD has some remixes and different versions.

"Anders Trentemøller has taken the underground scene by storm over the last few months with such incredible tracks as 'Beta Boy', 'Polar Shift' and 'Sunstroke', not to mention his remixes of artists ranging from The Knife and Yoshimoto through to the Pet Shop Boys. He's become one of the leading producers in a considerably short space of time, and now is due to release his debut artist album 'The Last Resort' on Poker Flat. Due for release in October, and preceded by lead single 'Always Something Better', this is one to mark on the calender as it is definitely not to be missed." >>> http://www.progressive-sounds.com/features/Trentemoller-The-Last-Resort.asp

Other albums:

Agoria – “The Green Armchair”
Ame... Mixing – “various”
Burial – “Burial”

Hey Willpower – “P.D.A.”
Lindstrøm – “It's a Feedelity Affair”
Luomo – “Paper Tigers”
Mummer – “SoulOrganismState”
Radio Slave – “Creatures of the Night”

Rub-n-Tug –“Better With A Spoonful Of Leather - aNYthing Mix Volume II”
Secret Love 3 Compiled By Jazzanova & Resoul - compilation
Small Sins & Thomas D'Arcy – “Small sins”
TM Juke – “Forward”

Track of the month:

Ooze & Ooze feat. Tishk – “Random Wondrous Things”

Other tracks of the months:

Âme – “Rej (Original Club Mix)”
Bertine Zetlitz – “Midnight”
Black Devil Disco Club – The devil in us”
Chica and the Folder – “I’ll come running”
Dark Globe featuring Boy George – “Atom”
François Dubois – “Blood (Original Mix)”
Grandadbob – “Pictures (Naughty Dub)”
Hey Willpower - “Phenomenon”
Liebe*Detail 13 – “Liebe*Detail 13”
Ludovic Vendi – “Hectorine (Alland Byallo Remix)”
Lushlife – “smile”
Mai – “Snowing downtown”
Martin Buttrich – “Full clip”
Micah P. Hinson & Viva Voce – “Pleasant Street”
Michoacan – “2 Bullets”
Moby – “Go (Trentemøller remix)”
Oliver Huntemann & Stephan Bodzin – “37 Grad (Arnaud Rebotini's Blackstrobe Remix)” Phonique – “River (Robert Babicz Remix)”
Putsch '79 – “kisses”
TM Juke - "Life, Rain, Fall"

Music: 8 years of Lux

Lisbon's best club will soon celebrate 8 years of nightlife & partying. As "Footprintguides" describes it, "Excruciatingly cool Lux is the epitome of Lisbon style". Lux is a bar-lounge-club, the brainchild of Lisbon's nightlife guru (and not only, he also owns restaurant Bica do Sapato) Manuel Reis. It is also said that it is partly owned by Hollywood actor John Malkovich. In any case, if you are able to make it past the selective but cool doormen (and women) you will enjoy Lisbon's hippest club and some say one of Europe's most fashionable, having attracted visiting stars like Cameron Diaz, Prince and Madonna. It has a spacious interior decorated with funky and retro furniture - the first lounge floor has funky 1960s and 1970s furniture and plays an eclectic rock and pop mix. Downstairs, from 0200 the young fashion crowd dance to excellent music ranging from house to electro, funk & hip hop delivered by top-class DJs like Rui Vargas, Yen Sung and DJ Vibe. Best of all is the cool balcony in the lounge floor overlooking the river and the breezy cocktail terrace with beautiful views. If you have the chance, don't miss the sunrise.

Each year in November Lux throws its yearly anniversary party which is one of the best nightlife events in Lisbon, they say. Lux organises many great parties (such as New Year's party - I remember a great masks-party a couple of years ago) with great DJs and regular invites guest DJs and musicians for live sets, coming to perform from all over Europe (and beyond).

Lux
Avenida Infante D. Henrique - Santa Apolonia - Lisbon
Telephone: +351 218 820 890
opening hours: M- Sat 6pm-7am
http://www.luxfragil.com/index.php?l=pt
http://www.worldsbestbars.com/city/lisbon/lux-lisbon.htm

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Escreve Eduardo Prado Coelho no Publico:
"É um lugar já mítico da vida portuguesa, sobretudo lisboeta, mas mencionado com frequência nas revistas e guias internacionais. E é algo que se deve a essa personagem extraordinária que transformou as noites portuguesas, e estou-me a referir a Manuel Reis. Parece que John Malkovitch anda por dentro de algumas destas iniciativas, em particular a Bica do Sapato e o Lux - mas isso é sobretudo uma razão de frisson para as mulheres portuguesas. Por mim, trata-se fundamentalmente de um actor extraordinário, capaz de imensas transfigurações, e que se terá apaixonado por Portugal.O Lux festeja agora o 8.º aniversário, embora venha na linha directa de um Frágil que hoje se desossificou. O convite é um modelo de invenção, de realização algo complexa. Traz um DVD com uma montagem de imagens de filmes de Fellini e Almodóvar (tema da noite)." (...)

Music: the tracklist issue August/Sept/October

Albums of the month:
Charlotte Gainsbourg (5:55) – understated class and bonheur auditif
Fuckpony (Children of love) – revival electro new wave gay trash
In Flagranti (Wronger than anyone else) – fresh - electroclash – house from NY
Scissor Sisters (Ta-Dah) – even better than 1st cd, fresh re-start, glamour disco-funk
The Presets (Beams) – “spazzzdancefagrock”, dancefloor rock from Australia via Gigolo Münich
The Rapture (Pieces of the People we love) – great funk-rock from NY, and they’re excellent on stage!

Track of the month: Danton Eeprom - Les amants robotiques

Other tracks of the months:
CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy) - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
Derrick L. Carter, Dixon, Henrik Schwarz & Âme - Where We At (Version 1)
Ferry Corsten & Simon Le Bon – Fire
Fuckpony - Ride The Pony
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (Richard Vission Remix)
Heidi vs. Riton - Vejer (Jesse Rose Remix)
In Flagranti - Reputation Or Notoriety ?
Jimpster - A Love Like This (Hipp-e Remix)
Junior Boys - In the Morning
Kaskade - Be Still (Extended)
Kudu - Bar Star (In Flagranti's Sleek City Mix)
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch (Catholic Version)
Lily Allen – Smile
Linus Loves – Night music
Lo-Fi-Fnk - Wake Up (Justus Köhncke Remix)
Maral Salmassi – Love Forever
Marc Romboy & Tommie Sunshine - Body Jack (DJ Delicious Remix)
Mekon feat. Alan Vega & Boby Gillespie - Blood On the Moon (In Flagranti Remix)
Michael Mayer - Lovefood
Michoacan - michoacan Galactic
Mike Monday – Zum Zum
Peace Division & Pleasant Gehman - Blacklight Sleaze (Featuring Pleasant Gehman)
Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks (Punks Jump Up - Special Disco Mix)
Robbie Williams - Rudebox (Soul Mekanik Extended Mix)
Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Erol Alkan's Carnival of Light Rework)
Sissy - Can't Save You
Spirit Catcher - Galactik Flies
Teki Latex - Disco Dance With You (Para One Remix)
Track 72 – Monument
Vitalic featuring Linda Lamb – Bells
Wonderland Avenue - White Horse (Frank J - Radio Edit)

Other suggestions of new Cds:
Alexkid (Caracol), Alias & Tarsier (Plane That Draws A White Line), Beck (The information), Box Codax - aka Nick Mccarthy of Franz Ferdinand (Only an orchard away), Brightblack Morning Light (Everybody Daylight), Cirkus feat. Neneh Cherry (Laylow), Collectors series pt.2 (Danse, gravité zéro by Kaos & Sal P.), Compil by Innervisions (Where we at), Compil “Shapes” by Truthoughts & Zebra traffic, Dani Siciliano (Slappers), Darkel - one of Air's 2 – (Darkel), Girl Monster (Girl Monster –various), Gswing (Swing for modern clubbing – various), Hypnolove (Eurolove), Junior Boys (So this is goodbye), Justin Timberlake (Futuresex/Lovesounds), Justine Electra (Soft rock), Klanguage feat. Yuksek (Klanguage), LatenightTales (mixed by Air), Marsmobil (Minx), Maximilian Hecker (I'll be a virgin, I'll be a mountain), Minerale (Shrines), Mixed by Gorge ( Elektromat, various), Novatunes 1.4 (compil Nova 1.4), Stijn (The world is happy now), The DFA remixes (Chapter 2), The Isles (Perfumed lands), The whitest boy alive, aka Erlend Oye (Dreams).

Still in my plates:
Boogybytes (Vol. 2 mixed by Sascha Funke), Cassius (15 again), El Perro del Mar (El Perro del Mar), Exit Music: songs with Radio Heads (various play Radioheads), Fujiya Miyagi (Transparent things), Juan Trip (Consolation), Lawrence (The night will last forever), Lotterboys (Animalia), Louderbach (Enemy love), Markus Guentner (Lovely society), Maximilian Hecker (Rose), Min2Max, compil by Minus, Namosh (Moccatongue), Permanent Vacation, compil., Peter von Poehl (Going to where the tea trees are), Peter, Bjorn & John (Writer's block), Psapp (The only thing I ever wanted), R. Dorfmeister vs Madrid de los Austrias (Grand Slam), Scsi-9 (The line of 9), Thom Yorke (The Eraser), Thomas Dybdahl (One day you'll dance for me, New york City), Total 7 – Kompakt compil, Zero 7 (The garden).