SummersRadio™ Concert News + New Music + New Remix + Classic Mashup + Free Download! Snow Patrol - 'I'll Never Let Go'/ BIGkids - 'Drum In Your Chest' (Snow Patrol Remix)/ Snow Patrol vs The Police - 'Every Car You Chase' (Party Ben Remix) (includes free download!)
Northern Ireland's Snow Patrol have just announced a North American spring tour that will bring them to Vancouver on April 30th, performing at the Orpheum Theatre! Tickets go on sale this Friday at Ticketmaster. The band our touring in support of their new studio album - their sixth - called 'Fallen Empires'. Although the album was released in the U.K. in November, it's just officially been released in North America this week. While not one of the official singles from the album, I like it's opening track - this is 'I'll Never Let Go'... Enjoy!
BIGkids - 'Drum In Your Chest' (Snow Patrol Remix) BIGkids are a new duo from London - and this new remix of their current single 'Drum In Your Chest' by Snow Patrol has just been released online this week! You can learn more about BIGkids on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/BIGkidsmusic?sk=info#!/BIGkidsmusic Enjoy!
Snow Patrol vs The Police - 'Every Car You Chase' (Party Ben Mix) This is an excellent mashup from 2006 of Snow Patrol's 'Chasing Cars' and The Police's 'Every Breath You Take' made by San Francisco's Party Ben. If this seamless mashup is to your liking you can download a copy for free from Party Ben's Soundcloud page here: http://soundcloud.com/partyben/every-car-you-chase Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Music! Hellomonkey - 'Yes' (Original Mix)/ Pe & Ban and DJ Mandraks - 'The Sound Of The Drums' (Original Mix)
1605 Music Therapy are off to a fiery hot start (it is going to be the year of the dragon afterall - although one of the artists name's here involves a monkey!) in 2012 with a brand new mini compilation called 'Platform Vol. 1'! (currently available exclusively on Beatport here: http://www.beatport.com/#release/sixteenofive-platform-vol-1/853544) It's actually the first release in a new series from the label - of samplers featuring all new tracks. Volume one features five new songs - which 1605 describes as '5 tracks of grade-A techno and tech house' - and I agree with them 100%!
Although all five tracks on 'Platform Vol. 1' are really good, I've chosen my two favorite songs to post - the first and last tracks on the compilation/ EP - but I shall begin with the last, and finish with the first. :) This is track five on the EP from Hellomonkey (aka Andrewboy aka Lucky Orgia) - an artist from Budapest Hungary - and this is his new song called 'Yes'. I like the rather minimal yet positive lyrics - especially with the awesome production around 3:15 in... Enjoy!
This is the first track on the 'Platform Vol. 1' mini compilation/ EP - from Pe & Ban and DJ Mandraks - who all hail from Brazil - called 'The Sound Of The Drums'... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Short Film! 'Revelation On The Dance Floor: A Film Dedicated To West Coast Festival Culture'/ MiMoSA - 'Psychedelic Stereo'/ Revise featuring Adaline - 'Without A Trace' (Max Ulis Without Mix) (includes free download!)/ Of Porcelain - 'You Are The Sun'
'Revelation On The Dance Floor: A Film Dedicated To West Coast Festival Culture' is a short film by Vancouver's Syd Woodward, that he's just released online! The film celebrates some of our finest electronic music festivals and features footage from three of them this past summer - Basscoast, Lightning In A Bottle, and Shambhala. It captures some of both the vibe and beauty of these festivals - through some wonderful footage, fine editing, and a most suitable soundtrack - I shall feature each of the songs below.
If you haven't been to one of these festivals yet, this is a great introduction - and if you have it will no doubt bring you some fond memories - this is the new short film by Syd Woodward called 'Revelation On The Dance Floor: A Film Dedicated To West Coast Festival Culture'... Enjoy!
Featured music:
MiMoSA - 'Psychedelic Stereo' Tigran Mimosa is an L.A. based artist who's released two albums, a number of EP's, and started his own label called False Idol Music. You can learn more about him on his Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/mimosamusic
This is the title track from his 2010 four track EP called 'Psychedelic Stereo' (available on itunes)... Enjoy!
Revise featuring Adaline - 'Without A Trace' (Max Ulis Without Mix) Sam Lawton aka Revise is a Vancouver based 'cinematic downtempo electronica' artist. This song features Vancouver vocalist Adaline and is remixed by another Vancouver artist - Max Ulis.
SummersRadio™ Rare Remix/ Remixes! David Bowie - 'Fame '90' (Absolutely Nothing Premeditated/ Epic Mix)/ 'I'm Afraid Of Americans' (V1)/ 'Hallo Spaceboy' (PSB Remix) It's David Bowie's birthday! David Robert Jones aka David Bowie was born in London in 1947 - so he's 65 today! We shall celebrate his lengthy, distinguished career with a few selections - three remixes (one quite rare) from his great body of work.
First up we have 'Fame '90' - a rare remix called the 'Absolutely Nothing Premeditated/ Epic Mix' - and it is indeed epic - clocking in at a massive 14 minutes and 26 seconds! 'Fame' was first released as a single in 1975 from his 'Young Americans' album - and it became his first number one single in North America.
I don't recall what year the 'Fame '90' remixes came out :) but I do know that they were released on various formats including cd, 7", and 12" singles - and they featured remixes from the likes of D.J. Mark "The 45 King" (which also featured vocals from the always lovely Queen Latifah), Ron Fair, Arthur Baker, Jon Gass, and this remix from David Barrett.
There is an EP for 'Fame '90' available on itunes but it features the 'Bonus Beat Mix' instead of this most excellent and now out of print 'Absolutely Nothing Premeditated/ Epic Mix'... Enjoy!
'I'm Afraid Of Americans' was co-written by Bowie and Brian Eno in 1995 during the 'Outside' recording sessions, and a rough mix of it appears on the soundtrack to 'Showgirls' - with the slighty different, less political lyric 'I'm afraid of the animals'. It didn't see a proper release until it was re-recorded and included on his 1997 album 'Earthling'.
When the cd and 12" singles were released in North America they featured six new (non-album) remixes - numbered V1 - V6 - including remixes from Nine Inch Nails (three of them), Dave 'Rave' Ogilvie, and Photek. This is the 'V1' remix (available on itunes) by Trent Reznor, who also appears in the video - which was inspired by the film 'Taxi Driver' - as a creepy stalker character... Enjoy!
'Hallo Spaceboy' first appeared as a track on 'Outside', but when it was released as a single in the U.K. and Europe the following year, it was re-recorded and radically remixed by the Pet Shop Boys as a more dance friendly song, that featured additional vocals from PSB's Neil Tennant. I love the lines 'Do you like girls or boys? It's confusing these days'... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Music + Free Download! Sound Remedy - 'I5' L.A.'s Sound Remedy has just released his first new recording of 2012! The song is called 'I5' (I believe it refers to the Interstate 5 highway which runs along the west coast from just south of here in Vancouver - in Washington state - all the way to Mexico) and it's from his forthcoming new album called 'Haunted Valor' - AND as a bonus he's made the song available as a free download!
'If Your Are Ever Feeling Down Just Close Your Eyes And Drift Away.... I Promise I Have The Remedy'. If 'I5' is to your liking you can download a copy for free from Sound Remedy's Soundcloud page here: http://soundcloud.com/soundremedy/sound-remedy-i5 (or simply click the download arrow below)
SummersRadio™ Best Of 2011 Countdowns! Part Two: Top 25 Electronic & Club Tracks! #'s 25 - 21!
Ok, so now that SummersRadio™'s Top 25 Rock & Indie tracks of 2011 have been revealed, it's time to move on to our next countdown - part two - the Top 25 Electronic & Club tracks of the year! Once again I shall post each song sans any additional comments - but I will include the link for each original post so you can find out more information on the artist and/ or song. I will also make note of any songs that (still) feature valid free legal download links for your enjoyment.
And so we begin our second countdown - SummersRadio™'s selections for the Best Of 2011 - presenting Part Two: Top 25 Electronic & Club tracks... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ It's 2012! Rare Remix! Chic - 'Good Times' (2004 Remix) So it's 2012. Some people think that the world is going to end this year - on Dec. 21st to be precise. (so if even if 'they' are right there's still lots of time!) Personally I don't buy into it - you see there have been several notable times over the years when the world was scheduled to end - and countless less notable ones. (see May 21st of last year: http://summersradio.blogspot.com/2011/05/summersradio-end-of-world.html) And the one thing that each prediction has in common is that none of them came true - if we don't remember the past we're bound to repeat the same mistakes.
In the 70's the world was supposed to be taken over by robots. Sure 'they took our jobs' (some of them) but four decades later they've yet to overpower us humans. In the 80's there was the whole 'Brave New World' thing - and when nothing happened in 1984, the fear was rescheduled for 85 - but nothing happened then either. And of course there was the ongoing fear of nuclear war, and then in 1999 there was that nasty Y2K bug - but no planes fell from the sky and the world didn't end then either.
So now it's 2012 - and I'm willing to wager that we'll pretty much all still be here this time in 2013. I would like to share a quote that a wise person once said outside of my tent at the Soundwave Music Festival on Vancouver Island - 'If you're going to perpare for the worst, then you might as well prepare for the best as well'. Sound advice I'd say.
By the time Chic's 'Good Times' was released from their album called 'Risque' in the summer of 1979, the fear of robots had pretty much subsided. The song was a massive number one hit - it's been a huge influence on both dance and rap music - and it has gone on to become one of the most sampled songs of all time. 'Good Times' has famously been used as the backing track for the Sugarhill Gang's classic 'Rapper's Delight' and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's '...On The Wheels Of Steel'. It also inspired two other massive hits - Blondie's 'Rapture' and Queen's 'Another One Bites The Dust' - and even Daft Punk's club anthem 'Around The World'!
This disco house remix was released as a limited white label 12" single (actually the label was more of a light blue!) in the U.S. in 2004. This is the peppy '2004 Remix' of 'Good Times' - aside from the aforementioned quote, my advice for 2012 would simply be 'Party On'... Enjoy!
p.s. when I've fully recovered from last night's shenanigans I shall begin Part Two of the Best Of 2011 Countown - the Top 25 Electronic & Club tunes of the year - so keep your dancing shoes near! Stay tuned.
SummersRadio™ Happy New Year! Classic/ Rare Remix! World Party - 'Thank You World' (Remix) This is a rare remix of 'Thank You World' - the title track from World Party's now out of print nine track 1991 EP - remixed by Peter Lorimer.
The song has some great reflective lyrics and features some amazing trippy production. I particularly like the vocal sample exclusive to this remix that begins at 3:47 in - especially the line regarding the eyebrow pencil starting with 'Oh yeah - you could say I've got stress...'.
