Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Dual Citizen - Club Action mix

I took this picture at a Yo Majesty show in Austin a while ago. Yo Majesty will tell you all about the club action. They appear early in this mix of 80s electro, club rap, disco house, and other assorted electronic dance music I've been listening to lately. You can grab the mp3 from the Soundcloud embed below. Track listing:
Russell Dabney - In the Middle of the Night (Instrumental)
Yo Majesty - Club Action (Dual Citizen acapella)
Akasha - Thunder in Your Love (Instrumental)
Lil Kim - Crush on You (Dual Citizen acapella)
Louis La Roche - F.U.B.A.R.
Britney Spears - Radar (Dual Citizen acapella)
Shook - Hold Tight
Penguin Prison - Don't Fuck With My Money (Penguin Prison Club Mix)
Moon Boots - Off My Mind
Bernban - Midas Touch the Sky (Midnight Star vs. Kanye West)
Theophilus London - Girls Girls $
Break Machine - Break Dance Party (Dual Citizen edit)
Justice - Helix Yacht - Psychic City (Classixx Remix)
Goldroom - City Girls Sander Kleinenberg - The Healer (Shazam remix)
Dual Citizen - You Got Me Feeling Emotions
Fred Everything & 20for7 - Friday (Crazy P remix)
NWA feat. Snoop Dogg - Chin Check (Dual Citizen acapella)
Maximum Balloon feat. Theophilus London - Groove Me
Lorenz Rhode - Back
Treasure Fingers - Rooftop Revival
Moulinex - Lover in Me
Quakers and Mormons - New York Town (Lenno remix)
Robotaki - Visual Dreams (Instrumental)
Madeon - For You Miami Horror - Holidays (Lenno and Jesse Oliver remix)
Mitzi - All I Heard Junior Boys - A Truly Happy Ending (Keljet remix)
MSTRKRFT - Bounce (LA Riots Unreleased remix)
George Duke - Brazilian Love Affair (Zimmer edit)

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Will Nile Rodgers help Daft Punk bounce back?

Daft Punk's "Discovery" is one of those albums I would bring with me if I were trapped on a desert island. The songs created an imaginary futuristic land that I think about all the time. The record was so undeniably influential, and it got a whole lot of people interested in electronic dance music.

Lately, however, Daft Punk's music has not lived up to it's reputation, especially the lackluster Tron: Legacy soundtrack. The hooks weren't there. The structure was weak. I was very disappointed by that album, to say the least. Yeah, yeah it's a movie soundtrack. Whatever, it fell flat.

Now there's fresh hope! Legendary producer Nile Rodgers of the disco band Chic is supposedly working with Daft Punk, at least according to this interview in Houston Culturemap.

"Those guys are great,” Rodgers said. “They're coming to my apartment on Monday and we’re going to talk about making a new record together."

Holy shit! I really hope so! Rodgers has exactly what Daft Punk has been lacking these days: the ability to create a catchy song people want to listen to again and again. The ability to get people out onto the dancefloor.

Rodgers has produced a shit load of albums, including Madonna's "Like a Virgin", David Bowie's "Let's Dance" and records by Duran Duran, Grace Jones and Diana Ross. Hopefully he his magic can propel Daft Punk back to the heights they haven't seen since Alive 2007.