I’m sure if we’ve been at the same party recently, I would have found my way to the music source and played a track or two, or maybe even three, from these guys. Duck Sauce is comprised of A-Trak, Kanye’s former DJ and house superstar Armand Van Helden. You may recognize A-Trak’s name from his remix of “Heads Will Roll” that was slamming all DJ sets hard in the past year. And likewise Armand’s name from his colab with Dizzee Rascal on the hit single “Bonkers.” You know ’em. You love ’em.

So Duck Sauce is coming up really fast, and I thought I’d help them out with this post. They need and deserve the recognition. It’s a housy mix of electronic and disco that doesn’t fail to get people dancing. I feel as though whether you like electronic music or not, it’s really easy to get down with these guys. Most people that I’ve showed them to from totally different musical background seem to really enjoy it. I got all of their songs that i could find, plus one of my favorite remixes out there. The weird part is, I’ve only seen remixes of Barbra Streissand and have yet to hear the original. Anyhow, enjoy the Duck Sauce list!

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BONUS!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)
Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden – Bonkers (As Heard On Radio Soulwax Edit)
Boys Noize – Oh! (A-Trak Remix) Delightful Choice!
A-Trak’s Free “Dirty South Dance 2” Mixtape!
EDIT! Barbara Streisand (Original Mix) Delightful Choice!

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Happy Sunday everyone! Ok so sorry I haven’t had a chance to post anything up here in the past few weeks. Hopefully this post will make up for it. I’m going to start putting together a playlist weekly of a handful of different genres from bands I really like. I’m going to keep it to around 20 songs each time so you can put it on a CD to enjoy on your summer drives. If you don’t know already, YOLO is short hand for You Only Live Once. If i could live my life by any four letters, it’d be these. Life isn’t too short, but too dear to be confined to any one genre of music, or to any one way of life for that matter. There is some good in every genre, even country. Open your minds and your ears and give it a shot. You never know..

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Download Instructions:

Ok, so apparently people have been having trouble downloading the stuff I put up here. It’s not as hard as it seems. Just click on the link that i provide that usually says Click to Download. You will be redirected to Mediafire’s website. Once again, click the link that says Click to Download. It should start downloading. If it doesn’t go straight onto your desktop search for it, because it’s there. Drag and drop into your itunes and you’re all set to go!

Leave your comments on bands or songs you liked specifically if you’d like some more from them.

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I’ve been making a lot of promises to get on with this post, and so the time has come. Wolfgang Gartner is coming up in a big way. I don’t know about you but with a weird ass name like that I assumed he was another European DJ making his name in the U.S. Wrong. Fool’s from Austin, Texas. How he stumbled on that name is beyond me.

I had heard his name here and there and got a few tracks from my buddy Maxim, but he really hit home with me when I saw him at coachella. He’s got the same glitchy, kinda dark, hard bass-y, progressive house thing going on that people who appreciate deadmau5 and Felguk would instantly love. The guy was my second favorite at EDC (followed closely behind Duck sauce). Not a moment of mediocrity in his entire set.

SO! I got a high quality live recording of his set from the Winter Music Conference in Miami that’s pretty comparable to the EDC set. I haven’t been able to stop listening to it. Jam out to these tracks.

WMC 2010
Fire Power Delightful Choice!
Undertaker
Hook Shot

BONUS!
let this Duck sauce track hold you off ’til i make the post

Barbra Streisand (Baby Diego edit from scratch) Delightful Choice!

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Electronic music is coming up in a big way, which is great. DJs today are putting together some of the nastiest, funkiest, hardest shit I’ve ever heard (shout out to Wolfgang Gartner). It’s time to look back at the influences of our generation in this genre. The godfathers of what we know as electronic today are none other than a combination of Daft Punk and Justice…in my opinion. Honarable mention: Soulwax, Boys Noize, sebastiAn and the Ed Banger crew. I know neither of these duos are in need of an introduction.

For tonight, I thought I’d make a throwback post to the album that really hit electronic home for me: Cross by Justice. This album made the transition into loving electronic music that much easier. It’s flawless from beginning to end. With classics like “D.A.N.C.E.,” “DVNO,” and “TTHHEE PPAARRTTYY” anyone can get down, whether you like electronic or not. They introduced a harder, more bass oriented aspect to electronic, and you can tell they had a lot of fun with it (I know they did on tour). Anyway, download and listen to this album. Become familiar with it because it get’s a lot of attention in DJ sets, rightfully so. This is one of those albums that’s never a bad idea to shuffle through.

9.5/10

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A little somethin’ Extra:
We are your friends – Justice vs. Simian

This is the song that started it all for Justice. Straight up anthem-of-a-revolution type shit.

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It’s hard for me to look at that lineup and not simultaneously climax all over my computer. I’m only saying this because it pretty much screams “YOU’RE GONNA HAVE ONE OF THE BEST NIGHTS OF YOUR LIFE ON AUGUST 7TH!” The featured artist for this event would have to be Soulwax, hands down. You’ll all see, as this blog goes on, that I have a massive amount of love and respect for Soulwax as DJs and producers. They were there at the beginning of my electronic music endeavors and have remained at the top of my list ever since. The last time they were in the US was at HARD Haunted Mansion 2008, which could quite possibly have been one of the best electronic lineups of all time and ended up putting HARD on the map. (sebastiAn was a special guest, mind you). Anyway, they put on the best performance I’ve ever seen, and if you know me, that’s saying a lot.

I bet you’re asking yourself, “Why should I go to this? I barely know these DJ’s!” Alas..I’ve made a playlist of songs I like from the DJs I’ll be seeing that night for your listening pleasure. You can get the songs here. The plan is, I’m going to get a party bus to get y’all there and back safely. This isn’t the first time I’ve done it, and I promise you’ll be in good hands. I’m in high hopes that all this will push you over the edge to buy your ticket.

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Tickets are around $68 on fla.vor.us but if you go to One World on Newport Blvd on Costa Mesa, you can get the hard copy ticket for a few bucks cheaper and dodge the will call line. Let’s party on august 7th.

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