What an amazing tour for 2ManyDJs! The album cover animations, the confetti and even a guest comic appearance by Nicolas Cage have all helped make the 2010 Under The Covers Tour a huge success.
For those of you that missed their recent Irish gigs in Langtons and the Olympia, Hailfairy has found one of their tour livesets from Coachella and a series of videos from both of their Irish gigs shot on our recently purchased iPhone4s. You can find the tracklist at the very bottom of this post.
Must add that if you’re looking for a digital camera for recording gigs, just get the iPhone4 instead. The quality in the vids below speaks for itself. If you like the vids, make sure to check the rest of them out on Haifairy’s Youtube Channel.
Any fans of Simian Mobile Disco should get their hands on this 31 minute excerpt from their Oxegen 2010 liveset below. Hailfairy had a vuvuzela at this set and we can hear it during the liveset every so often. Quite funny, sorry for the distracting horn sounds!
With a new club night and music release project called Delicatessen & Delicacies in the pipeline, we expect some more solid releases from the duo later on this year.
With their self-entitled album launching in October, Melbourne Duo Bag Raiders have just released the first teaser called Way Back Home on the radio-home of new Aussie music Triple J.
With a voice-over reminiscent of Presets frontman Julian Hamilton, this track is bound for success and we can’t wait for the first album to land. You can pre-book the album over on the wonderful Modular website.
Check out the soundclouded track below and also download their most recent minimix here.
Hailfairy is giving away 2 Three Day Camping Tickets to Oxegen 2010 with thanks to Vodafone Ireland.
All you have to do to win is to Simply upload and tag the most embarrassing festival photo of yourself or a mate to our new Facebook fan page, and get as many people as possible to ‘like’ it!
This competition must end on June 30th so get tagging!
So we’re nearing that time of the year again! Nice few weeks of sunshine and entry into festival season. This year sees Vodafone sponsoring Oxegen’s second stage with auld favourites The Prodigy headlining on Sunday, Black Eyed Peas for all those screaming 16 year olds and Fatboy Slim for all who want to re-live Norman Cook’s 90′s hits.
This is about the 6th time The Prodigy have returned to Witnoxegen and it’s always worth checking out Maxim, Keith and Liam tear the stage and crowd apart with a blend of old and new cult classics from albums as early as ‘Experience’. Check out one of their live version of Their Law below. Nuts!:
Another act not to be missed for a bop on the Vodafone stage is Andy Cato and Tom Findley aka Groove Armada. The London boys will be no doubt be banging out their most recent ‘Superstylin’ acapella as the video below from Big Day Out 2010 down under shows y’all.
We always loved a Busy P interview, still one of if not the coolest guy in music, although Sven would run him close! The amazing Red Bull academy recently did a 2 Hour! video with the former Dafty Punk manager! If your not aware of theRed Bull Academy website and you have a day to scratch your arse, well there’s a whole days worth of amazing interviews worth checking out.
We want one! How amazing is this, song could do with a bit of work though!!
Behold the awesome majesty of the Lego Sequencer MR II. This brilliant instrument is the work of Yoshi Akai, an avant garde artist/musician/audio mad scientist from Japan currently blowing the minds of folks the world over from his base in Sweden. Akai has turned a background in textile art and design and an interest in sound into some of the most unusual musical instruments ever.
In this particular design, the colors of the blocks determine the sound being played. Stacking multiple blocks into a three-dimensional design creates weird, complex sounds. As he says of the instrument, “This is building sound more than playing sound.“ Yes, it is. And it’s also building awesome.
Well now you know! We absolutely love their new Remix of LOTP’s “Best in the Class”. Erol played it recently on BBC6, top top top tune! They’re still the best remixers in the business! One of us, possibly both of us, are heading over to Barcelona for Sonar this June. The Dewaele’s are playing, they got us pretty excited at EP will they do it again? Can they still deliver?!
We’re one step closer to the release of ‘Tron The Legacy’, the sequel to 1982′s ‘Tron’, one of the most venerated Sci-fi movies of all time. Directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring newly Oscar-ified Jeff Bridges (who reprises his 1982 role as Jeff Flynn), the movie is about artificial intelligence and gaming. While it’s 3D, its not like Avatar. According to Kosinski “Ours is sort of a “Wizard of Oz” approach. Ninety-eight percent of the 3-D is in the world of “Tron.” The 3-D really starts once we get into the Tron world. We used a newer generation of camera than the one used on “Avatar.” They built it specifically for us”.
So will there be a yellow brick road? We hope not. Will there be some new Daft Punk tracks? We hope so. Apparently Kosinski is a huge electronic music fan and met up with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo 2 years ago to talk about a collaboration on the movie. The French duo have now been working on the soundtrack for over a year and a half, quite unique when you think that they were coming up with tracks before filming even began.
When asked about Daft Punk’s interest in Tron he says “ these guys take “Tron” very seriously. Obviously, “Tron” was a huge influence on them. It was almost like they were interviewing me to make sure that I was going to hold up to the “Tron” legacy. Clearly a huge influence, you only have to see the iconic helmets, the triangular sci-fi style concert stage design and even parts of the “Around the World” vid to see that these two are major Tron fans. So no doubt this is going to be a movie and soundtrack match made in electro scifi heaven.
So all sounds pretty cool really. Jeff Bridges – check. 3D-ness – check. Sci-fi end of the world stuff – check. Daft Punk – check. You only have to wait until late 2010 to see it. In the meantime feast your eyes on the trailer – only released today.
Following the double A side single ‘Waves’ / ‘ Death Suite’ on BoysNoize Records, Erol Alkan and Boys Noize have announced the next double header single ‘Avalanche’ / ‘Lemonade’. The names are flipped around this time as this single is being released by Erol’s label, and you can listen to previews on Erol’s Myspace and Facebook, as well as Boys Noize’s Myspace and Facebook
The previews are short and sweet but sound pretty damn good and certainly whet the appetite. ‘Lemonade’ bangs it out and will no doubt will be a big hit on the Spring/Summer festival circuit. Release date still to be confirmed, but apparently it’s soon so watch this space.
If you find yourself in them parts - Erol and Boys Noize will be performing together for a special dj set at Miami’s Ultra Festival on March 27th. Or if you’re one of the many thats jetted off down unda in search for sunnier climes and times, catch Boys Noize in Sydney’s Forum on March 20th. Guaranteed to be a good one as he smashed it at Sydney’s Future Music Festival last weekend. Opening with ‘Kontact Me’ and blowing The Prodigy, who were playing at the same time, completely out of the water. Boys Noize loves Sydney and it shows!
If you’re a fan of Erol on BBC6, get involved in a petition to save the station.The BBC have announced they will be closing the digital station. The station is recognised as one of the few remaining outlets for independent music across the music spectrum, and it’s closure will be seen as a blow for music lovers across the world. The 6Mix, which is hosted by Erol, as well as the likes of Soulwax and Andrew Weatherall has been a great success for the station and alternative dance music fans alike.Check out their SaveBB6 page on Facebook, where you can sign the online petition or tweet to your hearts content #saveBBC6music
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The Great thing about Bestival other than being a great festival, is that it’s like what T in the Park is to Oxegen. Its a great indicator as to what acts will be arriving on EP’s doorstep the week before. I love the set up of their website also. I really wish electricpicnic.ie would get it’s act together with theirs. Another sick thing about Bestival was just how much good weather they got last year. I don’t think i saw one picture with a clowd in it. It pissed all EP and then we went on a huge dry run of settled weather all the way into bloody October. I’m still only just getting over this by the way. Weather makes everything in my eyes. Some amazing acts announced already and it’s only the first batch too!
Stand out ones for us are in bold! Oh yeah Dizzee Rascal can piss right off, he needn’t bother coming.
Dizzee Rascal / The Flaming Lips / Hot Chip / LCD Soundsystem / Gil Scott Heron / Chase & Status / Echo and the Bunnymen / Simian Mobile Disco / Delphic / Rolf Harris / Marc Almond / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Ellie Goulding / Fat Freddy’s Drop / Flying Lotus / Four Tet / Kitty Daisy & Lewis / Stornoway / Tinie Tempah / Vitalic / The Cuban Brothers / Chilly Gonzales / Beardyman / Tunng / Hurts / Gaslamp Killer / The Vegetable Orchestra / Ulrich Schnauss / The Twinkle Brothers / High Llamas / The Antlers / Archie Bronson Outfit / Beth Jeans Houghton / Mixhell / Glen Matlock / Samuel and the Dragon / The Japanese Popstars / The Lost Brothers / Hear We Go Magic / Goldhawks / Countryside Alliance Crew / Laura J Martin / A Genuine Freakshow / Bookhouse Boys / King Charles / Three Trapped Tigers / Worship / French Horn Rebellion / Sisters of Transistors / Spindle and Wit / Starless & Bible Black / The Boy Who Trapped The Sun / Telegraphs / Tim and Sam Band / Unicorn Kid
DJ sets from Rob da Bank plus Annie Mac Presents / David Rodigan / Ewan Pearson / Dixon / Greg Wilson / Nathan Fake / Huw Stephens / Mary Anne Hobbs / Jaguar Skills / Joy Orbison / Horse Meat Disco / DJ Derek / Greg’s Greats / SBTRKT / Ramadanman / Seth Troxler / Untold / The Broken Hearts / Back To The Phuture
Even just a few of these acts would be a good start to things. Now how long will we have to wait to hear Picnic’s first batch?
Hailfairy has been quiet for a couple of months, so no better time than coming out of the doldrums to introduce an up and coming artist, Delphic. Delphic is an electronic indie three piece group from Manchester known for mixing euphoric electronica with anthemic songs for a post-dance world. The group is consists of vocalists, guitarists, drummers and the compulsory synth operator, which is becoming the norm for this emerging genre with the likes of The XX and Casio Kids. The boys can also remix as their revision of Phoenix – Fences below. Their debut album Acolyte was released last month and is definitely worth a listen. Check out their video single Halcyon below and look out for these guys doing the festival rounds in 2010:
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So here it is. The first DJ controller manufactured by Native Instruments is going to be available in February for $229 (€199) It’s called the Kontrol X1 and is the same controller shown in the Ritchie Hawtin videowe posted on here a while back.The X1 is a dedicated 2-deck controller with FX, loops, loading and transport controls for 2 decks for Traktor, BUT and its a big but is it lacks mixer controls, which sucks. We were really looking forward to this launch,however it wastes buttons on Tap tempo which no one uses anyway as they beatmatch before using in Traktor! Why wait four months to release this when it looks like they’d be good to go now, i think we’ll be keeping our wallets in our pockets for the time being. And $50 just for a bag to carry it in? wtf!
So the wait goes on for a dedicated all in one traktor controller at a reasonable price. First company to realise this is on to a winner. Seems so simple? Yes
OK edit some of what we just said!, maybe we got a little ahead of ourselves as we just got a look at some vids over on Native Instruments website amd we’re warming to it a little……. or actually maybe a lot!
Anyone keen for fun in Dublin this Sunday needs to check out the Bacardi B-Live party in Pod. Bacardi and Pod have teamed over a good few bank hollier Sundays over the last 2 years and always seem deliver the goods with 3 rooms each containing a different style of music from Brazilian Drums to sweaty electro. Tickets are 20 Eurex and can be bought up here.
DJ Mehdi knows this venue well and we expect him to lure the crowd in with his typical blend of french house, electro bangers and Queen rock anthems. Complementing him is Glaswegian hip-hop maverick Hudson Mohawke, and Dublin’s own hip-hop/dance mini-orchestra Kormac’s Big Band.
In the meantime, check out Mehdi’s latest mix ‘Black Black Black’ below:
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Studio !K7 have produced the goods again by adding Chromeo to their long list of artists on their DJ-Kicks albums. The Montreal duo had some big shoes to fill with this album following previous DJ-Kicks albums from the likes of Erlend Oye, Tiga and Hot Chip to name a few. This latest version fails to disappoint with some classic blends of jazz, synth and funk will keep you bopping for hours on end.
The album features some old skool electronic sounds from back in the 80′s such as the opener Kano - Ikeya Seki which has been recently sampled by Ed Banger’s Kavinsky for his song Grand Canyon. Check the slick microsite for the album at chromeo-djkicks.com which includes the full tracklist and a 15 minute album preview.
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