NEW MIX for W Hotels *Rave Cave*
Check out my new mix for the W Hotels app! You can grab the app for free HERE or stream at HERE. There’s mixes by ill DJs from around the world. Don’t sleep!
W Hotels/Burn Studios Lab in Ibiza
Played with an international crew of innovators and originators in Spain this summer. They got me on tape geeking out. CHECK OUT MY SET HERE
SXSW
There’s a certain spirit to going out west. Austin’s own Cowboy & Indian. To begin to describe the chilling pangs of joy it gave me to hear Hank Williams sung in the golden hour in 4 part harmony by kids dressed as cowboys and indians and one of the Doobie Brothers (not pictured but shirtless … Read more
You Should Be Dancing
Listening to this new single from Canyons makes me want to shout rock journalist hyperbole from the rooftops. It’s a refreshingly shocking turn! Their early single “Apples & Pears” (which sampled the legendary band Cymande) was first-rate wine&cheese balearia that’ll still go down loungin’ poolside in any lap of luxury, the “Fire Eyes” EP was kinda … Read more
When You’re Strange
I got back djing with L’Acqua at Instyle’s The Show for Fashion Week in Moscow. It was a huge production-there were some models, some dancers from the crazy horse in Paris, no sleep and plenty of vodka. What’s not to love about Moscow? ’Till the police shut us down (you seriously do not wanna step … Read more
A Brief Note
Last time I saw Nancy Wang she was spinning some awesome Exposé 12 inches with Punches at the W’s Symmetry Series back in the summer. Now she’s running around in this funky Downtown 81 video rocking some fresh parachutes pants. I’ve had my pleasure zone for late 80′s proto-house production stimulated by shit robot’s whole album … Read more
Space Cowboys
“Goth Star” by Pictureplane This song comes on like the end of the world. Falling stars and explosions in slow motion. The chopped-up ghosts of Stevie Nicks slice into a shimmering melody that crackles and oozes under a field of distortion, overlaid onto a stomping push-pull beat, until the final minute when the voices … Read more
Wave of Mute Elation
“Omaha Beach” by Gouts De Luxe “Made For Each Other (featuring Jan Hammer)” by Junkie XL “Wow” by Siriusmo “Uniform” by Faberyayo “O.N.E.” by Yeasayer “Quicksand” by La Roux “Heathen Child” by Grinderman “I Feel Better” by Hot Chip “Instant Love” by Sylvia Love “Various Sound Sculptures” by Zimoun
Cold Crush
Breakin’ (Lorenz Rhode Remix) by Strip Steve I like how electro’s coming full circle and it’s funky enough that old school heads can get down to it. The original was a boysnoize-y banger but file this one under “Cold Stone Crushery-1984.” (for more choice examples of this phenomena, don’t sleep on the above minimix aussie DCUP … Read more
