elecTONIC

Mezz’s summer tracks

// July 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I’ve listened to thousands of electronic songs in the last few months, here’s my favorites at the moment:
(set the youtube to at least 480p for decent sound quality!)

This is the biggest song out there right now. Skip the vocal version and lose yourself in this riff
One – Swedish House Mafia

Fedde takes us to the future with a sound you’ve never heard before
Back & Forth (feat. Mr. V) (Fedde’s Future Funk remix) – Fedde Le Grand

Afrojack and Chuckie have a new contender in the Dutch House scene, Angger Dimas
Pass That Dutch (Angger Dimas Bootleg) – Missy Elliot

Angger Dimas, Vandalism, and Jack Hammer with a KILLER electro house track
She Got It (Jack Hammer remix) – Vandalism & Angger Dimas

Trippy, groovy, creepy. You have to check out Tobacco!
Backwoods Altar – Tobacco

Hardcore from an artist named after the neurodevelopmental disorder that makes people act like elves. Pseudonym of Kasparov of Noisecontrollers.
Secrets – Williams Syndrome

SonicC transformed My Guns On Display to something a lot quicker, maybe a machine gun. I loved the sound of the original, but it was way too slow to keep my interest or get me dancing. SonicC fixed all of that.
My G*O*D (SonicC remix) – Laidback Luke

Remember the video or Christopher Walken dancing to this song? Yeah. It’s been Electro House’d by Lazy Rich for your nostalgic party purposes. A monster track in its own right.
Weapon Of Choice (Lazy Rich remix) – Fatboy Slim

Disco & Funky House exists for songs like this.
Groove In You – Steve Angello

Tech Trance is keeping things alive with some great sounds
Perpetual Sunrise (The Tribal Re Rub) – Will Atkinson

Very Popular, a year old, but still beautiful
Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (Axwell & Dirty South Remix)

The 1920s meets electro house? Something like that, anyway. WHoaAa
Make My Music (Zodiac Cartel remix) – Emanuel Kosh

Something by Uffie that I can actually get people to dance to! It’s about time. Death to Ke$ha, Uffie was there first.
ADD Suv (feat. Pharrel Williams) (Armand Van Helden Club remix) – Uffie

And finally:
Deep at Night (Adam K & Soha remix extended) – Ercola vs. Heikki L

Ashley Wallbridge

// December 12th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized

If anyone follows the weekly trance radio shows they might be noticing some particularly “intense” trance songs. I don’t mean a hard hitting bass drum, but rather synths that pierce you and make you feel really tingly inside… I want to share a recent favorite of mine, upcoming producer Ashley Wallbridge.

This was the song that got me into Ashley Wallbridge originally.

So I went deeper in the rabbit hole… this is very intense:

Meighan’s voice is pretty…

LISTEN MORE DON’T STOP LISTENING

Your Intensity has been Served.
Good Day, Gentlemen

Tele-Beats: Phase 2

// November 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Featuring INTER in the lounge!!

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Psychedelic Trance Will Psych Yo Mind. o_O

// October 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized, music genre informative

The first time I heard psytrance, it blew my mind.

I repeat, my mind = blown.

Until one night a long time ago when I was in middle school, my exposure to music had pretty much been limited to my mom’s Yani and Mariah Carey cassette tapes as well as random pop stuff I heard on the radio. That night, I was sitting at home, a bored 6th grader surfing the internet during the time when mp3′s were the hottest new thing in town. I had been randomly clicking around different music sites and stumbled across a list of 100 or so mp3s under a category called “electronic”. After about a half hour of haphazardly clicking through this list, i stumbled upon a track called “Roll Us a Giant” by Infected Mushroom. At that point, my life changed. I must have listened to this track for the next 4 hours straight, looping it over and over again, sitting in my room, paralyzed in amazement by the stuff bombarding my ears. I had no idea that music could have so much energy. I had no idea sounds could be so warped, twisted, and mangled, yet still be musical. I had NO idea music like this could exist. At that moment, I transformed from a casual music listener into a person whose passion is music.

What is Psytrance? Crank up the tempo, take the intentions and feel of 70′s style psychedelic rock and slap it together with trance and you’ve got it: a trippy whirlwind of a genre very distinguishable from everything else. Initially, this music was an offshoot from a style called Goa Trance (popularized in Goa, India in the late 60′s), a very tribal sub-catagory of trance characterized by a common lack of an apparent main melody that often utilized “trippy” and “twisted” sounds, often boasting erie and ominous moods. The classic psytrance scene is absolutely nuts! Cram the hippy crowd into an action packed trance venue, then set off a color bomb full of chakra, and this is what you get! LOOK! just LOOK AT IT!

this is how psyaddicts do it!

Who is Psytrance? Infected Mushroom , Hallucinogen, and GMS , are just a few of the monsters who ran the scene in the late 90′s and early 2000′s, and just so you get a feel for what the heck I’m talking about right now. Here is a couple of psytrance tracks that rocked the scene at the beginning of the new millenium!

Now days, most goa and psytrance artists have moved on from this genre either to other unrelated musical paths OR immersed themselves in a newer offshoot of psytrance called “Full On”. Full On trance is like psytrance’s hyper little brother; It’s got the same trippy and wild vibe, but it’s generally much more structured in terms of user-friendly melodies and track arrangements. Full-On tracks generally have much more “memorable” melodies and have a more aggressive in-your-face type of energy. Today, some people say “psytrance” to refer to all 3 genres: Goa trance, Psytrance, and Full On all together. No problem with that, but it’s cool to be able to make the distinction, as early Goa sounds different from late Psytrance, and Psytrance at its peak in the early 2000′s is very distinguishable from today’s full-on. Here’s some solid full-on examples. Check’m out O_O

- KAIFENG

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