Because best things in life aren't things.
Disco
73 ways to die
Because we live and we die. Everyday. Anyway.
Andre Bratten – Aegis (Right Click to Download)
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6th Borough Project – U know U (Right Click to Download)
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Mr.Sunday Bonus:
Steve Forbert – Cellophane City (Right Click to Download)
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Keep on steppin’ : An Interview with Kaan Duzarat
R:Hi Kaan, can you tell us about your background and your venture into music?
Kaan Düzarat: Foc edits is a collective music project from Istanbul, started by me Kaan Duzarat and Mehmet Koryurek (Mr. pink). Couple of friends also did some edits for foc edits since 2 years. Ave Astra, Anil Devran and Fattish did some amazing edits under the name foc edits.
i am a studio musician, dj, promoter, label owner from Istanbul and one day I was like ‘ok, like this old pop, or jazz track, whatever.. I need this part but i don’t like that part… let’s extend the part I like to play in my sets.’ and Mehmet joined forces…
He came up with some track ideas from his huge music archive, I also have a rare, mostly turkish folk/phsych records at home and am always digging around.
R: Are the FOC edits being pressed/released ?
Kaan Düzarat: We’ve first shared many free mp3’s on soundcloud.com/focedits then, we had a release last year on a label called 78 records from uk. It’s an ep with two edits called keep on steppin and keep on doing. Foc edits will be a label soon and we’ll be releasing our edits, mostly Turkish ones like Mogollar, Baris Manco, Ozdemir Erdogan, Fikrek Kizilok…and will be on vinyl only
R:Nice looking forward to that.How long have you, personally been producing music and why?
Kaan Düzarat:I started producing in 2000. My first release was in 2004 , played with couple of bands in college.
we use to play punk, rock, grunge, even trash. It was 1994-98 then I went to UK for a year to study English, and it was where I met electronic music, parties, club culture and music
names like fat boy slim and underworld was the bridge between my rock influences like pink floyd, led zeppelin, nirvana when I was in the UK. I played at many parties when I was in the UK, bought my first turntable there and started dj’ing until the radio station dinamo 103.8 started in istanbul, I was only playing at home to friends, collecting records, etc..It was like a school to me. I have my radio show called kompozit there on sunday’s 3pm (turkish time) from 2003-2006 i was working at station’s production room, doing jingles for the radio, operating radio shows, directing music at the same time, then I’ve started my own music production studio in 2006. Since then, i’m doing jingles, sound design for tv/radio ads, remix productions, and doing music with our bands foc edits and falso and hosting 2 shows on dinamo 103.8fm, called kompozit and vesvese on air.
R:How would you describe your own sound? (both as a dj and a producer)
Kaan Düzarat: Vesvese is our label with Arman Akinci, and we have a podcast and party nights under that name. I have many influences from Baris Manco to Moodymann, Neset Ertas to Mogollar, Michael Jackson to Nirvana, Pink floyd, J-dilla, Mulatu Astatke, Rimsky Korsakov and so on..
I can say it is where techno meets jazz and then they go to listen folk/rock and reggae at a pub.
R:haha I like that description
Kaan Düzarat:and swing also
R:I kinda get a similiar vibe from Tornado Wallace as well. Let’s talk nerdy. What is your production setup?
Kaan Düzarat: It’s a mix of both hardware and software but mostly analog synths and drum machines…I just record and mix in the box.
R:I feel like I’ve heard some 707’s on couple of foc edits
Kaan Düzarat:808’s mostly but not the original roland ones. I have an mfb 522 which is an analog clone of 808s.
R:Have you fucked around with Jomox boxes or tempest. they sound pretty decent
Kaan Düzarat:not the tempest, but i tried jomox once…big one! just had a new xoxbox bass line. It’s an 303 clone and sounds huge! acid!
R:It’s pure acid bliss
Kaan Düzarat: Yeah love it. it has 11 more mods on that one
R: With the price of the real vintage synths skyrocketing I feel like everyone’s going with the analog alternatives these days…So how’s your synth rack ? Any favorites you want to mention / Anything on your want-list?
Kaan Düzarat: My first ever beauty is rhodes mark1, a gift from my mother when I got married 6 years ago. Since then i’ve been seeking for real stuff! I have a juno 6, a russian beauty ritm 2; Ritm 2 is a monopohonic little synth with bad ass oscilators from 70s.
dx7, micro korg, little phatty, mfb 522, xoxbox bass line
stomp boxes for live processing such as moogerfooger ring mod.
mxr analog delay, roland space echo 201
I also use acoustic elements like shakers
R: Anything on the want-list?
Kaan Düzarat: I need a mutron stereo phaser pedal, it sounds so big. it’s called bi-phase by mutron
i have their phaser 2 and micro 5 V’s
they have amazing analog character that you can easily feel
some real stuff from 70’s
it’s sound is really distinctive on steve wonders keys
wurlitzer 200 also would be nice
and i need a 16 or 24 channel analog mixer with many auxes, to play live..
to tweak channels by aux send fx
R:What about your performance setup ? Do you play any live stuff as you mix
Kaan Düzarat: I had some experiences on the stage doing live electronics
We have a band called falso. It’s a 3 piece electronica-dub-phsych band.
I play records when I dj and I use usb sticks for unreleased stuff…no more cds
but my live set up would be 2 drum machines, fx pedals, looper, reverb and delay pedals and a 16ch or 24 ch mixer with 6 auxes etc..
R: When you start producing do you have a predetermined sketch of the track in your mind or does the track come out/evolve out of simple ideas as you are producing?
Kaan Düzarat: I sometimes have some little riff or bass groove in my head that I start with, sometimes I start with a sample and from there I process and progress it.
I believe that the ones I finish quickly are the ones that I’m most satisfied with
Sometimes I get stuck and it goes nowhere
R: What’s on Kaan Duzarat’s Ipod lately? Who are some new-comers to the electronic music scene that really excite you ?
Kaan Düzarat: these days, my ipod has many tracks by friends that i met in red bull music academy new york. that was really such an experience to me to meet that beautiful people. also listening to jdillas since a while, mostly instrumentals..
new comers: de la montaigne, kid smpl, pick a piper, louis baker, trancemicsoul are some names i can tell you from the academy…
and also from istanbul; kerem akdag, sarp yilmaz, gantz, kozmonot, sami baha, anil devran, just to name a few new comers from where I live.
some of this guys are close to me, and all of the are nice people, which is much more important than the music itself, I can say that they are not dicks.
We’ll release some of this guys music in the near future on foc edits, and on vesvese.
R: What does the future hold for Kaan Duzarat? What are you focusing on right now and in the long term?
Kaan Düzarat: I have a 2 year old girl which is my present and future including my past. Also I’m focusing on production more than before.I’m moving my studio after 7 years. It will be our base for any music related movement such as our parties, bookings, labels( vesvese and foc edits), my band falso, remixes, originals etc..
We’ve just launched a new sunset event series called orange date. First one was with nicolas jaar band, steve bug, anthony collins and vesvese crew, and was a great evening with nico’s show under sunset! Next one will be in cesme with kyle hall and marcellus pitmann in august 24th. We’re also working on live performance rehearsals of our 3 piece band falso (www.soundcloud.com/falsogotz). In the long term, i hope i’ll be around and i hope i will say ‘ok, that looks fine’, when i look back..
Youth
Through all of youth I was looking for you
without knowing what I was looking foror what to call you I think I did not
even know what I was looking how would Ihave known you when I saw you as I did
time after time when you appeared to meas you did naked offering yourself
entirely at that moment and you letme breathe you touch you taste you knowing
no more than I did and only when Ibegan to think of losing you did I
recognize you when you were alreadypart memory part distance remaining
mine in the ways that I learn to miss youfrom what we cannot hold the stars are made
-W.S. Merwin – Youth
Via RomanceLanguage
Magnus Uggla – Sommartid (JLM Retouch)(Right Click to Download)
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Something you can feel
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
Happy holidays to everyone!
Jamie Lidell – I Wanna Be Your Telephone (Tiga Party Like it’s 19909 remix) (Right Click to Download)
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Major Lazer – Hold The Line (Djedjotronic Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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Friendly Fires – Paris (Aeroplane Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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Dropout Orchestra – It Will Never Be The Same Again (Right Click to Download)
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Stars on 33- Something You Can Feel (Right Click to Download)
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Young Money – Bedrock (Djedjotronic Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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James Curd – Let’s Burn It All (feat Devin Byrnes).mp3 (Right Click to Download)
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Aeroplane – Save Me Now (Right Click to Download)
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Kolombo – Daylight (feat Michael Parker) (Right Click to Download)
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FPU – Ocean Drive (Tiga’s White Linen Vox) (Right Click to Download)
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Bonus:
Boysnoize & Housemeister – Saturday (Radiocontrol night fever edit)(Right Click to Download)
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Discocunt
There is something bizarrely heartwarming about raw sin/saw waves. Maybe it’s pacman & nintendo brainwashing a whole generation or maybe it’s the mathematical perfection they provide to our ears.Somehow our generation has deeply engrained the unnatural as the natural. Whatever it is, these sounds that no living creature’s ears had the opportunity to hear until a century ago are here, and they are here to stay.
To cut a long story short, I miss electroclash.
Menace- Hz & Tones (Right Click to Download)
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Jimmy Edgar – This One’s For The Children (Right Click to Download)
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I-F – Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass (Right Click to Download)
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Analog Love Bonus:
Mariah Carey- Just Be Good To Me (Maceo Plex remix) (Right Click to Download)
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Florence + the Machine – You’ve Got The Love (Alexqbit Edit) (Right Click to Download)
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Sunset Funk
Slow hands? Check
Soul Clap ? Check
Matt Hughes and Miguel Campbell ? Check and check
Enjoy your best summer companion, electro funk.
Mam – Crushed Ice (Right Click to Download)
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Flight Facilities – With You feat. Grovesnor (MAM Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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Little Dragon – Crystalfilm (Soul Clap Nevercomingout Remix) Unreleased Track
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Tanner Ross Feat. Pillowtalk, Jesse Rennix & Slow Hands – The Blame Game (Right Click to Download)
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Soul Clap – Islands In Space Pt 2 (Tanner Ross & Slow Hands Remix)(Right Click to Download)
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D-D-Don’t Stop the Beat
Composed with an ARP2600 analog synthesizer, Inspector Norse is a cosmic call to dance-floors. Just like Ragysh, Terje’s new EP is full of emotion and playful wit. Definitely 21st century disco at its best.
Todd Terje – Inspector Norse (Right Click to Download)
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Todd Terje – Swing Star (parts 1 & 2) (Right Click to Download)
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Permanent Vacation Bonus:
Chuck Norris – All that she wants (Right Click to Download)
Azari & III – Reckless With Your Love (Permanent Vacation Remix) (Right Click to Download)
Relentless Recklessness
3 warm-up weapons of choice from the latter half of 2011. Mam delivers thumping french-touched, sample-crazy house music, while Miguel Campbell smashes everything out of the way with the sexiest track of the summer. If you’re feeling more relaxed and want to go with something with deeper feel to it, Tanner Ross’ enchants the ears with hypnotizing woodwind melodies and a very very fat bass.
Mam – Reel Sweet (Right Click to Download)
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Miguel Campbell – Something Special (Right Click to Download)
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Tanner Ross – B Side (Right Click to Download)
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New Life #2
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.By Robert Frost
Andre Perry & Louis Delacour – New Life (Right Click to Download)
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I love you but I’ve chosen Disco.
Richard X’s remix of Saint Etienne’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart (which itself is a 1990 cover of Neil Young) is melodic ride that resembles the experience of being love-struck. It is beautiful, naive and kind of expected. The euphoria fogs up your judgements and cleanses your senses of all objectivity that, the naive cheesiness of the track actually enhances the overall experience. I heard this heavenly remix very recently as a set opener and I was completely hooked from the very first second. I personally believe the instrumental version gives one the chance of appreciating the melodic subtleties and is also much better suited for dj sets.
Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Richard X 2009 Extended Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Richard X Instrumental) (Right Click to Download)
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I Keep Forgettin’ Bonus :
Solomun – Love Recycled 1 (Right Click to Download)
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