Résistance à la Mode
Because best things in life aren't things.
Feel the love
After being sick for days and couch surfing all over Miami, Resistance is back. All of today’s songs are very special place for me. Beam Me Up is pure disco at its finest. Beam Me Up’s emphatic beauty feels, through acoustic and clear sounds, as if it was a song you once knew and loved but can’t recollect anything about it except the impression it once had on you. Jacques Renault remix is less acoustic and more up-beat (and has a cool jazzy solo at the end).
Joakim’s interpretation of Feel the love is a heavenly vocal infused cowbell jam with deep old school house influences. Feel the auditory love, it’s good to be back.
Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault remix) (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Original) (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Rocha – Feel the Love (Joakim ‘Its’s so Real’ Remix)(Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Not to touch the earth
What an intense experience Symphonica is! The hypnotic first two and a half minutes, which i find really similar to Gui Boratto’s Anunciacion, is pure melodic synths on top of a straightforward bass-line. However, unlike Boratto, instead of giving the listener variations of more complex melodies, Cooper pumps up the bass with mechanic scratches only to return to the main soft and volatile melody towards the end of the song, giving the tune an intense yet fragile feeling.
Henry Saiz’s remix of Lamur is a fantastic build-up song for techno DJs. It’s very progressive, which I usually dislike, but when you have a decent melody and 10 minutes of raw energy build-up who cares about the genre?
Max Cooper – Symphonica (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Guy J – Lamur (Henry Saiz Mix) (Right Click to Download) (beatport) Via M.U.
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“Symphonica reminds me of” Bonus :
Gui Boratto – Anunciacion (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Yo soy como soy
Mamihlapinatapai is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes “a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that they both desire but which neither one wants to start.”
I’m back from a well needed vacation from Ibiza/Amsterdam and have lots of new tracks to share. These two songs were the songs I heard the the most in Bora Bora and Space Terraza during my stay. Both are very catchy and perfect summer anthems. Inspired by the almost-10-year-old Africanism movement in house music, Canoa is the ultimate cheerful beach tune of this summer. On the other hand, Soy Como Soy is much more aggressive and tense. However, the important thing is both songs achieve to get the crowds wild and keep the party rockin’.
DJ Gregory & Gregor Salto – Canoa (Original Mix) (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
DJ Gregory & Gregor Salto – Canoa (Radio Edit) (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Makossa & Megablast – Soy Como Soy (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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It’s time to stop singing and time to start swinging bonus:
The Swing Kids – Nonsense (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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All that you can’t leave behind
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Electronic songs that include raw live instruments tend to go much beyond the depths of generic tunes. Released in this May, Simon Hinter’s Take Care EP is very different and original compared to the mainstream.
Aki Latvamaki Remix is a fine blend between electronica and melodic house. Consistent beats guide the flowing melody and allows it to evolve into much deeper visual images. It is also the most mainstream tune compared to the rest of the release.
The Original version of Take Care is much more raw. The power of the live Instruments are felt much more intensely. Percussions are especially sublime. Unlike the remix, the bassline is calmer and this gives the song a more serious, mature feeling.
The B-side Mr.Blue is blunt acoustics combined with a cosmic Detroit house. A musical harmony achieved through chaos and dissonance.
Simon Hinter – Take Care (Aki Latvamaki Remix) (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Simon Hinter – Take Care (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Simon Hinter – Mr.Blue (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Start livin’ for today
The Dutch techno master Joris Voorn proves he can also do disco. The Secret was released around the end of May, but I was too ignorant to see its pure energy until I heard it in Vagabond. The resident Dj strategically placed Voorn’s disco-house anthem between Blue Monday and Crystal Castles’ Baptism. If used at the right time, this song is a DJ’s ultimate weapon to energize the dance floor.
Joris Voorn – The Secret (Right Click to Download) (iTunes)
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Disco house edit of Imagination’s Music and Lights by Tiger & Woods. Gin Nation achieves to be very modern and retro at the same time. The back vocals are especially hypnotizing and mixes perfectly with the funky bass line and choppy sampling.
Tiger & Woods – Gin Nation (Right Click to Download) (Phonica)
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Life is a Beach Bonus:
Ultimate summer relaxation.
Bibio – Lovers Carvings (Catz n Dogz Re-edit)(Right Click to Download) (Buy)
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Nostalgia was better in the old days
2 Originals and 2 remixes. Both songs have around a 30-year time difference between of the original and the remix.
Daydream was released in 1968 at height of Europop’s popularity by the Belgian Band, Wallace Collection. Despite its English lyrics, it had failed to achieve any success in the English speaking world.
Wallace Collection – Daydream (Right Click to Download)
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Heavy sampling days of the late 90’s revitalized Daydream. This is the famous trip-hop remix of Daydream by I-Monster. If you were alive in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, it is impossible for you to have never heard of this tune.
I Monster – Daydream in blue (Right Click to Download) (iTunes)
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She’s lost control was played for the first time in 1978 by the controversial band Joy Division. Punk rock was on its death bed and had “no future”. Minimal lyrics are about a girl having epileptic seizures. It is worth mentioning that the lead singer Ian Curtis was suffering from epilepsy and occasionally had seizures during concerts. From 1977 to Curtis’ suicide in 1980, Joy Division almost single-handedly placed post-punk and electronica on the mainstream and influenced many other genres from electro-clash to alternative rock.
Joy Division – She’s Lost Control (Right Click to Download) (iTunes)
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D.Ramirez’s 2009 version of the post-punk classic. Still pessimistic but more suitable for the modern dance floors.
Joy Division – She’s Lost Control (D.Ramirez Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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A dream within a dream
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?Edgar Allan Poe
LA duo Rainbow Arabia’s music is just what the name suggests. Edgy middle-eastern melodies with electro psychedelic noises. I can not say it is the most pleasant thing to listen to but is definitely very original and catchy.
Rainbow Arabia – Omar K (Right Click to Download)
O-methylmorphine Disco
Discodeine est un duo francais qui s’est formé en 2007. Pilooski et Pentile sont deux artistes à l’esprit décalé, trouvant un intéret mutuel pour le disco avant-gardiste. Ce qui les amenent a faire un style de music étrange entre un disco futuriste et un son funky electronique de l’espace, donnant un style compliqué mais bien assemblé. Nous offrant une chanson délirante et parfaite pour cet été, Singular, avec les vocales de l’inconnu et pourtant excellent Matias Aguayo.
Discodeine – Singular (Right Click to Download) (iTunes)
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Ichisan, génie du disco, est un slovène et il a plein d’inspiration. Space Patrol EP est sorti en 2009. Cette chanson est un mix de style de music entre le disco futuriste et les sons balearic. Mais ceci n’est qu’un avant goût de l’album qui sortira fin 2010.
Ichisan – Space Patrol (Right Click to Download) (iTunes)
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You gotta scream and shout
More kaleidoscopic dance from Caribou. Along with Four Tet’s “There is Love in You”, Caribou’s latest album Swim is one of the most exciting things going on in the electronica scene. Sun basically consists of repetitive vocals that sit on top of psychedelic stresses and releases. Simple and effective.
Caribou – Sun (Right Click to Download) (iTunes)
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Late of the Pier is a post-punk electronic band from UK. Their musical style lies somewhere in between Klaxons and Metronomy. They are being produced by Erol Alkan so no wonder Mr.Alkan has been occasionally dropping both the original and the Soulwax remix of “Best in the Class” in his sets.
Late of the Pier – Best In The Class (Right Click to Download) (iTunes)
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Hate / Love
Hate / Love is the latest EP of the Israeli Producer Guy Gerber. The single Hate / Love is a fine example of tech house done right. Exotic rhythms flow effortlessly with the deep mysterious melody as vocals echo “No more, No more, No more” . One simply can’t resist asking No more what? No more love or no more hate? or maybe no more both? ♥E
The true gem of this EP is hidden on the b-side. Lost in You Like A Chinese Cookie continues with the same atmospheric sensations. It is even more ambiguous than the song it succeeds. The eerie melody is simply hypnotizing. It is hard not to get lost within the tribal symphony of the electric pulses. I doubt we’ll be hearing any of this EP’s tracks on dance-floors but they’ll be with us all summer long in chill-out rooms and after hours.
Bonus track of the day, Marc Houle’s On It is the b-side track of his EP, Techno Vocals. It was released from Mr. Richie Hawtin’s record label Minus in 2007. While the A-side is weak and incredibly dull, there is something about On It that charmed me. Yes, it feels like it has been made on Fruity Loops or even Garage band. Yes, it is as simple as a song can be yet it works for me. Give it a go, see how you like it.
Guy Gerber – Hate / Love (Right Click to Download) (iTunes)
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Guy Gerber – Lost in You Like A Chinese Cookie (Right Click to Download) (iTunes)
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Bonus Track:
Marc Houle – On It (Original Mix) (Right Click to Download) via M.U. (iTunes)
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