Back in April I posted a three part-er on RAJ:RELOAD where I was exposed some of the most talented artists and diverse music!
As a part of that weekend I was able to see and meet DJ Tigerstyle remix India’s first oscar nominated film – Mother India!
On Thursday Republic of Brown, based in Los Angeles is dedicated in bringing you everything Indo-cool from entertainment and lifestyle scene, cutting-edge music, films, literature and much more!
Republic of Browncovered the Mother India Remix story with a quote from yours truly
Republic of Brown is the brainchild of Geetanjali Dhillon, former civil rights lawyer turned new media executive. With roots in London and Punjab and now Los Angeles, Geetanjali founded Republic of Brown to uncover and share the coolness of all things Indian with the world.
Those of you who visited India during the early 90’s you’d remember a fizzy orange-flavoured soft drink that use to rule the industry with its zingy tangy taste. Well I do, and some else did too. Siddharth Kholsa, singer/songwriter from Los Angeles, like me, used to drink this carbonated orange beverage on his visits to India.
As a kid Siddharth grew up listening to some of the greats who grace the sound waves of the 1950s to 70s from the legendary Indian composer SD/RD Burman to the singers Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar. Later on during his school years he is acquainted with the Beatles …
This concoction proved priceless as in 2005 Goldspot signed a record deal with a start-up independent label Union Records with their debut album “Tally of the Yes Men” But it wasn’t until the tastemaker DJ Nic Harcourt first introduced them GOLDSPOT on his morning show, KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic”.
The Sunday Times hailed Goldspot as “the best band to come out of America in years
After a live performance on Harcourt’s show, the band soon began selling out shows across Los Angeles. Harcourt championed the band, hailing them as his “favourite band of 2005″, and began playing tracks from Tally of the Yes Men on heavy rotation (“Rewind“, “Time Bomb“, and “Friday“).
With the backing from Harcourt the band received exposure that would lead to signing a deal with major record label Mercury Records (Universal Music Group) in the UK and a release of an alternate version of “Tally” was released in the UK in June, 2007, featuring A. R. Rahman’s Bollywood Orchestra.
Goldspot have this beautiful fresh trademark sound. It’s like atoms from Bollywood and The Beatles colliding to give an eclectic rock vibe integrating subtle resonance of bolly influences instrumentation with soul.
If you haven't noticed, we're kind obsessed with Robyn around here. That's even truer now that we know that the Swedish singer apparently likes to lounge in bed, fiddling with an Elektron SidStation. (What a coincidence, so do we! Robyn, did you read our Craiglist post or something? Call us, we'll hang!)
'Hang With Me' will appear on 'Body Talk Pt. 2', the second part of Robyn's 2010 trilogy of albums, due out the first week of September; the eight-track EP features production by Klas Åhlund, Kleerup, Diplo, and Savage Skulls (and features an unlikely cameo from Snoop Dogg).
If you just can't wait that long for a Robyn fix, check out the remixes of her recent singles. Mylo and Sharooz deliver a dirty electro-disco rework of her defiant kiss-off anthem, 'Don't F*cking Tell Me What To Do', while 'Dancing on My Own' gets spun in several different ways. Michael Woods turns it into a lighters-in-the-air progressive/trance anthem, Jakwob drops a flickering dubstep refix that's also heavy on the trance influence, and French house ambassador Fred Falke brings us exactly the kind of big-room epic we'd expect. Kompakt's Rex the Dog faithfully refines the original tune's sparkling electro-pop, giving it just the right amount of bark and bite.
We'll shortly be announcing the winners in Robyn's 'None of Dem' remix contest, but you can still pick up the remix parts, if you're interested in redesigning the Robyn/Royksopp collaboration for your own sets.
(5) First Prize Winners will receive a $50 Dickies Gift Card good for purchases on Dickies.com or Dickies Catalog.
Must be 21 or older to enter. One entery per person. See "Rules" for all information
About the Reeperbahn Festival
The Reeperbahn Festival is a Club-Festival unique all over Europe. On the last weekend of every September dozens of new international bands meet an enthusiastic audience in Germany‘s music metropolis Hamburg. Visitors not only enjoy the exciting festival program, but also the matchless setting: The Reeperbahn – world famous, atmospherically dense and lined with countless cutting-edge music clubs. Be it singer-songwriter or alternative rocker, electro nerd, funkateer or rastafari, during Reeperbahn Festival hand-picked newcomers from all over the world appear on the scene – all of them with the potential to star and usually before their great breakthrough. One of the most creative hot-spots in Europe, Hamburg is beautiful waterfront-city that will play host to a remarkable once in a lifetime experience
The folks at Juno Records have put together a mix featuring tracks from their 10th anniversary series in which remixes were commissioned for genre defining classics. Carl Craig, Linkwood, Henrik Schwarz and Motor City Drum Ensemble all feature.
Two awesome mixes caught the attention of my ears, the first one by dimmSummer of Ethnotechno & HighChaiRecordings featuring 15 tracks in 5 mins … let those piece of cartilage hanging off your head soak up the vibez
dimmSummer BBC Radio1 MEGAMIX
Track Listing:
gorillaz :: stylo -feat. mos def & bobby womack [virgin]
david starfire :: tumbi blaster -feat. iCatching [high chai]
juakali :: come from yard -B.R.E.E.D remix [high chai]
nuphlo :: soul safari [high chai]
knight rider theme [silva screen]
state of bengal :: skip-ij (sub swara bash cadence remix) [high chai]
goonda :: fearless -feat. mc zulu (riddemkillah remix) [high chai]
Animal Collective's Avey Tare (Dave Portner) has taken the plunge to solo artistry.
Tare has created a solo album called Down There which features nine songs and will be put out on Animal Collectives own Paw Tracks.
Down There will drop October 26 and don't worry, there's no hard feelings about Avey Tare's solo efforts, AnCo member Josh Dibb (Deakin) recorded him!
Check back for more soon!
Track List:
Laughing Hieroglyphic
3 Umbrellas
Oliver Twist
Glass Bottom Boat
Ghost of Books
Cemeteries
Heads Hammock
Heather in the Hospital
Lucky 1
Nettwerk Music Group has added St. Lola In The Fields to their musical family.
The Nashville, alt-pop duo (Cindy Brouwer and Jeremy Bose) are to release their debut full-length album, High Atop The Houses And The Towns in October. Recently St. Lola's sound attracted film and TV supervisors for shows like CW's One Tree Hill and ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars.
Their first single, "Hold Me", will be available on September 7th, but you can listen to it below for free!
High Atop The Houses And The Towns drops October 5 and can be pre-ordered here!
Saratoga Springs, NY. Home of the Saratoga Racetrack, the Esperanto Dough Boy, Tin & Lint (where Don McLean composed "American Pie"), and the electro soul-pop of Phantogram!
These upstate New Yorker's will be leaving their land of "Stewart's Shops" to explore the US on a headlining tour. Fresh off their spring touring season with The Antlers, a West Coast tour with The xx, and Canadian shows with Metric and Passion Pit, Phantogram will be in the studio writing in August and preparing for their fall tour.
The duo will be making stops at a few festivals including FILTER Magazine's Culture Collide Festival, Midpoint Music Festival and the Treasure Island Festival. Joining them on a good number of the dates will be Cincinnati native Josiah Wolf.
Check out the headlining tour dates below!
Phantogram's latest effort, Eyelid Movies, is out now.
Canadian pop-rock icons Tegan and Sara have been pretty busy lately. They just kicked off their tour with Paramore and New Found Glory, released a new video for "On Directing", and is set to release "The Official Vinyl Collection Box Set". Oh wait, you didn't know that yet. Surprise!
Tegan and Sara will be releasing this definitive box set of five of the band's albums (This Business of Art, If It Was You, So Jealous, The Con, Sainthood) on vinyl via Warner Brothers. The set will also include an exclusive bonus record, titled Home Recordings, featuring nine demo tracks from as far back as So Jealous.
Pre-orders for the Tegan and Sara "The Official Vinyl Collection Box Set" are now available HERE and will include a limited-edition signed poster.
There’s no better way to ring in the weekend than with Trouble Andrew’s party ethic. Trouble returns with his second video from the critically acclaimed Trouble Gang Mixtape.
“I’m Wasted”, the instant club banger, featuring Lil Jon, Spank Rock, and The Mr. Move, was shot spontaneously in a basement at a Trouble Gang crunkfest in New York's Lower East Side. The video for Trouble's ode to getting messed up also features a slew of cameos by New York's finest partiers. (Why weren’t we invited??)
The "I'm Wasted" single is from Trouble Andrew's, Trouble Gang Mixtape, which was released earlier this summer as a free download. Bursting at the seams with collaborations from all parts of the music industry, the mixtape is a superb blend of punk rock, hip hop, electro, and all things in between.
You can download Trouble Andrew's Trouble Gang Mixtape for free HERE.
Keeping up with the deluge of new releases is never easy. That’s why we’ve put together this handy cheat sheet to some of the week’s biggest releases from all corners of the dance-music spectrum.
Read on for hot new releases—including many tracks you'll find exclusively at Beatport—from Jovicii (John Dahlback, Avicii and Andy P.), Umek, Steve Angello, Kaiserdisco, Tiger Stripes, Heartthrob, Ellen Allien, Hot Natured, and more!
If you’re in the vicinity of North Carolina, USA, next month, make sure you head down to The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. They are putting on a groundbreaking retrospective based on the significance of vinyl and the role it has played within the last 50 years of contemporary art.
Titled The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, the exhibition features "41 artists from around the world, from the 1960s to the present, who use vinyl records as subject or medium. The exhibition includes sound work, sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, video and performance."
There are so many pieces of work at the exhibition that would set any art fan into convulsion, let alone any music fan. Well known names like Jasper Johns and Ed Ruscha will appear, but also some newer faces like William Cordova, Robin Rhode and Dario Robleto who transformed some of Billie Holiday's works into buttons will show their work.
