1. Drums Of Death – Got Yer Thing 2. Gossip – Heavy Cross (Siriusmo Remix) 3. Mike Snow – Black And Blue (Tiga Remix) 4. Acid Girls – Lightworks (Havard Bass Remix) 5. Kindness – Swinging Party 6. Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart ‘09 7. Spacearc – Love Machine 8. The Phenomenal Handclap Band – You’ll Disappear 9. Metronomy – Not Made For Love (Astronomer Remix) 10. Fool’s Gold – Surprise Hotel (Micachu Remix) 11. Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo 12. Dorian Concept – Trilingual Dance Experience 13. Joy Division – No Love Lost (Demo) 14. Patrick Cowley – Memory Fails Me 15. Pisces – Mary 16. Memory Tapes – Bicycle 17. Duchess Says – Black Flag (Emperor Machine) 18. Floating Points – Vacuum 19. Gucci Vump – Sha! Shtil! (L-Vis 1990 Remix) 20. Boys Noize & Erol Alkan – Waves (Gonzales Piano Cover)
As we're approaching the BURNS tour with ASSFUCKTARD the wonderful people at whereeverthefucktheyare emailed me some new music. Pretty much everything BURNS touches turns to gold and when you already have a stellar track and then add some more gold, I mean Falke, to it, what do you get......
Apache Beat will be self-releasing a brand new single on September 29th, “Your Powers Are Magic,” available at all digital retailers. The track was produced by Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Afrika Bambataa) and mixed by John Agnello (The Kills, Sonic Youth, Andrew WK). The band will also be going on the road with Gossip and MEN in October for a few dates, scope the dates below.
9/11 – NYC – Dossier Magazine. Misshapes + Apache Beat (DJ set) - Fashion Week @ Tribeca Grand 9/13 – NYC - ‘SUP Magazine. Apache Beat (DJ set) @ Wish You Were Here 10/7 – Washington DC – 9:30 Club w/ Gossip and MEN 10/8 – Philadelphia – TLA w/ Gossip and MEN 10/9 – NYC – Terminal 5 w/ Gossip and MEN 10/11 – Boston – Paradise Rock Club w/ Gossip and MEN
That was a fucking close call... Apparently, Google's Blogger spiders became concerned that this here CouchBlog was spam. Truthfully, Google isn't too far off. This blog is basically nonsense. A bunch of godamn nonsense.
Skunk Anansie - Because Of You (Duke Dumont Remix) Felix Da Housecat - Kickdrum (Original Mix) Phonogenic - Releasing The Dancer Riton & Primary 1 - Who's There (Who-A-Pella) Zombie Disco Squad - Twang (Original Mix) Cubic Zirconia - Fuck Work (Nacho Lovers Remix) Sidney Samson - Riverside (Ralvero Remix) Renaissance Man - What Is Guru (Riva Starr Remix) Zero 7 - Medicine Man (Noob Remix) Mumdance X Brodinski - Eurostarr (Nic Sarno Remake) Gregor Salto & DJ Gregory - Con Alegria (Solo 'More Cowbell' Remix) Zombie Disco Squad & Solo - Congaloid Riton & Primary 1 - Who's There (L-Vis 1990 Remix) Dopamine - Spunk (Original Mix) Affkt & Danny Fiddo - Points(Original Mix) Major Lazer feat. VYBZ Kartel - Pon De Floor (Slink Remake CouchEdit) Afrojack - Don't Be (Original Mix) Style Of Eye - Retur 2 (Original Mix) In Flagranti - Business Acumen (Arveene & Misk's Business Acid Remix)
Some of you may know that I've been plugging my CouchFire Facebook Page pretty outrage over the past few weeks. The goal was so that I could reach the 100 fan minimum required to snag a com/CouchFire "vanity" url. The other band known as CouchFire has been well over the 100 fan minimum for many months as far as I know, which is why I was game-face about this situation. Luckily the other "CouchFire" was blissfully unaware of this whole CouchFire debacle.
I had promised that I'd hook everybody up with some free music if they joined my page so I'm here today to make good. So... for your listening pleasure, I've made a great mashup of two fairly mediocre songs, Boys Noize's 'Gezahlt' and Amanda Blank's 'Might Like You Better'. Neither track is great, but together they make each other far more interesting.
Back when I was below the legal drinking age, I wandered into the Union Sq. Virgin Megashitstore because I hadn't discovered beer. It was auspiciously loud inside and my dainty little ears had no idea what was goin' on. I had to ask an overly pierced hipster girl for help....longstoryshort.... Adam Freeland's hair is the bee's fucking knees. His hair's GU: MIx was the very first time I had felt the electro whhhhiiirrpppshhh and just when thought I had fully-repressed that whole Virgin Shitstore memory, Freeland is back with a new kind of noise to make my medulla oblongata go all fuzzy. Personally, I like whiskey, but you should try this to COPE.
Adam Freeland's hair is doing a DJ set at Webster Hall TONIGHT. There is some kind of $1 entry and $1 drink special HERE.
I'm going to be doing a more cohesive report on tonight's festivities as well as something more specific along the lines of an album review in the near future... Until then you all can COPE by following Adam Freeland on Twitter.
1 Housemeister Who Is That Boys 2 Djedjotronic Gum Attack 3 Simian Mobile Disco Run 4 Like A Tim Wonderline 1 5 Zombie Nation The Fact 6 Faint, The Mirror Error (Das Glow Remix) 7 Shadow Dancer Landlines 8 Housemeister Rambo 9 Felix Da Housecat Kickdrum 10 Radioclit Devine Gosa (Switch Remix) 11 Mixhell Highly Explicit (Brodinski Remix) 12 Jesper Dahlbäck Super Connector 13 Josh Wink Counterclock 319 (Chris Liebing Remix) 14 DJ Koze Abudingo 15 Siriusmo High Together
In the interest of necessary blog brevity, I'm not going to get us all wrapped up the hairy details. Danger Mouse ran into some kind of beef with some music executive(s) and his new jazz will not be getting an official release... Instead Danger Mouse is going to sell blank CDRs. Read the longer version here.
I've been hammering this out for at least 3 months now. But on one magical Saturday night, which I will muse about at a later date, the stars aligned and some people finally took notice. Some kids recognized the vocals, some kids recognized "The Worm," others still just needed to know. So, after a dozen or so requests, and even more emails, I finally told em that I'd share my secret weapon.... ZZT vs. Eric Morillo - The Dancin' Worm (CouchFire MixUp) (ysi)
Well well well. What have we hear? Alt electro bro Larry Tee is dropping a full length? Dropping it in the hands of CouchFire no less! Well this is great news.
What was that? Paris Hilton!? Oh Perez Hilton! What about his dick?
Unfortunately for us, Larry Tee's management forbids me from posting any of the albums original material, but that I'll do something just as nice.
Larry Tee is going to be DJing along side of Warren Fischer (Fischerspooner) and DJ Falcon here at New Yorks craptastic Webster Hall! Also, there will be special guest appearances from Roxy Cottontail, Mel Merio, Kim and Tobell Von Cartier so its going to be an interesting night with all the club kids! Peep the flier here. Mark this one down friends, its going to be beyond legendary.
I noticed a few posts back, where I encouraged everyone to send Mr. Oizo a belated happy birthday on twitter, a KANYE WEST IMPERSONATOR!!!!1 wrote me off as dead. Many thanks to everybody whose been emailing me, no I did not contract the Swine Flu.
Anyway, I have some very exciting CouchNews in the coming days, including updates on a CouchGig, a brand new CouchMix, and a new CouchRemix! No fucking shit... Be on the look out from now on because I've received some very generous promotional material from a few very prominent record labels that I may need to share with all my loyal readers.
In the meantime here are some re-upload requests...
Sorry I haven't posted anything in a like a blog-year. I've been really dragging my feet these past few weeks. I've got some exciting CouchNews in the near-ish future to report. To tide you over until then we're going hook you up with a few tracks which you won't find on the hypem. We're taking you back to the basics of house with this one.
I motherfucking love Dance Area's AA24/7. The original and Diplo mixes are both major staples in all my DJ sets, I just can't resist playing 'em all the fucking time. Its sad but I really haven't heard it enough here in NYC, so its nice that Dance Area / Phantasy were kind enough to release the stems for this jazz. The remix competition over at Discobelle is sure to kick start Dance Area's exposure.
Its really no surprise that Mr. Vega put his super cool touch on AA24/7. You will hear a CouchEdit of this remix at every CouchFire DJ set for a long time, thats for damn sure.
I normally never use this blog to talk about myself and what I do. Well, thats not entirely true but whatever, just indulge me for now, I'm having a rough Sunday. I think I came down with the fabled pulled pork BBQ hangover.
I, CouchFire, did DJ set on Friday at East Village hotspot 205 Club. Well, 205's customer service / management was a disorganized mess that nearly rivaled the absolutely atrocious condition of the DJ booth. Mazes of wires, cobwebs on the CDJs (no joke), broken monitors, ground loop humming, and stripped wires made setting up a veritable nightmare. But beyond that I got free drinks, Anna snuck in "unnoticed", and even though I was DJing on top of a milk crate (also no joke), it was still cruisin, I was there with all of my people.
At around 3 am a very nice young lady comes up to the "DJ booth" and says to me, verbatim-ish, "Hey! you're amazing, can you tell me what the name of this song is?" After a few moments of me shouting into her ear, I directed her eyes to my macbook and pointed to deck B that said:
Just a few days prior, my boy Tyrones and I were rappin' about how much we love brunettes with bangs. Turns out this really inspired my DJ set at 205. I opened with The Bird and The Bee, crescendoed with Feist, and ended with La Roux. (Note: La Roux is totally a ginger sans bangs but here at CouchFire we award her honorary brunette bangs for awesomeness)
And to cap off the whole affair. After DJ M and I packed up our steez, (RIP headphone bag), I heard this water dripping from behind the "DJ booth area." I should also mention it wasn't raining out, and we were very much in the basement. I followed the drip noize, and did some drunken recon... The leak was fairly substantial, it was on the cusp of being a "low pressure showerhead" type situation. Luckily, DJ M reigned it in nicely, he notified the management of the quote-un-quote "Ill Flood". We left. I bet its ankle deep by now.
Sorry about the super shitty/short video, my camera ran out of space. I'll post a live Ill Flood (aka DJ M & CouchFire) mashup laters.
Boys Fucking Noize! There really isn't much that I can tell you about the unibro that you either didn't already know, or couldn't figure out for yourself. But for the 5% of you have been living under a rock for the last blog-mellenia I'll do my best to catch you up. The following is a setlist of the tracks I was able to recognize while shitfaced.
*Note, I scribbled track IDs during the show but the following day I couldn't make out half of them. Shame really...
I just thought I'd interrupt your regularly scheduled dancing, to post two amazing covers by two of my favorite artists at the moment. Royksopp & Little Boots.
I think I've posted something or another related to Boys Noize every day of my blogging life. Of course this is not true, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't still be totally rad in the best way if I had.
Boys Noize Records, which is like the 1995 Chicago Bulls of music labels, are going to be rocking tits at New York's underage friendly Webster Hall in just 3 days. Label mates Shadow Dancer and D.I.M. will be pwning faces as well.
I'm really fucking psyched like woah because I finally get to hear Das Glow's remix of Mirror Error really loud n all. If your reading this Alex, please please please release Mirror error, your crew have been pounding that shit out for a long time now. Stop teasing me.
I know its all like half way through March and all but I haven't put up a CouchFire top 10 since like... 2008. But who really cares about those kinda details? If I realllllly wanted to be sneaky about it I could back-date this fucker, but I'm not exactly sure how to do that...
I probably won't get around to posting a March CouchChart until July or something. So, 'my bad' in advance.
Well Turbo Records really spruced up their internets recently... Just take a look at that new fancy-shamncy site with all that... content. Oh and the Mind Dimension video too. Don't over do it now boys. You want to save some that Turbo Gusto for the 2012 apocalypse...
My my my the boys have really been killing it lately. The Tracks I've heard from Tiga's forthcomming Ciao Tiga are annoyingly catchy, Chromeo's steez is(are?) way too cool for high-school, tbh The Proxy frightens me in my pants area, Kolombo's Sniff is about cocaine (which is like the new disco I think, no no its the old disco?), and that Van Party character did that remix for Moby Dick or something. At this point you may be wondering whats bigger and badder than Pangea? OMNIDANCE!!!!
What the effing H Turbo!? Why can't you be more like the DIM SUM or PBS or something? I'm still not sold on this whole we are going to put-out-the-music-that-we-think-is-cool strategy, it just makes too much sense...
Well its been a longtime since my love affair with Chewy Chocolate Cookies. We still talk n stuff, but I don't think we'll ever be hot n heavy again. Maybe if he sends me his Hey Boy, Hey Girl edit.
But it is nice to see that someone from the maximalist school of electro is still killin' it outrage. This here is the banginest 10 minute mix I've heard since the last one. Its chock-full of forthcoming CCC jazz. Get hyphy!
Digitalism - Zdarlight AutoKratz - Pardon Garçon Loud E- I Feel Love ??????? The Faint - Mirror Error (Das Glow Remix) Zombie Nation - Forza Beni - My Love Sees you (Etienne De Crecy Coco Walsh Remix) Tiga - Mind Dimension 2 Robbie Rivera - Move Move (Etienne de Crecy Edit) Popof - Faces11. Jan Driver - Rat Alert ????????? DJ Mujava - Township Funk The Chap - Ethnic Instrument Joakim Remix In Flagranti - Business Acumen In Flagranti - Abash Crock ZZT - The Worm (Erol Alkan Extended Rework) ??????? Mr. Oizo - Positif Shadow Dancer - Soap Difuzion Krew - Where's Dario (D.I.M. Remix) Late of The Pier - Focker (Boys Noize Terror Re-Did) Dance Area feat. Austin Boston - AA247 Crookers - My Penny Jokers of the Scene - Acidrod DJ Mehdi - Pocket Piano (Joakim Remix) Alexander Robotnick - Obsession For The Disco Freaks (Rory Phillips Remix) Sparks - Beat The Clock Herbert - Moving Like A Train (Smith N' Hack Remix) / Yello - The Race SebastiAn - Momy (Erol Alkan's Simple, Yet Effective Edit) Patrice Baumel - Roar Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down (Duke Dumont Reconstruction) 10 CC - I'm Not in Love MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Remix)
Due to the super-flu thats been making the rounds in my circle, I've been falling behind on all your wonderful emails. My bad, I'll catch us up soon guys. Here are some goodies to tide you over.
Well the Dutch super-producer is up to his usual antics, unleashing killer dance music. I really dig the Plump DJs remix. If you ever get the rare opportunity to catch a CouchFire DJ set, you'll be sure to hear it. Its safe to say Don Diablo is blowing up outrage. His productions are getting serious play on BBC Radio One as well as CSNY. Does Don Diablo even sleep? Don Diablo - Work Work Work (ysi)