You’ve probably seen this video on the web and you should have listened to its funny soundtrack in pretty much DJ-mixes : “Township funk” by DJ Mujava has been a kind of online bomb recently !
World-techno have been pretty hype recently (Kuduro, Baile funk, Cumbia etc…, you’ve noticed that they’ve all been famous through low-budget-ghetto-dance-videos on youtube). South Africa is now printing his touch : Kwaito moves legs in the name of freedom since 1990 in South Africa and Dj Mujava takes control of the European Dancefloor since few month.
The funny thing is that one year after the video, Warp records is releasing a first ep of DJ Mujava. Should be out mid-september on the UK label.
Here is the nice re-edit of Ashley Beedle :

Township Funk (Ashley Beedle’s Africanz on Marz Re-Edit) - Mujava

Ok, it’s not really a secret, but then again, maybe it’s not public knowledge, but I really pretty much hate all new hipster indy-rock/dance bands. Really, they all SUCK. I mean it. Just because you can rip off a beat from an 80’s pop outfit and hire someone like Switch to produce it doesn’t mean you are anything more than a cover band. That said, I got this album by Eine Kleine Nacht Musik from some friends of mine and they told me it was “like all Krautrocky and shit”.  Also, they are on Modular, and as I do have some respect, but this usually means the result is a piss-poor arpeggiated synth over a bad live drummer with a bit of beginning guitar noise through some delay. yawn. Sometime people refer to making Krautrock and just are making really lame electro. But this is not true with these guys, they really get it. They are making inspired and expansive tracks with the Krautrock idea of maintaining a straight framework in order to develop a more emotional structure. But the sounds and instruments have brilliant textures, really playing off each other perfectly. Massively impressed.

Eine Kleine Nacht Musik - La_Serenissima.mp3 (direct link)

AH! Sorry peeps, but we JUST posted the party photos from our 1-year anniversary in July! Our boy Mr. Macrobi from Photophunk was on Holiday, so yeah, it took a minute. But we were happy to wait- as they are FREAKIN AWESOME! Also, did you see our documentary film of the party??

But this is as good a time as any to ANNOUNCE OUR NEW 2 PARTIES!

SEPT- 18th- GOGBOT FESTIVAL - ENSCHEDE, NL!

We were asked to do a Birthday Party for the Gogbot Fest! We’ll be bring this crazy 25-person cabaret/dance troop called 3-1, as well as our buddy Duran Duran Duran!!! They’ve giving us 50 Kilo of Confetti- so EXPECT THE PLACE TO BE A FUCKING MESSSS!!!!! HAHAHAH!! Should be AWESOME!

SEPT- 26th - @ Josef am Maria

Our next party welcomes the most awesome Ravesploitation act we know straight from LA- Foot Village! Plus we’ll welcome back Obi Blanche this time on the wheels of steel, and of course- you get us- the fully rested Birthday Crew!!! AH! We’ll be putting the hype on this one, it’s gonna be WIKKID!

I will admit that when Lol Cats came out I just didn’t get it. The jokes weren’t funny. The pictures were mildly amusing, but nothing more. I didn’t get that it is about being satisfied with extremely mild amount of comedy. I was expecting a bigger pay off, but now, as the LOL Cat is everywhere, I def do get it (see Pete!) and I see the role a non-stop stream of mild entertainment provides.

Another thing that I love in a mild, respectable, proper way is UK “pirate” radio DJ banter. My boy Bok Bok does a show for Sub FM (”Where Bass Matters!”- hahah) and while they spin great bass-heavy tunes for you in proper a pirate DJ way (lots of rewinds and random mixes) they have a fine layer of completely unintelligible banter that runs through the whole thing. It’s fucking brilliant. I can not tell maybe more than 5-10 words in the whole mix. Seriously, is it that all UK radios have super-bad mics, or is it just a style? Anyway, there’s some suuuuper heavy tracks in here, but I hate the first one! (HA!)  Track listing after the jump…

BOK BOK b2b L-VIS 1990 - sub.fm NIGHT SLUGS show 23-08-08 (direct link)

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I know, Beck used to be super-fucking awesome. Actually, I was a big fan back in them days, and yeah, I got it too that he never really had that sparkle since Midnight Vultures. But his newest album is produced by Dangermouse, and it’s just fucking great. It’s short, concise, and really works. It’s the first time I’ve been interested in Beck in a long time and maybe that’s because he’s all Scientologist, but this one feels different. Maybe it’s the Dangermouse. After hearing it a bunch now, I’m really impressed by the musical details (it’s pretty glitchy in a way) and also but it’s real rocker vibe. His lyrics are pretty interesting too, can’t put my finger on it, but it seems to be his “trapped by my life” album. Anyway, it works, I can’t get it out of my fucking head now… Feels sort of good.

B3ck- Modern Guilt.mp3 (direct link)

How many ladies are in this music game? Not to much right?  And from this handfull, how many can produce, dj and bring a crowd to dance like crazy? A few…

Les Gillettes are def one and the crusade just beginn! If you are in berlin or wanna make the trip, Les Gillettes will be performing next friday at Josef.

LES GILLETTES - VIKING CRUSADE

(Tracklist in comment)

Just like this old hippie-coot on his kinetic-freak-a-cycle, I’m digging waaaay back into the vaults for this one.  Grabbed somewhere around Jan. of 2k8, this thriller by Kanji Kinetic is well worth dropping again. I’m not really sure what it is really, it’s like ghetto tech-mixed with some bassline, but too distorted, with some acidy bits all fucked up in there too. Basically, it’s GREAT! I wish we had more people pushing the genres like ol’ Kanji here and now that I think of it, I’m not sure I’ve blogged him before… He’s got a new record coming out on Rag & Bone soon too.

Kanji_Kinetic-The_Buffalo.mp3 (direct link)

Dunno if you’ve already heard this, as I believe it’s been posted already by a handful of blogs, but this track from the Muscovite Proxy is pretty super-awesome! I had no idea he was so big, but his myspace has more than 300,000 views and looks like homeboy is playing some mega-shows. Cool for him! The track itself is wikkid though, a sort of cross-breed between the side-chain electro you guys like and an incredible 2.5 minute ravey build up complete with crowd noise! Prodigy eat your heart out!!

Proxy- Raven.mp3 (direct link)

My “mate” Bok Bok suggested I check out the Highness blog and from what I can tell it’s about 2 things and 2 things only- nice bassy jams and donuts! What a great idea, and so logical, right? haha

It was there I grabbed this track by Pythonman. Now I’m not actually sure if that myspace is the right myspace page  but I hope it is because its fucking awesome- check his top friends, hahah!   Anyway, this track is full of that old-OLD-school-King-Arthur-crazy-baroque-shit!

Pythonman - Python Skank.mp3 (direct link)

I’m really a big fan of this drum routine by Steve Gadd. Moreover, look at this him! He seems out of this world, showing no particular emotions. Just being the groove. He is the drum routine.

BERLIN TONIGHT!

The Beatproviders teamed up with the Sick Girls to present a real big night of heavy dancy drums & wombling basslines!

And here a DTL dj mix not really widelly spreaded but really good and and and with singed part!!

DROP THE LIME - Summer City Heat DJ Mix July 2008

And there a just published Sick Girls mix released on the excellent irish platform Bodytonic (Check the Oliver$ mix and the Drop The Lime live at Fabric amongs other good mix and live recs…)

The best advice we ever got
AD: “Don’t follow advice, make your own”
JJ: “Floss daily”

SICK GIRLS - Bodytonic Podcast

And finally, Mowgli showing his “MIDGET HOUSE” love!

MOWGLI - AUGUST MIX

Now that’s an illustration that’s worthy of serious study!!! Amazing what the internet turns up when set to extreme bouts of randomness! Yeah, whoa.

N.E.way…. Scott Cooper’s a Uk Dj/producer dude who’s set to blow up this year I think. He’s on a few labels and its developing his own fidgety style that really works for me. I found this great remix he did of South Rekkas Crew on the almighty Palms Out Sounds blog. Also nifty, Mr. Cooper himself put up this link to a Dj set he did for Potty Mouth Music. Playlist after the jump!

South Rakkas Crew - “Mad Again” (Scott Cooper Boot).mp3 (direct link)

Scott Cooper- Potty Mouth July 2008 Mix.mp3 (direct link)

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So I’ve been invited by my boy Kid606 to play at his label party tomorrow night at Golden Gate. You saw him live last month at our birthday bash at Vorspiel, you know the score!

feat:
Kid606 (Live)
Dolby Anol (Glasgow-background records)
C.L.A.W.S
(San Francisco)
Genuine Guy (london)
SLY 1 (birthday party berlin)

It’s at Golden Gate (U8 Jannowitzbrücke) and starts at 23:00.

Birthday party family: you know where to party tomorrow!

Bonus: here’s a remix Genuine Guy did for Metronomy, enjoy!

Metronomy-Heartbreaker (genuine guy remix) - direct link

We’ve proved our love for Lil Wayne a few times over, and we are always up for remixes of him, because they are pretty much always awesome. But the dial on our awesometer just got broke, as we copped this awesome Nadastrom remix from Palms Out. Nadastrom is Dave Nada + Matt Nordstrom, both of which are sort of well known dudes. Anyways,this remix is super fucking wikkid. Pump that shit UP

Lil Wayne - A Milli (Nadastrom Remix).mp3 (direct link)

I’m sorry, I keep writing about other websites and not about awesome new producers! I swear I’ll make it up to you this week!  But before we get to music there’s one more awesome site I found via my buddy Andreas over at his blog Doomsday Device Laboratories.

The image above is from The Eco Zoo, which, as far as I can tell, seems to have no real reason for being other than to preach a bit of random acts of kind ecology. Nice, eh? Well, I have to say, after a night of partying, it’s a great way to spend 15 minutes, and it’s pretty quiet feeling. Ahh yes, quiet. Anyway, It’s incredibly designed, beautiful, funny, and just really like-able!

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Hahahah, how awesome of an idea is this, Cake Wrecks is a blog dedicated solely to messed up, strange, ugly  and over all hilarious cakes.  The writing is top notch, super funny, great time-waster.

And then if you have even more of a time indulgence, go over to:

Passive Aggressive Notes is a blog that details, um, well, passive aggressive notes! Again, the back stories make these pretty hilarious, and while we’re on it:

FAIL is a blog for those things and people who, um, don’t really get it right… Every post isn’t a winner, but the ones that are are fucking hilarious.

Oh shit, I just realized that there are 2 KINGS of rave! Of course, Sire #1 has a highlighted moment in the video documentary of our last party, while Sire #2 is Birthday Party Berlin friend and confidant- HOSTAGE! SHIT! What do we do? Are they BOTH the kings of Rave? Yeah, sure, why not… Hahahha…

So Sire #2 (Hostage) sent over an exclusive track for us to debut - we said, SURE! Here it is, a super-awesome bootleg of Root Down by the Beasties. Hope Sire #1 is cool with it…

Hostage- Rooted.mp3 (direct link)

You’re reading that correctly, it’s an iPhone application that was on sale for $999.99 for a limited time before Apple yanked it off the market. What’s more strange is when one bought the program, it just had a glowing red  jewel and a “mantra for success”. Hahah! There’s a cool video showing it’s functions here. I’m sort of surprised it was taken off the market, as it appears  to me to be more of an art project more than everything, but with hosts of amazing new programs (samplers, synths, guitar tuners) popping up for the iphone every second, it makes sense to make room on the sales floor too.

That said, few people could get more rich from Oliver $ then you, our faithful friends and listeners.  Exploited records have a new record/digital release out for RQM, and while the release is def. good, the Oliver $ is fucking GREAT!!! It’s a sort of “Midget” track with crazy wobbly basslines and enough get up to keep you up! Tasty! Wacka Wacka:

RQM - MISS PACMAN (OLIVER $ RMX).mp3

So my boy AC Slater and I are gonna play at this Modular Party this coming Friday supporting hipster favorites The Presets! It’s at a venue called Relais, and full info is below. But if you don;t know about AC Slater, he’s sort of like Drop The Lime, but less housey, and waaaay more ravey, huge beats, massive build-ups, Diva vox, air horns, in short, everything we hold near and dear here at BPB. I also will be dropping a bunch of new tunes unheard of, like this one below. Would be great to see some of our birthday family there, as it should be a nice night. Full party info after the bump.

Fagget Fairys - Samo Ti (AC Slater Remix).mp3 (direct link)

DJ Donna Summer- Hoovermore.mp3 (direct link)

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Sorrrry, yesterday, I know, no mp3’s. And this is a music blog of some sort, although I’ve been getting a bit more, um, broad lately. So today I’m here to make it up to you. I’m not just gonna give you an mp3- I’m gonna give you A WHOLE LABEL’S WORTH OF MP3’s! (well, sorta)

UK “breakstep” label Rag And Bone has up almost their entire back catalog or releases as mp3!! What’s Break-step? Well, I consider it to be like Dubstep that actually kicks in. It’s sort of like the gray area between Dubstep, Drum and Bass, and Rave - all the fucking good stuff! Not too fast, def not too slow, all killer. They do a fucking ace job over there, so go grab up the 20 or so Mp3 clips they have posted! Here’s a few favorites:

Drop_The_Lime__Mandeer_Hunted.mp3

Blackmass Plastics - Freak House.mp3

Dead_Letter_Drop_2__clip.mp3

Warlock-window_smasher.mp3