For all the music fans and producers, we are having a remix competition with Indaba and minitek. Indaba is a cool site for music collaboration, letting musicians from around the world to work on projects together through their site. minitek, which you should know by now is nyc’s first electronic music and innovation festival from Sept 12th to 14th. They are also extremely commited to emerging talents with artists like Monoblock, Format:B, Elon and of course Fase Miusic Sender on their first year line up. Check out the competition and maybe you will win yourself a release with us
and maybe a few other prizes…
There is already a remix up on indaba to check out and rumors of a several more coming!
Here is our Mid-Summer Selection for you. We are and have been listening to these tunes a lot. Some are old, others are more recent, and a few just released. Some are definitely perfect for the summer, some already prepare us for the Fall and Winter.
But ALL are worth checking and grooving to…
1. John Daly - Back it Up (International Records Recordings 001)
2. E-Bridge - Altosucios (Sushitech Purple 007)
3. Mirco Violi - A Quien Contarle (Heimatmelodie 008)
4. Lee Curtiss - Blue Blockin (Dumb Unit 043)
5. Marco Zenker - Indus (Funzion Medusa Remix) (igloo-rec 007)
6. Soul Clap - die Ente (Original Mix) (AirDrop 002)
7. Eklipse - Bipolar (Andres Zacco Remix) (alphahouse 011)
8. Tigerskin/ Dave DK - Volar (Miss Jools & RenRew Remix) (Moodmusic 061)
9. Marbert Rocel - Cornflake Boy (Solomun Dub) (Compost)
10. Detroit Grand Pubahs - Blind Date w/ Dr. Bootygrabber (Logistic 053)
11. Jacek Sienkiewicz - COM-BAT (Cocoon)
12. Estroe - Swinging Chair (Subconscious Elements 007)
13. Small Town Girls - Echizen Bells (Fountain Music 001)
We have decided to launch a new post called “Tastes of the Future” to give your ears a preview of releases that will come out on AirDrop. We are always excited when one of our artists sends us a new remix or a freshly baked super dope track. And we wanted to share that feeling with you too…
It was not too long ago that we first started to receive demos and thankfully we have found some talented producers around the world. The track that is being previewed this week is a remix by Restart & Stone featuring VieSse. They are 4 young upbeat Italian artists that have really shown us some great material and a very positive open minded attitude that is an integral part of AirDrop.
So without making you wait any longer… why don’t you take a listen to a Retart & Stone loves VieSse remix of Minimaril’s Black Hole Hooked track which we released as part of the Samba EP.
MINIMARIL - BLACK HOLE HOOKED ( RESTART & STONE LOVES VIESSE REMIX )
We are very proud to have some of our fellow artists and friends on this line up and also just very eager to see this festival happen. The tickets went back on sale on RA for $60 (+fee), which I think is a pretty amazing deal for a line up like this and in NYC! They also now have VIP tickets selling for $150, with special bathroom access! Now that’s what I am talking about, no more stinky over abused port a potties. Honestly, when I heard minitek was doing a festival, I was expecting steeper prices, but am quite relieved to see that its quite affordable.
Now the minitek website is up and running as well as the “9 weeks” Butane podcast which sounds great and can be downloaded here. They have also kept the venue vail going a little bit longer, but at least have said that there will be two venues, an evening and daytime one (and maybe even a shuttle service between the two)
Despite having a fever, Loco Dice held everything together and played an all night long set in honor of his latest album release 7 Dunham Place. His productions are dope at least 3 of the tracks are total hits like the joyful “La Esquina,” the dirty “Tight Laces”, or his bouncy dance floor killer that is “Pimp Jackson is talking now.” His album is available on Beatport and pretty much everywhere!
As for the night at Cielo, it is increasingly difficult to find a non-meathead infested place in the meat packing district, so our crew of friends had to spend a bit of time chatting outside in time for all the yuppies to leave us with a semi packed dance floor that we could share exclusively with Loco. We forgave him for a few technical missteps and all in all everyone there had a good time and could only speak highly of Dice’s addictive swinging rhythms.
Loco Dice is coming to NYC, with more hype than ever touring for his 7 Dunham Place release and Gregor Tresher is making his NYC debut after being voted best techno DJ by Beatport. It will be a hard pick between the two and in fact one could do both given the distance between the places Hiro and Cielo. Biatch Corp is presenting a strong line up with Derek Plaslaiko, Giovanni, Pito and Karaskilla and have not had a party in a while, so it will definitely be big, since it’s also their Hiro Ballroom debut!
New York will have to wait a couple months before minimoo strikes again with the minitek festival and maybe another season of moo debauchery. They have just finished their second season of minimoo which travelled beyond its birth place to cities far away from the roof tops and old breweries of New York. London, LA and Miami were thankful to receive the crew for one time shabangs.
As for the closing party, start with the indoor before finishing it off on a roof top after-pre-party for Independence Day. Memek is truly a gem, no matter which headlining artist comes to play, Memek always shines with fresh new tunes and nice finds like Pay For Me by Daniel Steinberg or our newly released Veo Mi Terraza by Fase Miusic Sender (see video below). Butane was explosive, destroying the heated dancefloor till the end before starting up the after with some great tunes, old and new, like Melchior Productions‘ first release on Playhouse, Let’s Go Deep (a real house gem) or Audion’s Billy Says Go. (You can find both on beatport.)
Get ready for a new concept for NYC party people. You are used to partying everywhere but on a “ship without a captain”. The party is also 12 to 12 and from the picture sent out by ReSolute it looks like we may see the sunrise along the river.
July 3rd and Independence Day celebrations are also going to be big so save up for that with Damian Lazarus at Love with BLK/ Market Membership and a 48 hour minimoo independence party. More details will come.
