Wednesday 31 August 2011

"SO GOOD"..!

PICK OF THE DAY GOES TO THE EVER-CONSISTENT MASTER PRODUCER & DJ - FROM BERLIN, GERMANY - Ian Pooley - A PROMINENT FIGURE IN THE GLOBAL ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC SCENE FOR THE PAST 2 DECADES WITH THE ABILITY TO CONSTANTLY BRIDGE THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN House MUSIC & TECHNO - "So Good", CHECK IT OUT..! d(-_-)b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm_3VaaeWDY

Tuesday 30 August 2011

THE "TIME IS NOW"..!

AT TIMES LIFE CAN CERTAINLY SEEM LIKE A LONG BUMPY ROAD BUT WE ALL NEED TO STAY POSITIVE & BE STRONG & WHEN IT COMES TO ACHIEVING OUR DREAMS WE NEED TO WORK A LITTLE HARDER - JUST LIKE THE MESSAGE PASSED THROUGH THE STELLAR UPCOMING RELEASE BY OUTSTANDING DJ/PRODUCER Neil Pierce FEAT. THE EXCEPTIONAL VOCALS OF SONGSTRESS Taliwa - THE "Time Is Now" d(-_-)b
http://www.traxsource.com/index.php?act=show&fc=tpage&cr=titles&cv=109316 

Monday 29 August 2011

A BRILLIANT SLOW JAM..!

A SMOOTH LIVE PERFORMANCE TRANSITIONING AS THE PERFECT SOLUTION TO BEATING YOUR MONDAY BLUES :) A BRILLIANT SLOW JAM - THE CLOSING TRACK OF MY SET LAST SATURDAY NIGHT - ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE R&B/Neo Soul TRACKS - "Brown Sugar" - COURTESY OF NONE OTHER THAN D'Angelo - HIS SUPERB VOCAL ABILITIES & TIMELESS SOUNDS - ENJOY..! d(-_-)b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzhFBTlOOtY

Thursday 25 August 2011

EVERYBODY LOVES THE SUNSHINE...

FUNKY, VOCAL & VERY ANTHEMIC..! THESE ARE THE BLISSFUL SOUNDS OF Full Intention & THEIR GROOVY 1998 RENDITION OF "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" - PERFECTLY RE-WORKING THE CLASSIC 1976 HIT BY Jazz-Funk PIONEER & Soul LEGEND Roy Ayers - MOST FITTING FOR ANOTHER EARLY DOSE OF SPRING IN MELBOURNE... ENJOY - PEACE & MUSIC-BEATS d(-_-)b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gme1NSWY0Bw

Wednesday 24 August 2011

JUST ANOTHER "LOVELEE DAE" :)

MUCHOS GRACIAS FOR THE WARM & SUNNY WEATHER MELBOURNE - & WITH THE CLASSIC UPLIFTING SOUNDS OF Blaze PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND - JUST ANOTHER "Lovelee Dae" d(-_-)b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjcqfJlYPd4

Monday 22 August 2011

A QUALITY PRODUCTION..!

2 YEARS OLD YET SOUNDING AS FRESH AS IT GETS - UPLIFTING MELODIES, BRILLIANT HOOK & SPELLBINDING PIANO RIFFS - ADD TO THAT SUPPORT BY THE LIKES OF Dennis Ferrer & Kerri Kaoz Chandler & YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A QUALITY PRODUCTION..! RELEASED ON THE WELL-RESPECTED Ostgut Ton LABEL - "Berghain 03 | Part I" EP - THIS IS THE IMPRESSIVE Tony Lionni WITH HIS MASTERPIECE "Found A Place" - ENJOY d(-_-)b

Thursday 18 August 2011

LE RETOUR DES FRANÇAIS ~ THE RETURN OF THE FRENCHMEN..!

ALTHOUGH VERY HESITANT TO RE-RELEASE ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST HITS - THANKS TO WORLDWIDE SUPPORT BY FELLOW DJ/PRODUCERS & MUSIC LOVERS ALIKE - Cassius ARE BACK WITH A BRILLIANT COLLECTION OF 2011 REMIXES FOR "Sound Of Violence" - COURTESY OF Fedde Le Grand, Franco Cinelli, Lucien Nicolet AKA Luciano & Aeroplane AMONGST OTHERS... Online download purchase - RELEASED AUG 15 - available through BeatPort.com 

THE PICK OF THE BUNCH – COULDN’T JUST SETTLE ON 1 ACTUALLY SO HERE ARE MY 3 FAVOURITE VERSIONS FROM THE RELEASE :P

1ST PICK GOES TO THE SUMMER SOUNDING, Disco INFUSED Aeroplane REMIX… 2ND PICK TO THE DRIVING Franco Cinelli REMIX, WHICH HAS ALREADY MANAGED TO GAIN FREQUENT PLAYS AROUND THE GLOBE & CURRENTLY IBIZA… LAST BUT NOT LEAST, MY 3RD PICK GOES TO THE BRILLIANTLY UNCONVENTIONAL REMIX BY Luciano, WHICH DUE TO HIS ARTY APPROACH – NON-TRADITIONAL BROKEN BEAT, AS OPPOSED TO THE USUAL FOUR-ON-THE-FLOUR House RHYTHM & THE WAY HE APPLIED Steve Edwards’ ORIGINAL VOCALS ON THE TRACK – MIGHT SEEM A LITTLE DIFFERENT TO SOME IF NOT WEIRD :P BUT NEVERTHELESS BRILLIANT...

https://www.beatport.com/release/the-sound-of-violence-2011-remixes/405452

PEACE & MUSIC-BEATS...
Xander James d(-_-)b x

Wednesday 17 August 2011

JUST LIKE A FINE BOTTLE OF WINE...

THE Hood Natives FT. Mac Z ON SAX WITH SUPERB MIXES BY Raw Artistic Soul & Nastee Nev, DELIVER "Sax In The City" - A REFRESHING BANQUET OF Deep/Soulful House SOUNDS WITH ELEMENTS OF Afro-Beat & Balearic MELODIES..! RELEASED AUG 22ND ON Ralf Gum's STELLAR LABEL GOGO Music - PROMO AVAILABLE NOW THROUGH TraxSource... PERFECT FOR A Chill-Out SESSION, EARLY WARM-UP SET & OF COURSE LETTING YOUR DANCING FEET GET LOOSE d(-_-)b
http://www.traxsource.com/index.php?act=show&fc=tpage&cr=titles&cv=106152

Tuesday 16 August 2011

FLOWERHEAD...

IF THIS WAS A PAINTING IT WOULD BE COLOURFUL LIKE A FLOWER :) GROOVY, UPLIFTING & MELODIC SOUNDS BY - THE UNIQUE ARTIST THAT IS - La Fleur WITH THE ALWAYS IMPRESSIVE - SHARP-SKILLED - Spencer Parker ON THE REMIX... La Fleur "flowerhead" (Spencer Parker's Gun For Hire remix) - CHECK IT OUT - PEACE & MUSIC-BEATS d(-_-)b

Monday 15 August 2011

LET'S GET HAPPY IN THE RAIN...

THIS ONE'S FOR ALL THE Deep/Soulful House-HEADS..! CLASSIC TRACK - UNRELEASED MIX - Intense FT. Jazmina "let the rain come down" REMIXED BY THE LEGENDARY Johnny Dangerous AKA Foremost Poets - SAMPLING THE TIMELESS 1989 House CUT "tears" BY Frankie Knuckles PRES. Satoshi Tomiie FT. Robert Owens - FITTING FOR TODAY'S COLD & RAINY MELBOURNE WEATHER d(-_-)b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glu7xJ_bdl4

Friday 12 August 2011

GOTTA HAVE HOUSE MUSIC ALL NIGHT LONG..!

IN 1986 - IN Chi-Town AKA Chicago - "Move Your Body [The House Music Anthem]" GAVE IDENTITY TO THE NEW SOUND OF DANCE MUSIC... IN 2010 THE RELEASE OF The Remake & The Remixes Part 1, SHOWCASE THE LEGENDARY COLLABORATION OF Curtis McClain & Marshall Jefferson WITH SOME OF THE GREATEST DANCE MUSIC PRODUCERS & PIONEERS OF House MUSIC: THE Director's Cut DUO OF Frankie Knuckles & Eric Kupper, Todd Terry & LAST BUT NOT LEAST Terry Hunter... NOW IN 2011 - 25 YEARS ON - THE LEGACY CONTINUES THANKS TO AN ARRAY OF TALENTED PRODUCERS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE WHO DELIVER THEIR OWN INTERPRETATIONS OF THIS UNDISPUTED CLASSIC VIA THE RELEASE OF The Remixes Part 2 & Part 3 - GOTTA HAVE House MUSIC ALL NIGHT LONG - MUCH R.E.S.P.E.C.T, PEACE & MUSIC-BEATS d(-_-)b

*DIGITAL DOWNLOAD PURCHASES AVAILABLE HERE - THROUGH TraxSource.com:

Wednesday 10 August 2011

RE-VAMPING A PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE..!

AS PREVIOUSLY POSTED - IN MY HUMBLE OPINION - THE FOLLOWING TRACK SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, AS A Pièce de Résistance IN DANCE MUSIC..! WELL, HERE IT IS ONCE AGAIN - AS FEATURED ON THE Defected: Most Rated Ibiza 2011 COMPILATION - RE-VAMPED THANKS TO THE VERY TALENTED DUTCH DUO OF DJ/PRODUCERS East & Young WHO DELIVER A BIG MELODIC REMIX FOR THE MAIN-ROOM - CHECK IT OUT - PEACE & MUSIC-BEATS d(-_-)b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgSdsnI4NLI

Tuesday 9 August 2011

PIC OF THE WEEK...

PICK OF THE WEEK: John Julius Knight "To The Stars" - SAMPLING THE LATE DIVA Loleatta Holloway's POWERFUL VOCALS FROM HER 1980 SMASH HIT "Love Sensation" & Chaka Khan's 1981 RECORDING "Fate", WHICH WAS ALSO SAMPLED ON Stardust's 1998 WORLDWIDE CLUB-HIT "Music Sounds Better With You" - CURRENTLY OUT ON PROMO & DUE FOR RELEASE ON SEPTEMBER 1ST 2011 - ENJOY - PEACE & MUSIC-BEATS d(-_-)b

Monday 8 August 2011

TAKE ME UP [GOTTA GET UP]...

AFTER A SHORT WEEK OFF, BACK ONCE AGAIN LIKE A RENEGADE MASTER :P & HERE'S ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM LAST SATURDAY NIGHT - LOTS OF OL' SKOOL House CUTS WERE DROPPED, INCLUDING THIS MONSTER HIT FROM 1997 - "Take Me Up [Gotta Get Up]" BY LEGENDARY DJ/PRODUCER Ralphi Rosario feat. THE LATE DIVA Donna Blakely ON VOCALS & Rafael "Légo" Rodriguez AKA Lego ON THE SUPERB REMIX - ENJOY - PEACE & MUSIC-BEATS d(-_-)b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr9wDZt_gHw