Daft Punk DJ on Pete Tong's show from 2001.

Daft Punk's "Heroes of 2001 Hotmix" ripped from Radio 1.

Thanks to Electromatic for hooking me up with this!

sorry...

I havent blogged in ages, so sorry about that. However, I'm back with a few nice little mp3s for you.

You may remember me raving about Louis La Roche a while ago, well now I can't get enough of his alter-ego Night Facilities!

Simian Mobile Disco - I Got This Down (Night Facilities Remix)

Daft Punk - Prime Time of Your Life (Night Facilities Remix)

Justice - DVNO (Night Facilities Rejiggle)

Thony Ritz - What I Am (Fucked By Louis La Roche)

Chemical Brothers "Push The Button" review

Yes, I realise this review is about 3 years late, but I just bought the whole album so I thought I may as well review it.

Push The Button is a strange album. Despite being the Chems' most commercially successful release, it is regarded by the vast majority of Chemical Brothers fans as their least favourite. I bought the album mainly to investigate how the fuck that managed to happen.

We open up with the first single Galvanize, with vocals from rapper Q-Tip, which is a great track serves as a great opener to both an album or a live set, but really kind of overstays its welcome, the album version clocking in at 6 minutes. Luckily, the next track The Boxer more than makes up for this, with a blinding lead synth, great guest vocals from The Charlatans' Tim Burgess and a squelching dub bassline. I like to think of Galvanize and The Boxer as like neighbors, the latter being a genuinely good friend and the former being that annoying guy across the street that you invite to your party just out of politeness but who just keeps on talking and refuses to leave.

But enough metaphors, on with the review. Next up we have the gigantic, acid tinged stomper Believe. This is an all-out audio assault, a banging drumbeat, screeching electro-shock synths and amazing vocal work from Bloc Party's Kele Okereke. Hmmm.... Anyone else noticing a pattern here? You may have guessed so far that the main focus of this album is guest vocalists. Not necessarily a bad thing, but to be honest, you buy dance music for the beats, not the lyrics. The album is amazingly mixed by the Brothers too, the transition between Believe and Hold Tight London (which contains, surprise surprise, more guest vocals, this time from Anna Lynne) is so seamless you can barely tell where one song ends and another begins.

Just in case you die-hard Chemical-heads aren't feeling this album so far, the boys have snuck in a little gem that's a bit more like their older stuff. This track is Come Inside, a good old Big Beat tune with great guitar and bass lines. And guess what? No guest vocalists on this one, or on the following track The Big Jump!

After that, we return to the guest-star pattern a couple more times, with the next two tracks, anti-war rap anthem Left Right and heartfelt ballad Close Your Eyes, being sung by Anwar Superstar and indie band The Magic Numbers resectively. But then, the final three tracks don't rely on vocals too much. Shake Break Bounce, with its steady beat and mandolin samples, is a well executed track (it was also featured in a car commercial). We then transition into Marvo Ging. I'm still trying to assess exactly which genre this track falls into. This oddball is equal parts electronica and country rock. That's a weird combo...

Finally we close, with the 7-minute house track Surface To Air. This is the way you should close an album, with something epic that touches your heart without relying too heavily (or at all in this case) on vocals.

Yes, Push The Button is an odd album, but just because it's not an instant classic doesn't make it any less enjoyable.


I give The Chemical Brothers' "Push The Button"

4 stars!

For fans of:

Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Basement Jaxx, Bob Sinclar

Louis La Roché - Peach EP Review

Brett Ewels is from Lowestoft, England. He has recorded and remixed music under two different aliases (Louis La Roché and Night Facilities), he's currently recording his debut album "I Delete Myself", and he's even gained himself a shitload of exposure after one of his tracks was falsely believed to be a new Daft Punk song. Not many people can say they've done all that at 17 years old.

Brett's first release under the Louis La Roché alias, The Peach EP, is something that proves that us Brits still have the magic. Most of the dance music in britain nowadays is nothing but sugar-coated commercial trance, but this lad is different. This EP has a distinctly French sound to it.

The first track, Peach, is a lively chunk of Eric Prydz-style disco house with stuttered beats and a high pitched vocal sample, while On The Floor and Get On Down could be from the 70s if you wished hard enough. Love (yes, that's the fake Daft Punk one...), loaded with diva vocals, IS very Bangalter-esque, perhaps its no wonder that mix-up happened, and Do You Remember is a full-on disco assault, complete with piano chords and put-on-an-afro-wig-and-sing-into-your-hairbrush vocals.

This up-and-coming producer is going places. He's not just a child prodigy, Louis La Roché is a soon-to-be national treasure.

I give Louis La Roché's "Peach EP"
5 STARS!

For fans of:
Daft Punk, Eric Prydz, Cassius, Michael Jackson

Jesse Meza - Snorlax Owns: EarthBound/Mother version

I just found this hilarious flash animation by Jesse Meza. Remember those two guys that argue about Snorlax? Well, this is the EarthBound version.

Unreleased remixes of Around The World.

Daft Punk's career began over a decade ago, and their recent comeback with their Alive 2007 tour has sparked a huge influx of new unofficial remixes.

We've all heard it. So repetetive it makes Scouting For Girls look like lyrical geniuses. Here are a handful of nice new(ish) remixes of one of Daft Punk's biggest tracks, "Around The World". Its amazing what you can do with a song that's only three words long!

Daft Punk - Around The World (Sesto Sento Remix)
Daft Punk - Around The World (Killdahype Remix)
Daft Punk - Around The World (Kid Dub Remix)
Daft Punk - Around The World (Villains More Cowbell DJ Edit)
Daft Punk - Around The World (Muttonheads Remix)

DJ mixes from Daft Punk and Chemical Brothers

Just got back from my grandma's house. Boring, boring stuff. So here are a couple of DJ sets to chase the boredom away.

Daft Punk - Louis Vuitton DJ Set
Chemical Brothers - Chemical Evening Session 1995