Weekend tunes

Some of you are familiar with the process: friday is the day we give you our pick of favourite tunes we've come across during the week and also which tracks we'd like to hear during the weekend.

Busy P - To protect and to entertain (Crookers remix)
bulgarian - barnyard dance

And that's not all. Moro sent over his new mixtape aswell and this one actually is quite good.

Moro Mixtape Vol 2.
santogold - my superman, mmmatthias remix
nic sarno - jam 01
clarke able lemonhead - hijack remix
crookers - lollypop
bloodlines - herve loves messed up rmx
roisin murphy - you know me better, trevor loveys dub
laidback luke& steve angello - be dj sega remix
herve vs yo majesty - get low club action, scattermish timid fuckup edit
moby, love to move in here - crookers crack remix
underworld - ring road, fake blood remix
boy 8 bit - pramface
late of the pier - space and the woods, switch remix
primary1 - hold me down, foamo rmx
boy 8 bit - fog bank, jack beats remix
estaw - break it down, herves spiitfire remix
rye rye - wassup, crookers remix
jukey feat sway - the way we go,herve remix
crookers - magic bus
fake blood theme

This is the life

Para One, Surkin, Curses! and Orgasmic's journey through North America, in search of endless skies and perfect parties. Chicago, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Riverside. Three weeks.


ONE MORE SONG trailer from Institubes on Vimeo.


Hooligan Disco (w/ English subtitles) from Institubes on Vimeo.

Inbox-tunes.

Our inbox has been overflowing with fanmail; some including music, some including words of appreciation. We'd like to thank everyone for keeping in touch, please continue doing so.

None other then Dada Life(!) sent us a message not too long ago. They sent over their june mixtape and it will certainly do the job of brightening up your ipod just fine.

Dada Life June mix
Tracklist:
1. Daft Punk - Teachers (Laidback Luke's 2008 Rework)
2. Surkin - Radio Fireworks (Riot In Belgium Second Remix)
3. Lykke Li - Dance. Dance. Dance. (Dada Life's Guerilla Fart)
4. Elite Force - Kinetic Connection (Rogue Element Remix)
5. Siriusmo - Simple
6. Maral Salmassi - Television Rocks 08 (Fukkk Offf Remix)
7. T.Raumschmiere - E
8. Etienne de Crecy - Punk
9. Tommy Trash - Lover Lover
10. Dada Life - Fun Fun Fun! (Dada Life's Guerilla Fart)
11. Nhan Solo & Daniel Dexter - The Bounce is Back (Malente Remix)
12. Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor (Soulwax Nite Version / Dada Life's Guerilla Fart)
13. Dada Life - Your Favourite Flu
14. The Subs - Papillon (Yuksek & Brodinski Remix)
15. Crookers - Love To Edit

And let's not forget Oldschool Reunion gave us their new track aswell: Lovestory

Weekend Soundtracks

It's that time again. Every friday we select the finest tunes that came to our attention during the week. This week we have 2 tracks that were featured in the crookers may mix and Kissy sell out's essential mix.

Chromeo - Fancy footwork (kissy sell outs six different ways remix)

Laidback Luke & Steve Angello - Be (DJ Sega remix)

We're going to see Justin Martin & Claude Vonstroke tonight @ Amsterdam. What are you doing this weekend?

Do not miss...
And yes, it's probably inspired by the Turbokrapfen piece of artistic treasure for Crookers & Bloody Beetroots, or what he calls it: Graphic Shit, but hey, that is some nice art right there.

But Still, the message is: 'got some time? it's outside, it's free, and it's BANGIN'!'.

Oh yeah, i've put a track in here for you as well:

Rennie Pilgrem - Drumma

Welcome to dance club.

Gotta keep you updated real quick here. You mightve noticed an addition to the prestigious 'Friends in upper echelons' list: Welcome to dance club. Quality blog providing quality tracks and quality photography. Checkitout.

Fine, I'll throw in a track aswell. It's an oldie but flippin sweet nonetheless.
Congorock - Exodus

Mnml

We know our minimal/techyes updates have been slack but we're gonna make up for it with 2 tracks we're really feeling at the moment. Winterdays are well behind us however so we figured we'd post sort of techno with a summertwist. Tell us what you think.

Popof - Chomper (LSD Version) POP POP
Magic Johnson - Scanning For Viruses (Claude Vonstrokes Coffee On Your Motherboard Mix)

Disturbed Beats 003

This time The Bulgarian stepped up and put together a sweet little mix for Disturbed Beats. Compiling some new and exclusive Bulgarian tracks.

Disturbed Beats 003
Tracklist
001 Minimal Intro Thingy
002 Calvertron - Stumble (The Bulgarian Remix)
003 Geoff K - Vodka & Sugarfree Redbull (The Bulgarian Remix)
004 The Bulgarian feat. Oh Snap! - Check to Check Millionaire (Original Mix)
005 Bring Back the Duck Remix Transition
006 AC Slater - Party Like Us (The Bulgarian's 'Rave Like Us' Remix)
007 Minimal Duck Outro

Weekend soundtracks

** I was gonna post this tomorrow but my new djm400 mixer just got in so im gonna be busy tomorrow**

Weekend is around the corner and who would've thought it; we got some tracks to share.

First off, and this will be a pleasent surprise to some of our readers, everyone who missed out on the Limorare (Bulgarian remix) will be happy to know that we've been given permission by the man himself to reupload this track. So feel free to download and tell all your friends.
Crookers - Limorare (The Bulgarian remix)

This next track came to my attention again yesterday, been looking for the 320 version for a long time now.
Timbaland - Miscommunication (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)

And in addition to that long list of classic 80's 90's remakes.
The Bloody Beetroots - Maniac

Also check out 72 virgins track on Bloody Beetroots' myspace

Let us know what you think of them.

Visualisations

You might have noticed a slight change of design. Sgnt Tibbs is responsible for this piece of art. Thank, greet, hail, whatever him @ our shoutbox, our myspace, our email or in our comment section.

Edit: For all of you wondering what the hell that little man represents or even what 'Awkward Pirates' really means:

The Awkward Pirate

Like the awkward
turtle, the awkward pirate is a hand gesture used when an awkward
situation arises. A single hand is used to cover one eye, and the free thumb is
spun in a clockwise manner.
"So that wasn't really me last night, that was my
dad. And he's dead... Now."

"..."

*Other person covers eye and twirls thumb
appropriately, making an awkward pirate*

And on that creative note:

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Fancy footwork

A moment of your time for the fancy footwork video by Chromeo
Genius.

No small talk today. Earlier on I mentioned how 80's and 90's rock tracks were the way to go if you're thinking of remixing. I found a couple more examples that prove my point:

Rubix - Sweet Dreams (Baltimore Bootleg)

Europe - The Final Countdown (Them Jeans & Antimc Remix)

And since I really digg Rubix' sound, here's another remix he did. Keep an eye out for this young producer.

Laidback Luke - Break The House Down (Rubix remix)

CROOKERS RUINED MY LIFE

Again Crookers are absolutely killing it. Quality mix.

CROOKERS - MAY MIX

Tracklist :

01 N.E.R.D. - Everybody Nose (Phra Re-Edit)

02 Outlander - The Vamp

03 CSS - Music Is My Hot Sex (Switch Remix)

04 Steve Angello & Laidback Luke - be (dj sega remix)

05 Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Look For The Woman (Fake Blood Remix)

06 Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Crookers Remix)

07 Dada Life - Your Favorite Flu (Crookers Remix) ???

08 Schwarzkopf - Dancing in the Dark (The Proxy Remix)

09 Benga - Pleasure10 New Crookers Mad Kidz EP Track

11 T2 - You Give Me Butterflies (Sinden & Count Of Monte Cristal Remix)

12 Radioclit - Secousse (Crookers Remix)

13 New Crookers Mad Kidz EP Track

14 A New Found Glory - Never Ending Story (From an old movie)

15 Bumblebees - Rio (Crookers Mix)

It's that easy.

Well, I got up this morning and found my inboxes filled with sweet new promos to share.

Riva Starr, The Bulgarian and U&A Recordings all had some music in store.

Riva Starr sent along his remix of Colin Hobbs - Coming Up (will only be up for 10 days so get it quick). Quality fidget proving he hasn't lost his touch. Already, this track is supported by the legend Dave 'Switch' Taylor, Jesse Rose and all the other usual suspects. Keep checking Riva Starr's label Dirtybird Records however for his techYes tracks aswell.

The Bulgarian is definitly among the greats when it comes to fidget sounds. Talked to him a while back and he mentioned he had done a remix for Crookers of their 'Limonare' track. He said this remix might not ever be released so we were free to host it on Awkward Pirates. Thanks for that by the way D.

Crookers - Limonare (The bulgarian's sweet like a lemon mix).

U&A Recordings were nice enough to hand us some samples of their upcomming releases aswell.

They've started a project where they remix a series of older Elite Force tracks.

The first mix comes from Plasmapool's Miles Dyson and melds electro house attitude with classic breaks fonk stylings to create a huge big room monster.

Elite Force - Melodik Hypnotik (Miles Dyson Mix)

The second mix is from Dirtybird artist Riva Starr who turns in a awesome, low-slung, deep techy take on things and comes up with a stripped and hypnotic version that jacks up the bass and lets fly with a groove that is rolling and percussive. Quality house music that clearly shows why Claude Von Stroke has taken this talented producer on board.

Elite Force - Melodik Hypnotik (Riva Starr Mix)

Then there's the original mix Elite Force - Melodik Hypnotik (Original 2003 Mix) and the Elite Force - Melodik Hypnotik (Elite Force's unreleased '05 re-rub)

As you might've noticed all these remixes are in 128 but if you're looking for any of these remixes you can BUY them here.

Machines don't care

The infamous Count of monte Cristal & Sinden recorded a mix for The Resident Advisor Network podcast. Consisting of Baile funk, dancehall, bassline house and plenty of other genres which we quite enjoy.

RA.099 The Count & Sinden - 2008.04.21
01. The Count & Sinden - Dock Leaf - Domino
02. The Count & Sinden - Stinging Nettle - Domino
03. Toddla T - Inna Di Dancehall (The Count & Sinden Remix) - 1965
04. Detboi - Come Rest Up - CDR
05. Se:sa - I Like It Like This (The Count & Sinden Remix) - Positiva
06. T2 - Butterflies (The Count Remix) - All Around The World
07. Bjork - Innocence (Sinden Remix) - One Little Indian
08. Jay Stewart – Don’t Do It (Rico Tubbs VIP Remix) - Menu Music
09. Machines Don’t Care - Drop It To The Floor - Machines Don’t Care
10. Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Switch Remix) - Frenetic
11. Dj Tamiel - Funky Dance - CDR
12. Voodoo Chilli - Streetplayers - Cheap Thrills
13. The Count & Sinden - Beeper - Domino
14. The Count & Sinden - Beeper (A Trak Remix) - Domino
15. Kudu - Lets Finish (Sinden Remix) - Nublu
16. Larry Tee feat. Princess Superstar - Licky (Herve Remix) - iO Records
16. Machines Don’t Care - Soundboy Massive - Machines Don’t Care
17. The Count - Dibby DJ - Cheap Thrills
18. South Rakkas Crew - Mad Again (Fake Blood Remix) - Mad Decent
19. Fake Blood - Fake Blood Theme - Counterfeet
20. Alan Braxe - Addicted - Kitsune
21. Armand Van Helden - J'Taime (Switch Remix) - Southern Fried
22. Solid Groove - This Is Sick (Herve Reshuffle) - CDR

Also check out the project their working on: a very promising collaboration called 'Machines Don't Care'

Filler.

Justice released their new Video for their track called 'Stress' controversial would be the right way to describe it. Before you watch it though:


Bonus:

Simian Mobile - DiscoLove (Duke Dumont Ode To Todd Mix)
Crookers - Lick My Lennon (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)

Dj Duo Oldschool reunion sent over their new track 'Disco Interface'
Check out their Blog aswell.