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Throwback Fridays a couple days early. Happy St. Paddys Day!

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Yes! Kool Keith makes a song and video revolving around the It’s Always Sunny Dick Towel.

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Information remains scarce, but presumably Guru remains in critical condition. I’ll spare the reigning “Fuck Solar” sentiment because speculating on their relationship is tasteless and probably pointless. Though admittedly, calling another man “Lord” is arguably the only thing stranger than calling him “Daddy.” At this point, all we can do is hope that that Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal recovers swiftly and his family is allowed to monitor his progress/visit regularly. Judging from the e-mails I get, I suspect that at least a quarter of this site’s readership was entering the world when Gangstarr was stepping into the arena. Thus, their knowledge of one of the greatest duos of all-time is limited to hearsay. Thankfully, Matthew Africa can remedy this with his stellar Gangstarr greatest hits mix. For those who heard his earlier DJ Quik mix, you know that this is essential listening. A tracklist and message from Matthew about the mix below — credit is due.

Download: MP3: Matthew Africa - Gangstarr Mix (One MP3) ZIP: Matthew Africa - Gangstarr Mix (Left-Click, As Individual Tracks)

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Hey New York, we got an awesome deal for your Friday, we are giving away 2 tickets for this show which includes list, no waiting in line, VIP passes to have access to stage during show and a possibility of drink tickets. Don’t let this go, its going to be an amazing show and a night to remember.

To enter, join twitter and follow me at twitter.com/rchrdoh and twitter.com/rekLES and send us a message telling us you want to go. We’ll pick someone at random. Good luck!

Next week I will be leaving the cold Sweden to be flying over to Miami to take part of Miller Miami 2010. We will be doing a little diary here at Discobelle on what is going on there but you will also be able to see more live updates on the Discobelle’s twitter and on my own twitter.

We will be covering of what is going on in Miami during the long weekend (Thursday-Sunday). We are going to try to attend as many party’s as it is humanly possible and hang out with all our friends that will be in Miami this week.

If everything works out Martin will also join me in Miami, depending on if British Airways can fly him there or not.

There is going to be some extra focus on the Swedish trio Audiostalkers who will also be there with us in Miami. They are one of 12 DJ’s and live acts have been selected from 11 different countries to perform in Miami. Each for the acts has won talent competitions in their respective countries and will showcase their talent to an International audience at the Miller Miami 2010 parties.

Audiostaklers sent over a new mix to get us started!

Audiostalkers Miller Miami Mix (direct link)

If you are in Miami during these days and want us to stop by at your party or just want to say hello, holla at us.

Read more about Audiostalkers and see the tracklist after the jump:

Tracklist:

Sound of Stereo – Button (BeatauCue Remix) Hijack VS Santiago & Bushido – Puttin it down (original Mix) Laidback Luke & Lee Mortimer – Blau (Original Mix) Baskerville, Elten – Reloaded (Audiostalkers Remix) Beezy – Situanus (Kyle Watson Remix) Audiostalkers – Moshpit (Original Mix) Kidda – Everything bad is good for you (TLGB Remix) Stupid Bastard – Hype Up (Original Mix) Christian Cheval feat. The Allstars – Drop it…! (Rap on it) DJ – Assault gimme a piece (Audiostalkers Remix)

And here is a little Audistalkers bio:

“Audiostalkers are Brinx, Fugly and Smack – three producers, DJ’s and promoters from Stockholm Sweden. Their love of Electronic music with a twisted jacking groove brought them together to work on a very special project.

With their first release ” The Gouled Felem EP” on Pottymouth Music in April 2009, Audiostalkers established themselves quickly, being highly appreciated and supported by the scenes top DJ´s and producers. During the following months, Audiostalkers released 12 more tracks and remixes – almost all of them hit the Beatport top 100, some made it to the top ten in specific genre charts, including their Sporty-O Mix “Let me hit it” for Chicago label IllevenElleven. Their Bootlegs were the talk of the blogs.

Moving forward into 2010, they have numerous remixes set to arrive in the spring and an exciting live show, packing 100 kilos of excess baggage. They are heading overseas starting with a USA mini tour culminating at the Miller Miami 2010 party, where they have been voted to represent the Swedish scene.

With the sucess of their recent tracks and getting air time on radio stations across the globe such as BBC Radio 1 and FG in France, tension is building around their follow up EP on Potty Mouth Music – it is rumoured to be their greatest work so far.

Audiostalkers have played with or on the same bill as artists such as The Bloody Beetroots, Steve Aoki, Chromeo, Hijack and many others. Their live show is always the highlight of any festival or club they have performed at, always leaving the crowd screaming, often begging for more…”

Per Qx just handed us an exclusive 20 minute mix, all tracks are either produced or remixed by Per. Check it out!

Per QX – DJ mix for Discobelle (zShare)

Tracklist after the jump.

1. Alexander Technique feat Princess Superstar: Rock U (Per QX GutterSlut mix) D A N R S 2. The Young Punx: Sugar Candy (Per QX mix) Mofo Hifi 3. Tomcraft: Loneliness (Per QX mix) Kosmo records 4. Per Qx: Ever Before (Original Mix) Stealth records

When you're people like us, and you rep mustaches like we do, you have no choice but to show a little extra love to other people who are part of the mustache club. So, in honor of our hair upper lips and tattooed pointer fingers we've put together a guide of our (in no particular order) must see mustachioed artists at SXSW.

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Hot Chip went and got all boy band on us in their new music video fro “I Feel Better!” Check it out how ‘N Sync they are:

The new Hot Chip video seems like it is trying to trick people into thinking that they are a boy band. Then the video ‘gets all zany’ and some guy with cancer starts to shoot lasers at the members of the boy band, then joins the boy band, then some black guy shoots lasers out of his eyes and kills the boy band. Confused. Relieved that the video features tons of hot entry level alt tween girls in wayfarers with clear lenses + Palestinian scarves.

Wonder if this is supposed to be ‘loved by alts’ because it is commentary on the mainstream, or if it is supposed to ‘crossover’ into mainstreamland because it provides commentary on a ~10 year old part of pop culture. (Maybe these bands are still big in Europe.) It seems like this might have been relevant criticism of the boy band phenomenon during the early 2000s / late 1990s, during the peak of Backstreet Boy / NSYNC mania.

Seems plausible that they ‘ripped off’ this idea from Blink 182, who made the timely video for ‘All the Small Things’ in 2000, which parodied the boy band craze of the late 1990s. Maybe it is time to start re-thinking Blink 182 as one of the greatest/most important bands of all time. Is Blink 182 the perfect alternative band?

Was this video ‘alt’? Was it good to see Hot Chip make something that didn’t involve dancing in front of green screens? Is it still relevant to make fun of boybands 10 years later? Did Hot Chip rip off Blink 182? Can patients undergoing chemotherapy shoot lasers from their mouths ?

Spend St. Patricks night with local favorites Prowler, Reef the Lost Cauze and DJ Mister Mike at Silk City.

free beer to the first dirty, thirty in the door and free f****** tee-shirts (featuring the awesome poster art) to those on the floor. Set your fun gun to stun party people and come spend next week with us!

Cover is only $5 all night.

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I'm going to be in Austin till Sunday. No new posts! In the meantime, two things:

ONE!
This is really good, duh:


TWO!I did a radio show for TTL Radio last week and you can listen to it if you have internet power. Simply (this is not simple) do the following: go here and click on the "Listen" tab for the March 11, 2010 show, which will download a .m3u file, which you will then have to open in iTunes. I'll throw up a full tracklisting later but I play a lot of fun stuff, and it's all done live, and there are some GIANT BONERS in the mixing department but in my defense the system was on a 3 second delay from the turntables. Then Matt interviews me at the end of the show, and I believe I make fun of Michna and forget to shout out Kevin till much later.

This Friday, the monthly FTW is back at Denim with DC’s DJ Jerome Baker III, and the Skratch Makaniks MC Elixir and The Beat’s Jay Ski.  For reduced admission before 12, email SugarIndustries@gmail.com.

FTW Jerome Baker III, Lix and Jay Ski Denim 1712 Walnut Street Friday, March 19, 2010

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Ella Wednesdays with Plant Music!

We’re very excited that The Glass will be kicking off their North American tour with us at Ella! Check out their full tour dates HERE!

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The Glass | Superhero (Ursula 1000 Remix) The Glass | Superhero (Luke Solomon Dub Mix) (click to preview or right click & save to download)

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Go straight down the stairs. We promise it will get hot, sweaty, dark and dirty!

Beats provided by: + The Glass LIVE + DJ Wool + Dominique Keegan

With Ella Wednesday Residents: + Lucas Walters + DKDS + The Boogie Brothers

Hosted by Plant Music & DKDS + Birthday Boy MAN Alex Jackson!!

PHOTOS BY Nicky Digital

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The Whitest Boy Alive is a band that contains the member Erlend Oye, one of the most beloved alt celebs of all time. Their show is known as an indie pop fiesta which features dancing + chill vibes… Recently, they played a show in Mexico City, and Erlend Oye had his glasses stolen by the crowd. In the video, you can see the awkward moment as he climbed the balcony, had his glasses removed, then had people yelling “lentes, lentes”, which we assume is the Spanish /Mexican word for glasses. Erlend has the ultimate face of ‘not chill, bro’ to all of the Mexican fans. Glasses are one of the only ways that people with poor vision can see, so the band immediately quit the show. The glasses were reportedly broken as he climbed into a crowd of Mexi alt teens /a sea of Mexican children.

Fan Account from the exclusive Alt Report TIP LINE:

Yesterday I went to photograph a The Whitest Boy Alive show at a shitty night club (in Mexico city) and when it was about to end, Erlend Oye decided to climb a balcony to sing with some of his fans and obviously all the hipsters there wanted to touch him, so suddenly they broke Erlend’s glasses. He managed to keep a piece of the broken glasses but there was another piece missing. He climbed down, and told them: hey, give me my glasses back , I can´t see a thing

No one gave them back and the show ended. There were more than 2000 Erlend clones enraged because they didn´t get an encore. I think it was pretty funny, you don´t throw yourself at people when you virtually depend on your glasses, or at least you carry another pair for emergencies.

Was the Erlend Oye’s fault for climbing into the balcony? When you go to Mexico, can u expect them to ‘play by the rules’? Would this have happened in America? Should Mexico pay the bill for his prescription glasses, or do they not have vision / dental coverage with his health insurance?

The Whitest Boy Alive wrote a letter to the Mexican Alt Audience:

dear mexican audience ….i am writing these few words to make one thing clear.

the show yesterday ended like that, because somebody stole erlend’s glasses. that’s fucked up, but it does NOT mean the end of the world. the show was almost at it’s end anyway, we were going to play maybe two more songs so you didn’t really miss out on something amazing.

of course there was better ways to end the evening, but you have to know erlend doesn’t see without glasses, and that’s why we couldn’t continue playing. yes he was upset, but that’s not why we didn’t finish properly. it’s just impossible to play, sing, dance and entertain people without seeing them.

let’s forget about this strange ending and try to remember the good time we had and we had some good time.

we are going home now after 3 great weeks in your beautiful country and we will always come back, don’t worry

see you in a year or two maybe coachella???

marcin

Does the band sound ‘pissed’? Did the band do the right thing by stopping their show? Should Erlend have had backup glasses / rec specs / contacts / eye surgery? Was it chill when the crowd started to chant ‘culero’? Have yall ever had something stolen from u / broken by other people in front of u? Did Mexico ruin this chill, indie pop experience? Did these Mexican fans think that his glasses were just a silly accessory, but not actually a way for him to be able 2 see?

You certainly remember BURNS. Pushing the boundaries – as always – this dude offers a refreshing approach to the banger genre. The Funk hast just been re-invented.

The footage of the video above has been filmed during BURNS’ tour of the US with Deadmau5.

Go get the EP, which includes three more tracks, on Beatport. Follow the man on Twitter.

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I need to get my knowledge of the T.I. catalog up to be 100% sure but I'm pretty sure that's a jack of his vocals for this 'remix.'

Soundchild Crew & T.I. - "Let Em Talk Freestyle (Onelife Remix)" [mp3 download links: mediafire | yousendit]


Online:
Soundchild Crew - twitter | myspace

The above version was made for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa this summer (July?).

But this new version just dropped last week as well:




"K’naan’s “Wavin’ Flag” is one of the standout tracks from his Troubadour album and has become something of a phenomenon thanks to its timely message of strength and solidarity. Now famed producer Bob Ezrin has brought together top Canadian performers for Young Artists for Haiti, and the group’s rendition of the song takes it to new heights. Performers include K’naan, Nikki Yanofsky, Justin Bieber, Jim Cuddy, Emily Haines, Hedley, The Arkells, Drake, Justin Bieber, Avril Lavigne, Jully Black, Sam Roberts, Kardinal Offishall, and more."

Click to BUY the "Wavin' Flag" song on iTunes HERE.
I ain't gon' front, I was semi on K'naan when I first got aware of him but this song is a fantastic feel-good anthem that deserves all the attention and success it has been getting. K'naan has really grown into his self as an artist and I only see him getting bigger from here. Dude is a great ambassador for hip hop and I see him potentially becoming a major global superstar. Yeah, I said it: believe it!

Clearly, Men Without Hats had the blueprint for Goodie Mobb’s “People Don’t Dance No Mo.” Granted, Cee-Lo has been known to sport a witch’s hat like he attended Necromancy school, but observe the clown/jesters, the big hair, the makeup. A coincidence? I think not. Pity the hat-less males — a one-hit wonder nonpareil, destined to be forever conflated with Men At Work. Until writing this post, I’d always thought they were from Australia, but according to the world’s most accurate encyclopedia, they’re Canadian — leaving Men at Work and Midnight Oil as the only two 80s Aussie outfits that non music nerds know about (all apologies to the great Go-Betweens).

This May, Stones Throw is releasing J Dilla’s Donut Shop, a partnership with Serato that includes six unreleased tracks, a pair of Donut Slipmats, and two sides with Serato Control Tone. The union is fitting considering every amateur DJ over the last four years has attempted to emulate Jay Dee via ham-handed computer cuts and a hard drive full of 128 KBPS soul samples. Dilla’s cover of “Safety Dance” proves what most ignored — the fact that calling him a “hip hop dude” was a stifling term. Like all the great producers, his tastes were eclectic and as much forged on Kraftwerk and Detroit techno, as they were on Pete Rock and Primo, and novelty 80s pop filtering through the airwaves. There were no arbitrary boundaries. “Keeping it real” just meant keeping it good. Always ahead of his time, “Safety Dance” is the sort of thing a contemporary blog rapper would do in a feeble (but likely successful) attempt to score a gimmick hit. Of course, no double zero could ever punch drums like that and as always, Dilla found the groove that Men Without Hats probably never knew they had.  80s pop re-invented with a crisp fitted.

Download: MP3: J Dilla - “Safety Dance”

My timing might have been off by a year but I still think this dude's gonna blow (pause) although maybe not quite as big as Gucci. Above is the "Comes and Goes" video featuring G-Fresh (wearing the same jacket I just copped a couple months ago! Why am I seeing it on literally everyone??).

Shawty Lo feat. Mike Fresh – "Gift Of The Gab" [mp3 links: yousendit | zshare]

Shawty Lo feat. Lil Wayne – "WTF" [mp3 links: yousendit | zshare]

Shawty Lo feat. Birdman – "Birds (Remix)" [mp3 links: yousendit | zshare]
[zshare links via Traps N Trunks / DirtyGloveBastard.net]

I’m f-cking with this!!! Seriously, The Pack were (at least) two years ahead of their time.
[via The Fader]