TAG: Green Velvet

Feb08

World’s Coldest Party: Igloofest 2012 (Recap)

Nearly 70,000 attendees brave the elements for January festival 

View of the Igloofest main stage – Photos by Ed Gumuchian


For three long weekends in January, thousands of bundled-up partiers made their way down to Montreal’s Old Port for the sixth installment of the Igloofest festival. Like its summer counterparts Mutek and Piknic Electronik, the festival was strategically planned out in order to draw a huge, diverse crowd for each night. Although starting a night at 6:30pm doesn’t tend to turn out well for anyone, it meant that concertgoers had a fighting chance of surviving Montreal’s sometimes unbearable nighttime winter temperatures, and they could still take public transit …

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Jun01

The Best [and Worst] Of Movement 2011

After 12 years of annual techno madness, Detroit has gotten pretty darn good at throwing a party. There’s always room for improvement, but here’s the things that got us moving at Movement 2011. …MORE

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May25

Claude Von Stroke’s Movement-Detroit Picks

Before he moved to San Francisco and started his world-famous Dirtybird crew, Claude Von Stroke was just another kid from Detroit, discovering the city’s techno roots at raves around the city, and at the earliest DEMF techno festivals. Now, Von Stroke has now the played the fest himself and telling us who has him excited on the line-up in 2011.

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May13

STREAM Just Blaze Remix of Cajmere “Brighter Days” (MP3)

Chicago techno legend Green Velvet has been revisting his fuzzier alter-ego Cajmere lately, issuing a mammoth two disco compilation of hits and remixes titled, It’s Time, which featured a gang of remixes of proto-juke hit “Percolator” by Major Lazer, Claude Von Stroke, Riva Starr and Gant-Man. Now the textile-loving producer has handed over diva-house smash “Brighter Days” to ace hip-hop producer Just Blaze, who backs the soulful vocals by Dajae with a stomping tribal house tempo boom-clap, with more cymbal crashes than the “1812 Overture.” The single also comes with an electro-tinged “8 to 8 Dub Mix,” but check out Just Blaze’s ‘The reOPENed 3am’ mix right here.

Cajmere :: “Brighter Days” (Just Blaze ‘The reOPENed 3am’ mix)

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Jan21

Mattie Safer (Ex-Rapture) :: “Is That Your Girl” (Live) (Video)

Whe we heard last year that Mattie Safer, bassist/singer for dance-punk veterans The Rapture was leaving the group, we suspected he’d basically gone night clubbin’ and never came back. This clip, shot last month in NYC, pretty much proves our suspicions. The audio quality isn’t great, but you can clearly glean the raw jukin’ Jamie Lidell-meets-Green Velvet vibe happening here. There’s also apparently a verse from Telli of Ninjasonik that you can’t really make out at all. Pretty excited to hear this properly recorded. It’s going to be available Feb. 15th on Ed Banger’s Let The Children Techno compilation, mixed by Busy P and Mehdi.


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