Not enough dubstep touches on the highs, but thankfully Minnesota provides us with just that. “Sun Burst” is a bass driven set with what sounds like bowl hitting bumps along the way. My favorite thang, however, goes to those electro-guitar sounding licks that play throughout – they complement the bass so well.
Side note, Minnesota put up cover art for something soon to come on his Facebook (also pictured above), Ancient Machines – anyone know what that is EP possibly
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The next in line for PL’s 2011 remixes goes to a ‘country dub hop’ remix of John Denver’s “Country Road”. With hard hitting wobbles and glitch hop galore, it’s just another standard PL remix… fortunately that standard is faarrr beyond the rest.
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I think I’ve heard just about enough “Lights” remixes, but I gotta post it when the gettins good. Plus, it’s from the everlicious White Pandas.
This time round they mashup Ellie Goulding’s “Lights” & Dave Darell’s “Children”. I still gotta give first dibs to DOSVEC for mashing up “Children” with One Republic’s “Apologize”, but this still hits very, very hard
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“Inspire” takes from some of the best sports speeches in film history and sets it against a backdrop of melodic dubstep that’s “inspiring” to say the least. The speeches get a little hokey at times, especially the “Friday Night Lights” speech – I’ve heard too many renditions – but the instrumentals more than make up for ’em.
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Little Star Dweller’s “Catch A Killer” sounds like a retro-night club hit, “Roxbury-esque”, gone electro spaced-out. The raps are on key and the backups are top notch – something I’m finding increasingly important in electro/hip-hop nowadays (good backups). My only criticism would have to be those chipmunk chime-ins.. although I am warming up to ’em and maybe like ’em just a lil’.. just a little!
Either way, this trio of electro-nonesense is something with a lotta potential and possibly a forerunner in whatever style you wanna call this – kinda like that Smokey Robotic Superfuturistic sound.
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This is why I got into dubstep.. or drumstep.. or whatever you wanna call it. It’s all about pushing what we perceive as music and bringing on new & never before heard sounds.
ill.Gates & Dov’s remix of Greg Rieve’s (T.O.B.) “Decoy” takes in heavy bass growls as its carrier, but touches on high atmospheric scores worthy of a sick soundtrack – maybe something for the upcoming Mortal Kombat movie
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Here’s an unreleased Avicii track that I found floating around the blogosphere. I’ve never posted on Avicii before, but I’ve loved some of his shit in the past – hopefully, this gets to that point. I’m warming up to it, at least, but I’m still not feelin the vocals all that much… been bombarded with incredible female vocalists lately.
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DeathStar consists of the two electro-talents, MartyParty & Minnesota. Their first hit, remixing Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep”, was featured on our Rompin Remixes of “Rolling in the Deep” compilation and started the mood off right with their Future Bass sound. Now the two have put out a new Ep, ULTRAVIOLET HALO, which brings a few classics forward and continues that futuristic shyt.
Most notable of the tracks, DeathStar remixes Wiz Khalifia’s “On My Level”. Not really a Khalifia fan, but damn is this hypnotizing, plus there’s a few dirty electro-bursts to boot. But as good as it is, the top pick goes to “Funk Soul” with fat drops from the Slimboy […]
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With Mashup-Germany’s first instrumental-only mashup, we get a sexay saxophone mixed in with Wolfgang Gartner’s “Illmerica” and Avicii’s “Street Dancer”. And, really, if you put a saxophone up against anything I’m gonna love it – I’m a sucka for the sax.
I do, however, wish the saxophone was distorted or meshed in electro-ly a bit more. At times, it just seems out of the song, like a saxophonist just played to the beat, which could/should appeal, however. Still, love the track and that saxyphone in it.
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“Across the City” isn’t the usual parkour shoot – these dudes put a real grace to the movement. But team ’em up with some fine tunes from the Glitch Mob and this video really starts to step its game up. We all know that music makes movies, but in this the video really made the music.
The two tracks included are “Beyond Monday” by The Glitch Mob and The Glitch Mob’s remix of “Monday”, originally by Nalepa. I actually saw the music video for “Beyond Monday” (shown below) a while back, which does the song justice, but “Across the City” puts a whole new game to it.
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