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MICHOACAN:
Far out. Michoacan’s (Miranda Rios) debut DFA release is dead on the money – amazing shit here. Something about it… Has a nice cheeky, playful and cosmic-y vibe to it. Ugh, I’m so hooked! BUY.

THE CRYSTAL ARK:
Gavin Gussom’s latest project The Crystal Ark is best described as “a perfect distillation of those varied sounds into infectious, spellbinding dance floor music.” His first 12″ out on DFA under this project is titled “The City Never Sleeps” – a great example of how Gavin has evolved from his Black Meteoric Star project. The psych/acid house is still there but really, it is now more refined. I’m feeling this one immensity- starts with simple acid house,… then the vocal,… and then the climax (screeeech screeech!). Raunchy. BUY.

GAVIN RUSSOM / CRYSTAL ARK (DFA) – TOP TEN:
Mad Mike, “Base Camp Alpha 808″, UR
Diamond Vampires, “Friday Nights” (Telephones Remix), Amateur Recordings
Fania All Stars, “Congo Bongo”, Fania
Laurent Garnier, “Back To My Roots” (Afrodiziac Mix), Innervisions
Medio Mutante, “Corre Corre”, Cititrax
Angus Maclise, “Chumlum”, Counter Culture Chronicles
Levon Vincent, “Double Jointed Sex Freak”, Novel Sound
Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom, “El Monte”, DFA
Moon and Sun, “Hunt”, Oscillatone
Exuma, “Obeah Obeah O”, Kama Sutra

Whoah, talk about a break from blogging… Apologies my dearest readers for putting the smoke machine on low but now things are about to get heavy. JD is overseas (I think..?) for a tiny bit so I better put this party into full gear. Let’s cut to the chase:

Bang Gang’s and ex-Riot in Belgium big boy Beni released his killer track “Maximus” a while back on Kitsune, featuring Sam Sparro on the vox. A remixes EP also followed dropping late last month but the mix you are about to grab hasn’t been put out there in the interwebs so consider this an xxxclussiveee.

My homeboys Andee and Ooh Ee have been conjuring up storms left, right and center, producing two mixes for “Maximus” known as the Blue and Pink versions. You can pick up the RMX’s EP right now on Beatport where you can grab the available Pink Version but compared to its sister, the Blue version is more of a chilled house number, which screams sexyness. Oh so sexy.
MP3: Beni – Maximus (Andee & Ooh Ee Blue Version) [EXXXCLUSIVEE]

The two lads also did a mix and dub for the Presets track “Kicking & Screaming” which was out on Modular a while back. Nice acidy, housey techno. Should also note that the dub was on Tim Sweeney’s BIS Radio Show #482.
MP3: The Presets – Kicking & Screaming (Andee & Ooh Ee’s Endor Dub)

I’ve also been informed that Andee & Ooh Ee are indeed working on an EP that will be sometime out in the future. I wanted more info on this but all I got from Andee was “(it will sound like) rohypnohouse with a splash of acid topped off with with a little bit of tranny techno.”

Just a glimpse at a few new additions to my crate over the past month….

New double sided release on Institubes for Renaissance Man out of France. A tribal-prog journey with a static vocal and prayer service sandwiched in the center. Also peep the Riva Starr remix for added jungle flava.

MP3: RENAISSANCE MAN – WHAT IS GURU?

Acid is far from over, and evident in this track from ‘87 complete with dualing 303’s and jazz piano hook.

MP3: TYREE – ACID OVER

Classic Chicago house circa 1988.

MP3: JAMIE PRINCIPLE – BABY WANTS TO RIDE (X-RATED MIX)

….Frankie Knuckles adds his flare to another camp Jamie Principle track that screams Chromeo. Beep beep.

MP3: FRANKIE KNUCKLES FEAT. JAMIE PRINCIPLE – BAD BOY

Rolling arpeggios dominate this last tune which can also be heard in the debut mixtape from local high fliers Flight Facilities. Keep watching the skies for this stealth act who are currently receiving huge praise from Aeroplane – and rightly so. It’s an aerial assault.

MP3: DAHLBACK & DAHLBACK – ROLLE NIVA

I’ve just had a rather rough week. I could explain the elaborate story about how i lost my job and was present to a robbery that involved a door being kicked in by a junkie, whilst hiding in the adjacent room with an Asian girl… But that would be self absorbed considering this is only a music blog…

Daniel Johnston is an American singer song writer with manic depression. This is a very short and rather poor description of this man but seeings though most of us (including me) have a very short attention span this will have to do. I first heard this song from my housemates ipod. At the time i was playing celebrity head… i was Sandra Sully. I think im giving to much detail on the situation of how i came to hear this.

Intro to this is terrific and i think you would agree, the lyrics are as well.

MP3: DANIEL JOHNSTON – PREMARITAL SEX

*EDIT/NOTE*
I should point out that this song was recorded on a crappy tape deck in 1980 in his parents basement. Its an absolute gem and is really worth a solid listen.