RAVE OR DIE!!!

Nobody loves a good rave more than me. Putting on my platform leather boots, strapping on my cookie monster backpack filled with glowsticks, Vicks vapor rub, pacifier, cat ears, and orange juice and showering myself in glitter before going to a stadium show with eye piercing lasers and listening to some good ol PvD! Of course then there's the nu ravers, which aren't really ravers at all but just kids in LA who like to rage blacked-out to blog house and Flosstradomus.

Marrying the two somewhere along the way is the French label Institubes with their prodigious young producer Surkin, one of the only producers out of the nurave scene to seriously check out (I don't post much on this genre any more but I would also recommend his labelmate Para One, Digitalism, and Boys Noize). It deserves some serious blasting and a large arena filled with a throng of dancers. Or you can do what I do and blast while dancing around your room on a Monday night until your roommates tell you it's 930 and their walls are shaking. Either way this is anthemic awesome rave music which originally came out about a year ago, but has now gotten a remix release with Chromeo adding vocals over the original production. I'll throw both in cuz right now I love you man, I mean we don't say it enough, but I really love you and we really should become the best of friends! Btw can I have some of your water? What's your name again?

Surkin - White Knights Two


Surkin - Chrome Knight (feat. Chromeo)

Chromeo, O Chromeo!

A week from today at this time I will be trucking down I-5 at 80mph with my fingers crossed that we don't hit any traffic because beginning at 9pm is Chromeo's last American show before returning to the studio! The show is at the Key Club, and I think tickets are sold out, but hit me up if you managed to catch some. The last time I was lucky enough to see the electro duo was two summers ago before Chromeo became rampant in every club. Truly one of my favorite groups of the last 2 years, they have rode the success of their second album Fancy Footwork to its complete capacity, touring regularly for the last year and and a half. Anyways, I came across this remix by them (not something they do often) of Treasure Fingers' bouncey house track "Cross The Dancefloor" (which you can find on his myspace). They retain most of the funky instrumentals and replace Treasure Fingers' vocoder with David's smooth voice, sounds as if it was meant to be. A great afternoon jam, electric slide and do the marshmallow!

Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Chromeo Remix)