Celebration/I wanna be DFAmous

First and foremost, an introduction to a new contributor to Disco Horror, Erik (pictured with myself above), a fellow ILMer who we thought he could contribute some great tunes to the mass-media cultural phenomenon taking the country by storm that is Disco Horror! Not really, but he WILL be throwing down some mixes and sharing his latest purchases with Max and myself and he gets access to all the benefits of being a conributor to Disco Horror, like keys to the yacht, VIP-membership to all the hottest clubs, a life of general excess, and a $25 gift-certificate to Best Buy! Don't you wish you were all so lucky! So welcome! and now on to the tunes.

As I blawgged before, DFAmer and former Six Finger Satellite member, The Juan Maclean's new album is making some serious noise and I've been playing it quite a bit, but now it's time for the remixes! The One Day 12" features remixes by the Emperor Machine and Surkin. The Emperor Machine mix churns along like a train dragging you to hell, buzzing with bolts of psychedelic energy and giving you bits and pieces of the original track's vocals along the way. But MY choice of the release is the Surkin mix, which raves harder than those dudes with shirts off and gloves with lights on the ends of the fingertips. I feel like raving has been a theme of my recent posts, but this is a pretty special mix and he adds all these grainy effects, 808 cowbells, and what sounds like an Ozzy Ozbourne sample in a way that makes you want to forget your cares and dance the night away under the lazers and weirdos with elmo backpacks, or maybe a less lame scene, just listen to this and I'll stop writing.

The Juan Maclean - One Day (Surkin Remix)

Also check out Betablog's recent conversation with the man himself just about a week ago, quite a nice little interview AND for those interested he is currently touring and comes to SF on June 6th, I might be camping but if it's anything close to H&LAs performance you won't want to miss it.

Next a little bonus to go with this monster and to give you something different to bounce your head to from late last year. This Clinic 10" Tomorrow came out a while ago, but I've been playing it a lot and felt it might be worth sharing, a buzzy jammy reworking of some charmingly whiny vocals from the psychedelic folky original.

Clinic - Tomorrow (DFA Remix)

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)