The Sweet Fix

Summer of Sammy

2008-06-29T20:07:42-04:00

The man who's currently ranks first in the moustache game released a new mix for the summer. Sammy Bananas delivers a great mix with his own edits, blends and production influenced by the 90s sound. Look out for his new EP coming soon on Fools gold.

SUMMER OF SAMMY MIX

Sammy Bananas on TTlab

Coolin' disco house

2008-06-29T20:05:15-04:00

I've been meaning to post some of Fred Falke's work on here for a while now. These remixes aren't all that new but I think they passed the test of time as I still find myself going back to them on the regular. Synth heavy disco house is just what I need to keep me cool in this hot as fuck Montreal summer.

Lykke Li - Im good Im gone (Fred Falke remix)

The Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage (Fred Falke remix)

Hot Chip - Colours (Fred Falke remix)

BONUS TRACK:

Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Intro

Pardon my French... Non!

2008-06-24T16:53:59-04:00

Je n'ai d'autre choix que de faire un post en Français en ce 24 juin. St-Jean Baptiste, saint patron de la poutine et des jolies filles, nous apporte tous les ans son lot de beuveries, de feux de poubelles et autres bloc parties épiques sous les ponts (voir vidéo). Il souligne chaque année le sens des Québécois pour la fête. Et qui dit fête, dit musique. Pour moi, un de nos meilleurs ambassadeurs est Alain Maklovitch aka DJ A-Trak. Peut-être est-ce parce que nous avons grandi dans le même quartier et fréquenté la même école secondaire, mais à chaque fois que A-Trak fait un bon coup, que ce soit devenir le dj de tournée de Kanye ou le directeur artistique du show de Jay-Z, un sentiment de fierté m'envahi. Coincidence ou autre magouille de St-Jean Baptiste, le fait est que le fondateur du label Fool's Gold lance aujourd'hui même un mix réalisé pour le compte de Nike Plus Original Run Series. Intitulé "Running Man", la composition de 45 minutes s'inspire du rythme d'un entrainement. C'est exactement le genre de petit boost de motivation ce que ça me prenait pour me remettre au jogging. Demain matin. Promis. Je suis trop hung over aujourd'hui. Il est possible d'acheter 'Running Man" à partir d'aujourd'hui sur le Nike Sport Music iTunes Store. Mais voici un petit extrait. Bonne St-Jean!

A-Trak - Nike + Nature edit

BONUS TRACKS:

Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (A-Trak remix)

Digitalism - Idealistic (A-Trak remix)

UPDATE:

Voici le single tiré de de Running Man "Say Whoa" ainsi qu'un track de Lupe qui devait se retrouver sur le mix qui n'a pu être "clearé" et qui a donc été remplacé par le track de Kid Cudi.

A-Trak - Say Whoa

A-Trak & Lupe Fiasco - Mastered

Ou et les ho's?

2008-06-07T16:53:47-04:00

Although Le Le's myspace claims they are from France, rumor is these guys are actually from the Netherlands. Not only are these songs catchy, they crack me up everytime. "Holla holla holla! Oatmeal and Granola". Video for Breakfast is great too. It was made by band member Pièt Par'a (who's quite obviously also a talented visual artist). You can get the full album on iTunes. Now can someone tell me where the ho's at!?

Le Le - Breakfast

Le Le - Drunk with power

This is acid (a new dance craze)

2008-06-07T15:45:17-04:00

This is acid was Maurice Joshua's one true hit. It reached Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart #1 spot in April 1989. The K & T remix was part of the original single. Sirens, crazy synths and sexual screams in the background. That's what I'm talking about. Second track is an edit/remix I did of an unknown song from an unknown artist. Well, actually, it may or may not be called "Funky Respects". And it may or may not have been produced by a group called "2 of a kind", I don't really know. I heard Diplo drop the song on the latest Mad Decent podcast. Since I couldn't find the damn song, I proceeded to sample glimpses of it straight from the podcast and recreate it. I ended up adding a bunch of other elements to it though. It uses the same synths as the previous track and I thing it sounds pretty good.

maurice - this is acid (k & t mix)

thomas p - acid hit

Piano loops over, over and over

2008-06-07T14:44:15-04:00

Classic Chicago house was all about piano loops. There's something mesmerising about it, I feel. First, here's the anthem of all house anthems. Marshall Jefferson was one of the true Chicago house pionneers, producing both acid house and soulful house classics in the second half of the 80's. 'The Party' was released in 1987 and sold over 300 000 copies. Bizarre Inc. formed later in the early 90's. 'I'm gonna get you' was released in januray of 1993 and became a massive club hit.

Marshall Jefferson - Move your body (thomas p 'easy-to-mix' edit)

Kraze - The Party

Bizarre Inc. - I'm gonna get you (Original Flavour mix)

BONUS TRACK: Here's Mike Skinner's 2002 ode to the piano loop era.

The Streets - Weak become heroes

Mr. Devlin makes it good

2008-05-29T22:01:29-04:00

I'm not even finished listening to this brand new mix by the one and only Mr. Devlin but I just can't wait. I have to post this now. I'm a big fan of Chris Devlin. I can listen to his mixes over and over. Sink or Swim (that I posted here), FabricLive 33, better yet FabricDead 33.3: all amazing stuff. At first listen this one promises to be in the same line. Check out his blog for more flavour and check out we make it good for the tracklist (but a lot of the tracks are original Devlin edits).

Chris Devlin - We Make It Good Mix Series, Vol.02

Update: Chris Devlin was kind enough to leave the link to another new mix of his in the comment section. I was a bit thrown off when I first listen to it because I wasn't expecting that at all. But listening to it again, in the right mood, made me realize how awesome this new mix is. It's called Amore Durante la Guerra (Love During Wartime) and it's an ecclectic mix of psychedelic 60's & 70's rock'n roll and other old funky grooves. And as usual it's cut with random vocal skits from old tv shows or God knows where from. Not exactly your typical blog house mix but, ironically, it feels so refreshing!

Chris Devlin - Amore Durante La Guerra (Love During Wartime) mix

DFA dance party

2008-05-15T17:43:26-04:00

Here is 4 great mixes taken off a DFA dance party held at the MOMA in NY this past March. Great mixes of disco, soul and house by DFA records artist. Its pretty much all I've been listening to over the past few days and thought everyone should have these mixes you can enjoy at any time of the day.

1. Justin Miller & Jacques Renault
2. Holy Ghost!
3. T&T (Tim Sweeney & Tim Goldsworthy)
4. Juan Maclean

Also, the fourth mix by Juan Maclean starts with his own track called happy house which is probably one of my favorite songs of 2008 so far...

Juan Maclean - Happy house

(Shout out to Guilt from Les Stacks for putting me on to this one!)

Santi White is the new gold

2008-05-08T23:45:22-04:00

I know it's all over the blogs, but for our most loyal readers / followers / groupies who only check out the sweet fix, here's what all the hype craving kids are listening to right now. Or at least they should. Singer Santogold aka Santi White and producer Johnny Rodeo along side a dream team of collaborators such as Diplo, Switch, MC Spank Rock and M.I.A. came up with a long awaited first album which should make a lot of noise in the next weeks / months. Judge for yourself. And make sure to grab the album on iTunes.

BONUS TRACK

Santogold - Shove it (Switch remix)

Italo disco glitz

2008-05-04T00:20:23-04:00

Saying that 80's music influences today's musician is an understatement. This is why I want to do a little incursion in the Italo disco world. Also because I simply love it. This is not a top 6 list of the biggest Italo hits but rather some of my personnal favorites, lots of which I recently discovered. So let's get started.

Gino Soccio is a Canadian (even better, a Montrealer) disco producer. He had a couple of hits such as Dancer and Let's All Chant. But I decided to feature The Runaway, which was released in 1980. I love how the beat evolves throught out the song. Truly one of my most precious musical discoveries.

Gino Soccio - The runaway

Tenebre is the theme of a 1982 Italian horror movie of the same name. Goblin became experts of the horror genre. Listening to the first 2 bars of this song should be enough for anyone (who hasn't lived on a deserted Island for the past year and a half) to spot the sample used by a particularly hip French duo of the moment.

Goblin - Tenebre

The half Italian half american duo Klein & MBO first released 'Dirty Talk' in 1982 in Italty then in the american market where it became a huge hit, influencing the emerging Chicago house sound. Chances are you've heard that one before.

Klein & MBO - Dirty talk

BWH is another Italian band. 'Stop' was releaded in 1983. Love the vocals on this one.

BWH - Stop (original mix)

I don't know much about Image but I know they released 'Hot Stuff' in 1984. I edited it a little because I had the long version and I felt the intro was too long and I wanted to put the focus on the best parts (in my opinion).

Image - Hot Stuff (thomas p edit)

Mike Mareen is a German artist. Italo disco became a huge phenomenon in Germany and the Netherlands in the 80's where a lot of musicians adopted the genre. 'Dancin' in the dark' is Mareen's biggest success from 1985. I deciided to post the Galactica remix which was released that same year. The water drop sounding percussion break at 2:43 is pure genius.

Mike Mareen - Dancin' in the dark (Galactica remix)

Cosmic retro-chic

2008-05-03T14:23:54-04:00

First off, I just wanna apologize for the lack of update in the last weeks. I promise I'll be posting more regularly from now on.

So, Hamburg artist Marko Niemerski is the man behind Tensnake. In the likes of In Flagranti, which I featured on this blog here, Tensnake makes electronic / house music strongky influenced by 80's Italo Disco and synth pop. But he takes it beyond the simple pastiche to create sexy floating cosmic grooves. He released a first EP in 2006 called Restless and followed it with three more releases in 2007: I Say Mista, Dust and Fried Egg. He also remixed Cassius, Junior Boys, Alexander Robotnik, original italo disco group Camaro's Gang and more recently Sally Shapiro for her soon to be released remix album. But you can get his remix of 'I'll be by your side' already on iTunes. It also seems he's got a new EP on the way to be released on Mule Musiq. Here are some of my favorite tracks of his. You can buy all of his music on iTunes or you can get it on vinyl here.

Tensnake - Hanselstadt

Tensnake - Toshi's Battle

Junior Boys - Fm (Tensnake remix)

Camaro's Gang - Fuerza Major (Tensnake remix)

Freaky disco funk classics

2008-04-20T11:44:02-04:00

It's been a minute since I last posted some music but I've been listening to a lot of old grooves which I'm planning to feature on here. I thought I'd start with some classic late 70's / early 80's disco funk. First up is Jimmy "Bo" Horne's Spank. Just by looking at this dude's face on his record cover, you know he's a freak and he means every line of this song. No, but really, how priceless is this cover!? Second song I got on the fullyfitted blog. It's a Devlin edit of a 1978 song from Canadian band (that's right!) Bumblebee Unlimited. It's got it all: mean bassline, violins, piano and some hilarious chip munk like vocals. I love it! Arthur Russell is the man behind Loose Joints' It's all over my face. He died of AIDS in 1992 but left an incredible legacy of funky jams. The last two songs are disco funk but with a latin twist. Candido's Jingo is a dance floor classic. The Santana cover is pretty well known too and is just as good. Two Man Sound is, believe or not a Belgian band. But they were known to mix disco with brasilian sounds. Que Tal America is their one big hit. So that's it for the disco edish but make sure to come back soon as I will be featuring my favorite italo disco, acid house, electro funk and other unclassified obscure 80's grooves.

Jimmy "Bo" Horne - Spank (1980 Remix)

Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady Bug (Devlin extendit)

Loose Joints - Is it all over my face (Larry Levan Remix)

Candido - Jingo (original 12" mix)

Two man sound - Que Tal America

70's and 80's TV show themes

2008-04-05T01:15:00-04:00

The 70's and 80's were the golden era of great TV show themes. Whether it'd be the blaxpoitation soulful and funky kinda themes, the 80's synth-pop anthems or the more classic kinda orchestral type of songs, the following themes had a life of their own, outside of their respective tv serie. A lot of these songs, if not all of them have been sampled and/or covered. The Miami Vice Crockett's theme was covered for the 2006 remake (that version is awful though). It was also covered by Fpu Project. Knightrider was sampled by Panjabi MC on Mundian to Back Ke in 1998 which was then recuperated by Jay-Z for the 2003 hit Beware of the Boys that we all know. The Police Woman theme which gotta be my favorite was sampled by Masta Killa on No Said Date. The S.W.A.T. theme was sampled by The Prodigy while Quincy's Sanford and Sons theme was sampled by Diplo for his remix of M.I.A.'s URAQT. If you know any other great tv show themes, feel free to leave them in the comments.

Jan Hammer - Crockett's Theme (Miami Vice - 1985)

Stu Philips - Knightriders theme

Henry Mancini - Police Woman theme

Rhythm Heritage - S.W.A.T. theme

Morton Stevens - Hawaii Five-0 theme

Quincy Jones - Sanford and sons theme

Spiderman cartoon theme

BONUS TRACKS:

Fpu Project - Crockett's theme

M.I.A. - URAQT (Diplo mix)

NORE X MSTRKRFT

2008-04-03T21:24:32-04:00

Its not a joke. That rave rap thing was totally predictable. I remember telling people 3 years ago that electro rap was going to blow up. I feel like its gonna be a hit but I'm not sure if I like the song. The chorus is good but I'm not sure about the verses...Anyway, look out for the Posse cut remix produced by Justice featuring Gdep, Memphis bleek, Cadillac Tah, Peter Gunz & Killah Priest....

Download Bounce from MSTRKRFT featuring N.O.R.E. from the RCRD LBL site

ELI ESCOBAR

2008-04-01T10:06:23-04:00

Dj Eli is one of my favorite producer/remixer right now. He really has his own sound and it's not comparable to anything else. What's interesting is that his production is influenced by some older stuff like disco and 80s electro music and he's able to make it sound actual. His twist on music is everything that a dancefloor wants without compromising the musical aspect of the song. Here is a couple of my favorite songs including his new banger with legendary Mark the 45 King & Pase Rock.

45 King & Pase Rock - 900 Number 2K8 (Eli remix)

Keyshia Cole - Shoulda let you go (Eli's put echo on everything mix)

Cassie - Me and u (Eli banger remix)

Chromeo - Bonafied lovin (Eli remix ft. Pase Rock)

M.I.A. - Bamboo Banga (Eli remix)

Reckoner remix on popular demand

2008-03-30T12:20:14-04:00

Ever since I've downloaded this track and started playing it, I've been getting request from people to send it to them. Again, last night, the ever lovely Alexandra asked me for it. So I thought it would be a lot easier to just post it on here. This is what this blog is about anyways. Sharing music. Reckoner is a song from Radidohead's latest album In Rainbow and this is the LoveTongueAttack Bmore Remix. The original song being sick has probably a lot to do with the fact this remix is getting some love. But I'm not gonna lie, the "Bmore" kicks and claps do work pretty well on this song.

Radiohead - Reckoner (LoveTongueAttack Bmore Remix)

I'm in love with a disco siren

2008-03-26T21:43:15-04:00

Midfield General is Brighton's DJ and producer Damian Harris. He's about to launch his sophomore album next month, 8 years after his first release. The first single Disco Sirens has been floating around for a couple of weeks and it inspired a couple of remixes from the such of D.I.M. and Boy 8-Bit. The song was produced in part by Xavier De Rosnay. You can tell by the signature Justice bassline. Vila from Australian duo Bumblebeez sings on it. So here's the original and the 2 previously mentionned remixes. All three are 320 Kbps, by the way, so you can play them at the club.

Midfield General - Disco Sirens

Midfield General - Disco Sirens (Boy 8-Bit Short Vocal Mix)

Midfield General - Disco Sirens (D.I.M. Remix)

MGMT's psychedelic indie pop

2008-03-26T20:37:17-04:00

Here's the new indie pop band to hit the blogosphere. These 2 Brooklynites met in college and formed a band that was then known as The Management. They later switched MGMT and were signed to Columbia Records in 2006. Rolling Stone magazine recently put them in their Top 10 artists to watch in 2008. What more can I say? I like. Buy the full album here.

MGMT - Electric Feel

MGMT - Weekend Wars

New fire from Sammy Bananas

2008-03-25T10:03:46-04:00

A new banger from Fool's Gold's Sammy Bananas. Here is his touch on a song called P-Y-R-A-M-I-D. Make sure to check him out on the Fool's Gold tour with A-Trak, Aoki & Sinden. The Sweet Fix got it first!

45 King vs Pyramid - P-Y-R-A-M-I-D (Sammy Bananas Remix)

Back to the future

2008-03-23T14:30:58-04:00

I dreamt of the future last night and this is what it sounded like.

Gentlemen Drivers - 2042 L.A. Dreams

Prince - The Future (Mark Moore Remix)

Visage - In The Year 2525

Model 500 - Future