Plauge Top Choons April 2011
By nikolatesla | Apr 1st 2011 | Blog Series, Monthly Top Choons, News
Here are the top tracks the Plauge Boyz have been feelin’ lately.
First up some house music. I’m guessing this is a lost classic house track (check out the track description) since it doesn’t exactly reinvent the wheel (we got rising pianos, organ stabs, a snapping beat and a very familiar bit of accapella). Nevertheless it is a solid, bumping house tune. UPDATE: So apparently My Love Is Underground is the label rather than the actual song. This is also not a single tune, but rather a collection of clips from the release.
Herman Prime: Jerzzey Boy – Lost Cuts Pt.1
Soundcloud
On the same track, some more deep house in the form of a Christian Prommer remix. Again it’s nothing you haven’t heard before but so flipping what. Now all we need is a beach, some drinks and summer. God damn, two months can seem like a long time…
Azure: Maylee Todd – Aerobic in Space (Christian Prommer remix)
SoundCloud
Next up is everybody’s favorite subversive female dance artist (before Lady Gaga came along and convinced everyone that wearing meat is more interesting than making decent songs). This song has already been remixed a few times (I’m partial to the Yuksek and Brodinski remix). DJ Hell maintains the gothy coolness of the original track while adding a heaping of techno.
milo: Peaches – Lose You (DJ Hell remix)
YouTube / BeatPort / Spotify
Finland seems to produce a lot of weird-ass bands making weird-ass songs about weird-ass subjects. Case in point: Eleanoora Rosenholm. All their songs are about the end of the world (I guess?) and everybody dying. The music sounds like a suicidal Pet Shop Boys on a progressive rock binge. And the less said about the video, the better.
drS: Eleanoora Rosenholm – Valo kaasumeren hämärässä
Vimeo
Wow. After that bit of weirdness one has to get grounded. We need something basic and fundamental, like a dude who really knows how to handle a guitar. Janne Schaffer is one of those great artists so unknown and underrated it kinda makes you mad. Spread the word, yo.
Jukola: Janne Schaffer – Atlanta Inn 2419
YouTube
Staying on the funky white boy tip, here comes Starbuck. I can imagine that this track helped many guys get into the pants of many ladies many times in the 70′s. This and Chaka’s Sweet Thing. And hey, who’s to say it couldn’t work today…
Seppo Hanuri: Starbuck – A Fool in Line
YouTube
Next up Joris Voorn digs up his old house tune in order to help out the folks over in Japan. A very honorable thing to do, and more power to Joris for doing it, even if the tune itself is just a re-working of an old Underground Resistance remix.
Even though it’s nice to always look for the proverbial “next shit” and try to keep ahead of the curve, there’s nothing wrong with occasionally going back to the basics. Presenting Tony Rocky Horror’s “The Next Flex”; a big slab of beefed-up g-funk. Buy it, turn it up on a decent system (the bass sounds crap on YouTube, even on HD) and start noddin’. I also recommend checking out TRH’s entire album, which is a nice gumbo of beat stylings both old and new.
Nikola Tesla: Tony Rocky Horror – The Next Flex
YouTube / Beatport
Weeknd is kinda like what Drake would sound like if he didn’t care about the charts at all (and if he mostly listened to James Blake). Weeknd bridges the gap between mopey, introvert indie/electronica and soulful, smooth r’n'b in a way that somehow works. To the best of my knowledge no one exactly knows who Weekend is/are, which adds a nice bit of mystery. And what is more, the entire record “House of Balloons” is available as a free download!
Lars Palmas: Weeknd – What You Need
YouTube / “House of Balloons” on Mediafire
All roads lead to Dilla in the hip hop circles and here we have fellow bandmate T3 featuring on a somewhat Detroit-sounding backdrop by French beathead Onra. What is it with the French and their love for American hip hop producers, by the way? In the 90′s it was Premier, now it’s Dilla. Are we going to get a French chopped’n'screwed movement next? (I hope so.)
Åke Kanaria: Onra feat. T3 (Slum Village) – The One
YouTube / Juno Download
Most people probably know Londong Elektricity for their soulful (and kinda poppy) drum’n'bass tunes. DJ Orion & J. Shore cut “Just One Second”‘s tempo by half and drown it in sweeping synths, pianos and a cathedral of reverb. It’s a tune for those “3 am on a summer morning, watching the sun come up” -kind of moments (you can never have too much of those).
Esmuntutu: London Elektricity – Just One Second (DJ Orion & J.Shore remix)
YouTube
We top the whole thing off with some rare groove, although it’s a re-release. Unfortunately there’s no YouTube video and the only reasonable clip available was found on iTunes. It is a really smooth track, though, and I advise you to pony up the 99 cents.
Dalion: Keni Burke – So Real
iTunes