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Fever Ray and The Knife

The Knife is a Swedish band who has been around forever and won a ton of awards. Fever Ray is Karin Andersson's (one half of The Knife) solo project. Videos follow.



Note that all of their videos share the same themes. Some examples: masks, symbolic language, man's place in nature.

Mt Eden Hide and Seek

Here's his remix of Imogen Heap's Hide and Seek, which I like much better than the original.

Mt Eden

Discovered Mt Eden, a New Zealand DJ who makes some nice dubstep mixes. Interviewed by Central Beat Collective.

Joker

This is now a dubstep blog

Stefani Before Gaga

The Lady Gaga Forum has a post with links to the AAC and MP3 files of the unreleased Stefani Germanotta Band - Red And Blue EP (2006),or you can watch them on Miqui212's YouTube channel. I like the songs here better than her pop stuff. Hopefully she formally releases this or gets back to it someday.

Eargasmix

Eargasmix is another blog tracking the mashup/house music scene. They also link to a copy of Deadmau5 and Luciano Live from Ibiza and Moar Ghosts N Whatever, also on the mau5's YouTube channel.

Deadmau5

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Spencer&Hill (Official Site)

Wolfgang Gartner

Eric Prydz

Been listening to Eric Prydz/Pryda.
Songs: Call On Me (Eric Prydz Vs Retarded Funk Mix), Muranyi, Balaton - Original Mix*, Pjanoo (Club Mix), F12, Ron Hardy Said - Eric Prydz Remix*
*Got from beatport.com and the rest from iTunes.

Eric Prydz gained attention from his "Call on Me" featuring a sample from Steve Winwood's "Valerie."
From the Sunday Mail:

In 2004, Steve reached a new generation of music fans when DJ Eric Prydz sampled his 1982 classic Valerie for dance hit, Call On Me.
"I re-recorded the vocal specially and sent it to him by email. I've still never met him," said Steve. "I couldn't believe it when it got to No. 1."

More on this DJ: Wikipedia, ericprydz.com, Pryda label, Myspace, call on me video

He also goes by the name Pryda.
On Youtube: Balaton, Muranyi, Genesis, Call on me (original mix)

Allmusic.com Bio:

Swedish DJ and producer Eric Prydz releases singles and EPs under a variety of project names, including Pryda, Cirez D, Sheridan, Dirty Funker, Moo, A and P Project, Axer, Hardform, Dukes of Sluca, and Groove System. Most of these singles are released on his own labels, which include Mouseville, Pryda, and Pryda Friends. Under his own name, however, Prydz favors straightforward, club-oriented house with a line in remakes of mildly cheesy pop songs from the 1980s. Prydz's first release in this style was 2004's "Call on Me," a sensation in Europe upon its release. Built on the hook from Steve Winwood's 1987 hit "Valerie" (with new vocals by Winwood), "Call on Me" hit the top of the singles chart in both England and Germany, spurred in large part by a somewhat controversial video consisting of an overtly sexual aerobic routine that had no less a personage than U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair publicly commenting on its salaciousness. Prydz followed this in 2005 with "Woz Not Woz," a beat-heavy instrumental revamp of the 1980 Was (Not Was) single "Wheel Me Out" that was less commercially successful but more musically inventive. This was followed in 2006 by "Proper Education," a remake of Pink Floyd's smash "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2" that sets Roger Waters and the schoolchildren chorus to a considerably funkier backbeat; this single was also released in a Daft Punk remix.

Jokers of the Scene

Ottawa-based Jokers of the Scene have come out with a new EP.
Stream some of it here.

Crookers

This is now a house music blog.

There's no allmusic or wikipedia page on Crookers, but a google search turned up this informative article with video below.

Feed The Animals

I downloaded Girl Talk's Feed the Animals from illegal-art after following a link from one of the music sites, but it wasn't until today, after reading yesterday's NY Times article, that I started listening to it. It reminds me of the excitement of finding out about mashups back in 2004, but a more wrapped up, commercial version-- a more accessible, updated, and less clowny version of DJ Yoda's Amazing Adventures. Like most mashups, GT's songs capture the best moments of popular contemporary songs to stir up your emotions in a post-post-modern we-play-everything radio play for the short-attention span, multitasking, always-online, text-messaging twitter generation.

Sources:
1. Girl Talk: Feed the Animals
2. Making Girls Dance: All in a Night’s Work By JON PARELES Published: November 19, 2008
3. Steal This Hook? D.J. Skirts Copyright Law By ROBERT LEVINE Published: August 6, 2008
4. The Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda

Triphop

It's like 1995 is back again.
Tricky's coming out with a new album, Knowle West Boy, due out in the UK on July 7. US release Sep 9th. Single is Council Estate. Video currently on the website with other preview tracks. Single out June 30. You can download parts of it to make your own remix on the Knowle West Boy site. More news here. Brown Punk (Tricky's label).

Portishead just released Third

Martina Topley Bird just released The Blue God

Maybe Hope Sandoval will release something soon.

checking old links. found new ones.

Checking to see if old links still work &
saw that Alex-C moved.
He thanked Bristle’s Blog from the BunKRS
for featuring him.
looks like it's half-mashup mixes, half-political blog.
Meanwhile, Alex-C has gone multiple, his two other personalities are Dubstep Project - 'DFRNT' and
Experitronica.

I don't know how I missed it!
The What!? Superseven mashup album, featuring mashups by aggro1, dj zebra, go home productions, and dj bc. Just listening now-- great stuff!
Thanks to dj bc for the link, who's "Ain't No Misty Mountain" is track #11.

Jimmi Jammes

Jimmi James moved last year to MySpace. He's the artist who gave us I am your father, a Darth Vader mashup, and Sgt. Pepper's Paradise, combining Gun's & Roses' Paradise City with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Check out his stuff. My current favorite is Just a Umbrella.

Party Ben

Party Ben

Ronson and Yoda

DJ Yoda came out with the Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda in October, and Mark Ronson came out with a CD single, Just, which came out in March. You can buy them on iTunes for $9.99 each.

Revolved has been back up too, since March.