New 4Watt electro podcast (58)...

4Watt DJ Mix 58
Funky Electro House Breaks 12

Tracklisting
01 Bust A Move (Diplo Remix)- Young MC
02 Use Somebody (Dolby Anol edit)- Kings Of Leon
03 Flywalker - Kid Cranberry & DJ Barletta
04 Get Seduced (LAZRtag Remix)- The Faint
05 Move For Me (Santiago & Bushido Remix)- Kaskade Featuring Deadmau5
06 Move for Me - Kaskade
07 Frustration (Van She Remix)- The Whip
08 Poker Face (Space Cowboy Remix)- Lady Gaga
09 Just Dance (DJ Barletta Crunk Edit)- Lady Gaga
10 Meddle (Baron von Luxxury Technicolor Remix)- Little Boots
11 Big Money Comin (BSBTRGDCLUB Rai Tsuchi Edit)- Crookers
12 Dirty Mutha (Crookers Remix)- Steed Lord
13 Arab Money (Backchat & Jackov Remix)- Busta Rhymes
14 The Message (Datashat Remix)- Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five
15 Dance Wiv Me (Aston Shuffle mix - Kissy Klub Version)- Dizzee Rascal
16 Star model (Don Rimini Remix)- Numéro#
17 Drop The Pressure (Jack Beats "Rinsed Out Rave" Remix)- Project Bassline
18 Rave Is King (Le Castle Vania Remix)- FUKKK OFFF
19 Can You Party - Todd Terry
20 This Is Acid - Maurice Joshua
21 Duck, Hush And Be Still (Andycap's Lost Remix)- VETO
22 Solta O Frango (LAZRtag remix)- Bonde Do Role
23 Wonderful Christmas Time - Mark Ronson & Daniel Merriweather
24 Ain't No Man - Hostage
25 I'm A Beast - Black Holes
26 Headbanger (BSBTRGDCLUB remix)- Edu K ft. Madame Mim
27 Township Funk (Boy 8-Bit remix)- DJ Mujava
28 Dance I Said (Touche Remix)- Eric Morillo ft. P Diddy

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Old Skool nod...

Digging back to find to find tracks that I'd probably had on cassette in the eighties I pulled out three tracks that have got early electro flavours, but that are just plain good dance tracks. So I'll cut the chat and just offer up Joyce Sims, Shannon and Freeez...

Joyce Sims - All and All (File - Mediafire)

Shannon - Let The Music Play (File - Mediafire)

Freeez - I.O.U. (File - Mediafire)

Hope that this lot is at least worth a listen. As a small bonus (hopefully!), here's my Shannon remix that should be appearing on my MySpace player shortly (see menu bar above for links)...

Shannon - Let The Music Play (4Watt Rewire) (File - Mediafire)

4Watt a Year - 2 : Everyone Loves Fake Blood

I remember before going blog hunting crazy - the fault of Trash Menagerie setting me on the road to Hype Machine - that I came across 'Gasolina' and wondered who this Fake Blood was. I was blown away by the remix and invested via iTunes to get it into the podcasts.

Bondé Do Role - Marina Gasolina (Fake Blood Remix)

Next up was the appearance of Fake Blood's own 'Mars (edit)' on the Black Ghosts mixtape (funny that!) which appeared (albeit briefly early last year) on iTunes. With a bundle of Fake Blood and Crookers tracks I podcast (mix 28) at Easter (2008) more in the style or type of electro that predominates most of the 4Watt podcasts now. I've posted the Player's Player remix which works well in a mix.

Fake Blood - Mars (Player Player's 95 Jump Mix)

Finally, my overall favourite from my fake Blood remix files is his Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip re-work of 'Look for the Woman'. This has all the classic Fake Blood breaks and bass, and the trademark 'Fake Blood' ident melded out of parts of the original vocal. Genius.

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Look For The Woman (Fake Blood Remix)

Fake Blood is Theo Keating. One half of The Wiseguys and The Black Ghosts.

He's a national treasure, so go buy Fake Blood on iTunes.

Back to bLEUET...

Having featured bLEUET's remixes and his guest podcast (over 700 downloads!) in my first blog I thought a return to check out his first tracks was definitely called for.

> bLEUET - Boomstick ( File or Mediafire )

> bLEUET - Sinistre Beat ( File or Mediafire )

The exciting news is that according to the bLEUET MySpace page a remix for 'Boomstick' is forthcoming from BSBTRGDCLUB, and TechJio will be on remix duty for his forthcoming 'Moskau'. I hope to persuade the busy Mr Paré to let us share them with you.

Download and play often...

New 4Watt electro podcast (54)...

4Watt DJ Mix 54
Dirty Electro House 6 mashup mix


Tracklisting
01 Dog Remix (Datsu vs SebastiAn) - Datsu
02 Genesis (Datsu REMIX) - Justice
03 Ghosts'n'Stuff - Deadmau5
04 Burritos and Buenos (DJ Barletta VDJ Crack Refix) - Crookers
05 Salami (Edu K Ham N' Cheese RMX feat Barbarella) - La Mode
06 Get Fresh - Kid Sister
07 Shake It To The Ground (Drop The Lime Remix) - DJ Blaqstarr
08 Tighten Up (Bobby LaBeat Re-work) - Archie Bell & The Drells
09 See The Light (Calvin Harris Remix) - The Hours
10 ZOMBIES! - Designer Drugs
11 Kelly (Shinichi Osawa remix) - Van She
12 I Like To Play - Yuksek
13 One Last Time - HeavyFeet
14 Technik (Original Mix) - Zoo Brazil
15 N.A.S.A. Music (LA Riots Remix) - N.A.S.A. ft. Method Man, E40, DJ Swamp
16 Absolute Ego Riot (Louis La Roche Remix) - The Phantoms Revenge
17 Ohow? (Original Mix) - Don Rimini
18 Aurora (Shinichi Osawa Remix) - Alex Gopher
19 Tomorrow (DFA Remix) - Clinic

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New 4Watt electro podcast (53)...

4Watt DJ Mix 53
Funky Leftfield Electro House 15 mashup mix


Tracklisting
01 Chain Of Fools - Aretha Franklin
02 Sinistre Beat - bLEUET
03 Interzone To Golden Skans (So Me Remix) - The Klaxons
04 Blinded By The Light (DJ Donna Summer Boot) - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
05 Rockerman (Lee Mortimer Remix) - Foamo
06 Walking On Sunshine - Rockers Revenge
07 Shake That ass (Mowgli Remix) - Armand Van Helden
08 Keep It Funky - Hopeless & DJ Puzzle
09 Beat The Clock - Sparks
10 Billy Says Go (Andrey Remix) - Audion
11 Music Sounds Better With You (TLGB Remix) - Stardust
12 Suratal Ihknlas (Fulgeance Smartbangin Remix) - Doug Cam
13 Imma Vote Obama Way (Remix) - DLake
14 Buttons (Chris Lake Dub Remix) - Sia
15 The Turning (Chew Fu Refix) - Oasis
16 Hashim (The Soul) - Al Naayfish
17/18 Pump Up The Jam/In Addition - Tenderlions
19 A Fifth Of Beethoven (Soulwax Remix) - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
20 Rocky Raver - Hervé
21 Shup Up & Let Me Go (LAZRtag Remix) - The Ting Tings
22 Late Night Session (Phones Filter Fromage Dub) - Ali Love
23 Mad Again (Boy 8-bit Remix) - South Rakkas Crew
24 Kids (Soulwax Nite Cells Remix) - MGMT

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4Watt a Year - 1 : 8-bit Revolution

Having been electro podcasting for over a year it's interesting (for me anyway!) to look back over the influences that got me interested and motivated enough to do more than just listen.

I'm not intending to overly hero worship, just pick some significant artists, producers, DJ's or remixers and their tracks from the last 12 months, starting with...

Boy 8-bit
Boy 8-bit is currently DJ'ing round the US for the next week or so. His remixes and own tracks have produced excellent blog-fodder and have littered my podcast mixes, and if you haven't heard/got these, you need to...

South Rakkas Crew - Mad Again (Boy 8-bit Remix) (Mediafire)
Burial - Archangel (Boy 8-bit's Simple Remix) (Mediafire)
Boy 8-bit - Suspense Is Killing Me (Mediafire)
Boy 8-bit - Ghost Town (Suspense Is Killing Me Part 2) (Mediafire)

Now cough up and buy Boy 8-bit on iTunes!

More next week...

ElectroTherapy for the masses...

Another mix for you, in this case from Jeremy Agnew and Ed Spencer's London-based ElectroTherapy club night. As the gentlemenen on their Facebook group page comment by way of introduction...

"ElectroTherapy is both a new night and a group we've started for everyone who loves electro music and generally getting their wiggle on... Our nights are not for profit, but all the extra money raised through the entry fee is donated to our nominated charities. We aim bring the fun back and take the ego out of london night life by giving you some of the freshest quality sound as yet unfound in the london underground... ;)"

So far three nights have come and gone with ever increasing attendance and a growing Facebook community (see links below). The next night - Electrotherapy IV - isn't until January 24th but here's a flavour with Mr Moshi's mix from the first night featured on their Podomatic podcast page...

The Mix...
Electrotherapy 1 LIVE - Jam Bar, Shoreditch, 7th June 2008
Mr Moshi's set - (Podomatic)(Mediafire)

01 (Hey You) What's That Sound? - Les Rythmes Digitales
02 Nil By Mouth (Knightlife Remix) - Bag Raiders
03 Love Is War (Dance City mix) - Ignition
04 Pins (Original) - Alex Metric
05 Fun Punch (Whitenoise Remix) - Bag Raiders
06 Testarossa (Sebastian Remix) - Kavinsky
07 Catch Me If U Can (Bag Raiders Remix) - Headman
08 Gunn Crime (Original Mix) - Streetlife DJs
09 DVNO (Justice Remix) - Justice
10 Natural Perfection (John C remix) - Neil Sanger
11 You Can Have It All (Original) - The S&M Project ft. Sam Noon
12 Wet N Wild (Midnight Juggernaut Remix) - KIM
13 D-Control - My Digital Enemy
14 Zum Zum (Club Mix) - Mike Monday
15 Washing Up (Tim Deluxe mix) - Tomas Andersson
16 Heartbeats (Rex The Dog Remix) - The Knife
17 Untitled (Instrumental Mix) - Jorgensen

The next ElectroTherapy session...
ElectroTherapy IV, 24th January 2009
The Gramaphone Bar, £6.00
9.00pm – 3am
Nearest Tube: Aldgate East/Liverpool Street

The Links...
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10347233049
MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/electrotherapists
Last.fm - http://www.last.fm/user/ElectroTherapy
ET Podcast - http://electrotherapy.podomatic.com/

The final word on this is that all proceeds from the parties go to the Take Heart India charity (Registered Charity 23582). The October night raised £1,109, with the three events in total notching up an impressive £2,385.

Excellent music, excellent friendly atmosphere and a worthy cause, so make a space in your diary for January...

Bleuet Business...

In my 4Watt podcasts I've recently dropped a couple of excellent remixes by bLEUET a remixer and producer out of Montreal, real name Gaultier Paré. If you check out his MySpace page there are links to all his mixes including his first own track with forthcoming remixes promised from TechJio and BSBTRGDCLUB.

Now I now you're all busy people - why else flick to that spreadsheet when someone comes in the office! - so here is the heads up with some links for your listening and mixing pleasure...

bLEUET's remixes
TechJio feat. BSBTRGDCLUB - Vertebrate (bLEUET Remix) (Mediafire)
Evil Nine - They Live (bLEUET Remix) (Mediafire)
Muse - Knights Of Cydonia (bLEUET Electro Remix Edit) (Mediafire)

bLEUET's guest 4Watt podcast mix...
4Watt Pod 51 presents DJ bLEUET guest electro mix (Mediafire)

And by the way hello to my blog...

Ian '4Watt'
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