19.12.2008

Dj Supermarkt's last party weekend 2008: Madrid & Valencia!



Prepare for the final countdown. Another dj supermarkt weekend in spain with three shows in two days:

19.12. Madrid, Low Club
20.12. Valencia: 47 social club (1:00 - 2:00) & Mill club (4:00 - 6:00).


Meet you there!

16.12.2008

DMX KREW - Bad Boy

Ed DMX is back. This track is taken from his new "Bass Drop" EP on Tiga's label Turbo. I love his 80's melodies and this strange melancolic electro feel in most of his tracks. This sounds very december to me...

DMX KREW - Bad Boy (ysi)

15.12.2008

METRONOMY - a thing for me (video)


It all looks so simple in the hands of METRONOMY. Their next freaky disco-pop-"earcatcher"-single is here. And alongside: what a video!!! My favorite video of the year, for sure. It's all about karaoke. I especially like the goth being hit by the ball...
Oh, and "nights out" is also one of my 5 favorite records of 2008 (yes, don't worry, my best-of-list is coming in the week after christmas, like last year).

If you don't own a copy of this album yet, we have no mercy for you. So don't come back to berlin battery until you bought it :-)

http://www.myspace.com/metronomy

14.12.2008

Tonka - Website (Malente Re-Edit)


That guy is old skool. In 1995 Tonka started releasing his unique productions between house, techno, rave, italo and jungle on legendray Force Inc Records. In my humble opinion classics like „Feel“, „Phun-ky“ and „Flashback“ are so now, they yearn for remixes by the Institubes camp, Hervé or Jack Beats.

Speaking of Remixes. Tonka himself touched not only „Show me love“, but also „Trapped“, „Love Shack“ and „Push it“ over the years. These and his own „She Knows You“, „Don’t be afraid“ or „Heartjumpa“ ensured him huge commerical success. He didn’t sell his soul though as he has always experimented with new influences from Big Beat to 2Step to (now) Fidget plus has his own label to be independent for almost as long as his whole career. Not to forget he’s got a huge soul, so even if he sold parts of that soul over the years, I wouldn’t be able to tell. That’s how great of a guy he is.

I’ll never forget the first or second time we met around 2000. It was the Echo (German Music Awards) afterparty. We drunk our heads of , made fun of all the retarded musc industry people and freaked out dancing to the Prodigy. But enough reminiscing.

Tonka is back after a well deserved three years break. And it wouldn’t be him if he didn’t give us the huge Ibiza Anthem „Orca“ (big with Carl Craig and all the serious DJs, out on Great Stuff) and the rockin’ „Drop Box EP“ at the same time. Later for the stupid DJs like me, already out on Alphabet City. The track I re-edited is off „Drop Box“ and it's so influencial, it made me update my homepage after half a year. Thanks for that.

Tonka - Website (Malente Re-Edit)
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Now go buy Tonka’s new treats and of course „Check out my website.“

www.myspace.com/djtonka
www.malente.dj

10.12.2008

KIDDA - under the sun (HERVE rmx)


This remix is definetely one of my Top-Club-Burners this year. Now it turned into a video...
Oh, and the album is one of my top-pop-albums this year! So well done, Mr Kidda!
He not only produces the music, but also the videos himself.... (hard to beat, you "Streber")

we posted about him earlier with lots of infos and music to download, so check it out: here!

http://www.myspace.com/kiddauk

08.12.2008

LEMONADE


This is simply amazing and in a world of it's own! No big words from my side on this one: Imagine Primal Scream with Andrew Weatherall (era Screamadelica), DFA-style beats and coolness, a bit of Flaming Lips, some 90s Rave elements, oriental samples and a psycheldelic fucked up feel. This is pop-art and sounds like nothing on earth so far. They have a six track EP (CD @ juno and download @ other music) out which will be one of my top 5 records of 2008! Also yours? Get it while you can!!!!

>>>LEMONADE - blissful
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>>>LEMONADE - Big Weekend (Delorean rmx)
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http://www.myspace.com/bananasandecstasy

05.12.2008

VYLE - Possible


This is new HipHop (i hope...). Vyle's oldschool raps over 2008 electro-funk, produced by the strongly recommended australian youngster Shazam. This is what I need to make my dark and cold berlin days more bright and warm. Thank you guys!

VYLE - Possible (ysi)

04.12.2008

DJ SUPERMARKT in Tarragona & Porto

Shitty wheather in Berlin... and no end in sight (well, probabyly march/april 09...). But i am playing in the south of europe this weekend and hope to see and feel a ray of sunshine (if i am awake during the day...).

5.12.
Tarragona, Sala GreenBack
"Jacques "Tati" Tennis-dancing contest"



6.12.
Porto, Bazaar


and one of the songs i am eager to play this weekend is this remix for LCD SOUNDSYSTEM by Go Home productions, which is part of the great remix-album "Sounds like silver".

see you there!

>>>LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - us vs them (Go Home Productions rmx)

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Shir Khan@Neidklub/6.12.08



Ok. Its not possible for me to top Malentes "Axel Fireflies"-Post today, so I am not even trying.
Actually I was just about to upload a tune I am sure everybody would be absolutely crazy for. But I just realized its not on my harddrive. I have to search it on CD (ripped from vinyl)...so thats gonna come soon.
For now I just give you the info that I am playing at my favourite clubnight in Hamburg this Saturday (Nikolaus). Check me out at Neidklub. And to give you some goodie: Here is my interview with Mr.Oizo which I did for my radioshow. Mr.Oizo is a freak! The whole truth with Mr.Oizo here. Word! Please forgive my voice on this - I was sick.
Shir Khan&Mr.Oizo@Radio Fritz

Malente - Axel Fireflies (Mash Up) (06/08/2004)


It's time to admit it. I did that bootleg. Released 06/08/2004 this has been played by everybody and if I remember right even Black Strobe who's Italian Fireflies I (ab)used.

Not to long ago we Berlin Batteries were having dinner and everybody went "I played this forever". Only half of the guys knew that I mashed this up in 2004. Once this mash up even appeared on a compilation where they licensed Harold Faltermeyer's Axel F., credited it and put on my Bootleg instead. Crazy.

If you think I was just stealing all of this, you are probably right and I thought so too until some Crazy Frog half a year later "stole" my mash up and took it to another level. Well, you could say he was inspired by it and thought: "You could do a stupid ringtone and a hilarious video for this. But first of all you have to add a lot of cheapness and cheese. Hahaha! I'm cray. Frog crazy".

Malente - Axel Fireflies (Mash Up) (06/08/2004)
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I only have the 192kbps file left. As soon as I finished doing this, I closed and didn't save the arrangement. Furthermore I converted the wav right after into the mp3 and lost it somewhere. The icing on the cake is that if you bought the vinly back then in 2004, you most likely bought a vinyl pressing from a master that was done of a 192kbps file. Shocking. The pic on top is showing Harold Faltermeyer and his buddies recording the original Axel F. tune. Concentrated work. Shocking too. This week fuck myspace.

03.12.2008

SANTOGOLD & JULIAN CASABLANCAS (THE STROKES) & PHARRELL - My Drive Thru


This dream team is part of a fashion-campaign. So what! Great hypnotic N.E.R.D. produced song, great video and a collaboration possibly invented in heaven!

>>>SANTOGOLD & JULIAN CASABLANCAS & PHARRELL - my drive thru
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02.12.2008

URBAN MYTH EDIT - It's In The Music


Soul, Funk, Disco! This edit from Johnson and Youngbloods "The Funk is in the music" (1983, Westend Rec.), made by the guys from Urban Myth, is one of my disco favourits. Check out their other releases on their myspace if you like that kind of D.I.S.C.O.

URBAN MYTH EDIT - It's In The Music.mp3 (ysi)