tonight: MOSHI MOSHI vs BERLIN BATTERY @ Scala Berlin

it can't get much better than tonight with this line-up...
so see you there!

Me My Head - White Lights (Shadow Dancer Remix / Malente Re-Edit)

This is how Digitalism's fridge looks like when they're playing the big festivals. Thanks for showing us Isi. But why haven't I told you earlier? Well, I was busy playing. On my little 5 week Australia tour the two summadayze festivals in Melbourne and especially the one in Perth (where these fotos are from) have been the highlight so far.
Incredible lineup. I played alongside Boys Noize, Switch, Digitalism (live), Busy P and DJ Mehdi, who's showing me how to use the mixer ;) on the photo belowIt was a beautiful day with great music, great people and it was a lot of fun to meet and hang with these guys. The atmosphere in the Hot Barbecue tent (pay attention to the sausage above the stage) was phenomenal.
Especially when Digitalism performed and Busy P & Mehdi played to finish the thing off. For the last 30 minutes all the artists where dancing on stage having a good time. I didn't know that Switch was such an awesome dancer... impressing. This is how fetsivals should be.
Even if you haven't read the interview with him on Discodust yet: I know you guys know that Boys Noize Alex is not only a nice guy, but one of the worlds best DJs, has great taste in music and is releasing all the Shadow Dancer original material. What you didn't know till now is how my re-edit of Shadow Dancer's fabulous Me My Head remix sounds like. Go ahead and get to know now.

Me My Head - White Lights (Shadow Dancer Remix / Malente Re-Edit)
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Ah and by the way here's a little something for my German readers: it's around 30 degree celsius where I'm at now. Till next week. If i'm not too lazy...

www.myspace.com/shadowdancer
www.myspace.com/boysnoizerecords
www.myspace.com/djmehdi

a compilation of weird & mellow 2008 pop by dj supermarkt

...same procedure as last year! I handpicked some of my favorite songs of 2008 and they should all add up to a perfect soundtrack to a nice lazy sunday afternoon on your couch. Musically - as usual - it is all life-changing, unusual pop music, a bit electronic, a bit folky, but with a small disco-itch, completely obscure as well as well known. I would describe the vibe of all these songs "warm", not the worst thing for a period, where people in the south of France are freezing to death...
Well, simply said, this are some of the tracks that made me LIVE & BREATHE & SURVIVE 2008. Maybe the music inspires you, too. I hope so.

Artists included are Breakbot, Single, Plugs, James Yuill, Metronomy, Bertrand Burgalat/Robert Wyatt, Of Montreal, Esser, Kotchy, Chairlift, Air France, Peter Fox, Gonzales, Jamie Lidell, Friendly Fires, Mr. Hudson.

(oh, if you look for the actual tracklist, look at the comments below... ;-) i guess you know why...)

15 tracks, zip-file, 85mb:
>>>...how i survived 2008 by dj supermarkt
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JACK TENNIS - My Highlights 2008 (more list shit...!)

As you can see, I've analyzed 2008 through my special music-glasses. And what can I see? Blog-House everywhere, the whole Berlin Battery crew is tried of that kind of sound. During the year we tried to figure out something new, a banging, danceable sound without playing fidget stuff all night long. And it worked so good! From disco, to house, to electro, to soft rock & west coast-sound. 

So let's see if 2009 will bring something new to us... 

Albums:
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Hercules And Love Affair - s/t
Sebastian Tellier - Sexuality
Gonzales - Soft Power
Mr. Oizo - Lambs Anger
Q-Tip - Live at the Renaissance
Leon Jean Marie - Bent Out Of Shape
James Pants - Welcome
Jamie Lidell - Jim

Songs:
Pacific! - Hot Lips
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
Leon Jean Marie - Bring It On
Metromomy - Heartbreaker (Diskjokke Remix)
Grovesnor - Drive Your Car
Blind Terry - When Prefab Sproud Wrecked My Mind
Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
Vyle - Possible
Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (Smoothed Out On An R'n'B-Tip Version)
Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeorplane Remix)

Compilation/DJ-Mix:
Motown Flies Jamaica
Metro Area - Fabric 43
The Rapture - Tapes
Erol Alkan Pres. Disco 3000
Berlin Battery Compilation
Groove Armada - Late Night Tales

Club Track:
Beni - My Love Needs You
Action Man - Under Your Skin
Kidda - Under The Sun (Herve' Remix)
Gala- Freak From Desire (Roundtable Knights Remix)
Soundstream - Rainmaker
Diskokaine - Rimini (Christopher Just Remix)
Boyz Noize - Oh (A-Track Remix)
Robert Dietz & Markus Fix - Shunsower
Surkin - White Knights 2 (Laidback Luke Remix)
The Emergency - Too Much (Shazam Remix)
Housemeister - What You Want (Sirius Mo Remix)

Also good & interesting in 2008:

Holy Ghost, Lykke Li, Bonaparte, Grace Jones, Flying Lotus, Gameboy/Gamegirl and Bunny Rabbit live at Berlin Battery Parties, Munk, James Yuill, The Ting Tings, MIT, Breakbot, Thunderheist, Pilooski, Riva Starr, Woolfy, The Canyons, Aeroplane...

DJ SUPERMARKT: that was 2008 for me...! (list shit galore)

Well, hello, here it finally is, my end of the year 2008 list (nerd)-madness, that you all (well mainly the two people that asked me about it) waited for. It took a while, cause I can tell you, it's a hell of a lot of work (...but it's fun, i must admit).
In general it's the follow-up to last years list-shit 2007. Here is how it works: I am always chosing the music, that i REALLY listen to and love the most (or played in clubs), not the stuff, i think is "important" (like i see in many music-magazines). So - for example - the album of Hot Chip (a band i love) is not in my top twenty because i just can not listen to the whole thing. It's too quirky for me, but i love "ready for the floor", which is in my single-lists. I guess you get it...! (Sorry...)
The Cut Copy album for me is the best POP - album 2008 by miles, with great songwriting, ace melodies to sing along, amazing production by the DFA-guys and in the end a collection of 15 possible singles. I know it is successful (commercially) in many countries (it went to no.1 in the Australian charts), but somehow Warner Brothers (label in Germany) really fucked it up here, or forgot to release. It completely drowned. Can you beleive that the album is not included in any!! German music magazine end-of-the-year top 50. Hello? It is all over the internet, blogs etc... I guess it says a lot about the blocked horizon of German music-journalists. "The sky is the limit"... (seems the internet is somewhere hidden behind the sky...!)
Small change: I had to split up the favorite-club-tunes in two lists, because i LOVED (and tried to play) two diffrent styles of clubmusic this year: electro-disco (for smaller clubs and not overdrugged audiences) and fidget-banger-house (for spain...)!
And to finish i listed the bands, that i think (and hope from the bottom of my heart) should be big in 2009. Looking at my "big in 2008"-list of last year i have to admit that my ability to forsee the future is not too bad: i listed Duffy, Vampire Weekend, Crookers, Friendly Fires, Late Of The Pier, Hervé a.o. But, on the other hand, what ever happened to Scouting For Girls, Mitchell Brothers...
I hope you enjoy these lists as much as i enjoyed doing them, and of course feel free to tell me what you think about it (and who i forgot...).
And - of course - in the next days i will upload my traditional "best of 2008"-compilation for you...

And here is my favorite song of 2008. I posted it already some time ago and it is probably the most downloaded track of berlin battery 2008 (more than 3500 downloads only on z-share). So it looks like maybe you sometimes agree on my musical taste... As far as i know this song still is unreleased (it legally spread through the internet only)... wow, how cool is that?! Thank you Friendly Fires!

>>>FRIENDLY FIRES - I'm good I'm gone (Lykke Li cover)
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and here we go...


albums:
1. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
2. Lemonade - s/t
3. Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
4. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
5. James Yuill - Turning Down Water For Air
6. Metronomy - Nights Out
7. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
8. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
9. Little Joy - Little Joy
10. James Pants - Welcome
11. Santogold - Santogold
12. Friendly Fires - s/t
13. Dark Captain Light Captain - Miracle Kicker
14. Vampire Weekend - s/t
15. Kidda- Going Up
16. Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
17. Lykke Li - Youth Novel
18. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t
19. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
20. Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel


compilations:
1. Belle & Sebastian - The BBC Sessions
2. The Rapture - Tapes
3. Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Ark 1
4. D-i-r-t-y Soundsytem - Dirty Edits Vol 2
5. Compass Point Story - Funky Nassau
6. The Greatest Hits of GAMM records 2
7. DiscoNotDisco - Post Punk, Elektro & Leftfield Disco Classics
8. Berlin Battery - Re-Dubs, Edits, Booties, Shredits and more


pop-songs:
1. Friendly Fires - I'm Good I'm Gone (Lykke Li cover)
2. Roberty Wyatt & Bertrand Burgalat- This Summer Night
3. Yacht - Summer Song
4. Gonzales - Slow Down
5. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
6. Flairs - Trucker's Delight
7. Air France - Collapsing At Your Doorstep
8. Peter Fox - Haus Am See
9. Single - Honey
10. Flamino Crash - It's Mystery Music
11. Plugs - This Number
12. Kotchy - She Made It Easy
13. Bodi Bill - I Like Holden Caulfield
14. Esser - Headlock
15. Chairlift - Evident Utensil & Bruises
16. The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go
17. Alb - Sweet Sensation (Breakbot rmx)
18. Magistrates - Make It Work
19. Jamie Lidell - Another Day
20. Bonaparte - Too Much


electro-disco:
1. Metronomy - Heartbreaker (Diskodeine rmx)
2. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance ((Twelves rmx)
3. In Flagranti - Business Acumen
4. Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Chromeo rmx)
5. Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane rmx)
6. Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (Soulwax rmx)
7. Holy Ghost! - Hold On
8. Ting Tings - Great Dj (Calvin Harris rmx)
9. Munk - Down in LA (Shazam rmx)
10. Pnau - Baby (Breakbot rmx)
11. The Hours - See The Light (Calvin Harris rmx)
12. Cut Copy - Lights & Music (Boys Noize rmx)
13. Juan Maclean - Happy House
14. David Rubato - Circuit (Siriusmo rmx)
15. Telespazio - Telemetric
16. Erobique - Endorphinmachine
17. Studio - Westside (Klumpfisk rmx)
18. Depressed Billionaires - Coconuts
19. Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve rmx)
20. Tame Impala - Heart Full Of Glass (Canyons Drunken Rage rmx)


club bangers:
1. Kidda - Under the Sun (Hervé rmx)
2. Basement Jaxx - Twerk
3. Beni - My Love Sees You
4. MSTRKRFT - Bounce (Mansion rmx)
5. Malente & Dex - Hyperactive (Bobmo rmx)
6. Riva Starr - Squash
7. Count & Sinden - Beeper (Fake Blood rmx)
8. LCD Soundsystem - Us vs Them (Go Home Productions rmx)
9. Yuksek - Deladeu 2
10. Hervé - Cheap thrills
12. Hostage - Hoot
13. MGMT - Kids (Soulwax rmx)
14. Teenagers - Love No (tepr rmx)
15. Sawtooth Sucka - Depressed Mode
16. Sonny J - Can't Stop Moving (The Young Punx rmx)
17. Fake Blood - Mars
18. Surkin - White Knight Two
19. Tyken - Let It Rain (Trevor Loveys rmx)
20. Fatboy Slim- Rackafella Skank (Riva Starr rmx)


big in 2009?:
Mr. Hudson
Lemonade
Cut Copy (HELLO!!!??? Germany, WAKE UP!!!!)
The Canyons
Lullabies In The Dark
Esser
Knightlife
Breakbot
Siriusmo
Empire Of The Sun
Housse De Racket
David E Sugar
Mayer Hawthorne
Holy! Ghost
Little Boots
Tame Impala
Plugs
Lord Skywave

BAGGY LEGGINS - Run Da Roses (Fools Gold Booty)

It's really difficult to add something great to "Fools Gold" by The Stone Roses, because it's so fucking good anyway! Here the guys from Baggy Leggins (no clue, who they are... yes! I love it, they don't even have a myspace-site) have cut the track to pieces and then added some Hip Hop vocals from RUN DMC & DAS EFX ("real Hip Hop") and "BANG", there you have a track that will destroy any decent party in a second.
This track is only the b-side of a 7 Inch. Tha A-side is a really weird and mindblowing booty of a lazy Ethopian tune called "GIRMA BEYEN" redone with heavy b-boy beats and crazy bass. Get it (while it lasts) at Juno.

>>>BAGGY LEGGINS - Run Da Roses
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the picture is the original artwork of the Stone Roses 12". Like all fantastic Stone Roses artworks it was painted by John Squire himself, the guitarist of The Roses. Below is a link to his fine arts. (listening to the music he released since he left The Roses, he should really stick to the art...)
http://www.john-squire.com/art

JAMES YUILL (in Berlin...)

2009 is here and we have a nice start for it (for you):
Young Londoner JAMES YUILL has definetly done one of the top albums 2008. "turning down water for air" mixes the folky melancholy breeziness of Nick Drake with the electronic playfullness of Hot Chip. And still you can dance to it! Imagine a very talented guy - high on candy - locked in his mother's bedroom with a guitar and a laptop, playing around with sweet and innocent acoustic melodies and adding some darkly introspective electronic magic. He is signed on Übercool pop-label Moshi Moshi and together with them (plus Stockholm's wunderkinder-duo Lo-Fi-Fnk) we will have a ball on saturday this weekend, january 10th, in Scala/Berlin at our first berlin battery party in 2009:

10.1.: Scala-Berlin
Scala&berlinbattery present:

Moshi Moshi feat.
James Yuill (live)
Lo-Fi-Fnk (live)
Moshi Moshi Djs
Shir Khan
Jack Tennis
Dj Supermarkt
and much much more...

>>>JAMES YUILL - this sweet love (Prins Thomas sneaky edit)
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http://www.myspace.com/jamesyuill
http://www.myspace.com/moshimoshirecords

New Year's Eve with berlin battery's JACK TENNIS & DJ SUPERMARKT

OUTFIT - Oh Love

Not much to say about this one. Check out other Outfit tracks on his myspace.

OUTFIT - Oh Love (ysi)

Shir Khan's Top of the Pops for 2008

Hey everyone. Merry XMAS. Its been a while I posted something and I just came back from Australia. Had some nice parties down there with Dangerous Dan (Bang Gang), Sneaky Soundsystem, Act Yo Age, Kato and many others. And because the year is nearly finished I just wanted to tell you my favourites of 2008. You can also listen to what I have to say about them on the fritzwebsite here:

FRITZ JAHRESUMFRAGE

Best album for 2008:
Munk - Cloudbuster (Gomma)
James Yuill - Turning down water for Air (Moshi Moshi)
The Rapture - Tapes (!K7)

Best track for 2008:
Beni - My love needs you (Relish)
Dj Mujava - Township Funk (This is Music/Warp)
Munk - Down in LA (Shazam Rmx/Gomma)

Cheesiest track for 2008:
Surkin - White Knights Two (Institubes)
Gala - Free from Desire (Roundtable Knights Rmx/Arcademode)

Best concert for 2008:
Hercules&Love Affair
Public Enemy

Best new artist/label for 2009:
Siriusmo
Oliver$
Riva Starr
Mowgli&Solo
Zombie Disco Squad
Tomski&Fredboy
Deadfish/Freshfish
Tartelet Records

FRITZ JAHRESUMFRAGE

here is more best of 2008....

Do the Tartelet - Tomski&Fredboy - Tartelet
DUM - Martin Brothers - Dirty Bird
Girlsrock - Siriusmo - Exploited
The Kids Dont stand a Chance (Chromeo Rmx) - Vampire Weekend - XL
The Vamp (Prins Thomas Rmx) - Outlander - R&S Records
Senta Senta - Daniel Haaksman - Man Recordings
Squash - Riva Starr - Made to Play
Miss Pacman (Oliver$ Rmx) - RQM - Exploited
Roar - Patrice Baumel - Get Physical
Left Handed Girl - James Yuille - Moshi Moshi
Arcadia (Boys Noize Rmx) - Apparat - Shitkatapult
Street Players - Voodoo Chilli - Cheap Thrills
Mars - Fake Blood - Cheap Thrills
Jolly Joker (Supermayer Rmx) - Alter Ego - Klang
Trompeta - SIS - SED
Clowns - Style of Eye - Pickadoll
Secousse - Radioclit - Mental Groove
That Beep (Radioclit Rmx) - Architecture in Helsinki - Polivinyl

BERLIN BATTERY COMPILATION (a special Malente Bonus Edit)

This Comp gets a lot of love thruout the net and it deserves every inch of it. It has been re-hosted on a lot of good sites already. From the fast life to lemur to nerdy frames and and and. This all free present came five days early for Christmas, so you might be spoilt getting the greatest gift early this year. Well we Berlin Batteries just made it a bit early to get our friend blogs something to give away in time ;) You haven't got it yet? Shame on you. Here it is again.

BERLIN BATTERY COMPILATION (zShare) (zip file, 89mb)


But today on Christmas day (after a lot of cake) I have a very special addition to the comp of the year. A bonus track not included in the original package. A little extra present.

Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement (Malente Re-Dub)
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Fits with my other 80s new wave, pop, disco dubs of Kajagoogoo and Spandau Ballet. Check out the videos of the originals too. These come in handy for your Christmas party or New Years Eve. Did I say that I loved them, loved you, loved the world? I should have...

Spandau Ballet - The Freeze


Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement


Kaja - Turn Your Back On Me

TOTALLY FREE & EXCLUSIVE BERLIN BATTERY COMPILATION with EDITS, RE-DUBS and more...

Christmas is here and of course none of you/us has bought presents yet. What can you find anyway for our cool friends that have... well, everything already? So here is your big chance, because Berlin Battery went nuts and gives away a free compilation of nine handemade exclusive tracks for YOU(us)!!! The BB makers spent weeks in their dark basement studios to write and produce these weird dancing diamonds especially for this compilation.
And now we have for you the hottest edits, re-dubs, shredits, booties directly from the hands of Jack Tennis, Ben Mono, Shir Khan (here a.k.a. Liebling), Malente and DJ Supermarkt. Musically it is a very wide story, from Disco to Krautrock to Hip Hop to New Wave-PunkFunk to Westcoats-Disco-Softrock. The tracks that we edited are from extremely diverse artists like the well known Spandau Ballet, Scissor Sisters, Kaja (without Googoo... well without Limahl), Gary Numan, La Bionda, The Rah Band up to the very obscure like The Charlie Calello Orchestra, Gina X or Ian Matthews.
We hope you enjoy this gift and maybe it guides you straight to 2009! Download the zip-file with 9 tracks, incl. a beautiful cd-cover created by bb's very own graphic-designer Dennis Ratzlaff.
Share it and spread it!

Track list:



BERLIN BATTERY COMPILATION (zshare) (zip file, 89mb)