CALVIN HARRIS

He gets better and better. I played his remixes for Ting Tings and Cut Copy to death. Now he turned the new single by Indierockers The Hours into a bumping electro-funk gem. Thanks.

>>>THE HOURS - see the light (CALVIN HARRIS rmx).mp3
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http://www.myspace.com/calvinharristv

ESSER - satisfied (video)

New single and video by UK's new "Shakespeare-Terry Hall-Mike Skinner". Posted his first video ages ago here and now you have the new one. Pure, perfect, modern british Pop reminiscing the style of the late Specials combined with a heavy influence of thirties cabaret music. The video also reminds me of the aestethics of dark black&white silent-movies of the twenties/thirties. Awesome and right in time for one of the most irritating and useless things in the world: Halloween??

myspace/esser

MUNK - Down In L.A. (Shazam Instrumental)

I like funky dance music. Sirius Mo, Breakbot, In Flagranti, The Twelves...and, of course,  Shazam.  He knows how the bring the funk back into the clubs. And here comes a new dreamteam via Gomma Records: Munk from munich together with the 19 year old super-talented producer Shazam from Australia. One of my favourits at the moment.

Buy the hole new Munk album "Cloudbuster" here

MUNK - Down In L.A. (Shazam Instrumental) (yousendit)

Mr.Oizo - Cut Dick

Ok.....many people have been asking already for guestlist...so I guess the flyer is worth a post (btw....if you want free entry....you can win free tickets in my radioshow at Fritz this Tuesday evening). Actually, Mr.Oizo is not in Berlin for the Levis-Tour...but hey....he already was on Saturday at Maria. So therefore, I am gonna post my favourite track from the new Mr.Oizo-Album which is really great. Seriously. Check out "Cut Dick". Have been playing this for quite some time now as well as his crazy coverversion of "It takes 2" from Rob Base & EZ Rock". Nuff chat for now...wednesday its Whitey in town - so we gonna check that out...Also Steve Aoki, D.I.M, me doing stupid warm-up+closing...ect. all@Lido.Thursday is a party@Roter Salon for english fashion mag "Wound Magazine". I will be Djing there as well. Also on the bill: Angie Reed and Cobra Killer Dj-Team. See you there.
Mr.Oizo - Cut Dick (yousendit)

Late Of The Pier - Bathroom Gurgle (Tronik Youth RMX / MALENTE RE-EDIT)

Man, have I been annoyed when last weeks post was taken down by blogger on thursday. Why did that happen? First I thought that I must have overdone it with my self promotion. Pointing out how good all my recent releases and remixes were and will be, would not have pleased the gods of the internet. I realized though that boasting and bragging are not a crime yet, not in blogs anyway. It must have been my re-edit. But why was I not allowed to post this mp3?

I am a vergetarian, so beef is not what I aim for (well, I eat fish). There's more than one good reason that made me confident that my post would not be an offense to either artist, remixer or record company. I did not see any possible harm and had my reasons for that.

For one I got the original "Flah Gordon (Per QX Remix)" by Revolte from another blog. You might smile, but it gets better: I downloaded the file over a year ago! Back then I even tried to contact the ominous Revolte project from France to license one of their tracks for my officially released 2CD "WHOW" (CD1 DJ-Mix / CD2 best Malente Remixes till 2007). This would have made them some cents, but they did not answer my request. After I played my "Flash Gordon Re-Edit" out for some months I also wrote a myspace message to the original remixer Per QX, letting him know that I loved his work and played it out everywhere. No reply.

By telling you this I just wanna let you know, that most of times I am not only posting something, but by posting an exclusive Malente Re-Edit I wanna be supportive, wanna help create an awereness for the artist/remixer, wanna try to generate sales (I am an idealist, am I not?). To re-edit sonething aims to show my respect for the artist/remixer. If I spend precious time on editing a track, I consider it to be (at least potentially) outstanding. You should realize that re-editing, only gives me a chance to make tracks better that are kinda good already. This is a bit of a difference to the process of remixing, where you can turn night into day.

Which brings me to another thing I wanna add here. Please think twice before re-posting my re-edits on your sites. In my humble optinion one does not deserve as much credit for edits as for remixes. With the re-edits the focus should remain on the original artsits/remixers. By re-editing I'm just spicing things up. If you're a frequent reader you'll know that I post a proper remix though from time to time. If I do and you dig it, feel free to re-post it. Then I will be the honoured one.

Late Of The Pier - Bathroom Gurgle (Tronik Youth RMX / MALENTE RE-EDIT)
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www.myspace.com/lateofthepier
www.myspace.com/tronikyouth

In the kitchen with Shir Khan

Here is a collection of Dj-sets I did in the last weeks for several radioshows.
One is a 15minute-mini-mix I did for Swedish National Radio P3 Dans for the "Housewifes".
The other one is a live-recording I did for Radio Nova in Paris (+ Interview).
And there's also another one I did for FM4 for "La Boom Deluxe" in Vienna.
All sets are very different from each other. The "Radio Nova"-mix is probably the most funky and eclectic.
Get all of that stuff here:
>>>IN THE KITCHEN WITH SHIR KHAN/P3 DANS/HOUSEWIFESMIX.mp3
>>>SHIR KHAN/RADIO NOVA.mp3
>>>SHIR KHAN/RADIO NOVA_INTERVIEW.mp3
>>>SHIR KHAN/FM4/LABOOMDELUXE-MIX.mp3

I never did any playlists for those sets, but at least here is one for my Minimix IN THE KITCHEN WITH SHIR KHAN for P3 Dans:

IN THE KITCHEN WITH SHIR KHAN (15minute minimix for P3 Dans/The Housewifes)
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1)Shir Khan - Intro
2)The WhoRidas - Shot Callin' and Big Ballin' / Delicious Vinyl
3)Midnight Juggernauts - Into the Galaxy (Architecture in Helsinki Rmx/Shir Khan Edit) / Institubes
4)Mr James Barth - Deepest Thought / Turbo
5)Piddy Py - Giggle Riddim / Dress2Sweat
6)Proper Villains - Boom / Nightshifters
7)The Menu - Moss Eisley Canape (Tomski&Fredboy Rmx) / Tartelet / Exploited
8)Nadastrom - Ritalin / Dubsided
9)Lorenz Rhode - Tronic Matic / Exploited

PAUL BRYAN

Paul Bryan is a blind brasilian musician, who released an amazing album called "Listen of" in 1973. Back then he was asked to do an english spoken folk album, and hell, he did one!
It's a fragile pop album, sort of Nick Drake played by a relaxed Steely Dan backing band. Lush orchestra, shy vocals, echoes of congas, piano, rhodes and a warm, easy groove. It's so full of soul, it can heal any winter depression, trust me! His english voice comes with a beautiful accent, which reminds me of the charming way that Air pronounce english words.
Later he lived in America where he - of course - met and became friend with Stevie Wonder and wrote songs for him. Paul Bryan is also the author of 2 books: "Close Your Eyes to See Better: The Limit of the Senses and the Senses of the Limits", a book about dealing with blindness, and "Factory of Sounds", a study about sound production based on his musical experience and prefaced by the Minister of Culture and Brazilian legend, Gilberto Gil.
Fellow Berliners Jazzanova just rereleased the album on their label Sonar Kollektiv (first time on CD), so if you are into a little folk with a lot of Soul there is nothing i could recommend you more than this album!

>>>PAUL BRYAN - Windows.mp3
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and if you like this sound, here is a dj-mix of american 70s groovy softrock I produced a while ago for berlin battery:
>>>Laurel Canyon - dj-mix

KOTCHY

From time to time i find a 7 Inch, which is so spectacular and fresh it blows me away.

Here is the latest...:
Brooklyn-based producer Kotchy is a singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and all round super talented. He worked with people like The Epochs, Violet (w/members of Fischerspooner / Rufus Wainwright / Joan As Police Woman / Polyphonic Spree), Yo Mayesty and Starkey.

His music sounds like a mix of Beck, Prince, Lemon Jelly and the sound of Warp records..., sort of D.i.Y.-weirdo-pop with elements of Hip Hop and Dub and other madness. Really hard to explain, cause i never heard something like this before.
"She made it easy" is glitch-disco, "bruce fleetwood" is... well the Boss mixed with Fleetwood Mac and more. Mind blowing!

You can get a digital package version (7 inch is limited to 500 copies and sold out) with 2 remixes and another song.

And there is an album coming soon. Can't wait...



>>>KOTCHY - she made it easy.mp3
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>>>KOTCHY - bruce fleetwood.mp3
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www.kotchy.com

get the package here:
www.civilmusic.com

SURFACE - Falling In Love

This is one of my all time slow-jam-disco favourites. The song was released in 1983 on the phillysound disco-label Salsoul at a time when disco was already dead. I don't know much about Surface, only that their other songs were really crap. The guy who wrote a review on discogs knows more: "Listen to any song that these guys made from 1987-1992 and you'll see why they died out and disappeared from the scene. Those songs were terrible. And the sad thing is two of them went gold." Ok. So don't waste your time by diggin pearls like this on other Surface records. Just wait for a new post with my next disco-nugget here on Berlin Battery.

SURFACE - Falling In Love.mp3 (ysi)

BEN MONO’s Levi’s Red Tab Interview (…in German)

to view it, simply click on the pic and hit the "BEN MONO VERLOSUNG" button. And learn more about the secrets of Bit-Hop.

OF MONTREAL - Id Engager

I love the psychedelic pop of Of Montreal for some time now. Their albums and even more their Liveshows are really different and from another world. But everytime these guys visit the land of DISCO (well, sort of..), i think they are truely AMAZING.
This, their first single from new (more or less 10th) great album "skeletal lamping" is a fine example for it. Even the guys from übercool Hip Hop label Mad Descent think so and released a 12 inch with remixes plus the original, which you should immediately get here.


>>>OF MONTREAL - Id Engager.mp3
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one of the best Of Montreal albums "hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?" features my favorite disco song by these weirdos:

>>>OF MONTREAL - Gronlandic edit.mp3
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http://www.myspace.com/ofmontreal

FRIENDLY FIRES - Paris

Sometimes strange things happen. After almost one year the great Friendly Fires released "Paris" again, but with a new video. What was wrong with the old one?  I have no clue... DJ Supermarkt posted this song with the old video on Berlin Battery before. So if you want to compare them do it here. I think the music changed a bit. More mainstream now...

The good thing is that there are some new remixes out. Justus Köhncke did a house version but my favourite is the one from Aeroplane with female vocals!

FRIENDLY FIRES - Paris (Aeroplane Remix).mp3 (ysi)

btw.: they are on tour in october and november together with Lykki Li and Foals (depents on the date)