Showing posts with label Hercules and Love Affair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hercules and Love Affair. Show all posts

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Changed My State of Mind


So first things first. Tonight U Street Music Hall in DC is having one of their biggest events of the year tonight, Moombahton Massive IV. Now I'm not personally a huge fan of moombahton, especially as a headphone listening experience, but at a live show it's a whole different story. Bright and Shiny will be there so if any of you guys make it out to UHall tonight, come say hey and we can hook you up with a free sticker or two. So come get your dance on. Anyways... music time.


I'm a little late on this one, but I'm still extremely excited about it. New Nightriders remix of a Grum track. This is one of those dream matchups that I've been waiting to happen and it's been on repeat on my speakorz for the past week. This track is incredibly smooth, from the loungey synth lines to the catchy vocals.







Also check out the new original track that Nightriders just threw up on their Soundcloud.

Com Truise has been absolutely killing it lately both in terms of quality of his productions and in quantity. This Bright and Shiny favorite will be gracing the 930 Club on July 20th and we were lucky enough to be able to snag an interview with him, so be on the lookout for that in the coming month.








Disco aficionado and producer extraordinaire, Rockets brings us his new "sweaty" funk remix of Jacques Your Body by Les Rhymes Digitale. Sun-splashed and beach ready.








New York based Neo-Disco super group Hercules and Love Affair just recently did a cover The XX's 'Shelter' and they really revamped this classic in their own style. Bouncing bass and head bobbingly catchy percussion place this track in my daily rotation.








Bonus:










Friday, April 29, 2011

Get Beached

Whatup yall, I just finished my last midterm (health & nutrition, what a joke) and I'm headed down to the beach for the rest of the day, but before I did I figured I'd drop you guys some of what I'll be listening to down on the beach and over the weekend. A healthy balance of relaxing and raging. Enjoy.

Beach Jams
This first one has been one of my favorites for a while now. Hercules & Love Affair really struck gold on this track. So chill, perfect for lounging around in the sun.
Hercules & Love Affair - Leonora


We put this up a while ago in one of our 'beauty is simplicity' posts, but I wanted to repost it today because I really think it deserves some words. Charles I, the youngster producer out of LA, strays from his typical electro stylings on this one to put together an amazing piece of gorgeous house. The vocals are really amazing too. This is probably one of my favorite summertime/beach jams of all time, really really awesome. Honestly it's impossible to listen to this one and not just feel happy.
Charles I - Simple State of Mind (Original Mix)


Some relaxing lounge-house for those beach naps...
Laberge - She Loves Me


Weekend Music
Pyramid is a young producer out of France (I believe he's 16 or 17) who's been doing some really impressive, almost Alex Gopher style electro lately. We've featured some of his tracks before. The remix I have for you today by him strays from his typically more melodic style and dives straight into the realm of monster dancefloor-ready electro. A Millie by Lil Wayne might be a little old by now, but honestly this remix pumps a ridiculous amount of new life into it. Literally the louder you play this one the better it gets.
Lil Wayne - A Millie (Pyramid Remix)


Laidback Luke gave this track away for free a couple days ago in honor of his 100,000th fan on facebook. Typical Luke-style dutch madness. Another track that simply gets better the louder you play it.
Laidback Luke feat. Lady Bee - Mortal Comeback (Original Mix)


And to top things off I give you some wonderfully done progressive house by the Swedes Frederic Van Hooft and and Karl Aberg. This sounds Avicii-esque in terms of the straight quality of the production. Honestly I don't get why the swedes are so damn good at making amazing progressive house.. I'm not sure I care enough to find out, but I definitely hope to see some more from these two.
Frederic Van Hooft & Karl Aberg - La Deng (Original Mix)


BONUS
Christopher & Raphael Just - Popper (Shinichi Osawa Distortion Disco Edit)



Stay Classy,
Augustus