Miami Survival Pack // Megapost

We've been slacking pretty hard lately, but I hope you ate your wheaties this morning because in preparation for Miami Music Week/Ultra we've got a megapost coming at you today that's literally so dumb it's clinically retarded. It is Miami after all right? I think that means we're kind of obligated to start with the biggest, most off the wall stuff.

TECHNOOOOOOOO. This newest release on Brodinski's Bromance imprint is insanely fat. Expect to hear this one devastating dancefloors inside the tents during some of the techier sets at Ultra this year. Needless to say, Pipes is a dude who you should pay attention to from now on.
download: Pipes - Sleeping (Original Mix)



download: Sander Van Doorn - Chasin' (Original Mix)



download: Attaque - Shadows (Original Mix)



download: Matisse, Arty, Sadko - Trio (Original Mix)



download: Burns & NT89 - Traffic (Original Mix)



download: John Dahlback - Life (Original Mix)



download: Casey Spooner - Cinnamon Toast (Modek Remix)



It should go without saying, but make sure you crank the bass up to 11 on this one. Cue face melting circa the 2 minute mark. Release from the homies over at GND Records.
download: Hoshina Anniversary - Chicago (Original Mix)



download: Sharooz - Hysteresis (Hijack Remix)









Underground Sound
If you guys didn't eat your wheaties this morning, maybe you had some Cocaine and Ketamine instead? I hear either one counts as nourishment in Miami... In all seriousness (listen to the song and you'll understand), I'm excited to introduce you to the anthem for every basement in Miami this year. The long awaited "You and I" (better known as "Cocaine and Ketamine") by Fur Coat is out now on crosstown rebels.
download: Fur Coat - You and I



Light Year's newest release shows them going in a much more underground, deep house direction, and frankly it was a beautiful decision. I could eat this bassline for days. Sexy, 5AM vibes.
download: Light Year - Moderation (Original Mix)



This song is THE jam. Turn your speakers to full blast and listen to the little break after 1:30 to understand what I'm talking about. The only possible way this song could be cooler was if she was actually saying "Shots are on the house"... free shots are nice
download: Tensnake - Around The House (DJ T.'s 2011 Edit)



French Fries with some bass filled heat from dirtybird. Sidebar, I'm still waiting for patrick to learn how to do the Vogue like he says he's gonna. Will he pull it off in Miami? Tune in this time next week to find out.
download: French Fries - Yo Vogue (Original Mix)



download: DJ Glen - Bone System (Click Click's Neon White Mix)



I was waiting a long time for this remix EP to come out on the LA deep house label Culprit, and, well, it's finally out... AND IT'S AWESOME. Konrad Black puts in a supreme deep house cut here alongside a slew of other megafresh remixes. Make sure you check the whole thing out on Beatport.
download: Subb-an - What I Do (Konrad Black's "What I Did To You" Mix)



After the After-Afterparty
Some tracks for those late nights/surreal mornings when youre just trying to recuperate and relax. What better thing for that than some spacious amazing progressive house? This throwback by Inpetto always hits the spot.
download: Fragma - Toca Me (Inpetto 2008 Remix)



download: Benny Benassi feat. Channing - Come Fly Away (Adam K & Soha Remix)



Super chill remix by the legendary discomaster Greg Wilson that I randomly came across on a compilation by a label called Bear Funk Records. I definitely recommend checking out their "Hibernation" compilation series (which this track came off of), its some disco fuego.
download: Social Disco Club & Maia - The Way You Move (Greg Wilson Version)



Everything In Between
When Ed Banger's SebastiAn puts out a new track or remix, for me it's always a question of which SebastiAn is going to show up. Good SebastiAn (like Embody), or bad painfully-overdistorted SebastiAn (like on pretty much his entire album). Luckily here we have a perfect example of good SebastiAn. A friend of mine best summed it up to me recently when he said "it's almost like this is what Justice was trying to do on their most recent album...and failed miserably at". Either way, this song rocks.
download: The Shoes - Time To Dance (SebastiAn Remix) *Highly Recommended



download: Helvetic Nerds - Mistaken Identity (Incognet Remix)



One of my first memories of falling in love with a piece of music was on a road trip at summer camp when I was maybe 12 or 13, and the older counselers who were driving us played the same Talking Heads CD in the van over and over, and in particular the song "This Must Be The Place" and by a couple hours in everyone was belting all the words to the song at the top of their lungs. That little antidote is only relevant cause that awesome song gets an awesome remix effect here, with Anna Lunoe turning it into a nice little bit of sun splashed house.
download: Cari Kennedy & Goodwill (Talking Heads cover) - Home (Anna Lunoe Remix)



And last but not least, some Soulwax is always the basis of a healthy diet. (this is kind of just a testament to me being crazy excited to see 2manydjs again at Ultra this year...you should be too)
download: Walter Murphy - A Fifth Of Beethoven (Soulwax Edit)



Stay Classy,
Augustus

Fun in the Sun

My friends, it's March, and what this means is that for better or worse my mind is stuck on one thing and one thing only: Miami 2011. WMC (Miami's Winter Music Conference) is coming up, and along with it so is Ultra. In other words, the most fun-laiden, debauchery-fueled, and positively Bright & Shiny time of the year is upon us. This is the most festive of times, and with the endless amounts of pool parties and epic nights that come with this also comes the first real wave of 2011's club anthems. Right around now is when artists tend to start cranking out the uber club monsters that we've been waiting for, so I hope you all trained well in the preseason (i.e. winter) because things are about to get out of control. Ultra is probably the most incredible weekend of the year, as anyone who's been there can tell you. The only other place/time in the world that really comes close is Ibiza during peak season. Anyway, in honor of these most joyous occasions, today's post will be centered entirely around the huge club banging sound that will surely be blasting out of speakers all across Miami this spring.

 Considering that over the past year Avicii has been the undisputed champion of the big room progressive sound that Miami is so famous for, I think it's only fitting that we start off with him. This remix of Armin Van Buuren builds slow at first, but by the end the energy is cranked up to levels that could break glass, complete with massive piano stabs, ridiculous builds and all. Look for this to come at the apex of one of Avicii's two (yes, two) performances at Ultra this year.
Armin Van Buuren feat. Laura V - Drowning (Avicii Remix)


Deniz Koyu has been on my radar for a while now, ever since first hearing his beast of a track Lose Control last year. He's in full Miami form on this new remix, taking an already huge track by Jean Elan to new levels of fist pumping epicness here.
Jean Elan - Feel Alive (Deniz Koyu Remix)


This is another one of my favorite recent remixes by Koyu, an awesome progressive makeover of the house classic My Feeling.
Junior Jack - My Feeling (Deniz Koyu Remix)


Check out the original too if you haven't already heard it, it's an absolute anthem.
Junior Jack - My Feeling (Original Mix)


Another artist who's caught my eye recently with his masterfully progressive and gorgeous style is the Russian youngster Incognet. His newest remix of Heaven by Stephan M is a club stomper that stays true to his melodic and beautiful style, while the similarly awesome Wide Up remix lands on the techier side of the progressive spectrum. Morning Lights is probably my favorite out of the bunch. One of Incognet's classics, it's a sublime, yet still highly danceable, masterpiece that will definitely be the soundtrack to many of our late nights this spring.
Stephan M - Heaven (Incognet Remix)


Agraba - Wide Up (Incognet Remix)



Incognet - Morning Lights (Original Mix)


Hardwell has been honing his progressive-dutch sound to a true art form lately, and this follow up to his world-dominating Zero 76 collaboration with Tiesto further demonstrates why he's one of the most exciting artists coming out of the Netherlands right now.
Cloakz - Catch Your Fall (Hardwell Club Mix)


A post on ridiculous club bangers wouldn't be complete without some Snoop Dogg done Spencer & Hill style..
Ian Care feat. Snoop Dogg & Bobby Anthony - Last Night (Spencer & Hill Remix)


Finally, these last two are more on the underground side, with the Royal T remix representing a gorgeous old-school house reinterpretation of a new Crookers track, and the savagely tribal sounds of Groenveld embodying shades of a techier sensibility.
Crookers, Roisin Murphy - Royal T (House of House Remix)
 

Koen Groeneveld - Slides (Original Mix)




BONUS
this may possibly be the greatest video in the history of youtube..



Stay Classy,
Augustus