Tale Of Us Do It Again...

Definitely up there as one of my favourite production outfits at the moment, Italian duo Tale Of Us (Karm & Matteo Milleri) have dropped another bomb with this excellent remix of Dj T's track Sense (ft. James Teej).


My New York friend Emilano and I have been obessessing about the track since we heard it at the Visionquest party in Miami.

In fact, you can see me acting the fool to it in Emi's video below.

The description on the YouTube video is absolutely perfect.

"Newcomers Tale Of Us continue their journey into dark minimalism, with a remix that isolates the percussion and vocals, shrouding both in reverb for maximum atmospheric effect. A sense of unease pervades through the saturated bassline and slow delayed handclaps, creating frosty mists and dark corners within the synth-tech house arrangement."

They put it a damn sight better than I ever could.

SICK track, these guys are on fire at the moment. (See!)

Check out my other Tale Of Us posts HERE and HERE.... oh and HERE ...

DJ T. feat James Teej - Sense (Tale Of Us Remix)



Me acting the fool... SHAME

Ibiza Changed My Life, Miami Reaffirmed It...

After all the anticipation, the build-up, the waiting - Miami came and went in a flash. I seriously cannot believe a week went that quickly.

But what a week it was.

When you have your heart set on something special, occasionally you get let down - what we call an anti-climax.

And, due to the fact that WMC and Ultra had split this year, there was potential for an anti-climax I guess.

Miami was nothing of the sort though. It was everything I wished for and more.

I'm not going to go into huge detail about the whole trip because I like my blog posts to be quite brief (plus I'm writing a 700-word report on it for Notion Magazine), but what I will do is list some of the highlights...

1) First ever pool party: My friend Tristan and I walk into DJ Mag's Recession Session party at the Shelborne open-mouthed at the sight before us. A pool lined with hot women (and men) getting down to some fresh jams while the Miami sun beats down on them... Dennis Ferrer, Lee Foss, James Zabiela, A-Trak and more smashed the place to bits. Had a great time.



2) Smog VS Basshead: Dubstep and drum n bass are HUGE in America and this party was a testament to that. The place was HEAVING with people, over 2,000 in fact. We had VIP thanks to Skream, so we spent most of the night on stage in front of the DJ booth sweating our guts out and raving hard.


3) Meeting Seth Troxler: I finally met one of my heroes at the Visionquest party held at Shelborne's brilliant pool... I didn't say much, but it was a great moment, which led into..


4) Visionquest's pool party: Every act I love was on at this party, Benoit & Sergio, Tale Of Us, Footprintz, Guy Gerber and of course the Visionquest guys themselves. Had such a fun time at this party, great people, great music. Perfect.



5) Sunday School - The Lost Weekend: I was told to go here by a friend and it didn't disappoint. We arrived at the party at 3pm on Sunday, by which time it had already been going for 17 hours. Madness ensued, caught Seth and Guy Gerber again... while Stimming and Heidi got themselves on my favourites list with brilliant performances.

Here's a snippet from Seth's set.



And this gives you a good idea of how the Terrace/outside area looked.



So, all in all a great week... looking forward to getting over there again next year. Met some really cool people, sadly most of whom I didn't even get contact details for.

Still, I have my memories at least.

Bang, Bang...

Tale Of Us are seriously smashing it, they've already turned in a killer remix of Thugfucker's Disco Gnome, teamed up with Shaun Reeves for the excellent Take Your Hat Off remix and now this...

...WhoMadeWho, Every Minute Alone. An absolute dancefloor monster.

I recently interviewed Seth Troxler and he said it's the one tune he plays in every set.

READ MY INTERVIEW HERE

WhoMadeWho - Every Minute Alone (Tale Of Us remix)

The Vision...

I'm not sure what's wrong with the computer I'm using but everytime I embed a load of YouTube vids it reloads the page.

Anyway, because I can't be bothered to type everything out again.

Here's a couple of reasons why I want to see Visionquest (Seth Troxler, Ryan Crosson Lee Curtiss and Shaun Reeves) in action.

Mixing the old with the new, classics with future classics, seamlessly... already legendary in my opinion.

Bring on Visionquest & Friends in Miami.

Bugging... Bugging Me...

I wanted to go to Mulletover last October, Halloween special - when I was first really getting back into techno and stuff. Only because Seth Troxler was on (yeah I'm a fanboy, WHAT!) ...

Anyway, I missed it - but, since then the name Steve Bug has been on my radar - a very knowledgable friend mentioned him to me and I'd seen the name pop up as the creator of a really good tune on one of Seth's mixes...

Yeah I'm late, but then it's never too late to pick up on good music and good musicians.

So, inevtibly, I downloaded his mix from Mulletover off Soundcloud. Put it on last night and lost my mind.

Here it is below. WOW. Wishing I was there at last year's Mulletover even more now.

Thanks to nightclubber.ro.

Thorn...

I probably go on about Seth Troxler too much, but fuck it.

Listen to this Visionquest remix of Tracey Thorn' s Swimming:



Oh, this is a lot of fun too.

Lil Louis & The World - Club Lonely (Dixon Edit)