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My top forty/favourite singles of the 2000s... again the decade isn't quite over yet but still =)

1. Vanessa Carlton - "White Houses" (2004)

2. Annie - "Heartbeat" (2004)

3. Mint Royale - "Don't Falter" (2000)

4. Bat for Lashes - "Daniel" (2009)

5. Robyn - "With Every Heartbeat" (2005)

6. deadmau5 & Kaskade - "I Remember" (2009)

7. Lady Gaga - "Poker Face" (2008)

8. Nelly Furtado - "Maneater" (2006)

9. Friendly Fires - "Jump In The Pool" (2009)

10. Metric - "Empty" (2007)

11. Solange - "I Decided (Part II)" (2008)

12. Kelis - "Millionaire" (2004)

13. Björk - "Cocoon" (2002)

14. Girls Aloud - "The Loving Kind" (2009)

15. Mariah Carey - "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time" (2008)

16. Peter Bjorn and John - "Young Folks" (2006)

17. Guru Josh Project - "Infinity 2008" (2008)

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We decided to put together a new feature on the blog where, instead of just the regular monthly NC mixtapes, you could hear mixes that some of our favorite artists put together for us. L.A.'s Letting Up Despite Great Faults are the first band we asked to do this and we're absolutely thrilled they said yes.

The band brings you a mix of 11 laid back electronic and indie love songs perfectly blending into one another. We are really diggin' this mix, hope you'll like it too. Enjoy.


Love Needs No Conclusion

01. Metronomy - Not Made For Love (Alalal Remix)
02. Bibio - lover's cravings
03. CFCF - Big Love
04. Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - In Love With You
05. Chromatics - I Want Your Love
06. Florence and The Machine - You Got The Love (The XX Remix)
07. Pyramid (formerly Starfucker) - German Love
08. The Radio Dept. - I Don't Need Love, I've Got My Band
09. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - A Teenager in Love
10. Color Filter - Satellite of Love
11. Phoenix - [track artist=Phoenix]Love Like a Sunset
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What I liked of it was DJ Mujava, Client, Justice, and SymbolOne. The rest was not my best mix - this set had waay too much cratedigging. I was a little drunk, but did I really think that throwing that much of Faunts at the audience was a good idea? On the other hand, I spun Tim Exile just to see what kind of crowd response it would get, it actually got some of the best comments.


1. Prefuse 73 - Half Up Front
2. Faunts - M4 (Part I) (DVAS Macho Mix)
3. Fischerspooner - Supply & Demand
4. DJ Mujava - Township Funk
5. Tim Exile - Pay Tomorrow
6. Client - Can you feel? (Jori Hulkkonen Remix)
7. Faunts - Explain (Home Video Remix)
8. M83 - Run Into Flowers (Ig Farbenvorschlag remix by KG)
9. Kid606 - Be Monophobic With Me
10. Cut Copy - Going Nowhere (Whitey Remix)
11. Ellen Allien - Open
12. LCDremixed.com - Us vs Them (Go Home Productions Remix)
13. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (Joakim Remix)
14. Simian Mobile Disco - LOVE (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Remix)
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This was my second attempt at a "live" Traktor set which is a lot closer to my goal of 'real dj'ing,' there's a lot more you can do to move an audience and draw out their emotions than letting the beat drop because you're going track-to-track like a human iPod...

The first attempt was a showdown and I was so nervous about putting my best footpaw forward that I lost track of most of the playlist while spinning the set. Aww well, use your imagination. :3

1. Hurdy-Gurdy - Frost Mats
2. Pluxus - Transient
3. Nexus - Stand Up (Instrumental)
4. Data - Aerius Light (Breakbot Remix)
5. Ellen Allien - Magnetfeld
6. Ciccone Youth - Macbeth (Alternate Version)
7. Fischerspooner - The Best Revenge
8. Lucien-N-Luciano - Stone Age
9. Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Rubicon
10. Danger - 7H46
11. Database - Wetbleee
12. The Unknown DJ - Basstronic
13. The Vanden Plas - let's stop marx
14. Pluxus - Kinoton
15. Moderat - No. 22
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Absence. I'd been gone too long, and I put out a notice revelations, alterations, all's love, and all's electro in the club (set in 5 min) to see if anyone would come. I had a nice response and there was indeed a lot of charmed words for what I put down.

I had a request for NWA, and my nonplussed reply was all I had onhand was Whodini and Newcleus and I didn't know if that was a consolation... they obliged me by saying they'd love to hear Whodini so I threw it in and I love the funky passage from there to Artefact. The end was also very satisfying. If I'd throw anything out, "Da Funk" was too stale, and "Gate 23" was a really awful choice (my fault for not monitoring beforehand).

1. Telefon Tel Aviv - M
2. Justice - Planisphere Final
3. Cabaret Voltaire - No One Here
4. Soulwax - NY Excuse
5. Dynamix II - Just Give the DJ a Break
6. Sweet Light - Mechaniques Remontees
7. The Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost
8. The Heads - Damage I've Done
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Electro conquers all!

I like the back-to-back D's lined out in this set, Digitalism, Database, Danger, Data, it was a nice transition. There were some fallbacks (if I did it over again "Innerstrings" would be the tossout), but I love the cohesiveness with most of this material. I laid down this set earlier than usual, 3pm - 5pm SLT (6 to 8 Eastern) because I had it in my head and wanted to perform it, and the crowd never built up. Offpeak hours are homicidal.


1. Flying Lotus - Comet Course
2. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Rotary
3. Sweet Light - Abusator (Black Strobe Remix)
4. The Faint - Get Seduced
5. The Smashing Pumpkins - Stuck in the Middle with Fluke Vox Mix
6. Black Strobe - Buzz Buzz Buzz
7. Maxime Dangles - Tulipa
8. Alter Ego - Tubeaction
9. Simian Mobile Disco - Tits and Acid (Oscilation remix)
10. Demon - Happy Therapy (Lifelike Remix)
11. Black Strobe - Innerstrings (Volga Select Double Dub)
12. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (Clockwork Remix)
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Do you know Alan Braxe?

His debut single was Vertigo published in 1997 on Roulé. This song became famous thanks to the Vertigo (Virgo edit) co-produced with Thomas Bangalter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQx4wLiHw-8

In 1998 co-written the track Music Sounds Better With You with Thomas Bangalter and Benjamin Diamond under the name Stardust.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=hrjOhQZWU7k

Alan Braxe is most widely known for his collaborative work with electronic bassist Fred Falke and, in 2005, The Upper Cuts collected much of their material until that point along with several other Braxe productions.
Thanks to Wikipedia

Now let's talk about Intro by Alan Braxe & Fred Falke:
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=0W4EN4eg_zo

it contains a sample of Crush On You by The Jets
(Listen at 2:26)
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm_QilrHkh8
This song was also sampled by The Orb in their Buckets & Bongs Mixture' remix of Fast Forward the Future (Bucket and Bong mix) by Zodiac Youth.
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Hey folks,

Taking a break from makin' mix CDs for friends to post my playlist from last week's show. Just listening to history podcasts about the effects of drug use on history. Did you know that Napoleon probably lost at Waterloo because he took a shit-ton of opium the night before so he was off his game? I know, right? Weird.

Anyway.


The playlist:

Things that Are Square 5-8-08
(*) = New release

(*) Dark Meat - Freedom Ritual - Universal Indians

Comets on Fire - The Antlers of the Midnight Sun - Blue Cathedral
(*) Boris - My Neighbor Satan - Smile

(*) Bad Dudes - Eat Drugs - Eat Drugs
(*) Thee Oh Sees - Grease 2 - The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In
Jeffrey Lewis - If You Shoot the Head You Kill the Ghoul - It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through
The Angels of Light - The Rose of Los Angeles - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home

(*) Matmos - Rainbow Flag - Supreme Balloon
(*) The Death Set - Had a Bird - Worldwide
Le Tigre - Eau d'Bedroom Dancing - Le Tigre
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