The eagerly awaited follow up to the Afterhours Mix is here! I’ve had some great feedback after the last posting, so here is more of the same!

We start out with a funky mix by the Freemasons, and with three great mixes by the hottest producers and my current favourites “Spencer & Hill”. We move onto the fantasticly funky Leg Soup – Wonderland, plus some older favourites of mine mixed in to boot! I hope you enjoy this mix as much as I enjoyed making it.

Tracklist:

1) Loving You More – Steve Mac & Steve Smith (Freemasons)
2) SOS – A-Studio (M Factor Mix)
3) Wonderland – Leg Soup
4) Friday Night – Sex Machine feat Shena
5) I can feel the love/S.l.u.t. – DJ Phil Bootleg
6) Don’t Look Back – Spencer and Hill
7) Somthing to Make You Feel Alright – Silosonic (Buzz Kitchen Remix)
Elektro – Outwork Feat Mr Gee (Electro Mix)
9) Dreams – Sandy Rivera
10) Back In The Love – Spencer Hill Remix
11) Better World – Patrick Bryze and Jim Tonique
12) World Hold On – Bob Sinclair (Club Mix)
13) Always and Forever – Chocolate Puma (DJ Antoine Mix)
14) Our Own Beat – Spencer & Hill
15) In the stars – Montilla (Original Mix)

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Very live and atmospheric piece characterised by Pink Floyd-like janlgy picking guitars and a very unusual psychedelic electric piano sound.
This piece has a dark and indifferent feel to it, being melancholic, atmospheric, pessimistic, sad and slightly disturbing. Very authentic retro indy sound. Would suit film or documentary. Written by D Fairhall and G Clark. This is royalty free music.

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A fast moving techno piece with an excellent array of guitar and synth sounds with some well sequenced breaks. Very much a rave sound track. Hard, fast, spacey, E-culture, robotic, dance music, night clubs.
Written by G Mcgarty & R Green. This is royalty free music.

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Roll Deep is probably the most famous Grime crew – Dizzie Rascal was part of it, Whiley still is and they are deeply connected with the pirate radio scene. But despite having sold 60000 units of their first album “In at the deep end” so far, and playing liveshows with people like Snoop Dogg in the UK, Asia, Europe, e.g. Grimetime in Berlin, nobody there can afford a us-rapstarlike lifestyle – the 13 members predominantly still live in East-London’s housing estate “The estate”. Still. That might change. (Click for their new video)

Because they are about to release their second album “Rules and regulations”, distributed mainly on their Myspacesite. And again they manage to combine this typical grime flow with tales from the streets and melodies that stick. They sport many different talents on entertaining tracks (beyond them: Scratchy, one of the few white grime MCs which makes for some nice target group optimization.. No offence, he’s good!) So this is their new single “Celebrate that”:

Update: Prancehall (aka the “Terry Richardson of Grime”) was at the shoot for the video and tells a little something about what was going on behind the scenes.

Roll Deep are aware of the responsibility popular musicians have towards their own fans: Especially in the face of the growing violence in the UK, their video “Bad man” is a documentary-like focus on the suburbian situation when guns, frustration and heated up situations come to a bad end. Here’s the making of:

Und noch ein bisschen deutscher Kulturjournalismus – Here’s a nice visit in Eastlondon, a journey to the Roll Deep studio and their hood “The estate”: Roll deep in London by Süddeutsche (in German)

[Inspiration by Playrough]

Remember, when I wrote about Gapminder and TED Talks here? Obviously, Google must be reading here and took the article as a solid fundament to purchase the visually statistics analyzing software firm.

And Merlin Bronques goes on and on, travelling the world with his camera and giving the hedonistic youth of today a face. Or: Many, many faces, pretty and sexy.

This time, he obviously met a class of young housewives who practice together. So we have sewing machines, white shirts, glasses, absinth and a deer. Cheers: Mikey’s factory on lastnightsparty.
Here’s more about lastnightsparty on stylewalker.net.

Smells like hits: Swedish producers with their unimitable talent to combine underground and mainstream. Clubtunes, optimized to the maximum sound, bouncy and driving, strange vocal hooks and a shiny neorave design. I hear Candi Staton meet Steve Bug, Detroit Grand Pubahs and French influences like Cassius or Ed Banger – check out The Inflitrators. Fits perfectly to this webfinding: Mikeys party on Last nights party.

jamanta crew is a brazilian house music collective headed by producers prztz (eduardo marote, sao paulo), rafael droors (rio de janeiro) and rod sponja (rio de janeiro). their common sickness of producing music on computers generated this will of dropping tracks. jackin house has been their style so far although they experiment with any funky sh*t.

aroma jacks, greenhouse, goodfamily, public access, tango, knockin boots released jamanta crew eps. derrick carter’s classic, so sound and mamma’s home cookin delivered solo prztz ones. mark farina, derrick carter, yousef, fred everything all released jamanta crew tracks on mix cds. jamanta crew has been intensely played by house music djs worldwide since 2004, when they came together.

prztz and droors perform the jamanta crew live pa. a live show using computers, keyboards and fx with a selection of the newest and most unreleased productions of the team. the pa has already travelled through us and europe to london, belgium, los angeles, washington dc, miami, austin and kansas city. in 2006 they played the biggest dance festival in brasil, skol beats, including the brazilian jazz-funk legend ed motta. now they are ready to a new us tour in march-april 2007.

i really like this great performance!!! big thanks to jamanta crew!!

jamanta crew’s blog:: http://jamantacreweng.blogspot.com/

HoebotAlso, ich hab die beiden jetzt schon so vielen Leuten gezeigt, es wird Zeit, dass ich die mal verlinke: Die Geschichten von Hoe Bot und Love Bot, zwei nicht unsympathische Roboter, die eine Weile auf StudiVZ unterwegs waren.

“Da uns im Studivz schnell langweilig wurde, begannen wir das System zu ergründen, und herauszufinden was man damit so alles anstellen kann. Die erste Idee war natürlich: Daten sammeln. Also scripteten wir uns einen Crawler, der folgendermaßen funktioniert:”

Man lacht nicht nur, sondern lernt noch einiges dabei: HoeBot und LoveBot bei StudiVZ.

“The team behind always outsiders, never outdone, the unofficial prodigy remixed album, and flip the switch, the unofficial chemical brothers remixed album, have turned their attention to one of their favourite artists of the last few years – lcd soundsystem.”

Go download the full LCD remix album there: LCD remixed.com
[via Netzpolitik]