Because she's just awesome!!! Plain and simple.

BURN LIST SUMMER 09 VOL 3: DANCE DIVAS

DANCE DIVAS

(The last of the summer's burn list series features the freshest remix AND tracks from dance music's hottest divas there's even no point listing here who they are.)

TAKE 2.

The last of the summer's burn list series can be referred to as the stealth list for its showcase of the hottest unidentified tracks from all the biggest divas in dance music today. So listen up and better listen up quick! These ladies will be bitchin' real fast and furious I've got their tracks floatin 'round this blog for free. I almost never even got to post this burn list which I started two months ago back in August when imeem's been sending all 49 violation emails in my account. Yeah, thanks for those who attempted reporting me, I started feeling relevant. But who else can get away with posting Track # 1 now, huh??? lol ENJOY!

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BURN LIST SUMMER 09 VOL 2: BLOCK AND TEA

BLOCK AND TEA. Whatever your party is, these really awesome brand new tracks are gonna be amazing this summer. These tracks will blaze!!!

Simian Mobile Disco. Robyn with Royksopp. Kid Cudi rocking to Sharam this time. And the best electronic to come out of the artistry of Kanye West, Santogold and Likke Li. IN ONE FIERCE TRACK!!! And just like how I blogged June of last year on the first tracks of Santogold and Likke Li and how these girls will carry, watch out for Little Boots (Brit) and Ladyhawke (Kiwi). Plus radio superstars Pink, Katy Perry and Black Eyed Peas in the mix. If only dance radio sound this good!


Livvi Franc feat Pitbull - Now I'm That Bitch (Radio Edit)
Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity of Huge (Original Mix)
Sharam feat Kid Cudi - She Came Along (Original Mix)
R.I.O. - After the Love (Mowgli and Bagheera Remix)
N.A.S.A. feat Kanye West, Santogold and Likke Li - Gifted (The Ashton Shuffle)
Royksopp feat Robyn - The Girl and the Robot(Ocelot Remix)
Livvi Franc feat Pitbull - Now I'm that Bitch (Kaskade Extended Mix)
Pink - Please Don't Leave Me (Digital Dog Club Mix)
Little Boots - New In Town (Bimbo Jones Remix)
Ladyhawke - Paris is Burning (Funkagenda Remix)
Lily Allen - Not Fair (Style of Eye Remix)
Katy Perry - Waking Up in Vegas (Calvin Harris Mix)
Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (David Guetta Extended Mix)

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BURN LIST SUMMER 09 VOL 1: RADIO PLAY

Tamia. Rihanna. Madonna. Deborah. Lady GaGa // Fedde Le Grand. Armand Van Helden. David Guetta. Etcetera.

May 2009 playlist is Burn List Summer 09 Vol 1: Radio Play.
It's the first of a few defining sets for Summer 09, a departure from the monthly run of things. With summer approaching, and there's all these fun to be had outside, I figured my blogs will be short - but HOT and FUN, all the same! Here's a collection of fresh, radio-friendly electro house/grime/synth-pop tracks side-by-side with 2009 mixes of 90's dance radio smash. They're sure to blaze your parties this summer so download, take it to the beach and enjoy!

Tamia - Stranger In My House 2009 (Erek Mc Queen "Strangely Unrecognizable" Club Mix)
David Guetta feat Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over (Electro Radio Edit)
Sono - Keep Control Plus (Fedde Le Grand Remix)
Vandalism - Bucci Bag (Ian Carey Remix)
Rihanna - Breakin Dishes 2009 (Soul Seekerz Full Club Mix)
Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers
Thomas Gold and Matthias Menck - Everybody Be Somebody 2009
Laidback Luke, Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, Steve Angello feat Deborah Cox - Leave the World Behind (Original Mix)
Madonna - Frozen 2009 (Tommy Love Summer Club Mix)
Lady GaGa - Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) (Pet Shop Boys Remix)
U & Me - Touch Me 2009 (Extended Mix)
Jamie Jones feat Ost & Kjex - Summertime (Extended Radio Mix)
Niels Van Gogh - Dreamer 2009 (Dave Ramone Club Mix)
Pet Shop Boys feat Phil Oakey of the Human League - This Used to Be the Future

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BURN LIST APR 09

MALE VOCALS

What male vocals did to Rock and New Wave is again heating up dance music across the globe of late. Burn List Apr 09 is a set pumped in androgen, featuring the new and the familiar, from progressive house to electro to disco, bringing heavier-hitting tracks which are all the same hot and fresh!

Starting with DJ-producers/rock band from Down Under (The Stafford Brothers), the set pumps on with a couple more dance super acts from Oz (Empire of the Sun, The Presets), and on - with latest tracks from rock bands that are not foreign to the dance charts (U2, The Killers), and on - with dance bands that are not foreign to the rock charts (Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys).

I had always been a fan of the boys. In my dance music. And with few hot male vocal releases like these, it's looking like the older bros will soon be listening too. If not for the most insanely-hot Daft Punk remix ever, but maybe for the undoubtedly dance-friendliest of all the styles to spawn from the genius of U2!

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Filtered Vol 1

OUT LIKE A LAMB.

(continued from Burn List Mar 09)... From the "The Lion and the Cobra originally, "Troy (Phoenix from the Flame)" rose to the top of the dance charts in 2002. It wasn't til December of 2008 that Sinead O'Connor performed "Troy" live once again, after 20 years from the time her debut single came out.

Recorded live in London and appearing in Sinead O'Connor's 2009 double-disc release, "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (Special Edition)", the first track in Filtered Vol. 1 sets an aural experience intended to capture dance music's classic productions, current chart-toppers, and heat-seekers exclusively from a track's basic, essential elements - vocals and melody. Backmask Danny Tenaglia's "Elements". That's Filtered Vol 1. Inasmuch as I have blogged evangelically on the geniuses of essential DJ/producers in today's electronic music, I am in no way oblivious to the sheer talent of electronic music's singer/songwriters. The artists whose album versions of the tracks didn't quite make it as big. The vocal renderings of much too many artists appearing after the word "featuring" in the song credits. Filtered Vol 1 features hot electronic music tracks in a capella, live recordings, demos, acoustic versions. And after a weekend of dancing til the crowds leave, of feeling the jungle, the ether, and then landing right back to the present and the mundane, you just may still have the beats in your ears to be your own DJ/producer to these sunday morning tracks... filtered.

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BURN LIST MAR 09

IN LIKE A LION.

Probably the hardest-tearing set to come out of this flash player yet, Burn List Mar 09 is more thump than it has melody and celebrity. Not one for the airwaves, these tracks still carry just as much clout in dance charts and clubs (although that maybe less so in this Rockin' Country).

If you happened to have been one to dance til-the-crowds-leave - even just once, one Sunday morning; this set is intended for you. From Miles Dyson's "Intro", then a drum n' bass lead-off in The Prodigy's "Omen"' to heavier-hitting danceable distortions that follows in Chris Lake's "My MTV" (Noir) and U2's "Get on Your Boots" - an aural make-over that only the Crookers, Irish DJs-extraordinaire, can get away with.

Jungle then happens with "Amazzonia" and "Get Wild". Tribal beats. Pagan chanting. Then the feel of ether. Vocal trance kicks in with "Addicted", the only melody track in the set - pure, redeeeming and perfectly detached. More dose of trance follows setting you off somewhere til all you hear are lies when they're saying, "Beautiful People" (or when you begin to marvel at how "Miami to Atlanta" can sound like that?).

When you hear La Roux going "In For The Kill", it's already Sunday morning. This track has vocals so raw, a mix that sounds so filtered, it stirs your focus and brings you back to the emotions you've always known. Back to face the mundane you have to live with. But you were never new to all this. It feels like 1987. Sinead O'Connor's first single, and video, evoked the same strong disdain. "Troy". And fevered rush from getting the prize in the end. "(Phoenix from the Flame)". From the "The Lion... (TO BE CONTINUED)

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BURN LIST FEB 09

HOUSE MUSIC'S NEXT DIVAS, DJ-PRODS AND STYLE

Building up to the newer electrohouse tracks from early February's Electro II/Burn List Feb 09 Part 2, this set is all about 2009 house music. The vocal anthems. Straight club music. Dance radio airplay. Burn List Feb 09 Parts 1 and 2 attempts to offer a peek of the hot and heat-seeking dance divas, DJ/producers, and house music style.

House music in today's standards are generally mid-tempo dance music with bpms ranging between 118 to 135, and often consisting of four-to-the-floor kick drum elements and extended drop-outs. Until a few new prolific DJs, dominated dance floors and iPods with tracks and remixes characterized predominantly by a faster, heavier groove; with a few novel elements like super extended build-ups; video game-sounding or wind instrument-sounding loops; and vocals that are anything but vocoded like the last we heard of Cher! Other than that, house remains the dance music you won't be concerned playing in a crowded beach (since you keep thinking the guys next to you are also nursing their hangovers!) Additionally, we still love our female vocals in the house. And in that (high) note, we begin with a rundown of a few hot/heat-seeking dance diva's to watch:


Tracks 1 to 5. The Next Divas.

Unless you're living in a cave, you must have heard of Lady GaGa. Her second single "Poker Face" is just now ramping up the US Pop Charts after having already dominated internationally. Very recently, Lady GaGa releases not one, but two different 3rd singles from her debut album "The Fame", depending on which continent you're from. Lady GaGa starts this set with a new feirce track that's neither of the two! "Fashion" (also performed by Heidi Montag) from "Confessions of a Shopaholic" OMPS, is probably not even going to hit the singles charts since it may not be released as a single. Bets are, it'll be quite a hit anyway! Let's start Madonna comparisons for now with these three words: Into The Groove.

Amanda Wilson is definitely the vocalist of choice for many DJ producers, and the collaborations almost always result in dance radio smash! With another global hit from a cover of Robyn's "Keep This Fire Burning", I can't have an up-and-coming diva list with no mention of Amanda Wilson. In the vocal-belter heat-seeking divas list, the one to watch out for is Jennifer Hudson. Period.

In NYC, independent dance music with a whole lot of raw flavor is grabbing a hold of the dare-to-be-different set. What was previously isoculture and soul-heavy, the clientele of hot parties like Asseteria and Bagatelle Brunch of late typically includes, well, just the young and the trendy. For fear of Santogold's wrath for identifying her with anything "soul", Flora Cruz stands to be the movement's carrying diva. Her music has been remixed by a line-up of essential DJ's today, including Beatportal's nominee for 2008's Best Tech House Artist, NYC's Jerome Sydenham, whose mix of "Let The Sun Shine Out" is nothing short of outstanding.

The fifth heat-seeking dance diva I find worth blogging is Lily Allen and here's why. First off, Brit chicks are breaking placenta!!! She follows hot blazing trails from Natasha Bedingfield and Duffy in dance music, or from Adele and Amy Winehouse in all pop music. Then her latest hit, "The Fear" is remixed by the likes of Dresden and StoneBridge (as featured here) paving her way to club dominance and favorable dance radio airplay. Spice it up with lashing statements and rotten behavior (a.k.a, publicity machine), then show up everywhere with a hot new image for her sophomore effort after losing all that weight, this young brit instantly becomes all the more worthy of gay adulation and quite automatically the "diva" distinction (the Mass Plenty will surely soon follow).


Tracks 6 to 10. DJ/Prods.

Except for UK's ATFC, all of the next five heatseaking DJ/Producers has had other tracks previously featured in ASND blog already: Dave Aude (remix of Lady GaGa's "Poker Face", 11/08 and her latest single "LoveGame"); Chris Lake ("Only One", 12/08 and his latest release, also featuring Nastala, in "If You Knew"); Vandalism (remix of Kurd Maverick's "Blue Monday", 02/09, and their own release, "Bailando"), then there's a triple assault from StoneBridge's ("If This Isn't Love", "The Fear", and "Tell Your Mama" with Emma Deigman). Given that the blog only started back in November, the works of these prolific DJ/Producers - some newcomers, others more established; have taken much volume of late. Their popularity have taken new momentum too from a wider reach offered by a nultitude of dance music blogs, which starting in 2008, became regarded as one of the more effective promotional channel of choice in music today. And yeah, these music blogs are also fast becoming the domain of A Stud Named Disco's sovereignty.

Then there's ATFC. Having been named Beatportal's House Music Artist of 2008, ATFC is certainly shaping house music's new sound by way of a few really kicking tracks like his latest production, "Tell U Y" featuring Yasmeen. With his own record label pioneering a "download-only" distribution ("to provide emerging electronic artists a chance to be heard"), ATFC continues to have us listening to all the tracks coming out of his studio, as well as from his own genius.

Tracks 11-15. Style.
(as featured in Electro II/Burn List Feb 09 Part 2)

The disco ball of fortune has a few heat-seeking styles of house music taking shape: electrohouse revivals like Kurd Maverick's "Blue Monday"; all-male dance groups (think Pet Shop Boys) like Australia's Empire of the Sun with "Walking on a Dream"; minimal house pioneered by Oliver Twizt (with his latest "You're Not Alone" featured here); club ready mash-ups like Hardwell's "Shake & Work"; gryme similar to Kid Cudi's "Day N' Nite"; and the styles which I can no longer mention because I've already dropped too much house in this post.

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ELECTRO II/BURN LIST FEB 09 Part II

DROP ELECTROHOUSE


Electro-influenced dance music are now becoming global chart-toppers. Pop singles chart-toppers. Familiar and best-selling DJ's, the likes of David Guetta, start adapting an uncharacteristic sound undeniably electro. The Perry Twins join camp. House music has never been more alive with more and more mixmasters giving it a new jolt of electro.

Electro II features tracks and DJs dropping electrohouse from 2008 on. Unlike the previous Electro playlist, new tracks appear in this set which annex seamlessly with the latest house anthems which will be featured in the upcoming Burn List Feb 09.

Starting off the set is "Day N' Nite" by Cleveland hiphop artist, Kid Cudi, with another song that keeps it burning, stoned and high much like M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes". Thanks to the remix by the Crookers, an electrohouse duo from Italy, "Day N' Nite" is racking up the pop singles charts in the UK to its number 1 spot a few weeks after its debut. Next is Alex Gaudino, another Italian DJ/producer, with his latest release, "I'm a DJ". This set features the remix from prolific London DJ Thomas Gold who has dropped electrohouse in this blog three times previously.

A rehash of New Order's "Blue Monday" by German DJ Kurd Maverick is currently Australia's number 1 single, as well as topping the influential Tastemakers chart to date. Vandalism, Melbourne's next big electrohouse phenomenon after Dirty South, also the male half of the distinctly-original and highly successful dance duo Madison Avenue, provides the remix to this biggest selling New Order classic. The 80's influence in current dance music is also prominent in "Walking on a Dream" by Empire of the Sun, another new sensation from Down Under. The dark 80's is back with even more kick in Montreal DJ/Producer Tiga's darker and deeper rehash of "Sunglasses at Night", a backburner from burnlist sep 08.

France's Digital Mode, aka Julien L, brings a floor-filler in the electrohouse with "The Rhythm of the Night". Then Dutch happens. Essential DJ's from Amsterdam (Hardwell, Bart B. More, Oliver Twizt, Bingo Players), dropping electrohouse rehash of tracks with distinct hooks and lines like you hear on and off all night at huge parties to bring any g-napping fella in the circuit back to life (Show Me Love, You're Not Alone, and Finally, a backburner from burnlist oct 08); influencing more DJ's to infuse their own jolt of electro to the same song til another rehash is released in no time; bringing huge parties from dancefloors to stadiums around the world; and taking NYC by its younger set to adopt a new style of dance music to clench their jaws and teeth into (teenagers The Martinez Brothers, what just happened to Alegria?) - and right before us, electro-influenced dance music becomes the new house. Or simply put, house music has once again evolved.

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Backburner: ELECTRO

FROM DEPECHE MODE TO DIRTY SOUTH: POP, ROCK, RAP GET MIXED ELECTRO


Right on the heels of the January burn list, I felt it appropriate to post this electrohouse set (from July 2008) which features more rehash of familiar tracks. Ten predominantly 80's pop songs are made timeless in these electrohouse reproductions which are still picking up heat on DJ sets to date (StoneBridge is currently tearing it up with DJ Joe K's "Born Slippy" the way Abel got us all sweating last summer with Dirty South's "Just Can't Get Enough" masterpiece). With the upcoming Winter Music Conference, note-worthy revivals of familiar tracks are all over the blogosphere, global charts and dance floors - this electro set from last year certainly proves how electro rehash tend to keep their kick months after their release. With thumping four-to-the-floor rhythm, drummy and pounding, distorted and shrieking, yet all-the-time uplifting through rather prominent loops of claps and snares - electrohouse, as well as the less vocally-infused dirtyhouse, are making superstars of new DJs while breaking familiar grooves with overpowering, floor-filling tracks which keep you moving til you have to catch your next deeper breath.

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BURN LIST JAN 08

2009 DANCE MUSIC. REHASHED AND IN FRESH FORM.

There are all-time dance classics, and there are all-time dance classics rehashed. This set showcases a distinct and fresh sound that's too deep for dance radio, too bouncy to sit still to, and yet all too familiar to most of you just the same. You burned these in CDs not too long ago. But since then, a few hot new dj's have come, while the few tired ones stepped down. This set has songs older than iPod, rehashed with that harder, faster sound. If this set doesn't redefine contemporary electronic style for you, then dance music is just not in you.

1998. Tiesto is one great DJ but no one can argue that German DJs Niels van Gogh and Thomas Gold succeeded in setting their rehash of "Silence" by Delerium (featuring vocals by Sarah McLachlan and remixes by Tiesto) into an essential track on its own. Given that "Silence" is accepted to be a trance music classic (and one of the best of this style), the duo's pounding progressive house reproduction, which cleverly preserves the purity in McLachlan's vocals intact, is surely dance music redefined.

Da Hool's rehash of his own track, "Meet Her At the Love Parade", seems like it registers at a totally different sound frequency than the 1998 Berlin Dance/Love Parade anthem. Given the track's second assault of EU dance charts a decade later, it's fair to say that a whole new party is digging this track. And they could very well be clothed. This is the same manner I am falling in love again with "Show Me Love" by Robin S. It's less camp this time around though. The dark new sound is sampled in not one, but two dance chart-toppers with Germany's Michael Mind, and UK's Sweet Mercy on deck. I feel that these three ubiquitous groooves seem to showcase what the 2009 sound is about.

The thumping bass and electric upper pitches dominant in this playlist seem to blend harder core songs like Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock & Roll" and Nirvana's "Lithium" rather seamlessly too. Even synthy keyboards, blaring horns, and cartoon-like soundloops from tracks like Steve Angelo's "Gypsy", Thomas Gold's latest hit-in-the-making "Rising Sun", and the Tamperer's "Feel Good 2008" flows non-cacophonously. From hard rock at the top, then loungy/ambient at the bottom. But I'm the type who will dance without excuse. I sense a set's bad transition from track to track because it can get horridly disturbing.

1992. The last track is a non-treatment of a classic that's just been recently re-released. "Plastic Dreams" by Jaydee is just as essential today in its original form. Widely accepted as one of the best tracks in house music, "Plastic Dreams" caps this January set which started with trance music's best song. In the re-release of "Plastic Dreams", a completely rehashed version of the song is included but I opted for the Original Mix. Some tracks are just well ahead of its time. They serve to highlight what this bigger, deeper and freshly distinct sounds in this set may become!

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