ELECTRO II/BURN LIST FEB 09 Part II

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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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