DJ Cruze

1. Tikaro, J.Louis & Ferran feat Clarence - Shine On Me (Steve Pitron & Max Sanna Totality Remix) - Gusto
2. Ricki Lee - U Wanna Little Of This (Wawa Remix) - Hed Kandi
3. Julie Dennis - Fever (Sultan & Ned Shepard Vocal Mix) - Petulant Records
4. Valeriya - The Party’s Over (Ortega & Gold Vocal Remix) - Hyperactive
5. Ian Carey - Keep On Rising (Vocal Dub Mix) - Spinnin’ Records
6. Denise Lopez - Don’t You Wanna Be Mine (Dennis Christopher Club Mix) - House Trained
7. Ian Carey Project - Get Shaky (Ian Carey Vocal Mix) - GFab Records
8. DJ Jean - The Launch Relaunched (Olav Basoski Remix) - House Trained
9. Audiostar - Break It Off (Extended Mix) - Spinnin’ Records
10. Atrocite - Temptations (Original Mix) - Scream And Shout Recordings
11. King Brain & Bart Van Der Zwaan - Sunlight (Vox Mix) - Used And Abused Recordings
12. Robin S - Show Me Love (GRN’s Galactic Club Mix) - Champion
13. Dave Spoon & Paul Harris - Baditude - Toolroom Records
14. The Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix) - Modular
15. Bimbo Jones - Harlem One Stop (Thomas Regnault Remix) - White
16. Three Drives - Greece 2000 (Chris Reece Remix) - S2 Records
17. Happy Clappers - I Believe (Vandalism Spank daNun Remix) - Art & Craft Recordings
18. K-Klass - Getting Ready (Wideboys Miami Frozen Dub) - AATW
19. Made In London - London Skank - White
20. Buy Now - Body Crash (Streetlife DJs Remix) - La Mode

1. Happy Clappers - I Believe (Vandalism Spank daNun Remix) - Art & Craft Recordings
2. K-Klass - Getting Ready (Wideboys Miami Frozen Dub) - AATW
3. Ian Carey Project - Get Shaky (Ian Carey Vocal Mix) - GFab Records
4. DJ Jean - The Launch Relaunched (Olav Basoski Remix) - House Trained
5. Dave Spoon & Paul Harris - Baditude - Toolroom Records
6. Buy Now - Body Crash (Streetlife DJs Remix) - La Mode
7. Tikaro, J.Louis & Ferran feat Clarence - Shine On Me (Steve Pitron & Max Sanna Totality Remix) - Gusto
8. Andy Hunter - Stars (Phonat Remix) - Nettwerk
9. Ricki Lee - U Wanna Little Of This (Wawa Remix) - Hed Kandi
10. Valeriya - The Party’s Over (Ortega & Gold Vocal Remix) - Hyperactive
11. The Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix) - Modular
12. Bimbo Jones - Harlem One Stop (Thomas Regnault Remix) - White
13. Lorraine - When I Return To The World (The Camel Rider Dub) - Waterfall Records
14. Horny United - Crazy Paris (Klass Remix) - Attractive Music
15. EDX - Premium Line (Original Mix) - Pinkstar
16. SW14 - Need You Tonight (Carl Ryden Remix) - Gusto
17. Dobenback feat Joanna - Please Don’t Go (Chris Reece Too Late Mix) - S2 Records
18. The Presets - This Boy’s In Love (Lifelike Remix) - Modular
19. Corey Gibbons - Chocolate Loving (Corey Gibbons Kawa & Legaz Mix) - Kawa Music
20. Eric Prydz - Pjanoo - Pryda

1. Adele - Cold Shoulder (Out Of Office Remix) - XL
2. Dave Spoon & Paul Harris - Baditude - Toolroom Records
3. Kirsty Hawkshaw vs Kinky Roland - Fine Day 2008 (Max Sanna Remix) - Loverush Digital
4. The Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix) - Modular
5. Eric Prydz - Pjanoo - Pryda
6. Morgan Page - The Longest Road (Deadmau5 Remix) - Nettwerk
7. Anusha - Have It All (Wideboys Detroit Dub) - Avan Records
8. Tikaro, J.Louis & Ferran feat Clarence - Shine On Me (Steve Pitron & Max Sanna Totality Remix) - Gusto
9. K-Klass - Getting Ready (Wideboys Miami Frozen Dub) - AATW
10. Andy Hunter - Stars (Phonat Remix) - Nettwerk
11. Happy Clappers - I Believe (Vandalism Spank daNun Remix) - Art & Craft Recordings
12. Ricki Lee - U Wanna Little Of This (Wawa Remix) - Hed Kandi
13. Valeriya - The Party’s Over (Ortega & Gold Vocal Remix) - Hyperactive
14. Memento - Room 3113 - Supra Recordings
15. Kylie - In My Arms (Chris Lake Remix) - Parlophone
16. Lorraine - When I Return To The World (The Camel Rider Dub) - Waterfall Records
17. Supafly Inc - Be Together (Original) - Eye Industries
18. Phonat - Ghetto Burnin’ (Original) - Mofo Hifi
19. Denise Lopez - Don’t You Wanna Be Mine (Extended Club Mix) - House Trained
20. DJ Disciple - Work It Out (Mischa Daniels 2008 Miami Shakedown) - House Trained

I have to give a massive shout out to one of my good friends, Alex Harmony, who has just released his first EP “Sonnendeck” on Germany’s Club City Music label. It features two rocking tech house tunes, Artefacts and Sonnendeck. You can check out both of them on the media player on the Club City Music website right now so head on over there.

Artefacts is a great deep and dubby track with its dark vocoded vocal breakdown and Sonnendeck brings us a massive wall of sound that reminds me of an old Orbital track (…I can’t remember which). I think that “sounding like Orbital” is praise enough for his first release and you should look out for the EP on Beatport soon. Make sure you pick it up if you like it deep and dirty!

Big love to you Alex and you beat me to it mate!

1. Kylie - In My Arms (Chris Lake Remix) - Parlophone
2. The Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix) - Modular
3. DJ Disciple - Work It Out (Mischa Daniels 2008 Miami Shakedown) - House Trained
4. The Ting Tings - That’s Not My Name (Tom Neville Remix) - Columbia
5. Eric Prydz - Pjanoo - Pryda
6. Supafly Inc - Be Together (Original) - Eye Industries
7. Phonat - Ghetto Burnin’ (Original) - Mofo Hifi
8. K-Klass - Getting Ready (Wideboys Miami Frozen Dub) - AATW
9. Happy Clappers - I Believe (Vandalism Spank daNun Remix) - Art & Craft Recordings
10. Ricki Lee - U Wanna Little Of This (Wawa Remix) - Hed Kandi
11. Denise Lopez - Don’t You Wanna Be Mine (Extended Club Mix) - House Trained
12. Alex Gaudino - Watch Out (Club Mix) - Data
13. The Mac Project - Another Love (Big Club Mix) - Hed Kandi
14. Julie Dennis - Fever (Sultan & Ned Shepard Vocal Mix) - Petulant Records
15. Alpha Beat - 10000 Nights (Bimbo Jones Remix) - Charisma
16. Jerry Ropero - The Storm (PhonJaxx Remix) - Positiva
17. Lexter - Freedom To Love (Chris Ortega & Thomas Gold Mix) - Hit! Records
18. Kirsty Hawkshaw vs Kinky Roland - Fine Day 2008 (Max Sanna Remix) - Loverush Digital
19. Tim Deluxe - You Got Tha Touch (Original Mix) - Skint
20. The Script - We Cry (Bimbo Jones Dub) - RCA

Anyone who has seen me DJ’ing knows that I like scratching. I scratch a lot in my DJ sets (although not very much on the podcasts!) and I love to watch technical scratch DJs like Q-Bert, A-Trak and DJ Craze. I got into DJ’ing back in the late 80s because I was a wannabe hip-hop kid. I realised pretty quickly that I was terrible at rapping, even worse at graffiti so I pestered my parents to get me a set of turntables so I could learn to mix and scratch. So I love scratching and turntablism but this video I found via Music Thing is crazy!

DJ Ramsey (an Arizonan DJ I think and not the DJ Ramsey that plays garage over here in the UK) switches turntablism back to the 80s and becomes cassetetapism! He takes two boomboxes and scratches, beat juggles and cuts up tunes by twisting the tape spindle and playing with the tape head. He’s a genius! Check him out:

Via: Music Thing

This has to be THE tune of the summer! I’d never heard of The Whitest Boy Alive but as soon as I heard the Essential Selection last week and this tune kicked in, I immediately recognised the distinctive vocals of one of my favourite singers, Erlend Øye from Kings Of Convenience.

Now Fred Falke has turned this moody little tune into an amazing summer anthem by adding some great electric pianos, a classic Falke bassline and a haunting main synth line. All of that extra production complements Erlend’s haunting vocals and I seriously can’t hear this tune enough.

Check it out on You Tube below:

Here’s the original mix too if you want to hear it. Not as funky as Fred Falke’s mix but it’s still got a nice vibe about it and Erlend’s wicked vocal style.

1. Denise Lopez - Don’t You Wanna Be Mine (Extended Club Mix) - House Trained
2. Alex Gaudino - Watch Out (Club Mix) - Data
3. Kylie - In My Arms (Chris Lake Remix) - Parlophone
4. The Mac Project - Another Love (Big Club Mix) - Hed Kandi
5. Supafly Inc - Be Together (Original) - Eye Industries
6. Phonat - Ghetto Burnin’ (Original) - Mofo Hifi
7. Julie Dennis - Fever (Sultan & Ned Shepard Vocal Mix) - Petulant Records
8. Alpha Beat - 10000 Nights (Bimbo Jones Remix) - Charisma
9. Lexter - Freedom To Love (Chris Ortega & Thomas Gold Mix) - Hit! Records
10. Kirsty Hawkshaw vs Kinky Roland - Fine Day 2008 (Max Sanna Remix) - Loverush Digital
11. Tim Deluxe - You Got Tha Touch (Original Mix) - Skint
12. The Script - We Cry (Bimbo Jones Dub) - RCA
13. Midnight Juggernauts - Shadows (Rubato Remix) - Charisma
14. Adele - Cold Shoulder (Out Of Office Remix) - XL
15. Eric Prydz - Pjanoo - Pryda
16. Paolo Jackson - Funkt (Twocker Remix) - Sheer Dance
17. Sarah McLeod - White Horse (Whelan & Di Scala Club Mix) - Hyperactive
18. Crispin J Glover - Never Gonna Give You Up (M Sol Vocal Remix) - Nitelife Records
19. DJ Lapell - Drinking Chardonnay (Wideboys Electro Remix) - AATW
20. The Ting Tings - That’s Not My Name (Tom Neville Remix) - Columbia

I forgot to post about this last week but my funky house friend, Simon Jobling aka One Phat DJ, has posted a great interview that he did with the house production team The Bassmonkeys. You can read it here.

Some good insights into a great production team. Nice one Si!

I’ve finally found the time to upgrade my old Wordpress installation which runs this site. After reading far too many security scares and getting scary emails from friends, thanks Si, I thought I’d better get it sorted.

So hopefully you won’t notice any difference but I’ve had a few issues with the podcast feed and my mod rewrite rules. If anyone notices anything wrong, either on the site or via the podcast feed, then please get in touch. Hopefully it’s sorted now but I had to get my Wordpress install to play nicely with Feedburner

Now that I’m down with the cool kids running Wordpress 2.5, I think I’d better get my website in order so watch out for some changes over the next few weeks. I’ve got some good ideas so hopefully I can get them implemented soon. Or perhaps a new podcast would be preferred by the masses! Don’t worry. It’s coming!

Update: Looks like the podcast feeds have been changed so my iTunes downloaded the last 5 episodes again. Sorry about that! You’ll just have to enjoy them all again!