In Helsinki days are getting darker and colder and it seems it’s always raining. Makes you feel out of energy. You gotta fight for your right to party!
DJ Malvado is a house music producer from Angola and his song Puto Mekie will be featured on Buraka Som Sistema’s Fabriclive 49 mix.
Reggae and cumbia mix over electronic beats. Bomba Estéreo (Stereo Bomb) from Bogotá sing about fire, fire, fire. This is music for anyone who wants to see something burn, burn, burn…
Cubic Zirconia - Fuck Work (Proper Villians & Jubilee Remix)
Cubic Zirconia - Fuck Work (Dances With White Girls Remix)
Cubic Zirconia - Fuck Work (Michael Meds Remix)
Today I woke up knowing I don’t have to go to the office again.
Well, to be exact, my fixed term contract expires in the end of the month, but now it’s time for a well-deserved holiday!
Cubic Zirconia provides the best Fuck Work anthem for today.
Saturday I went to work
but i got fired
I am unemployed
anybody need some work?
fuck work
fuck work
fuck work
fuck workI don’t have a job, fuck work
fuck fuck fuck em hoes.
An-ten-nae - Destroy The System (Original Mix)
An-ten-nae - Destroy The System (Lawgiverz Remix)
An-ten-nae - Destroy The System (Dov Remix)
Can we destroy the system? Yes we can. This is the message brought to you by Bay Area dubstep producer An-ten-nae. Gotta love dubstep that is down with the revolution.
In the field of political theory, the possibility and necessity of a revolution has been kept on the agenda by people like Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Hardt and Negri have just released their third book of the Empire trilogy: the new book named Commonwealth came out in the beginning of October. One of our favorite Finnish blogs has been writing good stuff about Empire and Multitude lately. And Slavoj Zizek is coming to Helsinki next month.
Being here in Madrid I’ve tried to scrutinize into the club scene of the Spanish speaking part of the world. Hitting “Electro Cumbia” in Google gave me a really good start and since that I’ve come across several excellent blogs on the theme. One of the obvious artists to put forward from this genre is the Mexican dj Toy Selectah, who’s been publishing stuff on the Mad Decent label, run by Diplo & Switch. I bumped into Toy Selectah already some time ago but fell for him for good when a guy played his remix of the Santogold track Shove It at a house party. It’s featured on the killer LP Toy Selectah released on Mad Decent in April. I absolutely recommend it.
Brooklyn we go hard
We on the look for the advantage, we work hard
And if we seem to rough it up a bit
We broke but we rich at heart
Pull ourselves up now we won’t choke
It’s our time, put the lights on usWar tactics they make me sick
reel your heart in run away with it
Smile in your face, undermine your back
got guns for the strength they lack
So if you know another way
you can’t look the other way
if you know another way,
tell them so right to their face
- Santogold
Santogold - Shove It (Toy Selectah Cumbia Refix)
Mexmore LP on Mad Decent
Good stuff not featured on the LP:
King Ruly & Toy Selectah - Bumpin Time! (Sistema Local Mexmix Version)
One of us (that would be me) has emigrated to the Castilian capital, Madrid. So the perspective of Disco Deleuze will for at least a few months have a southern flavor. I haven’t really got into what and where the music scene here is. But below’s something interesting with influences from the Spanish speaking part of the globe… straight from Denmark. Served by the electronica mash-up duo Copyfokking, under the fresh and mysterious alias of Copia Doble Systema.
Copia Doble Systema - Cumbia Colegalia 2009
+mixtape here.
German group Kraftwerk did some amazing tunes back in the 1970’s. Afrika Bambaataa sampled them for “Planet Rock” (1982) and since then, their sounds have influenced hip-hop and electronic music in a major way.
This evening, in a couple of hours as a matter of fact, Kraftwerk will perform in Helsinki - and I’m gonna go see them.
The whole thing about how German Kraftwerk and new black urban music in the U.S. interacted and influenced each other in the 1970’s is very fascinating.
Der Spiegel: With the album “Autobahn” in 1975 you arrived in the front rows of USA billboard. Are you surprised, that from the beginning the USA black music scene were very excited for the sounds of Kraftwerk?
Ralf Hütter: No. We have always believed that machines have a spirit, and that has a lot to do with soul and black music. But we was astonished, as we met in the middle of the seventies in America’s discotheques and clubs black DJs who mixed with two record players neverending tracks of “Trans Europe Express”.
This one is from an another interview:
Karl Bartos: In 1975 we went over the Atlantic and spent 10 weeks on the road. We went from coast to coast and then to Canada. And all the black cities like Detroit or Chicago, they embraced us. It was good fun. In a way apparently they saw some sort of very strange comic figures in us I guess but also they didn’t miss the beats. I was growing up with the funky beats of James Brown and I brought them in more and more. Not during Autobahn or Radioactivity but more and more during the late 70s. We took some black beats into our music and this was very attractive to the black musicians and the black audiences in the States. In a way probably it reminds me of what The Beatles did. They took some Chuck Berry tunes and they transferred it to our European culture before taking it back to America and everyone understood that. In a way that was probably what we did with black rhythm and blues. But we mixed it of course with our own identity of the electronic music approach and European melodies. And this was good enough to succeed in America.
… probably the best war in the world.
Rampage - War (Blatta & Inesha Go To Luanda Remix)
Rampage on Myspace
Dizzee Rascal performs at Ilosaarirock tomorrow.
I think he’s down with the revolution. If you disagree, listen to his song Excuse Me Please - “There must be hope, maybe room for revolution”.
Go here and get it!
They should have brought Buraka Som Sistema to Ilosaarirock that’s going down this weekend. Well there’s Dizzee Rascal and some others. Disco Deleuze has already seen BSS live, that lucky bastard.