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m1kest4r - November Mix 2008

2008-10-29T12:24:00.004+11:00

Here is my November Mix for 2008. All you need to know is to download click on the link below.

http://rapidshare.com/files/158525618/m1kest4r_november08.mp3

Ron Hardy Said

2008-10-16T07:27:00.005+11:00

Dropping on Mouseville is the first release to feature an artist other than Eric Prydz. Seemingly his Pryda Friends label isn't being used at the moment as this is where he would release music in the past.

Trivial information aside, the Eric Prydz remix is an absolute MONSTER.

One of our favourite songs of the year here at the blog for sure. Pure class from Prydz.

"There will never be another place like that where Ron Hardy was doing what he
was doing. I mean this man... it was like voodoo with dance music. If I had to
think about it everyday, or I was thinking about it when I was playing records
every time, I wouldn't play. I would stop. Because I would look at these people.
I would look at these clubs. I would say this is bullshit."

- Derrick May

Original isn't too shabby if you like things a little more techier.

4/5 for the release.

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/138878/ron_hardy_said

Yeke!

2008-10-07T12:50:00.003+11:00

Well it's been rather quiet down here in Australia with the exception of the Godskitchen trance tour. Reports from the Melbourne leg show John O'Callaghan being the fave.

On to somebody who hasn't been here in a while but is strongly rumoured to be heading down under again next year. Which will be great because people have been saying he is in better form than ever. Of course I am talking about Richie Hawtin!

Well, if he plays Yeke Yeke then all will be good in my books! Can't get this tune out of my head still and it's 20 years old! An EDM anthem without a doubt.

Pryda - Evouh, Wakanapi & Rakfunk Review

2008-10-01T11:15:00.008+10:00

Hitting Beatport tomorrow (in theory at least) is Eric Prydz’ latest trio of Pryda tunes! Prydz is a huge favourite with all of this blog's writers so we're excited to say the least.

As Prydz stated on his website, this is the first time 3 tunes are getting released at once on the Pryda Recordings label. This AAA release is going to be doing some serious damage in the upcoming months.

1. Evouh
2. Wakanpi
3. Rakfunk

All of these tunes have been played on Pete Tong’ s Essential Selection in the last month. Sasha has been hammering 'Evouh' for quite some time now and ‘Wakanpi’ made it’s world debut in Eric Prydz’ Essential Mix live from Creamfields (an incredible mix for the record).

If you can get the myspace player working, there is a Pryda012 preview on Eric's MySpace

Out of the three 'Wakanpi' is my favourite. It’s the track that shows off Pryda at his best with the track sitting along side 'Europa' & 'F12' in terms of style. A very melodic lead line with a groovey bassline, throw in some driving chords and it’s pure bliss. The lead line builds after those chants step in and at this point, it’s all over for me. Goosebumps set in and it reminds me why this sort of music can be so damn good.

I won’t understate the other two songs in this release though. Eric is known as a perfectionist so you get nothing but quality music from him.

'Rakfunk' is a verrry groovey number. Being honest I didn’t like this song to begin with but after a few listens.... very classy. That walking bassline alternating with some nice chords seems to almost divide the song at the start but further on in the track, it starts to make sense. When the string joins in with the bassline it really gets rocking! A great tune that will sure to get people moving but not Eric’s best.

Finally I’ll get to the feature track of this release, 'Evouh'. Like I mentioned Sasha has been hammering it which will give you an indication of it’s style. Melodic, yet dark & driving. It builds up and up before dropping way back to nearly where it started. Teasing you with the possibility of a huge drop but never delivering, this tune will work wonders as a tune to build up energy.

Overall I’m giving this EP 4/5 stars. I can’t quite call it perfection but it comes close. All 3 tunes are very good but the best is ‘Wakanpi’ in my opinion!

So go buy your copy at Beatport or if you go old skool route - wherever you get your vinyls. Next week we will have a review of the next Mouseville release - 'Ron Hardy Said'. The original by Paolo Mojo & Jim Rivers and the remix by Eric Prydz will be hitting Beatport on the 13th!

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Danny Howells Australia Tour

2008-09-29T17:03:00.004+10:00

This is by far the tour we are most excited about! That and Eric Prydz...but he's next year so we'll get to him later! Danny Howells is a fave with all the posters here and his tour is shaping up to be epic at the least.

According to Danny's website, he will be in Australia from the 31st of October until the 10th of November.

The gigs you will find us at;

Darkbeat featuring Danny Howells on the 4th of November at Brown Alley, Melbourne
and
Empire in Brisbane on the 7th of November.

Word on the street is both gigs will be extended sets from Danny which is quite frankly, just what the doctor ordered.

Check out Danny Howell's latest release CD - Renaissance: The Mix Collection, by Danny Howells. It's 2 CD's of deepsexyfuturistictechfunkhouse like only Danny can deliver. Hopefully we'll have a review of this masterpiece of shortly...god only knows it's on near constant repeat in all our CD players!

Buy the CD online through Renaissance (UK) or Stomp (Aus).

Tickets to see Danny at Darkbeat in Melbourne can be purchased here or here.

Check out Darkbeat's Facebook group for more information on their upcoming events!

m1kest4r - October Mix 2008

2008-09-29T13:46:00.006+10:00

Naturally being very interested in all things progressive, I also am a DJ. Currently only of the bedroom variety but one day hoping to make it out in to club land. I spin everything progressive related I guess so from mix to mix my tracklists can look very different.

A little about me next... 23 years from Melbourne. I've been DJ'ing for about 3 years now. Musically I started off (in the electronic world) listening to Melbourne techno legends Wetmusik (Simon Digby & Will E Tell) and all their crew (Alpharisc etc). I got in to trance after that through some Slinky mix CD's and attended my first big event in 2003 at Slinky where I saw Signum, Dave Lea & Lisa Lashes. Over the years I started to get in to house through the more mainstream route then I have sort of gone full circle all over again and I'm solidly in 'techy' kind of country.

m1kest4r - October Mix 2008 (Click Me)

01. Toby Tobias - Dave's Sex Bits [Rekids]
02. Sebastien Leger - Bambou [Mistakes Music]
03. Minilouge - Jamaica (Dubfire Remix) [Cocoon Recordings]
04. Guy J - Geko [Bedrock Records]
05. Ralph Falcon - The Dig [Renaissance]
06. Apparat - Arcadia (Sasha's Invol2ver Remix) [Global Underground]
07. UNKLE - Chemistry (Radio Slave Remix) [Surrender All]
08. Remo - Ivision [Forensic Records]
09. Radio Slave - Bell Clap Dance (Slam Remix) [Rekids]

You can find all these tunes to purchase at Beatport

Welcome

2008-09-29T13:31:00.004+10:00

We're starting this blog to hopefully showcase what's good in the world of progressive house as we see it from Australia. We aren't overly known as a progressive house country but we've birthed some greats who could fall under the prog banner - such as the Balance CD series, Luke Chable & on the techier side of things Phil K.

However there's a lot more to it than that, there are plenty of upcoming progressive DJ's in Australia... waiting to be discovered. We hope that we can shed some light on these people. Maybe the next Sasha & Digweed will be found or the next S.O.S or even the next Danny Howells.

This blog will just be a place to find information on new tunes, progressive related gigs in Australia, sets from unknown DJ's and already established DJ's.

We hope that you will enjoy it and all the progressive house, deep house, tech house, minimal tech, minimal, techno, house, breaks, electro house, vocal house, funky house and anything else we feel like pimping out!