Hello music familia! It has been eons since we ate the Musical Technocracy team have spoke with you all. It has been a whirlwind year of personal and professional responsibilities that have kept us from our extracurricular musical passions.
That said, we are hoping to get back on the right foot and off to a fresh start with a new project! Perhaps a little more minimalist than our Musical Technocracy project, we are hoping to let the music speak more for itself at our new future home, AKBAR BEATS . Cheers, plur, and be Akbar! <3
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
i just wanna VOXIS ya
Also See: VOXIS : Recent Romanian Rage
Voxis in their young career has never failed to tantalize my ears!
Always with something surprisingly fresh and new, "I Just Wanna" keeps the Voxis magnificent momentum going, with a crispness of beats, climaxes, cool downs, highs, lows, drops all wrapped up with lines of pretty lil poetic lyrics! To top it all off, their new track is released with a stunningly vivid animated video that I can't wait to project over an audience at a party!
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Booking: booking@voxismusic.ro (0040) 726 126 469
Licensing: marian.soci@catmusic.ro
Produced by George Hora
CAT MUSIC Romania 2011
Licensing: marian.soci@catmusic.ro
Produced by George Hora
CAT MUSIC Romania 2011
With that said... I JUST WANNA VOXIS YA!
Sunday, July 3, 2011
ADRIAN LUX with REBECCA & FIONA - "BOY"
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Just released less than a week ago on June 27, 2011... this new track has already been subject to a slew remixes by the likes of Hardwell, Beataucue and Nause.
"Boy", bears the same essential crispness and freshness that Lux and Rebecca & Fiona have been emitting throughout all their work since their young careers have launched.
Having featured both Adrian Lux and Rebecca & Fiona regularly on Musical Technocracy, further blabber isn't needed... I will simply let the track speak for itself.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
SKRILLEX @ The Glass House
That's right, Pomona, California's venue, The Glass House was full of much dubbing and even more stepping this past Friday night June 24. Skrillex returned to his old southern California turf for one of the best shows I have seen in years. And the cherries on this dubstep ice cream sunday were none other than Porter Robinson, Zedd, Innerpartysytem and The Juggernaut. All of whom made the night that so much better!
But lets not just focus on the who, but also remember, the where! The Glass House has to be one of the best small club venues I have been to. Big things in a small package are the first thoughts that come to mind while entering the main arena. After cozying up to the bass, intimacy with a wedge of comfort is the next feeling to take one over as the music starts coursing through one's veins. But that's not all that made this venue great. It was first and foremost the friendly and positive staff, especially the security staff, that all did their jobs and made guests feel welcomed. Another plus
about this venue, it was all ages and one could enter and leave the building freely thanks to a wrist band system. So club goers are not just quarantined to The Glass House, but are free to enjoy some of what downtown Pomona has to offer! Additionally, for those who are of age and desire to enjoy some cocktails, The Glass House has to their own bar located immediately adjacent to the main building. With its exposed brick contemporary urban mod style interior, The Glass House's bar is quite a chill spot with good vibes, great service and decent drinks.But as important as painting the setting for the night is, that is not what this post is about. Its about Skrillex and his dub crew's killer show that was emphatically a one-two knockout!
Unfortunately we missed out on Innerpartysytem and The Juggernaut. A really huge shame considering what good material these fine fellows have! Seriously check them out! By the time we made it to the venue we caught the last bit of Zedd's set. A set that deserves full compliment and helped fluff our night quite nicely! Cheers Zedd, looking to enjoying a full night of your mixing next time!
Following Zedd, Porter Robinson graced the stage and with style! This young 18 year old prodigy from Chapel Hill has the magik touch and emits his spell the moment he lays hands on the decks. A definite wizzard in my book, his set truly set fire under the shoes of club goers that night, in the just the right way before Skrillex himself got on. Perhaps it is his traditions in house music, but personally my body lost all restraint wanting to hit all the beats Porter produced. A definite WINNING of a set for one hell of an incredible night!
As Porter finished off the crowd with a mighty twinkle in his eye and the last track, Skrillex's tech crew made sure to set the stage! And so it began the part of the night many of club goers came to see and hear, Sonny Moore, none other than Skrillex himself!
In a most thoughtful opening, Skrillex simply took to the stage and had a few words to share to the audience. If anything can be said about this young man just from simply being exposed to his personality as a performer, he is a very thoughtful and contentious individual who is very down to earth. Something to be found almost surprising considering his rise to high fame at such a young age. A key illustration of this can be found in our clip of his opening when Sonny addresses the audience regarding all the camera's fixated on him and humbly asks the audience on several other occasions to lower their lenses, just dance, enjoy the music and remember that it is about themselves not the performer. His empathy extended onto another level as he arranged for a brief moment of silent memorial for famous skate legend and reality tv personality Ryan Dunn, best known for his tenure on MTV's Jackass.
That too however, was just another cherry on the delicious dessert that was the night. Skrillex is no doubt some kind of grand wizard of electronic music! At only 22 years old, his ability on the decks, behind his mixer and pounding his drum machine is beyond impressive. Not only did his set sound exquisite, but his mixing on the fly has brought me to appreciate dubstep in a far more positive light.
As an EDM enthusiast I have had an appreciation for nearly all genres of electronic music for the better part of the last 10 years... however dubstep was not one of my favored styles. The ears of an old guard trance man like myself sometimes take a little bit more time to perk. But in all fairness, this is the first night I legitimately paid attention to dubstep itself. With that being said, let me tell you... this genre has endless possibilities! A point that is evident by Skrillex's powerful mixing of dance hall, hip-hop, house and just about anything else you can imagine into a set of hard hitting heavy bass electronica was impressively phenomenal! Check some of that in the mixed genres sample clip from that night.
If anything else can be said about this music is that it is definitely for living in the moment. That hard, uber heavy, low dropping bass hits you like a ton of bricks. The lighter twinkles and chorus moments let you get back on your feet until the music will simply pound you, just right, all over again. And, as much of electronic music can be described sexually, this is also a process that helps explain dubstep in such a context just as appropriately. Where as trance in so many ways is the romantics long night of passion with the foreplay build up, session of love making, with a climax and huge orgasmic drop; dubstep in so many ways could be described as the sexual process of two lovers changing positions. Dubstep's hard hitting loin throbbing bass in a lot of ways truthfully captures just that, the throbbing of the loins and the good hard pounding that sex can often be. The light twinkles and soft lulling breaks in the dubstep atmosphere alleviating the sessions of pounding bass could materialize in one's contentiousness as the point of changing positions mid sex. And as the bass resumes the new position is thoroughly ravaged. And, what position might that be... in the thoughts of conversation with some dubstuppers... definitely doggy style. With that said, DUBSTEP = DTF !
But enough Freudian attempts at sexually classifying a music that is so much more than just sexual. Dubstep is definitely the new age wave of not only electronic music but music in general and a night of Skrillex is what helped for me to discover this fact of life. It is far more heavily electronified and electrified than anything I have experienced in a long while! Even more so in a live arena at an alter of wheels of steel! As many times has been articulated throughout this blog, music might very well keep progressing towards further and further electronified states of existence as technocratic subconscious grows. Dubstep might very well be a checkpoint on this road of electronic permeation. And I do indeed very much like it. Electric shock therapy for the soul!
Musical Technocracy's Christian Florin, a young southern California public relations, graphic and web design professional, as well as EDM enthusiast and dubstep connoisseur, will have more to contribute following up on this post!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Erick Morillo & Eddie Thoneick feat. Shawnee Taylor - Stronger
Let's all be stronger... and thanks to fabulous tracks like this, we are all empowered to be, together, channeled through the music.
The words of a chorus such as this one, though few, are loaded with a contentious spirit towards development, self and societal improvement as well as plain old heart. Add water and some sunshine and you can see this little track seedling grow some love.
#dancelove #leavetheworldbehindyou #plur
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Paul Van Dyk's Pit Stop at WALMART ??
Yes, that is correct! PVD did spend a late night evening traversing the aisles of a 24 hour Walmart store; stocking up on snacks for the road while on tour a couple years ago.
In this endearing little clip we get to see what a Grammy award winning DJ wizard sustains himself on! Evidently that would be cookies, cheese, chocolate and hot dogs, among all sorts of other goodies. Also, apparently, pepper jack is "phenomenal" and "everything in America is over sized".
Monday, May 30, 2011
"Swedish House Mafia Accuse Music Producers Of 'Raping' House Music"
Alright, here is a post for the true believers. According to Tale Tela.com, the Daily Star UK reported that "Swedish House Mafia DJ's Wage War" against music producers. Vehemently accusing them of "raping" the genre by mainstreaming it and making it too commercial.
Sentiments that echo how Musical Technocracy feels about the issue and have been advocated since the creation of our blog. Though we believe in the commercialization and spread of the music into the mainstream, I do believe there is a right way and a wrong way to go about doing this without violating the spirituality, culture and social movement that is behind the music.
The appropriation of every Tom, Dick and Harry that pop and urban music has to offer into the electronic music production process still seems like whoredom to many. And we are personally glad that someone of prominence in the EDM community, such as Axwell, has called them out.
However, to simply raise awareness as to the corruption infecting electronic music is not enough. Axwell's efforts need to be taken up by all who are genuinely concerned about EDM's state of affairs and taken a step further by way of educating newcomers to the music. Education that needs to teach how the genre goes far deeper than just the drugs and the clubs.
Case studies such the history of the Love Parade and Dr. Motte, what the music has meant for the LGBT community and Paul Van Dyk's playing of smuggled mix tapes behind the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain of communism need to be case and point.
Electronic Dance Music, in a lot of ways, was a Social Justice Movement before it was just plain old music.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
MOSSANO
Well, Beirut radio has done it again! And by done it again, I mean direct me to some of the freshest EDM that airwaves can catch and release. A few weeks ago while chilling out to some beats I heard one of the crispest sounds I've heard in a while. Naturally, I was curious and began scowering the internet for the source of the magik. Lo and behold, I found myself led back to the beautiful country of Romania! A place I am wanting to visit more and more, along with Sweden, as I continue to discover DJ's and more music coming out of these two countries!
A new project by David Deejay, Lucian Mosanu, going by the name Mossano, is going to be, if not already a hit! Evidently with nearly a decade of experience in Romania and across Europe, Mossano started his career at the ripe young age of 16 and had started gaining residency at Romanian clubs by the time of his 18th birthday.
Back in 2009 he came out with one of his first tracks, "Indianotech". A track with skyrocketed to international charts and only got more popular with the release of the video a year later. The video which is brilliant put together features Lucian and a mate of his cruising in a VW golden bug down an industrial mod style hallway where two dancers are seemingly trapped to perform. One a young man in a white sport coat wearing a beanie hat that almost resembles the head wrapping of the Sikhs. The other is a gorgeous young lady, fairly orientalised, in a shimmer gold dress, sari like attire shawl, and a red dot on her forehead symbolizing marriage. This lady dancer is then set to the backdrop of a seemingly flower painting and another painting of who seems to be Ganesha. That being said, as simply as this video might seem, it's not simple at all, but very loaded.
Perhaps some of the most culturally conscious material I have seen in a long time, Mossano only begins to express a certain cultural awareness with his "Indianotech" project and takes it to the next level with "Zingarinho". Featured at the top of this post, "Zingarinho", released in 2010 also became an international sensation topping charts in Europe and Turkey. The video to "Zingarinho", narrates a sort of meeting or exchange culture, as our protagonist finds himself sticking out like a sore thumb as the only Caucasian individual eating at South Asian restaurant. In an effort to fit in, he begins jamming out to the local beats right from his table in the corner of the room. Infatuated by the whole sensation of the place, our protagonist becomes even more mesmerized as the most attractive and elegantly moving waitress makes her way to his table to take his order. And not just there to provide service as a server, she also provides the viewer with much eye candy as she is the clips main entertainer/dancer. Finally, our protagonists food arrives and all eyes are on him as he begins to sample from the feast he ordered. Grave tension and nerves mount as he takes the first bite. And as his approval and most jubulant satisfaction with the tastes of his food are expressed, the entire room erupts with smiles, laughter and joy that he likes the cuisine. And if such a presentation of cultural encounter was not interestingly deep enough to experience, Mossano takes up even further by presenting the esoteric Ajna or Bindu third eye port to the soul. Alarmed at what he sees, our protagonist rushes to the bathroom, perhaps concerned he ate too many foreign spices and was hallucinating accordingly. But only to find himself with Ajna himself and then evaporating into another plain.
Mossano has continued to stick this South Asian, Indian-esq theme in his new track "Caramba". And Musical Technocracy will be most excited to see what sort of video clip will accompany this track in the near future.
Fascinated by his South Asian theming, Massono's projects are hardly orientalist, but merely well intentioned exchanges with some of the exotic and unique aspects of one particular culture. I only wish my South Asian language skills were sufficient to perhaps understand the chorus to his tracks.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Some Tasty Bernasconi(s)
Not only does mix master Rico Bernasconi have tasty beats and sexy video treats, but also has something of a new twist from this past year working with Polish DJ Max Farenthide.
Fresh with the Italio-Latin-esq Mediterranean style beats, Farenthide and Bernasconi have pulled something spicy right nice out of the oven!
And of course, as summer is fast approaching, we cannot neglect to enjoy the eye candy that is in the video of his collaboration with Ace of Base to remix Bananarama's "Cruel Summer".
It is some of the vibes in these tracks and clips that devinately tell you summer is near here!
"thie porno has good music"
Praise be due to Mr. Bernasconi, Ace of Base and Max Farenthide! Musical Technocracy is very much looking forward to hearing and seeing what you all will be bringing forward in the coming months!
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