This music has been playing constantly as I study and I've pretty much fallen in love! You all know how much I love remixes and it's been a while since I've featured someone who does a fair amount of remixes. Hoping sometime soon he'll do a set down under in Perth and get all of us kiddies to move our feet- in the meantime, dancing in my room to this music will have to do.

How did you come up with the name?
It's about the excitement of enjoying life.

Tell me a little about yourself?
Dev or Devlin/27/Seattle

What did you do before the starting?
I’ve been producing & djing since I was 15. So probably going to school, playing sports, & getting drunk, in that order.

How did you start out/ was it hard?
My friend Axcys got me into early electronic music like Orb, Orbital, & Aphex Twin and later when I was 15 I got more interested in djing and house music. I was really influenced by Jeno, Doc Martin, & Derrick Carter. In the late nineties I used to play 2x4's(2 djs x 4 turntables) with my brother, Sean Patrick at raves on the west coast. I think the hardest part was getting my hands on equipment to produce and dj at 15.

Any big plans for the near future?
A west coast tour with TurboWeekend in September(SEA/LA/SF/ETC.) and a new project collaborating with another producer that I am really excited about! Stay tuned!

--Random questions--
What song have you been listening to most in the past few weeks?
a1 bassline - bad man horror theme

What one materialistic thing can you not live without?
my shoes :P

What have you learnt from doing what you do?
to never stop

Do you have a secret name for your favourite inanimate object?
boom.dip.beep.boom.dip

Has your music helped in picking up girls/boys?
Haha

Has anything crazy or embarrassing ever happened during a live gig?Every set is crazy!!!

Have an awesome time exploring his myspace to see his many remixes that has been completed and some that are in process- so you have something to look forward to!
You also get to see where his music has been featured and where he'll be performing.
Plus- he's given a link to his music- available for download!
CLICK HERE!!

BIG NEWS!!!
WEST COAST TOUR (US)
With: TURBOWEEKEND, THRILLS, ANIMAL BODY, & COLBY B

"FADED"
New Monthly with Axcys in Seatle at CHOP SUEY starting August 16th
With: Le Castle Vania, Thrills, Axcys, Rrrump & Colby B.

THRILLS EP
With remixes from: Bo$$ In Drama, Culture Prophet, Giko, Dean Tynan, Diamond Cut more!

Link:
Thrills MySpace

By NAMI

Pounding up and down the Indie and Electro streets once more, I hold aloft for you special people yet more selected peaks from the world of good choonage. This time we got two DJ's found blasting air horns from 'Blog House' heaven and one tidy European pair of dreamers. These DJ's are very well known to the blog world already, but I simply cannot resist posting about them myself. However, the last entry may not be known to your ears. Check them all though, coz they're ALL good...

I'll start at the beginning. Seems the best idea...OK, first mentioned in previous post The Gig List 6 this super-fly DJ is a mash up in human form. KISSY SELL OUT - the Designer, the Fashion Icon, the Global DJ, the Radio One Talent and all round Remix-Master, grew up soaking up Nirvana, warped into a Drum n Bass freak through his formative years and came out of it all a pioneer of Indie-Electro remix super-sets. And he's only 23 years old!! Easy on the ears, his taste for blends are as good as they get. With a massive remix back catalogue including Chromeo, Mark Ronson, R.E.M and Gwen Steffani, amongst many others, he specialises in turning the pop world into ultra-slick dance-floor filler. Truly outstanding.

Find him here:  www.myspace.com/kissysellout

Hear him here:  http://www.zshare.net/audio/1681588407fc731a/

Second in command in this edition, is another sublime Blog House DJ, this time from Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The electric LE CASTLE VANIA, (aka Dylan Eiland), has been busting dance floors globally. With his trademark Emo-style, white-lightning hairstyle, skinny jeans and trainers that look like they were bought in a Nike boutique in a planetary system many light years away, his array of colours only serve to add to his level of cool. Dropping super-massive beats you will see Dylan pumping fists and jumping up and down behind the decks as much as the adoring fans on the dance floor in front of him. Excitable and contagiously energetic, his banging remixes and original productions are fuzzy, chunky, pounding electro of the highest order. Tasteeeeee.

Find him here:  www.myspace.com/castlevaniadisco

Hear him here:  http://www.zshare.net/audio/1681619112ed7a53/

Coming in third today are a gorgeous girl/boy pairing from Zurich, Switzerland, going by the name of DIVISION KENT. They bounce out melodic electronic music with a guitar sound and a sweeping atmosphere. It's really quite beautiful. I attach my favourite track below for you, Superstitious. They are two albums in now, with their latest work entitled 'Gravity', so please go and track that down if you fancy more.

Find them here:  www.myspace.com/divisionkent

Hear them here:  http://www.zshare.net/audio/168153772c9f84bb/

Hoping to get a new Q&A completed shortly with both Kissy Sell Out and Le Castle Vania posted up real soon, so look out for those in the future. I just gotta catch them when we all get a spare minute. This blog is growing so fast I may even have to source another contributer to match the demand, so watch this space.

See you back here real soon...
Mike

New remix from Atlanta's own, Le Castle Vania. Listen to and download

Enjoy!

Walter Meego- through a keyhole (Le Castle Vania remix) (media fire)

LCV live @electric daisy carnival 08

I was rather pleased with the electronic/dance mix that I recently made for Steel Away. (It evolved from a rather ill-favored horror/trance mix called "Twitch of the Dance Nerve".) As I couldn't really post all the info on the rockin' dustcover (second only to my "Tales to Astonish!" mix cover for Liz) I am going to reproduce it here. Enjoy!

1. You'll Find A Way (Switch & Sinden Remix) - Santogold
2. Shut the Club Down - Girl Talk
3. Bump - Spank Rock
4. Solid Gold - The Golden Filter
5. Go Back (Le Castle Vania Remix) - GRUM
6. Weekend - Ladytron
7. Me vs. Heidi - I Am Robot and Proud
8. Young Folks (Punks Jump Up Special Disco Mix) - Peter Bjorn & John
9. Flashing Lights (ft. Dwele) - Kanye West
10. Dame de Lotus - Emilie Simon
11. Danse Sur la Merde - Prototypes
12. I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me (Get Shakes Remix) - Annie
13. Danger! - The Sound of Arrows

:: Bibliography ::

• NASA, ESA, and L. Bedin. NGC 6791: Full Hubble ACS Field. HubbleSite.org. http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/25/image/c/ (28 July 2008).

Got another theme-based Recommender for Number 6. I'm going to concentrate on the awesomely-brilliant Los Anegeles scene. It's breathtakingly huge and ram-jammed with DJ's, clubs, photgraphers and labels so fucking cool that its icy breeze stretches around the world. The city is known for its beach life, trend-setting scenesters and sunny dispositions, so it makes for a great proving ground for the city's young crowd to bathe in.

I should begin by stating that with all the DJ's I'm rolling on about in this post, all roads seem to lead back to a collection of hipsters, often found around CINESPACE, a cinema/lounge/club in Hollywood. To give you an idea of the type of people that crop up on it's radar here's a shortlist:

Steve Aoki (Dim Mak Records Boss and DJ)
Cobrasnake Crew  (Hipster Profilers including; Rony Alwins & Mark Hunter -Photographers)
Sarah Morrison (Famous Youtube scenester)
Kid Paparazzi (Another photographer of beautiful people)
DJs, including: Busy P, Dan Oh, Gina Turner, La Castle Vania, Crookers amongst many others...

OK OK OK, back to THE RECOMMENDER - NUMBER 6.

First up this week, a DJ duo well known at Cinespace, LA RIOTS. They can rip up the dancefloor like a West coast earthquake! Signed up to Fools Gold records, they have been blasting out the finest electro remixes for the likes of Justice, Scanners and Hearts Revolution, and they're as good as anyone's. I list below their mix of 'Can't Believe A Single Word' for your listening stimulation...

Find them here: www.myspace.com/LAriotsofficial 

Hear them here: http://www.zshare.net/audio/1601306945af8030/ 

Moving on, the next crew I wanna blow up are ROYAL RUMBLE, who are also firmly welded to the Cinespace scene regularly popping up around LA playing at their touring event night, Hush Hush, where they bill alongside the likes of Skeet Skeet, Modular records DJs and Classixx (see below...) amongst many others. They are a 3-piece consisting of; Dan, Kyle and Russ, spinning their bouncing electro favourites for all to shake to. I list their remix of the Soulwax tune, 'Miserable Girl', below because its so freaking ace! Enjoy.

Find them here: www.myspace.com/theroyalrumble

Hear them here: http://www.zshare.net/audio/16013840e5de72f5/ 

Finally, for this longer than normal post, I come to the last of the California-linked geniuses, a two-piece known as CLASSIXX. Formerly known as The Young Americans until a legal situation put an end to it, this pair are found on many of the Hush Hush parties thrown in the LA area. I cannot get enough of their brilliant mixes and bubbling electro sound. I list below their tune Dial One.

Find them here: http://www.myspace.com/classixxmusic

Hear them here: http://www.zshare.net/audio/1601408622258cac/ 

So you now have no excuses - book up your flight to LA now! What a scene, what a collection of brilliant DJ's and its all in the sunshine. Sounds like perfection. Hope you enjoyed this themed post. I'll be back with another one real soon, so keep coming back and I promise to love you forever...

Mike

Photos by Andral Ludovic - Great work. And while you’re at it, check out this page of advertisements. There’s some pretty funny stuff there.

Child prodigy turned electro-wizard, Yuksek, is making more of an appearance these days with his ever-inspiring remixes. This time it’s of artists like Mika, Ghostface Killah and Van She. “Lollipop” has all of the starry-eyed electro builds to keep dancefloors- and European festival grounds- melting all summer. In a totally different, but equally impressive direction, we have us a Van She “Strangers” remix that showcases all of the dreamy, synthy new wave goodness with that grinding electro spine that only Yuksek could pair. A big thanks goes out to LeTouch for the update- wonderful blog. Cheers!

Mika - Lollipop (Yuksek Remix)

Van She - Strangers (Yuksek Remix)

We also have us a piping hot remix from Le Castle Vania. This time he reworked one of my favorite songs and artists of the moment, Grum. One of my favorite classic artists from when this blog had just started and one of my favorite artists from within the last few weeks. Keep an eye out for a killer Shinichi Osawa edit by Lies In Disguise, Le Castle Vania’s project with Blake Miller from Moving Units, that they have coming out pretty soon. Now that’s a winning combo if I’ve ever heard one..

Grum - Go Back (Le Castle Vania Remix

Oh man, here’s what you’ve been waiting for. You might not even know it quite yet, but you’ve been dying to hear this shit. Fake Blood popped up on the blogosphere with a few new remixes that are entirely unreal. One of them is this Unkle vs. Fake Blood clash that pounds. I literally can’t get enough of it. The other two, that I’ve decided to post, are of Underworld and Sinden & Monte Cristal. Quite a range of work here to get lost to. Fake Blood has the unique ability to take what I would sometimes call an ‘outdated’ production sample and tear it’s brain out all over a sounddeck.

Unkle - Restless (Fake Blood Remix)

Sinden & Count Of Monte Cristal - Beeper (Fake Blood Remix)

Underworld - Ring Road (Fake Blood Remix)

For the 60th No Love Lost Records mixtape project, Anoraak put together a killer little mixtape that will find it’s way on my car stereo system for the next month or two. Recently a Myspace featured artist, there seems to be a lot of positive feedback to his Karate Kid-esque 80’s new wave style. Shoot, Anoraak even has a Karate Kid flyer in his myspace photo album, if that tells you anything about influences. This music couldn’t be better for a breezy summer night, driving alongside Lake Michigan like life was an outtake of Risky Business. Classic stuff here. I can honestly say that anything that this guy comes out with is solid gold, and that I am more excited to hear Anoraak’s new material than any other artist at this moment. Un-effing-believable.

Anoraak Exclusive NLLR Mixtape

Anoraak - The Wizzard

And while I’m on the subject, if you haven’t been checking out these No Love Lost Records Mixes, you really need to get on the ball. They are constantly looking for fresh talent to throw out there, and if you’re looking for some tunes to throw a party to, I can guarantee that they have just the mix you’re looking for in the countless hours of awesome tunes they have cataloged. Here are a few of my favorites…

Jokers Of The Scene Exclusive NLLR Mixtape

Grum Exclusive NLLR Mixtape

Brodinski Exclusive NLLR Mixtape

AC Slater Exclusive NLLR Mixtape

The Bulgarian Exclusive NLLR Mixtape

Ocelot Exclusive NLLR Mixtape

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I keep forgetting to post this new hot banging remix of Grum's "Go Back" by Le Castle Vania. Some of my favorite dance blogs have been raving about it and I will follow suit.

The original "Go Back" was already a hot piece of hot diddy, but what mister Castle Vania did was take it up a few more notches and turned it into a completely club banging monster. I may not be able to hang with those coked up kids at the clubs these days, but I can at least imagine myself just completely losing it past 3am in the morning if this track were to be hitting the speakers.

Just take a look down below at what happens with the song drops:

Can you hang?

MP3: “GRUM Go Back (Le Castle Vania remix)”
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/grummusic
Website:: http://www.lecastlevania.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/castlevaniadisco