Electro

P-Thugg and Dave 1 make sweet, sweet music at Daryl Hall’s house.

London electro artists The Black Ghosts bring this delicious slice of Paris + homage to Space Invader and Pac Man, directed by Sarah Hay, featuring Damon Albarn. Bon appetit, indeed.

The Black Ghosts will be playing in San Francisco with Holy Ghost! on July 25 in San Francisco.

(via Missing Toof)

I am kind of going to have their man babies.

(via College Humor + Jay)

June’s mixtape is built for flights and bus rides, benefit parties and best friends. It’s kind of a 130 BPM multivitamin, or like mixing beer and Coke. Ingredients include both kinds of music: disco and electro, remixed Ibiza house standards, hip-hop and Swedish girl pop. Bobble-headed from SFO-CDG when I should have been sleeping, then spent a few hours over the past four days fine-tuning (mostly purging). My favorite part is probably in the middle, where I stuck Treasure Fingers’ nasty Fergie mix. That, or the Steve Aoki track, which is just plain awesome. I’ve wanted to mix Aoki out of Sexual Earthquake in Kobe for approx. forever. Backyard Astronomy clocks exactly 60 minutes and comes with a simple 3-step plan:

1. Put on dancing shoes.
2. Get a glass of champagne.
3. DANCE

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Tracklist

1. Avenue D — Slut
2. Lime — You’re My Magician
3. Boney M. — Dancing in the Streets
4. Manu Dibango — Soul Makossa (Original Long Version)
5. Röyksopp — 64 position
6. Surkin — White Night Two
7. The Streets — Get Out Of My House
8. Mstrkrft — Easy Love
9. Simian Mobile Disco — It’s the Beat (The Teenagers Remix)
10. Avenue D — 2D2F
11. Kolombo, Compuphonic — Passing Light (Original Mix)
12. (Emo-Thug2) Spektrum/Tiefschwarz Vs. Unk — New 2 Step (DJ Morsy Remix)
13. Feist & Boys Noize — My Moon My Man
14. Crystal Castles — Crimewave (LAZRtag Remix)
15. Inner City — Buena Vida (Carl Craig Mix)
16. MSTRKRFT — Paris vs. Music Sounds Better With You
17. Everything But The Girl — Tracey In My Room (Lazy Dog Bootleg Vocal mix with Soul Vision)
18. Daft Punk — What More Time (Krames Remix)
19. Juiceboxxx and Dre Skull — Center Stage
20. Fergie — Glamorous (feat. Ludacris) (Treasure Fingers remix)
21. Tegan and Sara — Back in Your Head (Tyler Fedchuk’s 1/2ALIVE disco remix)
22. Dre Skull — I Want You Back
23. Sexual Earthquake In Kobe — Dance Music (The Toxic Avenger Remix)
24. Steve Aoki — Goose, Bring It On (with Todd Fink of The Faint guest drop)
25. Maral Salmassi — Fire Gem
26. Yelle — Je Veux Te Voir
27. Lo-Fidelity Allstars & Space Raiders — (I Need The) D
28. Todd Edwards — Far Away
29. C-Ride — Pushin’ (Hensforth’s Skream at Me Remix)
30. Surkin — Next of Kin (Todd Edwards’ Re-Kindled Mix)
31. Lykke Li — Little Bit

The subject of a few covers and remixes in its 18 months of life, Klaxons’ epic Golden Skans is one of my favorite songs of last year. Baking a mixtape a couple weeks ago, I spliced Mark Ronson’s soulful cover featuring Melbourne’s Daniel Merriwhether with XXXChange’s house remix of Juiceboxxx and Dre Skull’s party anthem Sweat (say that five times fast). It tasted good—so here it is, out of the kitchen:

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My travel this summer revolves around a pair of weddings—one in Hawaii, one in Paris. May’s mix is for my friends Kendal, Steve, SaraJane and Jay. A bit indie rock, a bit electro, some remixes, covers and Sufjan.

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Tracklist

• Skinny — On A Beautiful Day
• The Bird And The Bee — Again & Again
• Bonobo — Flutter
• The Faint — Glass Danse World
• Russ Chimes — She's Got The Heat (Cryptonites Remix)
• Daft Punk — Voyager (Revolte Remix)
• Villains — Rock It
• I Am Finn — I Love You (Van She Tech Remix)
• Black Kids — I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You (The Twelves Remix)
• Lykke Li — Dance Dance Dance
• Juiceboxxx and Dre Skull — Sweat (XXXChange Remix)
• Mark Ronson & Klaxons, feat. Daniel Merriweather — Golden Skans
• Mystery Jets — The Boy Who Ran Away (Riton Rerub)
• Digitalism — Pogo
• Peter Bjorn & John — Let’s Call It Off (Single Mix)
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah — The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth
• Cloud Cult — Take Your Medicine
• GoodBooks — Passchendaele
• Sufjan Stevens — To Be Alone With You
• MGMT — Kids
• Justice — DVNO (T Mix)
• Dragonette — I Get Around (Midnight Juggernaut Mix)
• Metric vs Kolombo, Compuphonic — Recalculation Theme (ydnar Mix)

A more polished rendition of the last mix on Bite Marks, pitting Cloud Cult against Bird and the Bee on a base of Daft Punk cover. Chewy and delicious at the same time:

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A nod to The Prodigy original, Romain Gavras directs Justice’s new video for Stress. Hyperviolent, surreal, French, Insane. Watch:

April’s mixtape is a big electro hug for my peeps in Haight/Alamo/Hayes Valley. ALL OF THEMS. Thanks Krissy for the push!

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Tracklist

• Ssion vs Heads We Dance - Clown in the Digital Age (Tactic Remix/ydnar Edit)
• Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor
• Ghosthustler - Only Me To Trust
• The Teenagers - Homecoming (Gentlemen Drivers Rave Remix)
• Chromeo - Call Me Up (KILL THE NOISE Remix)
• Feist - 1234 (My!Gay!Husband! Get Up Kid Edit)
• El Barto & Liam B - Hadalover
• The Bird And The Bee - Fucking Boyfriend
• The Secret Handshake - Too Young (The Toxic Avenger Remix)
• A-Trak - MIA-roder (Kavinsky vs MIA)
• El Ten Eleven - Jumping Frenchmen Of Maine
• Hellogoodbye - Here (In Your Arms) (CLASSIXX Remix)
• Goldfrapp - Happiness (Metronomy Remix Featuring The Teenagers)
• The Streets - Weak Become Heros
• Kill The Noise - Hey You (Le Castle Vania Remix)
• Kolombo, Compuphonic vs Gossip - Emotion Standing in the Way of Control (Tronik Youth Remix / ydnar Edit)
• Thom Yorke - The Eraser (XXXChange_mix)
• Cryptonites vs Rhett Miller - Can’t Give You a Question (ydnar Edit)
• Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
• Capsule - I’m Feeling You
• Hot Chip - And I Was A Boy From School
• Cut Copy - Lights & Music (Boys Noize Happy Birthday Remix)
• Mendetz - The Boola (Plus Move Remix)
• Nicky Vanshe & Dangerous Dan - Around The World Again
• Cloud Cult - Washed Your Car

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