Strictly Miami '10 Video

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dimanche 28 mars 2010 16:50 , dans Videos


Defected In The House @ MOS

A little dangerous, a bit crazy, highly creative and ready to rock the dance floor, Defected bring you les enfants terribles of house music.

We’ve been away far too long, and we are ready to get back into the party vibe, our last event was way back in Oct 09 and we are itching for some serious quality house, and once again we think we have cracked it, just look who we have lined up.

Sandy Rivera headlines. This bad boy of dance perceives himself to be on a perpetual journey, planes, trains and automobiles, judging by his genius it is certainly not the same journey as the rest of us.  After all he is the guy behind the ‘ultimate’ (and I do not use that word lightly) gold plated, house classic ‘Finally’. He appears to be one of the halcyon producers of our time, with three albums under his belt, a guy that has been touched by the ‘rock and roll’ spirit, a spirit that rubs off on the crowd when he plays; Sandy Rivera remains a bit dangerous, has a tough main room sound and is simply an unmissable dj.

Sandy Rivera

This brings us to another New Yorker, a guy that now has a discerning London following due to his excellent ‘Kiss My Black Ass’ parties. Quentin Harris is a larger than life character; his sound is deep and soulful, hard but always funky. He has chosen this date as the place to unveil his second album ‘Sac-ri-fice’, a sexy album that he has produced with some incredible collaborations including legendary divas Inaya Day and Ultra Nate. He will be showcasing tracks for the album in his set.

Quentin Harris

The final addition to the line-up is the infamous Riva Starr, this is his MoS debut, a guy who’s become the darling of Radio 1’s Annie Mac, Pete Tong and every other credible DJ out there. He shocked us all with his brilliant, highly original, gypsy inspired track with Noze ‘I was Drunk’ which featured a video of slightly grotesque looking characters. He describes himself as the true ‘mezcla’ a mixture of all the best things about house music. He has just released his debut mix album: ‘Defected In the House Miami 10’.

Joining us in the Bar, you will find fashionable West Londoners and Defected newcomers The Jinks, they have teamed up with London scenester James Jackson and our newest roster signing the singing and DJing Rae. Finally listen out for a rare appearance by Zouk (Singapore) international resident djB paying us a very special visit.

Tickets for this very special event are available here

dimanche 28 mars 2010 16:48 , dans News


Most Rated Miami Video

Most Rated is Defected 'heads up' to the worlds DJs, with each of the tracks selected for inclusion simply because they work. Each one will go through the acid test that is the Miami Winter Music conference; if it works there you can safely assume that it will work anywhere. Check out the tracks in this special promo video...

dimanche 28 mars 2010 16:45 , dans Videos


Nu House

There comes a time when certain genres of music become so universal that sub genres begin to appear. This can take a while, sometimes decades, but ultimately it is the greatest compliment a genre can receive. In doing so they experience a renaissance; take the example of Jazz, which got developed its own sub-genre ‘Nu Jazz’ in the 90’s, when other musical styles started to incorporate jazz elements.

More recently it happened to our beloved 70’s and 80’s Disco, which attracted renewed interest from the musical movement of the 00’s. It got a spanking  21st century moniker with disco tracks re-edited, remixed and presented to a whole new generation and suddenly ‘Nu Disco’ was born.  The name stuck, quickly adopted by DJs, producers, clubbers and the media alike and the newest sub-genre of dance music was born.



Now it’s the turn of house music. In much the same way as the other genres of music have been tagged, House music is constantly blended and mashed in with a multitude of other genres and influences to create another sub-genre; Nu House.

It can be described as house blended with a many different influences and flavours from soul, funk, disco, boogie and every other respectable genre to give us a whole new entity.

It’s a genre epitomised by the new mix.  With soul, funk and boogie influenced tracks from Reboot ‘Enjoy Music’ (Crazy P Remix) to Tensnake’s phenomenal ‘Coma Cat’ set to be THE festival anthem of the summer.  Add to the mix cuts like Rasmus Faber & Alf Tumble ‘Wilder Side’ (Alf Tumble Remix) which features the vocals of disco and soul diva Candi Staton and you have a carefully considered blend of the sound that’s taking over clubs and bars around the world.

Crazy P

This album is a collection of 24 such specially selected tracks that sum up the genre, a mixture of upfront party jams mixed in with some all-time classics. There is also a bonus mix of selected tracks with the downloaded version of the album put together by Bargrooves head A&R and international DJ Andy Daniell.

Bargrooves Nu House is out 12th April - click to listen & pre-order

dimanche 28 mars 2010 16:43 , dans News


Make or Break at the Miami WMC

The Miami Winter Music Conference is currently in full swing, and those of us not lucky enough to be there have to make do with reports from blogs, friends and anyone else sober enough to think about anything other than where the next party’s at. It has traditionally been the place where the tracks that will dominate the club soundsystems over the summer will be broken.  However, as time has rolled inevitably on it’s become less about those one or two elusive acetates that only the biggest names in the world have got their hands on. Now, pretty much everyone has instant access to more music than they could ever hope to consume in a lifetime, and those ‘hard to find’ tunes are becoming anything but.

More and more, it’s becoming easier to predict which tracks are going to be big at the conference, by judging the reactions of the crowds and connoisseurs in the week and months that proceed it. It’s no longer about playing your new tracks for the first time, but about cementing their position at the very top of the musical tree.



Most Rated Miami ’10 is a collection of tracks hoping to do exactly that; the tried and tested sound of the WMC as selected by Defected. It’s likely you’ve heard a few of them before, but the WMC is set to propel them to the next level. These are the tunes that – in our humble opinion – will be the bread and butter of all the top jocks this week. Pretty much every track has already been broken on the world’s dancefloors, but it’s the WMC that will separate the wheat from the chaff and the tracks that you’ll spend your summer singing along to from those you’ll probably never hear again.

With that in mind, we caught up with a few of the producers who have had their tracks included on the compilation to dig a little deeper into the stories behind them…

Daniel Bovie & Roy Rox ‘Love Me’ (ATFC Remix)

“It was great to get involved in the remix for my friends from Holland after I included the original on the London 10 album.  'Love Me' has an air of 'Speed Up' about it so I thought I'd have a crack and I think it's turned out ok (even though there's something sexually menacing about the lyrics)!”
ATFC

Rasmus Faber & Alf Tumble feat. Candi Staton ‘Wilder Side’

One day, just randomly, I made this crazy synth bassline. It was based around a pretty jazzy chord progression, but the way I played it with the sound I chose just made it really tough sounding! I think I was making my album at the time, so I was in a completely different mode, and just ended up leaving that bassline in the drawer. Lucky then that my good friend Alf Tumble found it when we were digging the crates in my studio. He demanded to let him take it back to his studio and work on it. He came back with an almost finished instrumental mix of Wilder Side. We thought we'd let it do the rounds and Defected was quick to pick it up! We kind of hoped that they would want a vocal on top, but we wouldn’t have dreamt of them hooking up with a heavyweight such as Candi Staton! That was a really nice surprise.”
Rasmus Faber

Candi Staton

“It’s just a fun record. It’s like a girl talking to a guy and she’s saying so much that I want to say: ‘I need your love in so many ways, the time is right, the mood is right, so bring out the wilder side in me tonight’. And she’s also saying ‘Hey, I’ve been depressed and sitting alone in the house a lot doing nothing, but I’ve got a side that you haven’t seen for a while so let’s bring it out! Let’s dance, let’s go to a club let’s enjoy ourselves tonight because I want to feel free!”
Candi Staton

Ridney ‘At Night’

"’At Night’ was inspired by the great music which Thomas Bangalter (one half of Daft Punk) released on his label Roule back in 1997. I wanted to re-create just simple, french-style club bangers. Taking a really nice groove and letting it rock the crowd.
Ridney

Susu Bobien ‘You Don’t Know’ (Muthafunkaz Remix)

‘You Don’t Know" is one of my favourite records of all time. When Strictly & Defected joined forces I made it known right away that I wanted to remix it with the MF crew. When I was at Basement Boys with Teddy Douglas & Karizma (when the track first came out in the 90's) we could not believe that record did not have our hands on it. It was a pleasure and an honour to work on "You Don’t Know", and I just hope that the rest of the world loves it as much as we do.
DJ Spen

Osunlade ‘Butterfly’ (Phil Asher Remix)

The song is about transformation and relief of suffering. The lyrics are about changing dark to light and the inspiration comes from my personal desire to change things for the better. In other words, it’s about doing my part in the universe for the better good of it all.
Osunlade

DJ Chus & Rob Mirage ‘Back 2 NY’

"’Back 2 NY’ is a record that we basically sat down and said "Let’s cut the bullshit and get down to real house music". This project was truly inspired by old school New York, our home.  By taking inspiration from back in the day House, Hip Hop and Disco with the pumping elements of today's sound we knew right away we had something special. We wanted to bring back the grooves, a perfect combination between old house vibe and modern production technics.”
DJ Chus

Candi Staton ‘Musical Freedom’ (the Shapeshifters Classic Re-work)

“The K.Klass boys re-worked this record with vocals from the Bunker Vaults with Candi's blessing. We heard it and immediately signed it as we are huge fans of the guys and Candi. We had already remixed 'You Got the Love' for Positiva some years previous and class it as one of our best mixes, so having the chance to work on her vocal again was a no brainer! The Big Fish Little Fish mix rocks any dancefloor and we are very proud to have Candi & K Klass on Nocturnal Groove.”
Simon Marlin

the Shapeshifters

DJ Gregory & Sidney Samson ‘Dama s Salon’

"I’m based in Amsterdam for a year now, as in Holland a lot of producers feel very connected with the mix of electronic music and all those new movements from Brazil, Angola, Columbia etc. The main idea for me was to record vocals in Luanda then work on the tracks with producers from Holland like Sidney Samson and Gregor Salto.  Sidney is part  of a new wave of producer in Holland,  and the guy behind the track  ‘Riverside’ A ‘Dama’ in Angola means ‘Lady’ , so Dama s Salon is ‘Lady in the Living Room’ and the song was writen  by Serafim Zacarias who is a seriously hot Kuduro producer."
DJ Gregory

X-Press 2 ‘Time’ (Riva Starr Remix)

We were inspired by a Joris Voorn track last year for the musical side of ‘Time’. We liked that kind of old 90s filter disco vibe he had going on. When we finished the backing track, we felt that a vocal would sit nice with it. I think our manager suggested James [Yuill]. We checked him out and knew that he was the man for us. He sent us a little idea that he had for the track and we then got him into the studio. A great singer/song writer and a lovely fella to boot!
Rocky

Most Rated Miami '10 is out 29th March - click to listen & pre-order

dimanche 28 mars 2010 16:41 , dans News


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