Curtis Vodka dropped a new mix two weeks ago withthe great guys from White Light Mix series who specialize in that cosmic good good space music from the way out disco area.
“This mix is suppose to represent a “Summer Twilight in Outer Space” vibe. I tried to pick these tracks carefully to allow the listener to understand the vibe I tried to create. While doing so, I had a lot of fun. I hope that the listener(s) will too! Well, that’s what I am hoping, at least.”
1. Julianna Barwick - Cloudbank
2. Walter Jones - I’ll Keep On Loving You
3. Low Motion Disco - Love Love Love (LSB Remix)
4. Phoenix - Lisztomania (Classixx Remix)
5. Full Moon Fashions - Happy Shades
6. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 part 1 (Apt One Edit)
7. Stevie Nicks - Stand Back (Eli Escobar Disco Mix)
8. DJ Kaos - Love The Night Away (Tiedye Mix)
9. Downtown Party Network - Days Like These
10. Federico Conti - Suono Piano
11. Jitterbug - Speakers Corner
12. Burial & Four Tet - Wolf Club
13. The Juan MacLean - One Day (Lazaro Casanova Dub)
14. Kid Sister - Get Fresh (Alex Gopher Dub)
Got a brand new DJ Class track to set the dance floors on fire.
Ya’ll already know I’m The Ish is blown the fuck up with every one from JD to Lil John to Kanye on the remix. I expect the same from Dance Like a Freak which follows with the autotuned rapping about shutting the haters down and living that good good good goooooodddd life.
BLK JKS are a great band out of South Africa that were featured on the cover of the FADER last year around SXSW and I was luck enough to catch the end of one of their sets over at the Do It Do It parties. That was a crazy ass day running around with Curtis Vodka and Dan the Swede when they had just become best friends and it was like some funny ass tall DJ group I was tagging along with. BLKS JKS killed it and then went and sat in the back of the club chillin. Ghost Hustler came on after that but I had to leave to make sure the Flamin Hotz party jumped off which turned into me running around trying to find turntables, a mixer, a table, and some duct tape. Needless to say we got it in.
Check out the megamix for the ep that they just put up that is pumping alot of house and kwaito influences.
(Right click save as) Curtis was the special guest on KRUA, University of Alaska at Anchorage college radio station, on January 25th and has given us this wonderful mix featuring all sorts of dancey / electro goodness from TTC, Justice, Vyle, MSTRKRFT, VanShe etc.
Blentcast #5 is now up over at Blentwell. This time featuring the one and only Curtis Vodka. Its all straight bmore fire. The full mixtape I Just Fucked Your Girlfriend will be out soon. Sweden look out and West Coast look out in February.
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Just in time for the new Bond film our man System D128 has released the video for Curtis Vodka’s Diamonds & Cream from the Yeti Bounce EP which is still available at fine record stores all over the world. Find out where here. If I ever have bodyguards they are definitely going to be like the girls (garotas*) at the end or maybe two from the Fox Force Five.
*I can’t get Portuguese out of my head. Its weird to hear everybody speakinging in English. Walking into a store this morning I started going over what I was going to say and then realized I didn’t need to speak in Portuguese or Spanish.
RE:UP 12 is now out featuring a number killer articles including our boy Curtis Vodka. The feature spread is about ego trip “the last word in independent hip hop publishing” from their humble beginnings as a zine to their foray into TV with VH1.
Thomas and Eric of Rub N Tug, Stones Throwers Aloe Blacc and Exile, Eric San (the Canadian scratch musician better known as Kid Koala), DJ Shadow, Chromeo’s Dave 1 (aka A-Trak’s broham), and cut and paste dance wizards In Flagranti. Also has a nice little profile section on up and coming artists like Curtis Vodka, Aaron LaCrate, Escort and then some. Did I mention the design and art in this issue? From coverage of cute meisters Friends With You, spreads by Dave Kinsey and Grotesk, to throwback reggae covers and hand made signs from Latin America.
Montreal was crazy. Shout out to the city and all the people I met and saw. Curtis Vodka and I stopped by L’Étiquette Radio on Friday night after getting into the city. From there we headed Fractal. Fractal is a two level warehouse club that was just reopened. Curtis played from 1 - 2:30 with his signature sound of Baltimore club. Up next was DJ Orgasmic and TTC. The French Canadians absolutely love these guys as they were singing along to their songs. The energy from the show was amazing. Up next was Daniel Haksman and Edu K. Edu K was the lead singer of a pop punk band of what seems like My Chemical Romance or something like that. In 2000, he wrote a song dedicated to baile funk called Popuzuda Rock n Roll (ass Rock n Roll) and has been riding the wave of funk carioca since. The show was interesting. Here is a guy that is dressed in all black, black painted nails, spiked collar etc and I think he’s singing about ass shaking and partying. Hmmm. To add to the flavor, he was definitely into the show, climbing on top of speakers (nearly knocking them over), climbing on tables and humping them etc. Interesting to say the least. He’s on tour and will be in Baltimore this Friday at Taxlo along with TTC and MSTRKRFT.
We wake up the next day and walk up and down St. Laurent and all around downtown Montreal. Aux Vivres is a killer vegan restaurant. I tried poutine from a random spot. Moog/DNA now stocks Yeti Bounce. Vice Records party jumped off. Saw Flosstradamus, Kid Sister, Pandemonium Jones, Dave from Chromeo, A-Trak, Huggs, Cullen Stalin and a whole gang of other people there. Fast forward to Fractal again. Hatchmatik from Peer Pressure in Montreal is killing them with Bmore and more. A-Trak was up next and kept the party jumping with bmore and baile bangers. We left shortly after attempting to find the Slum Recs after party with Pandemonium Jones, Erik Devro, Huggs (he’ll be at Sundays on the 22nd) and a couple other cats but no luck. Head back to go sleep and watch White Label TV. This is killer right here. I got an exclusive for this and this is just crazy. Crazy amounts of Spank Rock and some ill video remixes from System-D128 and more. Will keep you updated as soon as its out.
Sunday we went to a sports bar on St. Laurent to watch the Eagles game and found we were in friendly territory. Surrounded by Iggles fans, we cheered the Birds on as they beat the Cowboys. After the game, we headed home, passed through New Baltimore and got back to NYC early Monday morning. I was back in Philly Monday night and have been recovering ever since. Back to the grind today and here on out.
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