The Swedish House Mafia have just released their official music video for their big tune “One (Your Name)” that features Pharrell Williams. That’s all great and all, the tune is massive, but more interestingly though is that the video is essentially a 4 minute commercial for the upcoming, unreleased Teenage Engineering OP-1, a synthesizer/MIDI-controller that [...]
With Spain firmly holding their first World Cup title, everything in South Africa is winding down from the insanity that is one of the world’s most-beloved sporting events. But over here in Northern Hemisphere, summer is just getting started, and in the one month of the tournament (and the months preceeding it), there was a [...]
While we were down at this year’s Winter Music Conference in Miami, Dutch label-mate and awesome pool jumper Mike Mago told us about this fantastic group from his homeland of Holland called Nobody Beats the Drum.He showed us the music videos, where they fight with home-made transformer outfits, the insane stop-motion animated video with the [...]
Esteemed dj and disco selector extraordinaire Free Magic just wrapped up a mix for on-point tastemakers Voules Random. The mix is a sampling of the music you’ll hear at Free Magic and co-resident VDRK’s party DISCOVERY, every month at Santos Party House here in NYC. This is happy, chill, sexy disco. The kind of mix [...]
With New York City breaking temperature records yesterday, peaking at 103 degrees Fahrenheit (thats 39 degrees Celsius for all you non-Americans), summer is truly, officially, here. Perfect time for outdoor events, cool sea breezes, and fun new music from overseas!I'd like to introduce you to TUFFEM UP! RECORDS, a label from Australia affiliated with Trashbags, [...]
Our boys Will Eastman, the man behind Blisspop, and Jesse, aka Tittsworth, alongside members of Thievery Corporation and other DC djs and nightlife luminaries, have just opened what I consider to be DC’s best and most promising dance venue in Washington DC’s history. It’s name is U Street Music Hall. Epic I know, but read [...]
Really excited this year because it marks the first time we’re doing parties at Winter Music Conference in Miami. We’re actually doing two showcases this year…our first event is the night before the official start of WMC at the legendary WHITE ROOM with the majority of the Subdrive crew in attendance including Terror Dactel, Cobra [...]
Fresh tunes from brand-spanking new label Grand Hotel Records. They shared this great remix of Dirty Super Car’s “Get a Grip†with us and we just had to pass it along.The Loops of Fury have made this into a groaning creature, ever-building, with a bassline that adds a great rhythm and proper weight to the [...]
Australian record label Sweat It Out releases some dope tunes, but this one…this is probably my favorite tune they’ve ever put out.Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP have created a fantastic house/techno funk hybrid track with an old-school sample that just begs you to bop your head in happiness. Seriously, it’s such a funky tune that [...]
Months in the making, this fantastic tune was crafted by two amazingly talented friends of ours, VDRK and OCD Automatic. Their partnership in the realm of music began when a disco mothership dropped them above Wisconsin. Fast forward to 2010 and here they are with their massive debut, the disco house anthem “Tell My Love.†[...]
New York-based rockers The Phenomenal Handclap Band just released this new video to their tune “Babyâ€, if you haven’t picked up their album yet…do so now. Been loving these guys for a while now and I always seem to miss them whenever they perform, but you should not make the same effect.
Happy Thanksgiving and Greeting from Buenos Aires, Argentina! Been here for a few weeks and the city and country are amazing. Inspired by the region’s incoming summer, this new mix features songs from the Northern Hemisphere’s just-passed summer as well as some new tunes which should are gonna be big for the next few months, [...]
Though everyone’s talking about Drop the Lime’s new tune of the same name featuring the amazing Carrie Wilds on vocals, producer Phonat has his own “Set Me Freeâ€, which couldn’t be any more different genre wise. A retro guitar driven hook with chopped vocals and a catchy melody, fans of DatA, Ratatat, and Alex Metric [...]
I really dig Mom & Dad. They just released a new EP on Larry Tee and Alexander Technique’s DJs Are Not Rockstars label titled “The Whole Sh’Bang†sportin’ remixes from Tom Stephan and Harvard Bass.We’ve got the latter for you tonight for your listening and spinning pleasure. Of course Harvard Bass is in full form [...]
Groove Armada are back with their new single “I Won’t Kneel†featuring the vocal style of SaintSavior. It’s the first release of the duo’s upcoming new album Black Light out February 23, 2010 in the US.“I think even people who’ve hated everything we’ve ever made before could absolutely love this record. I’m incredibly proud of [...]
Been really excited to share this! Subdrive homey Terror Dactel and our newly anointed house MC, Charlie Tippie, teamed up to rework Charlie’s original minimal hip-hop tune “Vocaloid†(originally produced by Ming of Ming & FS). A departure from Terror’s recent work, the tune actually flips back to his original hip-hop production and is a [...]
We’ve been pretty busy! We’re psyched to announce two showcases going on during CMJ. First up we’ve teamed up with our friends at The Culture of Me and Sheena Beaston. Half the roster will be throwing a big dance party right after a band showcase at Greenpoint’s Europa. You’ll find the Subdrive crew Viking, VDRK, [...]
We posted a Selektor mix a while back from the Chrome Kids, a group of DJs and producers from the UK pushing everything bass. Well the guys sent us their latest mix for Adam Walton’s Mystery Tour on BBC Radio Wales. Originally broadcast on the 11th of October, the mix goes all around from the [...]
We got this a bit ago and finally got around to posting it. It's a fantastically dark and droning remix from B.Rich of Lea Luna's moody "Leaving for Mars." The remix is out on Play Me Records, a new label from the heart and soul of longtime DJs Reid Speed & Mark Subsonik. The
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