Belushi's Beloved - 014

With all this banging on about techno, it's only logical that I post something Lo-Fi in order to balance out this fucking blog.

Raised by a cult, rescued by a millionaire and addicted to pills - Girls

Girls - Hellhole Ratrace (MediaFire)

Girls - Solitude (MediaFire)

The single Hellhole Ratrace is out now on Fantasy Trashcan.

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This is crystalline Perfection!

Dedicated to a girl named Tim.

Belushi's Beloved - 012

Man it's so good to be out of that coma, although I told my mom to only wake me when we get flying cars, but alas she thought a black man in the white house was good enough to stir me from my slumber.

Thanks to everybody for the prayers, support and tuna casseroles.

Here's a little ditty for you.

The Seebach Band - Bubble Sex (MediaFire)

Belushi's Beloved - 010

Swedish bullying is at crisis point and Dada Life have released a single from their upcoming album "Just Do the Dada" in order to raise awareness levels of the scourge of the swedish school system, bullying and also to raise some much needed funds in order to maintain the bully abuse hotlines and bully abuse clinics.

Kudos to them for releasing such poignant track to tackle this brutality in swedish schools that leaves kids broken and on the verge of forging careers as dentists. It's common knowledge that the job arena in Sweden is massively over saturated with dentist/oral hygienists/orthodontists.

Hopefully these cats can help put an end to the bully infestation and the back alleys of Stockholm will no longer be lined with homeless with perfect teeth.

Here's the video to the track that heightens awareness of bully abuse, even if it's on a pure metaphorical level.

So don't go beating seven shades out of anybody Swedish this week, we want happy hands and happy feet.

Dada life - Happy Hands and Happy Feet (320Kbps MediaFire)

Website: www.dadalife.com

Purchase at Beatport

Belushi's Beloved - 009

If Phoenix, Vampire Weekend and French Kicks had a 12 way gay love in, it would be disgusting, but through some divine miracle had a baby. It would be the sound of Two Door Cinema Club and a thing of beauty.

Here's a sample off the debut vinyl single, off Kitsune.

Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work (320Kbps MediaFire)

Buy the debut vinyl single at Rough Trade here. 

Myspace link.

Belushi's Bonzer - 008

Before all you show ponies hit the tinnys, roo snacks and turps this weekend and have a technicolour yawn, lend an ear to this corker. You'll laugh your trackie daks off.

And Lapse, don't be as cross as a frog in a sock because it's 2 Diplo posts in a line, cause we all know you got roos loose in the top paddock.

Diplo - Smash a Kangaroo (VBR MediaFire)

Heaps Decent Diplo Workshops and proof that Diplo is a top bloke link.

Belushi's Beloved - 007

I remember seeing Diplo play Jhb year before last. I also remember seeing all the people that paid good/dirty money that came leave just before he played, cause once the crowd had seen The Real Estate agents for the 5th time. They must have thought it's midnight and if I leave now I can catch the last 15mins of dry humping on E-Tv.

It was easily one of the most fun evenings I had in Jhb (in the 4 years i spent there), I danced to the entire set stopping twice, once to call a mate and let him know he was in for a blast in Dbn, where Diplo was going to play the next night and another to stop and pose for a picture that Diplo took of myself with my beautiful girlfriend, which I'm sure I have since been cropped out of.

Even though it was one of the greatest nights i spent in Jhb I remember it also as the night it dawned on me that the city bitch slapped a true artist and gentleman. Since then Diplo has delivered M.I.A, Santogold to your doorstep and opened doors for BLK JKS that only he could.

All I can say is, don't take these artists for granted because when another artist asks Diplo "Hey Wes I've been invited to play Johannesburg, you've played there what's it like?" he might reply "Fuck it play Durban", because in Durban he killed.

I do realise Diplo's productions can be an acquired taste for some, but when his selection is as eclectic with the likes of The Cure, Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana getting dropped alongside Soulja Boy, LA Priest and Joakim, you cannot help but be entertained. His creativity in in his Dj sets inspired me to start djing again after a 3 year hiatus.

Sorry for a rather somber post, but I wouldn't want repetition, nepotism or the over reliance of the familiar to get in the the way of creative individuals, something new and potentially the greatest night you could ever have in Jhb.

UPDATE: I tracked an old post on the Mad Decent blog and found a quote from Diplo that would fit in with this post, "anyway that was day one in africa.. then i played in Joburg and durban (one of the craziest parties ive done) and its going down right no over here. and ill have more later.. basically its a complicated place"

The Pixies - Hey (Diplo's Devil Remix) (320kbps MediFire)

Belushi's Beloved - 006

What a piece of shit, 

how you supposed to do a superman air on that thing?

If I played house I would start every set with this track, and I'm not saying i don't play house but i prefer to believe i don't.

That might be considered delusional, but there are people who dj electro, thinking they are beat matching punk? So a little delusion is not all that bad if it helps me sleep better.

I don't know what sub-genre-echelon the track falls into. So can't help you categorize the bastard.

(Although at the back of my mind the sub-genre is probably called "Funky House", christ what a horrible description fuck the 40 year old Israeli trance tranny who came up with that name.)

It's one of those tracks to warm up the brain and is pure unadulterated fun, that i promise.

Gregor Salto, a foreign name to me when i discovered this track, but after reading his site imaginatively titled www.gregorsalto.com, I read about his musical history.

Gregor Salto has been playing classical piano since he was +-4, producing electronic music since the Triassic period on his dad's Commodore Amiga and released his first record in 1994. 

Now no doubt this track is good, but if you've been programming electronic music since the time of Commodore Amiga, by now you should be some kind of electronic music wizard programming the OST for the second coming of christ and have deities lined around the block in order to colab with.

Or he started programming on a Commodore Amiga in '93 because his dad is a stingy dick hoarding nazi gold for his retirement fund. Come on pappy you could have sprung for a 286, huh?

I have to say i have heard the original and it's ok/utter shit and the reason i won't admit to myself that I play house, but the reworking by Funkin Matt deserves all the credit, so i could have ripped yarn about him but I refuse to Google the word funkin.

Gregor Salto - Mexer (Funkin Matt's 5am Remix)  (320kbps MediaFire)

Belushi's Beloved - 005

Foamo the new Switch..... ?

Probably not, but with a little extra effort, some dogged determination, summer school and a little elbow grease he should get there.

Foamo - Everything Cool (320kbps MediaFire)

Belushi's Beloved - Week 004

Techno + Fidget x Canada = Dance-floor Sweatfest

Congorock - Runark (Jokers of the Scene) (320kbps MediaFire)

Belushi's Beloved - Week 003

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In order to translate from Zombese, please use this handy translator.

Zombie Nation - Worth It (MediaFire)

Belushi's Beloved - Week 002

It ain't new but it sure is fresh.

Off the B side of Pocket Piano, Tunisia Bambaataa is a discofunk fueled gem complete with vocal sample from Chic's Goodtimes.

Last time I heard Dj Mehdi (FRA), he was going on about how "he was somebody". Now I believe he is somebody, a real person.

A real person inhabited by the spirit of an ancient monkey, because only an ancient monkey could get a rhythm so primal and so bloody right.

Dj Mehdi - Tunisia Bambaataa (MediaFire)

And here's a remix of it by swiss born Mercury.

Dj Mehdi - Tunisia Bambaataa (Mercury Remix) (Mediafire

And if you are in Cape Town this friday, pop into the Assembly and see Dj Lapse and Belushi teach the Bloody Beetroots in the fine art of good track selection (Lesson 1), understanding the break(Lesson 2) and tempo matching (Lesson 3).

I'm sure their only reply would be *silence* followed by *ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ*.

Belushi's Beloved - Week 001

Barring a case of crippling myopia, i shall be bringing you my choice shoo-in for download of the week, from the humble selection of tracks i've salvaged in the last 6 days.

Phoenix convinced me Frenchies can't fail, they constantly release great material, like Michel Gondry or Astérix le Gaulois.

I welcome any new Phoenix tracks like a warm hug from a favourite foreign relative.

I've never heard a Phoenix track i didn't like, and here's the latest from their new album "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" that I... didn't dislike.

Phoenix - 1901 (zShare)

1 half of Cassius, Philippe Zdar (damn thats a cool name, he must be French) is co-producing and the album is set to be released May 26.

If you feel Frencies ain't the shit, then watch Son of Rambow, and tell me you wouldn't welcome that foreign exchange student into your family; i'll wait while you don't find it at Blockbuster...

Join me next week as i jump on the "How Fucking Cool is Everything from Norway".

Fin.