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 - 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)

Gay, Chord Driven House, Made Me Do It.

"A keyboard playing a robot, simply amazing."

In class 2 I received as a joke/gift from a deranged relative a Casio keyboard.

I could never operate it, besides learning to play Chopsticks and the theme to Beverly Hills Cop in the key of dog.

So besides not dropping mad skills on a keyboard in the late 80's, I was never that fond of the keyboard and neither were my parents, nor my uncle who regards anything recorded within 50 feet of a computer not music, the elitist bluegrass jerk. (I can't wait to tell him on his death bed, that i prestiked an old 386 processor to the inside of his banjo).

I don't think taping a strap to the bastard child of keyboard and guitar (the guitar is the dad) helps that much either, maybe 12,3% better by my calculations but not enough. Holding a keytar just makes you look like an ironic douche, but it has cured a dear friend of mine of his crippling World of Warcraft addiction, well selling his computer and using the cash to buy a keytar is what cured him, temporarily, Carl you are in our prayers.

"Not Carl, just an ironic douche"

Another thing that turned me off keyboards was that I thought all keyboard/keytar players came from eastern europe, which didn't help the art get any notoriety till the fall of the berlin wall and I also thought all ironic douches were from eastern block as well in retrospect.

But when i started getting the odd track that contained some keyboard stabs, i started putting them to one side. And the collection grew, and I fucking loved the sound.

I have no idea what it is that I loved about the throw back motorcity house sound, it should annoy me like a child with an infinite supply of balloons filled with Melrose, but It didn't.

I started trying to tell mates of the sound, usually describing it as cheesy keyboard house, or gay 90's house, sometimes "Powerhouse" which unfortunately instantly conjures the image of gay bodybuilders.

So if anyone knows the genre name for that gay, keyboard driven house sound let me know someday, when the comments are active please. It'll make categorizing in iTunes easier.

And to my dear old aloof Casio keyboard, all is forgiven and please return at your leisure.

Below are some samples of that Gay/Power/Chord/Throw-Back/Piano/Key/House sound, incl. the popular Surkin - White Knight 2 which has led the resurgence.

Surkin - White Knight 2(MediaFire)

Sidechains - Can't Love U Babe(MediaFire)

Rejected - Let's Go Juno[Harvard Bass More Chords Edit](MediaFire)

Bizarre Inc. - Playing With Knives[NROTB 2008 Remix](MediaFire)

Rampage - Reactivate(MediaFire)

Malente & Dex - Hyperactive [Bobmo Remix](MediaFire)