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Vacation with Fe

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FELIX DA HOUSECAT

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Stepping into the shoes of the ‘Rich n Famous’ for a weekend is a dream that many will never know and for someone like me, coming from a humbled background, it was all too much.

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I spent the first day in a state of stupor, shock and I can’t say I progressed past that. But I also got to experience a very REAL domesticated side of Felix, and his family, all very great people.

The first segment DAY 1 I actually wrote, while still drunk on Mezcal at some AM Odd hour of the fist day there:

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Day 1

Full Service. I feel like a king, I experienced things today that I’ve only seen on television. Upon my arrival, near the baggage claim/transportation (which by the way stretches for miles in Atlanta), my driver held up a sign ‘Sean Mullen’ written on it. I pointed at him and smiled. (I drink a lot when I fly, I wont spend too much time on the details of it, but wine, double jager bomb, double jack n coke, etc). Anyways once I find my bag he grabs it from me and we head out to his car.

Now let me start from the top. Black man, black full suit, black lincoln, black leather interior, opens the back passenger side door, large amount of space, big black leather chair, with a cold Dasani waiting for me and klenex. I tell him I’ve never had service like this. Prior to this Felix had told me to tell the driver to go to Buckhead, instead of his house. I put the driver on the phone with Fe, so he knew where to go, the driver smiles at me when he’s done and says “Dallas Austin is there too.”

Bistro Niko, a full table of Celebrities Angie Romansanta, Dallas Austin, Nas, Nese Djouma, Felix Da Housecat, Bulent, my favorite queen Steve, turned out to be an awesome guy, The Girl with Dragon Tattoo, def one of my FAV’s who i met this weekend) I got the pleasure of sharing many conversations with during our trip from the first SUV ride all part of the royal treatment I had earlier.

Back to the dinner…which I don’t eat, but I go over to one of the tables grab an empty wine glass and start pouring myself Chardonay (There is tons of Chardonay on the table as we leave, I just would never let it go to waste…OH yeah let me not forget juan, or one or w/e his name was, Dallas Austin’s cousin who flashed his penis several times..and lets not forget to mention Dallas Austin. Drives a pimped out all black Charger and built the music scene in Atlanta and is the reason Felix is in Atlanta, according to Felix..now that’s four things and I’m moving on.

Once at Felix’s house, which of course has an impressive Tequila bar, including a bottle with his face on it. Several photos of Nese and Felix blown up and put around the house, Classic style wrap around staircase, I’m stationed in the Spaceship or rather next to the Studio…which is insane..So many speakers, lights, glass table.

Anyways its 606am EST, my heads at 3am pacific. This is Wolf out…Today’s the big day, Felix’s Birthday Bash show in ATL. Everyone will be there and this year that includes me.

xo
Wolf

The next couple days I’m going to blend into one segment, not to take away from the Richness of them, but because now I am writing from memory, rather than shortly after my experience.

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Things that must be noted, Nese Djouma, besides being an attractive awesome young lady, is also an exquisite cook. Most wealthy people live off of take out food, have others to do their cooking, I was very impressed that Nese not only knew how to cook, but cooked extremely well. The meals I had from her were straight out of a restaurant and her brother is also a deadly force in the kitchen. The Dessert he made was INSANE and intoxicating. I am a food addict.

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Felix’s daughter, is the smartest and most well behaved baby I have ever met. I’ve never been a fan of kids or children, especially babies, but this future Diva is a major exception. I only heard the baby Cry maybe enough times to count on my hand and she easily was able to be made quiet or would go from crying to smiling and laughing in a short period. I lived in the house with a baby for a weekend, but it was nothing like living with a baby for a weekend. I wasn’t awoken at night, I wasn’t bothered by loud tantrums, it was very impressive.

Anyways, I know what the Boppers want..the nitty gritty, the DEETS, the dirty deedsssss… YOu want to know about the PARTY!!!! Felix’s Bday bash, commercial, but sexy venue. Opening DJ couldn’t hold his liquor, was a mess, Wolf Bop Copped him outta the DJ Booth. Wolf 1 him 0.

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*Interesting Fact: Felix doesn’t own turntables, CDRS or any DJing equipment in his pad, he just has his serato on the laptop. So when setting up in his studio prior to getting out and Groooving, he doesn’t even practice this wicked transitions out there, or build up sets like you ableton scum! ;-) He’s 100% natural talent. When asking him about this information he said ‘he never owned any djing equipment’ and just got up there and did it and at first was horrible, people booed at him, “shoes in a laundry matt.” Now look at him!!!!

Felix’s DJing has become even more unique and set apart from the many other DJs out there on the scene. One certainly will not hear the same damn songs played in Felix’s set if at a Festival as the other DJs are playing. He keeps it fresh, still grooving with Prince tunes towards the end of the night, but focusing heavily on ‘booty shaking’ and house tunes. With much minimal, Minimal and Disco baby. A little electro, just a little.

Much Mezcal later, we went to Dallas Austin‘s Studio, we went to Big Poppa’s Mansion, we partied hard, in fact so hard the Wolf was KO’d and Felix got a picture of it.

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Highlights: Felix powered up his Spaceship Studio for me. I finally met a lot of people I only knew from Twitter, Dallas Austin, Angie Romasanta, etc. I got to hang out inside of an insane studio (Dallas Austin’s), party in a mansion (Big Poppas), partying with celebs JLS, Nas, many more, but most important of all I got to see Felix in his natural habitat, meet his family, his wonderful Sister, hang out with Nese and meet her brother, his boyfriend. It was all surreal, unreal, the giant Bean Bag chair, the most comfortable bed I’ve ever slept in, etc etc.

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Back 2 Reality.

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*just a heads up I love my friends and didn’t mean any offense in the original RAW script, I just have a poor sense or humour and as a writer am a VERY open person. Steve and Bulent I hope to meet you again in London TOWN.

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Eskimo Twins Judas EP [Sneak Peak]

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Included here for listening and downloading. Eskimo Twins offers two original tracks Droid and Judas off of their Judas EP due to hit beatport August 23rd following a full release in September. It includes the original tunes plus a radio edit of Judas and remixes by Ado, RipTidE, Justin Robertson, Matt Walsh & The Sonic Emporium.

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Droid, the original is squeaky jumpy fun, I feel very mechanical as I listen to this track.

Also included on the EP are 2 remixes of Droid: The Ado remix raped me with surprise. The song almost stops then starts up like the humming of a chainsaw right before the drop, which is pure beauty. RipTidE’s remix focuses more on the squeaks and is equally fun and the build up and second wave 2 minutes in kills me every time ah but the 3rd wave 3 minutes in is where it’s at.

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Judas, the original, is Minimal Tech with a PULSE. There is so much noise porn in the music that I am literally getting high off the energy.

I wont talk too much about the Judas remixes, because I’m only teasing the poor souls even more who haven’t a chance to hear them until the 23rd of August. I will however be a bitch just a little more and tell everyone reading this that The Sonic Emporium one is well worth the wait.

Each remix off of this EP is in itself it’s own song which is very rewarding. Gnaw at them nails impatiently and until then ENJOY these!

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For the full 320 version of the two songs posted, pay by tweet [link here]
*As for the rest of the tracks they will be Exclusively Available from Beatport: August 23rd 2010 following a Full Release Date scheduled for the 6th of September 2010 [more info here]

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Breekpunt – Funkular EP [Reviewed & Exposed]

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Rot10 Musik & the 18 yr old Dutch Wonder-kid, Breekpunt are proud to present you with Funkular. Its everything from electro to minimal to dutch to tech house, big room and more. These tracks are meant for big clubs and huge festivals. Funkular features 4 original tracks from the man himself and 4 remixes from Four Four, ETC!ETC! & Mr. Vega, Mike Stone and new-comer Mat Sayers. All feedback is appreciated and we hope you enjoy this release as much as we do.”

Listen to the Whole EP [Here] & Purchase [Here]

Tracklist:
Breekpunt – Funkular
Breekpunt – Lets Get Native
Breekpunt - Dasent
Breekpunt – Encode

Included Remixes:
Breekpunt – Funkular (ETC!ETC! & Mr. Vega remix)
Breekpunt – Lets Get Native (Four Four remix)
Breekpunt – Encode (Matt Sayers ‘F-Wit Remix)
Breekpunt – Encode (Mike Stone remix)

Bonus Tracks for Download (not included on EP):

Breekpunt - Funkular (ETC!ETC! Big Raver remix)

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Breekpunt - Fay (Mr. Vega remix)

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Well after listening to this EP all the way through I can see why the track ‘Encode’ was remixed by multiple artist, by far one of my favorite tracks off the EP and we all love to take something beautiful and refresh it under new lights. As for giving out ‘Dascent,’ every artist has to sacrifice and release a great hit for free to get the music out on the interweb waves, this is the new radio after all.

What Can I say about ROT10Musik, they know what they are doing and there is nothing I respect more than the labels constructed by artist themselves, removing the middle man was a concept that came out not too long after Napster destroyed Tower Records and physical releases….but my respectable friends are still buying vinyls and cds. And then of course releasing on Beatport, we pay extra money for the damn good quality and its our modern way of paying the most respect to the artist we truly love.

Back to the EP, Lets get Native is dirty and with an EP full of the Conga Dutch sound that is taking over the clubs these days, Breekpunt and the Rot10 team are doing a great job of conquering the scene. This artist, at the striking age of 18 is making all of us who have years and decades on him wonder what the fuck we were doing with our lives back then.

This EP doesn’t include a single track to skip over and all the tunes that I know we all are hitting repeat on are revived, refreshed and given original light by our friends and Boppers, Vega, ETC!ETC!, Matt Sayers and recently added to the Bopper team Mike Stone & Four Four! Welcome.

Xo
-Wolf

“Listen”

My favorite remix has to be the Funkular remix by ETC!ETC! and Mr. Vega, hate to choose a favorite in the gorilla misty jungle of the Conga Dutch EP, but those missile dropping sounds really turn me on.

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Junior Sanchez & Felix Da Housecat nEthang!

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Junior Sanchez, Felix Da Housecat. What the hell can I say about these two that hasn’t been said before?

“Now try nEthang!” Available Now [GET YOURS]

Junior Sanchez & Felix Da Housecat - nEthang! (Original mix)

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Anytime another artist releases something giving them ground and footing in the electronic and house world, Junior Sanchez and Felix individually drop bombs that separate them far from the rest and set everyone back again.

Then they decide to join up together and make music and no one has a chance to breathe.

nEthang! has the funk, the dirty, the heavy, the disco and the electronica house all wrapped up in one. In fact I feel poor even classifying it as any of those, but I’m trying nEthang! to describe this sound.

“Now try quiet”

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Audiotistic 2010

What are the chances that a HUGE ass event falls on the date of our 1 Year Anniversary and that a GRIP of our supporters are playing at the show. Audiotistic in San Bernie, CA [get tickets here] . The Event takes place July 24th 2010 and the festivities begin at 7pm.

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Big ups to Bassnectar, Dances with White Girls, Treasure Fingers, Harvard Bass, A-Trak (DUCK SAUCE baby), Riva Starr (via Young Punxx), Sonic C & Harvard Bass (via our DANR crew and his Mom & Dad remix).

We’d like to extend an arm out to Rusko & Nero who aren’t really considered our supporters, but we support them and since Bopper Naiton is just barely easing into the Dub we figured we’d point em out and baby these two know how to BOP [More Here]

And of course big ups to all the artist performing at the event!

Get MAP of Event [Here]

The Boom Box

DJ Sin 6pm – 6.55pm
Eskmo 7-7:50pm
The Cool Kids 7:55pm – 8:45pm
N.A.S.A. 8:50pm – 9:40pm
Talib Kweli &
DJ Hi-Tek
9:50pm – 10:50pm
Nick Catchdubs
10:50 – 11:30

Massive Attack - Risingson (Bassnectar remix)

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Set Time: 11:35pm – 12: 35pm

Metallica - Seek & Destroy (Bassnectar remix)
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Kid Cudi 12:40pm-1:35pm
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Rusko - Hold On ft. Amber Coffman (Sub Focus remix)

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Set Time: 1.40am – 2.40am

Rusko - Da Cali Anthem
Daedelus 2:45am – 3:25am
Nosaj Thing 3:30am – 4am

Sound Arcade

We A.R.E. 6pm – 715
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Set Time: 7.15pm – 8.45pm

Drop the Lime - Devils Eyes (Dances with White Girls remix)

Flosstradamus 6pm – 7.15pm
AC Slater 9.45pm – 10.45pm
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Set Time: 10.45pm -12am
Mom & Dad - The Whole Sh'bang (Harvard Bass remix)

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Set Time: 12am – 1.30am
The Young Punx - Juice and Gin (Riva Starr remix)


Digitalism - Idealistic (A-Trak remix)

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Set Time: 1.30am – 2.45am
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak remix)

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Set Time: 2.45aam – 4am
Ocelot - Our Time (Treasure Fingers remix)

Speaker Temple

Lenny V 6pm – 8pm
Sonic C - Stickin'(Original mix)

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Set Time: 8pm – 9pm

Kid Sister - Right Hand Hi (Sonic C remix)

Chris Lake 9pm – 10pm
Donald Glaude & Kill the Noise
10pm -12am
WippenBerg
12am – 1am
Cosmic Gate
1am – 230am
Marco V
230am – 4am

Bass Frequency

Dumbsteppaz 6pm – 7pm
Camo UFOs
7pm – 830pm
Star Eyes
830pm -945pm
Breakage
945pm – 11pm
Craze
11pm – 12am

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Set Time: 12am – 1:30am

Deadmau5 - Ghosts N Stuff (Nero remix)

ED Rush & Optical 1:30am – 2.45am
TC
2.45am – 4am

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Housemeister Beef Jerky EP2 [Review]

Housemeister Beef Jerky EP2, Premium Cuts

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Tracklist:
Sommer
IckSchnallUp
Famous
Verflixt
Hyperactive

EP now available on 12″ Vinyl or digitally through: Beatport & Deejay
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Where to begin with this one, where to end? If you like backyard drum sets, drum machines and infinitely long melodies then Premium Cuts is more than right for you. I mean one really needs to be ready for bouncey beats when they enter the realm of Hyperactive, but with a title like that there is little room for deception.

Now what really pulled me along and kept me humming were the crashes, the phaser, the effects that pushed the Jerky through creating the perfect collection of tunes.

Sommer, seasonally pleasing, making music into more than 1 dimensional, creating the necessary aura required for one to FEEL the music and taste it, not just hear it. And those Nintendo coin sounds puts me and my imagination into a fantasy world powered by the melody of Housemeister’s Premium Cuts.

And just incase things may have been too soft for those of you hungry dirty ones, IckSchnallUp comes in pounding HARD! Bass Bass Bass Bass Bass!!!! Just keep marching along to the rhythm. And Verflixt too, WOW!!!! is that a machine gun? A drill? Dance Dance Dance!!

Overall this EP is an awesome follow up to the first Jerky EP, released just recently in 2009 and Housemeister brings a lot of originality in his music, stepping outside the boundaries of many producers out there who cling dearly to their overused/abused samples. But the Boys Noize team knows their shit and Housemeister is a strong part of their crew.

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Deathpit 77

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I’ve been to Ozzfest, Slayer & Slipknot concerts and I’ve never had any problem lasting the whole show, or at least a whole set in the front, buried among the many sweaty, swaying bodies. However, at the Beetroots performance in San Diego, House Of Blues..I found myself for the first time ever having to TAP OUT! The crowd was so horny for the roots…and with their Deathcrew 77 LIVE set…who couldn’t be.

That night we were all victim to the energy each song carried and when every song echoed throughout the venue, we were all puppets on a string, forced to jump, chant and repeat. Warp 1977; 1 , 2, 3   MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!!!!

The Bloody Beetroots - Warp 1977

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Bob Rifo is a spider. There is no other way to describe him. Skinny body, 1977 etched into his chest..arms outstretched across the keys playing the song, with the guitar on his back…he swings the guitar around and plays along to the song, then he begins to sing into the microphone. While Tommy Tea up at the controls playing along, jumping off the stage and providing the dying fans with bottles of water. And lets not forget the drummer, who kept up with all the electronic madness playing on a real borrowed House of Blues set.

If one was ever curious what it is like to be in the recording studio with the roots when they make their music..all of us got just a taste and feeling that night at the House of Blues and it was mind NUMBING!  And thank god San Diego had the balls to respond to it *(the last show I had watched in San Diego was more commercial than a fucking superbowl sunday…people standing around with champagne glasses looking pretty and snorting coke behind the scenes)..give me a break…this place had literally had BLOOD and when I exited the venue there were cops…girls in handcuffs and more than enough noise to make me more satisfied than an electric pig plugged into the biggest power outlet! I felt like the audience in Rome exiting the Collesium, and I hope those Italian Basterds, the mother fucking Bloody Beetroots, felt like glorified gladiators causing a great bloodbath of music….and it was only Friday for the roots, they still went on to play two more shows back to back in Los Angeles at HARD with great success!

*Deth Hertz, what a pleasure it was to finally meet the two men behind the music. More than awesome set and glad to see the boys got a fair amount of time up on stage. Opening up with the doors to the venue and wrapping up right before the start of Shark Attack’s LIVE set. Which opened with ‘Second in Line at the Used Needle Exchange’ followed by ‘Northern City Riot’ two songs I’ve only heard digitally and never seen physically strewn out before me with live instruments.

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