Special Features - You and Me (House)

Just another solid house track, comin atcha. Special Features is a London-based house and electro producer who has somewhat recently started pumping out tracks. I like this one in particular because I think that house tracks with a female-vocal lead are somewhat overdone, and this one replaces that standard, if it can be called such, with a groovy synth solo. You just can't go wrong with something this simple.



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Audio Bullys - We Don't Care (House/Electronic)

This one is a big blast from the past for me. Audio Bullys is an electronic music duo from London that began in 2003 with their debut album Ego War. They released another popular album in 2010 called Higher than Eiffel, and in 2012 announced that one of the two (Thomas Dinsdale) had left the group. Nonetheless, this particular track has that early 2000s, Fatboy Slim feel, and it was featured on the SSX 3 soundtrack (where I first heard it). It's a pretty good song, and the SSX games all had a pretty killer soundtrack if you feel like checking them out. Here's We Don't Care (there's a music video too, but embedding is disabled by request).

Surkin - Never Let Go (House/Jam)

Just one post for today so I'm making it count. This song filled a little bit of a hole in my heart; like when you have a penchant for certain kind of music, a certain feel, but you don't know what it is and much less where it is. Surkin (Benoit Heitz - French house and electro DJ) sated my desires with his song Never Let Go Ft. Kevin Irving. It's a really solid jam that feels neither like straight electronica or like it's acoustic; and it just vibes as a single, solid piece of music, which is always a treat. The vocals are tight, the 80s-style bass is tight, the switching from cut time to double time is tight, the 80s drums are tight, the seagull sounds are tight, everything is just really tight, and it makes me want to dance. Give this song, and the rest of the album USA, a listen if you so desire.

Surkin - Never Let Go (Ft. Kevin Irving)

Krewella - Play Hard EP (Dubstep/House/Electro)

Krewella is a relatively new (at least to me) EDM trio from Chicago. Their music has kind of blown up in the past year since releasing Killin It, and they've just released another EP entitled Play Hard on which is a re-release of Killin It. They provide a very wide spectrum of electronic dance music genres, which I always respect in an artist, and they do each one fairly well - from house/trance anthems to more traditional pop-dubstep to moombahton - probably due to they're so-called virtuoso producer Kristopher or "Rain Man." Normally I don't like the overly harmonic "screamy" basses, but Krewella offers some great new material to the mix and are worth checking out.

Krewella - Play Hard

Krewella - Killin It

Krewella - Can't Control Myself

Krewella - Alive

Krewella - One Minute

Krewella - Feel Me

Darude - Sandstorm (Candyland's OG Remix) (Trance/Trap)

So I first heard this song at Bonnaroo when Mimosa dropped it in his set and it basically broke my brain. You hear the beginning of Sandstorm and you're all like, "Oh jeez man what's going what sneaky trickery is Mimosa about to pull," and then out of NOWHERE is a tidal wave of trillest purplest most dank kush nasty swag jam. Thanks to Candyland, California producing duo, for concocting this crazy creation.

If this doesn't make all your groove molecules have a aneurysm then turn it up, please.

Darude - Sandstorm (Candyland's OG Remix)