As you may have noticed, I have a new logo! Much thanks to Stephanie Cheng for the awesome work! If you need any design work done, I highly recommend getting in touch with her. Fast turnaround and good pricing.
Steph’s blog: http://www.hipteenschange.com/
My dad was a freestyle wrestler in the 1972 Olympic games in Munich as well as the 1976 Olympic games in Montreal. On top of that, both my parents were born and raised in Montreal (Rosemont represent). And so I feel quite a bit of nostalgic connection to that whole era. The image above was what I was googling for when I came across this wonderful website. I was looking for a 76 adidas tracksuit. I know my dad had one but it’s long since dissapeared.
Canadians are not traditionally known for being very design savy but The Canadian Design Resource proves that there has been exceptional work done over the years. And while you can tradtionally find books on design meccas such as Sweden and Holland, finding material on Canadian design can be somewhat difficult (until now).
Someone is doing all this for free. So go show them some love: http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/
If there’s a more consistent dance music producer, I don’t know who it is. Boy 8-bit aka David Morris is a Cornish-born dj/producer who’s best known for his work with Mad Decent. (The Roy Apron nickname was born when some random american dude completely misunderstood his alias) He’s been slowly garnering respect from DJs everywhere for his consistent, immaculate and exceptional original and remix work. His production is generally very melodic and simple yet with enough variation that it remains interesting from start to finish. In short, he is a producers’ producer. I highly recommend getting everything he’s ever done. He has a new EP coming out on Turbo Records on August 17th. Here’s a list of my favorite songs of his, plus a link to his BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix.
Boy 8 Bit @ Essential Mix (BBC Radio 1) 15.05.2010
Tracklist:
01. Boy 8-Bit — The Blood Tide [White]
02. Aleem — Get Loose Dub [NIA]
03. Eli Escobar — Glass House [Plant Music]
04. Patrick Turner — Planets Align [Inversus Records]
05. DJ Sprinkles — Grandcentral Pt 1 (MCDE Remix Dub) [Endless Flight]
06. Ali Love — Love Harder (Jokers of The scene Unreleased Remix) [White]
07. Gui Boratto — The Glam [Kompakt]
08. Kolombo — Acai [Boxer Recordings]
09. Liz Cirelli — Ultraviolet [LouLou]
10. Kaiser Souzai — Altocumulus Floccus (Piemont Remix) [Yellow Tail]
11. Visti & Meyland — All Night Long (Trentemoller Remix) [Eskimo]
12. Justin Martin — Get Low [Dirty Bird]
13. Diamond K — Damn Track [White]
14. Boy 8-Bit — Tropical Heat [White]
15. Mele — Bombay (Nadastrom Remix) [Mixpak]
16. DJ Will Roc — Twilight Zone [Unruly]
17. Zombie Disco Squad — The Duke Sound [Made To Play]
18. Footsteps — Worker [White]
19. Detroit Grand Pubahs — Sandwedges (Unknown Mix) [White]
20. Ron Hardy — Sensation (Obi Blanche Remix) [White]
21. Carte Blanche — Black Billionaires [Ed Banger]
22. Alan Fitzpatrick — Green Light [Tokio]
23. Boy 8-Bit — Yard Birds [Turbo]
24. Boy 8-Bit — The Keep [This is Music]
25. Boy 8-Bit — Baltic Pine (Roy Apron Dub) [White]
26. Ink & Needle — Thirteen [Tattoo]
27. Bookashade Vs Mandy — Donut (Boy 8-Bit Remix) [Living the Dream]
28. Boy 8-Bit — An Impending Sense Of Doom [White]
29. MMM — Nous Sommes [MMM]
30. Pig & Dan — Terminate [Cocoon]
31. Leftfield — Phat Planet (Dave Clarke Remix) [Hard Hands]
32. Thomas Schumacher — Red Purple [Spiel-zeug Schallplatten]
33. Joe and Will Ask? — The Rusty Pig [Gulp]
34. Florence and The Machine — Drumming Song (Boy 8-Bit remix) [White]
35. Yousef — Come Home [Cocoon]
36. Josh One — Contemplation (King Britt Remix — Mat Playford Edit) [Social Problem]
37. Rodriguez Jr. — Pandora [Leena Music]
If you’re in Toronto this weekend, I will be doing a DJ set at Cherry Beach on Sunday evening. I often find that people don’t know what to expect from a DJ set of mine. This is normal as I am into alot of different shit and so I like to adapt to the type of crowd/venue/time I am playing. So when the organizers asked me what I was going to play, I decided to make a mix that reflected the idea of playing in a forest enclosure next to a beach…on drugs.
Grahmzilla’s Tropical Frogs mix:
Daniel Steinberg – Bailando
Roundtable Knights – Calypso
Butch – Monkey Drums
Sascha Braemer – Go Loco
Andreas Henneberg – Bolingo Grigo
Quintino – Heaven (Belocca Dub Mix)
Claude Van Stroke – Vocal Chords
Pleasurekraft – Tarantula
Tim Green – Old Sunshine
Marshall – The Words of Wine
DJ Gregory – Con Alegria (Solo More Cowbell Mix)
Jan Driver – Tellyfoam
Diplo & Laidback Luke – Hey (Nadastrom Hot Latin Dub)
Bassanovva – Chicken Lover
Grahmzilla – Tropical Frogs (right click, save-as)
To be perfectly honest, the idea of a new Chemical Brothers album is about as exciting as a root canal. The last song I heard from them featured Spank Rock and it was pretty uncompelling. That being said I’m really into this new track called Another World. Sometimes a really simple idea works. Simple repetitive lyrics, washed-out pads and arpeggiated chords set to a straighforward beat. Yep. The video was made by Dr Who director Adam Smith who’s combination of waveforms and Lawnmowerman-esque humanoids is a perfect recipe for a trippy music video experience. If this song is any indication, their new album Further could be a bit of a renaissance for them. It’s out in September.