April Fool's Round-Up

Feed Me stopped by Michigan this April Fool's, and here are some of the new tunes Kill the Noise was dropping, particularly the new Zedd and Skrillex/12th Planet.






This song's been blowing up in EDM, getting remixed by tons of dubstep artists, and dropped in just as many artists' sets.



Deadmau5 put on a little event in Miami during ultra called Mau5hax.  Basically they live streamed Moguai, mau5, and Foreign Beggars putting a track together in a few hours.  It's a little under polished at this point, but a dope song nonetheless.

Breakin' A Sweat - Zedd Remix


Hit Me - Zed's Dead

No Beef - Optix Remix




Big Gigantic- "It's Going Down" by The Hypest Hype

Feed Me's Escape from Electric Mountain

Jon Gooch, the legend and mastermind behind Spor and Feed Me, came out with a new EP today, entitled "Feed Me's Escape from Electric Mountain". I haven't fully digested it yet, but if its Feed Me, its worth checking out.  It includes a dub collab with Gemini, called "Whiskers" that is sick, a Moombah track
"One-Click Headshot" and a few House tracks as well.  Staying true to form, Feed Me doesn't stick to one genre, and instead kills them all, including an almost trance like track "Relocation" that morphs seamlessly into Blood Red.  Jon Gooch for president.

Raw 2 Da Fuckin' Door

Still been jiving with Lazy Rich's style, if you haven't heard Raw 2 Da Floor, get on it.
Calvertron Vs. Qualver - Raw 2 Da Floor (Lazy Rich Remix) by allyson420STL

And Zedd's newest banger:
Zedd - Slam The Door (Original Mix) by Zedd

So 2012...

Been dormant for a while.  So here's whats up in the New Year.  Bangarang EP is great, still listening to it, and though some songs could be better, a few are untouchable, Bangarang, Kyoto (tweaked up Ruffneck Bass), Right In, and of course, best of all Summit ft. Ellie Goulding.  The last is a sort of fuck you to Skrillex haters, and he shows again that he can make songs other than his typical style.  Summit is almost trance like, but gets backs to glitchy roots, while sticking to 140bpm.  Anyways, here's a few other songs I've been listening to:


Better Wipe That Up by Canofbass

And Chris Luzzly's Remix

Lazy Rich - Better Wipe That Up (Chrizz Luvly Remix) by MastersElite

And dude if you haven't heard the Swedish House vs. Knife Party song, Antidote, its huge.

Swedish House Mafia vs. Knife Party - Antidote by ethansays

Xmas Eve

Swedish House Mafia

It's been a bit quiet here at Litany for most of December, save a few large album-like releases from Knife Party and Skrillex, so we figured for the holiday, you need a few new tunes.

Mord Fustang has been quiet recently too it seems, but his funky laid back style is back in new song "We Are Now Connected".
Mord Fustang - We Are Now Connected by Plasmapool


Cazette's strangely named remix of David Guetta's "Titanium" is sickk.
David Guetta Feat Sia - Titanium (Cazette´s Ant Seeking Hamster Mix) by Best Dubstep

More Knife Party...only this one's mashed up with SHM's track as well.  It goes by Antidote.  It has a really raunchy and brutal video out (someone managed to not be taken off Youtube), thats fairly entertaining.  Techno, Strip Clubs and Violence mesh pretty well.
Swedish House Mafia vs. Knife Party - Antidote by ethansays

Bangarang EP

Skrillex just dropped a new EP just in time for xmas.  Many of the songs are just official or reworked versions of past releases, but they are all pretty stellar.  He posted the following on his twitter:

"happy holidays just like I promised.... just like i always say, go pirate it if you don't have money..i just want you to have it... or you can buy it here..either way I'll love you http://www.beatport.com/release/bangarang-ep/851105

 -skrillex"

The EP is huge.  No lesser words to describe it.  Here's a run down track by track:
1. Right In has been his opening song for most festivals over the summer, and a song he's been trying to keep pretty under wraps.

2. Bangarang, the title track of the album, is quite tried and true Skrillex, some light Sirah vocals, in-your-face-talking-bass and what not.  Only difference is, its a Moombah beat.  The two styles blend pretty flawlessly for a bumpin' track.

3. The third track, Breakin' A Sweat, is the collab track for the Regeneration project, he did with the doors.  Many of you have probably heard it, though this version features some tweaks, a spoken verse in the middle breakdown.  The doors vocal samples are kind of cheesy, but other than that, its a solid track.

4. Bangarang EP also includes his Electro-House banger collab with Wolfgang: Devil's Den.  It dispels some of the hate against Sonny going around that he only does same sounding dub.  Well he also does hard hitting electro.  Chaotic, and awesome.

5. The 5th track is a huge collab between Kill The Noise, whose recent LP is sick, and 12th Planet, a bud of Sonny's and great DJ on his own right.  The track's called Right On Time.

6. Another reworked and finalized track, Kyoto ft. Sirah (weeknds anyone?), is a "dubstep" track, with a strange 117bpm, and many of you will recognize it as the original "Ruffneck Bass" before More Monsters and Sprites EP came out.

7.  The final track leaked in an early edit form which many called "Breathe", and featured some added vocals by Krewella.  The real version is called Summit, and features the soothing vocals of Ellie Goulding (lights anyone?).

On a whole, its easy to see Skrillex has matured a bit on this EP, and put out a more versatile, appealing sound than the ultra-heavy dub rut he was stuck in for a while there.

And Skrilly said it himself, he doesn't care if you pirate it, so no excuses, go get it.

100% No Modern Talking

Knife Party, Rob Swire (of Pendulum)'s side project goes pretty hard.  A new EP of theirs is available for free from their website: http://www.knifeparty.com/.  It's got the full version of Internet Friends, as well as full versions of Fire Hive (best song off the EP in my opinion) and Tourniquet.  The only track I hadn't heard of at all is "Destroy Them With Lazers".  None really disappoint...


Fire Hive by Knife Party by Dubstep.net

Knife Party - Destroy Them With Lazers '100% No Modern Talking EP' by xesss

Knife Party - Tourniquet by Knife Party

enjoy

DO IT LIVE!

So I'm sitting here, thinking back on a deadmau5 show I went to about a month ago, and it occured to me, I didn't know where the sample he mashed up and morphed into Some Chords. Sounded familiar, but just couldn't place it. Well a quick youtube search turned it, and some new found respect for Joel Zimmerman up. A Bill O'Reilly sample? Its genius, Bill is such a twat, and this clip is hilarious.

Shave it Remixes & Other OWSLA Releases

Skream is the man

So whether or not you're a fan of Skrillex, you have to respect what he's being doing with his indie label, OWLSA.  They just put out some cool remixes of Zedd's electro-house banger "Shave It".  Remixers include Kaskade, and a dubstep mix by 501.

Zedd - Shave It (Kaskade Remix) by 1ReySon

Zedd - Shave It (501 Remix) by 1ReySon


Also released today was a song Skream did on OWLSA, entitled "Anticipate".  Skream was one of the original dubsteppers, and he continues to prove that sometimes less is more.  This song so subtle, and so good.  Netsky provides a nice DnB mix thats a bit more uptempo.  Both are sick.



Skream Ft. Sam Frank - Anticipate (Netsky Remix) by Jamie McCartney

More Knife Party & Skrillex

So in the last few weeks Knife Party has exploded everywhere.  Knife Party is the side project of Pendulum, you know...the Island, and Rob Swire (from Ghosts N Stuff).  They pretty much do dubstep, and electro house, and absolutely kill every second of it.  So here's two new songs from them:

Another 'Crush On You' remix that gives the Killsonik version a run:
Nero - 'Crush' (Knife Party Remix) by pakistar
And this track featuring Skrillex is pretty golden too...
Knife Party ft. Skrillex - Zoology by MyDubstep
Finally, a track from Al Bizarre thats just catchy.
Al Bizzare - Fresh Scream Original Mix by Snaz

Quick Look @ Madeon

Madeon is getting a lot of cred in 2011.  He's a 17-year old French producer with already an official remix of Raise Your Weapon, as well as Pendulum's The Island.  He seems to be following somewhat in line with Mord Fustang and a lot of the newer artists putting out that sort of "glitch-pop-electro".
Pendulum - The Island (Madeon Remix) by Madeon

Also check out his song Shuriken, its dancey and quite catchy.
Madeon - Shuriken by Madeon

He just posted up this live mashup of a bunch of songs he's digging, including Starry Eyed, Around the World, Viva La Vida, what sounds like Ratatat's Wildcat growl, and more.  This isn't like those shitty mashups between Ghosts N Stuff, Like a G6 and some random Lil' Wayne you find nonstop on Hypem, its actually catchy and well done.

New Mord Fustang +More

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Mord Fustang has been huge recently.  Lick the Rainbow, Milky Way, A New World, and now add Magic Trooper.  Check it out.

Mord Fustang - Magic Trooper by Mord Fustang

Rothbury is officially a week in the past, and I've been mulling over the music I heard there.  Here are two that stick out and are worth listening to:

Feed Me's remix of Nero's innocence:
Nero - Innocence (Feed Me Remix) by welcome2jb
Alvin Risk's remix of "Diminishing Returns":
Ali Love - Diminishing Returns (Alvin Risk Remix) by AlvinRisk

And finally, there's a little song going around both XM, and your local pop radio station alike, it's called "Save the World Tonight" by Swedish House Mafia.  To be honest, the song seems like the mainstream music industry's next step towards incorporating the EDM sound and scene into something profitable and more widely accepted.  So no, I am not advocating you listen to this song, I am rather advocating you listen to Zedd's remix of it.  It still has the catchy Coldplay sounding vocals and such, but is just now way cooler.  Thanks for the swag Zedd.
Save The World (Zedd Remix) by Absynth_mx

Last Day of Class

I have a friend who once said "Swedish House Mafia only puts out bangers."  And while I do like SHM, I much prefer another Swede; Avicii.  And I think the statement applies to him equally as much, if not more.

Blessed (Avicii Edit) by Fresh On Campus

I thought about posting up Marcuss Schossow's edit of "Alright", but when I thought about it, I remember this mashup I'd heard of it with "Cielo", which I kind of prefer:

Something Good vs. Red Carpet - Cielo Alright (SG Bootleg) by WeAreSg

Posted up "Strange Behavior" a while ago, here's a few other songs off that EP, "To The Stars".  This one's called "Pink Lady".  Super slow beat.

Feed Me - Pink Lady (FULL) by Armon Chojnacki

While I was music surfing, I came across some Wolfgang Gartner. He's been a favorite of mine for a while, but seems like he's been pretty dormant lately. Not the newest songs, but that doesn't stop me from listening to 'em it anyways:
Wolfgang Gartner - Space Junk by kevinthekid
Fire Power - Wolfgang Gartner by Geoffrey Plagnol

Some Avicii, Some Zedd & Some Classic Inspiration

When I first heard this song, it was in Avicii's amazing essential mix, and it was vaguely titled "ID".  Now it's longer, spruced up and goes by the name Levels.  Tim Berg can do no wrong.
Avicii - Levels by nashdelag

And a bit more mainstream, but equally as addicting, is Avicii's adaption of Perpetuum Mobile, a late 80's orchestral piece by Penguin Cafe Orchestra.  It's aptly named Penguin, and the borrowed piano riff fits perfectly.
Avicii - Penguin by Hit'em Jack



Zedd. (not to be confused with Zed's Dead) has a knack for making any type of music sound good.  A prime example: his remix of Skrillex's Weekends.  It's bit more spontaneous and "fun" sounding, and always good for a change up.  He recently put out the song "Dovregubben", which translates to "Mountain King", which makes sense, as it draws much from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's (not to be confused with Wolfgang Gartner, :p ), Symphony No. 5, In the Hall of the Mountain King.

Zedd - Dovregubben (Original Mix) by Zedd


Skrillex - Weekends!!! feat. Sirah (Zedd Remix) by Zedd

Genre-Benders

Mord Fustang, a guy with a style as strange as his name. It brings to mind both Wolfgang Gartner and a little but of Porter Robinson. A little dubby, a lotta glitchy, and just pretty awesome
Mord Fustang - Lick The Rainbow by Mord Fustang

Most of you have probably heard of Feed Me by now. He's blown up on the electro scene after ditching his old DnB moniker, Spor, and signing with Mau5trap. And you can't really blame him, his sound is catchy, creative and addicting. Here's one of his more dubby, a remix of Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend". I only came across this one a few months ago, but it somehow slyly sneaked into my top 10 most played. Catch him at Electric Forest this summer.
Call Your Girlfriend (Feed Me Remix) by robyn

Robyn

And here's a recent song by Miles Dyson. I can't think of much to say about it, probably because I don't know shit about Miles Dyson, except he clearly has talent.
Miles Dyson - i-tune by Miles Dyson