I've recently come to realize that UK's Karoshi Bros. really just want you to get up and dance, a lot...maybe even forever! The dancey pop hit The Original dropped late last year but now we got the mixes done up by peeps like Ingo Star and Magik Johnson. Don't about their personal lives but if you open your ears, you'll know they are gettin' some mad play. Check out Love The World on 7" vinyl available here. We got one of them digital for you below!

Magik Johnson Vox

Labels: Dance, Electro

Joining the tradition of releasing music untraditionally, Illegal Art and Gregg of Girl Talk are rollin' out the brand new album, Feed The Animals, with a "pay what you want" fee. That's right, pay anything you want here, to get that hot new album. But if you drop atleast $5, you also get a special big mp3 of of all the songs connected as essentially one long party hog! The tracks were meant to be all hooked up. If you drop $10, then you are pre-ordering the CD which rolls out in September.

Feed The Animals is Girl Talk's 4 full length with lots of popular songs mashed out with older songs, beats, and loops. Check and stream the album here. There are some really dope things about this album that have been growing on me throughout the day. With the amount of songs that are mashed in, you'll definitely find something you like!

No Pause
Set It Off

Labels: Dance, mixes

Happy Friday! We got new music from The Banshee, one awesome example of electro continually destroying clubs all over Europe. But you already knew that. These guys have an album droppin' in September, and hopefully in the U.S. release shortly after. Your Nice Habits is definitely going to be a promising full-length!

Wait how do I know that? Well to tease everyone, they pushed out a special digital only released EP, Kicks Up, which is the first single from what is to come. You can get that EP right now for 1 Euro here! The Kicks Up EP contains The album and radio edit version including some remixes. Check them below and watch out for that highly danceable release!

Kicks Up
Kicks Up (Cool Kids Can't Die Remix)

Labels: Dance, indie

One of the best things about concerts is that if the music is pumping enough, everyone is moving, no one is worried about whether they look good. The music gets you moving, and keeping in time is effortless and fun. Does It Offend You, Yeah?, a crazy new UK electro outfit, brought fun to the stage in a pounding, mashed-up sound perfect for dancing.

Playing at the El Rey last night, the band took the stage just before 9 pm, the lead singer, a vision straight from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, starting the crowd up quick, leading into a dance-happy and hardcore emo sound that blended perfectly. Devo-style beats met screaming, creating a sort of new wave hardcore. A cowbell was on stage by song 3, and the crowd screamed the lyrics back as a high school ballad of crushes turned synth-hardcore rocked the house. Synthesizers and drums kept the tempo up, the crowd on their toes, the drummer practically snarling in concentration, the keyboard/synthesizer trucking away. The second vocalist and lead guitar brought the emo, his beanie pulled down to his nose, swinging recklessly around and paying no mind to the mic stands that were falling into outstretched arms. Both vocalists played with giddy abandon, one shoeless, the other ending the set swinging his guitar over his head, each spending time on top of an amp to sing down to outstretched arms.

Dawn Of The Dead
Se7en

Followed by headliners Yo Majesty, the crowd waited in anticipation to see if one of the singers actually exposed herself, as one fan claimed was normal behavior for a show. Taking the stage close to 10:30, the women of Yo Majesty brought rap to the table at breakneck speeds, backed by a couple of very talented female break dancers who set the group apart.

Both at last week’s Coachella Festival, the fan base for each is growing, Yo Majesty solidifying a connection with their fans, and Does If Offend You backed by original songs and an obvious ability to charm a live audience, check out a couple songs from each and see what you think for yourself!



Epic Last Song (Lifelike Remix)
Muse - Map of the Problematique (DIOYY Remix)
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Labels: Dance, Electro, UK

When I first heard Telepathique I thought "What? Brazilian Electro-rock?" which in fact was later found to be accurate. Their new EP Love & Lust is out via The Control Group and has an interesting genre bending, wide range of sound. DJ Periferico goes from percussions to turntables and back in one track, while mixing in Mylene's vocals and making all out danceable rock songs. If anything, these guys are another great example of groups and bands experimenting with sound from everything to D&B to rock with all kindsa noise. Check out these two tracks from the EP!

Deja Vu
Eu Gosto

Labels: Dance, dj, Electro

This whole DJ party cut & paste, sampling electro dance thing is so crazy right now (and has been for a while). Everyone's remixing, and on a serious note; giving the party people what the need. The UK's stupefying house bangin' duo The Count & Sinden are no different (that's right, I said stupefying!). This song of theirs is based around a beeper page and we got a new remix for you too! Check this incredibly dancey machine track featuring Kid Sister

Beeper
Beeper (Detboi Remix)

Also check out the Beeper music video with Kid Sister!
Lastly check out this dope The Count(Herve) & Sinden Essentials Mix...It's totally dope. Get it free now!

Labels: Dance, Electro, remixes

Whether you need to brush up on your dancing skills in the living room, or the club DJ couldn't "cut" it for you last night, we got you covered. And Yes, we've had our moments with rap song-to-song fade in/out DJ sets and lighting that makes you sit and calculate how cheap it all costs at your local party store. Luckily for us there's Mark Farina! He's done up over a dozen releases but we wanted to touch up on his latest, Live In Tokyo. This 72 minute beat-for-beat dance stream packed album was recorded live last summer in Tokyo and released few months ago from the underground giants Om Records (Samantha James, Sessions, Colette).

He's made some sweet selections on this album including Myungho Choi, Dan Cummings and Leon Louder with some of that rad organ keyboard throughout. This is definitely one of best dance electronic albums and just another everyday boasting of Farina's skills. Head on over to his site to hear and see more including Muchroom Jazz, Session mixes etc. Also get this album now here. And of course we got some of them tracks for you to sample. Get some of that chill funk now!

Deep Heat
Red Umbrella
Crazy Party

Also check out Farina live spinnin' at your local spot.

Labels: chill, Dance, dj, live

These are the other posters, they are tooo dope! Be sure to get your copy of the new album which just came out last week! Get the 2CD; it has tons more bonus materials, Live video, photos....basically way worth it! But it you're a Daft Punk fan, you already know all that. The Alive 2007 album is a perfect pop-it-in-party album with continuous reworked live awesomeness of those Daft Punk songs you love/crave. That One More Time/ Aerodynamic track is seriously the destroyer for me; just that bell at the beginning, you know it's gonna be amazing. Play it once, you'll knowhat we're talkin' about! We will pick a winner on Friday, December 14th, 2007, and then we'll email you! Thanks for entering and good luck!

Labels: Daft Punk, Dance

Happy Monday! Sorry for the lack of updates, the BBQ headquarters have relocated and now we're back online! Today we bring you to the world of Shinichi Osawa! As you can tell from the picture above, he's a DJ bringin' you the heavy dance and electro you love/crave. I love the sampling of vocals (i.e. Au Revoir Simone) on several of these synth driven tracks. If you're currently into the indie dance craze, Shinichi is the Japanese love child of Daft Punk, Digitalism, and Soulwax. Mondo Grosso (Italian for "Big World") is his solo name as he does producing and mixing for lots of artists. Mondo's got your house, techno, underground club covered as we are told he has the largest sellout DJ sets in Japan.

I have been raving about this game on PSP called Lumines, because of the music and visual coordination, turns out Shinichi produced the music! Shinichi's The One (Avex Trax) dropped a cuppa months ago and you can get it here. I saved the craziest part for last...Shinichi Osawa is 40 years old! Whut!! When you can finally get over that, definitely check out his live sets and shows!

Star Guitar
State Of Permission
Maximum Joy

Digitalism - Pogo (Shinichi Dub)
Soulwax - Miserable Girl (Osawa Extra Hard Edit)
Plaid - White's Dream (Osawa Remix)
Xtopher & Raphael Just - Popper (Osawa Distortion)

Labels: Club, Dance, Electronic, synthetic

Los Campesinos! is probably one of the more underrated bands on the Arts & Crafts Label. The Label features Feist, Stars, Most Serene Republic and over a dozen other way awesome bands. Los Campesinos! is an Indie Pop septet from Cardiff, Wales and they were added to Arts & Crafts North American roster earlier this year! You can pick up their EP "Sticking Fingers Into Sockets" on itunes or right here. Their album features catchy sing-along style vocals, upbeat synth progressions, hand claps and dance beats. It also features their UK single, "You! Me! Dancing!"

Listen Now:
It Started With A Mixx
We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
You! Me! Dancing!

Los Campesinos! are on tour right now. Catch them at a venue near you. the Echo on the 27th. SF on the 28th. NY on the 30th. All over the place until may. Check the schedule on their myspace. Enjoy.

P.S. Vote for BBQ.

Labels: Dance, fun, indie, Pop

2 Many DJs are at it again, and again, as Soulwax, and Flying Dewaele Brothers amongst other names. These guys from Belgium do alternative but these days it's their remixes. Under the alias 2 Many DJ's they've recently released Most of the Remixes, a double CD of remixes and remixes of remixes--Re-remixes. wow. Earlier in the year we dropped one of the tracks on our BBQ mixes. There are artists like the Klaxons, LCD Soundsystem, Kylie Minogue, Daft Punk, Gorillaz and DJ Shadow to name a few.

The late 90s brit pop album makers continue to do their thing under "Soulwax" with their undeniable classic mash-ups and bootleg party essentials. We got some tracks for you of the over 2-hour dancie-tronic DJ set. The title of the collection is 101 words long, yea..crazy, we won't reveal it here. Just an excellent compilation of dancefloor knowhow.

LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House (Soulwax Shibuya Re-Remix)
Human Resource Vs 808 State - Dominator (Soulwax Edit)
Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow (Soulwax Remix)

Have a swell weekend!

Labels: Dance, Electronic, hiphop

I heard about the Hidden Detour Party about two days before the event and I had absolutely no idea what to expect except that there would be lots of dancing.  And I guess that's all we really needed to know!  Boost Mobile & Fader put on 2 parties at these hidden locations in LA and the only way to go was to rsvp/text to get a text back of the address on the days of, raver status true.  We went Friday night for the Ed Banger crew.  

Labels: Dance, Electronic, Events, indie, Shows

Gregg Gillis does not consider himself a DJ. Gregg Gillis is an artist of sorts.  He samples pop-music from any decade, any imaginable genre and throws it together. The end result is something truly amazing; an intricate collage of lyrics, beats, and hooks mashed together to make music.  Sampling artists such as James Taylor, Trey Songz, Notorius B.I.G., Elton John, Kanye West, Phil Collins, Weezer, and Mike Jones; for Gillis there are no rules.  Anything with a beat, anything with words, anything goes. 

Labels: Dance, indie, mash

It's about time the Moving Units get their sophomore out.  Their heavy bassline driven indie dance tracks from 2004's Dangerous Dreams really hit it big with the post-punk dance that everyone is lovin' on these days.  I remember that album on vinyl rotation at a friend's house after a fun night, a mini dance party, they're the best.  Hexes For Exes has just a tad less catchy dance grooves and a little bit more of that good indie sound (I said tad).  I previously loved that bit of funk they brought early on but this album's still got more than enough upbeat catchy indie rock to get you movin'!

Labels: Dance, indie

We first celebrate our 30,000 hits with a brand new layout!  We Hope you like it.  It's been long awaited and finally I found the time this Labor Day weekend to do it.  There are still some kinks and we don't have a music player but hang in there, it'suh comin'.  Also I made this special remix dance mix just for YOU!!!! So please enjoy, if you see anything on the site that is having a problem, please let us know.  

Labels: Dance, Holidays, remixes

Tofu Chicken curry, Curry House, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles,CA. Delicious!

Labels: Dance, Instrumental, Music, Pop

Kenny/John/Merks/Sean/ and me takin the shot at Continental Room in Fullerton. We probably sat at that table for less than 5 minutes, and got booted from it. boo. John is spinning on Tuesday night so be there!
A great article from our friend Mr. Martindale in the OC Register about an attorney named Jon Derby who spent 1.5 years in India fighting child prostitution. Read here.
A newly updated Talent One Media site, finally. Check it here.
My roommate, Paul's new Ebay store!! Link here.
If you haven't seen Maia's new video, please watch it now! It's fun! Last but not least, if you are in the Fullerton area Monday the 5th or Tuesday the 6th, go check out the Modern Day Slavery Conference at the TSU hosted by the CSUF Women's Center and other campus orgs. Monday 5:30-9pm and Tuesday 10am-2pm. See you there! More info www.fullerton.edu.

Okay I got a lot of new music for you All! Some Electronic, jazz, hiphop, African, Scandinavian, etc. Lots of Stuff to listen to so downloads away!
Thievery Corporation - The Heart's a Lonely Hunter
Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 - Ye Ye De Smell
Letta Mbulu - Mahlalela
Ensemble - Summerstorm ft. Mileece
Feist - Gatekeeper (Do Right Rmx)
Stars - Ageless Beauty (Most Serene mix)
Dj Day - Closer ft. Aloe Blacc
The Honeydrips - Åh, Karolin
Nosaj Thing - Aquarium
Adventure Time - We Agree it's Grand
Coldcut - Sex Machine (The Payback Rmx)
Copter4016882 - Drop of Water
Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks (Beyond the Wizard's sleeve Re-animation)
The Elephants - Shivers
Like Lions - Make it Better
Radiohead - Climbing up the Walls (Zero 7 rmx)
Alice Russel - Take your time Change your Mind
Zero 7 - You're my flame (Justus Kohncke Rmx)
Skye - What's Wrong With Me (Nouvelle Vague Rmx)
Feist - Lonely Lonely (Frisbee'd Mix)

Have a great Week!
Congrats to Jonathan and Melina, I am so so so happy for you!

Labels: Dance, Electronic, Funk, jazz, Music, World