Don't Call Me Baby

I bumped into the Smidgem boys @ Field Day (SYD) on the weekend and they were like; "Man.. when you gonna do another post??"
Being the NY and all, with it's resolutions & associated 'do-everything-better-this-year' attitude, I decided to make a commitment to write at least one post per month.

Sooo.. January;

In the past year (since getting around to obtaining a Debit Card), I've become a pretty big follower of Beatport & thus, deep/Tech House & other house genres.

A couple things I've noticed about the top 100; Pryda, Deadmau5 & the Swedish house boys (both as separate entities and their mafia trio), are pretty much in there 24/7.
You also get a lot of those re-makes, of re-makes, of re-makes.

A resent one that I've been digging is "My Lips" by Crazibiza which is an appropriation of Pino D'Angio's - "Ma Quale Idea".
This was More famously sampled back in '99 by Pop/Dance sensation Madison Avenue on her track "Don't Call Me Baby"

My Lips is a great house tune, really punchy high end kick, leaving room for the filtered bassline down in the lows, great shuffle groove, nice crisp hat's and the typical African American sounding woman with an powerful voice, belting out some vocal loops for the build up.

If drawn out loop house is your thing, you'll probably really enjoy this track
Others may like it for the fact the hook line is familiar and catchy, but be put off by the distinct less amount of movement in the melody & lack off Madison Avenue vocals

So I have a couple of things for you;

Pino D'Angio - Ma Quale Idea
The original, original. For anyone interested in taking a listen

Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby (Extended Mix)
Classic 90's dance music, love this tune

Crazibiza - My Lips (Original)
The modernised house bomb

Crazibiza Vs Madison Avenue - My Lips (Elmo is Dead 'Don't Call me baby' Edit)
A little mix of both

Peace
Emoh

G..old

Here are a couple of tracks that are gauranteed to get any party started.

Theses tracks have been massive in my sets for a while now and i cant see things changing anytime soon. Turn it up!

Felix The Housecat-Silver Screen Shower Scene (Static Revenger Mix)

Christopher and Rachael Just-Popper (Shinichi Osawa Distortion Disco Edit)

Freeform Five ft. Gorillaz-No More Conversations To Feel Good

Midnight Oil-Beds are Burning (Dj Red and Josh Dupont Club Mix)

Smidgem Breaking News! Cat Gets The Mouse....

Deadmau5 is being treated in a hospital following a fight during the Miami Winter Music Conference with Felix da Housecat.

The Canadian DJ, real name Joel Zimmerman, is having one of his ears reconstructed at Mount Sinai Medical Center in South Beach, Miami after the two men came to blows on Sunday night.

The fight started during Deadmau5’s headline set on the main stage at the Ultra Music Festival.

Speaking to Mixmag from the Miami hospital, Deadmau5’s manager told us this morning “He was just mixing out of 'Faxing Berlin' when Joel looked to the side of the stage and saw Felix tucking into his rider. Joel gets quite funny about having a full cheeseboard ready for when he comes off stage so when he saw Felix with his paws in his brie he went ballistic and threw a can of Heineken at him.”

Felix da Housecat, best know for spearheading the electroclash movement, did not react well to being hit by a full can of the premium strength lager and pounced on Deadmau5 - much to the delight of the baying American crowd.

Around 12,000 festival goers watched on the main stage’s big screens as Deadmau5 was pinned to the floor by the obviously more dominant Housecat.

One onlooker, who posted a clip of the event on Youtube, described Felix’s fighting technique as ‘just toying with him’.

Despite the cuts to his ear and being treated for shock, it’s thought Deadmau5 will still be OK to headline Cream Ibiza on September 2 during the Mixmag & Dsi Ibiza holiday.

In a statement released yesterday Felix claimed “He got what was coming to him. It serves him right for acting such a damn fool”

Source: Mixmag (www.mixmag.net)

Here is a little clip from Deadmau5 at the Ultra Music Festival this year. Could this be a new track?