real talk: this isn’t my “actual” “chart” for “djing.” i’m sorry, but if certain european dance labels, not naming names (cough cough bpitch control crosstown rebels ostgut ton), would step up their getting-320s-to-german-pirates-to-put-on-youtube game, this might be a more complete picture of what i’ve actually listened to this month (besides 90s big beat britpop remixes and bjork singles on repeat). i’m not all that sorry, though, because if you really wanted to nerd out over that kind of music, you’d already be in a soulseek chat room; let’s do this

did i ever tell you guys about my “ambient hotties” prediction for 2011-12? serious noise heartthrobs, justin bieber putting out hand-screened 7″s, hearts of space / tiger beat crossover, oceans of sound as vast as the impossibility of teenage desire?

Demos by Goitia Deitz

is there a more concise name for that thing where you don’t care about whatever mutant-rhythm uk a-side with pitched vocals and warped samples and blah blah blah is out this week on xyz dance darling imprint, but wow, the big dumb banger on the flip side, it’s so good, and anyway, what is this, a starbucks? fuck you nerds, i want TECHNO

speaking of techno, i always thought of this as “drone shit that some of my friends like to take synthetic hallucinogens to” until i left it playing in a youtube tab in the background while listening to the new cari lekebusch, and now it’s “drone shit that makes even recent cari lekebusch records interesting.” someone reissued something else she did this week (look it up), which is good, because goddamn if cari lekebusch doesn’t have a new release out just about every time i log into beatport

by the way, i still love you, cari

(cari lekebusch, 1994, just saying)

when my friends send me stuff that sounds like it’s coming from another room, i pretend they’re next door listening to the real record

(via @AcephaleRecords)

i like this and everything but i don’t have any comment because “talking about rap on the internet” is best left to 2 groups of people: lifelong experts and clueless assholes

(via @tbaybj)

“i hate and distrust all art historians, experts and critics. they are a bunch of parasites, feeding on the body of art. their work is not only useless, it is misleading. they say nothing worth listening to about art or the artist, aside from personal gossip – which i grant you can sometimes be interesting”

-mark rothko, on music blogging

anyway my new thing is only listening to youtube music by teenagers, whatever berghain or latin superjam boomkat tells me to buy, and really “lush” cd-r’s by crusty noise dudes, so this has actually been a pretty good month for me so far.

here is one of my favorite new “blogdrone” / “ambient footwork” / “tumblr house” recordings

i feel like matias aguayo could really successfully cross over into the avant-garde world of bearded men talking into a microphone over repetitive tracks

(out on kompakt now? right? google it)

okay, so maybe file this under “fucking duh,” but i don’t know if anything else counts as music anymore. is that hyperbolic enough? i’m new at indie blogging, leave tips in the comments

subversive subcultures take on interesting and subtle forms under repressive regimes, and this all-girl cover of flipper’s “ha ha ha” is a good example of the nascent chinese bay area punk revival scene

(via beta librae)

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new mix by phillip beretta! this was delivered to us overnight by surprise, tagged #nyfw and #aw11, with the above image (worth a thousand words, etc.). and we’re all like ✌$♫❤ ‿ ❤♫$✌ . thanks, phillip!

new weird magic mixes dropping soon from the likes of james ferraro, umberto, and others that we can’t disclose right now but are really psyched about; in the meantime if you’re craving more, re-visit beretta’s previous mix for us, s4y r34l.

mp3:
phillip beretta – nyfw_aw11.mp3

tracklist:
:: demi lovato – remember december
:: aphrodite – stalker
:: wiz khalifa – black & yellow (phenom d&b mix + single version)
:: dillinja – armoured d
:: avril lavigne – what the hell
:: raiden – fallin’
:: beyonce – halo
:: miley cyrus – see you again
:: slowdive – souvlaki space station
:: jamie foxx – fall for your type (brenmar remix)
:: fire for effect – the beach (slava’s beach before dawn remix)
:: lil b – i’m god
:: burial – ghost hardware

exclusive mix from phillip beretta, techno brat in residence of the pop manifesto. Take a peek inside beretta’s mind — and thus, the future — with this mix.

phillip beretta – s4y_r34l.mp3

tracklist:

moon – summer ’06 (phillip’s winter ’10 edit)
apparat – sayulita
isolee – face b
holy other – your love (magick mountain deep cover remix)
traversable wormhole – closed timelike curve (marcel dettmann remix)
ellen allien – flashy flashy (alexi delano remix)
aerea negrot – all i wanna do (efdemin remix)
mirko loko – love harmonic (carl craig’s soundscape remix)
gold panda – snow & taxis (glitterbug’s pink snow ball remix)
fuck buttons – olympians
sonic youth – schizophrenia

phillip’s words:

speaking only for myself: it feels really redundant – reactionary, even – to record a mix and put it on the internet. like that awful guggenheim youtube exhibit, you know – you just cringe at the total cluelessness of superimposing heavy-handed curation on a medium that’s amazing because it’s totally personalized and disrupts archaic (vestigial?) unidirectional content delivery channels.

that’s to say: anyone and everyone can and should be mixing dance records, and all records are dance records, and there’s no reason to treat an mp3 file as a static object when you can be interacting with it, so why am i giving you a pre-mixed file and acting like i’m doing you a favor, right?

whatever, i’m giving myself douchechills “talking about music;” besides, it’s almost 2011 and people still care about pavement, so a dance mix is practically straight out of the motherfucking jetsons, right? here’s one of mine, hope you hate it!