Dr. Strangelove - Stranger in a strange land mix

Jax 2 Detroit: Movement Festival 2013

Once again we are making the techno pilgramage out to Detroit, one of our favorite cities. The land where techno began still has one of the best dance music festivals this in the US. It is also an amazing city that has culture, art and music steeped deep in its pores. Of course did I mention they have a quite a few records stores? What's not to fall in love with?!

Here some history to get you jacked for this years festival!

40 Essential Detroit Tunes from Beatport (Part 1)

An Oral History of Detroit for RA

Somber Party Store : DEMF 2012

The Grind

Ted Lane, U4E-AHH and myself are runnin' tings tonight so join us on that eastern vibe....

And let me share this link from The Onion.

TOTD: Young American Primitive - These Waves

Today Terrific

The Balance series is back with Radio Slave at the helm for the 23rd installment. It hits the shops on June 11th. Read the full press release here. And why don't you check out previews of CD1 (titled 'White Skies') and CD2 (titled 'Music & Maestros Parts 1 & 2) while you're at it. For those fans of Steve Lawler, Radio Slave has really taken that style, as Mayor Brown would say, to the next level. But what does that mean? It means the dark and clubby drums are still there but with a more worldly, psychedelic vibe. This mix keeps that spirit intact, interpreted through other artists and the mix of the DJ.

By the way, is anybody sick of Daft Punk yet?

Even the Boards of Canada pre-release campaign (which resulted in one of the two 12"s currently on eBay for $5700) ended up with a "fan" trying to capitalize. Is that press really going to convert new fans?

Here's a great piece on Tom Moulton who truly invented the remix (and the 12" single) for any beginners out there. Get your history on courtesy of FACT Magazine.

Our man of the moment Robert Hood is set to drop his third single from the critically-acclaimed and totally bad-ass techno album 'Motor 3: Nighttime World' (spring for the 3xLP+CD - you'll be glad you did) with remixes from Underground Resistance kingpin Mad Mike on May 27th on Music Man [Belgium] (12" and MP3). The original (which has been rocked at ArtWalk) even gets a whole side. You can check 'em all right here and may I add this is getting a ton of support on promo from the techno cognoscenti.

TOTD: Nylon Moon - Stairs Of Life (Secret Generation) [the sound of Italy in 1996]

Cultureshock

I would like to use this post to make you aware of a very informative, scholarly and world-class journal that discusses all in electronic dance music culture. Graham St. John is an accomplished author in this field and has written some wonderful books on the subject ('Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures' being one of them).

Please take a moment to check out his homebase, Dancecult - Journal Of Electronic Dance Music Culture and see what's going in the world around you. Open your eyes to something new. This'll be one for the Favorites Bar.

TOTD - Sergey Bogomolof - Sounds Of My Summer (Janeiro Remix)

DM goes for 51

Depeche Mode's 51st single is dropping next week on Columbia / Mute and it's gonna be a pretty strong package as per usual. Steve Angello, Jacques Lu Cont, Gregor Tresher, Matador and others round out what may prove to be a better lineup than 'Heaven' which was kinda hott with those Freemasons remixes and all. Track listings are below:

2-track CD Single / MP3 [US release date: 05.14.13]
01 Soothe My Soul (Radio Edit)
02 Goodbye (Gesaffelstein Remix)

6-track CD Maxi Single / MP3 [US release date: 05.14.13]
01 Soothe My Soul (Steve Angello vs. Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
02 Soothe My Soul (Tom Furse - The Horrors Remix)
03 Soothe My Soul (Billy F. Gibbons & Joe Hardy Remix)
04 Soothe My Soul (Joris Delacroix Remix)
05 Soothe My Soul (Black Asteroid Remix)
06 Soothe My Soul (Gregor Tresher Soothed Remix)

4-track 12" Single [US release date: 06.11.12]
A1 Soothe My Soul (Steve Angello vs. Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
A2 Soothe My Soul (Matador Remix)
B1 Soothe My Soul (Destructo Remix)
B2 Soothe My Soul (Gregor Tresher Remix)

TOTD: Ministry - Same Old Madness

Chris Fortier is back in Orlando

Every Saturday this month, Chris Fortier is rocking the Backroom in Downtown Orlando with their EAW Avalon Sound System. Fade Records is back home for now, it seems.

And don't forget Aahz Legacy is back one final time at The Beacham on Wednesday, July 3rd. Mark your calendars...

TOTD: Fade - Heaven To Heaven (7AM Firestone Mix)

Starkillers in Jax! / Dave Angel's on Bedrock

This single comes from December 2010. It was played at my wedding reception and took the party from 0 to 150 in about 48 seconds. It is still my favorite Starkillers production (and we all know Doorn has gone to hell over the last 18 months like, sadly, most of the Spinnin' Records empire). N-E-way...

Thursday, 05.16.13 - Starkillers @ Suite Jacksonville

I'm expecting the best out of our opening jocks, Mason and Toxey. We look forward to this. Will the headliner be truly playing live or DJing? Is it a truth-in-advertising ethical issue that I'm the last PLUR disciple to care about?

TOTD: Dave Angel - Harlequin (brand new on Bedrock)

Markus Schulz

Thursday, 05.30.13 - Markus Schulz @ Coliseum Tallahassee

TOTD: The Durutti Column - Bordeaux Sequence 

In the springtime...

...everything is burning. Moombah-trapcore is this week's new funky breaks and I've done yet another mix of stuff that does better on dance floors five thousand miles away from here. This is for the provincial towns that you jog 'round. Hang the DJ, this is Jax Au Printemps.

Peter Dundov & Gregor Tresher - In The Woods
Knox - Here (John Tejada Remix)
Kernal Key - Out Of Body Experience
Butch - 303 (Paul Ritch Acid Dub)
The Black Dog - Council Flat Emptiness
Kraemer & Neireich - Bang
Kraemer & Neireich - Leitwolf 2K13
Assign - 1988.07.16 Tokio
The Orb - Assassin (Another Live Version...)




TOTD: The Black Dog - End Of Time

The Black Dog @ The Boys' Pet Shop

The Black Dog, electronic dance music's underground answer for well over 20 years, has continually stepped up their techno game in the last half decade to now bring you a trio of hard-floored techno 12"s. 'The Return Ov Bleep' a sort-of continuation of last year's 'Liber Kult' album project is an EP of stormin' quality, which was followed two weeks later by the 'Darkhaus Vol. 1' 12" containing the fantastic 'Council Flat Emptiness'. Now, this week, they bring a double-whammy: 'Darkhaus Vol. 2' 12" (with a dope Regis Remix) and this brand new mix from FACT highlighting some of the better moments in the Warp Records catalog. Enjoy!

Also, you may now know that EDM pioneers' Pet Shop Boys have left the Parlophone label after 28 years. Their last LP 'Elysium' (which came out late summer 2012) was considered lukewarm by some but the 3 singles were quite popular in the clubs, where it matters. Their latest, 'Memory Of The Future', hit #1 on The Billboard Club Play chart in January - no doubt due to that Digital Dog effort - while the Ulrich Schnauss Remix appeared on my 'Below Ground' mix.

Now, PSB are seriously upping their club game with another brand new album, 'Electric', released 07.15.13 on Kobalt (a new international label venture signing some huge worldwide acts) and this promo video for 'Axis' is sure to set the bar high as hell. Please check it out. This almost sounds like it could be 'Disco 5' which I'd believe this started life as. You can pre-order the new LP/CD here and the pre-sale tix are ready to go. The tour is hitting Florida in September and they've already kicked things off in South America, where they enjoy a HUGE fanbase.

And for the true underground sound of German techno, I bring you this gem from Nachtstrom Schallplatten:

TOTD - Kraemer & Niereich - Leitwolf 2K13

JaxLORE 527

Although we've been under the weather at JaxLORE HQ so to speak, here's a rundown of events going on for those of you hitting the pavement:

Saturday, 05.04.13 - Bangarang Saturdays @ TSI

Saturday, 05.04.13 - The Garage @ Push Push, Saint Augustine

Saturday, 05.04.13 - Lure @ Square One (catch it while you can...)

For those of who who haven't heard, check this one out. Saturday 05.25.13 in Tampa

 Tuesday, 05.07.13 - Beacharang @ Da Big Kahuna

Friday, 05.10.13 - Savant (and others) @ Daytona's RSVP in Ormond Beach

Saturday, 06.01.13 sees RSVP get down again with this lineup...

Also, FYI, Factory, the longstanding goth/darkwave weekly, is moving next week to The Norm. Yes.

TOTD: Inxec & Droog - Mountain Drop

New Kicks

Some of the most forward thinking music in EDM is coming from this imprint right here. Begun in 1983 as Milos Music Belgium, R&S is celebrating 30 years in 2013. They've released perhaps the finest records in the new beat and early techno age with some of the most famous names in electronic dance music. Since the 2006 relaunch, they have brought forward a whole new roster of talent, placing R&S once again on top.

Recent releases worth checking out are the phuture-fantasy 2xLP+CD/CD/MP3 by Space Dimension Controller 'Welcome To Mikrosector-50', indie-styled Airhead's debut album 'For Years' drops in June, here's an album track by them ('Autumn') to keep you going till then and then, the critically-acclaimed Vondelpark's new 2xLP+CD/CD/MP3 'Seabed', which is a truly unique fusion of analogue and electronic, just hit a couple of weeks ago. It's not even on Beatport. Check the Factory Floor Remix of their new single, which is on iTunes now, 12" next week.

Their legendary sister label Apollo has been relaunched too. The 15 or so releases that have been done show true diversification within the IDM, dubstep, ambient and chillwave styles. The most recent releases by Bering Strait 'Apart' and the Synkro 2x12 'Acceptance EP' really cast an unequaled light on the potential of this kind of music. New stuff by Nadine Shah, Simple and Cloud Boat will keep the drive alive.

I would be remiss without mentioning Sasha's 18-month old label, Last Night On Earth which has been on a serious roll lately releasing very forward thinking progressive house and techno jams since its inception. Beatport #1 track Hot Chip 'Flutes' (Sasha Remix)' was a worldwide dancefloor beast and underground atmospheric workouts like Simon Baker's 'Hideout' and Hunter_Game's 'An Angel' among quite a few others, were a treat to score. Many of the releases come on vinyl through Juno Records. Now, 2012 Sasha-collaborator James Teej drops a new album 'Eight Bit Ocean' on CD/MP3 and a new single with a remix by Timo Maas that gets Spring off to a nice start.

TOTD - Deep Dish - Stranded (Radio Mix)

JaxLORE 525

Now until the underground...

TOTD - Henry Saiz - The Cryptozoologist

Goodbye Fire Station

After three years and a thousand tracks, we're hitting the wrap-it-up button on Artwalk at Central Fire Station. Join us one more time before we relocate. We'll have all the usual fodder we're famous for: vinyl mixing, free CDs, a new drunk hype man every month, dancing babies and you. Dr. Strangelove, Ted Lane and myself will bang it out Wednesday from 5-9 on the corner of Ocean and Adams in Downtown Jack-son-ville.

TOTD: Supermode - Tell Me Why

Below Ground

My new mix is an excursion to find our underground by way of ambient, chillwave, slowcore, dubstep, PSB and DM re-rubs, downtempo from Apollo and a mini-suite of SDC followed by some dub techno from Telrae's Archive One and Croatia's finest, Petar Dundov. I think I got there. Please enjoy.



TOTD: Depeche Mode - Heaven (Freemasons Club Mix)

Scott Hardkiss

It's funny how small moments in time can have such an impact on you. Sometimes until people that created them are gone you really don't realize what that impact really means to you. Scott Hardkiss created some of electronic dance music's most memorable moments for me as I was coming up in the dance scene. I can't tell you how many raves I spent entranced by God Within somewhere on a dance floor taken away to another place. Later as a DJ a mixed tape that got passed around and seeing the Hardkiss Brothers play in Central Florida made me realize that you dont have to live in a box when you dj. You can take people on a journey that can span all points of music and take people anywhere with the right dream in mind. Thank you Scott and many wishes to you on your next journey and much love to the Hardkiss family.

Top Cat

So I guess Robert Hood is back on top again as the king of techno with his critically acclaimed "comeback" album on Music Man [Belgium] 'Motor 3: Nighttime World'. Just on its own, the 3xLP (which comes with a free CD) is worth its weight in vintage EDM t-shirts but now, after the 12" for 'Torque One', and a super-limited Japanese 7" of two jazzy tracks that didn't make the full-length, we have the new single...AND two new videos.

The 12" for 'Drive' is just that: driving-ass techno. It's also one of the best cuts on the album. That version graces side A while two Nachtstrom Schallplatten-style remixes from 0 [Phase] are on the flip. Both video links come from fans: one of the original and one of 0 [Phase]'s Nocturnal Remix. Ch-check 'em out.

Robert Hood - Drive (The Age Of Automation) video

Robert Hood - Drive (The Age Of Automation) (0 [Phase] Nocturnal Remix) video

...and let me preface today's Track Of The Day by saying that one of the all-time best producers in trance, Netherlands' Carlo Resoort, comes back one mo' gen with a brand new 4 Strings jam. This is my love letter to our Jaxlore fans today. Make the best of it.

TOTD: 4 Strings featuring Seri - Ready To Fall 

If you didnt make it to Miami

Then come rock with Ego Killer's Ted Lane, Dr. Strangelove and Wes Centers at Lure. It's shaping up to be a slamming Saturday night of renegade soundwaves.

New New News

James Blake has two new tracks floating including one with Brian Eno.
Mount Kimbie is getting ready to tour check out there new video Made to Stray.
Bjork is taking over Times Sqare at Midnight
Morrissey and Rick Astley get rolled.
Stream the new Adult album on Ghostly.