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M-Phazes “Don’t Want To Fall In Love”

soulrocks — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:00:42 +0000

Hip-hop producer M-Phazes explores new sounds with this the bright, synthy, and future-retro sound.

Keone & Mariel Madrid “Dangerous”(Choreography)

soulrocks — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:41:22 +0000

• CHOREOGRAPHY BY : Keone & Mariel Madrid
• SONG 1 : “Dangerous” (Immortal Version) by Michael Jackson
• SONG 2 : “Human Nature” by Michael Jackson (Fingazz Remix)

• MORE OF K&M : http://www.urbandance.eu/camp/videos/…

• FILM PRODUCTION : 310XT

• ABOUT THE UDC : The Urban Dance Camp is the world’s leading dance intensive education. The annual international workshop event has become after many years the best summer intensive for studio-styles (choreography) as well as streetdance-styles, with the highest standard of teaching and unique talents from around the world. The Urban Dance Camp presents every year an amazing line up with dance legends, youtube stars and top international choreographers from Asia, Europe and the USA. All of them proved their skills in the past years and become the best and most qualified educators for choreography-oriented participants.

The UDC 2013 offers you more than 160 classes over a period of 44 days. The workshops are ideal for dancers, teachers and choreographers with experiences. The level of the classes is for intermediate, advanced and professional dancers. The UDC is not for beginners, who never danced before. Age restriction: Participants have to be at least 16 years.

Enjoy 255 hours of workshops over 45 days and with up to 40 teachers and participants from USA, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Russia, China, Singapore, and many more!

Route 94 – “My Love” ft. Jess Glynne

soulrocks — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 17:35:53 +0000

Floor filler nuff said.

ShitDisco

soulrocks — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:41:31 +0000

Glasgow-based Shitdisco was formed in early 2004 by Joel Stone (bass), Joe Reeves (guitar and vocals), Jan Lee (keyboard), andDarren Cullen (drums and cutlery). Very much informed by modern-day dance-punk sounds as well as the post-punk sounds of their forefathers, the group quietly gained a loyal following and their sporadic gigs earned them a reputation for a live show not to be missed. Their debut recording, Disco Blood, was released on Fierce Panda in 2005. Their follow-up single, “Reactor Party,” was released in October 2006.

www.shitdisco.co.uk

JUSTICE VS SIMIAN

soulrocks — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:49:37 +0000

myspace.com/justicevsimian

Hot Chip

soulrocks — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:31:42 +0000

Hailing from London, Hot Chip entered the picture with the release of their 2000 debut, Mexico. The EP was issued by Victory Garden Records, a label owned and operated by members of London’s resident lo-fi psychedelic rock institution Southall Riot. The MexicoEP was a hypnotic wash of subtle — nearly subliminal — pulse-like techno beats, acoustic guitars, and plinky pianos, but the vocals were the true star of the show (no small feat in a musical climate overrun with disaffected Lou Reed-esque mumblers and bland Eddie Vedder impersonators). The voices of Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddardare a fine study in contrast. Taylor offers dreamy, effortless falsettos that cut to the heart of the beauty of performers like Jeff Buckley and Nick Drake (minus any of the pretentiousness ofRadiohead or even Coldplay or the bland vocal acrobatics of Remy Zero). Meanwhile, scattered throughout the record (and in the occasional duet), Goddard offers a tone that sounds a bit more world-weary and at times almost gruff in comparison to Taylor, calling to mind Damon Albarn‘s cool monotone tendencies. Self-released by Hot Chip in 2002, Sanfrandisco E-Pee showed the band dabbling in more playful sounds, from the beatbox dubbing of the title track to the closing notes of “Fanta,” in which Taylor pleads with the listener to “make sounds of the summer.” There are moments of gorgeous melancholy as well, but on the whole the album feels a bit more hopeful than Mexico had. The group signed to revered N.Y.C. record label DFA in 2005 and released the Over and Over EP, as well as the excellent 2006 full-length The Warning. Hot Chip kept busy in 2007 by supporting The Warning with singles and consistent touring, and released a DJ-Kicks mix album. Late that year, the single “Ready for the Floor” heralded the arrival of Made in the Dark, which featured some of the band’s most focused grooves and poppiest melodies to date. The mellower One Life Stand followed in 2010.

http://hotchip.co.uk/

Daft Punk

soulrocks — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:09:55 +0000

In similar company with new-school French progressive dance artists such as Motorbass, Air, Cassius, and Dimitri from Paris, Parisian duo Daft Punk quickly rose to acclaim by adapting a love for first-wave acid house and techno to their younger roots in pop, indie rock, and hip-hop. The combined talents of DJs Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, the pair’s first projects together included Darling, a voiceless indie cover band; their current recording name derives from a review in U.K. music weekly Melody Maker of a compilation tape Darling were featured on, released by Krautrock revivalists Stereolab (their lo-fi D.I.Y. cover of a Beach Boys song was derided as “daft punk”). Subsequently ditching the almost inevitable creative cul-de-sac of rock for the more appealing rush of the dancefloor, the pair released their debut single, “The New Wave,” in 1993 on the celebrated Soma label. Instantly hailed by the dance music press as the work of a new breed of house innovators, the single was followed by “Da Funk,” the band’s first true hit (the record sold 30,000 copies worldwide and saw thorough rinsings by everyone from Kris Needs to the Chemical Brothers).

www.daftpunk.com/

The Chemical Brothers

soulrocks — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:44:32 +0000

The act with the first arena-sized sound in the electronica movement, the Chemical Brothers united such varying influences asPublic Enemy, Cabaret Voltaire, and My Bloody Valentine to create a dance-rock-rap fusion which rivaled the best old-school DJs on their own terms — keeping a crowd of people on the floor by working through any number of groove-oriented styles featuring unmissable samples, from familiar guitar riffs to vocal tags to various sound effects. And when the duo (Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons) decided to supplement their DJ careers by turning their bedrooms into recording studios, they pioneered a style of music (later termed big beat) remarkable for its lack of energy loss from the dancefloor to the radio. Chemical Brothers albums were less collections of songs and more hourlong journeys, chock-full of deep bomb-studded beats, percussive breakdowns, and effects borrowed from a host of sources. All in all, the duo proved one of the few exceptions to the rule that intelligent dance music could never be bombastic or truly satisfying to the seasoned rock fan; it’s hardly surprising that they were one of the few dance acts to enjoy simultaneous success in the British/American mainstream and in critical quarters.

www.thechemicalbrothers.com/

Alex Metric

soulrocks — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:08:16 +0000

With modern electronic music, there’s sometimes a tendency to take things, shall we say, ‘a little too seriously’. All too often producers and deejays get caught up so heavily in the idea of being elitist and ‘underground’ that they forget the idea of music altogether – that it should be built to be enjoyed by as many people as possible. This is not a criticism anyone could consider levelling at British wunderkind Alex Metric, however. As the man himself says, ‘I want my music to reach far and wide. I want to take on the overground without compromising what I do and what I love.” Something which, had you attended any one of countless Metric deejay sets last year, or been in a dark, sweaty club where someone was playing one of his myriad tracks or remixes, you would have witnessed first hand in truly emphatic style.