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| The
Beat Freakers - Live @ Freakout |
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Spooky,
eh? While we have been talking about cutting a live CD for years,
the opportunities never felt quite right. A Halloween gig in 2007
changed all of that. Live @ Freakout is not your mother's "Beat
Freakers." It represents a fully realized modern viewpoint
that we've merely hinted at before. A viewpoint that, quite honestly,
was forged through internal tension. In the end, we decided to scrap
the notion of genres in order to focus on the aspects of electronic
music that have always spoken to us. We think you'll find that this
CD validates the decision, and we couldn't be more excited about
the future. |
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| The
Beat Freakers - Angel Dust Blues |
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| Ah,
Angel Dust Blues. Arguably our most cathardic CD to date. We've held
back our new sound for over a year, quietly going about our business
collecting the most ridiculous breakbeats on the planet. We finally
let it fly on New Year's Eve in Toronto, delivering our best gig to
date and confusing / delighting the hell out of everyone in the process.
The first half of this disc is a logical progression from "Ghetto
Cardio," extremely funky and refreshingly organic. We flip the
switch at minute 35 and never look back. Does it work? Is this our
future? Are people ready for this from us? We hope so. You be the
judge. |
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| The
Beat Freakers - Ghetto Cardio |
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Ghetto
Cardio is the culmination of a wide variety of experiences. Our
assault on clubland has fused remarkably well with our party roots,
refining our tastes in both directions. More importantly, acquiring
a studio and throwing ourselves into production work has completely
changed our approach to electronic music, a fact that you will notice
in some of our more stylish mixes. The Breaks are dirty, the House
is funky, and if you've read my boring commentary to this point,
you're going to love this shit. |
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| The
Beat Freakers - A Cut Above
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We
knew that creating a followup mix to our immensely successful "Underground
Burlesque" would be no easy task, but I don't think we realized
that this disc would take our style in a completely new direction.
Taking our more recent Canadian (we love you Canada) and UK breaks
influences and fusing them together with our traditional big room
house sound proved difficult, but the results more than exceeded
our expectations. In terms of a fully crafted mix, this was our
best effort to date, and is still extremely representative of what
people get from us live. |
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| The
Beat Freakers - Underground Burlesque
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Underground
Burlesque showcases a bit more maturity, but is aimed solely at
the dance floor. Think of this as a fully realized form of "Booyakasha".
We were playing some large gigs at the time, and we wanted to make
a professional package that we could shop around and hand out to
party-goers. Our 1,000 copies went like hotcakes, and the digital
version smashed every record this website has ever had (over 1,200
downloads per month for an entire year). The soulful sounds of Chicago
give way to our unique brand of filtered funk, somehow finding its
way to end with an all-out techno salsa extravaganza. We stopped
messing with Techno after this CD, but I still enjoy the Latin flair
at the end. |
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| The
Beat Freakers - Booyakasha!
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The
mix that started it all and contributed to our genre defying sound.
We did this well over 5 years ago, and boy, does it show. A hodgepodge
of funky / bangin' House and Techno that we were once very proud
of. We must have handed out a thousand of these things, blissfully
unaware of concepts such as "sound quality". Somehow,
it got us bookings. If you want some older tunes and/or want to
hate on us - download away! |
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Original
Productions |
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Beat Freakers - Duck and Cover |
| Funky
Cactus Recordings - Original
Mix / Myagi
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Our
humble beginning into the world of production. An old school Funky
Breaks rocker from us, and an absolutely killer acid laden Nu-Skool
remix from Myagi. Sound
clips can be accessed above.
To
purchase a copy online, visit any of these fine websites -
Funky
Cacus Recordings
United
Records and Sound
Addictech
Records |
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Legendary
Mixes |
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| Orbital
- Live at Maida Vale (July 28th, 2004) |
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| I'm
not about to go into depth about this mix, because quite frankly,
I'm not worthy. Orbital broke boundaries, pioneered electronic music,
and gained notoriety outside of an often ignored niche market. They
also made "The Box," which has my vote as the most inspiring
4 minutes of music that I've ever heard. If you had the pleasure of
seeing Orbital live, this mix should bring back plenty of fond memories.
If you never got the chance, download this and cry yourself to sleep....
you missed out. |
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Guest
Mixes |
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| Adam
Addison - The Art of Noise |
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| Everyone
knows that any art worth its salt is born through conflict. What would
you do if your life was constantly being evaluated and dictated by
a foreign government? I'll tell you what Adam Addison would do...
he'd continue to pump out futuristic sex music for robots designed
to foster their proliferation in direct defiance of god's will. After
reading that, how can you possibly not download this? Be sure to keep
your ears peeled for his original material produced with Canadian
kingpin and all around tall guy Che DuBois under the name of "DuoTone." |
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| Aaron
Robinson - Bassmaster Classic |
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| Aaron
Robison went to the University of Chicago with me, and our friendship
was forged by skipping class and spinning records. I've had the pleasure
of watching him blossom into one of the most unique DJ's on the East
Coast, representing a style that can simply not be pigeonholed. Bassmaster
Classic is no exception, winding its way through funk, soul, rap,
d&b, downtempo, and glitch. It's nice to see that his insanity
is like a fine wine, getting sweeter with age. Nothing but love brother. |
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| Eklectik
Dyslexik - Deeper the House, Sweeter the Groove |
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The Eklectik Dyslexik was born in communist ruled Czechoslovakia
to a band of traveling gypsies. His family life exposed him to a
communal life filled with rhythmic music and folk dancing, which
he would later recontextualize into electronic dance culture. At
the age of 12, he was able to escape Czechoslovakia into Austria
and eventually fled along the Mediterranean coast until he arrived
in Spain, or more appropriately Ibiza, where he discovered acid
house music and all night full-moon beach parties.
While
in Ibiza, T.E.D. was mentored by Mexico's famous deejay and Zappatista
freedom fighter El Blanco Nino. El Blanco, having never mastered
reading a calendar, was under the impression that Spain still suffered
the facist oppression of General Franco. Upon arrival, El Blanco
realized that he needed to occupy his stay another way and their
bond was forged.
As
his name suggests, T.E.D. suffers from a learning disability. Refusing
to give up hope, T.E.D. started a charity fund, which receives 100%
of his deejaying fees - "The Bastard Czechoslovakian Learning
Disabled DJ Fund," to which T.E.D. is the sole recipient of
all donations. Then in 1992 he opened for Oakenfold or some junk.
And one time he went back in time and taught Marshall Jefferson
and Frankie Knuckles how to cut records... or something... Germany's
Love Parade was also totally his idea. |
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| Bryan
Jones - Bangin' Mix |
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Mike
Gillenwater and Bryan Jones have been making music together for
the last 8 years. In 2002 they formed High Caliber and most recently
they have been working on house music. So far they have recorded
for Olive Records, Nocturnal Recordings, Nine Records, Boulevard
Status, Ammo Recordings, Kontrast Recordings, A Squared, Musique
Multimedia and Faded Muzik to name a few.
Some of their records have already been played and charted by some
of the industry's biggest djs including Bad Boy Bill, DJ Dan, Charles
Feelgood, Paul Van Dyke, Angel Alanis, Hatiras, CZR, The Rhythm
Masters, Joey Beltram, Judge Jules, Tall Paul, Vitamin D, Rees Urban,
Stonebridge, and many others. High Caliber has also done remix work
for CZR, Angel Alanis, Rees Urban, and Synthique. Within the last
year and a half High Caliber has sold close to 10,000 copies of
their music worldwide. For more information, check out High
Caliber. |
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| Greg
Carlson - Heaven to Hell (The Techno Power Hour)
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| A
guest on my own site, that's pretty shameful. I don't buy Techno anymore,
but at one point I was an absolute fiend. This was my 2nd Techno demo
made back in the day for radio play, and it actually wasn't too bad.
My favorite part is the voiceover provided by my old roomate, who
is so Eastern European it isn't even funny. |
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