The Others - Never End Mix #26

Few days ago I received a letter. It was from residents of Forma.T parties (you should know this series because of Justice mixes...and not only because of it) - duet from Belgium -  The Others. They recommended their gorgeous mix series Never End Mix. I listened it (not all mixes, because series is huge - 26 mixes!) and now I recommend one of these to you). #26. Last of them) PLAY!

1.Digitalism : Blitz (Villa Remix)
2.Cut Copy : Hearts On Fire (Joakim Remix)
3.Alan Braxhe : Penthouse Serenade
4.Roman Slaguer : Alpha Centauri
5.Tiga : Pleasure From The Bass (Joakim Remix)
6.Seymour Bits : Bonparapara
7.Zombie Nation : Overshoot
8.Louis La Roche : Airwaves
9.Munga : Can’t Keep Holdin
10.Seymour Bits : You Must Be The Bass
11.Moullinex : Superman (Lorenz Rhodes Remix)
12.Sulum : Chaotic Tanzen Der Function (Blende Remix)
13.Acid Washed : Acid Washed
14.Cassius : Till We Got You & Me
15.Sister Sledge : Maquillage Lady

Returnings - Marina Gasolina

I know, for big part of you it isn't a news...but I can't turn my winamp out now. MARINA GASOLINA is back...after death of Bonde Do Role and a years of silence she returns with this. PLAY!)

A Week A Video - Hot City feat MC DT - Twist

Conversation: Ears, My Ears!!! vs Alpha Boy

This is first interview for Ears, My Ears!!! and I decided to talk with one of a most interesting new artists for me - Norman Knight aka Alpha Boy. He is from Berlin, his first EP will out in a two weeks...and I already posted some of his tracks, so I won't tell you nothing more). Read!)

EME: First question - introduce yourself and tell about your first music steps.
AB: I am a young artist from Germany who lives in Berlin city. I would describe myself as a type of artist that always searching for the strong, electronic feelings of music. As a little boy I made my first steps into music with a violin. Some years later came a playstation with music 2000 into my life and that changed everything. It was a fantastic time with many new things which opened me gates to the world of infinite sounds.

Daft Punk is dead by ALPHA BOY  

EME: Hmm..next question...what is your music style? Describe it, please.
AB: My music style is heavily influenced by big and small things around me in my daily routine. It can be a little single sound from a elevator or what someone has said to me. But the biggest influence are the 80´s. All these things of the 80´s, like movies, fashion and music, shape my unique sound which I would describe as the a mix of new wave, electronica and indie dance.

EME: You are from Berlin, and this city stereotypically for me is a totally techno city) So, you had to absorbe some of this style, hadn't you? And what about your musical influences at all? In childhood and now. Are they different?
AB: I have never saw Berlin as a place of techno music because as a child I have heard more classical music. Just say, whether techno music has affected me, I can not because all the styles of the past decades has influenced me. The difference from then to now is that I hear music now much more open and intense, what i did not as a child. Sometimes today i feel like I can breathe the music in.

Rock this by ALPHA BOY 

EME: Interesting)...now let's talk about your music stuff...about process...what do you use and how it is usually going?
AB: The first step of all processes is that I have a idea of a little melody. The following step is that I start to compose the midi notes in my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) and now comes the hardest part. I need many days to found the perfect sounds to get a good harmony of all instruments. The second last part is to make a good mixdown. This part is a detail job. And the last one is the mastering. All these process might take 4-14 days. Its a hard work, but i live for it.

EME: About your name: why Alpha Boy? What does it mean?
AB: In greek meaning of Alpha is "beginning". My live beginns each day anew. "Boy" because I am a young man and I feel like always as a 14 years old boy.

Behind your mask by ALPHA BOY 

EME: With what musician (dead or alive) do you want to work?

AB: Thats a good question. I think I would take Harald Faltermeier. (<====) He was the composer of the soundtrack from Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun....! His music made me what I am today.

EME: Hm...interesting choice...you said "Beverly Hills Cop", you said about influence of 80s on you and because of your music at all I just must to ask you - what is your favorite thing (whatever you want) from 80s? But just thing. Ok, no - two things - material and non-material)
AB: My first choice is a audio cassette and the second one is the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Stardust by ALPHA BOY

EME: And the last question which is not actually a question) - your little chart of now - 3 tracks.
AB: 1. Cassius - Cassius 1999 [Remix]
2. FM Attack - Memorex
3. Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You

A Track A Day - Escort - Cocaine Blues (Mama's Gonna Chop U Out Vinyl Edit By Ewan Pearson)

After great original version of this track (and original-original...I mean, version of Dillinger), I found this (I think, even better) remix by Evan Pearson. I think, it's time for video).

A Track A Day - Chuck Norris - All That She Wants

Mister Todd Terje under one of his aliases...Sorry, I wrote mister? Master!

A Week A Video - Moston & Malente – I Go Round

MOSTON & MALENTE - I Go Round from No Brainer Records on Vimeo.


Very nice video, which is a great add for music line of this track