Music News : Daft Punk fever jumps up a notch.

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The recent news of a new Daft Punk album has generated a fair amount of excitement not only within the dance music community but also in various other corners of the music press as well. A 15 second tease within the commercial break of SNL kicked things off a few weeks ago. In the last few days however an extended preview featuring Pharell and Nile Rogers performing alongside Daft Punk themselves made its premier at Coachella. To say that it is awesome is an understatement. It’s almost worth watching just for Nile Rogers’ beaming smile alone.

Things have bumped up another notch (for myself at least anyway) with the appearance of an actual radio edit of the lead track ‘Get Lucky’ on Soundcloud. Some people are reporting it to be a fake. All I can say is if that’s a fake that I absolutely cannot wait to hear the real thing. The track is wreaking of classic Chic-esque goodness thanks to the presence of Nile Rogers and his peer-less guitar sound.

UPDATE : It looks like the track has been taken down. It’s a shame but not really surprising. Maybe it wasn’t a fake after all.

People are understandably looking forward to the forthcoming album. The question beyond that is whether Daft Punk will undertake another tour. Personally I never had an interest in seeing Daft Punk live, and then I heard their 2007 live album. Oh. My. God. Don’t believe me? Have a listen for yourself (but do turn it up loud and use some decent speakers).

Now I am hoping that they announce a live show (my money is on them performing at the O2) and that it won’t cost a small fortune to see them. From where I’m standing it looks as though the soundtrack of summer 2013 could well belong to Daft Punk. Cest Magnifique!

The Vinyl Vault – Forgotten House Classics Mix

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Whoops! Looks like this House Classics Mix actually vanished back from when the website went down. Here it is again.

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Aaaaah good old 12″ vinyl. Them were the good old days.

Stream / Download from here : DJ Paul Nelson – The Vinyl Vault

Tracklisting:

  • Mighty Dub Katz – It’s Just Another Groove (Lisa Marie Experience Mix)
  • Eddie Amador – House Music (Full Intention Mix)
  • BB Club – Play This House (Original Hard House Mix)
  • Big Room Girl ft Darryl Pandy – Raise Your Hands (Rhythm Masters Dub)
  • Heavy Weather – My Love Can’t Turn Around
  • Elevatorman – Funk & Drive (Non Stop Top Floor Edit)
  • Love Tribe – Stand Up (Alcatraz Robs The Bank)
  • Revival 3000 – Mighty High
  • Cevin Fisher ft Loleatta Holloway – (You’ve Got Me) Burning Up
  • Pianoheadz – It’s Over (Distortion) (It’s Over Mix)
  • Funk Junkeez – Got Funk (Heavy On Da Bass Mix)
  • Kosheen – All In My Head (Planet Funk Mix)
  • Subliminal Cuts – Le Voie Le Soleil (1996 Way Out West Club Mix)

For quite a while I’ve been thinking about doing a mix based solely around older House tunes. Sometimes I feel that DJ sets, podcasts and radio shows are so focused on being upfront they forget to look back over the decades worth of forgotten tracks that never get a look in. Of course you always see the classic anthems such as ‘Insomnia’ or ‘Born Slippy’ pop up on compilations and such like but what about the countless other tunes that were big in the clubs at the time but never managed to get beyond that? There’s tonnes of good stuff that when cranked up sounds just as good today as it did back then. (If anything, check out the disco sample on ‘Mighty High’ by Revival 3000, disco samples don’t get much bigger than that.)
It’s also worth noting that some of these tunes are by big names but under a different guise (or from a previous collaboration).
Might Dub Katz = Norman Cook/Fatboy Slim,
Lisa Marie Experience = D. Ramirez
Rhythm Masters = Steve Mac
Revival 3000 = King Unique
So that’s the idea behind this mix, to drudge up some forgotten House classics and give them another airing. That and it gives me an excuse to have a good old look through my record collection. If you like this mix do leave some feedback, this is just the tip of the iceberg as far my vinyl collection goes. There’s plenty more retro stuff to come.

Blondfire – Where the Kids Are (Munkeycop’s Bottle of Pop Mix)

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I recently entered a remix competition as part of my ongoing musical project over at http://12tracks12months.djpaulnelson.com. It was to remix ‘Where the Kids Are’ by Blondfire, the contest is hosted over at Indaba.com. As per my previous Daft Punk remix it was done under my other name ‘Munkeycop’. Unfortunately the media player over Indaba is a bit flaky so I’ve now uploaded the track to Soundcloud.

In the end this remix was 96% made in NanoStudio on the iPhone (the other 4% being split between an iPad and editing the original streams on a laptop). Most of the work was done via an excellent app called Nanostudio (definitely worth a look if you’re into making music whilst on the move).

I’ve remixed the original indie-esque track into a light electronic sounding pop track. It’s a different style than what I would normally make but it seemed to fit the tone of the original track. In the end it was good fun just mucking about with some bouncy electronic sounds and that lovely vocal.

Update : Unfortunately I didn’t win the competition but it was still a good experience remixing the track and interacting with the community over at Indaba (the hosts for the competition).

12 Tracks, 12 Months – Making music with iOS (iPhone / iPad) apps

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For 2013 I have set myself something of a challenge. I have decided to try and spend twenty minutes a day making music. The end of each month will be a cut off point meaning that I must have a finished track at the end of each month. The end result?

12 Tracks in 12 Months

So far all of the work has been done using iOS apps, initially it was thought that the work would be split between both an iPhone and iPad. The reality is that the majority of the work has been done on an iPhone. Thanks to excellent apps such as Nanostudio and Figure it’s quite surprising what you can do with such a small piece of kit, especially one that’s supposed to actually be a phone.

I have also been blogging my progress as the work has progressed. At this time I have a track done for January although sadly it was not finished in time. That said, things are already under way regarding February’s track.

You can listen to my January track below. Click the link above to keep track on my other projects as they progress.

The August 2012 House Mix

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Stream / Download from Here  DJ Paul Nelson – August 2012 House Mix

It’s been a good long while since I uploaded a house mix. In fact I haven’t even uploaded a mix in all of 2012. To remedy that here’s a little something that I’ve thrown together.

Tracklisting:

Bo Saris – She’s On Fire (Maya Jane Coles Remix)
Betoko – Raining Again
Amine Edge & Dance – Going To Heaven With The Goodie-Goodies
NNEKA – Shining Star (Joe Goddard Mix)
Bit Funk – Rap Music
Christian Alvarez – Ghetto Boy
My Digital Enemy – Back to the Mansion
Chuck Roberts/Khrizz Tapia – My House (Khrizz Tapia Bootleg)
Bastards of Funk & Sonic Union – Glitter (Ben Coda Mix)
Eddie Thoenick & Norman Doray – Celsius
Nari & Milani – Atom
Porter Robinson – Language
JoeySuki – Zomp
Zedd & Matthew Koma – Spectrum

If you’re new to the blog you can also access my previously uploaded mixes via this link.

Avicii / Tim Berg – Feeling My Bromance Levels (DJ Paul Nelson’s Bro-Bootleg)

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Yeah I know, I know. The last thing anyone needed was another bootleg of ‘Levels’ by Avicii but I had this idea bouncing around my head and I had to throw it together. So here we have the original Levels track that drops into a little chunk of Bromance in the middle section (I still think that piano riff is a killer) before switching back into Levels again. It’s a simple enough idea but I think it adds a neat little twist for anyone who’s looking to get some more mileage out of this track.

Update : Awwwno. Looks like the track isn’t available right now. Stay tuned for further updates.

Eric Prydz & Martin Luther King – Pjanoo (Free At Last) (DJ Paul Nelson’s Bootleg)

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This is a studio version of a mash-up that I have been performing live over the last few years. I figured I would share it with you over the holiday season.
Using the MLK speech over an instrumental track is hardly an original idea but I’ve always liked the way it blends with the breakdown in Pjanoo especially when the track kicks back in. Over a loud system it always sends a chill down my spine.

Nic Chagall, Rank 1, Wippenberg & ATFC – 100 In & Out Of My Life ( DJ Paul Nelson’s 100 to 1 Bootleg )

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Here’s a little bootleg that I started work on about 6 months ago and left unfinished. I recently came across it and decided to finally complete it.

It’s a bootleg of the big room tune “100″ by Nic Chagall, Rank 1 and Wippenberg. I’ve taken this a mixed it with the vocal from ATFC’s “In & Out Of My Life”. It’s currently on Soundcloud and can be downloaded from there. It’s one of those things that sounds like it shouldn’t really work at all but it kinda does. In fact it’s freakishly coincidental how well some of the vocal phrases interact with elements of the tune underneath.

Capa, Betim B & Ellie Goulding – Your Body Lights (DJ Paul Nelson’s ‘Ortega & Fuente’ Bootleg)

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Here’s a new bootleg that I put together a couple of weeks ago. It takes the vocal from ‘Lights’ by Ellie Goulding and drops it all over the instrumental remix of Capa & Betim B’s ‘Your Body’ by Chriss Ortega and Oscar De La Fuente. Helps yourselves to it, share it, play it out if you’re a DJ. I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks to being mentioned over at www.thefreshbeat.com this track blazed past the download limit on Soundcloud. Sorry if you missed it but if you do a bit of fancy Googling you may still be able to track down a copy somewhere.

Should you wish to buy them, here are links to the original tracks

Ellie Goulding – Lights (iTunes U.K.), Capa ft Betim B – Your Body (iTunes U.S. Only)

To be honest I think this could be the direction this blog takes in the future. Having uploaded a DJ set every month for the last two years I’m thinking it’s time to put them on the back burner for a bit. The plan is to focus more on creating bootlegs and mash-ups along with some new material. Keep an eye on my Twitter account or subscribe to the RSS feed to stay updated on new blog posts.