Some Best Selling Reocrds This Week

Some Best Selling Records This Week
(according to Juno Records)

Reflekt feat. Delline Bass - "Need To Feel Loved" (12" club mix)

Floor filler. Released in 05 and still on top. Tight beat and awsome vocals by Delline Bass. Does the main orchistral sample sound familiar? You might have heard it in the movie Road To Perdition.

Dubfire - "RibCage"

Just released intense beat by one of the members of Deep Dish. This will probably be one of the biggest club hits of the year. Catchy 808 drums and resonated hits and stabs sounds like jingling bones and are apparently driving clubs crazy. RibCage at Womb, Tokyo. I rest my case.

Pryda - "Muranyi"
For those that dont already know , Pryda is Eric Prydz record label. Nothing huge, but the synth line is catchy. I used to be a huge fan of Cirez D, another alias of Prydz, with some fresh house beats, but lately it seems like he has been producing too much, and I just hope he doesnt dry out. Apparently the record getting alot of attention from Carl Cox and Sasha, and other mainstream DJ's.

High Contrast - "If We Ever"

Some seriously fresh Drum and Bass from Hospital records. High Contrast just wont dry out. I Honestly dont understand how he doesnt run out of samples. I cought on with Racing Green about 2 years ago and have been hooked ever since. The vocals are from Diane Charlemagne, if your wondering.

"Till We Meet Again" (feat Inner City - Carl Craig remix)

Another great remix by Carl Crag, a producer based in Detroit. His style is very minimal in all of his remixes. He is also bringing back the deep deep kick that he used in his In The Tree's remix. In The Tree's just so happens to be Juno.co.uk 's best selling record of all time. Maybe this one will do good aswell.

Mothers Pride

Learning To Fly

I would like to open by saying Learning To Fly, in my opinion, is the best trance song ever recorded. I found this sample on Johnny Monsoon's Live Uplifting Trance Set recorded in 3.5.2005. The track comes from a white label single that I cant find, so if you are reading this and you have any info about it please contact me. I believe this is the original recorded in 1998, but it’s hard to be sure because of the many different releases and remixes.

It’s stays simple and clean and flows like water. Not to mention the mesmerizing vocals and hooks that put you into another state of mind. The arrangement of the song is very impressive. This is the main reason to me why it stands out from other trance. It’s like it has two phases, each with a buildup and resolution. Its songs like this that make me wish I born earlier to be able to enjoy them.

When I first heard this song, I was already thinking of ways to remix it. At first, I wanted to do a simpler house mix, but after seeing all of the other house-like remixes released, I decided to take a different approach. Learning to fly (sensual mix) was born. Still, not much in comparison to the original, but its fresh. It stays simple and clean, while produced in a hip hop, or "crunk", if you will, fashion. Like the original mix, the sensual mix is a floor filler. I have tested it myself.

If you like my beat please check my myspace for some other remixes.

Nujabes
Still Talking To You
on Handcuts Japan


Take the name Jun Seba, spell it backward and combine it and you have Nujabes. He is referred to as one of Japan's premier hip-hop artists by Sputnik Music. Comparable to the legendary DJ Shadow, Nujabes music consists of samples from other records. Striving to have a different sound from anyone else, he focuses on samples from Miles Davis, Yusef Lateef , among countless other modal and cool jazz artists. He has collaborated with Shing02, Five Deez, Substantial, and many other rappers from all over the globe in production. Still Talking to You, released in 2003, shows Nujabes instrumental side and his amazing collection of fresh samples. Featuring the placid cover art of Syu , only 1000 copies of the album were released in Japan. The LP consists of two tracks, Still Talking to You on A, and Steadfast on B.

Still talking to You is a perfect example of Nujabes style. The distinct loose kicks and fast hats that make his beats flow along with the rim shots that to me, add his Asian influence. Even though Nujabes has produced a ponderosa of music, his progressive style of starting out with a beat and flowing into an addicting chorus is prevalent in all of his music.

The New Deal


The New Deal's members describe their sound as live progressive breakbeat house, which really means their musical style has too many facets to fit neatly into any genre. Some tracks have an acid jazz feel, some have a strong 4/4 beat for dancing to, and others are slow and simple chillout tracks. Hailing from Eastern Canada, the trio of keyboardist Jamie Shields, bassist Dan Kurtz, and drummer Darren Shearer gets party people dancing all over North America on their sporadic tours.

Unlike most bands that play electronic music, The New Deal doesn't use any sequencers to produce their music. Instead, everything is played live, which is an important part of their engaging, energetic stage presence. But it gets even better. When they're performing, they often improvise the songs they play. They use a system of cues to move shift from one song to the next without stopping, making their shows and their recordings sound like they were mixed by a DJ.

But, enough with telling you what they sound like. For a good sampling of The New Deal, check out Gone Gone Gone on the iTunes Music Store. The title track Gone Gone Gone and VL Tone are both energetic dance songs that show how the live bass and synth play wonderfully together, and are fun to listen or dance to. Homewrecker shows what they can do with an acid jazz concept, and A Little While is an impressive track that combines breakbeat drums, a deep groove on the bass, and smooth, hypnotic vocals to make a really great song. Perhaps the best part about The New Deal's sound is that they have a really decent track for you no matter what mood you're in.

The New Deal hasn't put out many albums, at least not in the usual sense. They recorded The New Deal in 2001 and Gone Gone Gone in 2003, and they released two EP's as well. But what you'll find in record stores barely scratches the surface of their recordings. Part of The New Deal's connection with the audience is that they encourage people to record and share their live performances. Because of this friendly policy toward taping, there are some 155 recordings of The New Deal's shows on the Internet Archive. These are available for free download, so there really isn't any excuse for having no New Deal in your collection.

Whether you get a studio album from a record store, or you browse the Internet Archive for a live jam you really like, you're bound to like at least something The New Deal offers. If you like the smooth chillout sound of The New Deal, I'd suggest you take a look at Massive Attack, Zero 7, Nightmares on Wax, and Thievery Corporation. Lotus is a band that does similar live jams, but they just don't pull off the electro sound as well as The New Deal. The Baldwin Brothers' album, Cooking with Lasers, has a similar progressive-breakbeat-house sound, but with a more present electronic feel to it.