The music today is awesome

[drwex]

OK, in truth this was yesterday's music but I was too busy to write it up then. This is three of my favorite DJs showing off some of their best stuff.

http://djsteveboy.com/groovelectric.html
First off the latest DJ Steveboy mix, titled "Downloadable Soul", is amazing. I particularly like Franklin Fuentes - The Robots (Are Coming) (The Scumfrog on Hudson & Herbert Remix) track and not just because of the name. You can find a bunch of mixes of this track around the Web - it was clearly intended to be a dancefloor staple and lots of people have latched onto it and put their own twist on it. Unfortunately this particular mix is bloody hard to find. The only reliable place I found it was Beatport.

http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=36
At some point I might stop pointing to mixes from Mashup Industries, but probably not soon. Here we have DJ Clivester taking pop-dance Lady Gaga' "Poker Face" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ5uCfwK6qw) and crossing it with funky-pop Princess Superstar's "Perfect" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCLxdFrK4DQ). What could be more fitting to back up these pop confections than a 30-year-old (stop cringing!) Kraftwerk tune, "Showroom Dummies" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuUuBt7nrE). Yes, that really did come out in 1977.

http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=161&Itemid=36
DJ Schmolli is not only a very bad man, he's very funny. If this one doesn't make your head go splodey then you don't have some of the same associations as I do. Beastie Boys is rich remix material, and the combination here is pretty funny.

http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=160&Itemid=36
If that one wasn't metal enough for you then you really need to get this one. Most people in the US never heard Kreator - another of the many German heavy thrash metal bands of the 80s. Metal + gangsta = win!