The fight for diverse and conscious voices

Music tabs. All must be closed, so here goes. Best stuff first this time. Wild variety of styles again.

http://djsteveboy.com/groovelectric.html
http://www5.zippyshare.com/v/41378701/file.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmiInMXo2L4

DJ Steveboy is back. And by back I mean back to that downright dirty new-old electro funky stuff that attracted me to his mixes long ago. It's been a while since he did one of these mixes and when he says "Hit the Funk" you know what you're in for. There are 11 tracks here, of which I've pulled out two for your special attention.

The first is Daniel Hoppe's "Say Say Say (Original Mix)" which is just a brilliant combination of moves. It's funky, but it's got these soaring vocal bits I would more easily categorize as goa or some other middle-eastern influence. And the drums. This one is just... wow.

The second one is Elite Force's "Fear The Pain". I love the little vocal samples in here and the old-fashioned fuzzbox sounds. When I have time I'm going to have to look up more of Elite Force's stuff and see if it's all like this.

http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=341&Itemid=36
DJ Schmolli is also back to his roots, mashing up a modern track (Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling") with some random unknown-to-me German - excuse me, Austrian - artist. As I said to MizA I think some of the appeal of this is that I don't speak German, so Ötzi's voice is another musical instrument and I don't have to worry about picking apart the lyrics. And frell me if the BEP tune still isn't ridiculously catchy.

http://www.mashuptown.com/2010/11/dj-le-clown-get-drunk-.html
http://viprhealthcare.typepad.com/files/evil-whisky-bar.mp3
DJ Le Clown turns out something called "Evil Whisky Bar" that mashes some old-but-still-good Jim Morrison with the modern English band Hadouken (http://www.hadouken.com/). DJ Le Clown gives a little etymology of how the track came together that's worth reading as well.

http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Dels/track/Trumpalump_Joe_Goddard_Remix
A very different feel from the preceding is DELS (Kieren Dickins) doing a laid-back jazzy rap piece. This is not my usual but I love the smooth vocals, gentle backbeats, and the faint English accent doesn't hurt.

http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Deluka/track/OMFG_Lauren_Flax_Remix
Deluka (http://myspace.com/deluka) are sort of airy, sort of eerie, sort of jazzy, and sort of electronica. Damned if I know how to classify either of these two tracks. Part of me thinks I'm back in 1982 listening to Buggles or similar 16-bit synth acts, but with more modern beats and some really lovely vocals.

Next time I think we'll take a dip into some Art of Noise, among other things.