The fight for diverse and conscious voices

Having placed all the other things in the other post, this will be a collection of ... well, mostly house. But not entirely. If you're not in the mood for house you might want to skip to the end.

http://www.djsteveboy.com/manyhouses.html
First up, DJ Steveboy offers an hour-long sampler of some of his favorite house styles. There's prog and electro and deep all mixed in here. It's a fun mix, though I didn't pick out any specific tracks as particular stand-outs. It did inspire me to find some other things, which I've collected into the links below.

https://soundcloud.com/tommiesunshine/the-chainsmokers-new-york-city-tommie-sunshine-apax-remix
Tommie Sunshine gives us his remix of The Chainsmokers' "New York City". I liked the original (https://soundcloud.com/thechainsmokers/new-york-city) when it came out last year but I thought it was kind of repetitive in the middle. This remix is less repetitive and more dance-y.

https://soundcloud.com/gvrv-747544598/gvrv-i-feel-love
Ah, the queen of disco. GVRV's "I Feel Love" is a very standard house take on the track, kind of. It doesn't use as many elements of the original as one would like, but it's a good try.

https://soundcloud.com/pbhandjackshizzle/alan-walker-faded-pbh-jack-shizzle-remix
Another straight-up house dancer from PBH & Jack Shizzle, remixing Alan Walker's "Faded" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ItHLz5WEA). The original is a female-vocal-and-piano pop track with glitch electronica wrapped up in heavy production values. Despite the massive autotune it's not a bad track. Likewise the remix is not bad if you're in the mood for some straight-up house.

https://soundcloud.com/jenergy6/ec-twins-compass-djenergy
Still in the classic house vein, but with better vocals (I think) is Djenergy's "Compass", a remix of the EC Twins track (http://www.blackholerecordings.com/music/albums/ec-twins-compass/). The original is a feel-good dance banger - the remix keeps the power vocals but puts it over more thumpy beat lines and electro sounds. Both are not bad if you're in the mood for that sort of thing.

https://soundcloud.com/bodyheatmusic/msystem-alfa-spider-soundcloud
OK so I promised you all one thing that wasn't house and here it is. An utterly hard-rocking turbofunk track from Msystem. This has so many good chair-dancing things about it I had to include it. It's fast, hot, good horns, funky beats, and bad-ass stuttering electro-funk. What more do you want?

LJ says it's only been about three weeks since I posted music but it has felt like longer. Right now it's on my mind a lot because the latest round of sound driver updates to my home Realtek sound engine hosed the speakers. I can get sound via headphones but I can't use my PC to play music to the room anymore. Grr. Still, I have tabs and will share them.

https://soundcloud.com/divideandkreate/echosmith-cool-kids-divide-kreate-remix
Divide & Kreate remixes the extremely popular indie pop hit "Cool Kids" from a couple years ago. D&K has spiced it up a little and made it beat faster but it still has the essential spare sound of the original.

https://soundcloud.com/gldncollective/romance
Following on mizarchivist's original pointer I continue to find Tove Lo mixes. This one is Flipboitamidies doing an A|B with clean bandit, a rather unusual UK duo (http://cleanbandit.co.uk/). The mix is OK - better than most of the Tove Lo mashes I'm coming across - but I'm actually more intrested in the discovery of clean bandit. I love you, so I share.

https://soundcloud.com/fissunix/5-deaths-of-king-kong
This one keeps coming up in my stream and I'm still not entirely sure if I like it, but it's an interestingly original idea. Fissunix is A|B mashing Mano Negra and The Prodigy. Most Prodigy mixes tend to use things I don't like - this one is "Wall of Death" which I think has the best sort of energy that Prodigy produces. And Mano Negra gets mashed up approximately never, so here you go.

https://soundcloud.com/mashupgermany/mashup-germany-cheerleader-freaks
Mashup Germany again, with a really nice five-way mix of tracks I'm not familiar with. It fronts Timmy Trumpet and I loves me some brass horns so that's nice. I think the vocals work less well than they might, but perhaps I have too high an expectation of what M.G. can do. From anyone else this would be an excellent track - for him it's just average but the track radiates a kind of fun joy that makes it infectious.

--- We now enter the Ummet Ozcan zone ---

https://soundcloud.com/djphase/zedd-ft-selena-gomez-vs-ummet-ozcan-i-want-daftizer-to-know-phase-bootleg
Someone going by djPhase has mashed up an Ummet Ozcan track that I think is his super-popular "Daftizer" (https://soundcloud.com/ummetozcan/daftizerfree) with Zedd's "I Want You to Know", which features the vocals and (ahem) appearance of Selena Gomez. Yes, THAT Selena Gomez, who is now all growed up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X46t8ZFqUB4) and who's doing a respectable job of turning her childhood Nickelodeon image into an adult singing/acting career. Of the three tracks I think I like the Zedd original best, but that might be influenced by watching the video.

https://soundcloud.com/ultrarecords/02-double-exposure-my-love-is
Msystem's remix of Double Exposure's "My Love is Free". It's definitely an electro-dance track, but it draws on soul and disco roots heavily. I picked it out because it features Double Exposure's all-male vocals in a genre that often fronts female vocalists.

https://soundcloud.com/ummetozcan/ummet-ozcan-presents-innerstate-ep-33
Another episode of Ozcan's "Innerstate" pod/setcast. This one has a lot of really nice tracks in it, of which I picked two to feature because they spoke to me particularly.

https://soundcloud.com/nathanc/nathan-c-felix-leiter-this-is-our-night-preview
Nathan C and Feliz Leiter do a trance track that starts out mostly instrumental and then brings in "This Is Our Night" by Sander Kleinberg (http://www.vevo.com/watch/sander-kleinenberg/TION-(This-is-Our-Night)/NLL331100021). This is a track I heard many years ago and had almost completely forgotten about. Then it showed up this rework and I was like, "wait, I know that..." This version is much more high energy, higher BPM and more electro than the original but it's really nice to hear an old favorite getting some new life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH51g1L0i14
Saving the best for last, here's some truly superb vocal trance from Killogy. "Awake" is a showcase for singer-songwriter Angelika Vee (http://angelikavee.com/) whose vocals absolutely soar in this track. My only complaint is that it's too short, but it's definitely got me following Ms Vee to see what else she's doing. It's been a while since I heard a new voice that really got my attention and this track is a great way to finish out a set.