Ever since the start of college, I've started to listen to a bit more dance/house tracks, due to the influences of my friends at Parsons. After all NYC is known for the nightlife and the club scene, which can be related back to my earlier entry about Mark Ronson. =p (yay it's all related) Plus it's summer and that's like perfect for house/dance tracks, coz we're partying it up ;) hehe
I'm sure a lot of you will know about the track called '
Satisfaction' by Ben Benassi (He's italian). It's a pretty sweet track for those of you who haven't heard it before. There's like 12 diff mixes of the song. They also made 2 diff videos for it coz the
first didn't get much attention. The
second one however reach the top charts, for very obvious reasons. The whole video is pretty sexually explicit. What's to love more? A motionless pic of Ben/The Biz wit mouths moving once in awhile (which actually moves sluggishly as the song progresses...which is rather creepy)? Or a some chic wit ass using power tools? I'm sure it's pretty darn obvious (esp for the guys). Sex sells (remember health class?). The former can be interesting if it was a mini clip/some flash site content...u can even push it and say it's artistic...but i guess i havta say it cant quite compare to the other one. it's even mayb a lil funny, how they juxtapose the definitions of the power tools next to the women. Here's some trivial info:
- The track was featured in the Wendy's and Burger King commercials (here they go with combining fast food with sex imagery again)...
- In the track 'Ultimate Satisfaction' Ludacris also featured the dance track.
Another great house track is '
Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit' by Fedde Le Grand...he's Dutch. Hmm, apart from that i've got not much else to say about him, coz i can't be bothered to read up on him kinda...well he was born in Utrecht (which is also a name of the art store that i go to v. often in NYC and spend ubber loads of cash...coz i'm a freaking poor art student...sighs). Oh, and apparently D12 (yes Eminem's lil crew... ok mayb not so lil) created a vocal version of it. (Anyone who can find some form of the D12's track, feel free to drop us a link!) And basically this track earned Fedde Le Grand plenty of attention.
The last track I'm gona talk about is '
Summer Jam' by the Underdog Project. I believe this is the mix for VS Sunclub...not too sure, correct me if i'm wrong. But I like it better than the original by far, i like the upbeat tempo. it makes it more dance-able =p. (gah now i want to go clubbing. YAY tmrw is friday!!) The track is spose to be a mix of Reggae/RnB. The reggae of it is somewhat watered-down though, i think. But give it a listen and find out for urself =]
This leads me to the final part of this entry. Here's a mix by a friend of mine who goes by DJ RoA. It's a mix of all 3 tracks above, it's called '
System kru In Action'. (okay...so i heard wrong but I swear in 1:40 it sounds like Summer Jam is mixed into it. do u guys hear it? perhaps it's another track that goes 'Put your hands up! Get on the dance floor! heheh[EDIT the track is actually called '
Bounce' by Steve'N King, too lazy to do another paragraph lol]) In order for me to post this song, he personally asks me to tell you guys not to judge it if u listen to it....even if u like it =p. But Enjoy~! ;)
was originally by Roxette. When Edmée joined, the image of the group also changed from an underground happy hardcore (yes happy hardcore is a type of techno apparently, go figure...) music to a pop image which was more widely accepted by radio stations. There's also more that goes on with the image change, but i'll spare u guys of the info, which u can find elsewhere. But here's the original graphic that DHT took on when they were Danger Hardcore Team (right). In comparison check out their present website (link above).