Sooo good with this.
Tracklisting:
1. Cuff – Trap Arnold
2. Horse – Decibel & Devonk
3. Easy Easy – TNGHT
4. Million Dollar Baby – DJ Jayhood
5. Freak U Rite – DJ Deeon
6. Words And Spit – Kidkanevil
7. Tenderly (Tom Wrecks rmx) – Disclosure
8. Nightmare On Figg St. – ScHoolboy Q
9. Trap Shit 7 – UZ
10. Gimme Some More – Busta Rhymes
11. Skeng – The Bug
12. Ugly Feat. Rawkid – T Dogg
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A little about me: Man crush for Evian Christ. This is a mix he did for one Fortyounce London (who happen to have some vurry nice clothing).
Tracklisting:
arclight – holographic (evian christ version)
wanda group – a warm perspective on a liner
vessel – lache
steve peters + steve roden – fade away within
1991 – domination translates directly into efficiency
weit draussen – durch!
julianna barwick – bode
(DL)
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Our dear Nick Bike has been stirring up our coastal waters of Vancouver in all the right places as of late. He’s been with us Schitz for an age to boot. So we thought it best to catch up with the hombre and get some of his words and experience out to you this fine Sunday afternoon. Click play and read on.
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Hey man, how are you? Give us an intro.
Real good. Going to be 23 in February and currently enjoying my new life in Vancouver.
What brought you over to the opposite coast? Was it our ravenous mountain scape?
University life was done in PEI so it was time for change. I’ve
visited Vancouver several times and loved it. No regrets about the
move.
Since your arrival to Vancouver you have shared the bill with a few
big name’s, Ladyhawke & Viceroy to name a couple. Who has been your
personal highlight to share booth / bill with?
I’ve played with Skratch Bastid and Grandtheft a wack of times now – those kind of shows don’t get old. Good individuals to have a conversation with.
How long have you been DJing and producing and which came first?
DJing was first. Been at it for over 4 years now. Haven’t really been
“producing” – let’s just call it being busy ha.
How did you start learning about producing electronic music?
A mix of personal trial and error and a few tutorials on the internet. After I nailed some of the basics I started trying to build things by sampling pieces of other tracks with cool sounds and hits. My friend Sp00nfed taught me a bunch while we were in the process of building our EP.
Tell us a bit about your studio, where and what is it comprised of?
My ‘studio’ is right in my home. Can’t be super loud but my Techs and
DJM800 rest there – along with a microkorg, trigger-finger midi pad,
soundcard, and my Mac running Live 8.
How is your time spent these days? Between being busy and DJing.
I spent a good month on the most recent mix (Bicycle Breaks 1) – this past week I was trying to gather myself for PEI and Halifax. I spend a ton of time listening to new and old music, trying to find the good shit. Just trying to keep up on music alone is a full time job. I make edits for my sets quite often. Usually once a week I trip down to the record store for a dig.
What would you say YOUR style is?
I don’t know, but whatever it is, it’s got to be funky.
How have you gone about developing a sound that you felt comfortable calling your own?
Can’t say I’ve really got to a point where I can call a specific sound
“my style”. Another 5-10 years and maybe my answer will be different.
Would you say DJ’s style is determined by the genre he or she plays?
Perhaps, but style can also be found by the way a DJ mixes, their
overall flow, crowd interaction, or specific skills or techniques that
stand out.
Your an intelligent gent. What do yo think you’d be doing had you
not become a jockey of the discs?
I still work a real job at the hospital, and I have my business degree
– so something in either of those 2 most likely.
Word up is your a dope scratcher. Can you speak to that?
Haha I will reserve the term ‘dope’ for dudes like Hedspin, Bastid,
and Gaff. I’m still very much a soldier in training.
What is Remix 86?
Remix86 is a music blog based out of Newfoundland – mostly focusing on house, disco, good dance vibes, etc. A good place to keep up on that kind of stuff and provides some light reading and feedback.
Your up on your web presence. Where can people keep up with you?
Facebook, Twitter, and Soundcloud are all frequently updated. These
can be tapped into on my website – www.djnickbike.com
Originally posted on Schitz Popinov
A Thousand Years has produced what may be the most broad genre encompassing record of the year; Farmers in Fields of Stars. Leaned out progressive R&B is most likely the most accurate way to verbally convey the overall sound of this record.
From beginning to end one experiences a feeling of uncertainty as to what is going to leak into your ear and from what corner of your memory one is going to reminisce with next. To say that this record is a nostalgia trigger is an understatement, however a more judicious expression is out of grasp at this time. I feel as though Zeké Africa’s father’s Jazz background, and probable influence, has had a significant bearing on A Thousand Years style as it is today. There is an uncanny progression from track to track that continues throughout the debut EP of the London based artist which must stem from Jazz.
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Farmers in Fields of Stars is available for pre-order HERE.
Released by: King Deluxe Records
Release/catalogue number: KING015
Release date: Oct 1, 2012
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02. Where I Wanna Be :: Maybe I’m on a lone island obliviously unaware of what is going on in the world but to the best of my knowledge this is the first, I’m going to go with modernization, modernization of Nas’s ‘I Can.’ #Standout
04. Bake Take :: Lil Wayne is going to be relapsing back to styrofoam cups filled with whatever prescription durgs he was taking mixed with grape Arizona when he get’s wind of this through the grapevine. #Standout
05. Have To Tell You :: Kids, there’s something we have to tell you, keep calm, it’s progressive house. #Standout
BONUS :: All These Worlds Are Yours Mix
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Icing on the cake, valentines swag. Today we have Blondtron. A dynamite Vancouver funker doing it across the pond in Berlin. These few words only just begin to lend you an impression of her fun time demeanour. Read on yall, good time’s ahead.
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Who are you, where ya from, where are you now?
I’m a foul mouthed lady of the night. I’m from Victoria and Cortes Island and at this moment I just got back to my riad in Marrakech after a long day on a camel.
How’s Berlin livin?
Cold, German and totally inspiring.
Can you give some words on your time in Vancouver as a DJ and how you got started.
I got started as a DJ in Vancouver playing rock tunes in the gorilla cage at El Furniture Warehouse. I was paid in tacos, tequila and unlimited peanuts. Then a friend, Chris Goodspin who ran a DJ collective let me play some tunes here and there at the Urban Well and Sky Bar. I used to come over from Victoria with my fake ID and a few records. I was a total booth rat. I went to sound and audio engineering school at AI and met a lot of great people through that. I took what I could get gig wise. Then I was accepted to the Red Bull Music Academy in 2006. After I came back from that I started to get a lot more opportunities…. even played with the Schitz crew… HOLLA!
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As a Vancouverite what kind of experience and style do you think you’ve taken over to Berlin with you?
Vancouver is a great hip-hop and indie rock city, Vancouver DJs know how to blend the two and keep everyone in the room happy. It doesn’t have much of a minimal and house scene. I get bored of deep house tracks and I love hip hop and indie. Not to say I don’t like deep house and minimal, I do, I like all genres. But I think I bring a hip-hop/tropical/raw element to everything I play. I can’t get enough of it. I have to put some sort of chopped vocals or rap on EVERYTHING. I don’t like that over produced sound, I love baile funk, new orleans bounce and juke. It’s kind of punk rock in that it’s raw. I like to blend the rawness with the deepness and smoothness of minimal. I think I bring the sensibility of a Vancouver DJ that has to keep a mixed room happy and mix it with the deep sounds of Berlin… at least that’s what I’m trying to do.
Berlin’s night scene is vastly different from Vancouver’s but what are some differences you’ve found and did not expect.
Last week I saw a dude drinking a beer with his pitbull in H&M waiting for his girlfriend to try on jeans. People can bring their dogs everywhere and drink where they like because they learn from an early age how to regulate themselves, and be smart and have fun. It makes for a totally different kind of crowd in a club. People respect music and DJs. They very much go to listen to what the DJ is playing. A Berliner could never fathom walking up and telling the DJ to play something because it’s their birthday. I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to headliners playing at 10AM. It’s just bananas, my friends will go to sleep at 8PM, wake up at 5AM, start drinking and go see their favourite DJ. It absolutely kills me!
How long have you been DJing and what got you started?
I’ve been DJing for about 9 years now if you count the 2 years in my bedroom train wrecking chicago house with techno at 33rpm (I didn’t know there was a 33 and 45 for like….longer than I’d care to admit.)
I had played a show at Cortes Island Music fest with my so called band, after we played I ate some fungi of the magical variety and was mesmerized while the DJs played… when I was returning some gear to Long & McQuade from our show I was like “Give me everything I need to be a DJ!” They would give financing to a goat so I walked out of there with everything. I got home and opened the boxes and was like “Oh, I have to put it together? shit.” I finally figured it out (sort of) then spent every spare dollar on records.
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Where you listening to anybody in particular that inspired you to get behind the decks?
Not really, Benny Benassi?! I was 17 and had a fake ID and thought I was the SHIT. I didn’t have the internet (HOW DID I LIVE?) so I’d hang at the A & B sound listening bar and just listen to random stuff. I liked house, techno, hip hop, whatever. First records I ever bought were Tiga’s remix of Heartbreaker, a Matthew Johnson EP and The Best of Tribe Called Quest double EP.
Did you have a musical background before you began DJing?
My dad is super musical and let me play all his instruments. We actually had a family blue grass band and would play at old folks homes. I rocked the fiddle and dabbled in a few other instruments, harmonica, ACCORDION (totally a hit with the boys) and settled on guitar because it was too hard to sing and play violin and accordions are just too sexy for a pretty young girl like myself.
What was your first DJ set up?
2 tech 12’s, shitty numark 3 channel mixer.
What are you working with now?
Serato, but I’m in the middle of switching to the APC 40 and Abelton. When I first got back from RMBA in Melbourne I was totally sold on DJing with Ableton, there’s just so much you can do with it, it fits my ADD style of mixing perfectly. But DJs were like “Oh she can’t mix, she’s using Ableton.” It’s hard enough being a girl starting out, there’s so much more to prove so I stuck with Serato. Now it’s like, who gives a flying fuck if you can mix two records together, big deal you neanderthal! Do something interesting!
What advice can you offer to aspiring female DJ’s?
First off, ask yourself if you’re djing for the right reasons… that goes for everyone. I don’t think it’s particularly impressive being a DJ unless you yourself feel like you are really doing something, if you feel like you’re really creating something for yourself and you’re truly enjoying your time in the music. Being a DJ is totally lame otherwise! I’m trying to change the way I do things so I feel fulfilled. I was getting a bit jaded in Vancouver and so I asked myself what my fucking problem was and the answer was I felt like a big phony. I was playing music and getting paid to drink and party but I felt like a big empty douche bag. I wasn’t creating anything I was really proud of. I had to remove myself completely from that situation and take a long look in the mirror (Insert pathetic, life-changing movie montage here). Now that I’m in Berlin I don’t know as many people so I have more time to myself and the people I am meeting are creators. I feel empowered to create… a lot! So I think that’s the most important thing.
As for the female aspect of getting in the industry, surround yourself by people that inspire you. Betti Forde has always been a huge inspiration and friend to me, she’s a fireball of feminist awesomeness. If I’ve learned anything from her it’s that it’s okay to have a giant mouth and lots of opinions. It’s okay to use your sexuality to get ahead. Wear a fucking push-up bra if you want to. Who cares? Go naked or wear a snuggie, do whatever makes you happy and do it for yourself. If you own what you do then people won’t try and oppress you or fuck you over, they’ll know that they just can’t. It’s okay if people hate you. As women we are more inclined to try and make everyone happy but you’re never ever going to make everyone happy. The longer you do this and the more success you have the more people are going to talk shit and be little pricks. Just always show up with your gear in order, be on time and do your thing.
Footnote:Sorry for swearing so much! Morrocan wine is delicious.
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LOL Boys, what do say about LOL Boys? Unique, uninhibited, experimental, crazy, composed, freestyle, light hearted, playful electronic music from Canadian and LA based composers/ orchestrators/ musicians/ artists. I’m really no good at these intro’s but for reals LOL Boys are a big part of a more experimental brand of electronica making it’s way into this and the subsequent future.
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Introductions first, who are you guys and where are you from originally?
Markus lives in Montreal, Quebec Canada and is a virgo. Jerome lives
in Los Angeles, California and is a Cancer. But we are both citizens
of the internet.
Now, I know you two met on an internet message board and collaborated for a remix competition. Is it a place you’d recommend to aspiring producers or up and comers?
Weirdly enough we didn’t meet on an actual music forum. See, We were both avid fans of fitness and working out and met on a forum for that kinda stuff. There was a section on tunes you play when you work out and we noticed we both were into dj-ing and producing from that…
Not really an ideal place for producers or up and comers. More if you want to get into power lifting or need a good protein shake recipe.
Any up and comers that you can recommend?
Floyd Campbell, Dj Soulja Man, Rhythm Method, Dj Funeral, Goldffinch,
Octo Octa, Mokona, Mess Kid, Baauer, Morri$
Total musical freedom is obviously important to you. Who have been some names that have encouraged this and helped get you exposure all in the same?
We just wanted to make tunes and have a good time. We both are crazy about music and pull influences from so many sources so our sound is really hard to define but there is a definite vibe and energy we try to put in to everything we do!
Blogs.
How would you say that they’ve propelled electronic music to what it is today?
To a certain extent blogs/bloggers were very important and have changed the face of music journalism. Print mags like Fact, Urb and Xlr8r have become blogs now. They are definitely beneficial to the music scene as far as creating exposure and awareness. Things like tumblr and soundcloud have changed where people go to dig up music as well as sites that just pull info from every blog and re-blog. Now though as the internet continues it’s evolution we’ll just have to sit back and watch the progression.
Visually, your videos, your cover art, bills and overall web presence has a pretty distinct and unique style. Whats the influence?
Our visual aesthetic came from us just searching the far reaches of the internet. We really wanted to create a visual world for our music. Even if it’s not personally what the listener or fan visualizes when they listen. We wanted to give them something. It used to be if you liked a band you’d get a cd or lp filled with imagery. Or you’d get cool flyers or pins. We wanted to do the same, give the people something semi tangible.
The internet artwork is a reflection of our place in the music world. We are on the internet and we have an internet based moniker. We use the internet to make songs. We both also actually went to university for artistic related majors.
How big a part are visuals to your live sets?
We haven’t worked on incorporating it yet. We are definitely into the idea and often think about how to fit it in. We’ve also been asked to do art shows and have videos and print outs of our imagery. Something we’d love to do.
You guys are based hundreds of miles apart, there are no doubt some obvious advantages and disadvantages to this but how ofter will you meet for a live show?
Actually, it’s pretty easy for us to meet for shows. It’s just 2 plane tickets. We’ve done a bunch of shows together and bunch separately. We definitely prefer to play together. It’s just a lot of fun. Yeah, sometimes being far apart has it’s disadvantages but it’s best just to focus on the positive side of things and keep doing what we do.
Is production a higher priority for LOL Boys in the new year? Or live shows? More to the point, what’s in store for the new year?
We’ll have at least 2 new eps this year. Probably a lot more collaborations. One of our collaborations will be out next month on Unknown to the Unknown. It’s a collabo with Hot City and the ep is called “LOL CITY”. Our highly sought after bootleg of T2’s ”Heartbroken” aka “Moments in Heartbreak” is out the next day (feb.14th). We’ll have a new og track on the templar compilation sound cd. We definitely want to play a lot more. And write a ton more music. So, both are equal priorities.
PS. The intro track ‘List Them’ off Bubbles is something that I play all the time. It strikes me as subtle genius. Just curious as to what the thought was behind the making of the track.
When we first started the EP we had a track called “POP THEM”, then
we had ”ROLL THEM”, so every song we decided to name it “________ THEM”. So, “List Them” is just us singing the track titles to every song.
And at the moment I’m really digging Grown Folks stuff. How’d they come to remix your ‘Runaways?’ Did they contact you or vise versa?
Markus used to throw parties with Drew from Grown Folk. When Drew started Grown Folk with Brendan, We edited there first tune “Steady Moving” and they wanted to return the favor so, we sent over ”runaways”. They’re a really awesome producers/dj’s and good friends. We’ve collaborated on a few tunes and will probably continue.
