JOHNNY BOY - you are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve

Sometimes there are songs, that catch the atmosphere of a time better than any speech of a politician. If you want a metaphor of the economic world crisis, take the song title "you are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve". How good is that? But, strange with this one: London's Johnny Boy wrote and released this song over two years ago. How did they know by then? Spooky, isn't it?
Musically this is pure Pop-heaven! Sounds like a Phil Spectoresque "wall of sound" production (could be a Ronettes song), mixed with the attitude of The Clash! They have an album, which is worth buying, so check them out.

>>>JOHNNY BOY - you are the generation that bought more shoes
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www.myspace.com/johnnyboyuk

PHOENIX - 1901

...it's 4pm and what a great way to start my new blog:
Phoenix just released a new song from their upcoming album through their website. It is called "1901".
Phoenix for me are a little bit like an old friend from school. I am not seeing them very often, but every contact or sign of existence makes me feel warm and happy. There is hardly a "living" band, that found its way so deep into my soul, because they were with me in situations, where i needed a remedy for my soul, which for me is the best way to describe "the sound of Phoenix".
Years ago i split up with a girlfriend and felt really dark, shitty and depressed (you know how that feels...). I decided to escape the Berlin winter and my crap state of mind to the south of Portugal for a week and the day before i left, i bought "United", the first album by a new french band called Phoenix. It really changed my life, no shit! The CD did not leave my Cd-player for a whole week (truth). There was a warmth in their music, that really worked like medicine to me. When i came back, i felt so much better and the reason was honestly "United" (lets say combined with the south of Portugal...).
Few months later i was going to play a festical in Mallorca with le hammond inferno and guess who was going to be there, too: yep, Phoenix!
I was feeling really special about seeing them play live. But that wasn't so easy. They were stuck on the airport, because all of their band equipment arrived ages too late on the island, so they almost did not play at all. They were put back in the line-up from a 8pm slot to later to later to later to... very late in the night, but they came and they played without any sound/linecheck at 3 in the night.
The festival was called "Isladencanta" and it was situated in the middle of the island in a valley between some mountains and the site was breathtakingly beautiful. For some reason there was hardly any audience there, but it looked amazing, because behind the big stage there was a mountain and on the mountain was a small cemetery. so you looked at the band and because there was no backdrop, you could see the graves in the back.... (do i need to say more...?).

They played and it was... well, you know how it was...

Coincidence happened, that we shared the same shuttle bus back to the Hotel after our shows, so i was sitting there with Phoenix, feeling like a small kid... I gathered all my strength and told them the story about "United" and my Portugal and they reacted so touched, it really meant something to them, i felt. I will never forget that special ride in the bus my whole life. They were extremly nice people (as they still are now) and until today i deejayed several times for their shows so we meet from time to time...

But: I AM SO HAPPY THERE WILL BE A NEW ALBUM SOON!
It will be out in may and has the fantastic title "Wolfgang Amdeus Phoenix". Here is a first song from it. Enjoy it as much as i do and if i bored you with my long private story: i don't care!

There is also a dj-mix compilation "Kitsune Maison 6" available by Phoenix on Kitsune. check it out!

>>>>PHOENIX - 1901
(yousendit)



http://www.wearephoenix.com/
http://www.myspace.com/wearephoenix

LEMONADE

This is simply amazing and in a world of it's own! No big words from my side on this one: Imagine Primal Scream with Andrew Weatherall (era Screamadelica), DFA-style beats and coolness, a bit of Flaming Lips, some 90s Rave elements, oriental samples and a psycheldelic fucked up feel. This is pop-art and sounds like nothing on earth so far. They have a six track EP (CD @ juno and download @ other music) out which will be one of my top 5 records of 2008! Also yours? Get it while you can!!!!

>>>LEMONADE - blissful
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>>>LEMONADE - Big Weekend (Delorean rmx)
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http://www.myspace.com/bananasandecstasy

BAGGY LEGGINS - Run Da Roses (Fools Gold Booty)

It's really difficult to add something great to "Fools Gold" by The Stone Roses, because it's so fucking good anyway! Here the guys from Baggy Leggins (no clue, who they are... yes! I love it, they don't even have a myspace-site) have cut the track to pieces and then added some Hip Hop vocals from RUN DMC & DAS EFX ("real Hip Hop") and "BANG", there you have a track that will destroy any decent party in a second.
This track is only the b-side of a 7 Inch. Tha A-side is a really weird and mindblowing booty of a lazy Ethopian tune called "GIRMA BEYEN" redone with heavy b-boy beats and crazy bass. Get it (while it lasts) at Juno.

>>>BAGGY LEGGINS - Run Da Roses
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the picture is the original artwork of the Stone Roses 12". Like all fantastic Stone Roses artworks it was painted by John Squire himself, the guitarist of The Roses. Below is a link to his fine arts. (listening to the music he released since he left The Roses, he should really stick to the art...)
http://www.john-squire.com/art

DJ SUPERMARKT: that was 2008 for me...! (list shit galore)

Well, hello, here it finally is, my end of the year 2008 list (nerd)-madness, that you all (well mainly the two people that asked me about it) waited for. It took a while, cause I can tell you, it's a hell of a lot of work (...but it's fun, i must admit).
In general it's the follow-up to last years list-shit 2007. Here is how it works: I am always chosing the music, that i REALLY listen to and love the most (or played in clubs), not the stuff, i think is "important" (like i see in many music-magazines). So - for example - the album of Hot Chip (a band i love) is not in my top twenty because i just can not listen to the whole thing. It's too quirky for me, but i love "ready for the floor", which is in my single-lists. I guess you get it...! (Sorry...)
The Cut Copy album for me is the best POP - album 2008 by miles, with great songwriting, ace melodies to sing along, amazing production by the DFA-guys and in the end a collection of 15 possible singles. I know it is successful (commercially) in many countries (it went to no.1 in the Australian charts), but somehow Warner Brothers (label in Germany) really fucked it up here, or forgot to release. It completely drowned. Can you beleive that the album is not included in any!! German music magazine end-of-the-year top 50. Hello? It is all over the internet, blogs etc... I guess it says a lot about the blocked horizon of German music-journalists. "The sky is the limit"... (seems the internet is somewhere hidden behind the sky...!)
Small change: I had to split up the favorite-club-tunes in two lists, because i LOVED (and tried to play) two diffrent styles of clubmusic this year: electro-disco (for smaller clubs and not overdrugged audiences) and fidget-banger-house (for spain...)!
And to finish i listed the bands, that i think (and hope from the bottom of my heart) should be big in 2009. Looking at my "big in 2008"-list of last year i have to admit that my ability to forsee the future is not too bad: i listed Duffy, Vampire Weekend, Crookers, Friendly Fires, Late Of The Pier, Hervé a.o. But, on the other hand, what ever happened to Scouting For Girls, Mitchell Brothers...
I hope you enjoy these lists as much as i enjoyed doing them, and of course feel free to tell me what you think about it (and who i forgot...).
And - of course - in the next days i will upload my traditional "best of 2008"-compilation for you...

And here is my favorite song of 2008. I posted it already some time ago and it is probably the most downloaded track of berlin battery 2008 (more than 3500 downloads only on z-share). So it looks like maybe you sometimes agree on my musical taste... As far as i know this song still is unreleased (it legally spread through the internet only)... wow, how cool is that?! Thank you Friendly Fires!

>>>FRIENDLY FIRES - I'm good I'm gone (Lykke Li cover)
(yousendit)


and here we go...


albums:
1. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
2. Lemonade - s/t
3. Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
4. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
5. James Yuill - Turning Down Water For Air
6. Metronomy - Nights Out
7. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
8. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
9. Little Joy - Little Joy
10. James Pants - Welcome
11. Santogold - Santogold
12. Friendly Fires - s/t
13. Dark Captain Light Captain - Miracle Kicker
14. Vampire Weekend - s/t
15. Kidda- Going Up
16. Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
17. Lykke Li - Youth Novel
18. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t
19. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
20. Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel


compilations:
1. Belle & Sebastian - The BBC Sessions
2. The Rapture - Tapes
3. Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Ark 1
4. D-i-r-t-y Soundsytem - Dirty Edits Vol 2
5. Compass Point Story - Funky Nassau
6. The Greatest Hits of GAMM records 2
7. DiscoNotDisco - Post Punk, Elektro & Leftfield Disco Classics
8. Berlin Battery - Re-Dubs, Edits, Booties, Shredits and more


pop-songs:
1. Friendly Fires - I'm Good I'm Gone (Lykke Li cover)
2. Roberty Wyatt & Bertrand Burgalat- This Summer Night
3. Yacht - Summer Song
4. Gonzales - Slow Down
5. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
6. Flairs - Trucker's Delight
7. Air France - Collapsing At Your Doorstep
8. Peter Fox - Haus Am See
9. Single - Honey
10. Flamino Crash - It's Mystery Music
11. Plugs - This Number
12. Kotchy - She Made It Easy
13. Bodi Bill - I Like Holden Caulfield
14. Esser - Headlock
15. Chairlift - Evident Utensil & Bruises
16. The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go
17. Alb - Sweet Sensation (Breakbot rmx)
18. Magistrates - Make It Work
19. Jamie Lidell - Another Day
20. Bonaparte - Too Much


electro-disco:
1. Metronomy - Heartbreaker (Diskodeine rmx)
2. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance ((Twelves rmx)
3. In Flagranti - Business Acumen
4. Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Chromeo rmx)
5. Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane rmx)
6. Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (Soulwax rmx)
7. Holy Ghost! - Hold On
8. Ting Tings - Great Dj (Calvin Harris rmx)
9. Munk - Down in LA (Shazam rmx)
10. Pnau - Baby (Breakbot rmx)
11. The Hours - See The Light (Calvin Harris rmx)
12. Cut Copy - Lights & Music (Boys Noize rmx)
13. Juan Maclean - Happy House
14. David Rubato - Circuit (Siriusmo rmx)
15. Telespazio - Telemetric
16. Erobique - Endorphinmachine
17. Studio - Westside (Klumpfisk rmx)
18. Depressed Billionaires - Coconuts
19. Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve rmx)
20. Tame Impala - Heart Full Of Glass (Canyons Drunken Rage rmx)


club bangers:
1. Kidda - Under the Sun (Hervé rmx)
2. Basement Jaxx - Twerk
3. Beni - My Love Sees You
4. MSTRKRFT - Bounce (Mansion rmx)
5. Malente & Dex - Hyperactive (Bobmo rmx)
6. Riva Starr - Squash
7. Count & Sinden - Beeper (Fake Blood rmx)
8. LCD Soundsystem - Us vs Them (Go Home Productions rmx)
9. Yuksek - Deladeu 2
10. Hervé - Cheap thrills
12. Hostage - Hoot
13. MGMT - Kids (Soulwax rmx)
14. Teenagers - Love No (tepr rmx)
15. Sawtooth Sucka - Depressed Mode
16. Sonny J - Can't Stop Moving (The Young Punx rmx)
17. Fake Blood - Mars
18. Surkin - White Knight Two
19. Tyken - Let It Rain (Trevor Loveys rmx)
20. Fatboy Slim- Rackafella Skank (Riva Starr rmx)


big in 2009?:
Mr. Hudson
Lemonade
Cut Copy (HELLO!!!??? Germany, WAKE UP!!!!)
The Canyons
Lullabies In The Dark
Esser
Knightlife
Breakbot
Siriusmo
Empire Of The Sun
Housse De Racket
David E Sugar
Mayer Hawthorne
Holy! Ghost
Little Boots
Tame Impala
Plugs
Lord Skywave

a compilation of weird & mellow 2008 pop by dj supermarkt

...same procedure as last year! I handpicked some of my favorite songs of 2008 and they should all add up to a perfect soundtrack to a nice lazy sunday afternoon on your couch. Musically - as usual - it is all life-changing, unusual pop music, a bit electronic, a bit folky, but with a small disco-itch, completely obscure as well as well known. I would describe the vibe of all these songs "warm", not the worst thing for a period, where people in the south of France are freezing to death...
Well, simply said, this are some of the tracks that made me LIVE & BREATHE & SURVIVE 2008. Maybe the music inspires you, too. I hope so.

Artists included are Breakbot, Single, Plugs, James Yuill, Metronomy, Bertrand Burgalat/Robert Wyatt, Of Montreal, Esser, Kotchy, Chairlift, Air France, Peter Fox, Gonzales, Jamie Lidell, Friendly Fires, Mr. Hudson.

(oh, if you look for the actual tracklist, look at the comments below... ;-) i guess you know why...)

15 tracks, zip-file, 85mb:
>>>...how i survived 2008 by dj supermarkt
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(celebrate) the day after you... by The Blow Monkeys

hi opossums. This is my first post for some time now, as i had to take a holiday from my head to get a new "mind dimension...mind dimension...mind dimension...".
I actually wanted to do this post on the day that George Bush left the oval office, so sorry for the delay.
Uk popsters The Blow Monkeys released "(Celebrate) the day after you", a great housy pop-song in 1987 as a clear message to the then-Prime-minister of the UK Maggie Thatcher ("the iron lady") to...well...disappear. There are a lot of similarities between Bush and Thatcher, because both politicians led their country in a big crisis. The discontent of the people in both countries/times grew so strong, that lots of artists finally became active in resistance. In 1987 there was the Red Wedge movement, a collective of musicians, that found together in the aim to help stop the conservative governement. Head of Red Wedge was Billy Bragg, but also Paul Weller & The Style Council, Jerry Dammers/The Specials and many more (a.o. The Blow Monkeys) gathered for free concerts to raise awareness, support strikers etc. I actually was a fan of all these bands even before, so when they joined i got really interested in their matter.
The original version of "(Celebrate) the day after you" was on The Blow Monkeys's third album "She was only a grocer's daughter" (the title was another insult on poor Maggie). It is already clearly influenced by early House-music. Soon after the band was one of the first Uk-pop-bands to turn into a House-project (alongside Style Council and ABC), which did not really help their success. It features guest vocals from Soul-legend Curtis Mayfield. If you are not familiar with this great pop band, check out their best-of CD as a starters set. it is worth every penny it costs nowadays.

>>>BLOW MONKEYS - (celebrate) the day after you (extended remix)
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www.theblowmonkeys.com

LAUREL CANYON - a mellow mix of groovy 70's softrock/Westcoast M.O.R.

You have to be really strong for this one: for some time now i dig deeper and deeper into the 70's world of softrock/M.O.R., the music that i connect to california radio stations, that you listened to in the early seventies while driving desert highways on the westcoast of the USA with some big car in a very slow tempo. For me this contains no irony at all, this is BIG MUSIC, with big compositions, big arrangements and over all bands with (extremly) BIG EGOS.
I guess I am not alone with this hidden passion, as recently lots of modern bands are influenced by softrock (some without admitting...): a.o. Gonzales, Midlake, Phoenix, Zoot Woman, Air, Josh Rouse, Republic of Loose, Sebastian Tellier, Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve, Black Ghosts, Tele or The Autumn Defense discovered this recognizable "warm" sound for themselves. Of course we all know that softrock went horribly wrong ("hell freezes over") in the late seventies and had to be killed by PUNK (thank god). But as with every movement, there were lots of unusual, new ideas, unforgettable great songs and - here especially - great stories (i recommend the book: HOTEL CALIFORNIA by Barney Hoskyns about "singer/songwriter and cocaine cowboys in the laurel canyon"). For me some of the greatest music ever made came out of this....
So I "simply" compiled my favorite 19 tracks for this "starters"-set and included lots of radio-jingles, speech, commercials to make it sound like a real California-radio show from the 70's. It includes some big names and also some really obscure guys, that were not successful back then (and now). Musically the songs range from classic singer/songwriters to megalomania-bands to the disco-influenced mid seventies singer/bands. This is not a folk-mix, all songs are groovy, some of them are played by the greatest studio-musicans ever (The Section). Besides, Browning Bryant's backing band were the original, legendary funk-band The METERS. Rupert Holmes once said in an interview that this is the last period in music history, where a "not so attractive" person could become a successful star (remember it was way before MTV). Oh, and this mix features one of my all time favorite lyric-lines: "Midnight at the Oasis, sing your camel to bed"! This is a very special trip. Dare to take it... and OPEN UP!

(19 songs, 67 min., 92mb)

tracklist:
01. AM/FM Intro
02. CHICAGO - Saturday in the park
03. BROWNING BRYANT - Liverpool fool
04. DOOBIE BROTHERS - What a fool beleives
05. LIVINGSTONE TAYLOR - I'll come running
06. FIFTH DIMENSION - Magic in my life
07. BOZ SCAGGS - Georgia
08. DANNY KORTCHMAR - for sentimental reasons
09. ARETHA FRANKLIN - Until you come back to me (that's what i'm gonna do)
10. RUPERT HOLMES - Get outta yourself
11. AMBROSIA - Holdin' on to yesterday
12. ACE - How long has this been going on
13. CARPENTERS - Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
14. MARIA MULDAUR - Midnight at the Oasis
15. BOB MCGILPIN - I'll always come a runnin'
16. GEORGIE FAME - Peaceful
17. BABY GRAND - Bring me your broken heart
18. SEALS & CROFT - Earth
19. PHILAMORE LINCOLN - Temma Harbor
20. COLIN BLUNSTONE - I don't beleive in Miracles
21. Bad Pizza Geno's commercial Outro

>>>LAUREL CANYON DJ Mix by dj supermarkt.mp3

PHOENIX - 1901

...it's 4pm and what a great way to start my new blog:
Phoenix just released a new song from their upcoming album through their website. It is called "1901".
Phoenix for me are a little bit like an old friend from school. I am not seeing them very often, but every contact or sign of existence makes me feel warm and happy. There is hardly a "living" band, that found its way so deep into my soul, because they were with me in situations, where i needed a remedy for my soul, which for me is the best way to describe "the sound of Phoenix".
Years ago i split up with a girlfriend and felt really dark, shitty and depressed (you know how that feels...). I decided to escape the Berlin winter and my crap state of mind to the south of Portugal for a week and the day before i left, i bought "United", the first album by a new french band called Phoenix. It really changed my life, no shit! The CD did not leave my Cd-player for a whole week (truth). There was a warmth in their music, that really worked like medicine to me. When i came back, i felt so much better and the reason was honestly "United" (lets say combined with the south of Portugal...).
Few months later i was going to play a festical in Mallorca with le hammond inferno and guess who was going to be there, too: yep, Phoenix!
I was feeling really special about seeing them play live. But that wasn't so easy. They were stuck on the airport, because all of their band equipment arrived ages too late on the island, so they almost did not play at all. They were put back in the line-up from a 8pm slot to later to later to later to... very late in the night, but they came and they played without any sound/linecheck at 3 in the night.
The festival was called "Isladencanta" and it was situated in the middle of the island in a valley between some mountains and the site was breathtakingly beautiful. For some reason there was hardly any audience there, but it looked amazing, because behind the big stage there was a mountain and on the mountain was a small cemetery. so you looked at the band and because there was no backdrop, you could see the graves in the back.... (do i need to say more...?).

They played and it was... well, you know how it was...

Coincidence happened, that we shared the same shuttle bus back to the Hotel after our shows, so i was sitting there with Phoenix, feeling like a small kid... I gathered all my strength and told them the story about "United" and my Portugal and they reacted so touched, it really meant something to them, i felt. I will never forget that special ride in the bus my whole life. They were extremly nice people (as they still are now) and until today i deejayed several times for their shows so we meet from time to time...

But: I AM SO HAPPY THERE WILL BE A NEW ALBUM SOON!
It will be out in may and has the fantastic title "Wolfgang Amdeus Phoenix". Here is a first song from it. Enjoy it as much as i do and if i bored you with my long private story: i don't care!

There is also a dj-mix compilation "Kitsune Maison 6" available by Phoenix on Kitsune. check it out!

>>>PHOENIX - 1901
(yousendit)


http://www.wearephoenix.com/

http://www.myspace.com/wearephoenix