Spring Is Overrated: This Playlist However Is Not [Post-Spring Pre-Summer Mixtape Volume 43]

Dear (Mother) Nature,

We respectfully write to you regarding the current state of weather patterns across the greater Midwest. Don’t worry about the rest of the U.S., you’ve already done enough for them. Because let’s be honest here for a moment: you kind of screwed us in terms of landscape. All we have are corn fields, evergreen trees and some lake water to hold us over. Look at the rest of them with their oceans and beaches and mountains and deserts. LIKE WE EVEN WANT ANY OF THAT BEAUTIFUL GRANDEUR!

Let’s wrap this up before I start sweating. Here’s the deal:

We get it. You’re all powerful, all mighty, all righteous and all over my social media feed. We surrender to you, O’ sweet and sensitive Mother! Now give us what is owed to us (warmth through the Sun) and we won’t have to get physical. Or in your case, environmental.

EVER HEARD OF THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT!? That’s what I thought.

Best Regards,

The Human Race

Now that we got that out of the way and you just wasted a couple minutes (depending on your reading speed) of your precious time reading a personal letter to a personified spirit (what is this, Pocahontas?), here’s ten songs to lift you out of that miserable excuse of existence you call life.

1. Progressive trance at it’s finest. When will somebody pick up on Audien?

2. DAFT PUNK. DAFT PUNK. PAFT DUNK. DJ HANSEL.

3. Did someone say, Dillon Francis? No? Nobody? Man, I gotta get some fuckin’ friends…

4. Sadly, I can’t take credit for discovering Electrocisum. He was featured here: 

5. Dash Berlin, it’s been too long. What a return to the throne.

6. Can Michael Woods produce a bad song? Is he capable? I don’t think so, and I don’t care what you think. So there.

7. It will be interesting to hear the feedback on Tiesto’s latest track. Can you say, mainstream? /ˈmeɪnˌstriːm/ There, you said it! Way to go! +1 gold star.

8. 6 FINGERS has 366 (now maybe 367?) SoundCloud followers. That’s a disgrace.

9. Kill Paris has a new album coming out, and you will find it here. SO COME BACK! Please. I’m so cold and lonely in this meat cellar.

10. This last song is for all you acid trippers out there. Or anyone that likes psychedelic music. Except hippies. Or liars. Or hippy liars.

 

Disco Fries – Philtrum (Original Mix) [Music Freedom]

This next original jam, “Philtrum”, pronounced…Oh, fudgesicles. Excuse me a moment here.

There he is ^^^

There he is ^^^

(Frantic shuffling of papers off camera with inaudible slurs and obscenities shouted back and forth)

Off-Screen

Chas: Dude, you really dropped the ball on that one.

Jake: We’ll do it live…FUCK IT! WE’LL DO IT LIVE!

Jake: Look, I’ll write it and we’ll do it live! Fucking thing SUCKS!

Chas: Whatever you say, Mr. O’Reilly.

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Ahem, as I was just about to say, pronounced “Fill-Trum” (probably), this next little ditty by Nick Ditri & Danny Danger of The Disco Fries is bar none (and we say this quite confidently) one of the filthiest electro house song we have heard thus far in twenty fourteen.

Don’t believe me? Just ask this guy I know. He recently featured “Philtrum” on the latest installment of “Club Life,” his podcast. You may have heard of him…

Tiësto. “Tye-eez-too?”

Am I saying that right?

Tiesto Shocks the World w/ BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix

From being ranked #1 on DJ Mag’s Top 100 List three times to becoming the first DJ ever to play at the Olympic Games, Tiesto has certainly marked his territory in the realm of electronic music.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, we can add another attribute to his endearing legacy. It’s been a decade since the Dutch mastermind controlled those famous BBC Radio 1 decks, and his sound has certainly developed over the past ten years. After announcing the launch of “Club Life Afterhours” on Sirius XM, Tiesto decided to drop his previous style of sound in order to unearth a genre known as deep house. To call his latest Essential Mix “underground” would be a cop out; because really, there’s nothing underground about it.

Tiesto fanatics may need a Xanax before listening to his latest two hour, chilled out compilation. Featuring more of that feel good tech-house, the original mix sort of side-steps that quintessential techno energy that Tiesto usually provides his listeners. The world of EDM consistently shifts from musical trend to trend, and most of our favorite artists are too abashed to take the leap into the unknown. First, Avicii went honky-tonk at Ultra last year. And now, Tiesto has shocked the world and taken his sound deeper than the Mariana Trench. These men deserve our honest recognition for exposing the possibility of negative feedback.

Trailblazers like these two men are far and few, and they have the ability to carry our industry into the next realm of production through inventive experimentation and doubtless creativity.

Here’s to the trendsetters.

Tiesto’s BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix Tracklist

1. Tube & Berger – Set It Off
2. Tim Berg – Seek Bromance (Dear David & Posse Version)
3. C-Block – So Strong (Christian Cardwell & Nigel Stately Remix)
4. Lexer – Dream & Love (PINGPONG Tanzt Mix) (SonneMondSterne Private Bootleg)
5. Thodoris Triantafillou & CJ Jeff & Emeli Sande – Endless Love x My Kind of Love (Gemini Remix)
6. Stefan Biniak – Mad in Love (Unfinished Sympathy)
7. Parra for Curva ft. Anna Naklab – Wicked Games
8. Cedric Zeyanna – Feel You
9. Kyodai ft. Stee Downes – Music Rises Up (Claptone Remix)
10. SoloWg – L.O.V.E.
11. Masquer – There Was the Smell of Grease (Florian Paetzold Remix)
12. Chaim ft. Meital De Razon – Love Rehab
13. Masker – Sempervivum (Alain Diamond & Libex Remix)
14. Niconé ft. Narra – Candelaria (Philip Bader & Niconé Remix)
15. Funkerman – Age of Love
16. Imogen Heap – Hide & Seek (Joy Kitikonti Remix)
17. Newbie Nerdz, Moonwalk & Fractales – Hysteria
18. Chris Malinchak – If U Got It (Maze & Masters Remix)
19. My Digital Enemy – Shamen
20. Joris Voorn – Ringo
21. Funkin Matt – Alive
22. Matt Goldman & Gazzo – Six Point Five
23. Veerus & Maxie Devine – My Beat
24. Oliver Heldens – Gecko