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Unfortunately I missed last months amazing Legacy party thrown by the NYC Jungle crew. From what I gathered from the live mixes, it was a fucking amazing time. Check out these mixes from the original Odi himself, and Profile.

Odi live at Legacy

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Profile live at Legacy

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So by now you know they can throw it down. Check out their next event with Jumping Jack Frost on August 23rd by checking the board.

I will admit it. As a teenager I listened to happycore, and to be honest I enjoyed it. I danced my ass off till 9am on many occasions. For those of you who may not have heard of this genre here is a great definition curtsey of Wikipedia.org Happycore can be defined as:

Happycore is a form of dance music typified by a very fast tempo (usually around 165-180 BPM), often coupled with male or female vocals, and saccharine lyrics. Its characteristically 4/4 beat “happy” sound distinguishes it from most other forms of breakbeat hardcore, which tend to be “darker”. In its original incarnation, it was often characterized by piano riffs, synth stabs and spacey effects. This genre of music is closely related to the typically Dutch genre of Gabber. Happy hardcore evolved from rave music around 1991–1993, as the original house music-based rave became faster and began to include breakbeats, evolving into breakbeat hardcore.

Basically its God’s gift to teenage ravers, but it does have an addicting sound to it.

Check it Brisk and Trixxy’s Eye Opener

Should be a great party this weekend. Trouble and Bass will be representing with Star Eyes, Zak Shadetek, and Mathhead.

Has anyone been to this venue before?

Pretty accurate depiction of the NYC rave scene in the mid-90’s. Some big names show up in this when they were still pretty young; Scotto, DB, and Adam X

From the director:

Nominated for Best Short Film at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, “Rave On” gives an inside look at the New York City rave underground of the mid-1990s. The first HD-originated film ever nominated at Sundance.

Thanks BreakfastScienceBoard for the find.

Apparently for a cool 65K you can become a robot as talented as Daft Punk is. There is once catch though. The Daft Punk guys have to approve you before you can purchase

Get your own Daft Punk helmet via Engadget

*UPDATE*

Now you can make your own Daft Punk helmet for less than a 100 dollars!
How to Make a Daft Punk Helmet

I don’t know if you cats have made it out to any of the Modular parties yet but if you get an opportunity to go DO IT! Modular is becoming quite the big label out of Australia and has some pretty big bands on it these days including:

Cut Copy
Klaxons
MSTRKRFT
New Young Pony Club
Wolfmother
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
and a bunch others.

So check it out of your in the area its always a good time and my boy Captain is on the lineup.

dan le sac VS scroobius pip “Thou Shalt always Kill”


Great video that has some great commentary about the music scene in general. If you haven’t heard it its worth checking out.

Justice the new hottness from France just did an Essential Mix. It is freaking ridiculous. These guys seriously know what’s up with house / heavy bass / and rock.

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tracklist via newmixes

This should be a good time. Plus its free. Anyone been to Top of the Line before?

Tricia Romano, the Fly Life writer for the Village Voice is hanging up her hat on her job as staff writer for NYC nightlife. She has some interesting things to say about the DnB scene. She like me, grew up in the DNB scene, saw its brief rise, and then its collapse. I will always still love the music.

If you grew up with DnB or have read Fly Life check this out.

village voice