We all wanna be Felix. We all wanna have our picture taken with Felix. We all want to remix Felix. Mexico City's NSM PSM bring 100% agave to their re-working of Felix's tribute to his boyhood hero. It's the coolest shade of purple this track has seen so far.
The Souldrop production team of Evan Brenna and DJ Teddy Touch are bringing the urban street cred to Norway with their remixes of Lil Wayne, Lloyd, Clipse, Timbuktu and Sky Hy.
Say Hooo! is the brilliant Holger Beier. Now living, curating, designing, recording, producing and DJ-ing from Florianopolis, the hippest beach in Brasil. Look for the release of his productions of D.F.'s Mexican Institute of Sound and Brasilian native Pat C in 09. Holger was formerly based in Berlin and co-owner of the influential Bungalow label as well as one-half of DJ team and recording artist Le Hamond Inferno.
MixCast 06: SayHooo! - I XXXX BLOG DJS (78 min) Download (247 VBR kbps mp3, 138 megs)
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LA LA's semi-secretive analog-maschine duo, Circuit Freq, team up with Orange County's Deth Hertz on "No Headphones." It's the third digital single release on Beatport from the Circuit Freak'ers, and the debut artist release for Deth Hertz, the duo whose DJ nom de guerre are "A Virgin Tear" and "A Special Guest TBA."
The bundle features a global set of remixers - Z-Listers, Pablo Decoder and Joe And Will Ask? - all from the UK - the Norwegian space disco of Ralph Myerz -- and "more cowbell" from Mexico's NSM PSM.
This video uses a mathematical formula used by M.C. Escher, in some of his work known as the "Droste Effect." This is my first video clip as a Director, and it was made entirely using a Digital Reflex Camera, the Canon's Mark III, which captures up to 115 continuous pictures at 10 fps.
As this was a really low budget video, it was made possible only thanks to the help of lots and lots of friends. This is the result of almost 6 months of work.
Kay of NSM PSM just dropped this rocked out remix of his track "Clap Your Brains Off" onto my desktop. Remix is by our friend in Florianopolis, Brasil - SAY HOOO! - aka Holger Beier of the Berlin-based Bungalaw label and one-half of DJ team and recording artist Le Hamond Inferno.
The New York Times called Florianopolis (Floripa to the locals) "The hippest year round beach scene in South America." I asked Holger to send some photos. Let's hope he obliges.
If you want some more of Mexico City's NSM PSM hit their MySpace page as they've posted some bad-ass mashups - their calling these their RED TRACKS.
We're launching our podcast - we're calling it a MIXCAST - with this Side A length (of a 90 minute cassette) mix by our neuvo amigos from Mexico City: NSM PSM. Jump starting the debut session is a classic by Men Without Hats - dug out of a milkcrate from 1982 - includes 2008's first anthem "Disco Sirens" - and finishes with NSM PSM's own "Clap Your Brains Off."
01. Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (NSM PSM Re-edit intro) 02. Modeselektor - 2000007 03. Mexican Institute of Sound - Para no vivir desesperado (NSM PSM Remix) 04. Bodyrockers - For One Night Only 05. The White Stripes - Icky Thump 06. Hexstatic - Red Laser Beam 07. Tepr - En direct de la cote (Alavi_Rerox) 08. Junior Senior - Move Your Feet (Rascal Edit) 09. Play Movil Project - Wank (NSM PSM Remix) 10. Mama Say Vs Atomic Beats 11. Midfield General - Disco Sirens (Acapella) 12. Pascal's Bongo Massive - Pere Cochon (I Like It) 13. NSM...PSM - Atomic bomb!! (Full Mix) 14. Chromeo Mini Mix (by NSM PSM) 15. Plus Move - R.U.I.N 16. Holy Fuck/ Frenchys 17. Siriusmo - Allthegirls (Tomboy Remix) 18. The Sound Republic - Insomnia (Acapella) 19. Fatboy Slim - Don't Let the Man Get You Down (Justice Mix) 20. Boys Noize - Vergifted 21. Luke Vibert - Breakbeat Metal Music 22. Quiero Club - No Coke (Acapella) 23. Danger - 11h30 (Original & DatA Remix) 24. Stanton Warriors - Da Virus (Bonus Beats) 25. Armand Van Helden - NYC Beat (Mstrkrft Acapella) 26. The B-52's - Funplex (Peaches Pleasure Seeker Remix) 27. The Rapture - Whoo! Alright - Yeah...Uh Huh. (NSM PSM Re-edit) 28. NSM PSM - Clap Your Brains Off (Plus Move Remix)
NSM PSM - An Official Mixtape (47 min) Download (256 kbps mp3, 85.7 megs)
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Mexico City is my new favorite place. It's crowded - the second largest city on the planet with 19 million people. The air pollution can get unbelievably bad - the city is built within a basin 2200 meters above sea level so oxygen is already scarce. BUT the people here are so incredibly friendly and open to newcomers. It's always hugs and kisses whenever introductions are made. And the food is sublime - I think I ate nopales tacos (cactus to us gringos) every night. One thing to look out for is that when drinking tequila or mezcal one must calculate the effect of the high altitude if you want to be able to walk home under your own power. And don't ever take the VW Beetle cabs for fear of being kidnapped.
My reason for visiting Mexico is a duo called NSM PSM - that's short-hand for NON STOP MUSIC...PLAY SOME MUSIC. Kay and Pato have been DJ-ing since they were kids - growing up with cassette mixtape culture, early Chicago house and big beat as influences. They're as likely to select Elvis as Daft Punk while performing at all the big indie and dance events in Mexico City.
Kay is also the DJ and performs some vocals with one of the biggest alternative acts in Mexico - Mexican Institute of Sound. More on them in a future blog post, but quickly, MIS are KCRW favorites and are playing at Glastonbury this June.
Pato also owns a store called Beat Box in Puebla outside of Mexico City that carries clothes, sneakers and Kid Robot style toys; while Kaye also produces trailers for Mexican produced films.
"Clap Your Brains Off" will be on their debut EP released in a few months time. They're looking for remix swaps on the track by the way.
NSM PSM's brand new remix of Mexican Institute of Sound's "Para No Vivir Deseperado" is also available below for the first time.
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