Im not going to pretend to be modest here. This track is the exact moment where the semi truck hits the cement wall at ripping speeds. Except instead of feeling bloodied, concussed and potentially life threatened… you’ll find yourself wanting to do it again.
Crookers- Royal T (Digital Boy & Shark Remix)
Grab it on the Crookers Website
we promise. if bangers are you’re thing… this will be you’re vice. (and its free)
peace & bloody teeth
To start the day on a high note, let’s dig into a subject thats on a lot of minds out there right now: DIGITAL BOY & SHARK. The bass warriors recently put together a spectacularly stompin dj mix exclusively for Discobelle. This mix is not only prolific in that its a debut from the duo, but in that it’s also a ground breaking approach to DJ mixes entirely. The mix, titled “The Spirit of 91′, immaculately balances a combination of rave anthems of our past (many of which have been remastered courtesy of Digital Boy & Shark), present and future- a fitting testament to sum up the explosive spirit of the D-Boy and Shark collaboration.
From Discobelle:
“Past, present and future collide as the forefather of Italian Rave music, Digital Boy, joins forces with one of New York’s most infamous bass warriors, Mishka NYC’s music man, badman Shark. In just under 5 months of activity they established the shape of Rave to come: 2010 will see the rebirth of Techno through Rave, Hardcore and decades of blood, sweat and tears spent on hoarding the best parts of dance music genres blending it into one, sounding like a punch to your face! With support from all the Italian heavy weights like Crookers (for whom they will be remixing “Royal T”), Congorock and Riva Starr and international champions of modern sound Doorly, Buraka Som Sistema, Trouble & Bass, Night Slugs and DMC champ Shiftee; the duo will be looking to release it’s first single in October and EP shortly after including collaborations by Igor Cavalera (Sepultura, Mixhell) and vocalist Carrie Wilds (Drop The Lime, Crookers) along side remixes by Buraka Som Sistema, Congorock, Adam Tensta, Rx feat. Chae Hawk, Mr. Vega, Bare Noize, Alexander Technique, Blatta & Inesha, Deathface and Kaptain Cadillac.
This is the debut mix from Italian duo Digital Boy + Shark. 40 minutes of cut throat mixes and edits to be reckoned with that play out like a freight train destroying everything in it’s past. The lines between time are blurred by hyper speed and heavy bass creating a time space continuum from which there is no escape! Featuring the dance floor smasher “Gangster Rave”, the anthem “No One Can Stop Us” and their soon to be released remix of Congorock’s “Babylon”, this is more than an introduction… It’s a warning!
Track list + Description:
1 Combichrist – This Shit Will Fuck You Up
My recent obsession with Hellraiser has brought me back to the dark side of music. I’ve always had a soft spot of Goth and EBM and thanks to our partner in crime Lightknife and his dark past we were able to dig up this gem and open the doors to another dimension…
2 Drop the Lime – Doomsday Device
The Heavy Bass Champion of the world delivers yet again. DTL has been a long time brother in bass and has shared many sleepless nights driven by our common passion for the music and NYC owes alot to this person. We Never Sleep!
3 Mr. Vega – Whopper Junior
Our friends Mr. Vega and the Subdrive imprint have been real busy pumping out quality music and this is a great example of it…I could drop this anytime even though i’m vegetarian!
4 Digital Boy + Shark – No One Can Stop Us
In this dream i saw myself and Digital Boy on top of a mountain with the clouds running fast behind us in a firey sky. Him holding high the bass flag and myself chanting “No One, No One Can Stop Us!”
5 Bizarre Inc – Raise Me
Somehow we have the worst memory and definitely we have all our brain cells but don’t fault us for wanting to play this more than once, it’s been on the playlist since the early ’90s and we don’t plan on stopping now.
6 Example – Dirty Face (Benga Remix / Dominator Edit)
Years ago i had to babysit the Afro Warrior and trust me, you best give the man his Chinese Food! the evening was followed by a session of myspace dating and watching wrestling and ended in a sweaty night courtesy of T&B during which, borderline throwing up, he fed the crowd bombs while I incited them to riot!
7 Boys Noize – Kontact Me (Beataucue Remix)
It is undeniable that the kids still want Techno and who better than Boys Noize to deliver a classic pounding to the cranium! I can always recall the first time i heard someone’s track i liked and this was, as many others, in a dark basement courtesy of the Fixed party’s Dave P and JDH.
8 Blatta & Inesha – Pet Massage
Inesha used to be in a turntablists crew called Alien Army that literally ruled the Italian underground for many years. How incredible is it that he now, along side Blatta, makes these heavy tunes? Really cosigning the whole turntablist migration towards dance music. More body tricks please!
9 The Prodigy – Everybody In The Place (Fairground Remix)
The Prodigy is without a doubt one of my inspirations for music but also for life, they were always seminal for their style and forward sound. Nothing better than a group that still stands their ground after so many years and can still produce relevant music. One of Digital Boy’s first USA tours was supporting them and Moby back in 1991 and there was hell to pay! The echo of destruction still resonate… and whatever you do, make sure you never touch another man’s equipment before the play!
10 Congorock – Babylon (Digital Boy + Shark Remix)
If you had asked me one year ago, after recording the vocals for the original track, if i thought it would have gotten this huge…i would have said, of course! It is a great feeling to see an old friend through thick and thin and we couldn’t be more excited to be a part of this track. One day perhaps the world will hear the warrior edit of “Babylon” with the entire vocal session…
11 AC Slater – Take You (Doorly Remix)
Life is nothing but a sequence of days starting at 3am and mr. Slater is the boss of this time! Once the clock turns to 3am you are in his possession and there is no escape! Enter Doorly… it’s Chris Penn time!
12 Holy Noise – Get Down Everybody
It is such an honor to collaborate with a legend of the previous rave generation, not only for the magic that is performed in the studio with the use of analog hardware and modern day software but also for the quality story telling. Digital Boy started touring in the early 90s when i was in Jr High School and has played along side every big name in rave. He recall this being one of the first tracks to come out of Rotterdam in 1991:” I recall going to Midtown Records and Paul Elstak (a name to reckon with in Hardcore), who at the time was working there as a clerk, gave me this promo. He told me it was his production and that DJ Rob played it out all the time at Parkzicht in Rotterdam. I was sold, the rest is history…”
13 Huoratron – Corporate Occult
Mad music from a mad man! A couple of days spent with this individual and you’ll get a perspective on the northern hemisphere. So you know, this is the real cause of global warming.
14 Lil’ Louis – Video Clash
One Digital Boy’s all time favorites from 1987, most likely the first real techno track he heard and it still holds true in its simplicity and raw energy.
15 Waxmaster – Waxscratch (His Majesty Andre Edit)
Us Italians just keep multiplying and taking over all your music. The King is dead, long live the king.
16 Manix – 88 To Piano
Will the ever be a day when DJs will pay attention to what other ones play right before them? I honestly don’t wanna hear the same track 3 times during the night. I can deal if its a genuine banger and then maybe i can go for a repeat. Well, times haven’t changed as this here was the tune everyone played over and over in Italy and Holland’s mega raves in the early 90s. The nuisance is when you are the headliner, such as Digital Boy was, do you play this track for the third or fourth time?
17 Manix – Special Request (Hero Remix / Set Me Free Edit)
Our favorite vocalist of these times, Carrie Wilds, could not miss out on the action. The defining vocal of 2010 from a modern classic courtesy of DTL, “Set Me Free”.
“Old school or the new, doesn’t mean a thing if your heart’s not true. Greedy ones faded fast, we’re here. Built to last!” – Sick Of It All
18 Rusko – Kumon Kumon
I can still remember the first time i heard those horns… “FUCK!”. The raw energy that Rusko brings to his, blood sweat and tears at any given moment! Still to day we really need to make a response to “Cockney Thug”… Did anyone say “Guido Thug” ? After 7 years finally the USA is catching up to this mysterious music called Dubstep. Good Job!
19 MMM - Nous Sommes MMM
All praises due to the kings of dark techno: Jokers Of The Scene, for being the purveyors of future unknown pleasures. They have always been my I.V. of bangers and this one is certainly one of them. Full steam ahead!
20 Momma’s Boy/Mikix The Cat – Party Rock
This is certainly the product of a life with no sleep, a life that thrives on big bass as its life’s blood! In between buying swanky shoes and getting haircuts, the big bad Cat finds time to produce a pounding EP. Warning: step away from the screen when playing this or you will get knocked out!
21 Swedish House Mafia – One (Congorock Remix)
When i think of “One”, my mind wonders to Metallica… seems that it’s reaching the same height in a weird parallel universe. Congorock certainly ads the the land mines to this remix… “All that i see, absolute horror!” – James Hetfield
22 Benga – Baltimore Clap (Yall Ain’t Safe Edit)
Do you remember the first time you heard that B-More break? If you were in NYC then you were definitely at one of the epic Cut parties where The Captain and myself on a megaphone would be invading people’s space and making even the walls sweat! This is how we give back, big up Unruly and all the big boys of the Baltimore Club sound.
23 Marshall Master – Stereo Murder
This is the devil’s voice. It echos in our brain from the cradle to the grave, we are slaves to the rave!
24 Deathface – We Still Kill The Old Way
“Hey man don’t you see that you’re scaring people?”.”Cool, how about you leave?”
- Deathface
25 N.R.G – He Never Lost His Hardcore
Years of incessantly devouring music has brought us to where we are. We cannot forget our past, we embrace it and celebrate it to create a better, harder future.
26 Lauren Flax & MK Feat. Carrie Wilds -Stronger Now (Bare Noize Remix)
“Hey man, how is it?”. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”. I got my bass face on and I’m slipping into a skankin’ paralysis.
27 Bart B More – Brap
“I really like this track because it build and build and builds and then and then it has that grinding sound and then and then” yeah we get it, we like it too.
28 Junior Sanchez – HeavE Mental
This dude ain’t soft no more! He’s been grinding hard with his Jersey brother Alexander Technique and many other big boys of Techno baking pounds of bass! Don’t touch my face…I can’t feel it!
29 Lightknife – This Is
Legend goes that after this track was produce, it was never to be listened to again as it caused hearing loss. Lightknife somehow escaped to tell the tale and continue producing haunting musical monsters. We are not insured, don’t sue if you go deaf.
30 Alias – Gladiator (4×4 Remix)
This is my life as a Thug Wizard, i wear basketball jerseys and sweatpants; i get denied at borders but most importantly i party all night long and i never ever forget the stickers.
31 Phenomania – Who Is Elvis (Who is LVis Edit)
We built a time machine and we ended up in a little village of Mali, after we got chased by shamans as they thought we were demons we jumped into a waterfall and ended up in a vessel orbiting Mars. This is the sound of our heads rattling, please no bongos.
32 Skream – Pitfall
Not too many people can be cited for having created essential tracks to one genre. Skream is one of the forefathers of Dubstep. Too much backseat DJing on the megaphone…
33 Digital Boy + Shark – Gangster Rave
This is the past, present and future. This is who we are and we swear we’ve never tried any chemical substances… coming at you like a punch to your face! Gangster Rave 2010! Nocche dure come mattoni!”
~Lighktnife gives us another menacing techno banger~
The track, titled “Dramatique” has been received with great praise and is being repped by the likes of Meat Katie, Elite Force, Deathface, Calvertron, Zodiac Cartel, Digital Boy + Shark and More. Give it a listen now now. Release date tba.
Artist Reviews:
“slow burning club hit from purgatory i love it”
-Deathface (Fools Gold USA) www.myspace.com/deathfaceforever
“really well produced”
-LA Riots (Fools gold USA) http://www.myspace.com/lariotsofficial
“i really like this track”
-Meat Katie www.myspace.com/meatkatie1
“Nicely produced track, especially liking the first 1/3rd or so with the cool techy elements and the chimes.”
-Elite Force www.eliteforcemusic.com
“Good Production”
-Zodiac Cartel www.zodiaccartel.com
“Massive!!!!!!!”
Calvertron http://www.myspace.com/calvertronica
“Really cool track here, nice wide production and a strong catchy idea for the bassline. I can see this one doing some damage on those 5am dancefloors! full support from me.”
-Rektchordz http://www.myspace.com/rektchordz
“i like it! i’d love to hear more from this guy”
-the Bulgarian http://www.myspace.com/thebulgariantracks
“Cool tune mate, a tasty slice of moody techno. Love the ever-so-slowly increasing tension!”
-Loops of Fury http://www.myspace.com/theloopsoffury
“bit more minimal than what we normally play out but its better than a lot of other stuff out there”
-Bitrok http://www.myspace.com/bitrok
Solid track!!
-Breakdown http://www.myspace.com/updnb
“Love it, plenty of dark atmosphere for the early hours”
-Max Cooper (Traum) www.myspace.com/maxcoopermax
Its been said that if we are to evolve into a greater species, then we must first learn from the experiences of those before us… That our history is our guide into a better future. I for one believe this is a concept too often forgotten. However, such is not so for Digital Boy and Shark. With this group comes the sound of our past, our present and our future. Nothing is forgotten, however ideas are evolved upon. Its a powerful idea that is quickly finding its way to the forefront of the Electronic Music scene.. and believe that these pioneers are leading the movement.
Check out two of their recent hitters.
Here’s some feedback on the tracks:
“It plays like a punch to the face!” – Phra Crookers (Southern Fried)
“Can’t wait for big techno rave!” – Bot Crookers (Southern Fried)
“The original sound now sounds new” – Congorock (Fool’s Gold)
“It’s about time there was a new techno live act” – Teki Latex (Sound Pellegrino)
“Siiiiiiiick, I’m remixing it!” – Riot (Buraka Som Sistema)
“Yeah man, they’re crazy!” – Diplo (Mad Decent)
“This is Rave” – J.O.T.S (Fool’s Gold)
“Classic!” – Star Eyes (T&B)
“Gangster Rave Forever!” – Deathface (T&B)
“You’re mad men, I like it!” - Drop The Lime (T&B)
“Mad Fundo!” – Kassiano (Nossa)
“Naaaasty!” – Alexander Technique (DANR)
“Hardcore!” – Bok Bok (Night Slugs)
“Great Production and energy” – Dave P & JDH (Fixed)
“Can’t wait to remix it, my pleasure” – Nic Sarno (ESP)
“Sounds good!” – Harvard Bass (Sound Pellegrino)
“Can’t wait to play this!” - Dj Shiftee (2009 DMC Champion)
“Wow! Playing this tonight!” - Mikix The Cat (Nightshifters/T&B)
Before I lay this video on you, there’s something you all need to know. check it:
Digital Boy and Shark (the man behind the Music and Events at MishkNYC) have recently combined creative genius to form a gasoline charged duo specializing in some seriously massive tunage. While the group has only just emerged over the last month and have pretty much kept things secret since, they’ve already managed (geographical challenges aside) to kick out 2 seriously stomping Classic Techno-Rave/UK Hardcore tracks. The first one, properly titled GANGSTER RAVE (currently unreleased), has been getting major support by loads of artists; i.e: Crookers, Congorock, Mixhell, Teki Latex, Jokers of The Scene, Bok bok to name a small fraction.. Soon enough the veil will be lifted , and when that happens, we’ll deliver you a proper blog on the collab. IN THE MEANTIME.. about that video:
The live drop of Digital Boy & Sharks new wrecking tune “GANGSTER RAVE” played by CONGOROCK at Flashing NYC (Shark on the Mic!)
Here’s where you can find Shark:
http://www.twitter.com/badmanshark
http://www.myspace.com/mikeitaly
Digital Boy can be sighted here:
Discography: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Digital+Boy
http://www.digitalboy.org
http://www.twitter.com/lucadigitalboy
Today we give you 10 hand picked tracks by the innovator: Digital Boy. A solid floor bombing mix between riotous house/electro to dark techno.
Make sure to checkout Digital Boy’s website here @ www.digitalboy.org – n’ keep an ear out for some his upcoming original productions and remixes!
TOP 10:
01. HIROKI ESASHIKA – KAZANE (DISCO OF DOOM REMIX) / TASTE/D
02.CONGOROCK – BABYLON / FOOLS GOLD
03.LIGHTKNIFE – START BOOM MUSIC
04.ADAM BEYER – REMAININGS III / DRUMCODE
05.HOT MOUNTH – SET IT OFF / SIMMA RECORDS
06.RIVA STARR – TROMPE D AMOUR / MADE TO PLAY
07.CROOKERS – NO SECURITY FEAT. KELIS (BART B MORE REMIX) / NEWS
08.DIGITAL BOY – DROP IT / BOOM MUSIC
09.MAETRIK – PARADIGM HOUSE / TREIBSTOFF
10.DEPECHE MODE – HOLE TO FEED (POPOF VOCAL MIX) / MUTE RECORDS
“This covers but a small gammut of great songs ive been listening to this month. Checkout all the songs on Beatport (except the “bonus” track- that’s probably on Itunes only). Some amazing work by some amazingly talented artists.” ~Lightknife
for more info visit Lightknife @ www.lightknife.org – also, be on the lookout for some new, original music from Lightknife in the coming weeks!
Top 10 (in no particular order):
Extrawelt- DistTheme (Cacoon Recordings)-
Hiroki Esashika- Kazane (Disco of Doom rmx) (Taste/d)
Congorock- Babylon (Fools Gold)
Lightknife- Start (Original Mix) (Boom Music)
All Leather- Mystery Meat- Bloody Beetroots Rmx (Dim Mak)
Douster – Punani (Original Mix) (Esp Records)
Circuit Freq- The Filth (Zodiac Cartel Rmx) (Circuit Freq Rec.)
Stephan Bodzin- Tron (Systmatic)
Fergie- Ireland (BYT)
Outsider- Tapped up (Lot 49)
BONUS track**
Sissy Nobby- Lay Me Down (L-Vis 1990 Remix) (Mixpack)
Ladies and Gents, we’ve received some editorial in the Las Vegas City Life. As you may (or may not) know, Boom Music is based out of Las Vegas- so it was nice to get some local love from this great publication.
City Life Page Here: City Life- Boom Music
FULL ARTICLE HERE:
Explode with care, kids
File this one under “DIY,” too, and give it its own asterisk, double-dagger, whatever — anything to distinguish Boom Music from a slew of other Vegas home-grown initiatives launched with the adolescent impetuousness (“Listen up y’all, this is gonna be sick!”) so much more typical of new labels, collectives and weekly parties on the Vegas nightscape. Boom co-founder Pedi Amiri, aka DJ Lightknife, says the brand-new “talent management, label, artist marketing and production” entity he’s co-founded with long-time local techno mainstay Luca Pretolesi, aka Digital Boy, is more than just another short-lived strobe in the dark.
“We haven’t talked about it or mentioned it [to the press] until now, because we didn’t want this to be a traditional Vegas endeavor,” he says. “We’ve been approached by quite a few people, but talk is cheap, and we’re not at a point yet where we can take on other artists … we’re got to be very choosy about who we work with, but we will put the product out there …”
To get a sense of who Amiri’s looking for — eventually — look no further than Boom’s website at www.boommusic.net, where you’ll find a few embedded MP3s and several links to each artist’s most original (produced, not just remixed) work.
“Techno, noisy stuff for sure,” says Amiri, while still acknowledging there’ll be a little softening in his future. “Definitely a departure from that open-format stuff you hear everywhere.”
The two met about three years ago when Amiri was promoting for Venetian’s Tao nightclub (“I got into promotion because it was the closest I felt I could get to the music, but then I thought, ‘Hey, what the hell? How hard would it be to fall back on my real passion?’”) and Pretolesi was spinning stuff similar to what Amiri wanted to create in the first place. Over time, they’d amass a target market database that included industry heads, international DJs and an e-mail list 75,000-strong. More hard work and carpet-bombing promotion is the idea now, as Boom Music tries to build the bedrock foundation it’ll need to transcend the here-today-gone-tomorrow standard for similarly intentioned Vegas start-ups. As for the Boom-associated weekly parties and events? Again, not yet.
“We’ve been hit up a couple times, but we don’t want to do anything prematurely,” says Amiri. “It’s something we’re discussing and we do have plans, but at the moment, we’re focusing on the artists’ side, not the event side. It’s really hard to get something to work in this city … why rush something that has so much potential not to work?” D.S.
In the mix with Lightknife…
We’re not sure where he comes up with the names (audio aphrodisia, audible affection, etc), but we like it.
Lightknife just recorded a new mix for the Boom Music PODCAST on Itunes- which should be live in the next week or so.. The mix can be downloaded here at Sound of Boom.
in his own words, lightknife had this to say: “A lot going on in these mixes- Dark, Heavy, Techno, Electro, Electronica, lil dose of Dubstep, Jackin, & a couple of my own/original tracks .. just a lot of tunes i’ve been playing lately”
Review by Fake Rich blog:
DOWNLOAD THE MIX RIGHT HERE:
AUDIO APHRODISIA- on LIGHTKNIFE SOUNDCLOUD
*Lightknife original tracks @ (minutes) 28:11 (This is (Original Mix)) and again at 37:40
TRACKLIST:
1. Modeselektor- Cash
2. Kiko- Save Our Soul
3. Beni- Maximus (Harvard Bass Remix)
4. Acid Girls- Lightworks (Harvard Bass Remix)
5. Plastikman- Spastik
6. The Subs- Mitsubitchi
7. Swanky Tunes- Harmony of Life (Digital Lab and SonicC Remix)
8. Boris Dlugosch- Bankok
9. SonicC; Afrojack: Stickin vs Nasty vs Toyfriend (Flavo Bootleg vs Lightknife Edit)
10. Sound of Stereo – Button
11. Lightknife- This is
12. Calvin Harris- Flashback (David Guetta’s One Love Remix Remix)
13. Lightknife- Start
14. Last Japan- Jungle Warrior
15: Sound of Stereo- Zipper
16. Joseph Capriati- Kontrol Room
17. Laidback Luke- My G.O.D
18. Dustin Zahn- Stranger (to Stability)
19-Olivier Giacomotto- Rex the Club
20.Claude Von Stroke- Vocal Chords
21. Jinder- Youth Blood (12th Planet & Flich remix)
The thing about Digital Boy is….
In his years as an artist, Italian legend Luca Pretolesi aka Digital Boy has been credited as one of the key innovators to several Electronic Music genres. Not only did he jump-start the Italian techno scene in 1990 by way of releasing Italy’s first Techno album (“Technologiko”), but he was also the first techno artist to ever have his music played in full rotation on MTV Europe. This hero to the culture has since served as a primary influence to countless chart-topping techno, electro, house, and hard style artists. Checkout his latest collection of dancefloor bombs which comes off his new release “Amazing Xperience”.
ABOUT THE E.P:
Keeping up with his reputation as the unorthodox pioneer, Digital Boy brings you 4 tracks which manage to hit on all sides of the spectrum. Already gaining huge support from big name artists around the world with “Drop It” and “Amazing Xperience”, this E.P is a big win.
TRACKS (click links to hear tracks)::
Listen to the tracks here: DIGITAL BOY SOUNDCLOUD
Buy the tracks here: BEATPORT or ITUNES
For more info on digital boy:
www.digitalboy.org
www.twitter.com/lucadigitalboy
