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Just The Tip

Joey Seminara, Hatiras [Hi-Bias]

12 May, 2008 | 9.40PM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

‘Just The Tip’, scientifically, probably refers to the insertion of the tip of a man’s penis into a woman’s vagina, thus heightening her sense of sexual arousal and making intercourse a more pleasurable experience for both partners.

Or it could just mean the “tip of the iceberg”, as the saying goes.

In The End

Fuzzy Hair, Rock Da World [Juicy Mu...

12 May, 2008 | 11.13AM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

When you’re faced with the realisation that this release is essentially a bunch of Linkin Park ‘Numb’ remixes, you may be forgiven for thinking that it might be a bit of a cash in.

What did you think of the Jay-Z ‘Encore’ / ‘Numb’ collaboration?

Danse En France (D.I.M. Remix)

Fischerspooner [Kitsune]

11 May, 2008 | 8.32PM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

D.I.M. produce a rather disgusting mix of the cutely-titled ‘Danse En France’.

They butcher it left, right and centre to create something comparable to the deep sea mutations caused by French nuclear testing.

With Me Or Against Me

Ramirez feat. TC [Toolroom]

10 May, 2008 | 6.39AM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

Sub Focus was the first to do it with ‘Time Warp’ and TC is the next to pioneer the sound of electro house within drum & bass.

But this review isn’t of the 4/4-patterned D&B version of ‘With Me Or Against Me’ that you can hear on TC’s Myspace page—rather, it’s of the coming together of that man with electro house king Ramirez in one 2008’s most glorious dance music moments.

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Womb / Family

Matrix & Futurebound [Viper]

9 May, 2008 | 3.18PM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

Matrix and Futurebound, hot off the back of their ‘Universal Truth’ LP, are keeping the pressure on the drum & bass scene with a slew of singles.

‘Womb’, their most recent, is probably a reference to the biggest, baddest, most cutting-edge club in Tokyo, Japan.

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Give It Up For Me

Sydney Blu, Deadmau5 [Mau5trap]

9 May, 2008 | 1.40PM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

Get ready to move your body.

Press play on the Beatport player available in this review and you’ll see what we’re talking about.

Top Ten 3 / 3

V/A [Level Records Duesseldorf]

9 May, 2008 | 9.33AM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: Lee Smith 2

Around about seven years ago, if you told your average dance music fan that you liked ‘minimal’ techno, they would stare back at you blankly as if you were speaking in some unintelligible language.

Now, as we all know, you can barely move for the stuff, which is all the more reason to celebrate labels like Level, who’ve stayed true to the notion that minimalism can be intelligent without being boring, and heartwarming without being saccharine.

Expanding Contracting

Quince [Delsin]

9 May, 2008 | 12.34AM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: Richard Brophy 2

For the past decade, Dutch label Delsin has been quietly putting out some of the world’s best techno.

Inspired by the deep, melancholic sounds of Detroit, the label’s strength lies in the fact that it doesn’t merely replicate its influences but gives a fresh interpretation on the source material, pushing it forward.

Suckers Hit The Dancefloor

Per QX [Play Digital]

8 May, 2008 | 1.08PM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

When a record label called Play Digital combines with a track named ‘Suckers Hit The Dancefloor’, you can almost second guess the veritable circus ride of sonics inside.

Beat-wise, you’re looking at a tight 4/4 loop containing only the choicest of syncopated shuffle effects that are designed to get that ass a-shakin’.

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F Zero / Dawn Treader

Brookes Brothers [Breakbeat Kaos]

8 May, 2008 | 9.53AM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

The new darlings of the drum & bass scene – Brookes Brothers – bolster their nostalgically-named release schedule this month with ‘F-Zero’.

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Cosmos (Remixes)

Tadeo [Apnea]

7 May, 2008 | 7.20PM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: Richard Brophy 2

Tadeo aka Miguel Sar must have friends in high places.

The Spanish producer, who runs Cyclical Tracks, has somehow persuaded both Chain Reaction/Hardwax’s Substance and Panorama Bar resident Cassy to remix his ‘Cosmos’ release on Apnea from last year.

I Want You (Forever) (DJ Marky & A-Sides remix)

Yousef, Carl Cox [Cr2 Records]

7 May, 2008 | 4.24PM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

This is a remix of a remix of a remix.

Yousef recently relicked Carl Cox’s classic ‘I Want You Forever’, which now has a bunch of eclectic commissions to back it up.

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Disco T

Tom Neville [Love Minus Zero]

7 May, 2008 | 10.29AM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

The title track on this release, ‘Sick’, is a crazed techno mutation full of dismembered audio experiments.

But we’ll leave that review to our techno God for now, because this one is looking purely at Tom Neville’s tasty electro house productions.

Smash Disco

Vandalism [Vicious Grooves]

6 May, 2008 | 1.43PM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

The Vandalism ‘V8 Mix’ of ‘Smash Disco’ is a skulking, sleazy bitch of an electro house animal.

Real Talk / Timeline

Evol Intent feat. Arsenic [Evol Int...

5 May, 2008 | 5.12PM

Section: Music Reviews Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

Get ready for broken bones and ruptured cartilage – that is, that’s what you’d now have to be doing if the sounds inside ‘Real Talk’ could manifest as physical objects.