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Showing posts with label Penned Madness. Show all posts
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What's Hot?


Considering we've spent a bunch of time connecting with a cool load of people who are obviously interested in blogs, we've decided to compile a little top three today to help you out in your future quests for good tunes. We'd be agreeing and smiling politely if you were to tell us its any ones best guess what 'cool' is, but let this list serve purpose as our take on the best three blogs out there at the moment. Where hoping this serving doesn't blow your mind and get you wildly addicted to the well-composed and very established sites your about to be exposed to, but if it does, be sure to pop back into the Fridge once in awhile! Our criteria was pretty damn simple. How much good music do they post? How often do they post it? And how well the artists we're acknowledged. Here's our take, we hope you like!
1. You Can Call Me Pelski
We actually do! While we've unfortunately maintained very little contact with the scenester over the past year, it's impossible to put him anywhere other than the top spot in conjuring up this list. His taste in music spans endlessly, with only one consistent rule - 'no throw away rubbish'. He doesn't care much for the fad genres either, evident in the diverse and comprehensive artist list he has built up over the past years. Every now and then a
'Pelski Highly Recommends Chart' pops up, sort of like his scripting into a continuing bible of the best dance tracks in the world. It's not the shit you see clogging up Aria charts, but the well produced, intricate work of those artists who just 'have it', irrelevant of their 'social status'. We're not going to say Pelski has the rest of the list completely covered, but when it comes to select offerings of amazing music with write ups to match, he's doin' pretty damn good (he's even got his own clothing line). He just recently handed half of his work over to a protege under the alias 'Charles Darkley' (who happened to kick things off with a sick mixtape, get it here) and has just dropped his latest Pelski Playlist! Here's our favorite tune from the bunch, but be sure to get the rest right here, this guy is dope! This sucka's a rework by a guy named DJ Punish on one of our favorite producers out at the moment - Alvaro. Make sure you thank Pelski!

Alvaro - Make It Funky (DJ Punish Remix) ppelectro.blogspot.com


2. Palms Out Sounds
These guys don't need introductions or spiels. They've been around the block for ages (
2005 to be exact) and they have kicked off what was once a small project into a very profitable and successful site, branched off into Palms Out Sounds Records. Sure, they might have turned into the blogospheres version of a money making machine, but the crew have kept it real and continue to deliver quality rounds of tunes in a friendly manner that's got their readership well upwards of the roof. They seem to have quietened things up a bit in August on the blog side of things, but that can be easily attributed to the hectic workings behind a record label (which has spat names out like Norrit, AC Slater & our much loved B. Rich). Regardless, here's a little sample of what the team have provided lately, bit of different, dirty summer fun. If you like it, make sure you make visiting them a regular thing, just like us yeh?

Example - Watch The Sun Come Up (Joker & Ginz Remix) palmsoutsounds.blogspot.com



We could sit here and chat about Disturbed Beats for days. Their just straight up cool. They deliver a bunch of style out of the UK and have a very prominent following in Australia too, maybe put down to their continued work with the crazy Wongo. They deliver funky tunes and we'd best describe the overall feel as 'jackin' when it comes to snapping tracks off their page. The team behind it also have a really cool exclusive mix set series (top left of the link) going on, and smash out some awesome and informative work. We find that we just can't stop going back there, just to keep up on the scene and all that, you know? :) Check out a little taste from the team lately, drop them a line and blow them kisses for the good music!

Hijack - RVM (Bootleg) disturbedbeats.blogspot.com

That concludes our little 'podium ranking' of blogs at the moment. Before you shoot us a recommendation about a blog we must have surely 'missed' because it is clearly better than one or more of our choices, we had about 20 that all deserved a mention but it's just that tough! Honorable mention shoots out to the champions behind the likes of Deckhead, Penned Madness, Stoney Roads, Discobelle and more. Jump 'em now!

NOTE: All links can be found within the main post text.

Scratchophone?






Sometimes, you see the coolest thing in the world, then you realise it's already been blogged about . The exact same way you would have in fact! Well anyway, regardless of the fact that our friends over at Penned Madness beat us too it, we just gotta' tell you about the Scratchophone! In our eyes, its the most innovative peice of material out, but heres what the crazy guys who made this thing up had to say!

"The Scratchophone is a portable Scratch instrument, featuring a turntable, tonearm, mixer, a pair of speakers and a rechargeable battery. It is an ”instrumental unity” for scratching: all in one, portable and autonomous! The Scratchophone can be carried and used virtually anywhere in a wide variety of applications: jamming with friends, playing live on stage and even scratching outdoors... Professsional features like the exclusive tangential micro-tonearm for non-skipping scratching, the unique rotary fader box to play in any posture and an ultra-high torque direct drive set it apart from other products for Scratch DJ’s."

Basically, its a crazy peice of material that lets you intertwine everything into one, simple, cordless... beast! Check out the video up top to see this thing in action and while I can't see clubs encorporating it into anything, theres definatly going to be a few guru's out their slamming up You Tube videos of them doing handstands while scratching in some remote location! Check back soon!

PusssyyyEP!



At the moment, it would be hard to avoid writing a post about Nadastrom, aka Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom. After jumping around to Dave Nada at Stereosonic in Brisbane, I chased around and realised that his collaborative efforts with the other half of Nadastrom were soon to churn out a fresh EP - Pussy, via Dubsided Records. The 4 track EP already gained rave reviews from iDJ and DMC magazines and features just what the two are known for. Penned Madness posted the lead track from the US duo's EP and raved about it and, well, in the end I just had to pass it on. The Penned Madness article is available here and is definitely worth a read. The boys and girls over at Funkism also payed tribute to the Nadastrom duo today, showcasing their work with talented produced and DJ, Blaqstarr (see the article here).




FridgeJet's Top 3 - November #1





Woah - the guys and girls over at penned madness have managed to produce a triple threat this early in the month! 

What do I do....

... hold out in anticipation for the Crookers to magically twist out a mash up of Sawtooth Sucka and Foamo, or throw it all on the line and make the call for the three best songs of November only four days into the journey? Fine Penned Madness, i'll do six this month! So what's so great about these three I hear you ask. Well the Bloody Beetroots twist out a relaxing, down tempo and lyrical 'butter' styled track while Misio puts his twist on the decibel blaring DJ Barletta. Finally, neOn smashes 'Fukt' to a pretty impressive dimension.



Wait, where is all this goodness from? Penned Madness!