Born in the Windy City, West from his current New York residence, Brenmar will be spinning at VERSUS this Thursday with a perfect fusion of hip hop, R&B, juke, and silky, drummy, house. House music that is perfect to step to, to vibe to, true “club music for the present.” Opening will be our good buddies from the Planet Rock trio and The KiD so get there early for a lovely summer night full of cold beer and smokin’ beats.

New tunes this month!  Wowowowow.  Fuck the intros, let’s get into it.

Santigold’s newest album is amazing from front to back, but this Diplo produced tune keeps it coming hard. She’s “so damn cold”.

If you haven’t heard of Mykki Blanco, he she is a transvestite Harlem based MC that tears up the mic.  Get over your initial shock that she’s completely upsetting the heterosexual hierarchy of Hip Hop, and you’ll see that Blanco’s got too much talent to be overlooked… especially when teaming up with DJ/Producer Brenmar, who absolutely murders it on the beat.  Get Wavvy.

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Homies Leeboy and Marvel the Gr8 just put out a BIG single, titled “Get it”.  Leeboy, formerly the child star on All That, is all grown up, uncensored and always hilarious.  Good vibes on this one all day.  Shout out to J. Hyphen and Random Citizens on the beat.

Too much hip hop for you already?  Alright, lets get into it.  A-trak’s remix of Surkin’s “Never Let Go” is massive.  Yet again, Trizzy proves how much of a veteran to the game he is, by giving us something unusual, and breaking expectations of what the “A-trak sound” is.  At the same time, he retains his familiar electropop synth progressions, and hip hop influenced samples.  I can’t wait to hear his new Justice remix (coming out soon).

My boys, Ian and Dan, aka gLAdiator, just put out a remix of Butterbox’s “Human” that I’ve been lovin recently.  Moombahton and Hip-Hop fusion is what these boys specialize in, and this track makes that abundantly clear.

Sinjin Hawke has recently become one of my favorite producers.  His sound is so unique that I wouldn’t even know how to genre-fy him.  Most would categorize him with names like Flosstradamus, Lunice, or Hudson Mohawke, but even that doesn’t give a full picture of the depth of his sound.  Listen to his “The Lights” EP and you will be ENlightend.

The homie Cavalry just turned me on to Modeselektor’s new track, “Berlin”.  Needless to say, I’ve been hooked.  Such good vibes from this German duo.  They never cease to impress.

Flux Pavillion just put out a remix EP for his new “DayDreamer” single feat. Example.  Coming in at number one, in my opinion, is Jack Beats.  You can certainly hear the classic Jack Beats sound in the track, but it also has a very different composition than most of their material.  Still, the synth at the drop is something I’ve never heard before.  So crunchy.

Lastly, a quick update on my new material since I last posted.  Got 2 free remixes for you.  Both featuring my boy Marvel the Gr8.  I also premiered my debut music video for “Denzel Washington” off #RPC2 last week.

Enjoy.

The KiD

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So another month of 2012 has already come to a close.  Damn, time flies. On my end, since I last wrote you, I’ve gotten to play Dim Mak Studios for the first time, opened for the one and only Munchi, threw two more Get Shifty parties, and finished the 2nd installment of Korov∆ and my continuous EP project, entitled “Red Panda Chronicles”.  Things are good.  Music’s been just as supreme.  So without further ado, here’s my chart for last month.

To start it off, I gotta give some big ups to DANCEiSM cats doing it right.  I’m referring to Dom Corleone’s remix of Better Must Come by zAm’X.  This is electronic music for true lovers.  Minimal sounding, 808 pounding, sneaky freaking, booty shaking, (should be) Dirtybird shit… and on top of it all, Dom’s got one of the coolest namedrops in the game.

Next up, the one and only A-trak.  He absolutely electrofied Martin Solveig’s “The Night Out”, but if you’re looking for that complextro ish, you won’t find it here.  We can call this NU Electro, or we can call this A-trak, or we can just call this H.A.M. … but whatever you decide, make sure you properly strap in before you blast this one.  Nutzo.

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Speaking of complextro, you may have heard of Lucky Date.  This Chicago based producer doesn’t usually hit the target for me, but his “06″ remix of Do it in the AM, is phenomenal.  Maybe we should go back… I’m a much bigger fan of electro like this.  Throw one up if you feel me.

Munchi remixed Noisia, and the antiChrist was born.  Um… I think that’s really all I have to say about this one.

Now that you’re wondering if you just permanently lost some hearing, I’ll take it easy on yuh.  Mele is a UK producer that just recently did a Euro tour with Brenmar and Dillon Francis.  This remix was just featured in Diplo’s latest installment of Blow Your Head, and it’s gorgeous.

Brodinski is a superhero.  Two years ago Peanuts Club was my jam, but I never thought that he would become one of my favorite players in the game.  This is some of the best techno I’ve ever heard.  It’s absolutely mind blowing to me to hear how much control over the sounds Brody has.  This bassline is so heavy, and yet you constantly find it bouncing so lightly throughout the track.  If this won’t make you dance… fuck man, I donno what will.

Big bossman Diplo has been in the studio with Usher over the past couple of months.  Rumor has it that he’s producing a minimum of 4 tracks on Usher’s new album.  Climax is the first single to see the light of day, and what a way to start it off.  Since the day the track came out, it has already been critically acclaimed as a revolutionary sound for an artist who may or may not have lost a lot of credibility after working on dumb pop-house tracks with Guetta for so long…oops, did I say that?

Now, I can’t leave you without doing a little shameless self promotion. The above are 3 previews off my upcoming ‘Red Panda Chronicles: Part II’ EP.  In total, the EP is going to be comprised of 6 tracks.  At the beginning of every week until the release on 3.19.12, I’ve been putting up previews of each track.  Stay tuned for more in the coming days.  I’m really excited to finally be done with this new project, and to be at a point where I can start to show you all what’s been in the making behind the scenes for the last 3 months.  More on this one soon…

On a final note, I’m going to leave you with one of my new favorite hip-hop artists, Kendrick Lamar.  If you haven’t caught on yet, here’s your chance.  If you’re going to Coachella this year, he’ll be there as well.  To explain the way I feel about this track, I’m going to quote one of my friends recently, who said “Without a shadow of a doubt, this is the best song to ever begin with the lyrics ‘Uh uh, fuck dat, eight doobies to the face, fuck dat!’”.

Until next time my DANCEiSM peoplez.

EZ

The KiD