The Weeknd - "What you need" + Free Album

Yeah I know it's a little late, these guys have been all over the Net and rightly so for the last few months, but in case you missed it check these guys out. Soooo smooth. Perfect for playin late at night with your lady..

Free album download at http://the-weeknd.com/

Leviathan Jones - "The Nanjing Mix"

Download it here

6.14.11 Nanjing Mix

Tracklisting

• Bingo Players – “Cry a Little” (Original Mix)
• ZX – “Baby” (Original Mix)
• The Isley Brothers – “Whose That Lady?”
• Thierry Roland – “High Life” (Yella Finnesse Remix)
• Etienne de Crecy – “Welcome”
• Benny Benassi ft. T-pain – “Electroman” (John Dahlbeck Remix)
• Lucky Date – “I Love The Way You Move”
• Betatraxx – “Mafioso”
• MSTRKRFT – “Street Justice”
• Ellie Goudling – “Starry Eyed” (Monsieur Adi Remix)
• Danger – “4h30m”
• Wiz Khalifa – “Black And Yellow” (DJ Kue Remix)
• Dolby Anol – “We Don’t Rock”
• Dirty Beats – “Alone In The Jungle”
• F.O.O.L. – “Gripfenklou’s Castle” (Tape Deck Bros. Remix)
• Jason Derulo – “Whatcha Say” (Afrojack Remix)
• The Police – “Roxanne” (Discotech Remix)
• KA-SO-RE – “Bunnies” (Helsinki 78-82 Remix)
• Pendulum – “Witchcraft” (Chuckie Remix)
• Timid Tigers – “Palm Beach Bar” (Disco Villains Remix)
• Ira Atari – “Don’t Wanna Miss You” (ULTRNX Remix)
• Monarchy – “The Phoenix Alive” (Kris Menace Remix)
• Sphaera – “Front”
• Dada Life – “Cash In Drop Out” (Lordcool Remix)
• Sleigh Bells – “Tell ‘Em” (Diplo Remix)
• DJ Tiesto – “Escape Me” (LA Riots Remix)
• Toddla T – “Sky Surfer” (Douster Remix)
• Teenage Bad Girl – “Hands Of A Stranger” (Yuksek Remix)
• The Toxic Avenger – “Never Stop” (Botox Remix)
• IF&VB – “Il Vayacon” (Leon Remix)
• KZA – “Le Troublant Acid”
• Bloc Party – “It Starts Again” (Alex Metrix Remix)
• Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Can’t Hear My Eyes” (Flubba Remix)
• Starkey – “Lost In Space” (Om Unit Remix)
• Housse De Racket – “Oh Yeah” (Walter Soubcek Remix)
• Sunday Girl – “Self Control” (Young Empires Remix)
• Sean Roman – “Lick” (Original Mix)
• Visitor – “Love” (Club Edit)
• Friendly Fires – “Paris” (Aeroplanes Remix)
• Faker – “This Heart Attack” (Miami Horror Remix)

The Weeknd -

Civil Music Showcase - Debruit and Starkey hotness

What can I say? Civil Music killin it..

3 AM Icy Mix - Leviathan Jones

The 3 A.M. Icy Mix

This airs tonight on RWD Fm, 10-12 EST. Probably my best mix yet, picked a really nice selection of chilled out, mellow garage, dubstep, future hop, and house. Think this one flows better then any other mixes I've put up so far, spent a lot of time arranging the tracks for maximum impact. What do you think?












Tracklisting

Salva – “Icey”
Eleven Tigers – “Open Mirror”
Conquest – “Forever” (D1 Remix)
Ital TEK – “Black and White”
Phaeleh – “Lament”
Greymatter – “Too Much”
Ginormous – “Moon Canyon”
Swede:art – “You Live Forever” ft. Duktus
Pariah – “C-Beams”
Xxxy – “Reflections”
Mount Kimbie – “At Least” (Instramental remix)
Lauren Pritchard – “Stuck” (Guido remix)
Horsepower Productions – “Gorgon Sound”
Melanie Fiona – “It Kills Me” (Breakage remix)
Scuba – “Tense” (Ramandan remix)
Labyrinth Ear - “Snow White” (Dreamtrack Diamond remix)
Gold Panda – “You” (Seams remix)
Gregor T and Saltan Florio – “Mundocaso”
Kode9 – “You Don’t Wash” (Martyn remix)
Primal Scream – “Slip Inside This House”
Leviathan Jones – “Mao’s Chaos”
Extrawelt – “Dark Side Of My Room”
Trentemoller – “Moan” (Vocal version)
A.M. Architect – “Adaptation”
Black Gold 360 – “Jevski’s House”
P.U.D.G.E. – “Everything To Me”
Shlomo – “Birthday Beats”
Mount Kimbie – “Maybes” (James Blake remix)
The Nomad – “My Inspiration”
Chief – “Crystal Silence”
Bingo – “Keep Me High”
Rooflight – “Late Into The Evening”

Music for Lovers

Live DJ mix I made for Rwd.fm (Check me out live every other Sunday 10-12 P.M. EST!) Eclectic/funky mix I made for my birthday party tonight, threw in some lovestep, deep house, jazz, drum and bass, etc.. This one's for all the lovers out there :)



Tracklisting

Eleven Tigers – “Atomic Turnip”
Secede – “Leraine”
Phaeleh – “Sundown”
Tycho – “Coastal Brake”
Neon Indian – “Should have taken acid with you” (Future Rock remix)
Kasper Bjorke – “Alcatraz”
Teebs – “Wind Loop”
B. Bravo – “Computa Love”
Ludacris – “Stand up” (Vodka and Milk remix)
Baikonor – “Coltan Anyone”
Miles Davis – “Honky Tonk”
ASC – “Lost for words”
Andrea Triana – “Lost where I belong” (Flying Lotus remix)
El Guincho – “Cuando Maravilla Fui”
Skream – “Listenin’ to the records on my wall”
Moderat – “Porcelain #2”
Bob Marley – “Is this love?” (Lojik remix)
Jose Gonzalez – “Crosses” (Boogaloo Crew remix)
Titus Twelve – “Village of the dubbed”
Freddie Gibbs ft. Dan Auerbach, Chip tha ripper,
Bun B, & Chuck Inglish – “Oil Money”
Bil Bless – “Exp 3”
Snow Patrol – “Open your eyes” (Marky and Bungle remix)
The Funktastics – “Hayes Theme”
Mount Kimbie – “Maybes” (James Blake remix)
Pretty Lights – “Do you understand me now?”
Chanca Via Circuito – “Dancehall”
Soul Jazz Orchestra – “Negus Negast”
Shafiq Hussein – “Cheeba” (Nott remix)
Major Lazer ft. Gyptian – “Hold Yuh”
Claire Maguire – “Ain’t Nobody” (Breakage remix)
Four Tet – “She just likes to fight”

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2nd mix for RwdFM - Leviathan Jones

3.23 Mix for RewindFM Track Listing

Fema Kuti – Sorry Sorry (Francois K remix)
Ben Samples – Get Dirty
Bluetech – Leaving Babylon (Stephen Jacobs remix)
Lazer Sword – I GOT GRAPES (FUCK YES TREEMIX)
Felix Cartel – Love (Clockwork remix)
Pendulum – Set Me On Fire
Sub Focus – Come Closer (VIP remix)
Netsky – Rise and Shine
Leviathan Jones – Buried Alone
+verb – Speshil Nights
The Roots ft. Jaguar – The Lesson (Part Three)
Biggie Smalls vs. MGMT – Electric (ddpesh mashup)
ZX – Jupiter
Daft Punk – Derezzed
AC Slater ft. Ninjasonik – Take You (Lazer Sword remix)
Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire (Leviathan Jones vs. RSPS edit)
Swedish House Mafia – Miami 2 Ibiza (Static Revenger remix)
Kid Cudi and Snoop Dogg – That Tree (The Filth remix)
Robyn – Indestructable (Laidback Luke remix)
Buraka Som Sistema – LVIS 1990
Thievery Corporation ft. Sleepy Wonder – Warning Shots
James Blake – I Only Know (What I Know Now)
Stardust – Music Feels Better With You (Mux Mool remix)
Kastle – Better Off Alone (NastyNasty remix)
Betatraxx – Mafioso
King Kuula – Vampire Killer
The Flying Skulls – Skulls and Angels (MO2 remix)
Small Radio – Leaf Shaped Feelings (Coco Bryce remix)
Gui Boratto – No Turning Back
Third Eye Foundation – A Galaxy of Stars
Electric Sea Spider – Blackpanther (Gorque remix)

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Keepin up on current events

Haha yeah, staying up on world news. I usually talk about it on Friday nights with a VIP student I teach, get his opinions on world issues, etc..

http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/stories/salt-panic-chinese-fearing-japan-radiation-rush-to-buy-salt.html is a funny article pertaining to the Japanese crisis - Millions of Japanese remain calm and orderly during an epic disastor, no looting, etc, then Chinese people panic and cause chaos just to buy salt to protect themselves haha. The Chinese are in many ways funny people like that, backwards in many ways (people goin' to the bathroom anywhere in public, all the spitting, etc..) but are quite advanced and civilized in many other ways. Interesting culture, especially considering the age and history behind it all.

DUUUBSTEP

Been on a drum and bass kick lately, Sub Focus/Netsky/DJ Fresh in particular, but still gotta love that heavy dub bass. Here's a couple good examples. Also on the agenda is starting a new 2-hour internet radio show on RewindFM, a young North American bass station. Every other Sunday from 10-12 EST my tunes gonna be on internet radio, and no, it's not as big as glitch.fm but hey, it's something. Reason to make dope 2 hour mixes. Put a link to my first one below, not sure how long it will stay up?

Bobby Tank - Nexus Moonburgers (+verb's Rebounce) by +verb

Vampire Killer (King Kuula Remix) -=Free Download 320kbps=- by King Kuula

My 1st mix for RewindFM

Baraka - "Kecek Monkey Chant"

Part of the 1992 film "Baraka", pretty crazy chanting ritual shot in Indonesia.

Rad Omen - Rad Anthem

HAAAHAHAHAHA.

And this one below is just beautiful.

Prepare Your Coffin

Tortoise consistently remains one of the best, most original post rock outfits and is one of the longest running. Their track "DJed" came out sometime in the early 1990's I believe, and they continue to produce unique awesome tunes. Their latest album was no exception, really dig this track ("Prepare Your Coffin") above from it. Cool video too.

Going with the death thing, I figured I'd post my latest original work, "Buried Alone". It uses a Burial sample, hence the title, and I think it turned out pretty decent. Focusing on shifting my musical goals to production rather then DJing at the moment, so much more to come. Cheers.

Buried Alone by Leviathan Jones

Club No. 99

The Underbelly Project

This has gotten a lot of media attention lately, but if you haven't heard of this, definitely check it out. Some NYC street artists found an abandoned, empty subway station space and renovated it for art space. No one was invited though, it's entirely illegal, and you can't buy anything. 103 street artists from around the world snuck in over the course of a year, in 4 hour intervals - deep underground in an undisclosed location somewhere under Williamsburg.

New York Times reports:

"The New York City police have arrested 20 people for trying to enter an abandoned subway station housing the formerly secret guerrilla exhibition of underground street art that was revealed to the public this month.

The clandestine gallery has attracted urban explorers eager to catch a glimpse of dozens of provocative, large-scale installations created by more than 100 street artists who sneaked into the station over the course of a year.

While the police are taking a hard line on keeping people away — “This is not an art gallery; this is completely illegal,” one officer said — the paintings in what the artists called the Underbelly Project are likely to live on. Subway officials said they had no plans to paint over the artwork, even if they sincerely hoped nobody ever got to see it again."

Original article here

Phaeleh / Baths

Pill Art / Tian Zi Fang / Shanghai





Really enjoying the new album from Bristol 2-step producer Phaeleh, "Fallen Light." The above track isn't my favorite from the album, and not a great video either, but gives you the idea. I'm including the title track from his album below as well. Really good chillout stuff.

Phaeleh - Fallen Light



Likewise some more lounging music. Baths is a recent addition to the Anticon record label and definitely an interesting listen. They are known for their left-field, abstract hip hop style - I had the pleasure of catching Subtle perform in Boston, and among other things going on they had an electric cello, etc.. Cool stuff indeed. Speaking of Subtle, here's a really good one by them. Love the ending..

The only good fnord is a dead fnord

Just a few of the reasons I love China. Just got back from 24 hours in Shanghai, helluva a city. Much love to my foster family there, Jenny and her husband, graciously giving me a bed to sleep in and some good company. Ate some really good Indian and Thai food, had some 15 year old Scotch, and got some nice winter gear and artwork for the apartment. G Plus, the club in this picture, is where I want to DJ. Or somewhere like it.





















GOOD MUSIC

TAKE NEON BEAMS ECHO PARK REMIX by ECHO PARK

+verb - Luv U (Clip) by +verb

CocoRosie - Werewolf (Omega Remix) Mastered FREE 320 by OmegaDubstep

Xiao Bai

So, randomly decided to buy a kitten one day. No, actually gave it some forethought of course. But still fairly impulsive - went down to the market one day with a few friends from the school who had already gotten one, and we had a look around. There were definitely a few candidates, but I fell in love with this one cage of 3 white kittens. Two of them were males, and I was told they would piss all over the place, so I went with the female. She cost 40 kwai (just under 5 USD!) and with a box of cat litter, food, and a bowl, the total was just over ten bucks! Gotta love prices in China..

Named her Xiao Bai, which means little white in Chinese. I have a few Chinese friends with that nickname, and it seemed appropriate for her given that she is tiny and white. Really needy and loud at first, she's tamed down a lot. She was all claws and biting and crying for the first few weeks, but moving past that stage thankfully. And oh man, she's definitely adorable. Still fits in the palm of my hand, and definitely makes the apartment a lot more cozier. Been a good thing..

Chinese Nightlife

Chinese nightlife is a crazy beast. Let me preface this post by saying I very rarely ever went out to nightclubs in the states. Not really my scene, cheesy music/people, etc - preferred small bars and chilling at house parties. That being said though, I've spent a decent amount of time here at various nightclubs. Lan Kwai Fong district in Hong Kong, No. 88 Bar and G Plus in Shanghai, Phoebe Bar in Hangzhou, and a few places in my city Jiaxing. They're really crazy places, way different then American establishments. A lot of them are all decked out with chandeliers and crazy couches, really stylish. The usual lack of a dancefloor was upsetting at first, but you adjust to it. Chinese people can't dance apparently, and they all just like to stand at their tables and move around a little bit. In addition to that, just think clowns on stilts, singers and dancers, and fruit buckets. Yeah, it's definitely different then anything I've ever seen before.

Oh man. There's been a lot of memorable nights out. One really standout story is the night I was meeting a few friends at Lo Has, the biggest and most popular club in our town. As we were waiting for one friend, a friggin' Lamborghini pulled up to the entrance of the club. In Jiaxing, there's plenty of nice cars i.e. BMWs, Mercedes, etc, but a Lambo was something I'd never seen before. Later on that night, some random Chinese guy walked up to our table and said hello. I gave him a cup of beer out of politeness, since you never know who you're dealing with. Sure enough, a few minutes later he came back over and invited us all to his party's table. The head of the table was the guy driving the Lamborghini! My roommate Kyle even went for a ride in it, said it was nuts. Another interesting side note to that was that they may very well have been gangsters - Kyle refused a toast after being coerced into drinking 4 straight glasses of Hennessey, and the guy poured the entire drink down his shirt. His friends intervened, but still - very unlike the majority of Chinese culture.

I'm a DJ too, so a lot of this time was spent evaluating the music/crowd/etc. My computer started having real problems when I got to China, so I couldn't use my preferred DJ setup - Ableton. Spent well over a 100 hours warping and chopping tracks to DJ with that I can't use now. But used it enough to impress some people at a local club, Club TNT, and got in the door. Spent a few weeks practicing and learning how to CDJ, with CD turntables, and got things down with that. Had my debut on a Friday night, and things seemed to go pretty well! Arranged to spin there every Friday, and I went back on the Monday and DJ'ed again. However, this is China and anything and everything can happen, and apparently they shut down the club a day or two after I had been there. It was a pretty big shock and dissapointment, nobody even told me besides a friend that DJs at Lo Has. Pretty big setback, but at least now I know CDJs, and am going to look for DJ gigs in Shanghai. Life goes on..

Modesto Orizzonte - "Bliss (Lorn - Soft Room)"

Bliss - (Lorn - Soft Room) from Modesto Orizzonte on Vimeo.

Hehe. Little Halloween inspired post. Cool video. Anything Lorn touches is gold, dude is real dark and heavy.

Pendulum - "Set Me On Fire"

Can't get enough of this track. So so on Pendulum the group, but definitely big ups this one. Womp womp