New Beginnings

Tomorrow the new year comes, and according to some, perhaps the beginning of the end. But I also have a new beginning as I ship out tomorrow from the great states to Barcelona. So it's safe to say this is my last American post. VCH will live on in Barcelona but the plan will be to give it a little more Euro flavor to the blog. With that being said we all need some serious tunes to ring in the new year, so I got for you a DJ mix, a couple new jams, and my top ten songs of the year (in no particular order):

Lenno has his head in the game this new years with a "Gotta Dance Dirty New Years Mix". I loved it, gotta spin stuff like this tonight if you're gonna have a good time:

   Lenno - Gotta Dance Dirty New Year's Eve Party Mix by Lenno

TRACKLIST:
Just Kiddin' - Cuba
Oliver - Footsteps
Bag Raiders - Sunlight (Armand Van Helden Remix)
Louis La Roche - Malfunction
Rogerseventytwo - You Take Me Higher
Reset! - If We Try (Broke One Remix)
Chris Lake & Nightriders - NYC
Alex Kenji & Federico Scavo - Just For You
Deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner - Animal Rights (Birdie Retweet)
Cassian - Friday Night
Just Kiddin' - Sax & Gold (Lenno Edit)
Willow Smith VS Rose Royce - Whip My Hair (Peo De Pitte Remix)
Broke One - Go Go Go (Russ Chimes Remix)
Marble Players - Wipe Out
Broke One - Go Go Go (Treasure Fingers Remix)
Adam Bozzetto - Getaway (Lenno Edit)
Duck Sauce - The Motion
His Majesty Andre - Untitled Vinyl
Daft Punk - High Life (Lenno Rework)
Russ Chimes - Tonic
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Household Goods
The "S" - Is Dangerous (Barretso Remix)
Wolfgang Gartner - Cognitive Dissonance ('96 Bulls Edit)
Hervé - Blaze It (Reset! Remix)
Timo Juuti & Hector 87 - I Know It
Daft Punk - Derezzed (Bright Shades Rework)


People really need to making way for this Dyro character. Kid is throwing out bangers for days on days. Put these two jams on and actually make some space for jumping because it becomes involuntary:

   Dyro - Methaphor (Original mix) by DYRO

   Dyro - Magno (Original mix) by DYRO


As for my top ten songs of the yerar? It's pretty tough to narrow my decisions down to ten never mind order those ten so I'm just gonna say that these have no particular order, lets just enjoy the music and the new year comes. (just to clarify I'm sticking with MY favorite songs so there is some bias I admit. I'm sure some of you would love to see some skrillex on here but thats for another time and place to get recognition):

Onward and Upward

As my departure across the pond to España, I get more and more excited in the fact that I will be in quite the city in terms of influence over electronic music. And what better way to vent that positive energy than through a little EP review and some mixes:



Skrillex came out with his new EP "Bangarang". As much as everyone loves Skrill, I was a little bit indiferent about this EP. I thought that this was going to be a really agressive and hard hitting EP; but in all honesty, I find only these two songs (as well as Breakin' a Sweat which I wrote about like a month ago when it came out with those other cool Hyundai sponsored collabo's) worth while:





In other news, fellow OSWLA minion, Zedd, has come out with another mothership mix. This one is an hour and a half long and is tied in together throughout so perfectly. I am always pumped when they give him the hour slot on Electric Area to do his thing like this. May not be too good for me in terms of inducing speeding on the highway but in terms of good jams, these mixes this guy comes up with are very kosher:

   Zedd DJ Mix (The Mothership Vol.2) by Zedd

I was waiting for somebody to remix John Dahlback's instant classic, Are You Nervous. Well now that wait is over. Up and comer on the Spinning Records as well is Rene Amesz's killer rework:



Now lets turn it up a notch on the proverbial energy knob. R3hab has been clearly very merry this holiday season and has given us a remix of Steve Aoki's signature early track I'm in the House as well as a little preview to his upcoming remix of Far East Movement's record, Jello. Both these tracks need to be on the naughty list. Just deep mean dirty remixes that would even make the grinch blush:

   Steve Aoki & Zuper Blahq - I'm In The House (R3hab's Surrender Remix) [FREE DOWNLOAD] by R3HAB

   Far East Movement & Rye Rye - Jello (R3hab Remix) [PREVIEW] by R3HAB

Sex, Drugs, and Poison

VCH coming at you with another late night post with a little malbec on the side. Class class class. Last night I was in a blur throwing up perhaps a bit of an overwhelming amount of tracks for one post but the overdosing must continue in order to be properly caught up in the exploding electronic music scene. Every day it becomes more apparent to me how rapidly and how forcefully this genre is taking not only most of the world's youth, but music itself as a whole. This is the future and godammit I love being a part of it. We all are. So with that said... ¡Vamanos a los discos!


Diplo and Datsik are both some weird dudes but that is exactly what makes these two guys so awesome. I'm so glad these two guys teamed up on this new track Pick Your Poison. I put up the original as well as a minimix of the remixes by Detr So literally... pick your poison people:



 Diplo & Datsik- Pick Your Poison feat. Kay Remix EP Minimix by Mad Decent

List of remixes:
1.Pick Your Poison feat. Kay
2.Pick Your Poison feat. Kay (Figure Remix)
3.Pick Your Poison feat. Kay (Detroit Muscle Remix)
4.Pick Your Poison feat. Kay (Swizzymack Remix)
5.Pick Your Poison feat. Kay (DalePlay Remix)




Tommy Trash just needs to stop putting out songs for a while. It's bad for my body. I need a break for a while. But.. it's just... so... goooodddd! Here's a little teaser of his new song Sex, Drugs, Rock n' Roll:


 Tommy Trash - Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll (Original Mix) by MixmashRecords


Mord Fustang continues his momentum of monstrous his recent originals as well as his recent remixes. Check out this new track We are Now Connected. And yes, we are on the same page... very much connected: 





I was convinced I was finished with Coldplay remixes but this remix of The Scientist by Dimitri Vangelis & Wynn Need Howie is simply superb:





So maybe I am jumping the gun on this but I don't care. There has been so much talk of Dada Life coming out with a new EP this spring so aside from Kick Out the Epic Motherfucker being on it I decided to give it a little hype. Enjoy boys and girls. Also, bonus points to the boys for entertainment factor:








*I already know this song will be my favorite off the EP... called Rolling Stone T-Shirt (Instrumental Version) :





Here is the vocal version... not greatest quality I know but still gives you an idea how how killer this track is gonna be:

Winter Break Overdosin' with Viceroy

So I know it's been ages since I posted. Sorry I was too busy procrastinating for finals. Anyways, VCH is back and tonight is an overdose of tunes with limited nonsense in between. A lot of great new music in the EDM world this week so enjoy:

This release of Ohrwurm by Tommy Trash is the only song I will give any sort of description of so you don't feel guilty about ignoring my writing. Anyways, thank god this song got released Monday, I have had it on repeat since then. I was beginning to lose my mind when it didn't get released in November like Trash had initially promised. None the less this song is more addictive than Bayer cough suppressant and it is here just in time for the season of giving:



Actually... I stand corrected, there is one more thing I must say. My man Viceroy just put out a uncontrollably funky and killer remix to the Yelle's track Comme Un Enfant. It makes me want to get to Europe NOW. Unfortunately, my flight out across the pond isn't for another week (but this remix is making me consider just taking a boat there if it means getting there earlier to party). Anyways, show the man some love and favorite his track on soundcloud and throw up a comment to give him some due props if you got an SC account:

    Yelle - Comme Un Enfant (Viceroy Remix) by VICEROY


As for the rest of the EDM world, they are having a pretty good few weeks too I suppose. See for yourself:














This Music video for the new SHM & Knife Party record "Antidote" is NSFW (but crazy as hell)




   Swedish House Mafia vs Knife Party - Antidote (Tommy Trash Remix) [World Premiere BBC Radio 1] by tommytrash

Lethal Superbad

I hope this finals week is going just as splendid for everyone else as it is for me, today I got the day off from exams so I found time in my busy schedule to pencil in some time for the love of music. Your welcome:

If you haven't heard of Arty or Mat Zo hopefully this little callabo Mozart makes you a bit ashamed for your ignorance. The music video is cool but I suggest buying the extended edit because you can really enjoy the chord progressions in the longer cut:



There have been a bunch of remixes of Kaskade's single Turn It Down that got released this week but the only one I find worth while is the rework that Le Castle Vania did... no other words than absurd come to mind:



I never though I would be calling Flux Pavillion or Doctor P soulful but I have a tough time describing this new record any other way:



The original mix of Lethal Industry by Tiesto will always have a special place in my heart. I can definitely say that song one of the things that hooked me on electronic music. I was weary when I first heard Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano were reworking the original to have some new synths and whatnot in it. I mean who has the balls to rework a masterpiece? But giving credit where credit is due, I love it. They kept things true to the original while truly showing us where this trance movement is going:



Before I say anything about this next track I want to say I still love the original What Happens in Vegas by Chuckie and Gregor Salto. But now that I've cleared that up this Pierce Fulton remix blows the roof of the original. I see myself playing this remix over Chuckie's production of it when I roll down the Vegas strip. Just such a good feeling to it:

Do Work Son

Exam week is nearing, time to get to business. I don't know about you but I literally am incapable of being productive unless I have some music playing. So if you're like me, you've come to the right place. The blog has been a bit dry the past few days but nothing to fret; I have all that you'll need this week:
*PS don't forgot to download Knife Party's EP "100% No Modern Talking" on their Facebook or Twitter or Soundcloud accounts today!

What better way to get this week of burrying ourselves in the library than with 2Bear's record Work:



Dada Life continues to be like surgeons with their remixes. And their new rework of Chuckie's record Who is Ready to Jump? proves just the pure talent these to crazy Swedes have:



I dropped the Cazzette remix of Levels, Skrillex one ups it with his signature style of fast paced electro dubstep:



My boys from Boulder, Hujje Music released another Calvin Harris remix of We Found Love. They seem to have all kinds of momentum on their side and havew really found their sound:

   Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris - We Found Love (Hujje Remix) by Hujje

Throwing Sharp Things

You guessed it... this has to do with the news that Knife Party will be releasing their new EP "100% No Modern Talking" for free on Monday. Tough not to throw down some good Knife Party and some other heavy hitting electro house records. Another weekend begins, but make sure Knife Party is playing at your part, but I suggest not having a party having to do with the involvement of knifes. Just a thought:

For the love of Knife Party, here are a couple of the songs that will be freely downloadable Monday. Knife Party is clearly in the spirit of the season of giving, except for the somewhat eery and very crazy tune on their EP, Internet Friends:









Tough to follow up that act of songs, but Cazzette's remix of the legendary original by Avicii, Levels is nothing short of legendary itself. That deep synthed sound blows the roof of the original:



Now it would almost seem unfair to post any other artists today with these monstrous tracks out. But Nicky Romero's remix of Haters Gonna Hate has blown my mind. There may actually be some head and neck damage from jamming to this ruthless remix:




Now one would have to accept that would be the end of it for today. But nope, how about some Lady Gaga remixes? Now one might see the as emasculating for me for to put up some Gaga but these remixes are mean and some would even say grizzly:

   Lady Gaga - Marry The Night (R3hab Remix) by R3HAB

   Lady Gaga - Marry The Night (Afrojack Remix) by AlbinHaglund

   Lady Gaga - Marry The Night ( Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Remix ) by dimitrivegasandlikemike

It's a Chopper Baby

Before you ponder the title I'll just fill you in that it is a Pulp Fiction reference. You know, the part where Bruce Willis's girlfriend asks him who's motorcycle he's riding. Better yet here's the clip and you'll understand why:



Our Canadian friends Zeds Dead have teamed up with Dim Mak Records to give us this joyous electro record just in time for the season of giving, how festive. I don't know what is up with these Canadian artists but they are just killing the EDM game; must be something in the maple syrup. Either way here is their new track Ruckus the Jam. Listen with caution, it may disturb any peaceful thoughts you were once having:



I was tempted to sneak the old "This is Your Brain on Drugs" PSA before I showed you this next track, but I resisted due to the overflow of confusion and ridiculousness it would incite. Nonetheless, check out this fun new song by Alex Sayz called Acid Kills. Yes, acid does kill you, but this song may be just as damaging to your brain:




Now that your mind may have been blown, I'll bring you back to earth with this funky remix by Cassian of How Deep is Your Love? I just love the snare drums and guitar riff samples that seem to go perfectly with the deep bass line, and I have been a huge fan of Rapture vocals. It reminds me of Yeasayer which I think would be a huge compliment to any vocalist:

    How Deep Is Your Love (Cassian Remix) [Cass Master] - The Rapture by cassian


More funk you say? Alright fine then, check out these two cool tracks from Silver Disco and Gramophonedzie. Boogie on bros... :

   Silver Disco - On My Mind (Original Mix) by Silver Disco

   Gramophonedzie - Number One - Guesthouse Music by Guesthouse Music

Britches n Hoes

As the pressure rise for me to create immaculate posts due to the rise of uneducated critics, I feel my blog game has lacked and see tonight as a turning point in the slump. As any artist will tell you, critics can be the greatest sources of inspiration towards success; fire in the belly if you will. And you can't find a better day to put out such a post as some big name artists come out with bigger records. So go ahead and ignore the rest of my writing and just enjoy the good music:

Dada Life finally drops Kick Out the Epic Motherfucker. Two words; f*ck yes:



Bingo Players have released their long awaited track Mode. It doesn't have the Lil' Jon samples like a had previewed earlier but still a tight song:



Avicii goes back to his original name Tim Berg. Maybe revamping his game, and I love it: