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Do Not Break - Ellen Allien & Apparat (mp3)

The Best Beat Maker out of the vibrant Berlin electronica scene, Ellen Allien, is teaming up with Apparat to bring you their latest collaboration, Orchestra of Bubbles, live at the Hiro Ballroom this Thursday. Meaning the best of Germany will go up against the French, throwing down at Ed Bangers/Vice Party as well as the NYC Dance Punk mascots The Rapture rocking out at the MTV’s VMA AfterParty for the international title of “Thrower of Most Ridiculous Dance Party ever,” all this Thursday. Such is the beauty and the curse of NYC. So much ridiculousness going on that you can die trying to go to all of them or simply stay home and watch T2.

In the Morning - Junior Boys (mp3)

Delicious. I can just listen to that fuzzy bass note that starts off the new Junior Boys single, all day, by itself, 24/7. It’s the equivalent of the Junior Boys pouring a full bodied aural nectar into your ear. With a good pair of headphones, it will tickle your ear drums until you’re giggling on the floor in pure bliss. That’s not to say the rest of the song components are lacking. Those Junior Boys vocals are mixed louder and have a more dominating presence which is one of the improvements over the last album. The new album So this is Goodbye as the whole is much smoother to the angular beat complexities of Last Exit. The departure of their main beat maker Johnny Dark leaves the new album with simplier beats but the evolved vocal production and more abundant hooks easily make up for any setbacks in the rhythm section.

Catch Junior Boys at Bowery 9/07 Tix

Congratulations to Jon Rockey aka The Flying Squirrel for his cameo in the new Rapture, “Get Myself into it.” Rockey has been honing his roller skills as a Referee in the Gotham Girls Roller Derby League for quite some time now. His expertise in roller freestyling garnered him the title of the Only Professional White Guy Skater in the Rapture video.

Get Myself into It - Rapture (video)

If you guys are excited as I am for the new Rapture album, I highly recommend checking them out at this swanky MTV VMA after party hosted by CeeLo with Diplo dropping beats and Rapture living amok.

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Video footage has leak proving that Daft Punk, the robots we know and love, were actually human at one point back in the mid 90s. The said 30 min video features Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (in the dark) rocking 303s, 202s, 909s, and some samplers and an oberheim DMX at an underground rave in, out of all places, middle of nowhere Wisconsin back in 1996.

Daft Punk Human form (video)

And if you forgot how ridiculously awesome they look now as robots, check this Amazing Japanese Video Interview of Daft Punk having a serious conversation in their robot forms.

Daft Punk Robot Form (video)

Some of the hilarious things Daft Punk do as Robots in Tokyo:

Daft Punk entering the interview after using the Men’s Room
Daft Punk posing with Japanese Tourist
Daft Punk dancing on the Subway
Daft Punk slapping high fives in the studio
Daft Punk doing Tai Chi
Daft Punk explaining in a french accent why they turned into robots with the phrase, “What happen was like, uh, we had a little accident with the machines in the night of September ‘99. So we had, uh, to do some reconstruction with the doctor and that’s why we are looking like robots today.”

If you want to party like robots, the Daft Punk affiliated Ed Banger Records is throwing a party with Vice next week featuring a live performance by Uffie and DJ sets by Sebastian and Feadz.

When I heard Digital Love for the first time, I realize that Daft Punk is easily the coolest band of our generation. Why you ask? They invented the electronic solo.

For some reason having the solo in the context of electro bass lines and synths removes the masturbatory indulgence aspect that transformed heavy metal and prog rock into irrelevant forms of music. Daft Punk basically made the solo cool again. But ever since Digital Love and Aerodynamic, there hasn’t been another electronic act that has attempted to pull of another electro solo. Until now…

Black Eyes – Snowden (Le Castle Vania Remix) (mp3)

First up is one of my favorite dance songs of the summer. It has everything you want, a great bobbing bassline, synths that sound like guitars, vocals that you can sing along with while rocking out on the dance floor, a perfect amount of vocoder, and one kick ass solo. A great dance anthem from a promising producer who’s currently holding down the dance scene in Atlanta. Check out his parties here. Stay tuned for a Blanks. remix from this guy.

Lazerdance – Emmon (mp3)

All you guys really need to know is lazerdance sounds like a really cool secret round in Contra. Except instead of saving the world from Red Falcon, you’re fighting to save the world to lazerdance. Also, the solo sounds like the part in the videogame when you get a bunch of powerups after you kill a mini-boss.