We wanna say thank you and all the best for the next year to:

Miss Mercy Dispense| 3 is a crowd | Absurd | Analog Giant | Analog Strike | Cerebral Vortex | Cyberpunkers | Discobelle | Detail | Earwigs & Wax | Eugen v. Badoer | Extrajetzt | Fabric London (James) | Fluokids | FMAM | Freude am Tanzen | Hipster Runoff | His Majesty Andre | Hrdvsion | Kidz by Colette | Kimono | La New Shit | La Zen Bee | Jai la cassette a la maison | My Gucci Boyfriend | Neonfrenz | No Passport | Our Bees make honey | Popular Damage | Pork | Resonator Magazine | Robot Koch | RonknRoll | Sick Girls | Sneaker & Macoma | Spitzer | Tape 3000 | Tape Club Berlin | The Girl Next Door | Them Jeans | Tokyo Tiffany | Wighnomy Brothers

All the reading audience: Thank you very much for the gone year and have a fine night, tonight!

Today we come with a whiff of exclusiveness because we didn’t noticed that anyone else ever was talking about them in that way like we’re running our biz. So give credit where credit is due - and please welcome Cyberpunkers from Italy.
The two guys started their project in 2005 in search of new and unique sounds. And obviously they’re doing a good job because their style is fresh and makes you move your feet like self-acting. Playing together with two separate but always eclectic and thrilling DJ sets and hiding their identitys behind unique masks Cyberpunkers have fast created their individual sound - “a philosophy of life aiming for a continuous research for avant-garde vibes“.
On our request the boys were that friendly to make some of their tracks free available for you out there. So if this is your music-taste be so kind and buy their records.

zShare: Cyberpunkers - Glitter
zShare: Cyberpunkers - Purple Tree

My dog eats beats.
Sometimes it’s hard for myself stop hearing one and the same song again and again. And if I have to remind ONE song that touches my heart most of all in 2007 - then I’m just be thinking about a tiny dog that makes me dance around while smiling whimsically. Rex The Dog is the guy and Circulate the track I’m speaking of. I was listening that often to that song consecutively - it felt like being captured in a neon coloured time-loop and everything around became nonrelevant. Especially the promotion piece was a class of it’s own and shows a cartoon instead of the usual crap.
During I’m writing this love-letter you’re reading at the moment, the first “new year rockets” were test-launched behind the window in my back. Even this is not my cup of tea, it shows us the constant oncoming end of 2007. But there is no time for getting sentimentally or rather there is no reason for this. So we’re sending over some Rex The Dog tracks, you will take some pictures while dancing to and send them subsequently to TheFastLife headquarters - maybe you’re in the recall.

zShare: Rex The Dog - Circulate
zShare: Rex The Dog - Italian Blond
zShare: Rex The Dog - We Live In Daddy’s Car (808 Mix)

Mode Boys & Selektor Noize? Nix da! Ganz so easy lassen sich die beiden Acts nicht vermischen. Aber trotzdem werde ich Sie hier in unserem Review gemeinsamen in einen Sack stecken.

Modeselektor
Bei Livegigs schon seit Jahren eine Klasse für sich, kamen Modeselektor 2007 mit einem der besten, weil variationsreichsten Alben überhaupt an den Start. Ihr nunmehr zweites Baby “Happy Birthday” ist zweifelsohne ein reines Elektro-Album und doch zischen Sie darauf gekonnt zwischen auffrisiertem HipHop, Dubstep, brachialem Ragga und Techno hin und her ohne sich darin zu verheddern. Rundes Ding, tightes Ding - und ging mir persönlich auch nach dem hundertsten Durchlauf in meinem Auto nicht auf die Nerven. Dazu war ich unfreiwillig verdonnert, da mir mein Autoradio die CD nicht mehr ausspucken wollte und bis heute auch nicht hat. Also zusammengefasst 2007: Modeselektor - HEISS, Autoradio - kein Kommentar.

zShare: Modeselektor - Black Block
zShare: Ghislain Poirier - Blazin (Modeselektor Remix)
zShare: Thom Yorke - Skip Divided (Modeselektor Remix)

Boys Noize
Das übliche Bla Bla von wegen “ja hier Boys Noize, das ist der eine Typ von Kid Alex und der will jetzt ne ganz andere Richtung einschlagen” geht mir auf den Zeiger und soll hier auch nicht noch weiter intensiviert werden. Mal ganz abgesehen davon, dass Herr Ridha nebenbei auch noch die 3 Projekte PUZIQUe, EastWest und Einzeller laufen hat, die sich auch nicht grad verstecken müssen aber um die nicht so ein Trara veranstaltet wird.
Boys Noize’s Erstlingswerk “OiOiOi” gibt einfach nur auf die Zwölf. Es putscht gewaltig auf und verströmt jede Menge Energie - was mir persönlich oft durch lange und arbeitsreiche Nächte geholfen hat. Insofern - ein DANKE SCHÖN dafür!

zShare: Boys Noize - Superfresh
zShare: Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (Boys Noize Remix)
zShare: The Living Things - BomBomBom (Boys Noize Remix)

A pure cosmic, liberating and luxurious highlight were 2 boys from high-frequently mentioned EdBanger Records. On the one hand the head of them all Mr. Oizo & on the other Shooting-Boy without a face SebastiAn. Neversleeping Oizo, aka Quentin Dupieux, cared for all members of the label, coming bigger and bigger, composed a soundtrack album to the movie “Steak” and SebastiAn whacked the audience with a variety of superior delicious tracks, to guarantee you must never have a silent break.

zShare: Mr. Oizo - Chivers as a female
zShare: Mr. Oizo - Transexual
zShare: SebastiAn - Untitled
zShare: SebastiAn - Smoking Kills

2 days ago big guys from Bigstereo appeared like heartbreaking gentlewomen, sharing a high quality version of Donovan’s new track with all and us. Frenchboy, formerly known as Killdahype has great chances rocking one of the best tracks with “Yo!” in the end of this year. Enjoy enjoy.

zShare: Donovan - Yo!

image: Natali Olausson

BITTE WER? BITTE WAS?
Slagsmålsklubben - sechs liebenswert bekloppte Schweden mit analogen Synthies und Duracell im Arsch. Alles nahm seinen Anfang nur damit, dass ein Bandmitglied sein Casio an einen Gitarrenverstärker koppelte und damit den anderen fünf Jungs seltsame Klänge um die Ohren knallte. Das war im Jahr 2000 - seit dem entwickelten Sie Ihren Sound immer weiter, ohne diesen aus seiner, für Slagsmålsklubben typischen, Unverwechselbarkeit zu zerren.
Im April kam mit “Boss for Leader” Ihr drittes Album - deutlich melodiöser als die Vorgänger und doch stets mit dem quirligen Charme eines 80er Jahre Konsolen Spieles. Da leuchten die Augen eines jeden NES Kids. Mit Slagsmålsklubben verbindet sich für mich aber auch die diesjährige Fusion. 4 geniale Tage mit der Gang und 1000 Elfen. Den dortigen Auftritt hat Block Rocking Beats so treffend in Worte gefasst, dass ich dies hier einfach zitieren möchte:

“…Als der Vorhang endlich gelichtet wurde, starteten die sechs Jungs direkt durch. Fünf davon am Synthesizer und einer an einem kleinen digitalen Drumkit. Kein langes Drumherum, ein paar nett gemeinte, vielleicht etwas schwer verständliche schwedeutsche Wörter und ab ging die Post. Die sechs droschen auf ihren Geräten herum und erzeugten eine wahnsinnige Soundkulisse, die sich irgendwo zwischen Computerspielesounds, Techno, Trance und eingängigen Popmelodien bewegten. … die sechs schafften es mit dem ersten Track das gesamte Zelt (das Konzert fand im Luftschloss statt) zum Tanzen, wenn nicht extremen Abgehen zu bringen. Entgegen den im Studio aufgenommenen Songs wurde hier alles viel schneller gespielt. Gegen Ende des Sets wurden die BPM sicher auf Werte jenseits der 200 hochgeschraubt und wer jetzt nicht zappelte musste irgendwie mit dem Untergrund vernagelt gewesen sein…”

Dem ist nichts hinzuzufügen.

zShare: Slagsmålsklubben - Speedboats
zShare: Slagsmålsklubben - Bib
zShare: Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored By Destiny
zShare: Slagsmålsklubben - Hit Me Hard

The only reason, why

- i leased a Ferrari this year,
- i started french-lessons in adult evening classes,
- drank more red wine and smoked 2 boxes a day,
- exclusively just ate baguette & croissants with geramont,
- started pumping on Venice Beach,
- became addicted cruising my car breaknecking through the sunny mountain roads and
- wished myself a big brother just like him

in 2007 is Kavinsky. The tip of the iceberg was SebastiAn playing the “Testarossa Autodrive” live, the only reason i pushed my oiled glamorous body on the dancefloor, through the masses of girls from villages and boys try to look better dressed up than the femmes. He’s never heard too much! The story behind:

“The first thing to know about Kavinsky: He’s a zombie. Legend says he was killed in a car wreck in 1986, speeding through the back roads of France at over 120 mph in a Ferrari Testarossa before veering off the road and being hurtled through the windshield. Though pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, he quietly got up off his stretcher and left, never to be seen or heard from again…until 2006.”

zShare: Kavinsky - Testarossa Autodrive
zShare: Kavinsky - Testarossa Nightdrive
zShare: Kavinsky - Grand Canyon
zShare: A-Trak - Roder (Kavinsky vs. M.I.A.)

The Fast Life played act like Santa last night and were around last night to surprise our closest friends. So if you are in touch with us, you already got “it” and we hope you smile a little.

We deeply want to come out today with our first The Fast Life Mix Cd.

There are 2 ways to success: Feel 100% free loading the baby via the link below. But we also want to send 2 original-cds via express mail for the first 2 kids, sending a mail to: music@thefastlife.org with their name and adress. And yes, we ship overseas, too. Thank you for your trust, interest and support. We celebrate you and wish some fine days.

zShare: The Fast Love Mix

Get the tracklist via clicking show

We’re starting our year review quite now and publish everyday up to the last day this year about 5pm (Middle European Time) what kicked our teeth in 2007, with a short info to who/what did what to our heart, brain, feet, abs, face, outfit, parents, life, nights, friends, purses and bellybuttons.

First in the row is Harrison Schaaf, stepping out the shadow of standardstuff, appearing like a virtuoso dominator of tables, mixer and the crowd. He released a variety of tracks this year, being without exception a true spoiling for our ears and made our legs and heads unable to keep still. And, uhm, in my opinion he has got the best teaser-image of them all.
Who gives this boy a deal? “Lights Camera Action When I Walk Thru The Door…”

zShare: Harrison Schaaf - Bump Remix
zShare: Harrison Schaaf - Clean like my Conscience
zShare: Harrison Schaaf - Zombie Outbreak (Degree’s Zombie Get Cut in the Dance Rmx)

Is it going to make you sick, fetching all the same singles, jingles, verses and chorus every year? That pushs you on the toilet or just make you to be in a bad mood, cause it’s running all day in mama’s radio? Maybe you get into beef with your grandmother or start thinking about running-away until it’s late afternoon, go window-shoppin or have a drink or two?

But that’s not in our mind, because it’s making anything worse. We don’t want you to have boozy breath between that woman and man, that made you or you telling your nieces and nephews, that Santa is gay. What we want is just easy as buying rolls. Go, getcha headphonez and boost this on repeat:

zShare: Yo Yo Yo Kids - Presents

From Boston are the two guys of La Zen Bee and they’re trying to push the local electro scene. It seems that everything is still on it’s way to start up, that’s why we like to support thus much lovely engagement. And of course we like their stuff as well. So check it and feel free to give some feedback to Boston. And maybe send them a hug!

zShare: La Zen Bee - LCA
zShare: DatA - Morphosis (La Zen Bee Remix)

Neonfrenz are from Australia. Neonfrenz are living in London. And Neonfrenz convinced us by sending a remix of “Yelle”. We let the baby run, run, run while preparing presents with the ugliest wrapping paper and bows on repeat, boys. You remember their name? Neonfrenz are absolutely likeable, sassy boys, arriving clubs on Bmx’s, pushing away idiots on the dancefloor and jolly djing for the audience. Check out their new remix of “Yelle” and her sweet lil’ song “Ce Jeu”.

zShare: Yelle - Ce Jeu (Neonfrenz Remix)

image: Pavlunka for The Talent Magazine
Goldie Locks pushed over her oldies, but goldies to Xmas, because it seems to take so long to release anything nowadays. We’d like to share following 5 tracks with you for a little UK-feeling at your coffee party with your fam. Inter alia all the other tracks she packed “Buffalo Girls” with Scratch from The Roots, hu. You gonna have a cushy digestible grime-with-straight-popping-beats-flavor on your plate, next to all the candy and cookies. C’mon, ship over to the continent!

zShare: Goldie Locks - Buffalo Girls
zShare: Goldie Locks - Learning to Brap
zShare: Goldie Locks - Social Suicide
zShare: Goldie Locks - Southern Spliff Politics
zShare: Goldie Locks - Spooky

We Are Not Ghetto Kids are coming with a rough and dirty by now almost France typical sound and they have enough power to paint the town red. So step out off your dark corner, put your drink away and start moving your feet like crazy on the dancefloor. And if there is no dancefloor - you simply create your own at the point where you just stand.

zShare: We Are Not Ghetto Kids - Betanoize
zShare: Dead Kids - Fear And Fluoride (We Are Not Ghetto Kids Rmx)

What to say to this name? Who the hell is that? What the hell is that? Ratatat is described as an Indietronic-Band from New York. A lot of tracks of them is more something for hanging around at home with a book or a pipe, or both. But the work-over for The Knife is one of the best i ever heard and that work-together with Spank Rock first sounds strange, but slides inside your dance cells easily. The optimum for weekend.

zShare: The Knife - We share our Mother’s Health (Ratatat rmx)
zShare: Ratatat & Spankrock - Wildcat vs Backyard Betty (Spruce Lee Refix)

Friday, 21.12.07
Jena // Theatercafe >> Oliver Goldt
Jena // Kassablanca >> Ian Simmonds presents: Wise In Time & Metaboman
Berlin // Tape >> Fuck Hugo, Total Eclipse of the Heart, San Gabriel, Hunee, Dj Humus, Female Macho
Berlin // Weekend >> Dirt Crew

Saturday, 22.12.07
Jena // Kassablanca >> Boomshakalaka: live! d&g & georgia anne muldrow, shame, légères
Leipzig // Distillery >> Moon Harbour Label Flight: Luna City Express, Matthias Tanzmann
Berlin // Watergate >> M. Maffia, D. Greed, Schleck & Stecker, M. Kaden, Krause, I. Simmonds
Berlin // Rodeo Club >> Sick Girls

Long time, no see. 2005 fav Fischerspooner is back out with new track “The Best Revenge” for Kistuné Compilation Maison 5 Golden Edition, that is going to be released in February 2008. With ‘em on it are amongst others: Rex the Dog, datA, Autokratz, CSS…Get some snippet prelisten by Distort of the compilation here and a 96kBit version of Fischerspooner-Part.

zShare: Kitsuné Maison 5 Teaser
zShare: Fischerspooner - The Best Revenge

Get the tracklist for the Maison 5 Teaser by Distort by clicking show

Damn, His majesty Andre from Milano was that friendly sending over a link to the latest mix he made. We had HM Andre 3days ago on place 5 with his NRG 555, calling him a young Daft Punk. That track is definitely a reason to hit the dancefloor together with all your friends. The tracklist of his mix promises a lot of fun. Listening implies to keep an eye on him!

zShare: Zoot Woman - We won’t break (His Majesty Andre Too Late Remix)
zShare: His Majesty Andre Mix 15.12.07

You can get the playlist by clicking show

On friday, Fabric London is kicking it again. With a hot-as-hell line-up, making me a little sad not having no private plane. They steal shows with Reverend and the Makers in live love and a special dj set of Hot Chip. Furthermore Yuksek, Das Pop and Fujiya & Miyagi are inviting the crowd to hardest dance. And dearest James from Fabric baited me with a special set of The Filthy Dukes to stream. And he was successful. We’d like to share it with you by clicking the stream-link below to pop it up and listen without dwelling on the page. Wishing a fine night to 77a Charterhouse Street.

Stream in a Pop Up: The Filthy Duke live at Fabric 02.11.2007
zShare: Hot Chip - Boys from School
100% London zShare: Kate Nash - Mouthwash (Hot Chip Rmx)
zShare: Yuksek - Little Dirty Trip
zShare: Das Pop - Fool for Love (SebastiAn Remix)

Sick Girls smashed over 3 new mashups straight on the front of your head, separating the men from the boys. Don’t miss them on next Saturday in Rodeo Club, if you’re in Berlin, cause “Revolutions never go backwards”. Clap with ‘em to the mashup of “20 Fingers’ Short Dick Man”, that joggles your brain and stomach, wait curious for 10sec arabian samples or win jackpots.
All in all i called them via 01512 / 11 272103284+43 to say: “Gulz, izza great add-on fo ma playa!”

zShare: Sick Girls - Stand up Short SG mash
zShare: Sick Girls - Hoes on Kryptonite
zShare: Sick Girls - Drop Yo Majesty

David Bayer alias DatA ist ein Phänomen - oder besser phänomenal. Seine erste EP “Trop Laser” - eine Liebesgeschichte zwischen David, Pop, Rap und elektronischer Musik, aus dem Jahr 2006 machte Ihn schlagartig bekannt und als Remixer begehrt. Der auf dieser EP enthaltene Track “J’aime pas l’art” war sogar einer der besten des Jahres.
Jetzt haben wir 2007 und DatA trägt mit seinem neuen Werk “Aerius Light EP” noch dicker auf. Bereits seit Mitte des Jahres draußen, umschwirrten uns dessen Melodien hier und da immer mal wieder - nun packen wir das alles schön ein machen eine Schleife drum und präsentieren es euch auf dem Silbernen. Alle an Bord für eine intergalaktische Reise. Füße auf die Tanzfläche und den Kopf in Richtung Sterne.

zShare: DatA - Aerius Light
zShare: DatA - Morphosis
zShare: Chromeo - Needy Girl (datA Remix)

La New Shit just shot over a new blend of blendman #1 Them Jeans in continuative hook-up to the post before. Enjoy “Pro Nails” over “Cool Feeling”, from The Outrunners. It’s the third rmx we received. Have a great time with.

zShare: Them Jeans Blend: Kid Sister & The Outrunners - Pro Nails / Cool Feeling
zShare: Them Jeans - Miami Krisp

She is running with A-Trak, she is running with Jokers of the Scene, with Chromeo, Kanye, Akon (Ha,Ha!)…so who’s that girl with that gleaming flyers and colours, that makes you blind, on her profile. Yes, J2K of Flosstradamus is her real brother, and yes that does rule.
Kid Sister is going to make you shake your thing, even if you sit on your thing. She’s out with the hot new track ft. Kanye “Pro Nails” and bingo, a fine time later two soft remixes gently pop on your screen. I deeply dived into the squeezes of the original, but all three are adorable. Get into that pool of creamy tunes to become a family member, hu!

zShare: Kid Sister ft Kanye West - Pro Nails
zShare: Kid Sister ft Kanye West - Pro Nails (Bag Raiders Remix)
zShare: Kid Sister ft Kanye West - Pro Nails (Chico Love Remix)

After a hard day it’s always great receiving easy music, dripping inside your stomach like the most expensive italian oil. The 26year old from new zealand plays herself inside brains with light jingles, fooling listeners with new music sounding like the 80s. Ladyhawke appears hard-boiled like Cindy Lauper. She produced everything by herself and she got it all: rolling drums, catchy tunes and choruses that sign a lifelong-contract in your ear-hotel. It’s going to get you, if you let.

zShare: Ladyhawke - Back of the Van
zShare: Ladyhawke - Paris is burning