He’s inside bizz. He got game. He runs the Everest. He kicks snares to bass and reverse. He rides all kinds of horses bareback. He lost virginity by 11. He was the antetype for Rumble in the Bronx. He taught Starsky and Hutch how to behave best in the streets. He jumps off a 5 meter diving platform twice at the same time. He is brave enough to ask for beef in a bakery. He is almighty enough to make women look into him to apply eyeshadow. He was the upper arms of Sly in Over the Top. He is the biggest in every preschool group worldwide. We heard he invented electricity and the telegraph on the same day. He furnished the bedroom of god.

As you can see, he’s got a lot of stuff to do all day. Nevertheless, Daniel Dexter (partypart of Acidkids) had a rest for 5 seconds to send us some random unreleased exclusive bootlegs.

Take a look on your casio, tell your bozz (or your employeez) you need a break of mobbing and slide into the real life of Daniel D.

zShare: Daniel Dexter - Spacer Technologic (Daft Punk & Boys Noize)
zShare: Daniel Dexter - Can’t Touch This Dog (Mc Hammer & Iggy Pop)
zShare: Daniel Dexter - Push It (Dibaba & Salt’n'Pepa)
zShare: Daniel Dexter - Dextereater (Nelly Furtado)

Fr, 29-02-08
Jena // Kassa >> Elektronacht: Pitch Tuner, Sneaker & Macoma, Klang Krieger
Jena // Mikro Club >> Oliver Goldt
Leipzig // Distillery >> Mengoolious Funk, The Funky 4 Astmatix, Flowin Immo
Leipzig // Superkronik >> Pal Secam Kids, Treplec
Berlin // Berghain >> Laurent Garnier
Berlin // Maria >> Nachlader, First Men On Pluto, Mokkasin, Tetsuo, E.-Kreisel
Berlin // Watergate >> Ada, Gebrüder Teichmann, Basteroid, Metope, Cosmic DJ, Crian Cares
Berlin // KIM >> Divine Vintage Fashion Showcase: Ladyhawke Dj Set, Huzr

Sa, 01-03-08
Jena // Kassa >> Boomshakalaka: Immodeus Flowzart, DJ Légères
Bad Kl. // Muna >> Douglas Greed live
Berlin // Berghain >> Rolando, DJ Pete, Norman Nodge, Antislash, Sety, Dave Aju, Carsten Klemann…
Berlin // SCALA >> The Knife Machine, Ladyhawke, Mr. Miyagi, …
Berlin // Crush >> Lodown Party

Yesh, Yesh, Yohrrrrr! Do you want a knuckle sandwich? 80Kidz just smashed over two new remixes with full force and we had troubles to restrain them. This tracks are such explosive, Teen has now to work one-armed and I just have had the good fortune to get beaten black and blue and must check only, if they forge ahead in facial-surgery.

80Kidz are definitely our personal Japan dears and we can’t get enough of their typical rage/force/sex/high-voltage sound. Put these two tracks on your mp3-player, listen to while moving though your city and feel like a hell of a guy.

zShare: The Shoes - Knock Out (80Kidz Remix)
zShare: WSGM - Kids Vacation (80Kidz Remix)

image: Conny Fornbäck

Radio Sidekick: “you can’t go wrong, the Familjen EP will be massive and make sure you get it before it runs out.”

To take a break from all this stress and hectic rush some days radiate and spread on your mind, your body, your soul, a fistful tunes, that run around, seem to be perfectly matching. Few amongst all seem just to be made to make you bethink or recollect yourself.

Stockholms northern blinking Familien is a boy serving this and all other kind of moods. Magnus from Adrian Recordings shipped down 2 tracks of the happy popper, one remix of Kasper Bjorke, the danish constantly asskicker, pitching you the “Huvudet i sanden” to a dancefloor-tune you hardly can’t resist. Second gem he sent over is an exclusive un-posted remix “by one of Sweden’s most eccentric electronic acts. A really cult band here, that in older days have left their playful jingly bit pop mode and are now deeply emotional and almost introvert. The remix is the track “Det snurrar i min skalle”, the banger, here in a really different version by Pluxus.”

Familjen himself says this sounds like if you have smoked too much weed and just lie there vomiting your guts out, what we are not able to relate to, cause we’re so clean since our birth 16 years ago (yes, we’re both so underage).

zShare: Familjen - Huvudet i sanden (Kasper Bjorke Remix)
zShare: Familjen - Det snurrar i min skalle (Pluxus Remix)

Anoraak pleased us this morning with a zip making us smile. I really love his name. It’s a word almost nobody in Germany would say anymore. But I deeply feel reminded to my childhood. It’s like walking through my old neighborhood made of slab-constructions, a football under my arm and wearing old Victory-sneakers with hook-and-loop fasteners.

Anoraak, the French sparkler, composing soundtracks to reminisce about the past and let sheltered feelings pop again. “Never Ending Romance Disaster” appears perfectly named to that and The Outrunners mash-up completes the time travel to a land made of carelessness and honey.

He got skills to set up such an intense mood while let the tunes running throughout the day to tremble your heartbeat. His beeps and melodies come around clean and so professional, we wonder what’s about this France. Currently Anoraak is working on some Futurecop! - remixes and good news for all living close by us: He’s alive and will please the crowd in Magnet Berlin on April 4th.

zShare: Anoraak - Never Ending Romance Disaster (NERD)
zShare: Anoraak - Nightdrive with you

zShare: The Outrunners - Cool Feeling (Anoraak Rmx)
zShare: Sexy Sushi - Petasse (Anoraak Rmx)
zShare: College - Teenage Color (Anoraak Rmx)

Utah Saints’ “Something Good 08″ (Van She Tech Remix) is going to be the biggest dance record of 2008 - that is what the Utah’s are thinking, so far… they already receiving heavy daytime plays on BBC’s Radio 1 and also on their myspace page - so maybe they’re right.

Thanks a lot to the URB Mag.

Hardmoon music means the same as the opposite of Britney Spears. The music offers a new thinking about time and energy. The ultimate tunes to download directly into your mind.

I see! The opposite of Britney Spears - and what the fuck does that mean? What is the opposite of Britney Spears? Perhaps it’s a crazy brainteaser we have to unravel!? But really - I have no idea! Can we get a second hint please? Should we turn Britney upside down? Is there anywhere a lost twin sister behind an iron mask and stashed away on an unknown island, we have to find? Is she the opposite of this Britney we all know? Well however, it doesn’t make any difference to me - I dread to think anymore…

The independent A&R agency, promotion agency, licensing agency, talent resource and netlabel FOEM has released a new EP called “FOEM/Crema Vol. 8 - Hardmoon - Kessler Syndrome”. And this somewhat inauspicious record-description, you can read above, belongs right to this free downloadable EP. But you wouldn’t read on TFL about it, if we hadn’t read over this nonsense.

FOEM/Crèma stands for the crème de la crème of FOEM music, and even we don’t know every release of this netlabel, the Hardmoon - Kessler Syndrome EP is really a creamy one. A smooth and tenderly production you might listen to, if you like to get away from it all a little, back out yourself - and don’t want to think about Britney Spears or something else.

zShare: Hardmoon - Stur Lot
zShare: Hardmoon - Beathe
zShare: Hardmoon - We All Belch After Diner Hymns

Crowd outside: As you can read above in the title we’re looking for somebody quite fit for making some graphics, we hardly got no time to create. In the beginning, it’s just about smaller teasers and animations, but we got a bigger project in nearest future.

So we badly need a boy or a girl with at least photoshop skills (some vector based and flash abilities would be advantageous), who is interested to make some stuff with us. Unfortunately we can’t pay anything to anybody currently, but you’re welcome posting through this blog. This might be not the world, but you’re free to let off steam, run riot and die, if you dive into the style we’d like to run. We don’t care wherever you are, how old you are, just want to see something of your skills and want somebody to count on supplying us with fresh gfx.

If you’re interested and/or got more questions don’t hesitate and email us: music@thefastlife.org

If TheFastLife would be a comely young girl, we wouldn’t be very amused about, how many devotees keep an eye on her. Mommy’s and daddy’s hair would stood on end, at the thought of how fast our little baby has grown up. We got this very cute baby, fortunately it’s no girl. So we don’t have to worry about all the love-letters we’re receiving.

Such as the one by Skyler, who likes to have a date with our cherry-cherry-lady. Well, this boy is really into music. Having his roots in punk, rock’n roll, hardcore and playing in a variety bands, he gets thunderstrucked by the power of using software and machines to create music. So he starts to follow his vocation by trying his hand at producing electronic music, with influences from movie scores to hip-hop, heavy metal and electro.

HVY Plastic has the intention to make fun, good, smart music that hopefully could be played in outer space. Oh yes boy - it could! Have a nice eve with our baby, but keep in mind - it’s got to be home at ten o’clock.

zShare: HVY Plastic - Fiero (Extended Mix)
zShare: HVY Plastic - Crash Landing Rework
zShare: HVY Plastic - Green and Gold
zShare: HVY Plastic - Tron Solo
zShare: HVY Plastic - B.O.Y G.E.O.R.G.E 2

Midlake is kicking themselves on toppest number one hundred percent this week, with the unbelieveable beautiful quiet gem “Roscoe” in a remix by Beyond The Wizard Sleeve.

The only truth via Hipster Runoff is our two: Nid & Sancy - M.U.S.I.C. (SymbolOne Rmx)

To best impress pedestrians while stopping on a traffic light, wind the glass pane down with our place 3: Gala - Freak from Desire (Roundtable Knights Rmx).

On four “Health” wanna take a seat and fasten belts with Crystal Castles’ pitching of Crimewave.

The fifth is a well-known tune in an absolutely relaxing brand-new mashup: Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor (Smoothed out on an R&B Tip Version).

Producing and words juggling girl Goldie Locks got finished her very first single, a double A side called ‘Wasteman’ / ‘Neek Chic’ dating the street on the 7th of April, available on Download and Vinyl.

At the beginning Goldie just used to sing a bit and punched the drums. But she wanted to make beats - she only wasn’t really sure how. Fortunately she found this little college type place called CM (Community Music) who offered production and performance course. And if you ask her about it, Goldie would say, that she wouldn’t be where she is today without CM. They taught her pretty much everything she knows, and hooked her up in numerous different ways.

This busy and high-flying girl avails herself of electro, grime, garage, a bit of pop and hip hop elemtents, puts all into a mixer and gives a good shaking to. And hey, it sounds very unique and typical British at the same time. We hardly dig her beating and spitting: so got on car-park, lean against your flivver and let Goldies tracks (here some more) be your best friends today.

Goldie Locks - Neek Chic

Goldie Locks - Wasteman

It’s vibrating, it’s shaking, it’s quaking, it is scary, it propels the kids out of the house, it seperates the wheat from the chaff, it busts your morning-egg into 1000 pieces, blasts the make-up off your face and makes you writing “LOL and <3"-mails to your boss.

THR!LL$ (attention, this myspace is definitely hard for epileptics and cardiac people) started at the age of 16 under the name DJ Aquarius playing house at raves and other underground dance events in Seattle and around the northwest (Washington/Oregon/Vancouver) USA. If you hang around in Seattle all day you might be lucky switching on the 89.5 FM and enjoy The Vortex radio show, every Saturday (8 PM - 2 AM) or load some Vinyl Mix here (direct link).

THR!LL$ shipped over some fine mastered, beefy tracks, that glow in the dark. Test it, we save electricity by playing the “Lil Scrappy” all night on repeat. We could work without switching on the lights, the kids slept so fine with these tracks and we could spend the saved cash for kevlar vests and our new studies (German as Mother Tongue & Stalking). We hope you dig the loony tunes as well!

zShare: THR!LL$ - Lil Scrappy (Original Mix)
zShare: THR!LL$ - Nothing (Original Mix)
zShare: Bul!m!atron - Hell House (Thr!ll$ vs. Lips Can Kill!!! Remix)
zShare: Moving Units - Bricks & Mortar (Thr!ll$ Remix)

A great every sunday night radioshow I fell in love with, is broadcasted by the BBC’s Radio 1. Presented by Rob da Bank this leftfield show covers techno, bleeps, ambient and acoustic in a smart mix from the UK and beyond.

Last night’s show comes with new music from Shortwave Set, Midnight Juggernauts, Crystal Castles and Hot Chip and as a special delicacy one of this years most hotly tipped artists and one of TheFastLife’s favourites - wonderful Santogold as guest in the studio. Yiehaw. Check this link to listen to the show in stream and repeat how often you like.

You want to roam around in rome or your homecountry just wearing a backpack? You want to quit your scholastics, take your girl and runaway? There might be music that perfectly match to this mood and would be best wearing it around with you while enjoying landscapes and experience some dates with nature, cities, suburbs and moments you’ll never have again in your life.

Danish 4-piece-band Printer has got these feelings in their music and got the skills to enjoin these feelings on you. You’re going to receive comfortable drifting beats, charming guitar and piano strings, soothing singing, that is going to vocal-massage your spine. All in all it’s soft and gentle and proves, that’s not all about asskicking stormy bass, but something dignifying wants to deeply touch your heart. So go fetch 2 tunes of Printer’s new release “Can You Take More?”.

zShare: Printer - Satisfaction
zShare: Printer - All Right (Exclusive Remix)

Miami Heat Roccanova just dropped his new mixtape Scada, hardly charming and courting you to be your player’s best friend on that sunny Sunday. We add a delight fresh appetizing remix from Roc’ of Surks “Ghetto Obsession”. Just go, get’n sip the dip, we’re out, cheerleading just foe da luv of it.

zShare: Roccanova - Scada Mixtape
zShare: Surkin - Ghetto Obsession (Roccanova is Ghetto in 08 Rmx)

Catch the Tracklist by clicking show

TFL is proud to present you a young and pretty artist from Germany. Nadine Platzek aka Ninino aka Tape 3000 is a 23yrs old girl, who can’t get enough from love, life and music. She is a painter, photographer, musician, and a wonderful gleam of hope on a grey afternoon. We love her style and her lovely way to create a new story, in pictures as well as in music. Currently she’s working on her 2nd album and the musical collaboration SFC 3000 with her fiancee.

Not too many words, by clicking HERE you’ll get an interview and petite pieces of photos and graphic.

zShare: Tape 3000 - He
zShare: Tape 3000 - He (Lotta Remix)
zShare: Tape 3000 - Rainbow

Something I neglected a bit latterly, are songs with lyrics in my native language German. But I first became aware of this fact, as I stumbled across the myspace page of Rupert Falsch. This is what I was missing a little - the intelligent, reflective, impulsive, elaborate, winding and may a little twirled usage of the German language.

This guy comes quiet with seemingly sophisticated lyrics over dry synthesizer beats and melancholic indie guitars. Rupert doesn’t know what really counts in life yet, but it seems singing his songs makes this incertitude a bit tolerable at least. One thing he definitely realized for his own - you can’t have the cake and eat it, too.
However, enough of pieces of wisdom. Start listen to his great easygoing melodies and lyrics.

Box.net: Rupert Falsch - In Ordnung wenn du mich rufst
Box.net: Rupert Falsch - Links auf der Fahrbahn, ein totes Tier
Box.net: Rupert Falsch - Erklärs mir bitte noch einmal

We received a mail by a DJ duo calling themselves The Mighty Vybz and sending over their new 5-track EP “Trash Blazers”. So far so good. Like every time we receive such incredible detailed mails, I performed some enquiries about the two fellows. Well, to tell the truth, excepting some smirk and raising my eyebrows at the same time, I found nothing mentionable. They’re really not that type of human I can take serious - but fortunately I haven’t to.
Apart from this differences The Mighty Vybz really have some fresh tracks on their EP. And if I haven’t scare you off (hopefully), you can get the complete “Trash Blazers” EP right here for free.

Box.net: The Mighty Vybz - Self Behaviour
Box.net: The Mighty Vybz - Control Mode

Fr, 22-02-08
Jena // Markt 11 >> Tokyo Tiffy + Juläää Birthday-Razzle-Dazzle: AG Auflegen, DJ Coins
Jena // Kassa >> Jeans Team live
Berlin // Magnet >> Kiss me i’m Electric: The World Domination, Dmitry Fyodorov, Finckobot
Berlin // Icon >> Kid Fresh, Daniel Dexter

Sa, 22-02-08
Jena // Kassa >> Ueberschall: peak, minuspol, kaneda, cat, goldee, real
Weimar // Starclub >> Marvellous
Berlin // Postbahnhof >> Stereophonics
Berlin // Crush >> Berlin Battery: Breakbot, Shir Khan, Jack Tennis, Dj Supermarkt
Berlin // Watergate >> Sascha Funke, Zander VT

While Craze just kicked his Fabriclive 38, the mixxx, that keeps banging your head against brick walls, until you’re that addicted to the Miami Boy, whose life is a legacy of rags to riches, geek to chic, no-name to world fame.

He’s about to prove it again with a 30 minutes Mix, James from Fabric London was that gentle to share with us. If you deeply want to dive in a pool with freshest Electro Beats punching Hip Hop tunes through the room, this half an hour is a must. You hardly are boss on the beach!

Listen here:

open stream in pop-up: Craze 30 min Radio Mix

Get the tracklist by clicking show

We admit, we do not really understand why people hang around with Palestinian scarves and glasses without eyeglass lenses. But this is a hometown problem, we hope this gonna change in a while.

We received mail from the north: The Fashion from Svendborg, Denmark, a band who are making their North American debut at SXSW in Texas and following up with a date with Cut Copy in New York on March 17th, busting their homonymous album live to the masses, that is available via iTunes.

Critics suggest the band evokes memories of revolutionary artists ranging from The Ramones to The Beastie Boys. So it is right in time to satisfy yourself of this statement, while hanging around in the subways of the world wearing glasses with glass and you love to back out of all the noise, diving into the ass-kicking remix of “Like Knives” by Tiger Baby. Pay attention not to yell in the metro: “Go…Get Your Guns…And Your Switchblade Knives…And Cut It Up”

zShare: The Fashion - Like Knives (Tiger Baby Remix)

Friends in town Berlin Battery start shaking their unique bodies on their first party in Berlin this Saturday and you’re hardly invited, if you own the power and strength in your hips and thighs to keep up with the entertainers, background dancers and the boy with the french touch - Breakbot!

If so you are welcome to slide over in your finest smoking or best dress to Crush Berlin to sweat and never stop shaking and shivering to the line-up you can look up above. For all who gonna attend these event and think they are the hardest on every party: Smiling increases your face value.

To foretaste the party Berlin Battery was that soft heading over some appetizers to smell what the gang is cooking.

zShare: Jack Tennis - Future Robots
zShare: The Teenagers - Homecoming (Dj Supermarkt Shredmix)
zShare: Bonde Do Role - Office Boy (Shir Khan Remix)
zShare: Arrow!!! - Does (Breakbot Remix)

Soma Records started a Remix Contest of Let’s Go Outside’s dark sparkler “You make me Struggle”. So if you’re a pitcher, switcher, musician, Guitar Player, recorder, bleeper, kicker or snarer feel free to catch this tune and deform it however you want.

We’re unfortunately not allowed to share this track via the blog, but you’re welcome to catch the mp3 & more info on the FOEM Forum. To make you save some time and avoid big searching:

# The contest lasts from Feb 1st to April 30th.
# Two remixes per artist is maximum.
# The tempo is 133bpm.
# The melody in this track is actually written in the Al-Farabi scale. It was written in A, but tuned to Al-Farabi using LinnPlug’s Octopus.
# If you really want to nail the melody, I recommend opening the FLP in Fruity Loops Studio and using Octopus. The FLP also contains the bassline. There are demos available for all the software I’ve used on the melody and bassline. (Let’s Go Outside)

The most important, of course, is the prize to win: One or more releases on a vinyl and digital EP on SOMA Records, one Remix back from Let’s Go Outside, one Roland SP 404 Sampler, one Native Instruments Massive Synthesizer, some Soma t-shirts.

Legends says “Sir Billy is involved into music since 1978″. The Italian lordliness started his career as a record collector and radio speaker before he became known as vocalist with Templebeat, who were big in the 90s. We’re sorry, we’ve never heard of, but always love to fill the huge holes in our brains.

What is it all about this Sir Billy? He’s coming from nothing shooting mashups in our inboxes to settle down in our ears. Sir Billy’s workover for Bronski Beat glistens with Italo Disco Beats making every ladyship smiling into the mirror, while painting her face to dignity. Or every cavalier starts jiggling his tush after he had tattooed the portrait of his adored one on his shoulder. Grab his tunes, that seem so grown, like himself and remind, that you have to address him formally.

zShare: Bronski Beat - Hit That Perfect Beat (SirBilly HI NRG Vocal Re-Edit)
zShare: The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection (SirBilly HiPhunka Re-Edit)