What we remind, when we think of the year Oh-Six:

# Mozart celebrated his sweet 250th birthday in Vienna. I claim, I was around.
# We’re 6.5 billion peeps on earth, are we all brothers? Do you feel sad, cuz you’re one amongst many? Should i rename myself? Teen Billionaire? The boss of China?
# Slobodan Milošević left this planet.
# Montenegro got an UNO-account! You think to vacation over there? We highly recommend that!
# You were bored at the Soccer-World-Cup, cause you hate that game?
# You were fulltime drugged up at the Soccer-World-Cup, cuz you ain’t got nothing else to do?
# You got stabbed at the World-Cup, cuz you ain’t got nothing else to do or you stabbed at the World-Cup, cuz you were too drugged up?!
# Cory Lidle paid scant attention!
# Cory Kennedy is It?! The It? Vincent Gallo’s daughter? Mark Hunter’s wife? Aoki’s roadie?
# Steve Irwin dated a ray.

What do you remind when you think of two years ago?
Should we do not write like it is 2 yrs before?
How do you feel by thinking of 2006?
Do you fancy that we’re so fast it is already October in our cypher?
Do you think we should write about 2007, instead of 6, cause 2006 was absolutely uncool?

zShare: Pluxus - Transient
zShare: Pluxus - Kinoton

I heard, Pluxus 06 record “Solid State” will be re-released on Kompakt in some days. Is this the truth? You trust us? This is beautiful! You can stab us, whenever we lie! Tell us, we wear stabproof vests!

Far north based boys of The State of Floral Beings are really a motley crew of weirdos. Or how would you describe five adult boys daubing their faces in animal style and creating music that sounds like something between “high-speed pursuits with Super Mario though fields of somersaults” and “getting nightly phone calls by the man in the moon who wants you to do his job”?!?

In Sweden these animal boys are well known and still rocked every zoological garden from Malmö up to Luleå with their elektro-punk-rock style. Last week The State of Floral Beings released a new web album called “Total” and you can get it for nothing more than a single mouse-click! Just visit their myspace page - but don’t feed ‘em please!

zShare: The State Of Floral Beings - Proxy
zShare: The State Of Floral Beings - Proxy (Stiff Remix)
zShare: The State Of Floral Beings - Mietz - Nancy

Second in a row this Sunday to prove our fondly creaminess and our dovelike side are The LK from Malmo, Sweden, who blast our taintless souls into a mood to addict to all what happens around us and let it passing by.

These northern folks are known for their hardheaded glittering behavior and so their glowing airy way of confronting listeners to lose all their burden. The typical LK song is both gradually mind-invading and comfortingly direct, they make us hungry for more of their actinism. Keep your eyes - if you dig them - for their 11 tracks strong new-release “Vs. The Snow”.

Mediafire: The LK - Private Life Of A Cat

Cazals got their new single ‘Somebody Somewhere’ out now on 7’’ and 12’’ (Kitsune). The 7” features the chiming guitars of new track ‘Success, whilst the 12’’ comes complete with some electronic madness in the form of remixes from Moulinex, Lifelike and Blamma! Blamma!

Kids, doesn’t that names sound nice in this 3-way? Do you want a sound to grab? Preview yourself by by by floating the u-ha! Moulinex! workover and prepare for the upcoming album “What Of Our Future” hitting any surface on May 26th!
You think Moulinex and Lifelike are on the top of highly-underrated-djs-with-skills-who-get-blogged? Maybe you’d love to give ‘em props/probs! You think Moulinex is sth that should stay in your kitchen?

Mediafire: Cazals - Somebody, Somewhere (Moulinex Remix)

If you’re a London crack and dig them, we got happy news. You got the chance to take advantage of Cazals celebrating the release of the album with a Launch Party at London’s Hoxton Bar & Grill. They gonna play live and there will be DJ sets by Lifelike, Gildas&Masaya, Jerry Bouthier and Luca C.

Cazals are currently on a UK Tour. Full dates are:

7 May – Leicester - Sumo
8 May – Hull – Welly Club
9 May – Swansea – Sin City
10 May – Southend - Chinnerys
13 May – Liverpool - Academy
14 May – Bedford - Esquires
24 May – Nottingham – Rescue Rooms
25 May – Bristol - Trinity
26 May – London Launch Party – Hoxton Bar & Kitchen

We dig the video, cuz André is in it! It’s a 25Mb big mov-file to grab.

image: Josh Sisk

He hails from the streets of Baltimore, MD & Queens, NY (2 Hustles in two Different Cities makes the china town bus a necessity) with a strong foundation of Hip Hop, Electro and Club. DLake wants you to get your sweaty asses down to the floor, not only staring at the ceiling, but perform a highly synchronized stepdance and bootyshaking to his finest selection of electronic beats and fondly editing of vocals.

Grab a variety of sounds and an alternation of entertaining compositions by detecting, that his latest album “Bmore Of a hipster v1.0″ with its 6 commanding tracks, is the best to listen to while you flaunt with your new sneakers or practice daunting behavior with your gang for any circumstance.

Don’t forget to support him, drop him some words and purchase the album on iTunes!

Mediafire: DLake & Curtis Vodka ft. Em.Benn - Transitute (Eat My)
Mediafire: DLake ft. JC & Demetrius - Diffibulator (Bird Peterson Remix)
Mediafire: Beastie Boys - Girls (DLake Remix)

Our beloved and heavy rotated friends Anoraak and Error Love spent endless hours with their common band Pony Pony Run Run in the studio to create that perfect summer song we’re all searching for piggishly.

This powerfull electro-pop-track makes you feel aestival where ever you’re at and will definitely find it’s way into everybody’s heart. If not you just can be a living stone.
We here at TFL couldn’t overcome the temptation to vault on our Harleys and start southbound roadtrippin’. Well, of course we don’t own Harleys and of course we don’t have time for such falderal - but we can dream, can’t we!? Pony Pony Run Run TURN IT ON!

zShare: Pony Pony Run Run - Boy/Girl Surrender (Summer Edit)

We’re always running! Not because we get hunted by troops of screechy groupies & their screeching mommys - that’s our standard business. We keep running to detect all that magnificent music stuff worldwide, ere it’s even written down and produced, to swagger about in front of our groupies.

Sometimes we run that fast we overtake ourselves. But yesterday a bullet got ahead of me just at the moment, while I was running and wanted to give my “overtaking myself” a paddywhack on the head. Instead of that, this missile gave me, my “overtaking me” and also my “overtaking the overtaken me” a heavy wham in one go. Hard to beat.

Launched was this bullet by our trigger-happy friends of Dada Yakuza, who we just call HARD BANGERS. We advise you to wear a Kevlar vest while listening and never point your headphones at anybody unguarded if you don’t want to strike ‘em down. This track is a weapon for tough kids.

zShare: Dada Yakuza - Full Metal Yakuza

Me who is concerned about your education would like to take you on a journey through the geographic facts of London City. No, guys it’s not only about listening music and reading funny articles from strange people about even stranger artists. Life is no bed of roses!

So here are some facts about London: London City has got 7,2 million habitants and there are 500 languages spoken. The world’s first stoplight was built at the House of Commons 1868 (by the way thank you for stealing our time, Queen). London is popular for yummy meals like beans on toast. In London having sex on a motorbike is illegal. But actually London is one of the most important European capitals. Especially for the electronic music scene.

On my voyage on Myspace, I stumbled over the profile of two great DJ’s and producers that have built up quite a reputation. You might know them from their Essential Mix, which was one of the hottest mash-up-mixes I´ve heard for quite a long while. For the Streetlife DJ’s, aka Stewart Rowell and Louis Gaston, there are no No-Goes. While mashing up contradicting music-styles, they are serving you the best mixes which only shows one side of their high skills.

Their upcoming EP “Gunn Crime” will be released on Kitsuné next Monday. It’ll definitely be an impact to all lovers of electronic music and fuel in the clubs. But these guys still have something up their sleeves. On their own label Street Beats there will be a three track EP. The Streetlife DJ’s, gave us the chance to offer you one of these tracks and we immediately fell in love with.
For all the collectors: There will also be a limited edition of two smashing remixes (only 500 copies) - and one of them we’ll ship you right below.

zShare: Streetlife DJ’s - Yo Jay
zShare: Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin’ Something (Streetlife DJs Remix)

Next time we’ll take you on a trip to the loveliest sites of Berlin city including the wonderfull Oranienburger and Kottbusser Tor.

Easygoing global friend Rigas from Sweden released his new Ep “Born not to run” yesterday. 2 new gentle tracks, together with the music clip to one of them, that are going so deep.

Both are 100 percent charming and discreet gems to dream away your day. Pick your monocular telescope into Swedish business, northern heart-warming singing to airy beats and enjoy the voyage to a land full of elves and stirring myths. They’re all yours!

Mediafire: Rigas - Born not to run
Mediafire: Rigas - What are you dreaming of

“Risen from the Dead, the incredible Mr John Starlight is ridin dirty and kickin some dust with his new one sided Bass o mator.”

Mastermind John Starlight, another project of ultra-hustler Zombie Nation, released his new 12″ Road Rage vinyl exactly 2weeks ago. Today you can go for it digital on Kompakt Mp3, Itunes or Beatport. Since I fell in love for years with “John’s Addicition” this Munich Man never left me, my brain, my body. You can listen to him million times and it’ll never going to be pall.

You can dig him live, auplaud him captivated and yell to his hard punching beats as Zombie Nation in Fabric London on May 16th and foretaste a low quality version of his new bouncing beep here.

John Starlight - Road Rage

We’re pleased to present a stunning tribute to an all-time classic to you. Mark Knight and Funkagenda have lovingly crafted their own remake of Laurent Garnier’s pathbreaking “Man With The Red Face” - undeniably one of the hottest records of all times right now.

Given the ultimate seal of approval from Laurent Garnier himself, this new version faithfully retains every magical nuance of the legendary original, and adds the dynamite touch of this Toolroom twosome who are at the very top of their game. With cascading explosions of steamy saxophone and those hypnotic, entrancing melodies that have enraptured countless clubbers all over the globe, this exceptional remake is destined to become as much of an anthem as the flawless original!

Mark Knight & Funkagenda - The Man With The Red Face

He seems to be a man using few words. The only thing next to a download-link was “check that shit out homies”. And today Mr. Gaspar is coming with a ultrasoft drifty and cozily track, named “You don’t love me”.

A track where you think of hearing vocals, where no vocals are around. A track, that has an indescribable power to pull your everything with it. A track being doomed to be played a million times a day. A track deserving an A. A track rolling through rooms with high intensity to make listeners dreaming and shutting down their awareness to feel the wanderlust in a lifetime. We hardly can’t wait for next releases with vocalists and other producers.

Mediafire: Mr Gaspar - You don’t love me

These boys and girls in the image above are the collaboration between blogfaves Danish Alphabeat, British FrankMusik and Leon Jean-Marie.

Alphabeat might be known from their introducing track Fascination Frankmusic they shared with us two months ago. But tonight they shipped over a colorful handmade cover for Daft Punk’s Digital Love, that is coming in a quite unexpected way, in a very unexpected genre, but nevertheless we still love people playing real instruments and charming guys standing on front on microphones, singing with body and soul. The track is a gentle voyage to something relaxing escorting you smiling through stormy days.

zShare: Alphabeat, FrankMusic & Leon Jean-Marie - Digital Love (Daft Punk Cover)

These danish boys and girls are also going to publish their video for their next single “10.000 Nights” tomorrow. After the jump below you can already fetch some screens of it…

For screens to 10.000 Nights click show

The famous phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison was the first device for recording and replaying sounds. What nobody really knows - Edison attempted to install his phonograph technology into human bodys to create his personal audio slaves. But his endeavors failed because of the bulkiness of his entire device! In 2004 a secret society of Edison devotees, who are close to the Illuminatis, came across the blue prints of the human-phonograph and used the best available technology of today to finish Edisons brainchild.

They put all the required equipment into two good-natured Italian boys, give ‘em a guitar and synthesizer upgrade in combination with a new singing-voice-module and let ‘em interact like rockstars. A band called The Phonograph was born and better as Edison ever could imagine. They come with their new web single “Erasmus Is Not Your Life” in high qualiti sound and without any Italian-usual manufacturing defects. Nice work.

Mediafire: The Phonograph - Erasmus
Mediafire: The Phonograph - Erasmus (Broke One Rmx)
Mediafire: The Phonograph - Work Hard And Party Hard

SebastiAn tears your spine apart. I got nothing left to say! That tracks can run a thousand miles.

We are definitely not loving this edbanger-hype-blogging, but you can’t deny that this Ep seems to be the hardest impact in 0-8 until today. You should pay your dues on April 28th! It is deadly!

Mediafire: SebastiAn - Motor

Go to Boule a Facettes for the other 2 bangers.

Hot news for every Ed Banger Rec Fan:
V/A Ed Banger Vol III is hitting the tarmac on May the 26th. Be beady-eyed like a fox!

The tracklist sounds yummy:
01. Mr Oizo - Yves
02. Busy P - To Protect And Entertain (feat. Murs)
03. Mr Flash - Over The Top
04. SebastiAn - Dog
05. Uffie - Robot Oeuf
06. Justice - Stress (Auto Remix)
07. Mr Oizo - Minuteman’s pulse
08. Dj Mehdi - Pocket Piano
09. Krazy Baldhead - No Cow, No Pow
10. DSL - Find Me In The World
11. Feadz - Back It Up (feat. Spank Rock)
12. So Me - Decalcomania

Taste the DSL - Invaders, so far

Lucy Love shoved over her new fresh spanking video clip for “No V.I.P.”, a stop motion extravaganza, created by Sif Westerberg. Lucy is a rising young Copenhagen based MC, you might remember her as Alchemist, when she entered a grimetime competition a few yrs back. Watch her, load her and lean back to “No V.I.P.”, best listen to it, while you get a “Thugs Life”-tattoo on your belly.

We just got a low quality 96kBit version of her track. If you dig her, grab Lucy’s loony tunes on iTunes or on Juno for around a pound.

Mediafire: Lucy Love - No V.I.P. (Ruff Mix)

Enjoy the video:

This isn’t dancemusic. This is a tank-war! Fightmusic, give-everything-you-got-music, stompmusic, punkmusic, everything-gets-burnt-music. Sick and deep, negative, turn-it-as-loud-as-you-can-music. This is muscle-man-music, Sinic-factory-music, lumberjack-music, bear-paw-music. Wiggy, wiggy, wiggy, wiggy, wiggy!

Sir Billy steamrolls us with five versions of his track “Beat Conductor” which feel like raised to the power of ten. We need bodyguards to keep us save on the dancefloor. Who’s interested in doing this job? Board and lodging for free. Give us a call - you know the number!

zShare: Sir Billy - Beat Counductor (Original Mix)
zShare: Sir Billy - Beat Counductor (Electroboogo Remix)
zShare: Sir Billy - Beat Counductor (Jimma Remix)
zShare: Sir Billy - Beat Counductor (Drumx Distortion Remix)
zShare: Sir Billy - Beat Counductor (Nassau Hyperborea Dub)

They hided so long. And waiting in your cold one-room-apartment has been more than worthy, when checking the first extraction of Ladytron’s latest release “Velocifero”. If you are not such boys or girls talking hours about their new art-projects in their living-sleeping-room-combination without firing just to protect a forest or an organic farm of your choice and spotted Ladytron would perfectly match to your longhair lifestyle, read on.

First to smell, first to taste, first to flirt is first track of the record, that is kicking bricks out of walls. “Black Cat” sees the lights of day since no more than 70 hours and you’re warmly invited to take part.

The hard facts tonight:
Ladytron is still Liverpool.
Ladytron is still Ladytron, of course the voice of Helen Marnie is still the same sofd and disarmingly one.
Ladytron is still Ladytron, of course the voice of Mira Aroyo is still the same bulgarian, rough, drab gem.
The album was not recorded in Bejing.
Full-length Velocifero will date the street on June 3rd.
Ladytron recorded in Paris this time, being busy with Alessandro Cortini and Vicarious Bliss.
We agree to Missingtoof, Ladytron sounds always better in bunches, so head over for more.

Mediafire: Ladytron - Black Cat

The Fire and Reason from NYC are down with their first record release, combining a mixture of rocking flavour and beepy tunes, with a powerful strong female voice, that seem to have the power making the audience scream nonsense and catch single ones losing their will, get naked and rub themselves on the counter.

You can grab it for free if you love to have the alternation and your mind is free for some guitar tunes commanding the Ep called “Shut Up, Dance”. You will be rewarded with 5 blistering new tracks, plus The Toxic Avenger Remix of their song “NME”. The new single “Sugar Koma” is sure to get everyone dancing and singing along “Ooh your candy’s right for my apetite tonight”, a lusty track about eyeing that special someone at the club and whispering in their ear “it’s dangerous what you wear tonight…”

Mediafire: The Fire and Reason - NME
Mediafire: The Fire and Reason - Sugar Koma
Megaupload: The Fire and Reason - Shut Up, Dance EP

image: Ross Garret

I admit: I never thought about South Africa when thinking about music and was never curious enough to check up on my own, what they’re doing down there. Great, that a boy named Ben Rausch shoved over a mail to share his Synthpop tunes with us.

His band Johnny Neon - playing analogue synthesizers - are blessed with extremely comfortable voices sharing with the audience and crash into your ears with beautiful tunes, appeasing the hardest hustlers and strongest weightlifters. These tracks are a gem for daybreaks to get up with a smile and gleaming sunbeams around your head.

Btw: Did somebodys grandpa sold all his holding, did transfer all his stocks and took a no-return-ticket from Germany to South Africa, just because of the overwhelming biota? Is it true that many players dream of emigrating to South Africa, living on the southest edge of the world, the Cape Agulhas? Do they play instruments the other way round down there in South Africa? Did I say South Africa too often?!

zShare: Johnny Neon - Lazerkill
zShare: Johnny Neon - Dance on Fire

image: Timothy Saccenti

Instructions manual for drifting away is the best characterization for the sound that Home Video are creating. A terrific mixture of haunting vocals and gentle lyrics carried by the warm vibrations of synthesizer-melodies and an emotive bass.

Home Video are Collin Ruffino and David Gross, transplanted from the misunderstood landscape of New Orleans and now living in the brooding brownstones of Brooklyn, New York. They’ve been performing one of their new songs live over the past few months and it’s gotten such an amazing audience response that they’ve decided to offer it as an exclusive early single from their second full-length album which they intend to finish this spring.

“I Can Make You Feel It” is an epic dance song about love and longing that has a massive, wall-of-sound-y ending that’s really fun for us to play (it’s our first song with a quasi piano solo). It’s also the first song we’ve recorded with our amazing live drummer Jim Orso, who brings new life to the beat.

We’re curious about the full album and invite you until then to drift away with us, a bit…

zShare: Home Video - I Can Make You Feel It
zShare: Home Video - Superluminal (Airman Our Pal Remix)

San Francisco based producers and DJ’s Mochipet & Bloody Snowman linked together to create a stunning and crazy EP, which brings you back to good old massive rave music atmospheres.

Mochipet has already done productions for labels like Bpitch Control, Tigerbeat6, Schematic and his own Daly City Records. Bloody Snowman on his part has made his most acclaimed debut self-titled album on Mochipet’s Daly City Records. As a common space for two electronic-genius-minds, the Unicorn Glowsticks Rave Party EP is an unprecedented battle of whistles where each side makes an irresistible envy to move your feet. Bring your neon-glowsticks out and rave!

Unicorn Glowsticks Rave Party EP Tracklist:
A1 - Electro888
A2 - Neon Wizard Championship (Mochipet bloodyglowsticks Mix)
B1 - Neon Wizard Championship
B2 - Electro888 (BloodySnowman Remix)

zShare: Mochipet & BloodySnowman - Electro 888 (BloodySnowman Remix)
zShare: Mochipet & Bloody Snowman - Neon Wizard Championship (Mochipet Bloodyglowsticks Mix)

Neo Filigrante are generating a fresh and new, not really to couch sound, with elements of retro-pop, electro, italo-disco and techno, paired with a lot of extravagance.

Now they come with their new 7-inch Drive Into Moon Morning EP and encase it into a special, dressy and limited vinyl-bag. But of course it’s not the appearance of a record which is essential (hopefully), the main focus still should be on the record itself. And here we have two, somewhat mellow tracks with a touch of melancholy inside which entice you to stare lost in thought into space. Really - I found myself doing so, several times while listening to this tracks.

Neo Filigrante - Étoile Filante

Neo Filigrante - Drive Into Moon Morning