Yellow furry fellow and a hell of a night

Remember this guy??

I nostalgia'd so hard when I rediscovered this video thanks to my newfound love of house music. Who can forget Flat Eric and that iconic head bobbing? And that weird "voice"... To me it sounds like he's 'speaking' in speech-bubbles... without speech... Do you know what I mean?! 

Anyways, what I wanted to tell you is that the brilliant DJ behind "Flat Beat", Mr. Oizo will very soon be releasing a new album! I'm sure sure whether or not Flat Eric will make a reappearance for this album, but that doesn't mean the music isn't going to be awesome. The album is going to be called "Stade 2" and is apparently coming out "very soon". In the meantime here is a teaser of the first single of the new album "Douche Beats". Interesting... 

Mr. Oizo - Douche Beat (Preview) by iRaFuuNka

Another thing I wanted to tell you about is an upcoming clubbing event in London that has one of the most insane line-ups I can imagine, if you're into house music (No Mr.Oizo unfortunately...). The event is called "Together Winter Music Festival" and is held at the Alexandra Palaca in London on November 26th. So many of the DJs that I've grown to admire and love are going to play there... Sebastian, Simian Mobile Disco, Pete Tong, Grum, Death In Vegas, Vitalic, etc... In the same venue, on the same night! It's insane!! I need to go there sooooooo badly. Anyone up for it?? 

Check their facebook page if you want more information.

Interstella 5555 - The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem out on blu-ray

We all remember Daft Punk's timeless classic album "Discovery". You probably also remember the reoccurring theme in the music videos of the singles. That's because Daft Punk teamed up with anime- and manga creator Leiji Matsumoto to produce a feature-length animated musical with the cryptic title "Interstella 5555 - The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem". The film is a visual realisation of the album with every track being an 'episode' in the movie. And now this excellent piece of movie/animation/music/art has been released on Blu-Ray (Yay!).

The story revolves around a band of four famous musicians from another planet that get kidnapped by an evil manager who aims to make them the biggest band and product on planet Earth.

If you haven't seen this movie yet I wholeheartedly suggest you do. Even if anime isn't quite your thing the music from the Discovery album is itself worth a revisit, being riddled with house music gems worthy of hitlist #1 spots in any galaxy. Check out the trailer for yourself!

New track by Surkin

French electro DJ Surkin made his latest single "Ultra Light" available for download today via beatport.

If you haven't heard about Surkin before I thoroughly recommend you check him out. Why not start with the track in question.

And another one of my favourites, "Radio Fireworks"

French house + American dubstep

Producer, remixer, and electro artist SebastiAn released his debut album "Total" in June this year. After the debut single "Embody" we've heard little from the enigmatic artist as he's kept himself busy touring. But here the other day American dubstep/'complextro' wonderboy Skrillex posted his remix of SebastiAn's track "Love In Motion" on his official youtube channel. The original track and remix has been released exclusively for download on beatbox.

Here is the original by SebastiAn.

Then Skrillex takes SebastiAn's Prince-inspired 80's track and sends it surfing on a rainbow through an 8-bit galaxy with the occasional dubstep-disruption in the electro space-time. Much to the delight of Skrillex fans  on youtube. (Sadly though, much time seems spent arguing about whether or not SebastiAn's album cover is "gay!"...)

If you want to read more about SebastiAn you can read this (rare) interview from The Block

A new direction and a tribute to DJ Mehdi

So... I've been thinking, pondering, ruminating, contemplating... Well, actually not that much. I've just decided that I'm going to change my blog into a blog about house music, which I love dearly as some of you might have realised by now. I shall no longer tire your eyes with the wordy ramblings of my inner voice, but rather just please your weirdly shaped ears and highly developed temporal lobes with throbbing bass and thudding beats uncovered by yours truly in the jungle of house music and electronic music. Ah, simple bliss!

I would like to start off this "new" direction of my blog with a tribute to DJ Mehdi. A French DJ whose music I just got to know and love before he so tragically passed away after an accident. I am SO grateful and relieved that I got to see him perform live before he died (as I have written about here)

DJ Mehdi was signed to Ed Banger records who also houses several of France's and (in my inexperienced opinion) the world's most skillful DJ's and electronic artists. I have presented music videos by DJ Mehdi in previous regular "Friday music" blogposts. Here is yet another gem, "Pocket Piano"...

When I saw DJ Mehdi live he was one half of the DJ duo "Carte Blanche" which he formed with English DJ Riton. The accident which lead to DJ Mehdi's death happened while celebrating Riton's birthday. Riton posted to this beautiful tribute video to his blog. Rest in beats, Dj Mehdi. God wanted you at his party.

"Kiss and Fly, Mehdi" from Ryder Jack Susman on Vimeo.