I'm about as motivated as Cal this morning (ugh life ain't easy when your morning is at 3 PM).
New release by LA's very own Clockwork, we still have mad respect for this young DJ. Support his Elevated EP here!
Maximum Balloon Ft. Theophilus London - Groove Me (Clockwork Remix) The original is somewhat "slow" for me and Rory Phillips' remix has a good groove to it, but they're lacking the diversity Clockwork's remix has. The buildup he does on the "catch the sound, before it blows up" is on point and the drop is perfect party material.
Mr. Clockwork seems to have a very busy future planned with his first show in Canada on November 11th and some upcoming remixes of Miami Horror's "Holidays" & Felix Cartal's "Love".
The girl is like super cute for real, but I'm hoping the paper bag will convey my intentions.
Well in the past week I chilled quite a bit with my music guru. He is none other than Mr. MDMA. During a little chilling night with him and a few friends, a clip from Chromeo eventually surfaced. I was awestruck to hear them hanging out and playing with 80's pop/rock stars Hall & Oates.
One thing lead to another and we were watching the clip for the 2nd single off their upcoming album "Business Casual". This clip is something else, be sure to check it out!
A few days later, I was checking out Art Nouveau's August Chart and noticed Aeroplane had remixed this song. The Belgium producer slows down the vocals and adds an incredibly sexy disco vibe to it, brilliant!
To finish this up, I simply got to mention the imminent release Clockwork's "Elevated EP". Judging from the last post I did on L-A's own Henry Steinway, you should know I really dig this guy's input. I was even more stoked to see John Roman doing a remix of Airflow. Another chill dude I'm trying to support as best as a music blog can do.
Ayo, it's 'bout that time for another story. Settle down, get comfy and get ready for another tale of epic proportions with nothing less than a metric ton of music. Enjoy.
This all started sometime in 2008, I was walking from my friend's place in STL to a little chinese corner store. Naturally, I had my ipod on me and was listening to the randomness of its content. When all of a sudden:
"I love you Pumpkin." "I love you Honey Bunny." "All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!" "Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of ya!"
I'm must admit I was pretty startled at first, but I hurried to pull out my ipod in order to check out what was playing. To my astonishment, it was a mixtape which I had never heard and the title fit all too well with that little intro from "Pulp Fiction." During this time of my life, I listened mostly to hip-hop and had only begun listening to electro music. However, the mix blew my mind and a walk to the corner store turned into a half hour walk around the same block (needless to say I was already crunk).
To this day, I can remember trying to put the mix on at parties (which was incredibly hard to do since Cal and Brigden hussled the music). At the time, I was more or less familiar with these songs, but I'm sure most of you will recognize a bunch of these now. To name a few: N.A.S.A. Music, WTF, Rockerman, Aerodynamic, Bounce, Crimewave, and To Protect and Entertain. It's more than just the songs though, Clockwork's choice in remixes resembles our taste in music. By this, I mean remixes from: LA Riots, Designer Drugs, Lee Mortimer, Nadastrom, A-Trak, Crookers and LAZRTag.
So in time, I started downloading everything I could find of this guy which I knew so little about. I probably have 20 different songs from him and I must admit that I just can't hate on any of 'em. I'll post 6 which, I find, represent his style.
You might be surprised, but the tale isn't over. Not that long ago, I managed to break my ipod and lose most of my music collection. Yes I am retarded for not having all my music backed up, but I was in the process of moving it from one computer to another and procrastinated just a little too long. While trying to piece my music library back together, I realized I was missing a mixtape which I had greatly enjoyed. Annoyingly though, I just couldn't remember the name of it. I knew it was from Clockwork, but that was it. After a lot of trouble, (seriously try finding clockwork on google, even tried dj clockwork and it gave me like 2-3 different people from Europe) I finally came across a DJ Clockwork from LA. This seemed like the guy I was looking for and within no time I once again had the "Cult Classic" mixtape in my music collection. Without trying to be overly "kiss-ass" this mix probably is one of the things that created a lasting passion for electro music in me. Be it the choice of music which was relatively unknown to me at the time or the effort this guy puts into his work, Clockwork became a favorite of mine.
Around the time I found the mixtape again, I noticed he had a bunch of new things going on. First off, 2 crazy mixtapes in 2009: "Loose Cannon" & "End of an Era". Once again, the extent to which the songs on the mixes resembled my summer playlist is almost eerie.
When I checked out the Hype Machine to see if he had anything new I noticed he had done a mashup of the theme song of "The Office" with Lil Wayne's "Hustler Musik". Now I'm not one for mashups usually, but this song was #1 on Hypem and it kiiiiiiiillllllllsssssssssssss!
To not be a popularity whore, I'm only giving you this awesome movie done by a fan. If you want the song I'm pretty sure you'll be able to find it in no time.
With the recent exposure he got with Hypem, I simply couldn't wait any longer to do a decent post about him. After contacting him to give some praise and to see if I could post his stuff, I got the best answer possible:
"Thanks a lot man, i really appreciate it! Feel free to post any of my tracks or mixtapes up there. I've recorded a couple more since cult classic so if you want me to send those to you just let me know!"
I think I'll be able to get used to this blogging thing. It's a pleasure to see artists giving you as much respect as you give them. Huge thanks to Henry Steinway, aka. Clockwork. Seriously, this dude deserves all your support so be sure to check out his MySpace, Twitter, Facebook & Soundcloud. He's got an EP coming out in July so I'll keep you informed.
Until then, I got a hold of a few other songs which I'm pretty sure you won't find anywhere else. He's been working on a side-project called "Metatheory". This ain't his usual party style electro music, au contraire, it's hella mellow and for a Sunday morning I find it fantastic. Ca¦ürneum would be a perfect song in a snowboard movie in my opinion. He describes Metatheory as having more of a Thievery Corporation feel to it, see for yourself.
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