The Legacy of Tron

The Daft Punk produced soundtrack for Tron Legacy leaked and here it is for your listening pleasure. It combines some soft classical sounds with the sounds you heard in Hans Zimmer's score for Inception, finished off with Daft Punk's flawless production. The end product is immense and at times overwhelming; I cant wait to see how it was incorporated into the film. Its almost as if Disney is making a movie for Daft Punk's score, rather than Daft Punk making a score for a Disney movie. 

- Click to download Daft Punk's TRON: Legacy Soundtrack -

And speaking of Inception, this is pretty cool track I spotted at VacayWave.

Hans Zimmer - Time (We Plants Are Happy Plants Remix)

Dubstep

Dubstep is good and this is my last post of the night because I'm beat. Coming after my post on the SHM documentary, here is documentary about Dubstep.

The new feature-length documentary Bassweight, which explores the history and evolution of the bottom-heavy electronic music genre known as dubstep, is coming to DVD via SRK Studios on October 24. Heavyweights like Skream, Benga, Kode9, and Mary Anne Hobbs contributed to the film.

Trailer:

Bassweight from The SRK on Vimeo.

The best things in life are free, but the catch here is that the documentary is only free for one week for promotional purposes. Pitchfork is where its being hosted. Enjoy and good night.

Wolfgang Gartner on the Beeb

Don't you hate when you want to download something and you realise that the server that its on has reached its download limit? I do. Frankly, why should some people get to download and others not? Is it some form of half-piracy half-principle policy? Definitely. WG (real name Joey Youngman) never fails to provide when called upon. Here, he is called upon by Pete Tong to take the reins of the world famous Essential Mix on BBC's Radio 1, and he does not disappoint. Enjoy.
 Wolfgang Gartner (320 Kbps) BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 11-6-2010 by Terror

**Update: Download the whole 119 minute set: Download

Second Post and SHM

Only my second post but already Swedish House Mafia must be mentioned. They are my favorite artists at the moment and continue to impress. Anyone who has seen them live knows exactly what I mean. By the way, they recently announced the dates of their UK tour which will be in May 2011, but get your tickets fast because the preliminary ticket releases have already sold out. 
Anyway, SHM have been working on a documentary which is meant to cover their journey all the way until early 2010 when they released "One". Aptly named "Take One", it looks like a MUST SEE.


"2 years, 15 countries, 285 gigs... one unique film.
TAKE ONE is a hedonistic rollercoaster that offers a glimpse into the work, play and lifestyle of Swedish House Mafia, the electronic group that have fast become one of the hottest names on the dance music scene."






Here is the instrumental version of Miami 2 Ibiza for those of you who don't have it yet:



Tracks:
Swedish House Mafia - Miami 2 Ibiza (Sander Van Doorn Remix DRM)



Swedish House Mafia - Miami 2 Ibiza (Caligula Remix)



Swedish House Mafia & Robin S - Show Me One Love (Hardwell Bootleg)



aaaand with vocals:
Swedish House Mafia & Robin S - Show Me One Love (Sean Garnier & Hardwell Bootleg)



The soundtrack to the documentary will be up soon.
**Update: Download Swedish House Mafia's Until One:

First Post.

Hi. There is no shortage of music blogs on the internet, and many of them are phenomenal. This blog aims to be one of them. It is meant to showcase music, most of it recent, that people might like. I guess a lot of that music will be house, because I love house. But it won't be an exclusively house blog. I'll post all sorts of electronic music, hip-hop, mash-ups, I'm not sure where this blog is going to go yet.

A lot of the music being pushed forward these days by the music industry is so below-par. Some of it is clearly meant to garner sales and not much else, while so much of it lacks any content of noticeable quality. One of the reasons I was first attracted to house is because it sounded so amazing. The beats would come together in ways that no other type of music could provide. Electronic dance music remains one the most important revelations of my life. The other reason I was so attracted to house is because it had no face. There was no over-arching stereotype of what a DJ should be like, how they should talk, dress, etc. Artists were anonymous behind the music. Anyone with working ear buds could tune into the sound.

The problem is, these days the sound is becoming more and more mainstream. Now, there is nothing inherently wrong about going mainstream. It allows for greater publicity, sales, and demand for more music, but one of the main problem with going mainstream is the over-commercialisation of electronic music.

Let me give you an example. David Guetta is one of today's foremost electronic music artists. Five years ago, DG was sensational. Not as famous as today, but still pretty damn famous. Up until after the release of Pop Life in 2007 DG was probably one of my favorite artists. Today, he has fallen a considerable way down that list.

David Guetta - Jack is Back [Fuck Me Im Famous Remix] 

DG is no longer making music like this. Sadly, It is confined to attempts to get on the Billboard 100 like this:

Shannel - Other Side [feat Lil Wayne & Ne-yo] [prod. by David Guetta]

This is just an example of how I feel about the industry at the moment. In a sense, electronic music is following in the same footsteps as hip-hop. At hip-hop's inception was musical movement intent on providing a sound that everyone could relate to, or at least everyone in the vicinities where hip-hop was being produced. As the decades rolled however, hip-hop became more and more commercial, at the expense of true musical quality.
Today, characters like Soulja Boy and Waka Flocka are selling millions worth of records, while forgotten artists like Binary Star are no longer on the radar. It is difficult not to agree with Chris Rock.



I certainly feel that house may be heading that way, but I am grateful for the fact that all music genres have a solid base to fall on. Electronic music's base is every kid who has ever gotten down to a beat, every kid who has ever tried to make a remix, and to those kids who are gonna grow up, and maybe not become famous, but will still carry on the glorious tradition of giving people some good sound. It is to those folks that I dedicate my very first post.