I’m always excited to showcase some local music. This blog features artists from all over, from Australia to Amsterdam, Denver, and now, Puyallup, Washington.

Got some deep Trip-Hop/Dubstep/Awesome shit.

Team Chaos is comprised of Alan K. and Elliot B.

Shave Your Wobble.mp3

The Matrix Dub.mp3

INTERVIEW.

1. How long have you guys been making music as TEAM CHAOS?

We have known each other as friends for years, but recently just started making music together about 6 months ago.

Elliot also plays guitar and does vocals in a metal band called Royalty In Ruins.

2. What is the electronic scene like in Puyallup, Washington?

In Puyallup, there isn’t to much of a scene, you have to drive to Seattle for that, there is a huge and awesome scene there, but you probably already know that! haha

3. What kind of equipment do you use for production? Live shows?

For production, we use FL Studio 9 and Massive, with an M-audio interface, midi-controller, guitar and live instrument sounds and Rocket 5 studio monitors. For live shows, we will be using Serato Itch with a Vestex VCI-300 DJ midi controller/interface.

We would like to experiment with incorporating live instruments with spinning. We have not officially played any live gigs yet, but are ready to book some very soon, so hit us up if you like what you hear out there!

4. Who are some of your favorite current artists?

Alan- Bassnectar, Noisemaker, Caspa, Rusko

Elliot- N-type, Within The Ruins, Dillenger Escape Plan

and we both dig Phantoms stuff!

5. What’s in the works for TEAM CHAOS in 2010?

We are always working on new material for our library, and hope to be getting on an indie label soon so we can put this shit on wax. We are goning to try to book as many shows as possible, so look for us in the Seattle clubs real soon playbaby!

6. What do you love about music?

Alan- I can be having a shitty day and hearing a couple of my favorite songs will always put a smile on my face.

Elliot- I love to make music. I love to take all the rules and break them. Without music, I could not live!

Look out for Team Chaos at a World Beats and Urban Streets dance-night (KTUB) in the near future..

http://www.myspace.com/djchaosgsc

Phantom

CARROT CAKE by DJSQUIDEYE

INTERVIEW.

1. What were some of your inspirations for this mixtape?

I honestly didn’t put much thought into it ,just recorded while jamming through some great tunes . At the end I liked how it sounded and decided I would pass it around.

2. What is the electronic music scene like in your part of Oakland?

I love the scene in Oakland and the Bay Area in general . The Otherworld, Friends N Family, 5lowershop, Spaz, Knowaudio, Crews and many more throw great parties all the time. Wonderful bass-kickin’ sound systems & light-shows . Lots of parties, lots of great DJ’s and producers.

3. Who are some of your favorite current artists?

Currently I’m really into The Builder and LeBeldgeElectrod, THE Villain, Graintable, Zeno, Murdasloth a.k.a. Beytah, Cheebs, George Lenton, and Rico Predicate just to name a few of the top. There’s lots of good stuff comin’ out lately, lots of tunes that aren’t getting the plays they deserve. I’m gonna’ try to help fix that.

4. What’s in the works for Squid Eye in 2010?

Well , it’s gonna’ be a big year. Look out for releases on Run Riot Records as well as stuff from my new digital label, Beat Leaf Digital. The 1st release is a 2-Trak E.P. entitled “BUTTA WORLD” and can be copied now through digitaldubbed.com, also looking forward to releasing Rico Predicate trax and some other surprises on beat leaf digital.
And here is the tracklist, so you can check out these artists!

1 Squid Eye, Gangsta
2 George Lenton, Sorry
3 B-90, Lost In The Rain Forest
4 Bit Cruncher, Coronel Mass Ejection (Zeno Remix)
5 Murdah Sloth a.k.a. Beytah, Screw Base
6 Stagga and Busta Rhymes, I Got Bass
7 Doorly, Horse Step
8 Bertie Blackman, Birds Of Prey (Marco Del Horno Remix)
9 The Killabits, Drop A Gem On Em
10 Vaski, MURDER(VIP)
11 NOTATION, Orbital Tribute
12 LeBeldgeElectrod, Life Is A Wobble Bass
13 deATH BY DUB, Way I Are (Remix)
14 Jay Robinson, Next Episode (Remix)
15 The Builder, Ender
15 Zombie Disco Squad, Eurovision (Boogaloo Crew Remix)
16 Excision, obvious
17 Flore, We Rewind (Youthman remix)
18 Warrior One, Bad Like Jimmy Cliff
19 Ladyhawke, Paris Is Burning (Future Funk Squad Remix)
20 Beastie Boys, Sabotage (DJ Kue’s OMG Remix)
21 ??? Florence ???
22 Chase And Status, Saxon
23 Fader (Jackwob Remix)
24 Obsession, 3ohtree
25 Genuwine, Pony (Boson Remix)
26 Sidney Samson, Riverside (breakage remix)

http://www.myspace.com/djsquideye

Phantom

Constantly improving with every live show and release, Deepearth.void has put together his most dancey tunes yet!

Keep runnin’!!!

Mouse House.mp3

Blue.mp3

Deepearth.void will be playing alongside Static Reactor, Plural.dll and Reikow @ Ground Zero on Saturday, March 20th, 2010.
209 100th Ave. NE
Bellevue, Wa 98004

http://www.myspace.com/deepearthvoid

Phantom

Hello World,

This is by far my most anticipated feature. I came across these two on another blog a while back, downloaded their “Winter Mixtape 2009”, and was totally caught up in their swirling, blissful style.

BRAIN MATTERS, a duo consisting of Northie & Benson, reside in New South Wales, Australia.

I think it’s safe to say I’m am their BIGGEST fan from Seattle, and that their remixes will be in my DJ sets for quite a while!

First off, BRAIN MATTERS sent me 5 Bootlegs, which I now give to you..

Barely Evil (Brain Matters Remix).mp3

The Big Weekend.mp3

Brainvan (Proxy Bootleg).mp3

Bring That (Brain Matters Remix).mp3

Sandstorm (Brain Matters Remix).mp3

In addition, here is a 10-Minute mini-mix BRAIN MATTERS put together for NOVA FM..

NOVA Fm Mini-Mix 2009.mp3

Northie & Benson were nice enough to answer a few questions for DiscoDroppings, here is my interview with BRAIN MATTERS..

INTERVIEW.

1. What is the club scene like in Australia? Compared to the U.S.? What style’s are most popular?

The clubbing scene in Australia is really great…we don’t just chuck shrimps on the barbie every Friday and Saturday night…we like to get down, boogie & party hard!!

Also, the legal drinking/clubbing age over here is 18, jealous?

As for style’s they are forever changing…but we would have to say Tech-House and Dutch-House are really starting to take off over here & Nu-Disco is always popular.

2. How do you guys keep up on music? Dance-blogs? Beatport? Parties?

How do we keep up on music….well we get a lot of our tunes from Beatport.com and we do have a bunch of blogs which we regularly get tracks from.

We like to be different though. Most of the tracks you here in our sets are our own edits, bootlegs, remixes, mash up etc. Keep the crowd guessing!


3. Who are your influences?

Our influences….our influences range from all different genres of music.

A short list would be producers and djs such as Riva Starr, Mowgli, The Twelves, A Skillz, Plump DJ’s, Laidback Luke, Bingo Players, Solo, The Round Table Knights & Australian acts such as The Aston Shuffle, Bag Raiders, Bass Kleph, Dcup, Miami Horror…Oh and who could forget the greatest rapper ever to live….Vanilla Ice.

4. What inspired you to remix “Sandstorm”? It’s often seen as a very taboo song, but the way you remixed it is incredible!

Sandstorm….well as everyone know’s “Sandstorm” is one of the greatest Techno tracks ever made! And we had a friend of ours called “Rivers” (Typical Aussie Nickname) begged us on a daily basis to remix it….so we did. We Tried to give a classic track a new life!!!!

5. Who are some of your favorite current artists?

Favorite current artists….Laidback Luke, Oliver $, Classixx, The Only & Hey Now are doing it for us at the moment.

6. What equipment did you use for your “Winter Mixtape”? How long did it take?

Our Winter Mixtape…Its more of a production based mix tape…we did a lot of edits especially for it…but the great thing is we can still mix it live in our sets…we usually mix anything from 3 to 186 tracks at once, we are sick of hearing the same old boring mix tapes which have 10 songs in one looooong hour! So we put all our favorite tracks in the space of 30-mins, we want to keep the listener interested!!

7. Coming to the U.S. anytime soon?

We love everything about the States and want to come over there as soon as possible…and we are massive Entourage fans as well…hopefully we get to meet Johnny Drama while we are over haha. Hopefully 2010 we get over there!!

Much Love,

Brain Matters!!!

http://www.myspace.com/brainmattersdjs

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/brainmattersdjs?ref=ts

Phantom

Watch out for this guy. He’ll be running things soon!

Obelisk (Original Mix).mp3

Sol Suckaz.mp3

Magic Toucan.mp3

INTERVIEW

1. How long have you been making music as DJ Qazi?

In 2007 I decided on the name DJ Qazi, I guess it comes from the word Quasar (a superviolent galaxy in the deepest of space) Before that I was more into guitar and garageband, I didn’t really call myself anything, I was more into hard trance and Hardstyle.

2. “House on the Rocks” is especially enjoyable. Lately, what have been some of your biggest non-musical influences?

You know the whole change I’ve made since I moved down here to LA, mixed with the amazing teachers I am now having the opportunity to learn from, has really shaped the way I create music these days. I learn new and interesting recording techniques all the time when I’m at class, so when I get home I use the information immediately in my music. It kind of solidifies it in my brain. Good for tests.
3. Your songs are composed of all original material, has getting to this point been a gradual process, or did it pick up very fast?

Come to think of it, back when I started on garageband, I used to experiment a lot with different midi’s I got online, applying various instruments, remixing it. Now I’m not so into remixing, I’ve done it a few times (crazy pipe – DJ Bomba, This time – DJ Shadow, Superstar – Dark Oscillators), but when I’m experimenting on a daily basis I hardly ever see the need to go out and get somebody else’s work to go and build on it. Don’t get me wrong, remixing is awesome, all I’m saying is that I think everyone is born with capacity to create new and original expressions every day. There simply isn’t a long enough lifetime for us to run out of new ideas.

4. What hardware/software do you use for your productions? Live shows?

I’m currently using an Akai MPK25 Keyboard with Ableton Live 8 on my so-so Laptop (will be getting new imac so0on, just wait for the musical explosions:). I use an M-Audio Fasttrack Pro for my ins and outs, which I’m liking a lot. For live mixing I use the Numark Omni Control surface and Traktor 3. As for Traktor, I would only recommend it if you do not have enough money to buy the full Serrato Scratch Pro. I occasionally dabble with Reason 4 and I’ve had a bit of fun with my two guitars. Right now I am undergoing top certification training of Pro Tools HD, so very soon I will bring ableton on my laptop and record my tracks into Pro Tools to use its advanced editing capabilities. Once I finally start to make some real money I have DEFINITE plans to get some streight up vinyl setup & record collection. I’m also currently in the market for a trigger finger and a small mackie board. And a mic. and a preamp. and an analogue compressor. There is actually lots of things I want.
5. What is the electronic scene like in LA? Who are some of your favorite artists?

I like what I have seen of the electronic scene here. Being such a gigantic place, there is raves with 50k person turnout! Rusko recently moved here, and seeing him live in Hollywood was awesome. I was surprised at the turnout for the dubstep, I thought most of its fan base was in the UK. I haven’t had a huge opportunity to go out clubbing on account of my audio engineering classes are at night, but most of my favourite artists seem to have at least one show planed here in a year.

As for my favorite artists, Numba one is Thievery Corporation, for ever. If you haven’t gotten into this band…your missing out. heh then I like DJ Krush, n DJ Shadow. I’m cuckoo for Dubstep these days so I gotta rep on DATSIK, the widdler, L-Wiz, Bar 9, Rusko, and most of all: Hijak (not HiJack)

6. Any big plans for DJ Qazi in 2010?

Dubstep. Much more bass, much crazier. I have recently gained access to 4 stocked out professional studios and I plan to use them to create much more well defined tracks. Every day I learn more about sound design from long time industry pros. I’m currently looking at cartoon network, since its right down the street from where I live. When I complete my training next December, I will be looking to start my career in the recording studios of Hollywood. There’s plans to start doing live shows here in LA once DJ Qazi gets A CAR. (one note about LA: steer clear of this place if you do not have motorized transportation)

7. What would you say to anybody interested in pursuing a career in producing/DJ’ing?

Music can’t be explained using words. When you’re experimenting in the studio, or performing live, its very important to use your human ability to feel the vibe, and keep it going. Be the badass that you are and always be jamming. Think of the most awesome time you had partying or having sex and let that be your inspiration. Stay away from loops. The kick drum doesn’t need to be the loudest thing. And above all- learn the ways of proper EQ and Compression.

Download DJ Qazi’s Electro mixes here!

www.house-mixes.com/dj_qazi

http://www.myspace.com/cravethatbass

Phantom