Wednesday, 23 February 2011

It's easy when you know how!

If you're like me, I'm sure that by now you have ventured on to Twitter, or have been considering it, but are not sure how to go about finding all of your favourite artists to follow - well, it's easy when you know how! We all owe a massive debt of gratitude to Blu Mar Ten from Med School Music (the sister label of Hospital Records) for compiling the following list for those of us who like to follow our artists / DJ's etc on Twitter:

Click here for list...

It's a pretty comprehensive list of producers, DJ's, MC's, record labels and promoters, and for anyone into DnB, it's a very good place to start if you are wanting to ensure that you follow all of your favourites! (Especially if, like me, the list of those you are interested in following is very long!) Also, for those of you who haven't been considering it, I can highly recommend it - I have found it to be a very great resource to use to help me follow my favourite DJ's / artists etc. It's fantastic for keeping up to date with news, tour dates and new tracks, and you don't actually have to get involved or post yourself if you don't want to. Maybe it's a bit voyeuristic to just watch and not participate, but who cares! :)

Since I got home this evening, I have been checking out some other Echo Inada tunes in addition to Breathe, which as I mentioned earlier is one of my favourites. Here is another quite melodic uplifting track of his, called This is How I Feel. His tracks have a nice energy to them and quite a chilled out feel that I like - it would be good to hear something a bit harder from him, but that is just my personal preference and not any reflection on how good the tracks I've shared so far are. I'll keep following his progress, and will share any other gems of his that I come across with you.


This next track is yet another beautiful remix from the duo that is Camo & Krooked; it's a remix of the Mclean track "Finally in Love", and is defnitely worth a listen. I love the vocal, and the beats are pure Camo & Krooked all the way - when you listen to it, I find that you can't help but smile and dance! (Any music that makes me want to smile and dance is winning in my book!)


Time for another of my favourite DnB tunes from the past few months, this time from DJ Fresh and Sigma. This is Lassitude, and to those who know their DnB it needs no introduction other than to say it is simply awesome!


As I'm sure a lot of you are already aware, DJ Fresh has made a lot of amazing music over the years, and one track or another of his (frequently more than one) has seemed to feature in my top ten for quite a long time now. Before I leave the blog alone for the evening, here are a few of my favourite DJ Fresh tunes from over the years shared for your listening pleasure! (I only intended to post a couple of DJ Fresh tracks, but I couldn't pick between my favourites from over the years - so here are a few of my faves for you to listen to!)


This track has been one of my favourites for years now, and I'd actually forgotten how good this was until I stumbled across it on YouTube. Love it! The vocal is incredible, and I love the breakdown by DJ Shadow in the middle of the track. To me, this is a proper summer time tune, and evokes a memory of sitting in the sunshine drinking wine with this on in the background. Love it love it love it!!


This is a more recent track, but again it is a track that I instantly fell in love with, and one I've enjoyed listening to a lot since I first heard it over a year ago now.



For about 2 years after I first heard this tune, I would play it over and over as I loved it so much; yet rather than sounding overplayed as can often happen, it still sounds as fresh to me today as it did the first time I heard it. To me, this is yet another chilling summertime tune best enjoyed in the open air, with the volume turned up loud, and dancing around in the warm sunshine with all of your mates.

 
This is the last one I am going to share tonight, but yet again, this is another track that I absolutely love. This feels a little bit darker to me than the likes of 'All that jazz', and the track has got a lot of good energy. I love the vocal, and find that both the vocal and the beats have a certain edginess to them that fits in with the name of the track and does actually make me feel as if I'm 'Nervous'!

I hope you enjoy listening to these as much as I've enjoyed rediscovering them this evening - the rest of my evening is going to be spent reminding myself of the rest of DJ Fresh's back catalogue! :)

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