Put on those red shoes...

...and dance the blues!

Well, I won't be hitting the dance floors this weekend, as I am saving myself so that I can fully embrace the celebrations for my 30th birthday next week - however, in my head, I am always wearing my red shoes and dancing the night away!

So this week has been a fantastic week for me musically. I've managed to combine a great mix of new and old, band stuff and electronic, I've embraced genres I hadn't really heard before, tried new artists, and found great stuff by some of my favourite producers. Unfortunately, there isn't enough space or time in a blog post for me to share everything with you, but I am going to try to share the best of the best.

First of all, I am going to ask you to help a talented friend of mine, who has entered a Sasha remix competition. The challenge is to remix Cut me Down, which is a great track anyway - however Supercell has well and truly risen to the challenge and come up with a fantastic remix! Please give this a listen, and click on the facebook "like" button to show your appreciation! I'm not into nepotism, and don't share tracks that I'm not too enamoured with. Plus, the music I've heard this week has been at such a high standard that for this to be included speaks volumes.

Click here to listen and vote! Also please ask your friends to vote as well.

Earlier in the week, I spent a very enjoyable day introducing a friend to the delights of two of my all time favourite albums - Blood Sugar Sex Magik, by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and also the Nirvana Unplugged in New York album. These are both seminal albums of the 1990's, and every track on each of them is incredible. They hold so many memories, and are as enjoyable for people now as they were when the albums first came out. It has been hard to choose just one from each of them, but here goes.

RIP Kurt Cobain - this track is called All Apologies, and it is Kurt's voice that really makes this. Also how young does Dave Grohl look in the video? :)

This track is Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and it is absolutely great - the whole album has a kind of funky, rude and raunchy feel to it, and while it is hard to pick a favourite off it, this has to be up there with the ones I like the best.

Time for something a little bit different now - this is a PsyBreaks mix by Hedflux, and it is absolutely great! Perfect to work to, it has a lot of energy, some really gorgeous sounds, and it's really helped me concentrate this morning. I'm looking forward to checking out the older mixes on the Hedflux soundcloud page. Click here to listen.

This next track is a cheeky remix that the fantastic drum and bass production duo Camo and Krooked have done of Raise your Weapons by Deadmau5. A version of this is to be released, however this one is just for them to use in sets - this was taken from the intro to their guest mix on the Annie Nightingale show on Radio 1 a few days ago, which contains some other fantastic little gems. Click here to listen, there is a download link in the description, and make sure you check out the tracklist.

I was blown away when the AC/DC bootleg of Thunderstruck that they have made kicked in - it was a serious WTF is this moment!!

DJ Marky and S.P.Y can't really do anything wrong at the moment in my eyes (Yellow Shoes is one of my fave current tracks!), and while this one is a couple of years old, I'm sure you will agree that it is awesome. :)

This is the full Sigma remix of Collie Budz - Come Around, and again while it's not very new, it is a perfect summertime track. You can't help but smile when you listen to this!

Next up, we have an epic remix of Swedish House Mafia's modern classic, One - this is by AJ Myst, and I love it!

This next track, I have been waiting for forever! This is an absolutely fantastic hard dance track from Munkjack, called Smack my Bits up. I just love the carnival atmosphere of it, I absolutely defy you to listen to this without tapping your toes, or shaking your booty as I have found it impossible! Each time I hear it, I am almost propelled towards the dancefloor! Click here to check this out!

The last track for today is a new remix from Firefarm and Solution - this is a remix of Requiem for a Dream, and it's gorgeous! I love it! I've listened to this so many times this week! I really can't wait until I have the opportunity to see these guys again, I hope I don't have to wait too long!

The Wonders of Soundcloud
I have been encouraging a lot of people to sign up to and make best use of Soundcloud recently for following artists - along with subscribing to uploaders on YouTube, it is a great way to keep up to date with studio sets, live mixes, new tracks etc, and when you follow artists, their work and comments appear in your dashboard, in the same way that your news feed works on facebook.

If you like the type of music I share, then click here to check out my profile, and see who I am following. Once you are signed in, you can easily click on the add symbol next to each name, and follow them yourselves! (Sorry if this is basic to some of you, but I've discovered a lot of people who didn't realise how much good music you can find this way!)