Jetpilot Music Reviews

Christchurch music afficando and all around good guy Dr. Hitchcock is heading away to Melbourne. The music scene here will miss him, but we wish him well on his adventures!

Since he’s helped me get from just mixing stuff up in the bedroom to mixing on the radio and putting me in contact with the right people for getting to play at the Nu Trend, I made a mix in commemoration.

How long do I have Doctor? (58:24 min, 53.4 MB)

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The German electro duo Digitalism recently played in Brussels recently and I happened to stumble upon a live recording. Obviously I’m going to have to share the love. The sound quality is reasonable, although one can tell it’s live.

Digitalism – live in Brussels 10.06.2007

At around t+50 minutes into the set there was an awesome glitchy version Never let me down again by Depeche Mode – I let my secret squirrels do their thing and bring it back to me, and since I haven’t seen it around the blog community of late (last and only time, according to hype machine, is on fluokids last November) here you are… enjoy!

Depeche Mode – Never let me down again (Digitalism remix) [ buy ]

Digitalism @ MySpace

Man, I’ve been hellish busy recently, so this gem of a mix from none other than La Grève Générale has been sitting sparkling away in my inbox for a couple of weeks now. You’ve probably seen it floating around the mp3 blog scene already, but if you missed it, grab it now. It’s some good stuff, a recorded live mix from Rave or Die at the Rocklands Party in London held Saturday 5th May. LGG seem to never disappoint me.

I think it’s the eclectic and interesting track selection that does it for me. Keep it up guys!

Download!

Track list…
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I thought it was about time I post another electro mix. So here it is. It’s autumn down here in New Zealand, it’s the traditional time of year that people land jet planes in the streets of Christchurch (photo by DJ Tobiaz).

Some things in the pipeline, I should be playing at some public gigs soon. One confirmed in May in Wellington, and a couple of others are likely but are a bit wait-and-see.

JetPilot – Autumn Flight

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So after learning how to use Ableton Live, and tracking down all the songs that people requested, I’ve put together the second friend request mashup. Some of it’s pretty awesome, other parts are a bit messy, but if I don’t release it now I’ll keep fiddling around with it much more than I really should (I have that study-thing which I should be focusing on right now)

JetPilot Request mashup mix No-2

Tracklisting
Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
Massive Attack – Inertia Creeps
Portishead – Biscuit
Massive Attack – Atta Boy
Nina Gordon – Straight Outta Compton
Haysi Fantayzee – Shiny Shiny
Styles and Breeze – You’re shining (Scott Brown remix)
Kris Kross – Jump
Garbage – #1 Crush
Audiobullys – The World
Photek – Nen Ten Ichi Ryu (Two Swords Technique)
William Orbit – Ludwig van Beethoven Triple Concerto
Beethoven Triple Concerto in C op. 56 I – Allegro
David Bowie – Waterloo Sunset
The Swingers – Counting the Beat
C&C Music Factory – Gonna make you sweat
The Teenagers – Homecoming (SLUTTT 98% done remix)
Polarise – A swarm of angels
Whitey – Wrap it up
Kavinsky – Testerossa Autodrive (SebastiAn remix)
Mu-ziq – Dance 2
The Avalanches – Ray of zdarlight
Panic at the disco – I write sins not tragedies
Silver Apples – Seagreen serenades
The Monks – Drugs in my pocket

First appearing over at wonderful and oft visited Missingtoof, La Grève Générale has made a new mix! Their previous one rocked my socks and so obviously I have to post this one. This one is slightly less hip-hop orientated – but that’s fine by me!

la greve generale – cheese on toast and sambuca

La Grève Générale myspace

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A while back I did a friends request mashup. It involved some crazy artists I had to attempt mixing (hey, YOU try mixing death metal, IDM, the music from the game DOOM, some Beck, and Paris Hillton). It’s about time I do a new request mix – I might be insane, but hopefully my mixing over the last few months will give me some mad skillz to tackle what everyone throws at me.

Rules are – you can request an artist, or you request 2 specific songs. I’ll probably only mix one, but having a choice gives me some room to work.

[ Special shout outs to His Whoreness for a delectable package of music arriving in my mailbox yesterday, you rock dude ]

A while back I went to the Nitrate Tandem event at Base. This is how excited I was:

So yeah.

Anyhow, one of my friends, DJ Tobiaz, was playing one of the secondary zones. He does a bit of an electro mix, hosts cool radio shows, and one day we’ll do some b2b stuff if we get organised.

It was his first live set, and it went down a treat with the dancers (which of course included me being nuts as usual).

He has passed it along to me to share with you:

DJ Tobiaz – Nitrate Tandem mix

Tracklisting

Soulwax – NY Excuse (Justice Remix)
The Knife – Heartbeats (Rex The Dog Remix)
Cicada – The things you say (dirty south remix)
Justice Vs Simian – We Are Your Friends (Original Mix)
Dave Mc Cullen vs Daft Punk – Bitch Technologic (Gyle’z bootleg)
Uffie – Hot Chick
The Jackson 5 vs Daft Punk – I want your digital Love – by Ben Double M
Groovestylerz – We Are family (2-4 grooves remix)
Miles Dyson – Electric Soul One (a1)
Dscio – Smells Like Electro
Prodigy vs The Killers – Somebody Smacked Me (McSleazy Bootleg)
Lissat & Voltaxx – Young And Beautiful (Klaas & Micha Moor Rmx)
Green Velvet vs Fedde Le Grand – Throw Ur Hands Up For La la Land (TV Rock & Dirty South Remix)
Annie – Chewing Gum (Mylo Mix)

Go check out his myspace too!

This is completely fucking mind blowing. As they describe “it’s a bunch of hip hop, electro, indie and pop stuff like daft punk, spank rock, plan b, lady sovereign, justice etc. all mixed up.” I don’t even especially like hip-hop (and I rarely swear, that’s how good it is), but this mix is just too funky and excellent NOT to like in it’s entirety. It even has Rage Against the Machine mixed in. How sweet is that?

Soixante-trois minutes mix – Tracklisting and download link

Check out their myspace for more.

Tom Cosm (the last name is an acronym for Certified Organic Sound Machine), is an up and coming live psy DJ from Christchurch, New Zealand. I love a bit of psy and the fact he does all his acts live is even more impressive. What’s more, he gives his music away for free and actively asks for people to share the love! He’s an awesomely nice guy in person too.

The best way to experience his genius (short of seeing him perform) is to listen to one of his live mixes. Since I know some my referred readers are mostly electro inclined, I suggest the Fetish Ball set, as it is very electro-ey but also psy:

Tom Cosm Live At The Fetish Ball, New Zealand, 2006 [ 58:16 - 53.3 MB ]

For others that like a slower build up with more of a dubby aspect (but still definately psy), try on his Uprising set for size:

Tom Cosm Live At Uprising, New Zealand, 2007 [ 1:39:47 - 91.3 MB ]

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