At risk of becoming a blog that only post mix tapes… Purple Crush sent us their latest… with tracks from Peaches, Berlin, Grace Jones and of course Kate Bush. Ah Purple Crush… not afraid to drop the old school. Thank you.
BIGSTEREO readers know everything… who can name track 5???.. sandwiched between “I Want Your [...]

Boytronic was an electro pop trio formed by accident in Hamburg, Germany in 1983. The original name of the act was Kapitän Sehnsucht (Captain Desire) and in the early days they provided the soundtrack to live sex shows at clubs in Hamburg. Eventually they recorded a demo and sent it out to record [...]

We promise to return with Mix Tape Sundays soonish — you know how it goes. But until that happens here is a new mix from Ursula 1000 that should hold you over. A house-y little mix with some electro undertones, it clocks in at just under an hour… perfect for those summer road trips. Roll [...]

Trabant – “The One” (YouTube)
Here is Trabant’s video for “The One.” It is very wet. For real.
Check out Trabant’s full length Emotional and/or “The One” with remixes by The Black Ghosts, Para One, Williams and Filthy Dukes out on Southern Fried. I especially like the Filthy Dukes remix. That’s some good stuff.

High Voltage Humans sounds as if Electroclash was a real genre and never went out of style. These two tracks are a combitination of the sounds we were hearing out of Germany in the early part of this decade mixed with the No Wave sounds of NY in the late 70s/early 80s. Or as their [...]

Here comes Calvin Harris, a hot little filet of a 23-year old Scot just happened to turn ‘knob twisting’ into a full time profitable endeavor. This single has already gone crazy in the UK and his 80’s electrofunk disco dance album is set to be released in the US in September. Forget songs that [...]

cover art by Trebek
One of my favorite people just sent me a new mix, an exclusive to BigStereo, you might remember DJ Never Forget’s last mix for his roadtrip with Lo-Fi-Fnk that we posted up. Well now it’s time for the summer mix. So make a cocktail and enjoy the warm breeze.
Here’s what he had [...]

I have a new monthly column on the Anthem Magazine Blog… “First Friday Forgottens.”
Alright, so it’s actually the second Friday of the month, but we were a little late introducing a new, monthly post (every first Friday!) written by Travis Bigstereo, the man behind the fantastic music blog which all of us at Anthem could [...]

Here’s some more goodies from Dgenetics Musics.
The first one is from Dgenerate Nation. On our first encounter, we found ourselves holding hands and flashing our chromed-out brace-faces at each other skating backwards to ‘Skate With Me‘. Well, a month has gone by and a whole lot has changed. We now encounter [...]

You’re gonna have a full Glamour album by the time we’re done. “Shake That” is their newest track featuring Jon James and Swan…John Swan. This is a little bit different their previous tracks.. but still rooted in diy party music that’ll have you dancing.
You guys either love or hate the Glamour. I’m sure this [...]

I’ve got Armand Van Helden’s reworking of Kudu’s ‘Playing House’ on repeat in my head. It’s been stuck in there ever since i heard his new album, GhettoBlaster. He added a little bit of echo, a whole lotta bass, and a bit of AVH flair to make the original sound so tame in comparison, [...]

Fine. I love Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya. Their newest track “Before” sealed the deal… turn up the distortion. “Before” is total noise that just happens to be music. And I have to say this is the first time in the past five years that a cowbell hasn’t annoyed me.
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Videohippos are currently on tour with Dan Deacon (including this Saturday at Check Yo Ponytail). I have to admit I was unfamiliar with them so I had to check them out, and I think I like them. All you indie nerd boys get your pitchforks and torches out because dare I say… I actually like [...]

Grauzone (grey zone) was a music/art project started by brothers Martin Eicher, Stephan Eicher in Germany Switzerland circa 1978. The duo used synthesizers, light effects and super-8 film projections in their act. Publisher of punk magazine “No Fun” Urs Staiger helped Grauzone in the studio and they began recording numerous singles & in [...]

On July 10th, Chunx, Funx, Hunx and Junx (who replaced Drunx after their debut album) are releasing their first record since leaving Kill Rock Stars and joining up on their hometown label Cochon Records. Gravy Train!!!!’s All The Sweet Stuff is about what we’ve come to expect from the troublesome fourgy… plenty of foul mouthed [...]

TEPR is on a motherfuckin’ French roll. We all know his songs ‘Minuit Jacuzzi’ and ‘Ghetto Bounce’ as well as his numerous heavy hittin’ remixes for Yelle and a few others. I’ve been a huge fan of everything he’s done so far, and this new one is no exception. It’s a little [...]

Cloetta Paris is a new Swedish duo that reminds me a lot of last year’s sensation Sally Shapiro. “I Miss You Someone” has some of the same Italo Disco influences and similar icy vocals.
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Cloetta Paris – “I Miss You Someone” (mp3)
Not much info out on these guys yet… [...]

Saturday, June 16th Check Yo’ Ponytail features Dan Deacon, The Juan MacLean, Juiceboxxx and Video Hippos. As usual, a pretty damn good line up and a little something for everyone. Resident DJs Franki Chan and Paparazzi… of course.
We have a few tickets to give away — so email contests@bigstereo.net to get yourself entered. Usual [...]

Photo by Grace Pattison
One track that definitely caught my attention off the I Can Count Volume 2 compilation is Sportsday Megaphone’s “Less and Less.” Sportsday Megaphone is the one man band of Hugh Frost. and creates some the finest indie-DIY-punk-pop — “Less and Less” sounds a bit like Matt & Kim or Muscles or maybe [...]

Dragonette’s new video for “Take It Like A Man” is rude little video to start your Friday off right… 70s porn and all that. YouTube says this video may offend some. I guess the easily offended?