OK, so the sound of this doesn't really fit on the usual Coco Electro bill but as an aficionado of all forms of creativity I feel overwhelmed to share with you these mind-blowing videos from Woodkid.
Here's the good bit... Woodkid is in fact not only the singer and songwriter but also the director of these videos. His name is Yoann Lemoine and he was responsible for bringing us Lana Del Rey's incredible Born to Die and Blue Jeans videos and that infamous aids-awareness video of the rampant public toilet graffiti.
Yoann says that his creations are "related to subjects such as childhood, absence, nostalgia, sexuality, fashion, symbolism, and of course that patchwork, that collision between different worlds and techniques, which is what I’m made from, I guess."
My oh my, this Yoann is one talented man....and I think I'm in love with him.
Happy watching!
Directed by Yoann Lemoine
Cinematography by Mathiew Plainfosse
Produced by Mourad Belkeddar
Styling my Ellen Af Geijerstam
Post Production by OneMore Prod
3D Artist: Jonathon Benabed
Flame Artists: Herve Thouement
Video Commissioner: Pierre Le Ny
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20120725
20120716
SPECTRASOUL - AWAY WITH ME FT. TAMARA BLESSA
Like I said on my previous shows, I'm a sucker for a good vocal and this has got just that.
First heard this track on Pete Tong's show as I drove down to Bristol on Friday.
I tell ya now there was nearly an M32 pile-up cause this beautiful track got me all a bit wobbly.
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20120615
KARMA KID ON NICK GRIMSHAW
I Cannot express how proud and happy I am for Karma Kid who's track It's Always has been BBC Radio 1 Nick Grimshaw's Record of the Week.
Last night Nick and Karma Kid had a little chat live on BBC Radio 1 which you listen to again here:
Big ups to DJ Madam X too who got the world exclusive on this track. Check out her show every Weds night on Unity Radio.
We had Karma Kid do a mix for the show back in March so if you didn't catch that you can check it again now
It's Always will be out on Bondax's label Just Us Recordings on July 8th with a digital release and on a limited vinyl with two remixes exclusive to that.
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20120607
dÉbruit - MEGA WAGNA - VIDEO
After a slew of impressive genre-bending EP's bringing you big tracks like Nigeria What, dÉbruit now brings us Mega Wagna from his debut album From the Horizon.
It was released on 4th June with my good friends at Civil Music, and you can get it on a scrumptious 12" GOLD vinyl. Dang.
It's available digitally as well. What a treat.
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20120603
01.06.12 SHOW PODCAST
Tracklist:
Romare – Down the Line
Buraka Som Sistema – Tira O Pe
Zombies For Money – Navajo ft. Drop Top
AutoKratz – Splinter (Modek Remix)
Breach – Fatherless (Doc Daneeka Remix)
Rudimental – Feel the Love (VIP Remix)
DJ Mungo – Coco Electro Mix
Fatima Al Qadiri – Corpore (Kingdom Remix)
Xlii – Thro-Yo! (Starkey Remix)
Ursa Major – Whitecaps
Ahadadream – Born
My Nu Leng – Down
Blawan - Getting Me Down
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EL - Something ELse
20120602
DJ MUNGO INTERVIEW
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DJ-ing, I don’t produce. I’ve never been opposed to it though and would like to have a proper go when I really get the chance to get into it. I guess the positive thing about that is that you’re not tied down to any particular genre in the same way producers are when they play live, everyone expects you just to drop the stuff you make and when nobody’s expecting any particular songs from you, you pretty much have the freedom to play what you want and what you see fit, it also allows you to be more spontaneous with what you play.
Only a couple of years ago when it comes to DJing specifically, but I’ve always wanted an excuse to share music I like with people and not having to force it on them.
Who/what are your major influences?
These days the stuff I play and really enjoy is based on that bare energetic take on bass and UK funky that people like Redlight, Lil Silva and breach are famous for and the darker side of Garage with people like Sticky, Ghost and Wookie even though my knowledge of that old school stuff is limited as I was a baby when that stuff was big . My original influences were Boys Noize, all my other friends were into indie and rock stuff.
Who would you love to collaborate with? (1 realistic, 1 fantasy)
Lil Silva is one of my favourite producers of all time so probably him, or maybe Roska, I met him a long time ago just as a gawping fan and got a picture with him but he seemed so friendly and happy I felt like he wanted a picture with me instead. Mine would Be Grizzle, he DJ’s but doesn’t produce but our taste is very similar and he’s been a very good friend of mine for over five years so we get on well.
Vinyl, CD or digital?
Right now it’s digital, I’ve got a pair of Traktor S2’s at the moment. I gawp looking at CDJ’s and really want some but can’t afford them at the moment, that’s always been a problem, when I couldn’t afford a controller or even DJ software I used to be so desperate to DJ I would get tunes on my Itunes and tunes on Youtube and literally crossfade them very badly from one to the other.
What’s the worst thing that’s happened to you on a gig?
Was playing at an event called P&B in Islington and during the middle of my set the sound cut out completely and the sound engineer was nowhere to be seen, we fixed it in the end but he didn’t turn up till the end of my set all sweaty and pissed ‘you played Night ahah!!’, he’d been at the bar the whole time.
Where’s your favourite place to play? why?
I prefer doing sets for radio because I can make sure they’re perfect… that’s a properly boring thing to say, I’d like to talk about all the huge arenas I’ve played at and how crazy they were but I’d be lying, probably just where everyone appreciates or is really gets into the music your playing and isn’t being to cool.
Do you think anyone can learn to DJ and/or Produce? What’s your best tip for beginners?
Yeah, I was awful when I started but it was always something I really wanted to do so I stubbornly kept at it it, I was never a natural. I suggest getting the Traktor 2 demo, its mad if you’re a beginner because you can start off using the ‘SYNC’ button just focus on playing music you want to play and interoperating it in a way you can play to everyone else and worry about learning to beatmatch and stuff when you feel like it. They is a lot of snobbery in Djing, that your not a ‘proper’ DJ unless you use vinyl and beatmatch perfectly completely by ear which is all good but its much harder when you start off so it’s much less accessible for beginners, so I suggest Traktor 2 demo.
What do you listen to most in a track?
I think particularly these days it’s about having a healthy mixture of all the basic elements of electronic music in the right proportion, like deep bass, but not throughout all of the track so you appreciate it when it’s there. High pitched sounds but not to the extent that it becomes annoying winey, fun stuff like samples but to the extent that their overused, but it’s hard to boil music taste down to dinky little tick boxes; everyone knows what they like and nobody can really be wrong. Sounds obvious and ditsy ‘everyone is perfect and has different taste in music and we can all be right and just get along’ blah blah blah, but I think some people forget that it is just completely subjective what makes music good or bad.
What are you hoping to achieve in the long run/ whats your ambition?
To have a Rinse cd out that would be mad, to have my face there with a big banner and the Rinse logo, id get to meet Shaun Bloodworth, he did Benga’s first album cover, Skream’s and most of the Dubstep Allstars covers and he’s an inspiration to me. Ridiculously long way off ambition though. I mean, just could pretend and go round record shops picking up Rinse cd’s and sticking pictures of myself on the CD cases and write ‘MUNGO!’ over their names in Sharpie but it wouldn’t be very convincing and a lot of money to spend on printing and sharpie pens, then nobody would find it funny and I’d feel like a bit of a dick really.
Where will you be playing next/ what projects do you have lined up?
I’m playing Dingwalls on the 26th of July and doing mixes for ‘Jacks House’ and ‘B Radio’ next month and hopefully doing Podcast for an event label I work with very closely called P&B which I won’t shut up about. I’d like to go out looking for more but its hard with A levels.
What are your favourite ways to find new tracks?
Blogs, friends and other people’s mixes, I always listen to the sets on Boiler Room and see the latest songs the Djs there are playing.
What’s the future of Dance music? Who do you think we should keep our ears out for?
There seems to by two main sounds emerging these days in dance music. Firstly, House seems to be undergoing a huge revival these days as people are finding Dubstep a bit stale but I think the mixture of house beats and grime snares and hi hats based sound that Night Slugs seemed to have really made their own is huge right now. Within that demographic that they seems to be a divide between the darker side that puts more emphasis on that grime Bass that producers such as Bok Bok seemed to have coined and in comparison to that more high pitched sound with rolling drums people such as Girl Unit produce that sounds almost reminiscent of the hip hop from sound from places such as Atlanta in which Brick Squad are collectively famous for. Or I could be wrong, I chat a lot of shit.
The other stuff that’s emerging isn’t really one to keep your ears out for as it’s the Post-Dubstep scene you could argue that the kind of people like Joy O, Pearson Sound, Koreless and Mickey Peace have pioneered as its already huge but I have even bigger expectations for in the future.
Why is music important?
To say why music is important I’d have to imagine life without it, which is weird, and an idea I don’t really like. Without meaning to sound pretentious, I guess it’s the way it brings people together and sharing it or going to see it can bring people together in a way that not much else can. Like, if you’re at a gig and there are loads of completely different people with different taste, backgrounds and lives, nobody even knows each other but there all in the same room hearing the exact same sound as you are and enjoying what you’re enjoying. If you say ‘aaah I love this tune’, they might disagree, but they know exactly what you’re talking about and it’s just weird to think that everyone else there does too.
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20120601
COCO'S POST DISS MIXX
Wut wuttt!!
Ok so I have unofficially finished my university career and to celebrate I got drunk and made you all a mix. Such fun.
If this has got you in the mood then tune in to ((URY)) today 5-6pm cause Coco Electro is back and I'll be going in and going hard.
Tracklist:
The Phantom - Voyeur (Sentel Mind Loop Remix)
G.Vump - Feelings (Jon Convex Re-Vump)
AutoKratz - Splinters (Modek Remix)
Kry Wolf - Under My Skin
Ill Blu - Meltdown
Crookers - That Laughing Track (TWR72 Remix)
Corporeal F - CCS
Hoshina Anniversary - Chicago
Breach - Fatherless (Don Daneeka Remix)
Kry Wolf - Under My Skin (Screendeath Remix)
Doc Trashz - Devil Inside
Production Unit - This Otha Planet
Sinden & Mele - Steel Ride
Royce Rolls - Avalon Riddim
Royce Rolls - Whoa! (Royce Rolls Refix)
Pangaea - Run Out
Dubbel Dutch - No Futuro
Falty DL - Phreqaflex
DJ K Millz - Are You That Somebody
Neon Beats - Pulse Blood Roses
Spooky - Megahertz (John Halifax Remix)
Baobinga & I.D. - Tongue Riddim (Lightshapers Remix)
Buraka Som Sistema - Tira O Pe
Terror Danjah - Air Bubble (Swindle Remix)
Royce Rolls - Avalanche (Goku Remix)
Viers - Grrl
Disclosure - I Love... That You Know
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20120531
FATIMA AL QADIRI - GSX REMIX EP
Well well well, tie me up and pleasure me sideways!
I first came across Fatima Al Qadiri around last November through the release of her debut EP Genre-Specific Xperience, which absolutely blew me away. FAQ is kind of a continuation of the whole M.I.A exploration of the digital world but with less false promises and selling-out.
Genre-Specific Xperience was like nothing I'd heard before as it clashed together deep electronic beats with abrasive organ chords and warped soundscapes. I can only really suggest that you listen to understand what on earth I am on about, which you can do here.
This mind-blowing EP has now received the remix treatment from a collection of genre-bending artists which made me rub my eyes in disbelief when I read the line-up: Dubbel Dutch, Nguzunguzu, Dutch E Germ, Kingdom, Girl Unit, Ikonika and DJ Rashad.
If you are looking for new music that doesn't conform then you are in the right place.
Fatima Al Qadiri's Genre-Specific Xperience Remix EP is out now on UNO Records, so stop whatever you are doing and bag yourself a copy.
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20120530
THE EVOLUTION OF MUSIC ONLINE
Great wee documentary on quite simply the evolution of music online. Have a watch. No excuses.
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20120514
KAMIKAZE SPACE PROGRAMME
I think if I ever got lost in the dark depths of an East European forest on the run from the secret police and barking dogs, hopping over wire fences, fallen trees and that, because I'm an assing kicking, tight black cat-suit wearing secret spy that knew enough information to collapse the government...
Then I would like this to be the soundtrack to that occasion.
Well, either that or at some fat warehouse rave.
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NIGHT SLUGS - CLUB CONSTRUCTIONS
Here, my friends, is the latest aural adventure from Night Slugs.
It's a new series of releases headed under the name Club Constructions, set to be run alongside other label output. I don't really get the whole compartmentalization thang but whatever they're doing, they're doing it well and I'm all over it, particularly Rubber Crash.
Someone get me to a club now!
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It's a new series of releases headed under the name Club Constructions, set to be run alongside other label output. I don't really get the whole compartmentalization thang but whatever they're doing, they're doing it well and I'm all over it, particularly Rubber Crash.
Someone get me to a club now!
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ROMARE - THE BLUES (IT BEGAN IN AFRICA)
Oh hawt damnnn. The sun must doth shine from Romare's backside for I cannot get over the combination of fresh sounds emanating from this release!
It's called Meditations on Afrocentrism, out now on Black Acre Records & I'm absolutely hooked; I can't wait to play to it a party full of inebriated, sexy, half naked people either!
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20120512
SOUND HEALERS VOL II
Yesterday I handed in my dissertation, which was the last ever piece of blood, sweat and tears that I had to sacrifice for my degree.
Because I have adhered to the strict regime of 9-5 life for the past 3 months, I have evolved somewhat into a middle-aged housewife, which, as you'll all be pleased to know, meant that the first thing I did upon being released into the big wide world, was to buy mushrooms and mop my kitchen.
Watch out, I'm a ferocious bad ass.
Today, however, I am allowing myself to do an unknown activity of non-work, and what better soundtrack to accompany my first day of that delicious nectar they call freedom, than Sound Healers Vol. II. (source: XLR8R).
20120412
LEE BANNON - CALIGULA THEME MUSIC EP
When I first saw the title of this, I managed to conjure an image of my 15 yr old self violently punching the controller of my PS2 in an attempt to successfully raid Caligula's casino on GTA San Andreas, and so was expecting nothing less than the sounds of bright lights, ringing slot machines and the faint drill of gun fire.
What I got was quite the opposite and I was all over it. Particulary "Caligula Themed Music" and "Form of Nothing".
Sod the quasi-Vegas battlefield. Think a group of friends blissing out on a warm summer evening, tea-lights in old jam jars, a smoky haze, the infrequent chink of a glass, a slight breeze and by gosh you're there.
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20120408
FOAMO - TREMORS EP - PREVIEW MIX
Foamo (now half of Gorgon City) has made this explosive mix of his Tremors EP which will be released tomorrow on Fat! Records.
Pretty sure the first track, Sherlock, will be the sound of this summer.
Loving Foamo's new big bass sound. BIG release.
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