Mesak — MIX AUS 20 10 — stream or down­load from http://soundcloud.com/mesak/mix-aus-20–10.

Top­pen! Skweee pro­ducer, other half of Mr Vel­cro Fas­tener, and also being one of the peo­ple behind the Har­mö­nia record label among other things, Mesak mixes here a lit­tle bit of this and that together: older down­tem­poish elec­tronic music, skweee, and some stuff I’d describe just as beats (all these new slow tempo-synthy-j dilla influenced-lazer beats-whatever). And yeah, BBC Radio­phonic workshop’s fame-dame Delia Der­byshire also included as is everyone’s favorite Omar Soley­man. So once again: toppen!

I also really do rec­om­mend you to grab Mesak’s lat­est album “School Of Mesak” (pic­tured above) out on Har­mö­nia. For exam­ple these shops can pro­vide — boomkat: digi/vinyl — bleep: digi/vinyl.

Track­list for the mix:

Sci­en­tist: Dance of the vam­pires
Night Thought: Buck teeth
Cabaret Voltaire: Haiti
Afrikan Simba: Pro­tect I ver­sion
DJ Ele­phant Power: MC Ideas
Recor­dah: But­ter­nut
Soom T: Doo­bie ver­sion
Eerie Johannes: Eläin
Speed Bike: El gal­lito
Meat Beat Man­i­festo: Repul­sion
Randy Bar­racuda: Duck but­ter
Fum­ble: Ter­rain
Tapes: C20 rid­dim
Mesak: Pas­sion of the geist
Black Chow: Pur­ple smoke
Coco Bryce: Ghetto freaks
V.C.: 30:00
Maffi: Ver­sion
Rigas Den Andre: Juicy Juice
Delia Der­byshire: The wiz­ards lab­o­ra­tory
Mikhail Chekalin: ?
Omar Soley­man: Tour al zeenah
Daniel Savio: Imposter remix
Hov­a­tron: Gold star radiation

Rovaniemi. Week­end. Music. Cold bev­er­ages. Dance. Get together. Back-to-back spin­ning also?

First on fri­day it’s time for some club­bing with Good-N-Nasty = disco-house, house, electro-house, fid­get house, techno, and some more @ Doris Night. Mostly those kinda sounds that we rarely post here. Dzei made a top 10 list for the night: check it out! On sat­ur­day it’s time to kick back and relax a bit on the cosy cafe­te­ria space of Kaup­pay­htiö before hit­ting the dance­floor. We’ll be going more along the lines of boogie/electro/house — sorta tunes more or less related to this blog. Here is Dzei’s Laid Back… with Kyny­Nasty chart which gives some feel for the night.

And here’s my per­sonal Top 5 Kyny­Nasty for last month — Feb­ru­ary that it is.

Bar­bara Roy — Gotta See You Tonight — youtube
Taken By Trees — Day By Day — youtube
Julian Jonah — Jeal­ousy And Lies -youtube — check also: alter­na­tive dance mix
Kim Wilde — You Keep Me Hang­ing On (12″ Ver­sion) — kyny­nasty post
AC/DC — Who Made Who — youtube

Older lists by Posten here.

Change — Oh What A Feel­ing (Paul Hard­cas­tle Remix) (320k)

Soon no snow in Rovaniemi. That’ll take maybe a bit over one month.

Sly & Rob­bie — Yes We Can Can (320k)

This could maybe be described as a cover ver­sion of a cover ver­sion. The Pointer Sis­ters made a cover of Yes We Can which is a song by Allen Tou­s­saint with Lee Dorsey on vocals. Then Sly & Rob­bie got also down with it.

I bought the Sly & Rob­bie LP “Rhythm Killers” in sum­mer 2006. It’s the album that has “Yes We Can Can” in it. I was expect­ing some reg­gae or dance­hall stuff when I bought the LP. Boy, was I dis­ap­pointed at the time. Any­ways this tune I was feel­ing already then since it’s been used in the open­ing sequence of a Finnish com­i­cal tele­vi­sion show Pult­ti­bois. Now­days I find “Rhythm Killers” being a solid album fus­ing funk, new wave, hip-hop, and even some rock stuff with hip-hop and Jamaican styled vocals. Peo­ple like Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Wor­rell were part of the crew mak­ing the album.

A review in Rolling Stone mag­a­zine puts it like this:

Rhythm Killers is a thirty-five-minute dance party full of sur­prises and strange noises — you never know when Dun­bar will start play­ing heavy-metal drums or some­one will whis­tle the theme to Mas­ter­piece The­atre. Bridg­ing clas­sic funk and early hip-hop, Rhythm Killers sounds like the Great Miss­ing DJ Set — albeit one played by live musi­cians with per­fect telepathy.

M.D.M.C. — How About It? (Electro-Mix) (7″) (320 kbps)

Acronym not related to chem­i­cals, M.D.M.C. stands for “Mod­ern Dance­able Music Com­pany”. Dutch italo disco with two chicks, much like Fun Fun. Oh yeah and pro­duced (and remixed) by one named Ben Liebrand. The 12″ ver­sion of this song can be found on his Grand 12 Inches vol. 2 –com­pi­la­tion. Ridicu­lously awe­some scratches!