From Córdoba, Rafael Caivano and Lisandro Soma present their project Frikstailers: using electronic music as a base, the duo combines different sounds and vocals as if it were a game to make people move on the dancefloor. Thanks to their ability, they have toured around the US and Europe. In this week's Top 5, they tell us what bands have influenced and motivated them to outline their eclectic musical personality.
With an incipient career and only one released album, many artists are coming out in the desired show business universe:
those who can get a high position in charts and appear on radios and music video channels without leaving behind their own —more or less— avant-garde aesthetic. Short careers but with a big future.
Flowmi picked five artists to watch, discover and, maybe, become a fan of.
In November, Get Physical celebrates its 100th release, which will pit some of its best artists in what the tech-house label calls Battle Tracks (the same track produced or remixed by two different artists). Some of the artists are M.A.N.D.Y., DJ T, Booka Shade, and other international artists such as Italoboyz or Nôze.
On January 26, the album Decent Work for Decent Pay: Collected Works: Volume One will be released. It is an album that compiles the best Diplo's remixes (the "most respectable ones," he said.) A retrospective to the producer's most eclectic form made in collaboration with artists such as Hot Chip, Bloc Party, Peter Bjorn and John, CSS, Bonde do Rolê, and Spank Rock, among many others. Check out this preview.
Last Friday, during his show on the BBC Radio 1, Pete Tong presented the world premiere "Mind Dimension," the first track from Tiga's new material. The track will be included in his next album, on which people is speculating titles, such as Mindimension/The Future. Check out the track of which, a couple of days before, there only were four copies: Tiga's, Tong's, Soulwax's and Erol Alkan's.
2008 was quite a year for Kazell: Apart from his gigs, he opened many of the nights of
Sasha and John Digweed's Spring Club Tour and was working in the studio on his new project to be released next year. But he also had time to record a set for this new edition of Flowmix.
Check it out!
Apart from being the musical curator of his own radio show HipHopMix (broadcasted on Kosiuko Radio) and resident DJ at several Buenos Aires clubs, DJ Stuart also recommends artists. In this new Flowmi's Top 5, he picks the new urban music talents.
Though there's no official announcement, it's rumored that The Neptunes, the duo of producers formed by Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams, has apparently broken up to continue working separately on their own projects. It's still unknown how this decision will affect the rockist side project N.E.R.D. they share with Shay Haley.
This year, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Prince, three of the biggest pop icons, turned 50 years old. In order to celebrate their birthdays, the website Hypeful assembled the 50 most famous cover songs for each artist. By the time you finish listening to all 150 covers, we might be celebrating Britney, Justin and Christina Aguilera's 50th birthdays. For that reason, Flowmi picked the best 5 covers of each one. Check them out.