A good natured parody of Boiler Room based in Sydney, Australia. Follow them on faceberk here and YouTube here. First one is an hour+ of grimey, garagey house and bass music from Paleman. Goddamn that dude needs to come to the US!

Talk about taking the piss (for once that expression works on both sides of the pond… almost).

Tracklist:
Yonurican – Boriken Soul
Wad – Pearson Sound
Unknown – Unknown
Press Up – Mosca
Nyiduonge Drums – Owiny Sigoma Band
Boddika – Soul What
Randomer – Bring
Paleman & New York Transit Authority – Drones
9T8 – Dusky
Brett Jacobs – El Hadu
Doc Daneeka – Walk on In
Zed Bias & Terror Danjah – Telepathy
Legwork – Life Is Shower (Dubspeeka Mix1)
Zed Bias – Couchlife
Trusta – Bulletproof
Pearson Sound – Untitled
Lil Silva – One Twenty
Mushy – Tech 101
Boddika – Heat
Four Tet – Kool FM (Champion Remix)
Paleman – The Day
Ben Pearce – Pale Ale
Alfred Taylor – Akagi

If you go out in NYC, then there’s no doubt you’ve heard of this DJ, MessKid. Probably the hardest working local DJ I know of – following his twitter account is an exercise in FOMO-resistance, since he plays somewhere cool pretty much every night. Sometimes 2 or 3 parties a night.

All that work pays off. Tonight he’s opening for Rustie and Flosstradamus at Webster Hall.  A few months back, Noise212 posted this great video of Mess doin his thing, running through all manner of dark, minimal UK and eastcoast-inspired bass music.

MESS KID – #031 from Noise212 on Vimeo.

50 minutes of Jon Hopkins making gritty, gorgeous instrumental music with a whole bunch of Kaoss Pads. If the beginning is too mellow for you, skip to 15:50 where things get real crunchy. His music has shades of Amon Tobin, DJ Shadow or Lorn, but his live performance far outshines anything I’ve ever seen.

I saw this guy open for Prefuse73 a few years ago and he completely stole the show. At the time, I was blown away at how his hands never stopped moving, seeming almost independent of each other. What I’m noticing now is how he never once puts on headphones. Amazing live electronic music like this is the antidote to the button-pressing cynicism of Deadmau5 and his pre-mixed spectacle

via The Kort

Who’s comin to Croatia this summer?????

Next level future funk/bass music from S.F. producer B.Bravo. Pitchfork.tv dishes up a nicely produced video feature on the live band. The groove they hit around 3:15 is so excellent – kinda like if Bootsy Collins was in Sepalcure.

B.Bravo has been one of my favorite discoveries this year. His Kiss’n’Tell EP was a standout this year, and the inaugural release for the very exciting Earnest Endeavors label. 2010’s releases on Frite Nite, Computer Love and Analog Starship EP are both juicy listens all the way through, and his Swing My Way remix (free d/l!) was one of my favorite guilty pleasures.

Heavy heavy badness from Goth Trad. Video for big tune off his upcoming New Epoch LP, out Jan 30th on Deep Medi.

Feature interview with the man over at RA yesterday – really in depth stuff re: his process, inspiration, etc – peep it here.

Goth-Trad – Air Breaker (Deep Medi Musik 2012) from Deep Medi Musik on Vimeo.

Outlook Festival just announced some info about next year’s fest in Fort Punta Christo, including a very limited round of early bird tickets available here tonight at 6PM (presumably GMT?). More importantly, they announced that next year they will be holding a “sister festival” the following weekend (September 6th through the 9th) at the same gorgeous location, that will be:

 … a slightly more intimate affair featuring music from other areas of the musical spectrum that we love. We will be releasing more information shortly but you can trust us that we are putting together an amazing line-up with the same level of pedigree that you have come to expect from Outlook

Watch the video above, which will give you a taste of the footage going into the Outlook film dropping in 2012, as well as info about the UK launch party and formally introduces Dimensions to the world, with nice typography and all that.

Speaking as an Outlook festival goer last year (I had the time of my life, thanks guys!), I fully support this approach – not only keeping the main festival the same size and focusing on improving the experience, but also introducing a smaller version for those of us who don’t want to spend our time in paradise waiting in queues.