The Real Mack The Knife is the creative project of a rather mysterious and prolific American-based electronic music producer. Anchored around glistening synth arpeggios and tweeter and woofer rattling beats, “Côte d’Azur” is a lush and sensual bit of club friendly house meant to evoke sultry summer nights in the luxurious French Riviera.
Category: house music
Throwback: Happy 54th Birthday, Keith Flint!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 54th anniversary of Keith Flint’s birth.
New Audio: JOVM Mainstays Bubba Brothers Share Chicago Meets Ibiza-like “Nirvana”
If you’ve been frequenting this site over the past couple of years, I’ve spilled quite a bit of virtual ink covering Portuguese DJ and production outfit and JOVM mainstays Bubba Brothers — Eliseu Correia and Justino Santos — and the during that period, the duo have been remarkably prolific, regular releasing banger after banger after banger after banger after banger . . .
The duo’s latest single “Nirvana” continues a remarkable run of slickly produced euphoric, club bangers that draw equally from Ibiza and Chicago house while simultaneously displaying their uncanny knack for crafting melodic house with catchy hooks.
New Audio: Paris’ Dabinski Shares Ebullient and Summery “Meyeh”
Sacha Dabinski is a Paris-based DJ and producer, best known as Dabinski. Inspired by Armand Van Helden, Roger Sanchez, Pablo Fierro, Sparrow & Barbossa and more, the Parisian DJ and producer’s work transports listeners to sun-drenched locales that feature bright, soulful vocals, rhythmic percussion and a blend of organic and electronic instruments to create a rich, immersive experience. His work is meant to evoke the sensation of being on a vacation, of experiencing a delightful respite from the mundanity of the everyday, filled with sunshine and joy.
The Parisian DJ and producer’s latest single “Meyeh” is an ebullient, Afro-Caribbean take on house music that features a looping guitar line, shuffling riddims, a strutting bass line, a bright horn line and a soulful call-and-response-like vocal paired with an incredibly catchy hook. With the nights getting cooler, it’s a reminder of sultry summer afternoons and nights at block parties, rooftop parties, barbecues and parades.
New Audio: Jeremy Weizman and Kachel Team Up on Euphoric and Crowd Pleasing “Loud Enough”
Emerging, French electronic music producer and DJ Jeremy Weizman started his career as a rapper, known as Weizmann. The French producer and DJ’s transition into techno has been seamless. His sound features elements of minimalist., industrial and dub techno, as well as tech house.
He’s also an entrepreneur and the CEO of several music platforms that operate across the US and France — Studiomap.fr., a marketplace for recording studios and Sound-Academy.co, a leading training organization for sound engineers, DJs and beat markers, Vibes-Studio.fr., a franchise of self-service music studios and Studiomap Records.
Weizman’s latest single “Loud Enough” featuring Kachel is a fun, house anthem anchored around punchy thump, skittering beats, twinkling synth oscillation and a chopped up, soulful vocal sample. Sonically nodding at Larry Levan house and Between Two Selves-era Octo Octa, “Loud Enough” is a lush, crowd-pleasing banger that reveals a producer, who can craft a euphoric hook.
New Audio: Ravdawg Returns with Euphoric Banger “The Way You Get”
Ravdawg is a mysterious and emerging Chicago based electronic music producer, DJ and JOVM mainstay, who generally specializes in tech house and bass. Over the past few months, the Chicago-based producer and DJ has released a handful of tracks, that include:
- The Larry Levan-like “U Know U Know,” which I wrote about earlier this month.
- “Your Body,” a deep house banger, built around glistening synths oscillations, a fluttering flute, skittering hi-hats, tweeter and woofer rattling beats paired with a pitched-up, soulful vocal sample that manages to remind me a bit of Octo Octa and others.
- “Believe in Me,” a euphoric and club friendly bit of house music built around skittering hi hats, glistening synth arpeggios, tweeter and woofer rattling thump, and a pitched and chopped up vocal sample.
Ravdawg’s latest single “The Way You Get” is a euphoric club banger anchored around dusty skittering beats, twinkling synth arpeggios, a glistening guitar solo and a pitchy yet soulful vocal sample paired with the JOVM mainstay’s uncanny knack for a catchy, euphoric hook.
New Audio: Bad Robot Shares Max Blücher Remix of “Aero III”
Micheal Ricker is a Delaware-based electronic music producer and artist best known as Bad Robot. And if you’ve been frequenting this site over the past couple of months, you might remember that I’ve written about two of Ricker’s latest Bad Robot singles”
- The aptly named “Supermassive,” which features skittering, tweeter and woofer rattling thump, scorching bass synths and a woozy and wobbling synth melody. Fittingly, it’s the sort of club and festival banger that sounds as though it should knock a building over.
- “Close To You,” which according to Ricker, is “a bit of a departure into a brighter, more ‘pop’ sounding progressive house style.” Built around an almost mantra-like glistening synth phrase, shimmering synth arpeggios and skittering beats, the motorik-like “Close To You” is both summery and remarkably catchy, while seemingly nodding at Discovery-era Daft Punk-like French touch.
Last year, Ricker released his full-length debut, Year One, which featured “Aero III,” a gritty banger anchored around a woozy polymetric melody and skittering, tweeter and woofer rattling thump. Recently, Max Blücher remixed “Aero III” that retains the original’s woozy polymetric melody but pairs it with more aggressive, skittering tweeter and woofer rattling thump with some brief bursts of industrial clang and clatter, and some eerie ethereal synths. The result is take that gives the song a spacey, house music quality.
“Inspired by the gritty sound design and frantic polymetric melodies of my original track ‘Aero III,’ Max has taken the musical DNA and infused it with his own. While the original is great, Max definitely improved the quality of the track with his production skills and imagination,” Ricker explains. “This house remix is an ethereal journey through space and time with elements of Deadmau5 that are felt even in the cover artwork.”
New Audio: LENny (IT) Shares Lush “Night Lights”
Lenny Lorenzi is a Romagna, Italy-born, New York-based electronic music producer and DJ, best known as LENny (IT). Lorenzi’s career started in earnest when he was a teenager with his first DJ sets and first original productions.
By the time, he was 17, Lorenzi was on the decks at Titilla, a room at the Riccione-based club Cocoricò. And in a short period of time, the Italian-born, New York-based producer and DJ played some of the most important, internationally renowned clubs including Ibiza‘s Sankeys, Barcelona‘s Macarena, Brooklyn’s Output and Miami‘s Clevelander, as well as the most important clubs of the Romagna Riviera.
Adding to a growing profile in the electronic music scene, back in 2011, Lorenzi started the Wave Music Boat, a traveling party that cuts across the Adriatic with stops in Catalonia and the Balearics that featured guests like Sam Divine, Michael Cleis, Argy, Supernova and a lengthy list of others. Wave Music Boat is a major backer of the Molo Street Parade, an event that pairs seafaring traditions with contemporary electronic music. Lorenzi also serves as the artistic director of the event.
Currently based in New York, the Italian-born DJ continues to push the sonic and stylistic boundaries of electronic music. His latest single “Night Lights
s” is a lush track featuring glistening and arpeggiated synths, skittering beats, bursts of African percussion, and twinkling keys that manages to be club and lounge friendly while possessing a cinematic quality.
New Audio: Bad Robot Shares French Touch-like “Close To You”
Micheal Ricker is a Delaware-based electronic music producer and artist best known as Bad Robot. Earlier this year, he released “Supermassive,” which was built around skittering, tweeter and woofer rattling thump, scorching bass synths and a woozy and wobbling synth melody. And fittingly, it’s the sort of club and festival banger that sounds as though it should knock a building over.
According to Ricker, his latest single “Close To You” is “a bit of a departure into a brighter, more ‘pop’ sounding progressive house style.” Built around an almost mantra-like glistening synth phrase, shimmering synth arpeggios and skittering beats, the motorik-like “Close To You” is both summery and remarkably catchy, while seemingly nodding at Discovery-era Daft Punk-like French touch.
New Audio: GR1FN Returns with Flirty Club Banger “Nervous”
GR1FN is an emerging and mysterious American-born electronic music producer, who has had a rather busy 2024. Earlier this year, he released “Underneath the Sun,” a Larry Levan-meets-French touch-like banger featuring dense layers of twinkling keys, skittering tweeter and woofer rattling beats and oscillating synths pared with euphoria-inducing hooks and a chopped up, soulful, mantra-like vocal sample. It’s the sort of summery anthem that you’d fully expect to hear rocking clubs from New York to Miami and from Ibiza to London and everywhere else in between.
.The emerging producer’s latest single “Nervous” is a flirty and summery house music track featuring glistening synth arpeggios, skittering, tweeter and woofer railing beats, a sultry and yearning vocal sample paired with some remarkably catchy hooks. It shouldn’t be surprising that this one has been receiving love in local clubs, because it’s an infectiously fun banger.
Live Concert Photography: Elsewhere Music Festival: Day 1: 6/21/24 feat. Killer Mike, A Place to Bury Strangers, Snow Tha Product, TOKiMONSTA, D. Smoke and Zuzu’s Petals
Live concert photography from Elsewhere Festival’s first day feat, Killer Mike, Snow Tha Product, A Place to Bury Strangers, TOKiMonsta, D. Smoke and Zuzu’s Petals.
New Audio: Christian Löffler Teams Up with Mogli on Flirty and Summery “Y”
Christian Löffler is an acclaimed German musician, producer and DJ, whose work is widely celebrated across electronic music circles for a distinct sound that seamlessly blends elements of ambient music, techno and house.
2021’s Parallels featured reinterpretations of classical arrangements by Beethoven, Chopin and several other composers paired with his crowd-pleasing electronic music production approach. The following year saw the German producer pushing the boundaries of his sound further through live shows that captivated audiences across the globe.
Released earlier this year, Löffler’s third album A Life sees the German-born musician, producer and DJ continuing to push his sound and approach in new directions while exploring new emotional depths. Album single “Y,” a collaboration with Mogli is a lush and flirty, crowd-pleasing banger anchored around Mogli’s yearning delivery paired with woozy and glistening synth arpeggios, thumping, tweeter and woofer ratting low end, skittering beats and a rousingly anthemic, euphoric set of hooks and choruses.
New Audio: Solid Spark Shares Summery “Higher”
Solid Spark is a rising electronic music producer and DJ, who has caught the attention of the global electronic scene with a sound that seamlessly blends contemporary pop sound with golden age EDM nostalgia. For the rising electronic music producer and DJ, the result is material that’s dance floor friendly but packs a deep emotional and energetic resonance.
Earlier this year, I wrote about “Dream,” a slick, club friendly banger featuring glistening synths, a sultry and yearning vocal sample, skittering beats and euphoria-inducing hook and drops. The production revealed a producer with an uncannily sophisticated sense of soulful craftsmanship.
Building upon a growing profile, the rising producer’s latest single “Higher” is a club friendly bop featuring glistening synths, a chopped and screwed vocal sample-driven, incredibly catchy hook, a yearning female vocal sample for the verses, skittering tweeter and woofer rattling thump. While continuing to cement his reputation for crafted and soulful electronic music, “Higher” may arguably be the most summery and catchiest song of the producer’s growing catalog to date.
New Audio: Delaware’s Bad Robot Shares Enormous Banger “Supermassive”
Micheal Ricker is a Delaware-based electronic music producer and artist best known as Bad Robot. His latest single is “Supermassive” is fittingly built around skittering, tweeter and woofer rattling thump, scorching bass synths, and a woozy and wobbling synth melody. It’s a festival and club banger that sounds as though it should knock a building over.
New Audio: Bubba Brothers Share 90s House-Inspired “I’m Your DJ”
Over the past handful of years of this site’s 14 year history, I’ve spilled quite a bit of virtual ink covering Portuguese DJ and production outfit and JOVM mainstays Bubba Brothers — Eliseu Correia and Justino Santos […]