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Downtown Recording Studios featured in Mix Magazine's 2009 hottest studios

Downtown Music’s Recording Studios are featured in Mix Magazine’s Class of 2009: This Year’s Coolest New Studios. Read the full description of our top-notch studio facilities here!

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MSTRKRFT feat. John Legend live performance on David Letterman

MSTRKRFT delivered an explosive performance of "Heartbreaker" from their sophomore album Fist Of God on The Late Show With David Letterman, complete with 4 background singers, live keyboards, drums, and John Legend crooning away.

Watch this memorable performance here!

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MSTRKRFT
Major Lazer album out now + official iPhone app + more

Major Lazer‘s debut album Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do! is out now! Buy it in the format of your choice: Mp3 / CD (w/ signed booklet) / Vinyl (w/ download & signed booklet)

iDrum’s Major Lazer iPhone app:

Re-arrange rhythms, drums, effects and more from songs on the album. Or use the raw drums, effects and instrument sounds to make your own musical creations! Buy it HERE

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Miike Snow's debut album out now!

Grab a copy of Miike Snow’s self-titled debut album in the format of your choice: MP3 // CD // VINYL
You can also stream Miike Snow’s album HERE.

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William Fitzsimmons on tour this summer + "Live Sessions EP, Recorded at Downtown Studios" out now

Mercer Street Records‘ singer song-writer William Fitzsimmons is touring in support of the newly released Live Sessions EP, Recorded at Downtown Studios, as well as his full length The Sparrow and The Crow. The “Live Sessions” EP is now available exclusively through iTunes. Purchase it HERE. Click HERE for tour details.

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Major Lazer album for $3.99 on Amazon.com today only + FREE "Keep It Goin' Louder" Alvaro rmx

Grab yourself a digital copy of Major Lazer's Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do! on Amazon.com for only $3.99 today only. Don't miss this Major deal! Purchase it here!

While you debate on how many album copies to buy, download Alvaro's booty shakin' remix of Major Lazer's "Keep It Goin' Louder" here!

 

 


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William Fitzsimmons "You Still Hurt Me" (live) Spinner.com FREE MP3 of the Day Exclusive

AOL's Spinner.com is featuring William Fitzsimmons' "You Still Hurt Me" from his new Live From The Downtown Studios EP as a FREE download!
Get
it today here!

William is currently on tour promoting the new EP as well as the album The Sparrow And The Crow (Mercer Street).
Tour details and more here.


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MSTRKRFT feat. John Legend live performance on David Letterman

MSTRKRFT delivered an explosive performance of "Heartbreaker" from their sophomore album Fist Of God on The Late Show With David Letterman, complete with 4 background singers, live keyboards, drums, and John Legend crooning away.

Watch this memorable performance here.


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Major Lazer with Barack Obama

Major Lazer Other Music in-store performance + summer tour

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Download Miike Snow "Animal" (Fake Blood remix) FREE on RCRD LBL

Miike Snow's "Animal," a tune you are likely familiar with at this point, just got seriously flipped by British producer Fake Blood. No bumrushing bassquakes in this one, just some choppy drums and the humming part on loop for your dancing enjoyment.

Download it FREE on RCRD LBL here!

Catch Miike Snow on stage at a town near you as they support their self-titled debut album, out now!
Details here.


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Cosmo Baker, night of, live MJ tribute…

The homey Cosmo Baker sent over a recording of his MJ tribute set, recorded live from the hi-fi club in Calgary. DOWNLOAD
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TOADALLY KROSSED OUT ON WEST COAST THIS WEEKEND!!

TOADZ WEST COAST MADNESS! SATURDAY IN SAN FRAN AT TORMENTA TROPICAL! the toads are going on a wild ride this weekend on the west coast, doing super secret appearances, shows, mixes, interviews and MAYBE even inking their contract with mad decent! i’ve heard these guys don’t leave the hotel room without a zone of weed [...]
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OHHHHH HEYYYYYY

YO YO YO YO My name is Jack Adams AKA Mumdance from the UK  This morning Paul Devro kindly gave me the keys to the Mad Decent blog, In my mind, I pictured the scene where your parents go on holiday when you are a teenager, and are like “No house parties whatsoever”. Then when they come back a week [...]
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Sunday Fan Vid, Late Edition: Lambo & The Snow Bear

Lambo and The Snow Bear
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Pon De Floor Video – only a few sleeps away

Vinnie, Donnie & Sjakie – Pon Da Floor We just got word that the “Pon De Floor” video is almost in total completion, yaaa!!! So to hold you over until then here’s the acapella version from the same doods that did day n nite acapella version little while back.
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Flossing Lights

This is the last weekend at Brooklyn’s Studio B EVER, so come do it big with FG fam Flosstradamus, Nick Catchdubs and the rest of the Flashing Lights crew! 19+ for the young’uns, gonna be big. RSVP at flashinglightslightslights.com for reduced entry and grab all the previous FL promo mixes (#3, #2, #1) to whet [...]
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Nachos In LA + New Beatport Chart

Check Nacho Lovers in Los Angeles this Friday (alongside our homie Klever!) at Avalon for the latest edition of Control. For a taste of what to expect at the party, peep the selections on the Nacho’s latest Beatport chart, including their excellent remix of Alexander Robotnick’s “Obsession For The Disco Freaks” which you can cop [...]
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Wednesdays With Grateful Bear

GB’s been all over the place this past week - posted up at his release party, hitting the airways, and getting busy on the road with A-Trak and friends for the 10,000LB Hamburger Tour. Joshua Lekach even caught him cooling out in the freezer, as pictured above. Send in your own sightings and we’ll post [...]
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More A-Trak B-Live

Fader TV caught Trizzy on camera at the Charlotte date of the B-Live tour - standing on turntables, dropping the newly mastered Kid Sister single, talking about blogs and hotels and blogging from hotels.
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Greenmoney on Brooklyn Radio

UK production duo Greenmoney have been rocking Fool’s Gold HQ with some truly inventive remixes as of late, from their absolutely massive festival rework of Trevor Loveys and Sinden’s “Organ Grinder” to their hybrid, funky takes on Busy Signal’s “Tic Toc” and our own DJ Gant-Man’s “Juke Dat Girl.” We’ll be dropping Greenmoney’s debut original [...]
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Get Loaded in the Park – London, 30 August

★GET LOADED IN THE PARK BANK HOLIDAY SUNDAY 30TH AUGUST CLAPHAM COMMON LONDON http://www.getloadedinthepark.com ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ★ DIM MAK STAGE ANNOUNCED AT GET LOADED IN THE PARK!! Feat… * FELIX DA HOUSECAT * THE COUNT & SINDEN * CROOKERS * STEVE AOKI * THE BLOODY BEETROOTS * JUNIOR SANCHEZ Dim Mak will be hosting a Stage at this summer’s legendary Get Loaded in the Park festival in London [...]
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MOTOR

“DEATH RAVE” - SINGLE Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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1,152 little reasons the week almost killed me.

Hey Guys! As you may or may not know, Dim Mak Collection and Urban Outfitters had a love child!   Actually, they had two.  Fraternal Twins!  Welcome, In Your Face Tee and In Your Face Tank!  They are a-dorable and totally cuddle-able.  But like all newborns, these guys have kept me up nights ALL WEEK… and weekend, [...]
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HOMEPAGE AD TOP RIGHT

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Dave Matthews Band Supported By Femi Kuti This June

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Asa March Tour Dates

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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Cruel Black Dove - Love Song (Remix By Dean Rosenzweig From IAMX)

We've heard Cruel Black Dove's surrealist industrial rock in a variety of guises, thanks to the many remixes they've let us premiere over the past year or so. This new one of "Love Song" from Dean Rosenzweig of IAMX–Chris from the Sneaker Pimps' new band–is one of the best, flipping the original vocal into a central phrase and cutting it with boiling low end and BB gun snares. Basically, it's like downtempo Bangladesh. The band plays New York's Mercury Lounge next week, July 16th, alongside The Morning After Girls and Hopewell; before that they'll make an appearance on East Village Radio this Saturday, the 11th, at 4PM.

 

Cruel Black Dove - Love Song (Remix by Dean Rosenzweig from IAMX)

Previously:

Cruel Black Dove - Wasting (The Vandelles Remix)

Cruel Black Dove - Come On Over (The Clapp Remix)

Cruel Black Dove - Love Song (Gregory Shiff Mix)

Cruel Black Dove - Offer

Cruel Black Dove - Love Song

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DOWNLOAD: The Jaguar Club - Sleepwalking

When we first heard this song we were like, "Okay, cool, it opens with guitar feedback, always a good look." Then the bass line started–a chunky stumble down the fretboard–and we thought, "Guess these dudes aren't playing around." Finally the drums came in, the verse started, and we kind of coasted until 1:47, when the word "growing" gets belched so wildly we were finally sold. Brooklyn's The Jaguar Club won't be winning any band name awards, but their rusty, Smiths-gleaning garage rock (people have been calling them new wave, but that's frankly inaccurate) has been one of our better random finds. Their new album, recorded by Ken McMahon (The Walkmen, Frightened Rabbit), is due soon, and they play early tonight at the Annex in New York for Club NME. Long live the power trio.

Sounds like: The Walkmen, White Denim, Browns

 

The Jaguar Club - Sleepwalking

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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Modernaire - Faites Vos Jeux + WhoMadeWho Remix

Our beef with the current electro diaspora is that it's begun to lack good songs. Manchester's Modernaire–recent finalists in Diesel's U:Music Selection 2009fancy themselves a pop group more than anything else, which explains their deftness with a hook and our subsequent interest in their music. "Faites Vos Jeux," their new single, drops next week in the UK via Roxour Recordings, though you can grab the original and two Alavi refits today through our digital label. Also included is their flip of WhoMadeWho's "Keep Me In My Plane," all slo-mo and wobbly in its drunkfootedness.

Sounds like: La Roux, Metronomy, Empire Of The Sun

 
 
 
 

Modernaire - Faites Vos Jeux

Modernaire - Faites Vos Jeux (Alavi Radiox)

Modernaire - Faites Vos Jeux (Alavi Rerox)

WhoMadeWho - Keep Me In My Plane (Modernaire Remix)

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DOWNLOAD: The Spolkestra - Soil + Together

We introduced the gleeful mass that is The Spolkestra back in March, so go there to read the backstory on this punk-folk band/collective/commune. What you're really here for is the music. Below is another clip of songs from the project, the swelling orchestrations "Soil" and "Together". These two round out their free Open Arms EP, though you'll have to wait until later this year to hear Everything Is New, their debut album featuring appearances from Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), Owen Pallet (Final Fantasy), Bradford Cox and Jarvis Cocker. As if they need any more members.

Sounds like: The Decemberists, I'm From Barcelona, The Polyphonic Spree

 
 

The Spolkestra - Soil

The Spolkestra - Together

Previously:

The Spolkestra - Open Arms

The Spolkestra - We're Not The Only Ones

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DOWNLOAD: Magic Wands - Black Magic (Crystal Fighters Remix)

A few weeks ago we introduced you to Magic Wands, the met-via-Internet Nashville duo who strutted their way onto these pages with the glam-pop nugget "Black Magic." Today we're offering a remix of that tune from Spain's Kitsune-signed Crystal Fighters, who turned out a "Township Funk"-indebted bassline house version. A bit less sex and a lot more epilepsy-inducing synth. Take your pick.

Sounds like: DJ Mujava, Santigold, The Kills

 

Magic Wands - Black Magic (Crystal Fighters Remix)

Previously:

Magic Wands - Black Magic

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