DJ Chart: The Blessings

Feature by The Blessings | 02 Jun 2010

Busta Rhymes feat Swizz Beatz - Stop The Party (Columbia)

We play everything in our sets and get lost in BRAND NEW genres of dance music for months at a time. And then good 'ol Busta teams up with Swizzy to make a stop/start banger that reminds us why we still love hip-hop... It's the swagger.

Machine Drum - Carry The Weight (Bok Bok Remix) (LuckyMe)

The head of Night Slugs, Bok Bok, steps up to remix the fifth LuckyMe record, this time by NYC's Machine Drum. The original bangs too, but this is listed because young Alex Sushon is the king of arrangement. It builds and builds as a light euphoric track before dropping away into a deep black abyss of dubstep influenced house.

Wiley - Electric Boogaloo (Hudson Mohawke Remix) (Universal)

Other people love Hud Mo, but we LOVE Hud Mo. He just defies all expectation. I dare you to pin him down to a genre. He'll disappear for a week and come back with something like this. "Oh you need me 'round 130 bpm for a main room, UKF influenced high profile remix? No problem. I can do that, in my own way."

Lil Wayne - I'm Single (CDR / White)

People pour hate onto Wayne. We still don't understand it. It's easy to write this off as dumb but this is a perfectly formed pop song right here. Different vocal deliveries, a tight (funny) concept and a beat which to us, draws as much from early 90's ambient electronica as hip-hop. Rap is different now. And it's better.

Caribou - Leave House (Merge)

This is a token pick 'cos straight up, we could of picked any song off this beautiful record. No, this isn't club music, but only because it refuses production in favour of fuzz and washes of subtle, pure melody. A great piece of modern music.

Ciara - Speechless feat The Dream (RCA)

Major key R&B / Pop music so shiny, epic and well engineered we're tempted to give up sweat-box clubs in favour of shiny George Street venues full of equestrian girls. Actually, no, this music is made for LuckyMe fans, not bourgeois white girls. (We'd love it if that was true).

Cubic Zirconia- Black and Blue (Bim Marx remix) (Don't Cry)

Another LuckyMe signing. Deep-rendered, vintage-sounding house music that makes you want to grab new walkman batteries and hail a New York yellow cab to Chi town.

Mweslee - Eurocarne (Nod Navigators)

Our Spanish friend creates an electric bagpipe masterpiece that smacks the discerning dancefloor by drawing from all that is good and exciting in modern dance music. This guy is honorary family who has never disappointed us with any release.