"My Legs (MAJR club edit)" - Dragonette

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Saturday 15Sep12

Pre-Order their fantastic new album, 'Bodyparts,' HERE.

Enjoy.  Sorta.

All credit to me and my shitty iPhone 4 camera

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Song of the Summer #8: "Live in this City (Heren v. MAJR edit)" - Dragonette

Dragonette, how I love thee.  I cannot wait to see you in a few weeks, and then to hear your new album the following week.  It's going to be an indie pop eargasm all autumn.  Woot.  This is also basically my theme song for my graduate tenure in Tucson.

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In any case, a remix was released that was pretty great, but needed to be beefed up a bit, while cutting the fat, and that's what I did here... so, instead of boring you with some nonsensical shit... here's a good weekenditty:

Below is the original version of this track.  It isn't too different, just less mixable.  It really is making me, as previously stated, anticipate the new LP.  So excited.  Thanks to Heren for making a hell of a remix, by the way.

Song of the Summer #3: "Rocket Ship" - Dragonette

I really enjoy the direction Dragonette is going with this new record.  The tracks and teasers I've heard seem like a nice balance between their first and second records, Galore and Fixin' to Thrill.  

This track, release not too long ago, was divulged as what one would assume is a "we're so sorry our album was pushed back to September, here's a free song."  So, check it out, and enjoy your holiday.  

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weekenditty(s): NEW Van She & Dragonette

Dear radio pop heifers,

Add some quality indie pop to your weekend:

BRAND NEW VAN SHE

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BRAND NEW DRAGONETTE*

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Not only has Van She produced perhaps the best remix of Dragonette ever, but they are now dropping a song in the same week as them that is equally as awesome. There's no real relation there, but I thought it was interesting... shut up!

*Thanks to my joyous Jeffrey for getting this one for me... you filthy little fairy pirate. :)

fresh: NEW Dragonette / NEW Madonna remix

I'm sure you will hear these at least once on Friday. You've no idea how much I love Dragonette, and this remix edit of Madonna makes my entire body smile.

So much love.

That is all.

Thank you.

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"Take It Like A Man (Alex Suarez remix)" - Dragonette

Ever have one of those moments where you find something that slipped through your fingers years before? Well, other than people I should have dated instead of those I did, I actually find a lot of music (especially remixes) that I should have acquired, but never knew existed. So, this is one of those times... of MUSIC, I mean.

You all know I love Dragonette. Martina Sorbara, lead singer and guitarist, is a fucking goddess. Why she is not a massive star, I don't have any clue. That is all. Enjoy!

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Take It Like A Man (Alex Suarez remix) - Dragonette

hard as it looks

I know I've probably posted this before... But, I don't really care. It's exactly how I feel today. Here's to hoping it all gets a little easier.

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Dragonette - Easy (Buffetlibre Mix)

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essential tuesday: "Big In Japan" (NEW Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette!)

Every single time Martin Solveig uses Dragonette, magic happens! This song is the latest in a string of tracks where the king of French dance-pop, Martin Solveig, has used the highly underrated talents of Dragonette/Martina Sorbara. God I heart this track... and give it a day and you will NOT be able to get get it out of your head. Also, if you haven't heard the rest of what I believe is the best dance record since Robyn's Body Talk, I'll be posting it this week! Welcome to MARTIN SOLVEIG WEEK!

Below is a preview wave to hear and the download is the full track! :)

Big In Japan - Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette & Idoling

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Animale (DJ MAJR club edit) - Don Diablo/Dragonette

Today I get a little indulgent for Remix Monday. I spent about a day and a half editing Animale, by Don Diablo (featuring Dragonette), and finally (after much manipulating) surfaced with a tolerable product. This is a highly edited and cut-and-pasted molding/folding/manhandling of the original leaked version of the track and its club mix, all the handiwork of the incredible electro-loving Don Diablo. ::kneels in homage::

I hope you dig this as much as I do. It was hard work and my ears are still ringing. I can't remember a bass line more emphatic than this one. It makes my heart smile and my ears squeal. Oh, and don't we love how popular Dragonette is without anyone really (STILL) knowing who they are?! God bless pop culture and its asinine trends. Soon, though, soon! They are too talented to not potentialize it.

Go on and show'em your fangs!

Animale (DJ MAJR Club edit) - Don Diablo ft. Dragonette

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3rd Annual Dirty Dozen (2010) - SONGS

Previous top 5's:

2009:

05. "Waves" - Metric

04. "Memoir of a Lightning Bolt" - Beat Radio

03. "Bright Lights" - Placebo

02. "Come Back Clean" - Crystal Method ft. Emily Haines

01. "Freak Out" - Stellastarr*

2008:

05. "Kids" - MGMT

04. "L.E.S. Artistes" - Santogold

03. "Dying Is Fine" - Ra Ra Riot

02. "Ion Square" - Bloc Party

01. "Keep Your Eyes Ahead" - The Helio Sequence

At last the time has come! It's Thursday! Tomorrow's the big holiday. Saturday's the big party. It all comes down to this... and it was really the hardest list I've ever made. I second-guessed myself so much... but feel I have come to a defining list of the BEST OF 2010. Just in case you think a song should be on here but isn't, stay tuned to tomorrow, as I'll list all the honorable mentions of best songs (a shitload of these), albums, and remixes.

The National and Shout Out Louds nearly outdid their best selves with two of my favorite introspective rock songs of the year, Paper Moon and Bloodbuzz Ohio. Definitely worth a listen for those that love such a genre. Invisible Light was so good that it put the rest of the Scissor Sisters' Night Work to shame. It was also their best song live, since they really screwed up the re-working of Filthy/Gorgeous. Kelis sounded her resurgence and her grasp of future pop with a track that entranced me for months, 22nd Century. Duck Sauce made the nonsensical amazing and made me dance like none other this year with (my favorite dance track of 2010) Barbra Streisand. Groove Armada made a track that sounded like it was teleported from the '80s in all the right ways. The Walkmen made one of the more interesting angst-ridden tracks I've ever heard, with the surf-pop-meets-angst-rock Angela Surf City. God I love that song (you may hate it... haha)! Crookers and Martin Solveig took advantage of amazing leading ladies of indie pop, Roisin Murphy and Martina Sorbara, and made two of the best songs of the year. Marina & The Diamonds showed us how it was okay to pick up all the pins. And, Goldfrapp produced her best song in years; one that (when seeing it live) was one of the highlights of my year.

...and then there was Robyn. The Swedish starlet produced not ONE but TWO of the best songs of the year. The first leak I heard was Fembot. Fembot immediately took for me, with its well written sass-infused lyrics, intensely catchy beat, and the perfect ability to not take itself seriously, while also never selling the intelligence of its audience short. I would have been happy with that. But... then came another leak. This one was the killer. A song that, when released on June 1st, crossed an amazing amount of boundaries in music. The hipsters loved it. The club kids danced to it. The gays idolized it. Sorority girls connected over it. Kept wives sang it into their homemade dry martinis (with a splash of tears). Everyone knew it, even if they didn't know Robyn. It was written perfectly. It was Dancing On My Own. And it stood on its own.

It is explosive but vulnerable, angry but innately melancholy, and it is very much an appreciation of the bittersweet aspects of the world in which many of us dwell. I loved it, to say the least. At a time when pop music looked doomed to auto-tune and fake-boob us into artistic submission, Robyn came back and saved the day for a while... Let's appreciate that.

"People get drunk and turn into themselves in a way, and they go to experience some kind of emotion. But it's not always about fun. There's a destructive side to it. But I'm more into the empowerment of going out, because it's always been the place where I could be myself and get inspired. Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out." - Robyn

12 (tie). "Angela Surf City" - The Walkmen

12. "Paper Moon" - Shout Out Louds

11. "Invisible Light" - Scissor Sisters

10. "22nd Century" - Kelis

09. "Barbra Streisand" - Duck Sauce

08. "Rocket" - Goldfrapp

07. "Bloodbuzz Ohio" - The National

06. "I Am Not A Robot" - Marina & The Diamonds

05. "I Won't Kneel" - Groove Armada ft. SaintSaviour

04. "Fembot" - Robyn

03. "Royal T" - Crookers ft. Roisin Murphy

02. "Hello" - Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette

01. "Dancing On My Own" - Robyn

NEW Don Diablo ft. Dragonette video! - Animale

fire in your new shoes (MAJR mashmix)

So, I'm a poor DJ. I don't have the money for the bigtime equipment or studio time to make the shit I dream about making, but I do what I can. Necessity is, indeed, the mother of invention... yada yada, etc etc.

I was a big club dancer before I was ever a DJ, and often a remix or a single is not danceable enough for my liking in said situations. So, I fix these things sometimes. Whether it's mashing two remixes together and manipulating the tracks, or it's completely replacing the backing of one track and replacing it with another... I basically just want a song to be danceable enough for me to love, as well as make the crowds, for whom I play, dance.

Here's the latest track, one of the biggest dance tracks of the summer (everywhere but DC, it seems) from Kaskade ft. Dragonette on which I've been working. It's a mash of a very trance-centric remix by Sultan & Ned Shepard (a remix that Kaskade, himself, has been using to play it live) and a very electro-dance remix by Ming. These two tracks were so good and had perfect moments in each of them... but I couldn't decide which to play live... so I molded them together to my pleasure, and manipulated all the levels to my liking- Enjoy!

Fire In Your New Shoes (MAJR mashmix) - Kaskade vs. Ming vs. Sultan & Ned Shepard

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Karen O and Martina Sorbara resurface

Two of the leading ladies of indie pop recently lent their vocals to two decent tracks. Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O and Dragonette's Martina Sorbara have enhanced the following tracks in a fashion I find inviting. Check them out!

Communion - Maximum Balloon ft. Karen O

Animale - Don Diablo ft. Dragonette

3 tracks: dragonette gets around

Dragonette has really been 'getting around' in the last year. Not only have they released a full-length album (Fixin To Thrill) in October of 2009, but they also released an EP in July called Our Summer Volcano. In the interim, they have collaborated with Martin Solveig twice (well, mostly that was just Martina Sorbera, lead vocalist) on two stellar tracks: Boys & Girls and Hello (which was released in France on Sept 6).

Boys & Girls - Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette

They also joined forces with Kaskade to produce one of the hottest euro-club hits of the summer (which is weird considering Kaskade is American and Dragonette is Canadian) in Fire In Your New Shoes.

Fire In Your New Shoes - Kaskade ft. Dragonette

Now, I know I have put Hello on here before, but that was a cut from the video promotion of the song...THIS is the actual album cut (the first release off Solveig's new album!). Hooray!

Hello - Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette (album cut)

NEW Dragonette - My Things

Dragonette has apparently decided that they would like to spearhead the return to bitchy energetic indie pop. Le Tigre owned a condo in it years ago with their stellar EP This Island. Gwen Stefani, in Love. Angel Music. Baby., took it to a different level of fluff, but still did it well. Christina Aguilera continues to suck more than an automatic flush, but her bitchpop attempts are slightly above (the very sad) par that is Katy Perry's auto-tuned hymen. And, lastly, Garbage wrote the bible on bitchie energetic indie pop with Version 2.0, before the term indie was even in vernacular. Here's Dragonette's latest leak, My Things.

My Things - Dragonette by djmajrdc

3 NEW tracks! - dragonette, cut copy, kele

Here are three new tracks to get you ready for the weekend. First we have Dragonette doing their best impression of Le Tigre. Next, we have Cut Copy returning from disco hell and dwelling in indie pop-dom. And, lastly we have Kele, my favorite black gay vocalist of Bloc Party, proving to us that RAC really can go toe-to-toe with any remixologists out there. I'm really excited for all these tracks. Download away...
Our Summer - Dragonette
Where I'm Going - Cut Copy
Everything You Wanted (RAC remix) - Kele

Sorry it's been a while since I updated... I took a little vacay to refresh my love for new music and drink my feelings... and boy do I have some good sh*t for you guys! Stay tuned. -Mikey/DJ MAJR

essentials: martin solveig w/ dragonette

In 2009, French DJ/Producer Martin Solveig teamed up with Dragonette to produce one of the best tracks of the year, "Boys & Girls," and in 2010 they are at it again with a new song called "Hello." The latter has been dominating my playlist over the last couple weeks, and now it's time to do so to yours.

Boys & Girls - Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette

Hello - Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette

three track thursdays 05.06.10 - pick up the phone(s)

I noticed recently that the title Pick Up the Phone is quite popular. So, for this week's three track thursday, I decided to give you the same song three times... except by different artists... and completely different actual tracks. Even greater than the coincidence of a common name, the tunes are all of great quality. [Feel free to download these tracks below.]

The most famous of these artists is probably Dragonette. Their version of Pick Up the Phone has been blazing through indie/electro playlists for a few months now. It is easily one of the most pop-sensitive tracks out there, and is growing exponentially in popularity since the video (see below) debuted. A song about losing the ones we love through time, this track has a nostalgic, bittersweet tone that becomes infectious.

Next, we have the best electro/post-punk band you'll never know: Moving Units. After two stellar albums, they STILL are unknown. An L.A.-based band for lovers of The Faint, The Killers, etc., they are currently recording their third album.

Lastly, we have a band that I still listen to often, The Notwist, whose 2002 LP, Neon Golden, is a solid downtempo, electronic, introspective masterpiece. Their take on Pick Up the Phone holds its own against the great standard set by the previous two (and they also predate them by 6 and 8 years). If you ever want to hear more great stuff from The Notwist, definitely look up the track Consequence, which is easily my favorite tune of theirs.

Pick Up the Phone - Dragonette

Pick Up the Phone - Moving Units

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Pick Up the Phone - The Notwist