The most forward-thinking dance night in Boston is re-styling again. Make It New, the Thursday night dance party that is featured in the doc, has recently added new resident DJs: Volvox, Die Young and DJezus. This means you’ll get a minimum of three DJs each night. The three-plus-year-old night also has a new ally in Basstown, the local dance music promotion team. They’ve also invited me to take on residency (I named the night after reading an article in Harper’s Magazine about Ezra Pound, fwiw). Everything old is new. Again.

Two of the new residents combined to make a mix for the re-launch, Die Young and Volvox:

DJ Die Young + Volvox - “Make It New 2008″

1. Dapayk & Padberg - Black Beauty
2. Elektrochemie - No. 19
3. Dubfire - I Feel Speed (Audion Remix)
4. Namito,Eyerer - Quipa
5. Adam Beyer - China Girl
6. Oxia - 12 Years Later
7. Cirez D - Teaser (Oliver Huntemann Remix)
8. Mr. Noize - Diplomatic
9. Mark Broom - Ping Pong
10. Oliver Huntemann - Zum Goldenen Handschuh
11. Rainer Weichhold - Bamboo
12. Popof - My Toyz
13. Markus Lange - Perihelion (Julian Jeweil Remix)
14. Shackleton - Blood on My Hands (Villalobos Remix)
15. Julian Jewil - Air Conditionne
16. Annie - Heartbeat (The Field Remix)
17. Panda Bear - Bros

That lead track is so wonderful. Dapayk & Padberg are good friends of SiC featured family Freude-Am-Tanzen and the message is clear. “This could be / The last vinyl album / MP3s killed the / Black beauty“

In the meantime, dance music is now big enough to fill Madison Square Garden and the same Justice, Busy P and Fancy tour in Boston has already sold out (this when we were told, not three weeks ago by one of the city’s largest booking agents, that Justice would never sell out in Boston). This time, when we say things are changing, we actually mean it.

Red Foxxx is one artist we’ve highlighted before, and again his track is nearly ubiquitous in our world. The song combines elements of Michael Gray’s “Borderline” (on the usually trance-heavy Ultra) with Lil Wayne and Fat Joe’s “Make It Rain”. It’s definitely a revisit of Foxxx’s Thugrave idea:

Michael Gray / Lil Wayne / Fat Joe - “Make It Borderline”

It usually makes this happen:

Thugrave is typically built on some kind of epic dance track which is then edited to suit the emotion of some typically hot rap a capella. As in Baltimoroder’s classic “Ghost Musick” edit. Take something like this, for example:

Gregor Tresher - “Anti”

Which is forthcoming on the Great Stuff label out of Europe. It rises and falls like an overly-ambitious mountain climber. Gregor is a serious up-and-comer in the European scene.

Justice is making everyone sweat dance music, and with good reason. The music they make is intensely rock-oriented, designed to make crowds panic. For some aesthetes like me, it can be a bit too garish, which is why this edit is more my style:

Justice - “Phantom Pt. 2 (Soulwax Mix - Cut the Midrange Drop the Bombast Edit)”

Make (It) new.

The film itself is undergoing a MiN session in the edit process. Here’s what director Amy Grill has to say:

“The entire story structure is written. Once I saw some crucial elements that were missing and through some important notes and feedback (and got past how hard it was to watch certain footage and people), the thruline really came together.

I then holed up with my assistant editor, Jason Blanchard and we edited for hours on end. Our most recent investment was able to pay for his visit to San Francisco, our multiple delivered meals, and the RAM and hard-drive space needed for the edit.

Now we must somehow find money to buy a laptop exclusively for the final rough edit. We have some local SF help who has offered space for fine cutting, which will be necessary, but we need a laptop to finish. We are also hoping for a post-production grant to fund all of the important finishing processes (sound mix, color correction, DVD authoring, &c.)

But I’m confident it will be a great film. One that is funny, touching and, most importantly, tells the amazing stories of this new dance obsession.”

If you’d like to be involved in the film, let Amy know.

 

 DJ Die Young & Volvox - Make It New Promo Mix: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Red Foxxx - Make It Borderline: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Gregor Tresher - Anti: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Justice - Phantom Pt. 2 (Soulwax Remix CTMDTB Edit): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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