Check out the new promo video for Party Round The World by Jason Dottley and Debby Holiday. This video features the Chris F.U.B.A.R radio edit of the track, which reminds me a lot of the Benny Benassi mix of Celebration by Madonna. It’s a fun little video that interchanges concert footage with cities around the world -- where presumably they’ve been partying! I sure would like to party with them!
Natalia Lesz aka Natalia is a Polish singer best known for her hit singles Fail & Power of Attraction. She is back with her new track Arabesque which we are unleashing on the Billboard panel this week (mixed by Todd Terry & The Perry Twins) We interviewed her and she clued us in on the meaning behind the song, working with Glen Ballard and her new album due for release later this year. Check it out!
Natalia also introduced the track for us so check out a preview by going here!
You may remember that before the holidays I posted a couple of videos of fun loving pair Jason Dottley and Debby Holiday (a video introduction of their track and their interview) Now I share with you the Barry Harris (Who you may remember as one half of Thunderpuss) remix of club anthem Party Round The World.
Robbie Williams‘s comeback single Bodies taken from the brilliant Reality Killed The Video Star album is chasing up the Billboard Dance Chart, currently at #19, powered by hot mixes by Cahill and Fred Falke. Now we have another rocking mix to add to the pot! Here is the Gui Boratto mix of Bodies that will be hitting DJ inboxes very soon. In the meantime listen below. Loving this mix!
BODIES (GUI BORATTO RADIO EDIT)
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
One of my personal favorite albums of 2009 is Music For Men by Gossip. The fantastic Heavy Cross, with killer remixes by Fred Falke, Tom Stephan, Jamie Fanatic and Siriusmo is currently top 10 on the Billboard Dance Chart and rising! Last week I got the opportunity to speak with front woman Beth Ditto – one of my favorite women in rock – about a plethora of topics including gay marriage, who she’d like to remix her work, what working with Rick Rubin was like and how she feels about being on a major label
BETH DITTO INTERVIEW
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Beth: Where are you now?
Camille: In New York. And you are home with your family?
Beth: Yes. In Arkansas, yes, I am.
Camille: Where you there for Christmas?
Beth: Um, no. No, no. I just popped in, I surprised them just, like, 2 days ago. I have a really huge family, so it’s always good.
Camille: I’m sure you don’t get to go home very often with your busy tour schedule and all that.
Beth: No, I don’t. So when I can, I just kind of do it for, like, a few days. I’m only here for like 4 days or something so it’s just kind of like pop in and see everyone and leave. It’s hectic. Right now, I think we’re going 80 or something down a country road. My sister’s driving; she’s late for her hair appointment.
Camille: Oh boy! So how is it when you go home? Does everybody recognize you and know that you’re in a band? Is it very different?
Beth: Sometimes, yeah. I feel like I’m actually just related to half the state, so I honestly feel like they already know who I am. It’s really funny. The last time I was in Little Rock, was a few months ago, we played a show here, and I was flying home to Portland. I was in the airport and, it’s just so country here sometimes, the security guy, the TSA man, I showed him my Oregon ID and he was really suspicious of it so he was like “Do you have any other forms of ID?” and I was like “Yeah, sure, I have my passport” and he looked at me like I was crazy and he was like “Yeah, I was thinking more like a Kroger card.” Like, a shopping discount grocery card. That’s what he asked for when I offered him my passport. He didn’t know what it was! Like, I’m positive. The airport security guy looked at it like “Uh, yeah, lady. Get out foreigner. All the way from Oregon.” It was really funny. That’s Arkansas!
Camille: You’ve been making music for quite a long time now, I know that you broke on your 3rd or 4th record, but how has your sound progressed from when you first started making music with Gossip to this point with the new album?
Beth: At this point it’s just kind of a surreal experience, just being able to ___ yourself as a little business, it’s such a crazy thing. I think growing up with kids, like we were in our sea it’s like you had your own little island of people and in this big way, you felt secluded then and now you feel even more secluded because there are these four people that you see all the time and you see them more then anyone else and they see you more than anyone else so it’s even more secluded and more like an island than it ever was. Being able to make a living is really insane and being in control of your own life is really awesome and surreal, but completely in control.
Camille: How do you think your sound has changed? Do you think moving to a new label and working with Rick Rubin had any influence on the sound of your record or did you try to hold your independence?
Beth: I think that one of the things that we liked about Rick and that he liked about us is that we felt like we could understand each other and give each other the room that we needed. I feel like the room, or the encouragement, or the honesty that we needed to give each other. I think he’s “woo woo” and we’re “woo woo” too, a little bit so I think that that was really helpful. Working with somebody like that, you know that you’ve come somewhere where you’re being respected and that boosts your confidence. Working with him is so incredible on its own just because he’s a really great producer, but then when you know that you’re being asked by this person, he wants to work with us, you know that you’ve done something right and it makes you feel really good and all of a sudden your door opens to things that you were always afraid to do. For instance, just to have someone like Rick Rubin produce your record. I think where we come from, it’s not necessarily the coolest thing to do. Not that he’s not cool! I think it encouraged us to take risks.
| 
| 
| 
|
