Songs from the promised land

I really like Findlay Brown's cover of Joe Smooth's 1987 house classic "Promised Land", since it in my view is a homage to the soul music that influenced the Chicago house music in general, and Smooth's song in particular. The original is very dear to me, and I would say that there are few places in time that has influenced me as much as Chicago around the mid and late 80s, with perhaps the exception of Detroit around the same time. Of course i didn't really know it then, being a kid in a suburb outside Stockholm, Sweden at the time.

Anyway, there isn't a greater feeling than popping a copy of "Promised Land" in the cassette deck of your red Italian sportscar, cruising with the top down and chatting with some chick on your car phone...



So when Villa makes a remix of the cover it's sort of like making a sequel to a prequel. Like a meta-song if you will. How do you avoid ending up making the same track as the original, never mind making a track that's good enough to be measured with one of the most legendary tracks of all time? Well, I don't know. You have to ask Villa who, like Findlay Brown, manages to make a track good enough to stand on its own feet while at the same track paying enough respect to the original.

Findlay Brown - Promised Land

Findlay Brown - Promised Land (Villa Remix)

Joe Smooth - Promised Land (Original Mix)

Virgin Ears premiere

We're proud to announce our new club concept Virgin Ears – The Intimate Disco Club together with Dogs from Redding and Blek (Samlingen).

The premiere night is this Friday and we got a feeling it's going to be sweaty. The club will take place in the intimate basement of Blå Skåpet. It's going to be personal and intense downstairs with a little help from our lasers in the dark and of course the great pumping music. Here is a teaser for the premiere night with a remix of Kraftwerk.:



As mentioned Tracasseur are launching this new club together with our fine friends Dogs from Redding and Blek. They are responsible for the great disco club Glasnost in Uppsala, where we been flipping records several times with foreign celebrities such as Serge Santiago, diskJokke, Disco Bloodbath and Ben Rymer. Next time In Flagranti will be the main act. A lot of fine Swedes have also been visiting Glasnost for amazing live- and dj-sets, except ourselves great acts such as Jackpot, DW, Neon Workout and Hampus Drake.

To give you a hunch what kind of music we're going to play at Virgin Ears, we've collected some tracks from us all. Enjoy! And for those who lives in Stockholm, don't miss out on this sweaty, personal and intimate night of disco...

Tracasseur tracks:

Kraftwerk - Heimcomputer (Facteur vs Dubmood Remix)

Lo-fi-fnk - Marchin In (Silver Columns Remix)

Rory Phillips - Solar Breakfast

The C90s - 10:01 (Villa Remix)

Vitalic - My Friend Dario (Extended)

Worship - Cosmic Roller Girls

Dogs from Redding tracks:

Jackpot vs Jamie Principle - Ragazza Wants to Ride (Dogs from Redding Oldschool Edit)

KLF - Doctorin' the Tardis

Tensnake - Need Your Lovin (Dub Mix)

Blek tracks:

Alden Tyrell - Hills of Honolulu

Luke Vibert - I Love Acid

Reverso 68 - Tokyo Disko (Part Two)

Finally! The debut album from The Golden Filter has arrived

Ok, it's not released yet, the official release of "Voluspa" on Brille Records is set to April 26, but the album has unfortunately leaked. It's a shame that almost all albums nowadays leaks before the release date, but maybe that's the hard life of internet in the 21st century.

But The Golden Filter are aware of this and have made a nice counter attack, where they say that a wise seeress could have seen the leak coming from miles away. As the counter attack they instead make "Voluspa" available to pre-order as a CD or Vinyl LP and in the same time you get the digital Mp3 versions right away along with two bonus tracks not included on the album. 20 random albums will also contain a personalized Polaroid photo, and ownership of a unique star in the sky...

That's Golden Filter generosity! That's why I love them and have longed for their debut album for a whole year, and now it's finally here. So support them and love them by pre-order the great album.

As an album I can say that "Voluspa" sounds like The Golden Filter we're used to hear, and that's of course a good thing. As I have written in several posts before, you can hear when it's The Golden Filter. The beautiful whispering voice from Penelope along with their nice disco beats, it's close to perfection. You will not be disappointed with "Voluspa", it stands up for all the expectations.

Here is the tracklist for "Voluspa" along with one new great track from the album. We want you to pre-order the album instead of downloading it.

"Voluspa" Tracklist:
1. Dance Around the Fire
2. Hide Me
3. Look Me in the Eye
4. Moonlight Fantasy
5. Solid Gold
6. The Underdogs
7. Stardust
8. Frejya's Ghost
9. Kiss Her Goodbye
10. Nerida's Gone
11. Thunderbird

We also give you a couple of remixes of tracks from the album that haven't been posted on Tracasseur before as a teaser.

The Golden Filter - Hide Me (Clock Opera Remix)

The Golden Filter - Thunderbird (Villa Remix)

The Golden Filter - Thunderbird (With Beauty Before Me, I Walk Mix)

Music Go Music

The trio Music Go Music based in L.A. got some attention last year in the blogosphere but not as much as they deserved. Doing that kind of music that makes you happy and sad at the same time. Inspired, and also sounding, as the 70s disco music by ABBA, Blondie, ELO and equals. It's kind of cheesy and there are hand claps, that kind of 70s disco that probably your parents danced to when they were young (if you are born in the late 70s as I am).

They released their debut album last year named "Expressions". It got quite good reviews and put Music Go Music in another light. They also got the attention from some great remixers such as Fred Falke and diskJokke. They are signed to the fine label Secretly Canadian with great acts such as Yeasayer, JJ, Here We Go Magic, and Frida Hyvönen.

But another funny thing also draw the attention to them, and that was the making of their music videos that seems to be live performances in the TV show "Face Time", dressed in 70s clothes and with not that fancy sceneries. But they are all fake, and they have a done couple, check out their YouTube channel for more travelling in time.





Music Go Music - I Walk Alone

Music Go Music - Warm in the Shadows

Music Go Music - Warm in the Shadows (Fred Falke Remix)

Music Go Music - Warm in the Shadows (Villa Remix)

Music Go Music - Light of Love

Music Go Music - Light of Love (diskJokke Remix)

Music Go Music - Light of Love (Rob Da Bank Remix)

Music Go Music - Light of Love (Tom Middleton Club Remix)

Sir Lancelot's "So stuck in the 80's" vol. 1

First of all we'd like to thank all nice guys and girls coming to our premiere night of "Tracasseur 309" last week. Kudos to you all! Secondly and last, I'd like to share with you some of my favourite songs from the 80's, or simply songs inspired by the 80's... Actually one song is from '79 (hope you don't mind). I've chosen more or less obscure and rare songs that you hopefully don't already have. Enjoy!

Laid Back - Bakerman

Villa - Agneta (Villa edit)

Billy Ocean - European Queen (Rayko Remix)

Chris & Cosey - October (Love song) '86 version

When In Rome - The Promise

Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It

Bicep - Gold

Midnight Star - Mida's Touch (CFCF remix)

Margueritas - Margherita (Hot edit)

Västkustska Ryggdunkarsällskapet - Town Out Of Order