GDD™ Morning Update: Seth Troxler, Eric Prydz, Solidisco, Autograf

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• Seth Troxler Announces DJ Kicks Compilation
• Eric Prydz Releases Pryda 10 VOL II EP
• Solidisco Releases Official Remix of DJ Cassidy’s “Future Is Mine” Feat. Chromeo
• Autograf Delivers Fresh Remix of GRiZ’s “For The Love” Ft. Talib Kweli

Seth Troxler Announces DJ Kicks Compilation

Over the past decade, Seth Troxler has become a visionary and authentic voice in dance music, his jovial personality cutting through the noise and continually playing by his own rules. Up next for him is the world’s most renowned compilation series: DJ Kicks.

DJ Kicks began in 1995 as the first fully licensed, commercially available DJ mix series, and has served as a consistent indicator of the climate of electronic music culture for the past twenty years. Past contributors to the series include electronic music luminaries Carl Craig, Hot Chip, Kruder & Dorfmeister, John Talabot, Four Tet, and many more.

“For my DJ Kicks mix I wanted to do something that was honest,” explains Troxler. “I went out in the morning, micro-dosed myself and did all these errands around town. Then I came home at night and did the mix in one take. I wanted to curate something for people to easily listen to, that was nice and funny and got you in the mood to do your homework, or drive that hour long trip when you need to go somewhere. I see this mix as a gay man named Rodney. Or a big black woman named Birtha.”

The DJ Kicks mix offers Seth a rare chance to indulge in the more eccentric side of his musical persona. Troxler’s mix is almost a musical map of his own journey to the present day, the first few tracks carefully navigating through his years in Berlin, his first taste of living in Europe and a place where he truly found freedom in his own expression, best tasted in the liberated sounds of Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer’s remix of Wolfgang Haffner’s “Melodia Del Viento”. The quest is also firmly rooted to his adolescence and earliest experiences with dance music culture, through cuts from Chicago pioneers Byron Stingily and Derrick Carter on Nervous and Classic labels, respectively.

“People don’t realise I have such eclectic taste,’ Seth reflects on the mix. ‘I think people get caught up in the image of the jokes that I make and they forget that actually listening to me play, or the music that I collect is actually pretty far out there.”

His current landscape is brought into focus through music on his own labels, Tuskegeeand Soft Touch and a DJ Kicks exclusive track from Troxler together with Dutch DJ and fellow legendary producer, Tom Trago, made earlier this year.

“The exclusive track was after the closing of Trouw in Amsterdam, a place that we both loved dearly. Club Trouw used to be the printing press for Amsterdam’s main daily newspaper and De Natte Cel (translated into English ‘The Wet Cell’) was the shower room where the employees would wash the ink off their bodies that they specially opened for the last month that the club was open. Tom and I both played in De Natte Cel during the closing party and were so inspired by the space we left Trouw after around 48 hours, partied all night at the hotel and then went straight into the studio.”

True to Troxler’s character, the mix has a whimsical nature and a thoughtful and timeless narrative, bearing a tenacious episode for the DJ Kicks series that gives a true insight into the man behind the well-preened moustache and cowboy antics. “It might seem obvious but to be a successful DJ, you have to be really into music. Collecting music is my life. This is a proper DJ mix – a house mix. It’s good music that works to listen to at any time.”

Seth Troxler’s DJ Kicks is scheduled for release October 16 via K7! Records.

Tracklist:
01. Niki Nakazawa – Should It Be
02. Herbert – Suddenly (Phil Parnell’s Pianissimo Play Through)
03. DJ Koze – Bodenweich
04. Cobblestone Jazz – Northern Lights
05. Wolfgang Haffner – Melodia Del Viento (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remix)
06. T&T Music Factory – De Natte Cel
07. Hauke Freer – XK
08. Butch – Soul Player
09. Session Victim – Stick Together
10. Club Artist United – Sweet Chariot (Kerri Chandler Dramatic Dub)
11. Jasper St Company – Reach
12. K Alexi – Sex-N-R-001
13. Mood II Swing ft. John Ciafone – Ohh
14. Derrick Carter – Dreaming Again
15. Byron Stingily – Why Can’t You Be Real (Danny’s 12″ Version)
16. Vanessa McMillan – Stay With Me
17. Dean Street Crew feat Sweet Pussy Pauline – The Credit Card (Original Tribe Mix)
18. Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Research Arkestra – Enlightenment

(via XLR8R)

Eric Prydz Releases Pryda 10 VOL II EP

Eric Prydz today released VOL II EP of his Pryda 10 trilogy, celebrating ten years of his Pryda Recordings label and his Pryda artist alias. The EP features six tracks, and clocks in at just under 60 minutes of classic Pryda material.

Prydz is renowned for his use of ‘IDs’, tracks that he’ll play out and use in mixes without ever naming them or releasing them for years. It’s one of the reasons that his sets stand apart from other DJs, he is literally playing material no-one else has. It also means that many of the tracks on this Pryda Ten EP trilogy have had fans and DJs clamoring for their release for years.

VOL II is really a collection of quintessential Pryda material, dark, melodic tracks that embody the true sense of progressive house, a genre that Pryda has really come to define. Anthems like ‘Clapham’, ‘Rush’, ‘T.I.D’ (known as the much wanted ‘Pete Tong ID’) and the now beloved Prydz opener ‘Welcome To My House’ are formative Pryda releases.

Over the last decade Pryda has grown to become one of the world’s leading dance imprints and aliases. A hub for some of Eric Prydz’ most memorable club material – tracks like ‘Aftermath’, ‘Armed’, ‘Power Drive’ and ‘Melo’ have all come through Pryda, which despite a tightly curated release schedule, is acknowledged by Beatport as one of its highest-grossing labels of recent times.

A platform for Prydz to explore the continued relationship between his trademark melodies and the demands of the dance floor within a wider, house-focused context, Pryda’s output has played a definitive role in establishing Prydz as the internationally acclaimed artist he is today.

Solidisco Releases Official Remix of DJ Cassidy’s “Future Is Mine” Feat. Chromeo

Autograf Delivers Fresh Remix of GRiZ’s “For The Love” Ft. Talib Kweli

Chicago based trio and certified remix gurus, Autograf, have once again successfully “left their mark,” this time choosing GRiZ’s huge release ‘For The Love’ to work their magic on. Still very much riding on the wave of success that followed the release of their massive remix of Avicii’s ‘Waiting For Love’, the boys from the Windy City are back, re-establishing themselves as both versatile and cross-genre capable producers. This time opting for a Future Funk sound, Autograf have dialled up the energy, turning Griz’s relaxed hip-hop jam into a dance-floor ready anthem. With jazz synth hooks, bass infused stabs, and lush piano chords, Autograf have created a new multi-faceted sound while still staying true to the original through the inclusion of Griz’s vocals and Talib Kweli’s rap. Have a listen above and don’t forget to grab the free download.

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