Coachella 2012 - Porter Robinson

For sure you were expecting an amazing gif of Porter Robinson, or just a pic of him playing at Coachella, or maybe just buying at a gas station like the rest of mortal humans. But this is our first post about the best festival on earth since October 1999, and we are to do this right, starting with a epic photo of the the treadmill between the palm trees at sunset. 
For the beginning let's comment a anecdote about the biggesst rapper on history during Coachella. This is an electronic music blog (the coolest) but this fact deserves a few lines after all (just a few and if you don't really care about it just continue reading after the 'penis').

Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg seized upon the technology to resurrect the legendary rapper Tupac Shakur through a hologram during the closing of the 13th edition of the Coachella Festival.

Thanks to a holographic projection, a technology used by singer Mariah Carey last year to achieve a simultaneous concert in five different places in Europe, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg on Sunday revived a few minutes Shakur was murdered in Las Vegas for 16 years , to play "Hail Mary" and "Two Of American's Most Wanted" with the musician.

The appearance of Shakur, considered the most important rapper in history, caused such a stir among the audience and viewers who enjoyed the show on YouTube, which a few minutes and circulated in the social network Twitter account @ HologramTupac.

PENIS! And returning to more details, to make you jealous for not being in the superextrasweetest place for your senses, by the hand of Mr. Porter: mixing Flux Pavillion, Zedd, Deadmau5, Knife Party, Plump DJs, Kaskade and a lot of Porter Robinson, here you have his LIVE:


And to end some interesting fun facts about previous Coachella Festivals...
-Phish Inspired the 2010 Coachella: 
The Hot Dog went to Phish’s Halloween spectacle at the very same Empire Polo Grounds that the Coachella Music Fest is held. And when he started to read details about the approaching Coachella Festival he was quick to point out how many of the rule changes were taken from policies implemented at the Phish Festival. So you can thank Phish for the following:
No single day tickets. Allowing people to leave the fest and return. Shuttles to nearby accommodations.

-The Cure Gets the Plug Pulled, 2009:
The Cure closed out Sunday Night and the festival as a whole. However, the city of Indio is a bunch of haters and has a midnight curfew for loud, memory making, music. After playing for 33 minutes past the deadline Goldenvoice pulled the plug. Right in the middle of “Grinding Halt” (probably would have gotten away with another spin of “Just Like Heaven”).
This proves two things. First, the local late night eateries aren’t bribing the Indio cops enough for their record-breaking post-Coachella earnings. Second, Goldenvoice hates the song “Grinding Halt”.
The day before Sir Paul McCartney went almost an hour over before willfully submitting to old age and calling it a night.

 -Roger Waters Loses Two-Story Pig, 2008:
During the “almost Pink Floyd” set of 2009, Roger Waters had a giant inflatable pig float above the crowd with the usual rock-star-save-the-world graffiti tagged to its sides. Through some technical malfunctions and the pig staging his own protest at being used for propaganda, the pig got loose and was up, up, and away!
Two days later the pig landed in a neighborhood a couple miles from the Polo Fields and was called in by some local residents. The residents were then rewarded with ten grand (chill out, they donated it) and lifetime passes to the festival!

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Martin Solveig presents SMASH episode #4

 Martin Solveig is back with a new episode of SMASH. This time for the track that gives name to his incoming EP, 'The Night Out'. An epic and hilarious chapter from one of the best Djs and producers on earth. A room with A-Track, Porter Robinson, Zedd, Dillon Francis and an invisible Madeon. I bet that more of one will kill for five minutes in that room!

You can order Martin's E.P. "The Night Out" on iTunes 



And for those who really are interested about music, here you have a little of history about this mastermind...
...perhaps it is our well-documented mutual antipathy, or maybe it is our well-documented ignorance, but Britain’s perception of French music is plain wrong. On the surface, it is indeed the land that listens to Europap and still loves to jive badly to La Bamba ’ but scratch beneath the surface and you’ll find a wealth of talent gasping for air. It has a long and noble tradition of fine singers, musicians and producers, from y y to Guy Cuevas, from Jacques Dutronc to the Saintly Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier; from Ze Records to Africanism! and from Cerrone to, yes, Martin Solveig.Martin Solveig has been involved in music since he was knee-high. As a boy, he studied classical music.
 By age 13 he had acquired his pair of decks and began DJing, although it wasn’t until 1992 that he discovered electronic music. His schooling came courtesy of a sales job at the vaunted Parisian record store Champs Disques on Champs Elyses. Martin’s big break, at the tender age of 18 and thanks to the encouragement and support of mentor Claude Monnet, came when he landed the residency at prestigious Parisian nightspot Le Palace. A move to Les Bains Douches, a legendary club in the city, and then Solveig’s own Pure parties at Queen cemented his growing reputation as one to watch. But simply being a DJ has never been enough for Martin Solveig and his production ideas soon began to filter out on to vinyl, as he always knew they would. If Heart Of Africa, on his own Mixture label, drew admiring glances, it was his contribution to the Africanism series (with Bob Sinclar and DJ Gregory), the stunning Edony, which turned heads. Originally intended purely as a club track, Edony shot to the top of club charts and from there launched itself into mainstream arenas. Martin’s debut album, Sur La Terre, was the work of a young man bursting with ideas, styles, and experiments. Over the next few years Solveig hit hard with one killer cut after another, abetted by some frankly brilliant mixes by the likes of Pete Heller and Mousse T. Rocking Music, with its echoes of Prince and Michael Jackson, was an instant anthem wherever it was played and transferred from underground floors to Radio 1 playlists with consummate ease. The follow-up, I’m A Good Man, voiced by legendary growler Lee Fields, was a plaintive cry from a wronged man and in Mousse T’s Breakbeat Mix brought a taste of Noo Orleans funk to modern electronic dancefloors. ‘The new album probably has a slight flavour of the ’60s and ’70s, which have always embodied a certain freedom for me, being a child of the 80s, the economic crisis, the condom generation?!

Then I’m into wine, parties and low necklines, so I feel quite in tune with the title.’ So says Martin of his latest album, Hedonism, which amply showed the maturation of his productions, moving effortlessly from the familiar terrain of four-to-the-floor rhythms, to take in the sub-R&B of Black Voices or the audacious modern reading of Requiem Pour Un Con. ‘Serge Gainsbourg is a master and I wanted to pay humble tribute,’ says Martin. ‘The song provides a little break in the album’s progress, as well as a French touch that I’m attached to. I think the best songs are made to last and be covered. New versions always have something new to add, even if they never achieve the magic of the original.
‘This cover version, defiantly electronic, compared to the sparse and organic original, ably demonstrates the Solveig modus operandi, producing music that is simultaneously synthetic and natural, warm and glacial. ’I use both electronics and live musicians, sometimes with classical instruments like keyboards, horns and any piano instruments,’ explains Solveig. ‘Most of my drums are programmed, but what I really love is using classical instruments with an electronic device. For example I used a big B3 Hammond organ, recorded a whole session with a musician and then took bits from it and made it sound almost like an electronic sample. You still have the good quality of the instrument, but with the ability to make it a bit faster or more repetitive or whatever. That’s what I like ’ to get inside an organic sound and make it electronic.’ Martin Solveig is not prolific, but everything he makes is worth waiting for. He has always eschewed the remix treadmill, not because he disapproves of it, but it is simply not his path. Solveig’s destiny lies elsewhere.
His life is good. Fulfilled. ‘Even if I sometimes grumble a bit from tiredness, I’m a child blessed by fortune and very happy in his everyday life,’ chuckles Martin. ‘I should quote Karl Lagerfeld: ’Holidays are for people who work’.’ And all work and no play would make Martin a very dull boy indeed.

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Porter Robinson, Lazy Rich Feat. Sue Cho - Hello (Dirtyloud Remix)

We hadn't had notice of the bazilian duo for weeks, but now they are back remixing to nothing more and nothing less than Porter Robinson. The original one was released about one year ago with a massive success, and after listen the preview of Dirtyloud we can say that is going to be at least as huge as the original mix. But we will have to wait till Monday to the release.
Enjoy the nu-electro style!

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