DJ Mehdi unreleased tune for your listening pleasure…

Online Link: The Mehdi Valut: The Crookers & Cudi

Rising star Burns and his new track – need we say more? This one is big…

Online Link: Can You Hear My Heart Burning?

CyberSutra is a live electronic music project that DJ/Producer and percussionist Scott Binder (SF) created with his good friend and talented producer Nathan Heal (Seattle). Weaving together elements of Electro House, Melodic Trance and live improvisation, with their recent radio hit “Summer Sutra” feat. Tiff Lacey, being featured on Pete Tong’s fast trax and having House Legend DJ Dan sign “Lick it” to his label, CyberSutra has quickly become a household name.

FHM: The New Miami Times describes CyberSutra as ‘an electronica outfit with the sensibilities of non-electronic musicians.’ Can you tell us a little bit more about that? What is your artistic vision?
CS: Both of us spent our early musical careers performing in live bands, so when we started CyberSutra it was very important to us to keep that live performance element in our shows. It’s more than just throwing in some loops and producing a dance track, or standing behind the turntables and spinning a prefabricated playlist. It’s about engaging the crowd, connecting with the fans in a more personal and energetic way. We like to bring the energy to people, and the more fun we’re having, the more fun the fans seem to have.

FHM: What motivated you to enter the dance music production realm? What do you hope to contribute to the music genre’s fanbase and industry as a whole?

CS: In 1998, we bought Paul Oakenfold’s ‘Tranceport’ album and have been hooked ever since! Around that time, we were both studying music production in college. That marked the beginning of our vision to share our music around the world. We are trying to give people something different and something they haven’t heard before, but most importantly, we want to make them dance.

FHM: Your debut single was picked up by DJ Dan’s ‘InStereo Recordings’ last year. How exactly was the group discovered? Do you have any advice for aspiring producers on landing on quality label deal? Read more

Lots of action from one of the world’s most influential house labels…

Online Link: Defected Newsletter #15: The Father Of Chill Out

As if you needed it, here’s proof that Ed Banger’s main-man, Busy P, can do it all. He’s managed Daft Punk to their highest of highs, cultivated the already iconic French scene with the likes of Justice, SebastiAn and Breakbot on his Ed Banger label, released some of his own killer records, signed up as a DJ and host for this year’s Parklife festival, and now Pedro Winter has added another feather to his hat. He designs jewelry. Um, what?

Online Link: Busy P: DJ, Label Boss, Jewelry Designer?

The new song just released on Green Label Sound. With oohs provided by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, a drum fill homage to New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle,” and a video that will be a remake of that group’s 1983 classic “Confusion”, this comes just in time for what we hear is called “summer in New York City.”

Online Link: Holy Ghost! – I Will Come Back

This brand new Sidechains remix takes a once pretty tired, has-been track and gives it the full 10-years younger treatment.

Online Link: Blue Pearl – Naked In The Rain (Sidechains Biglife Remix)

They say ‘Young Love’ is one of the finer things to enjoy during the summer months, and that is something that our next mixtape aurator should know all about. At just 18, this guy has redefined a French house scene that has been quietly simmering on the outskirts of music lovers’ conciousness for the best part of a decade. Taking delightfully unspoilt 70′s Soul samples and turning them into modern tracks sounds simple enough – but turning them into bonafide modern classics that would stand alongside the very same producers that inspired you is something else! With a mixtape that couldn’t be more designed for summer if it was made out of ice cream;.. Read more