Julien Rivoire, an amazing art director and graphic designer from France, has recently updated his online portfolio with new work and a brand new flash interface. Love the simplicity in his website and totally in love with his clean, fresh style.

Bastardgraphics.com

Hi everyone, I want you to meet SHOOK. Yes people a new extremely talented sunglass-wearing tune juggler has rised in the world of the electronic music. I know … several blogs has had a much better shot on describing him. But one thing is sure, this is not the last time you heard of SHOOK. His sound is almost as magical as the sunglasses in his story. Experience it yourself! When he says he’s been influenced by Danger, Justice, Kavinsky … It’s … more then that. It’s SHOOK! It’s new, it’s fresh and you gonna like it!

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Shook – 1986

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Shook – The Glow

The depthCORE.com Collective today releases their thirty-fourth themed exhibition, entitled ‘IDIO’. This micro pack focuses on the self, as each artist creates a maximum of two responses to the introspective theme. This release sees some very experimental styles come to the forefront, and is certainly an aesthetic shift from previous exhibitions, featuring exclusive work created by both new and long serving members as they share with you their thoughts and impressions from within.

depthCORE – IDIO

Basserk records is looking for new talent!
If you are a producer or a band making wicked electro(related) tracks and you are
not signed up with a label yet then here’s your chance. For one of our new releases
‘Some tunes 2’ we are looking for some fresh talents to complete this compilation cd.
On the cd there will be tracks from our regular artists, a few new Basserk artists and
maybe you. So if you have got some great tracks ready to be released then let us know.

The deadline is the 1st of september. Contact tom@basserk.com about the details.

Good luck!

As I promised. More interviews will come. And here you are, the first one has already arrived! I had the chance to interview Jeroen who forms together with his friend Simon, the Dead Disco Drivers. They’re 19 and 18 years of age and both live in Kortrijk, Belgium. Enjoy the interview and don’t forget to check out two of their tracks.

Interview:

1. So guys! To start off with an original question Tell me. How did you get in the electronic music scene? And how did you get into it together?

Well that second question is quite easy. We are neighbours, we went to the same school, we’re friends and during these years we developed the same taste for music. Simon grew up in a very musical family. Together we took our first steps in the music world. I did piano lessons for 4 years, Simon did 11 or 12, I’m not sure. Anyway you can say we have a musical background. right?

While I quited doing piano, Simon kept improving his skills with keyboards, pianos and such. And I started experimenting with DJing about 2 years ago. Now one year back we both really fell in love with electro/techno and … what you think? Dead Disco Drivers was born. Then with support from friends it didn’t take long before we made our first track.

2. So … you have already done some small gigs I suppose?

Yeah! Small… like 200 people or something. We’re not so big yet.

3. You will! So I think I can ask this. What do you guys personally love about playing for a crowd?

Hands going up and down! OOOORGASME!

4. For sure! And you guys get an orgasme from whom?

Dude! Carmen Electra!!!

5. Understandable! But I mean who’re you guys’ big idols?

Wow, that’s a big list. But of course … Daft Punk! Their synths, their way to build up a song … they’re just so unique live … their creativity … I mean there’re not many who can bring up their live performance to that level … if there are.

But we’ve got like 1000s of idols. Vitalic, Boys Noize, Justice, Surkin, Crookers, Bloody Beetroots, Brodinski, shameboy, The Subs, Soulwax and  of course Goose (They’re also from Kortrijk)!

6. This might be a hard question for new djs/producers like you guys. But who would be for Dead Disco Drivers the ‘perfect match’ to produce a track with?

Yeah, that’s pretty hard to tell. If I really need to choose I would say … MSTRKRFT. Simon says … haha … okay Simon thinks Shameboy would be a perfect match. We’d WANT to be a perfect match with so many artists.

7. One night with a willing Carmen Electra or playing with along side Daft Punk?

Playing with Daft Punk in the famous piramid in Paris while Carmen is giving a blowj*b!!!

ORGASMMMEE!!!

Beatiful end!

Thanks for the interview guys! I wish you the best of luck for your further music career! Hope to see you on a gig soon!

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Dead Disco Drivers – Disco Is Dead

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Dead Disco Drivers – Metric Dance

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Michael Jackson – Thriller (Dead Disco Drivers remake)

Dear bloggers, I’m so glad to present you the new PHASE02 skin. I hope you like it and if not you will definitely like some new tracks and interviews coming up! We’re back… not only with fresh new colors but we’re recharged, extra motivated to bring you new tracks and interviews with a great young talented artists.

Our goal is to help new upcoming talents to get their names outthere. The blog scene is so important for new starting electronic music producers/DJs these days. And we’re going to our best to help them as good as possible with this blog. So you bloggers are so important for us and of course even more important for the artists in the music or design scene.

Also we’re still very interested in the graphic design world since we’re designers ourselfs. So that’s still gonna be a our secondary subject to talk about.

There still gonna be some small updates with our categories and some style bugs. But we’re more then ready now!

Stay tuned guys! Great posts coming up!

BEENS is a group of 4 friends who dj and produce together since the beginning of ’08. I heard their track in a liveset and I think it was slamming, so here’s the share! They try to mix all of their influences with eachother, and I must say they do a great job! They also throw mad parties in their hometown! Check them out if you’re in the neighbourhood!

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Beens – Rebels

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Beens – Rotor