Got alerted yesterday that the White Girl Lust remix of Diamond Lights “What Have You” (Yes Yes Records) keeps appearing in some surprising (but welcomed) places. This time on Heavyfeet’s Winter Promo Mix. Check it on out!

Unfortunately there is no streaming link but here is the Mediafire link.

http://www.mediafire.com/?oml8o6d5etm1ba8

01 Rotty – I’m Deep [Fresh Minute]
02 Soul Purpose – Mind Fluid [Nervous]
03 Donovans – Krosscut (Chaos In The CBD Remix) [Citizen]
04 Playmode – Remember When [Exploited]
05 Leon – Cause I Love You [Cecille]
06 Dave Mayer feat. Roland Clark – Rhythm Section (Dub) [Strictly Rhythm]
07 HeavyFeet – Raise A Glass (Club Mix) [Stamp! Beats]
08 Danny T feat. Oh Snap! – Whine Ya Waistline (Bass Kleph Remix) [Onelove]
09 Dragmatic – Menos [Sneakerz]
10 Chromeo feat. Elly Jackson – Hot Mess (Djedjotronic Remix 1) [Back Yard]
11 Michael Meds – Jackin’ Drunk (Cotto Dub) [Inhouse]
12 Diamond Lights – What Have You (White Girl Lust Remix) [Yes Yes]
13 Diamond Lights – My Everything (HeavyFeet Remix) [Yes Yes]
14 Tong & Spoon – Muchness (KiNK Remix) [Size]
15 Carl Tricks – Back In Da Club [Sneakerz]
16 Tiga – You Gonna Want Me (Hey! Today Remix) [Turbo]
17 Tasc & Marcus Visionary – Drop [Spaceballers]
18 HeavyFeet feat. Bubbz – I Like It (Club Dub) [Stamp! Beats]
19 Tom Staar – It Excites Me [Moda]
20 Matteo DiMarr – Fuck This Club [Size]
21 Wolfgang Gartner – Spacejunk [Ultra]
22 Breakage feat. Jess Mills – Fighting Fire (Foamo Remix) [Digital Soundboy]
23 92 Eternal – The Feeling (HeavyFeet Remix) [Party Like Us]
24 Chase & Status feat. Liam Bailey – Blind Faith (MJ Cole Remix) [RAM]
25 Peo De Pitte – Burning Up [U&A]
26 HeavyFeet feat. Mad Rush – Vs Up (Rack N’ Ruin Remix) [Stamp! Beats]
27 Rack N’ Ruin – Mindscape [Sub Slayers]
28 Emalkay – Crusader [Dub Police]
29 D1 feat. Jenna G – Flood Of Emotions [Dub Police]

I am certain we have spoke on Quinten 909 at some point on here. Dude is a very talented young producer and from the track selection of this mix, he has some fine taste in other people’s music as well.

This is also the first preview of the forthcoming White Girl Lust tune from Pleasure & Pressure Vol.3 – check the 16:20 mark for the exxxclusive.

Without a doubt Treasure Fingers is one of the most visible figures in the broad definition of disco house. It’s pretty clear that the mega-dance label Defected is making a strong move to cash in on the scene, with recent tracks from Tensnake and Treasure Fingers, as well as some of the affiliate SBR posse (shhhh – details are secret). This is a good thing no matter how you throw the dice for small labels like us.

A sign of this has been the inclusion of Bit Funk’s remix of Ghosts of Venice’s recent single “Her” on Solid Bump. Below is the radio show from a few weeks ago. The SBR blog has been a bit heavy on mixes lately, however this is a much different vibe of a mix than the epic Robert James mix from yesterday. It’s good to keep a diverse dance music palette y’all.

One of White Girl Lust’s favorite releases of summer was Robert James’ moody yet enticingly funky Sleep Modes EP on Jamie Jones’ Hot Creations label. The imprint’s short but distinct discography is concise and focused in an amazing way.

RJ’s latest mix is a great example of the label’s sound. Reserved boom-bap house beats that lean heavy on samples, yet in a almost dismissive manner. The backbone of most tracks is the bassline and reverbed subtleties which evoke a eighties vibe, while clearly sounding new and cutting edge.

Highly recommended on all counts.

Dimitri has been doing the disco thing (regardless of trends) since the early 90′s. To be completely frank he had kind of fallen off my radar until Niles Rodgers (yes, THAT Niles Rodgers) announced on twitter the pending release of the Chic box set. He mentioned that Dimiti had done a couple edits of the band’s tunes and linked to the Parisian’s soundcloud. Here I found a goldmine of top notch edits and a few mixes.

You could spend all day on his page, so let’s start with a general mix.

This week fate pushed together Solid Bump and the amazing blog, Chemical Jump in many ways. First Adulture of Paper Cat fame did a exclusive guest mix. Then White Girl Lust hopped on the bandwagon and did an interview and exclusive mix.

Read the full White Girl Lust interview here

Check out Adulture’s exclusive Guest Mix here

White Girl Lust Mix Tracklisting:

1. Jam Hot (Tensnake Rmx) – Johnny Dynell (Smash Hit Music)
2. Gotta Help – El Mundo & Satori & Kid Culture (Gruuv Recs)
3. Mesopotamia (B-52′s Bootleg) – White Girl Lust (Solid Bump Bootleg)
4. Disco Love Affair (Ridney Rmx) – Ghosts of Venice (White Label)
5. Can’t Wait – Mark Broom (Saved Records)
6. In My Arms – Mykill & Meroz (Solid Bump Records Exclusive)
7. Your Love (Kenny Dope Dub) – Johnick (Power Music)
8. Her (Bit Funk Rmx) – Ghosts of Venice (Solid Bump Records)
9. Chiuso Per Ferie – Pezzner (Freerange)

I was honored to get a last minute offer to have us (White Girl Lust) open up for Todd Edwards this Friday at Temple in San Francisco. For those unfamiliar, Todd has been a huge influence on our label and dance music since the early 90s. His sound is instantly recognizable, a collage of snippet samples that as a single sound make no sense, but as a collective they make for an intense but melodic soundscape. Todd is probably best known for his collaboration with Daft Punk on their single “Face to Face”. The French robots had cited Todd in their “Teachers” role call on their preceding album.  Todd’s style also played a heavy influence on the UK Garage sound, with his heavily swung beats and emphasis on basslines.

Most recently Todd has joined the ranks as a Scion A/V artist, which has allowed his profile to grow in the last year. All scholastic review aside – this is going to be awesome and we could not be more thrilled with being able to open for him. Big props to Eric Sharp at Rockit Science for consistently bringing amazing headliners.

Entry is FREE with a RSVP before 12am. $10 after. RSVP here for the hook up.

We don’t assume that everyone should know everything about the heroes of house music. A lot of the people that started noticing the label over the last two years were not even born when this thing was starting to boil. Thus, while some of our older supporters might scoff at this sort of post – forget ‘em. It’s about the seeds here. Dance music has no chance at surviving as we love it without education. That being said…

Ron Hardy was one of the most pivotal DJ’s in the progression of house, matched only by a select few such as Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, and such. Now homeboy died in ’91 – well before anyone from Solid Bump could have possibly have been witness to what happened. But the cliff notes I have learned through years of folklore are that he was:

a) an early DJ from Chicago who had been a semi-established DJ in the pre-Knuckles era who picked up some substantial chops from Frankie after his arrival in Chi from NYC. Frankie came to front his monumental residency at the Warehouse. Notice that Knuckles was closely related to Larry Levan – thus Ron was inadvertently learning from a true source of the cutting edge and putting his own swing on their style.

b) Ron left to LA for a few years before his big break. Ron was asked to re-open the Warehouse as the Music Box after Frankie went to open the Powerhouse.

d) Ron was known for both playing much more sporadic uptempo sets than Knuckles as well as being VERY open to playing new music that made by young local producers (i.e. the burgeoning Chicago house scene). Rumor has it he would play new tapes the same night they were delivered to him from kids alongside the disco staples his crowd would expect.He is known for “breaking” a slew of house classics including “Acid Trax”.

e) he was a master at the “disco edit” when it was much harder to accomplish. He would splice tape – or by some accounts simply use tape decks to do “pause” edits. Fuck your Ableton – dude laid it down by any means necessary. His style of edit was 100% unique and can be recognized (or emulated) quickly by ear.

Ron was truly a hero in the legacy in the music we love. This post was inspired purely by a great site called Gridface who posted an interview with a kin of Ron as well as a true PLETHORA of mixes recorded live at the Music Box. I cannot stress how important of listening this is to anyone who claims to love house in ANY form. Without this man, the music would not be the same. Who knows what might have happened… but it didn’t and we have his legacy which is undeniable. Do yourself a favor and listen to a few of these mixes.

Download a slew of Ron Hardy mixes with tracklistings here. (courtesy of Gridface).

Keep in mind this was a few years after disco was “dead” – doesn’t sound dead to me…

Look. See that man up top? He is Mix Chopin. And I don’t think I would let him babysit. However, I’ll happily let him make DJ mixes. Below is part two in his FilterMania series. Solid Bump is aptly represented with tracks from Adulture, OCD Automatic, Ghosts of Venice, and us, White Girl Lust.

Tracklisting after the jump!

Patrick Alavi – Power
MCDE – Raw Cuts #2
Daft Punk – Rock’n Roll
Cryda Luv – Beauty Joy And Dream
Ghosts Of Venice & Adulture – You Got Me
Kartell – Desire Focus
Dan Castro – Turn The Beat Around
Eumig and Chinon – This Fang
Mix Chopin – Bliss
Adulture & OCD Automatic – Paper Cat (The Phantom’s Revenge Remix)
Mix Chopin – All the time
LCBK – Start
Solo – Rawmania (Rubix Remix)
Moonchild – Girl
Dexter – Junofest
White Girl Lust – OUI (1AM Mix)
Ocelot – Vincent’s Theme
Adulture & Charlie Church – Blue Love
Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars (Shazam Dub Mix)
Sébastien Léger – Saturation

Lordamerci – last week Solid Bump’s Mykill, who you may recall from Pleasure & Pressure Vol.2, dropped a duo of stellar mixes on us. If that ain’t enough to raise your pants tent then this should get a rise out of you. Mykill and Meroz have been hitting the ole DAW together and apparently have some hot sh#t brewing. You can get the first taste of the team efforts on their remix of Ghosts of Venice’s “Her”.

Below is a link to the Mixcloud of Mykill’s stellar mix that he posted. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to embed this thing. If any of you strapping young lads out there know what I am doing wrong – lemme know.