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Suggestive, tropical, satininduced swagger from NYC outfit Cubic Zirconia.

Hook Goes to Cali by tastenyc

Tracklist after the jump.

Cubic Zirconia- Night or Day – (CZ Club Mix)
Falty DL – Make It Difficult
Savage Skulls – Jacques Greene Dub
Monarchy – I Won’t Let Go (Sam Tiba & MYD remix)
Chllngr – Ask For (Cubic Zirconia remix)
JWow – Fog Jeans (Canblaster remix)
Richelle – Mascotte (Pelican Fly)
Lunice – I See You
Jon Wayne- Bowser I (Sigma Head)
Yak Ballz- Hypetronic (Don’t Cry Records)
Cubic Zirconia – Lucid In The Sky

Two reasons to lust after the new Round Table Knights remix EP:

1) Limited 300 copy 12″ vinyl pressing looking so crispy.
2) Erm, the music on afformentioned beautiful EP.

For example, L-Vis 1990 & The Neon Dreams ascend “Paparussi” to a previously unattainable level of vibes, and adding Javeon McCarthy’s fantastic vocals to the track is a brilliant decision that makes it sound immediately more organic and intimate.

Calling them the new Fleetwood Mac of the dance music world may be misinterpreted as an insult, but it’s anything but: the professionalism of recording quality (presumably Cubic Zirconia’s Nick Hook at work) and the pacing of the track never falters as it grows to a shimmeringly bright climax, and the final product feels polished and exciting in a way that few other releases lately have been able to achieve.

Comparatively, Mercury and Homework have a lot to live up to with their renditions of “Say What?!” – but both bring something special to the plate. Mercury adds on some soft diva humming under their escalating and falling house stabs, and Homework forgoes the vocals altogether, twisting the track into something unrecognizably different, but catchily enough that it doesn’t even matter.

Out on Made To Play later this month.

MTP039 Round Table Knights – Remixes (VINYL) by Made to Play

Egyptrixx’s debut album, the “Bible Eyes” LP is out now, and as a reminder to pick up this grizzled portrait of celestial electronic club music, we’re posting a few of the tracks we’ve been listening to in building anticipation for this album. Murky and brooding one minute, it has the tendency to erupt into rising synths that sound like fireworks or other more sinister explosions in the sky. The tone shifts from introspective to boomingly confident, and it’s all fantastic.

Egyptrixx – Chrysalis Records (feat. Trust)

Egyptrixx – Chrysalis Records (feat. Trust) (video)

Cubic Zirconia – Josephine (Egyptrixx Dub)

Be sure to grab Bible Eyes digitally on Boomkat, or as a 2 x LP on Juno Records.

Also, you can read a brief interview with Egyptrixx after the jump where he talks a bit about the making of Bible Eyes.

Discobelle: Making an album seems different than EPs in the sense that it’s trying to maybe evoke a more consistent narrative.

Egyptrixx: Yea, the LP format simultaneously provides more space to experiment but also a greater opportunity to be cohesive. It was a lot of fun to write, I definitely enjoyed the process.

Do you feel like the difference in feeling between albums and EPs makes you want to focus on one more than the other in the future?

I’m not sure “feeling” is so directly tied to one format or the other, but right now my mind is thinking in terms of full-length albums.

When working on an album, do you ever feel like the final product has become something other than what you’ve intended it to be? Or when making something as big as an album, is it important to feel like you’re somewhat in control of all finer points of the process?

At the outset, the only thing I had in mind was a set of parameters; a sound palette, some song structure guidelines and a vague lyrical theme. These guides are pretty important to me, I find it almost impossible to work without them. It wasn’t that I was ever working towards an envisioned final product, but always within those parameters.

You’ve been touring quite a bit lately. How’s the experience of re-assembling material from the Bible Eyes LP been live?

Its been interesting, and mostly great. Still a work in progress for sure.

This album marks your first vocal collaboration with Toronto based artist Trust. How did the collaboration happen, and will you be incorporating more collaborations into future work?

I’m a big fan of their band and approached them to write some songs. In my experience, the mechanics of each collaboration are usually completely different. No two are alike. Ill definitely be doing more collaborations.

Looking back to some of your earlier work, how would you say that Bible Eyes differs?

The album was the first thing I wrote being fully committed to Egyptrixx as a full-time gig, up until this point most of my releases were just experiments with different sounds or production techniques.

What’s on the horizon for Egyptrixx?

More writing and more touring.

Damn Cassius, you have given us a lot of consistently good dance music over the years. And in keeping with that tradition, Ed Banger Records have been kind enough to give use a bomb of a track from “toughest artist name to spell of the year” contenders Gesaffelstein, who paint the track with some dark staccato basslines and trippy synth leads.

The package also comes with a Skream remix, titled “Skream made Zdar feel like he was 20 again remix”, which may be a jab at the age of Cassius, or maybe just a good humored drum’n'bass style throwback to early 90s rave with a funny long name.

Bowski brings in his own vocalist (Tom Cowcher) to croon the falsetto swagger of “I <3 U So” and then gives a heartbreakingly good dancefloor friendly remix.

To round it off, you may have already witnessed the production video of L-Vis 1990′s “jam sesh” featuring The Neon Dreams Regeneration, comprised of Cubic Zirconia’s Nick Hook and Tiombe Lockhart & former L-VIS 1990 “Forever You” collaborator Javeon McCarthy.

Cassius – Les Enfants (Gesaffelstein Remix) (Mediafire)

L-Vis 1990 and Nick Hook (of Cubic Zirconia) in the studio.

“”X LOVA” finds inspiration in a mixture of dreamy euro hardstyle, Chicago hard house backroom grooves, as well as the darkest of witch house. Pan flutes from the mysterious cities of gold and invocations of the Quetzalcoatl meet sweaty leathery hardcore rave and chopped up rap vocals, late at night during a ritual pagan ceremony in a forest somewhere in Wisconsin. Enigmatic New York post-everything group CUBIC ZIRCONIA deliver an amazingly swampy-yet-beautifully erotic remix. Tiombe Lockhart the group’s soulful vocalist whispers words of revenge over cold drum machines before producer Nick Hook screws the tempo down into a dark codeine dream.”

Panteros666 – X Lova (Cubic Zirconia remix) (Mediafire)

A minimix from NYC outfit Cubic Zirconia of their addictive new “Hoes Come Out At Night” EP which has had us bumping around the office all morning. The EP was released September 21st in digital format (via Don’t Cry) with a white label vinyl only release coming from Night Slugs on Monday September 27th that includes a stellar Ikonika remix and a collab track with Bok Bok.

Tracklist for the minimix after the jump.

BONUS: Check the video for the original version.

hoes come out at night (original)
hoes come out at night (ikonika remix)
hoes come out at night f timmy wiggins (house of blow remix)
reclash (bok bok and cubic zirconia)
hoes come out at night (burt fox remix)