Our good friends in Berlin based booking agency and record label Jackmode are putting together Smile In 2012, one huge two day New Year’s Eve party at Prince Charles in Berlin with a lineup that reads like a who’s who in the techhouse scene: Round Table Knights, Tim Green, Oliver $, Zombie Disco Squad, Sante live, Monkey Safari, Rampa, Chopstick & JohnJon, Penner + Muder live, Luca Lozano, Dirty Doering, Nils Penner, Nils Ohrmann, Ronald Christoph live, Marcelosch, Sese, Sqim, Thalbow live, Toni Haupt, Crek, Patryk Molinari, Peter Bounce, Creed & Stone, Bone, Arley.

We here at Discobelle are glad to be able to present a competetion with a grand deluxe prize for one lucky winner that consists of the following:

- 1 x 2 tickets Smile in 2012
- 1 x Klasse Recordings T-Shirt limited Shawn Edition
- 1 x Monkey Safari T-Shirt
- 1 x Sqim – Forever more (evamore music 001) (vinyl)
- 2 x Santé Mix CDs

All you have to is answer this simple question: What year did Jackmode start? E-mail us your answers no later than Friday December 30th at 16 (CET) and we’ll chose one winner.

Plus we also have this exclusive mix from Monkey Safari in order for you to get pumped up about this event.

New single from The 2 Bears, “Work” is to be released January 2nd and comes complete with remixes from Toddla T, Oliver $, Supabeatz and Franky Rizardo. The 2 Bears debut album, “Be Strong”, will be simultaneously released on January 30th on Southern Fried in the UK and on DFA Records in the US.

Work by The 2 Bears

Weekend treat for you all.

Oliver $ and his groovy new massive house track “Granulated Soul” was released last week and is already on the Beatport top 10 chart.

This solid EP is packed full of bouncey house and it boasts remixes from Copenhagen locals MHM One & Dan M, accompanied by French new player Coni, Irish mad man Lorcan Mak and Hungarian powerhouse Slap In The Bass. Support from Oliver $, Brodinski, Sound Pellegrino, Round Table Knights, Bambounou, Mad Decent, Ardalan, MunniBrotherz, LOL Boys, Wildlife!, MikiX The Cat, Sinden, Poupon, Douster, Neoteric, Meati & Meech, Andy George, Act Yo Age, Playmode, Anna Lunoe etc.

Prince Club – Utopia / Olivia EP by Demento Mori

BONUS: The boys did a smashing mix in order to promote the release.

Prince Club Demento Mori Mix Nov ’011 by Prince Club

Download: Sneaky Sound System – Big (Nicolas Jaar’s Always By Your Side Version) (via Modular Facebook link)

Sneaky Sound System – Big (Nicolas Jaar’s Always By Your Side Version) by modularpeople

Following the hazy fever dream disco of their last release on Exploited, Homework throw on a couple polo shirts, pull their socks all the way up and step out onto the courts for some Wimbledon inspired tennis tech-house action for Made To Play.

Okay, no more painfully made journalistic tennis metaphors. Instead, let’s talk about how the sample from The Isely Brother’s 1964 track “Take Me In Your Arms” sounds so utterly at home here amidst the track’s sun drenched piano riffs. The album track is almost double the length of the video cut, which gives this one just enough time to ride out the powerful bassline, reminiscent of the euphoria that you get listening to Daft Punk’s “Discovery” album while running into the ocean naked.

Without a doubt, this is classy summer beach party music arriving at the perfect moment.

Rally Racquet Club will be released on the 20th of June, with a remix by Oliver $ that’s almost in danger of outshining the original. You can preview the whole EP on Made To Play’s soundcloud page.

Dedicated to all the DJs worldwide who’re comfortable with being “just up here fucking around”, Oliver $’s new jam for Made to Play sub-label Play It Down is effortlessly addictive and employs a sample guaranteed to make anyone smile.

Sampling one of Moodymann’s inspirational impromptu DJ set speeches and employing a simple, thumping bassline, it narrates the more intimate moments of being out in a club: The DJ crooning about what tracks they’re going to play next, yelled banter from the audience, scratched records, the pause where the same record gets played twice over because “we’re still on this muthafuckin record”, and the steadfast refusal to stop playing when the club owners start yelling at you.

Limited to 200 vinyl copies, it’s a great homage to the atmosphere and feeling of intimate house music when it feels like something’s going on that’s bigger and more powerful than the sum of everyone in the club.

Out soon on Play It Down, stream it from Soundcloud below:

Oliver $_Doin´ Ya Thang by oliverdollar

Roison Murphy’s voice alone has enough dreamy command to carry any track along with overwhelming “oomph”, but this production by Mason also gets filtered through the bumpy house lens of Oliver $. The end product feels so absolutely organic that you can forget it’s a remix; a vocal house tune that’s reserved; but one that culminates in a moment of well deserved dancefloor nirvana. Apparently recorded while Roison was “heavily pregnant”, maybe her unborn child had something to do with it.

Mason feat. Roisin Murphy – Boadicea (Oliver $ Remix)

Grab the EP here, and also consider Mason’s revamped version of Jesse Rose’s “Sleepless” on Made To Play that you can pick up alongside reworkings by Catz ‘N Dogz & Round Table Knights.

Oliver – All Night (ge.tt)

Oliver – Walk With Me (ge.tt)

BONUS: U-Terns much talked about dub remix of the Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. track “Bang Bang Bang”, check it out if you missed it. It’s stunning…

Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. – Bang Bang Bang (U-Terns disco dub) (ge.tt)

Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar (Oliver $ edit) (drop.io)

PS. Check out his new “Shaka Lao” single which was just put out on Made To Plays sublabel Play It Down.