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.

Round Table Knights – Autumn Mix 2011 (direct link)

BONUS: Their edit of the Cant track “Answer”:

Cant – Answer (Round Table Knights edit) by Round Table Knights

Tracklist after the jump.

Chris Isaak – Danicin
Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Jaqus Renault Remix)
Nebraska – This Is The Way
Linkwood – Who La La ?
Common – Wmoe
Common – This Is Me
A Tribe Called Quest – Keepin It Moving
Take 6 – Spread Love (Mark the 45 King Mix)
J Rocc – Thru The Tulips (Few Seconds More Mix)
Tom Scott – Today
Pillow Talk – The Come Back
Andy Hart, Francis Inferno Orchestra – D2ME
R. – Wire
Cant – Answer (Round Table Knights Edit)
Larse – The More I Want
Florian Blauensteiner – Hold On (Luca Lozano Black & White Remix)
Kruse & Nuernberg – Daze Without You
No Regular Play – Lookin
Coat Of Arms – Lovin Together
Manik – Ruckus 8OH8
Mickey Moonlight – Close To Everything

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

Hard to believe that it’s been almost two years of consecutively released Round Table Knights mixes – and every time they employ a unique, carefree and consistently bumping dance music coming from all corners of the world. Whether it’s the peach tinted hazy electronic glow of Tangerine Dream’s “Love On A Real Train” or the gothic but jacking Art Department remix of new DoP, there are plenty of summer gems to be found within, not to mention two new Round Table Knights remixes that you can listen to here before hearing it anywhere else.

Round Table Knights – Summer Mix 2011 (download from RTK website)

Tracklist after the jump:

Tangerine Dream – Love On A Real Train
Genius Of Time – Drifting Back
Noir, Haze – Around (Solomun Remix)
Dop – Half Naked (Art Department’s Shades Of Gothica Remix)
Axel Boman – Nattsudd
Sqim – Forever More
Phil Weeks, Hector Moralez – Just Because (Getto Mix)
Dj Sneak – Babylon Fallin
Viadrina – Won’t You (Pol_On Remix)
Yolanda Be Cool – Le Bump (Round Table Knights Remix)
Lovebirds – The Beast
Monkey Safari – Kiss The Birds (Round Table Knights Remix)
Solo – Herbalistic (Mr. Ho Remix)
Matthew Burton, Nick Lawson – Gruff It
Virgo Four – Its A Crime (Caribou Remix)

” IT’S A BUBBLE ” Beni Music Video (Director’s Cut) from Cédric BLAISBOIS on Vimeo.

New dance craze of 2011? It’s a bubble, maybe.

Bonus: Some additional heat to round out the package, courtesy of the always bubbling Round Table Knights. Additional remixes forthcoming from DJ Sneak + Dmitri From Paris.

Beni – It’s A Bubble (Round Table Knights Remix) (Direct link)

Swiss producer Bauchamp with an excellent and funky piano laced house tune that has us antsy about summer and playing this at a patio somewhere. (via Round Table Knights)

BONUS: DJ-version in crispy Aiff format.

bauchamp // DON’T CARE (hq 320 aiff for DJ’s) by bauchamp

Even in the wake of dropping their big debut album, Round Table Knights keep their consistently excellent seasonal mixes coming straight to your speakers, this particular installment featuring a well curated selection of tunes from Session Victim, Stuffa, and a great Chris James refix of Mount Kimbie.

Round Table Knights, Winter Spring Mix 2011 (direct link)

Tracklist after the jump:

Marc Moulin – Aria
Terry Callier – You Goin Miss Your Candyman
Trickski – Phill Collins
Tornado Wallace – Swimmin
Hercules & Love Affair – My House
Bubba – Makin Contact
Subb-an – What I Do
Session Victim – We Want To Thahounk All Our Friends
Homework – Hold Me Tight
Andre Crom, Martin Dawson – In The City
No Regular Play – Serious Heat
Mount Kimbie – Carbonated (Chris James Refix)
Stuffa – Proof (Wolf + Lamb Remix)
Riva Starr – More (Kink Remix)
Round Table Knights – Paparussi
Joy Orbison – Ladywell
Rick Poppa Howard – About Fourteen

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.

After several years worth of EPs filled with ecstatic house music vibes, Round Table Knights have finally dropped their debut album on Made To Play today.

The album seems like it’s almost comprised of two halfs, the first working as a showcase for RTK’s pure dancefloor muscle. “Drop The Dow” remains the best piece of acapella-scat house I’ve heard, and even after playing it out about a hundred times, there’s something amazing about “Calypso” that continually rocks the house, even if it’s being played outside in -20 degree Canadian winter.

But the second half is even more surprising because of the organic approach that it embraces. “Why Be Serious” not only embodies their mantra for house music in 2010, but floats along on a beat that you’d be happy to hear as the last song of the night, a “throw your hands in the air and praise the gods of house” kinda ordeal. And instead of delivering mediocre marching band house music, “Paparussi” incorporates some seriously soulful trumpets that sound like anything but a canned pro tools sound effect.

There are also a well placed downtempo moments, including the closer “All Night” featuring Ghosttape, which sounds like it’s floating out the window of some low-rider that’s driving by on the long walk home from the club, just before the sun rises.

You can stream the whole album below, and you should absolutely pick it up on Beatport. Congratulations dudes!