Summer hit guesses for '11

Last year I was pretty good at this: I already played last summer's big anthem, Tensnake's Coma Cat in March on my radio show and got the promo album of Aeroplane's We Can't Fly among the first.

Let's see how far these will go:



Nice floating bassline and vocal hooks you get instantly. Not prime time material necessarily.



I think this is going places. It's a mood tune for me at least, so I'd guess you'll have to save it and play it outside the peak hours.

Cut Copy - "Take Me Over" (Radio Edit) Premiere by modularpeople

Cut Copy's Zonoscope will be rediscovered near the summer, I guess. Just waiting maybe for an extended version or a remix to seal the deal.

Anyways, what's your prediction for the summer hit of 2011?

- Peffis

Feel good hits of the summer

Just a post summarizing the big hits of summer 09.



By the combined force of A-Trak & Armand van Helden, which equals to Duck Sauce. Even if this one is still waiting to be released in a vinyl format, it's already huge. I've heard it played in so many dj sets around here. Disco sample muscled and sped up for the dance floor is such a winning recipe.

The other big disco song has been this Eli Escobar remix of an old Stevie Nicks classic. Check the video here. Such a meaningful tune with emotional singing performance by Nicks. Stands out real good from the usual disco lyrics, which are pretty upbeat but a bit tacky.

The last one is an old one that has been dug up this summer, first by Swedish dj's, then a few tastemaking Helsinki dj's and later by everybody else. It's Magnus Uggla's Sommertid.



By the way, all of the above have been spotted from blogs/forums a good while back. It's the internet-age, baby.

- P-Funk