FRESH JAMS, STILL PINK IN THE CENTER
August 3, 2010

Once, digging for new music meant sludging through church basement cardboard boxes and stale shelves at your local corporate record chain, but nowadays there is a new place for this detective-like-approach: the Interwebs. When our own Vinyl Nympho isn't rubbing her private parts against record store owners for a bargain buy discount, the RAW boys are up all night looking for new music, classic rips, and vintage porn.

Mike Monday is on a mission - a new single, every week, for 10 weeks. His week #2 offering, which we stumbled across recently, is this nu-disco gem, replete with synthesized vocal stabs, hand claps, and panning sighs and grunts. All the stuff we love to hear in the club—and in the backroom. Be on the lookout for more weekly singles, and drop him a small donation should your trick left without his pay and you find yourself sitting on a couple "spare" dollars.

With releases on choice labels (and RAW faves) DFA and Permanent Vacation, Midnight Magic are poised to take 2010 for a wild ride with their classic disco sound, infused wuth live instrumentation and glorious female vocals. With members of Hercules and Love Affair in the line-up, you can only imagine what else they have up their polyester sleeves. On this remix, Jacques Renault speeds up the tempo a bit and layers some delicious percussion and chopped vocals to reinvent a stellar, dancefloor-ready remix; 5his is a track that you'll definitely be hearing at the RAW parties for many months to come.

Anybody who knows the RAW boys knows that we're all about the sticky sweetness that is Honey Soundsystem. Their set at Disco Bloodbath (UK) has been on repeat via their podcast for weeks now, and they just finished a remix for up and coming, (half) homo-pop-punk Brooklyn outfit, Street Hero. Acid-drenched and delightful with precision production at it's core, they have managed to strip the single down to a hand-filled, bare-ass squeeze of tech, house, and minimal electronica. Honey has been stirring up the West coast with their weekly Sunday party at Paradise Lounge, along with guest sets and appearances all over the country, and Europe as well. Hopefully the RAW boys can convince them to include DC in their destination plans. A little RAW HNY does a body good, you know?

Mike Monday - Robot Go Disco (320 kbps) | Download

Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix) (320 kbps) | Download

Street Hero - End of The World (Honey Soundsystem Remix) (320 kbps) | Download