Notable Dance Podcast #055

White n3rd – SKANK
Bimbo Jones & Beverley Knight – I Found OuT (The Bimbo Jones Mardi Gras Mix)
WaWa & Tune Brothers – Sing (FalseFace Remix)
Oliver Heldens – Gecko (Original Mix)
Jason Herd ft Sherry St Germain – This is What We Came For (Original Mix)
MOTI – Don’t Go Lose It (Original Mix)
Hardwell – Everybody Is In The Place (Original)
Alvaro – Shades (Original Mix)
Joachim Garraud ft Perry & Etty Farrell – Everybody (Original)
Showtek & Ookay – Bouncer (Original)
Botnek & 3LAU – Vikings (Original Mix)
Sander Van Doorn & Firebeatz – Guitar Track (Original)
Audien – Wayfarer (Original Mix)
tyDi ft Dia Frampton – Stay (Extended Mix)

(Picture of Audien taken during WMC 2014.)

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SONG OF THE DAY: The White N3rd ft JD – Skank

The nu-house genre finally has its first WTF track. The kind of track you hear and think ‘WTF is that,’ in a good way. Producer The White N3rd is gaining acclaim and popularity for his strong productions (Loick Essien “How We Roll” and Daley ft Jessie J “Remember Me”) and remixes (his mix of M.O. “For a Minute” is an absolute must-listen). His first solo release “Skank” is simply hard to describe. Starting with an almost hauntingly-familiar ’80s monster pop piano line, it goes into a ’90s R&B piano house segment with a male singer singing “those” party starter lyrics, and then comes a modern electro buildup with a classic diva shouting “ecstasy,” before dropping down into a revocaled nu-House take on Mark Kinchen’s classic dub of Nightcrawlers “Push the Feeling On.” That is just the first 50 seconds. The song is primarily in the house flashback vibe, but there are so many changes (like an homage to classic XL Recordings drum and bass tracks) that it sounds completely unique compared to anything else out there. It’s as if 2 Bad Mice, Awesome 3/Kicks Like a Mule, and Kat Krazy (circa “See the Stars”) were all locked in a studio by the label and told to make a nu-house track for ADHD ragers. The best part is that even with all of the disparate elements, the track is completely coherent, cohesive, and will catch the attention of anyone hearing it in the club or on the radio.