DA’s Best of the Rest: Thursday December 20th, 2012
Best of the Rest is a daily feature from Dancing Astronaut that recaps the most important posts of the day as well as the stuff we didn’t get to. With the rapidity that dance music news and releases come out it’s difficult for us to hit everything — we hope BOTR serves as a catch-all. Make sure to check it out at the end of each day to ensure you don’t miss anything!
Feed Me teases new single and B-sides to promote January tour
Just in time for the start of his January tour, Feed Me has served up some sneak peaks of what he's been working on since releasing his Escape from Electric Mountain EP in February of this year. "Death by Robots," "Gravel," and "Dialup Days" represent the quintessential Feed Me style through and through. Never one to pigeonhole himself to one particular sound, he has done well to adapt to the ever-evolving dance music landscape without sacrificing his own personal brand. On "Death by Robots" guttural wobbles are swapped with squeaky clean electro house chops and heavily vocoded vocals while "Gravel" remains appropriately gritty, with a powerful driving bass line and aggressive top line synth work. "Dialup Days" is Feed Me at his funkiest, with a shuffling UK garage-tinged bass line emblazoned with 8-bit arpeggios. Listen to the 3 previews after the break, and grab some tickets to see Feed Me and his teeth when they come through a city near you.
Dancing Astronaut’s Top 10 Essential Mixes of 2012
Every Saturday night at 1am in the UK, Pete Tong allows an artist of his choosing to take over the Radio 1 airwaves for two full hours. The Essential Mix is legendary and for many of these DJs and producers, the pressure feels immense. A stellar mix can shoot you to recognition, solidify a career, or facilitate a comeback. Although with the generous input of fans, Pete Tong does eventually crown an Essential Mix of the year himself (last year: Above & Beyond), we also put our heads together to decide on the ten mixes from 2012 that made us listen again, and again, and again.