Top Billin’ drop this from Finnish beatmakers Femme en Fourrure on the 18th of March, as part of their Bronco EP (which also features some dark remixes from Nguzunguzu, Teeth & Square Mode). The video’s got horses, vomit and snow, typical day in Scandinavia, right?

Brodinski’s latest curated project, “The Best of Everything, Volume 2″ is exactly that – a compilation that throws underground dance music allstars against the best r&b and hip hop of the last two decades. There are myriad highlights (Renaissance Man remixing Lil Wayne?! I almost died), but one of the standout tracks is the grimey Bok Bok redux of Lil Scrappy’s recent Mixpak single.

Bok Bok turns Lil Scrappy’s “grown ass man rapping” into a cough syrup injected drawl where you can almost hear Scrappy’s gold teeth clacking together nervously in between lines, ready to run off somewhere.

Be sure to grab the whole release, as Bok Bok, Brenmar, Dubbel Dutch, French Fries, J-Wow, Nguzunguzu, Renaissance Man Wildlife! and more throw down spectacular versions of your favorite hip hop guilty pleasures.

Grab it here:
Lil Scrappy- Look At Me (Bok Bok Remix)

New York, don’t forget to RSVP for $5 admission! And while you’re at it, show some support for the new NGUZUNGUZU EP!!

Club Infinity – New York City’s premiere club night for future-minded dance music from around the world – is back this month! Come hear the newest mutations of House, Garage, Dancehall, Crunk, and everything in between. Brought to you by resident DJs Dre Skull and Kingdom, with special guest NGUZUNGUZU and visuals by Blackmoth.org!

WHEN : Friday, October 29th
WHERE : Glasslands// 289 Kent Ave, Williamsburg
DOORS : 10pm
COVER : $5 with RSVP ($10 at the door)

Halloween Edition!

Los Angeles locals Nguzunguzu (Asma Maroof & Daniel Pineda) are a two-piece production team with a style as hard to described as their name is to pronounce. With the help from Sinden, Jubilee (Nightshifters), Dubbel Dutch, Girl Unit, DJ Slow, Neoteric, Kingdom and many more, Nguzunguzu have quickly become a blogs best friend over the past couple of months. Their latest spin on Vancouver vocalist Filip Filipi is an infectious, bass rework complimented by their signature”visual house” antics. Want more Nguzunguzu? Then head over to the Truants Blog for an exclusive mixtape and interview. Enjoy!

Filip Filipi Ft. Shanell- Can You Rock (Nguzunguzu Remix)

Melé’s Bombay EP comes with a groovy remix by French Fries that helps you to let go of your daily worries by providing a sweet rhythm pattern that will secure good vibes. One of French Fries’ equally crazy talented label companions, Manaré (previously known as RiotKid) will release his debut EP named Speakeasy over the  weekend and has given away a remix for Pirog by Lazy Flow yesterday. This tune is a successor-freebie to the Beware & Motorpitch remix for Speakeasy that has been floating around on some blogs (click). The latter will be included on the EP alongside remixes by Dubbel Dutch, Renaissance Man & Lorcan Mak, whereas the Lazy Flow one won’t be included in the final package. The more reason to give it a listen because it would be a shame to miss out on a  summer track like this one:

Manaré – Pirog (Lazy Flow Summer Mix) (direct link)

LA’s NGUZUNGUZU have  recently put out a new mix, too. This laid-back mix features the likes of Ciara, one of NGUZU’s new tracks in progress Strut, DJ Chuckie and Girl Unit. It’s only about a twenty minutes long but is all in all a very sweet listen with a refreshing track listing that once again perfectly accompanies this sunny season. The interview that goes with the mixtapes provides some news about collabs with Rye Rye and M.I.A. and for the Europeans amongst you, a quick note on their upcoming tour through your continent this Summer. Big fingz in store for NGUZUNGUZU!

Truancy Volume 11: NGUZUNGUZU (Mixcloud)

I’m not even going to try to describe what LA-based NGUZUNGUZU sound like… to be honest, I don’t have a clue. Instead, I’d suggest that you give their independent deut EP a listen, which is available for free on their website… hopefully it will transport you to another universe within your mind where you can give it a meaningful description of your own.

I spoke to both NGUZUs (Asma & Daniel) just before they drove twenty four hours to SXSW, and they talked a bit about their tremendous vision- community, taking pride in being weird, plans to overthrow the status quo and create a new virtual reality world of future club music.

At request of the Nguzus, I have included both their responses under the same NGUZU heading. So even though there is only one “NGUZU” responding to my questions, there are three people in the interview. Got it? Cool, it only gets weirder from here.

Interview by Brendan Arnott (my text in bold).

What can you tell us about the origins of NguzuNguzu?

NGUZU: Origins? As in, how we started out? Or our name?

Both would be great. Maybe a bit about when you started making music together and what inspired the type of music you’re making.

NGUZU: Well, we started making beats together for fun on cassette tape. Super improvised with no edits, really raw live takes with mpc 2000 classic and keyboards. We made mixtapes that were always sort of dancey or raw beats that you could bump hard in your Chevy. Our friends really responded to these tapes and we began using Ableton and started sending stems to each other via emails. We compiled like 30 tracks onto cdr from cassette and sent it out to some people. Kingdom got a hold of one and we’ve been friends ever since.

NGUZU: Kingdom was and is a huge inspiration. He heard one of our cassettes a while back, contacted us and remixed like 2 of our tracks: OXXYGENERATION and HATE2WAIT on his mixtape volume 2.

Speaking of inspirations, the fluokids blog tryed to describe your sound as “Blaqstarr meets trance” -how do you feel about that?

NGUZU:  Blaqstarr is a HUGE inspiration from way back hearing his tracks on 92Q.

And then the name NGUZUNGUZU also refers to figureheads of protective spirits…

NGUZU: We named ourselves NGUZUNGUZU after a type of wooden canoe prow carving from the Solomon Islands. We liked the name firstly for its phonetics,when repeated rapidly it sounds like a digeridoo. And the idea of this guiding figure on our craft of sonic explorations. Something like a beacon, a navigational tool, a compass that points us in various directions.

I like the idea of thinking about music as a navigational tool, and I notice that as much as you are musicians, there also seems to be a strong graphic design element to your work. In your latest video for “Got U / A Ring To It“, it’s almost like the images bring an entirely new dimension to the song. What do you find interesting about the intersection of images and music in your work?

NGUZU: Leilah Weinraub made the video for “Got U“; we exchanged several ideas and I sent her some designs and rough animations for it. I feel that the imagery brings allows the music to say a lot more, or to say something specific. With that video for example .. there is a lot more content and meaning that you can associate with that song that you wouldnt necessarilly otherwise. We are working right now with Blackmoth, an amazing video maker in Bmore that also works with Kingdom. She makes amazing videos and music videos. We were just looking at her video flyer for Club Vortex a while back and it really takes you there to this amazing virtual space. Asma and I both come from Visual Arts backgrounds.

(NGUZU sends me the video link) Wow, it’s like a Diva Windows 95 screensaver on acid!

NGUZU: Haha, I like that description.

NGUZU: Thinking of sound visually is very important in it’s design and creation. How the bass weaves with the kick… melody sits on top

NGUZU: in the future a NGUZUNGUZU show will be a crazy audio visual spectacle extravaganza. Jean Michel Jarre meets Polymarchs.

NGUZU: Is this making sense?

NGUZU: …Meets CGI meets the 4th of July.

NGUZU: Yes!

NGUZU: Virtual 3d fireworks please!

Speaking of the intersections between video and sound, you were the musical directors for Wu Ingrid Tsang’s film “Damelo Todo” (Give Me Everything), which is a snapshot Latina transgender women making alliance with queer performance artists at The Silver Platter, a downtown LA queer bar. You were also DJs for Tuesday’s Wildness night, correct?

NGUZU: The Silver Platter! hehe. It’s in the Macarthur Park area of LA, not downtown, by the way. The film is mostly about the bar Silver Platter, how it started as a latin gay bar and became a sort of haven for the queens later on. Then Wu Ingrid Tsang ties in the story of Wildness, our Tuesday night party… which is on hiatus now because legal issues dealing with ownership rights of the bar.

NGUZU: And the story of a trans person migrating to Los Angeles and finding the bar.

Did the music that you played while DJing influence your musical score for the film?

NGUZU: Yes, many peers and influences came through!

NGUZU: Yes definitely, a very strong influence were the guest DJs and performers at our party. We also made new music for parts of the film (and are making new music) that are not party scenes, they’re sad scenes. Party scenes mostly feature music we played at the club. We collaborated on a cover of a Gloria Trevi track with Maluca, and we’re collaborating with German vocalist Marichien Danz as well. She’s the voice of melancholy. In creating new music to score the film, we drew a lot from the mood & feeling of the bar.

NGUZU: Lots of Cumbia & Cumbia Sonidera.. Diva samples with tons of echo…

Speaking of these inspirations – When I learned that you’ve been involved in the Wildness club nights, I started thinking about representation – to me, Wildness very clearly evokes that it is a space for queer & trans folks of color… kind of creating spaces for folks that sometimes don’t have that freedom to go out and dance without harassment. Is a queer identity important to how you see yourselves as musicians? Would you openly define yourselves as queer, or is it a discussion that you feel doesn’t add anything to the kind of music you make? (Realizing that “queer identity” is pretty subjective)

NGUZU: We didn’t create a safe space at the silver platter for the Trans or Queer community. That space was there and we worked with them. Our Tuesday night was different from the regular nights which were pretty quiet all week except for the crazy weekend drag shows, when the place goes nuts.

NGUZU: I think it’s very important to us as musicians what communities we work with with, and where we find community. But we don’t have any concrete label for our music. Except maybe GLOBAL CLUB. Or VISUAL HOUSE!

You’ve built an entire mixtape of re-edits around Art of Noise’s track “Moments in Love”: What do you love about that song, or what it represents?

NGUZU: Oh yes, well, that song is the icon of “baby making music”. Growing up in Maryland they played it damn near every night on the radio for the SLOW JAMS set. Sometimes mixing in sex noises…  Every time it is remixed, it becomes a classic all over again. The melody is infectious, simple and poignant – able to mutate into ALL sorts of genres… even a sweet murder song. (Krayzie Bone’s “Murda Mo”)

NGUZU: Melt with all drum patterns, become recontextualized… but always remain “Moments in Love”. Riding that melody all over the place…

Riding it like a turtle sliding around on ice? (watch the 1:35 mark of this video for reference)

NGUZU: Hahah! With a wig on! That video!

That’s what I’ll always remember about the video….  a little turtle going “whooooo” while sliding across the ice. Or maybe instead of “whoo”, sliding around with a neutral facial expression, thinking “someday, I will kill all the humans for making me do this”.

NGUZU: So fuckin’ weird, haha. I put a giant tortoise in an artshow once. EARTH CLUB.

NGUZU: My love for that track is what it became as a sample for all sorts of music genres. How it has been pulled, twisted, mutated for so many years… and continues to be used! It’ll never get old. TIMELESS.

Speaking of timeless music – your new EP is out for free download on your website. I like it a lot. Why did you give it for free?

NGUZU: We wanted to get the music out there. We were frustrated at how slow things move with record labels and official releases and how to plot the release of a song and we thought releasing it for free the way we did was the most effective thing to do. We get so much for free we wanted to just give it away.

What collaboration would you like to see Mixpak involved in?

NGUZU: Us and Mixpak? or Mixpak and someone?

Let’s say Mixpak and anyone.

NGUZU: Ahh. Us! Ha. Besides us… Night Slugs, Sdunkero, DJ Cleo, DJ Nate.

NGUZU: DJ Mouse,…. DJ Cleo would be dooope! Work with some female MCs! Nicki Minaj!

NGUZU: Get em’ Mamis in Bmore. Pink Dollaz!

What are our hopes for 2010, and do you have any parting advice you’d like to leave us with?

NGUZU: Our hopes for 2010 is that this new music (global club) thing will continue to develop in interesting ways incorporating new voices sounds and exciting new techniques, to say the least. More peoples travelling to more places. More sounds travelling to new places. Overthrow the staus quo. Become hackers, create a virtual reality club, 24/7!

NGUZU: Perfect.

I think that virtual reality club exists, and it’s called Dump.fm.

NGUZU: Yeah, that shit’s crazy. LOL Boys, they were the ones who told me about that.

Haha yeah, they turned me onto it as well.

NGUZU: They are dope.

NGUZUNGUZU: But anyway, hopes for 210. Connections! STAY CONNEKTED. Hack the mainframe. 2010 Global Club rules! 2012 ZORGA WORLD TOUR! Get ready.

NGUZUNGUZU: Keep collaborating with more MCs!

NGUZUNGUZU: Advice: free your mind from all pressure.

Thanks very much to NGUZUNGUZU for the lovely chat. Keep watch, they’ve got the future on lock.

NguzuNguzu redefine “eclectic” with this mixtape, culling old house music, ghetto bass, Gucci Mane, beatboxing and even Ginuwine’s “Pony” into thirty seven minutes of harmonic dissonance – each track sampling  elements from “Moments in Love” by Art of Noise.

NguzuNguzu -  Moments in Love Mixtape (zshare)

Moments In House: Essence
Go Down Baby: Diamond K
Machete Moments: Eridson Vs. Lucifer (Nguzu Edit)
Superstar Remix: Dj (7)+-≫
Art In Moments : Dj Quest Vs. Liebrand (Nguzu Edit)
Tonite: 2 Smooth
Moments In Love: Art Of Noise (A.Mc Edit)
Everyday: Dj Deeon
Moments: Dj Godfather And Starski
Tootsie Roll (Quiet Storm Club Remix): 69 Boyz
Moments In Love: Art Of Noise (Caspa Remix)
Tip Of My Tongue: Jagged Edge Ft. Gucci Mane And Trina
The Art Of Funkin: Dj Funk
Moments In Love: Art Of Noise (Unknown Drum N Bass Remix) (Nguzu Vocal Edit W/ Aaliyah)
Moments In Love (Beat Box Remix): Rhazel
Momento Enamorado: Los Daddys
Doing It Well (Remix): Ll Cool J
Moment: Jt And The Big Family
Moments In Love (Extended Mix) Snippet: Art Of Noise
Murda Mo: Bone Thugs N Harmony
The World Has Too Many Freaks: Krayzie Bone Ft. Adina Howard And Play N Skillz
Pony (Booty Bass Remix): Ginuwine
Rnb 24 Instrumental (Art Of Noise Remix): Dj Smooth4Lyfe
Moments In Love (Live At Highline Ballroom, Nyc): Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

L.A duo Nguzunguzu just dropped a big mix to celebrate the release of the upcoming Nguzunguzu EP coming out later this month on Shade Business.

Nguzunguzu – EP Promo Mix

01 Sticky “Jumeirah Riddim”
02 Sticky “Jumeirah Riddim Sequel”
03 Footsteps “Baby Kinta”
04 Rishi Romero “African Forest (Original Mix)”
05 Makency DJ “Wao”
06 DJ Eridson “Hino Batucada”
07 Nguzunguzu “El Bebe Ambiente”
08 Debo “Helter Skelter”
09 DJ Pesado and DJ Fofuxo “Sirene”
10 Puto X feat. Maskarado “Quen E Que Mana Ai MP”
11 Nguzunguzu “What Dance?”
12 Baobina and I.D. “Mandown”
13 DJ Boda “Tááá BááTÖÖÖrr R”
14 Bok Bok “Whole World Changing 4X4″
15 DJ Pesado and DJ Marfox “Gerentologia”
16 DJ Corlando “Passa Passa (Kingdom Remix)
17 DJ Du Marcel “Tribal Sound”
18 DJ MA1 “I’m Right Here feat. Sophia”
19 Nguzunguzu “Got You”
20 Mike V “Feelings”
21 Basement Jaxx “Flylif