Check this mix from Michelle Owens- deep, tech, hot. Check her Bio, tour dates and more on RA, and Get the new mix here. 

Michelle Owen has been a DJ since 1998. Half Italian and originally from Sydney Australia, she moved overseas to pursue her dreams and follow the music which led her to live in Ibiza in 2007 and now Berlin. She has had the pleasure of playing in Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, China, and England. Michelle is currently working on a new music project with James Flavour from Dirt Crew and a solo EP.  Not only a DJ but a music industry guru Michelle has also had the experience of working for Beatport.com (Berlin), Buzzin Fly Records (London), Phonica Records (London), SONYBMG Australia, started her own record label “Eyelash records.” 

Check out Green label Sound for a free, 320kb mp3 of Holy Ghost’s latest track, “I Will Come Back.” Check the site for your free download and a video interview with the Ghost, explaining their recording process for the track. 

“Known for their 2008 hit “Hold On,” remixes for the likes of Moby, MGMT, Phoenix and Cut Copy, critically-heralded Brooklyn duo Holy Ghost! is Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel. Friends since childhood, the pair grew up on NYC’s Upper West Side. Learning from NYC producers The DFA (aka James Murphy & Tim Goldsworthy), Holy Ghost! bring their love for old-school synthesizers to their new single, “I Will Come Back,” a five and a half-minute dance floor epic, featuring the angelic voices of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. This latest Green Label Sound single will also be featured on Holy Ghost!’s highly-anticipated debut album due out early next year on DFA Records.”

The redefinition is a continuation of Twilight Notes “What Is a Song” project.  The vision for the redefinition is to create a collection of songs, to be released through a monthly podcast, that will that great songwriting is not limited to any style, language, or genre.  Great songwriting speaks for itself, and the redefinition project seeks to expose and educate about the songs that affect our lives. 

ESL Music artist Federico Aubele recently released his third studio album, Amatoria. I found an interview with him briefly describing his creative process.  Buy it here. 

“It’s such a vast and huge theme, love. You can approach it in different ways,” reflects Buenos Aires-born songwriter and guitarist Federico Aubele, whose new album Amatoria will be released by ESL Music (May 19, 2009). “Love is such an important thing for every human being, whether we notice it or not. We all experience it at least once in life. It’s one of the few things, along with dying, that is guaranteed to happen to you.”

“One day, while talking with his wife and sitting at a wildly out-of-tune piano, Aubele accidentally bumped four keys with the cup of tea that was in his hand. “A nice melody came out, but since the piano was so out of tune, each key was not the right note,” Aubele smiles. “I saw that the tea bag had a message on it, which said ‘Let Good Things Come to You.’ I said, ‘That’s it!’ I went up and played the riff on my guitar and started developing the melody.” The result became “Luna y Sol,” a song that chronicles the union of male and female, the joining of two separate lives.”

“Amatoria is Federico Aubele’s newest and most personal album yet.  Inspired by the classic and passionate sounds of bolero and Argentinian tango, Aubele infuses his distinctive Spanish guitar sound with sultry vocals and subtle electronic beats to create a unique collage of intimate love songs.  Entirely self produced, Amatoria features vocal collaborations with Natalia Clavier, Sabina Sciubba of The Brazilian Girls, and Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto. ” Federico Aubele-Amatoria

Let’s take a visit back to Ghostface Killah’s immortal 2006 album “Fishscale.”  At this point, hip hop has surely arrived, and is widely recognized as a legitimate art form, covering the gamut of human emotion. Still, it is always fun to listen to an album that is just unapologetically street, unapologetically real. 

“Toning down his oddball style and ramping up his storytelling, he drops a pusher’s odyssey as developed and cinematic as any Scorsese joint. Each track depicts a different mise-en-scène in the life of a kilo kingpin who “bags your boo,” busts up an apartment, witnesses an OD, gets a haircut, and goes bazonkers. Ghost mandates soul samples, and his producers (Pete Rock, Cool n Dre, MF Doom) are generally up to the task, especially on Doom’s “Underwater,” a Super Mario Bros.–sounding dream sequence about deep-sea diving and spiritual exploration.”   GhostFace Ft. Raekwon- Kilo

Listen to the voice of the most sought after voice in deep house music- Giant Step recording artist Ms. Lisa Shaw.  She came up during the blooming of the NYC deep house scene, first recording with Jay Denes of Naked Music, and now she is collaborating with producers such as Jay Denes, Dave Warrin, Jimpster, Herbert, Joey Negro, Swag & Crazy Penis, and Phil Asher. This track might be a little poppy for some of you, but she is adding an emotional element to electronic music, something that makes her style of deep house stand out.  Lisa Shaw- The Music In You

Muse gets intergalactic and inspirational with this track, Starlight, which has been on repeat on my ipod all week.  In this interview, Muse gives some insight into their songwriting process, and what was different about recording their latest album.

“The recording process took on much more of an electronic approach to music which we hadn’t experimented with too much in the past. That’s its own thing, you know. I think that applies to all the songs on the album. Every song has its own character and is very unique in itself.”

“Matt writes the lyrics but everything that is written about on the album, those kinds of things outside of the more personal songs about love, these are all things we were talking about and discussing throughout the whole recording process. It’s interesting to see all these different themes that we were talking about around dinner tables appearing on the album. Often lyrics are written last. But over the course of the six months or the year before making the album, these were all things that we were certainly interested in and talking about. This is why they came out through the music.”

Muse- Starlight

From out in California back to you… check this digital summer mixtape by So Roberta at BPM magazine online.  Nice mix of upbeat, danceable tracks… this hot chip remix of “Rehab” even makes Amy Winehouse fun again.  Get your summer dance party on right here…

Tracklist:

1. Blind (Frankie Knuckles remix)- Hercules Love Affair
2. Rehab (Hot Chip remix) – Amy Winehouse
3. 1901 (Fabian remix)- Phoenix
4. Want You- LoFiFnk
5. Junk Food- Lexicon
6. Switchblade (LA Riots remix)- Hearts Revolution
7. Deadbeat Summer- Neon Indian
8. Beatflic- Glass Candy
9. Love Kills (remix)- Little Boots
10. In for the Kill (The Twelves Remix)- La Roux
11. The Summer Song- Yacht
12. Starstruck (diplo remix)- Santogold
13. Stars- Cut Copy

“Justin Vernon, the humble genius behind one-man band Bon Iver, holed up in a remote Wisconsin cabin to write and record the bulk of his self-released debut, For Emma, Forever Ago. Vernon’s four wintry months of solitude inspired a gorgeous acoustic record, full of close-mic’d guitar, experimental percussion, gently droning reverb, and oft-layered, affecting falsetto. Tonight, Bon Iver plunges into the wilds of Fort Lauderdale to conjure up his ethereal tunes at Revolution.” (Flavorpill)

Revolution (200 W Broward Blvd)

Here is comes.. the song most likely to be stuck on repeat this summer.  French pop act Phoenix does it again… and they are getting set to release a whole EP full of Lisztomania remixes.  Here they are given the full french disco/balaeric treatment by Yusek and Tremulance.  Thanks to Pretty Much Amazing!!! for the links.

Follow me to the remixes… 

Twilight Notes is extremely proud to be a part of “Forever Art Party,” a charity event taking place next week at the brand new W Hotel Fort Lauderdale.  The event will be taking place thursday June 11th from 8-11pm.  There is a 25 dollar charge, with a silent art auction, music by Dj Adam Foster, open bar, and food donated by Bova Cucina and Anthony’s Runway 84.  More Info, donations, and directions here.