Hot Traxx - July 6 2005

Hello my dear friends and fellow kindred house-music spirits. I hope the Flashbaggie finds all of you happy and well-fed after the weekend festivities. We're not a very patriotic group here at the Baggie, so we don't really acknowledge 4th of July. BUT we do acknowledge any given opportunity to sleep late, consume large quantities of beer and eat copius amounts of dessert. Call it what you want, the Flashbaggie calls it 'the good life'. And we're not referring to that lovely house classic of yester-year.

Anyway, let get straight to the chase - this week's hot traxxxxxxx...

Side note: These songs aren't necessarily newly released, just newly discovered by the Flashbaggie.

1. Moby - Raining Again (Steve Angello) - Steve Angello is back at it, with a wonderful, heavily disco-filtered remix of Moby's pop hit.

2. Poker Pets - Lovin' You - This song was actually released quite a few months ago, but it is such an amazing gem, that it hit the top of my Ipod charts once again.

3. Hardsoul - Latin Direction (Audiowhores Mix) - The audiowhores are literally the whores of house music, as this duo has been uber-prolific this year. The Flashbaggie will give a brand new papar bag to the house aficionado that can guess the classic track this mix samples.

4. Mambana feat. Isabel Fructuoso - Felicidad (Rasmus Faber Mix) - My man Rasmus, what an amazing producer. House music has been heavily inundated with latin-electro beats, and the Flashbaggie thinks this is a good thing!

5. Annie - Always Too Late - Even though Annie's album was released nearly one year ago, I keep re-discovering lovely gems tucked away on her LP. If there is any reason to visit Norway in the near future, I bet it starts with the letter 'A'.

6. The Knife Remixed by Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats (Rocketboy Remix) - The life-cycle this song has endured is amazing. It was first released a few years ago by one of Sweden's biggest pop stars, The Knife. Then, Sweden's young folk god, Jose Gonzalez came along an turned it into a hippy-dippy campfire dirge. Now, the ingenous Rocketboy has put some life and some groove back into this strange scandinavian hit.

7. Tom Neville - Married Men - Tom Neville is an undeniable genius. This song is undeniably hilarious. Check it out.

8. Fat Phaze - It's Magic - This song is so subtle and so infused with energy, it's a garaunteed floor-filler for any occasion.

9. The Creeps - Music For Freaks (Steven Bug Mix) - One of my favorite deep house tunes so far this summer. It's weird, it has an infectious groove, and mentions a man who lost his shoes several times.

10. The Chemical Brothers - Surface to Air - Aaaaaah, the Chemical Brothers have created a capitivating album, and this song is definately my favorite of the bunch.