A new mix of smooth disco jams from our own Mr. Bonkerz. Nice vibez!

BONKERZ: Vol. 05 by Mr. Bonkerz

Really happy to post up this remix for download by one of my favorite Miami DJs and producers, Lazaro Casanova. Laz, put a deep, cosmic groove on my single with Micah Vellian, No Sleep. You can grab to whole release here, and I’ll def be playing this remix Saturday at U Hall. Hope to see you there. DL Laz’s mix and check out his great stuff on his SoundCloud page.

href=”http://soundcloud.com/willeastman/will-eastman-micah-vellian-3″>Will Eastman & Micah Vellian (feat. Tt The Artist) – No Sleep (Lazaro Casanova Vocal Mix)

by Will Eastman

This Saturday, our friend Nick Catchdubs joins me and Chris Nitti at BLISS. Nick is a phenomenal DJ and one of the nicest dudes you’ll ever meet. His Fool’s Gold Records with A-Trak is responsible for some of the biggest dance tunes around these days. I chatted with Nick about his stellar mixtapes and what got him tied up in the DJ biz in the first place. Don’t miss Nick Saturday. It’s gonna be a fun night.

Will: You’re a master behind a mixer. When did you get your start DJing and what got you into it?

Nick: I didn’t really start DJing until 2003, the summer when I graduated college. It was a (relatively) late start, before then I had just been writing music and playing in bands. More on an indie / power pop guitar tip. But the music I liked was always all over the place. I grew up loving Funkmaster Flex and Red Alert on the radio but never really thought “oh, DJing, thats what they’re doing here.” There wasn’t really like, an older dude that was killing it in high school that people looked up to. We had prom guys. And I was never into the underground hip hop scene that was blowing up in the late 90s, I wasn’t watching DMC videos and practicing with battle records and shit. (Ironic when you think about teaming up with A-Trak years later.) But slowly in college I was picking up more on DJ stuff. I remember the day I moved into the dorm I bought a DJ Clue tape that started off with him blending Christina Aguilera’s “Genie In A Bottle” over Nas “Nastradamus” and thinking that was the coolest thing ever. I wasn’t going out to see DJs or to dance nights, but just living in the city you would get put up on mixes, then the Turntable Lab store opened and I would always be in there buying stuff – even then it never really clicked until right before graduation, when I was in charge (or rather, put myself in charge) of making mixes for that last week or two when we just hung out and partied every night. The programming aspect really did it for me: these songs in this order get this reaction. The “oh shit” factor of the unexpected or forgotten jam. All that. Then around the same time, the Hollertronix “Never Scared” mix came out, Mark Ronson made a mix for his first album that I really liked, DFA was happening, there were still like 8 great Neptunes songs at any given moment… I knew that this was what I wanted to be doing. I could put together all the different kinds of music I like, and not have to worry about whether or not I got along with my drummer or whatever.

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Check out the latest mix by Mr. Bonkerz, Blisspop’s own Minister of Discocracy, and don’t miss him at BLISS Saturday night at U Hall!

BONKERZ: Vol. 3 by Mr. Bonkerz

One of our own soothsayers of electronic goodness, Chris Nitti, just dropped a new DJ mix aptly, minimally titled “April” and I’m all about it right now. You will be, too. Chris has a fine ear and he’s a fine DJ as well. Check it out and follow our good man on SoundCloud and Twitter. Track list after art and the mix itself below.

April by chrisnitti

Tracklist:

Coma – Raindrops
Ron Deacon – Untitled B2
Pantha Du Prince – A Nomad’s Retreat (The Sight Below Remix)
Azari & III – Into The Night (Nicolas Jaar Remix)
Dinky – Polvo
Lee Foss – Cabin Party
Todd Terje – Ragysh
Cut Copy – Need You Now (Carl Craig Remix)
Andre Obin – Soft Rain (Patrice Baumel Future Mix)
Lone – Once In A While (Midland Mix)
Bloc Party – Signs (Pantha Du Prince Remix)
Harald Grosskopf – Synthesist (Snoretex Remix)