What we Canadians Have to be Proud of?
Smarties (not sold in the USA)- Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp (not sold in the USA)
- The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and bigger balls.
- Baseball is Canadian – 1st game June 4, 1838 – Ingersoll, ON
- Lacrosse is Canadian
- Hockey is Canadian
- Basketball is Canadian
- Apple pie is Canadian
- Mr. Dress-up beats Mr. Rogers
- Tim Hortons beats Dunkin’ Donuts
- In the war of 1812, started by Americans, Canadians pushed the Americans back past their White House. Then we burned it, and most of Washington… We got bored because they ran away. Then, we came home and partied… Go figure.
- Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany .
- We have the largest English population that never Ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere. EVER! (We got clobbered in the odd battle but prevailed in ALL the wars)
- Our civil war was fought in a bar and lasted a little over an hour.
- The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, he slept in and missed the whole thing. He showed up just in time to get caught.
- A Canadian invented Standard Time.
- The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth’s surface and is still around as the world’s oldest company.
- The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes. (That’s more information than I need!)
- We know what to do with the parts of a buffalo.
- We don’t marry our kin-folk…
- We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, zippers, insulin, and the telephone… Also short wave radios which save countless lives each year.
- We have ALL frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.
- A Canadian invented Superman.
- We have coloured money.
- Oil was first produced in Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada. Months before anywhere else in North America.
OOOoohhhhh….. Canada !!
Oh yeah… And our elections only take one day!
In anticipation of the upcoming event featuring the mighty Stanton Warriors, we thought we’d give a bit of an education to those who live under the rocks… they need learnin’ too, you know.
Who Are The Stanton Warriors?
In 2001, Stanton Warriors laid down a fresh new sound with the seminal ‘Stanton Sessions’ that was instantly signed to XL Recordings.
Overnight, Stanton Warriors became the hottest producers on the planet, and today they continue to stay at the very pinnacle of their profession.
Stanton dj sets are famed for incorporating exclusive original tracks mixed with homemade edits / remixes of cutting edge sounds from underground house through to abstract hip hop and everything in between. It’s all blended into a melting pot of low down booty electro punkishness, and is continually reminding the world why Stanton Warriors have remained unrivalled in their genre for more than a decade.
What Do They Sound Like?
What Do They Look Like?
Where Can You See Them?
Check back later this week for a chance to win 2 tickets!
Where Can You Learn More?
Web: www.stantonwarriors.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/stantonwarriors
Twitter: www.twitter.com/stantonwarriors
MySpace: www.myspace.com/stantonwarriors
A little off topic from the norm, but it’s so shockingly stupid we can’t help but illustrate it.
America preaches to the world and uses their military to enforce the word of Democracy, but they themselves aren’t truly democratic at all. These 3 videos will illustrate in layman’s terms how the American election system works… Please let us know if it makes sense to you, ’cause we’re a little confused. Actually… A lot!
Wow…
Posted on MixMag today:
The Prodigy, who are now working on the follow-up to their 2009 LP ‘Invaders Must Die’, have said they won’t alter the sound on their new album to embrace the “dubstep stuff that’s around”.
In an interview with Radio 1′s Zane Lowe, Liam Howlett said: “All the dubstep stuff that’s around, we’re loving it, but that’s not our game. We won’t go near it,” said Howlett.
“We’ve always had respect for the masters who do their game, those boys who do that sound [dubstep], that’s what they do. We know what we do, and when any Prodigy record hits it’ll still feel fresh.
“Finding our sound is the next stage of The Prodigy.”
The new album is expected later this year, with the possibility of a single release before.
Exciting news!
Example ‘Changed The Way You Kissed Me’ (Ellis Dee DJ Twista 140 Bass Booty)
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The big topic of conversation on Facebook today was Destiny’s question to their followers:
We are considering making WEMF 2012 an 18+ event.
What are your thoughts? #WEMFcommunity
Within an hour of it being posted to both Facebook and Twitter there were over 100+ responses with the majority of them being PRO 18+.
What are your thoughts? Should WEMF switch from a 16+ event to an 18+ event?
It’s still not 100% clear whether there will be an actual printed magazine, or just a website or e-mail with coverage… but at least it’s coverage of the Canadian scene that MIGHT be seen on a global scale… we hope.
From their site:
WELCOME TO DJMAG CANADA!After an eventful year of musical revolutions, electronic dance music has finally come to the forefront across North America and DJmag Canada has arrived right on time!
We are extremely excited to partner and party with the brilliant talent, venues, promoters and fans across the nation while helping to keep Canadian dance music on an upward trend. We’ll be keeping you up to date on what’s hot in the world of EDM, while uniting fans from Victoria to St. John’s!
Our website is now live, along with our Facebook and Twitter pages. The digital edition of the magazine will be ready for your reading pleasure in April and the print edition will hit shelves in November of this year!
Check out our recent photos and videos from the events that have kept us rolling through the holidays, our first podcast from DJmag Resident DJ Sam.Iam, new music from Canada and abroad, news from events and the Canadian and international scene, and take a minute to subscribe to our digital and print magazines. We are happy to be here and celebrate the love of music with our fellow Canadians, and we welcome any and all feedback on our performance. Please use the feedback button on the right hand side of the page to let us know what we’re doing right, and what we can improve on.
We thank each and every one of you for your continued support and unconditional love for electronic dance music; let’s make this a year to remember!
Keep on living and breathing dance music!
-The DJmag Canada Team
Read this on We Are Your Friends:
Deadmau5 has had a whirlwind festive season to say the very least. First up, the Mayor of Las Vegas declared January 2nd ‘Deadmau5 day‘, signifying perhaps the first time in history an EDM artist had a whole day dedicated to his perpetual being. Secondly, he went on a 12 minute rant Christmas night about how Ultra Festival didn’t do things right, with the spiel seemingly set off by his realisation he was not included on the bill this year. He made some very valid points, but it was yet another in many circumstances where you can’t help but think he would be better off not saying anything at all. Either way, it all made a little more sense when on New Years Eve he came out and stated that he had been suffering from severe depression and anxiety for the most part of 2011. “I’ve been dealing with severe depression and anxiety all year.” he blatantly stated, further explaining “Taking a long time off after my birthday to hopefully get it sorted out before I say or do anything more stupid than I already have”. Its sad to see someone with such a good life still succumb to the pressures of fame and wind up on what can often be a long and lonely road. Lets hope he gets better, regardless of how you feel about the moniker he has created.
There’s been some instant response from people saying he should ‘suck it up‘, or ‘get over it‘, or to ‘shut up and enjoy his amazing life‘… even to ‘stop putting out crap tunes and things will get better‘.
We know some people that knew Mr. Zimmerman prior to his megastardom. Consider this angle before you judge the Mau5.
Word is he never really had a really solid core group of friends in the first place. Then, he starts making music that people like, and people start to latch on to him. Then he gets really famous and more people latch on to him. Then he becomes a millionaire and a worldwide star with Grammy nominations and the title of helping to ‘revive‘ dance music. Now… how would you feel if you thought that everyone around you was just a ‘fair-weather friend‘, or only wanted something from you? How would that make you feel? Depressed, perhaps?
We get it. We get it exactly. Not too long ago our DJ’s were ‘pseudo-famous‘. They were local ‘scene‘ celebrities with moderate ‘fame‘ across the country. We also threw a lot of parties too. However, once the gigs started to dry up and the parties became fewer and fewer, we noticed that the number of times the phone would ring in a day got smaller and smaller… until it practically stopped ringing at all. All the ‘fair-weather friends‘ moved on. Thankfully we had a good core group of friends prior to all that happening… but just imagine that feeling on a GLOBAL SIZED scale. We’d be depressed too.
While we may not be the Mau5′s biggest fans either musically or personally, we understand and sympathize with what he’s going through.
Money can’t buy everything…
One of my all time favorite SNL skits.
Well, the WEMF dates were announced (Aug. 17-19), the venue will be the same as the last 2 WEMF’s (The beautiful South Algonquin town of Madawaska).
Tickets will go on sale early in the new year. The cheapest price will most likely be available ONLINE only* at Ticketweb. If you don’t have a credit card you should start looking now for someone that does. OR, you can buy a Visa gift card at your local store. They can be used online just like a credit card (service fee’s may apply).
Another WEMF Tip: Camping supplies are generally cheaper in the winter (when no one is camping). Stock up on some of the bigger ticket items you will need now to save some money!
Another WEMF Tip: Dump all your spare change at the end of the day into a container. It all adds up really quickly so you will not be out-of-pocket too much when it comes time to buy your ticket and supplies.
Keep an eye on WEMF.com and Facebook for updates!
(* subject to change)
Readers of this blog know that we are avid supporters of Shad, one of the best under-appreciated hip hop artists in Canada, if not the world.
Seems he’s recently released a mixtape called, Besides. He teamed up with DJ TLO for this 25 minute-long mixtape, which features a number of tracks that Shad has guest spotted on in the past few years and a few solo unreleased songs as well. For more information, read Shad’s description of each song below.
Last year, he released his Polaris Music Prize-nominated third album, TSOL and I’m sure we’ll be seeing a new full-length in the near future.
DOWNLOAD NOW: CLICK HERE (Mediafire)
The Tracklist in Shad’s own words:
- give you all i can: scratch bastid and i got together one time and yelled about how good stevie wonder and curtis mayfield are for about 7 hours then he pitched me this beat… i started writing about ma$e and natalie portman and ribs right away which tells you im in a good mood… looking fwd to more work with him. www.skratchbastid.com
- listen (rmx): i put a new 3rd verse on this one and dallas green gave it a chorus and spiced up the verses. love that guy… itunes.apple.com/ca/album/two-songs-single/id410142177
- notorious: kardi, skillz, ayah. jazzy jeff on the beat… my first cornell west reference is contained therein… backformore.bandcamp.com
- flawless: frank dukes gave me this heater and i felt like i had to do some deadpan punchline shtuff on there… norm macdonald flow: dirty work. www.thenewnorth.ca
- one two check (from the great eascape): joint with my dude louwop. we did a dope live remix with zaki ibrahim. sleeping on her is not advised. louwop.bandcamp.com
- rose garden (rmx): dj t lo beat is irreplaceable. i threw up a new verse and 2/3 of Tanya Morgan hopped on after i ran into don will randomly one time. www.tanyamorgan.net
- love: unreleased track from that monster named tona. coming soon… www.bigtona.com
- stereotypes: new-new from TO group The Get By. beat is bonkers. had to get on there and shout out TBTBT… thegetby.squarespace.com/music
- want you back: this was the first jawn i did with jazzy jeff. skillz and phil nash also holding it down on there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS5nvKk2zV8
- praise da lord: with maestro… we ate some harvey’s before the session and i got to learn from the godfather. good day… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgjr710pijk
- count your blessings (from the green light): w/ relic who is a frequent collaborator i met through my friend the runaway. the green light’s got some heat on there. relic.bandcamp.com/
- dawn song (remix): was very happy to hop on this rmx with northwest legends blue scholars. we linked up thru mutual homie dj hyphen. bluescholars.com
- paving the way: incise ft. okay city (london!) and david morin with the smooth vocals… www.lessonsix.com/2010/08/review-incises-daily-methods
- electric city (from metropolis is burning): got another track with grand analog coming soon! love these guys… www.grandanalog.com
- it’s about time: bonus track on TSOL. sometimes i forget how nice this beat is. promise does his thing on there too. www.richkiddbeats.com
- heateration: real freeeqs w/ theo3, grimace love and famous. tone mason on the beat… TeeDot underground is the best. fact. therealfrequency.com
- flux and flow (from siberia) : lights killed this. music.iamlights.com/music
- live forever (acapella): ive been doing this verse a lot at shows lately. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEx771P9TFs
Check out his blog at: shadk.squarespace.com
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We shot some footage of Shad live at the Jazz festival last summer. Check it:
Also, Much Music here in Canada did a profile show on him. Watch it online here: MUCH MUSIC
So, in conclusion: We really, really like Shad.
Toronto D&B producer Gremlinz is giving away one of his older tunes!
In his words:
A VIP I did of a tune called “Annexed” that was released on Renegade Hardware years ago as part of the sampler for the Second Horsemen Lp. Just came across it on my hardrive so I figured I’d Share it…
Alternate Download link: Right Click and Save
A few years ago, we accompanied our friend Myagi to some fundraiser-type event at Revival in Toronto. He was gonna play a set of old funk 45′s, so we were glad to tag along.
It was a variety show format… some lame comedians, some bands, but there was this one new band that caught our ears. She said her name was Anjulie. She was a very hot Indian girl that was just captivating and very talented. We made a note in our mind to keep an eye out for this girl because she’s “got it” and she’ll go far.
Well, wouldn’t you know it… this evening while being caught up in a youtube-watching vortex we stumbled upon some video’s from ‘Anjulie‘. Looks like she’s doing just fine.
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