Everybody knows this jam. Slowed down with a jazzy spin makes it even that more enjoyable. Cheers.

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Music Sounds Better With You (Eat More Cake Remix) – Stardust

He’s the biggest genius in the game right now (along with Wolfgang). Bringing the dirty dutch sound to life, Nick van de Wall, incorporates every aspect of high intensity dutch electro there is to offer. He’s also the fucking man, as I saw him live and was backstage with him. His live sets are unparalleled, and each and every new hit he releases seems to top the rest. Nick, I commend you for your hard work and innovate flair that has wowed house fans worldwide.

“Take Over Control” the newest member to the ever growing brood of hits looks set to follow in similar footsteps,after starting life at the Miami WMC where Afrojack himself was one of the biggest highlights. Afrojack has teamed up with hot Dutch vocal talent Eva Simons to create an absolute banger of a track that’s set to tear up dancefloors nationwide! With huge interest and support from major labels stateside and with a tour already completed in the US and in Australia, Afrojack looks set to replicate other break through artists such as Sidney Samson and Fedde Le Grand.” – Ministry of Sound

Below you will find the work of Adam F…Cheers.

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Take Over Control (Adam F Dubstep Remix) – Afrojack feat. Eva Simmons

192kbps
Ministry of Sound
Release Date: 7th November

Keljet is a remix artist duo Chubby has a serious crush on. We’ve been working close with them and have established a real nice blog to artist relationship. This morning, I got an email from the Dutch duo regarding their newest remix. Ladies, well mainly ladies, and gentlemen, I present to you this first remix of Mike Posner, the Duke Sigma Nu sensation, 31 Minutes to Takeoff Keljet remix. This is a hard banging electro cut that I think you’ll find more than appetizing. Cheers to UNC.

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31 Minutes to Takeoff (Keljet Remix) – Mike Posner

Breakthruradio.com contacted us about a week back asking to do a special on Chubby. BreakThru Radio (BTR) is devoted to giving a voice to talented, upcoming artists and empowering DJs to pick and play their own music. They have a great deal of listeners and are definitely penetrating to online music market. Every week they do have a special called the “Anatomy of a Blogger”. This week, they discovered the anatomy of Chubby, which we are very proud about. Here is the link for the anatomy of ChubbyBeavers. There is an exclusive interview of bagel and I, covering such topic as emerging music and our plans for Chubby. Additionally, bagel made a mix for their radio that is currently being aired. Check it out beaver fans. Here is one from the vault, like this track is real old, but I am smitten by the acoustic guitar in this chill, but classy cut. Cheers.

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Cylons In Love – Bent

Here is the soundcloud of the mix currently being aired on BTR, produced by bagel himself.
Chubby Radio Mix Final by chubbybeavers

This song was a monster to begin with. Two massive names, the king of trance, and the king of 26-year-old Scotsmen who mastered digital production in their bedroom, both dudes get a little extra help from sultan and ned. Check it. Cheers.

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Century (Ned Shepard & Sultan Remix) – Tiesto ft. Calvin Harris

Bonus:

Follow Me To Brazil (Coopa Bootleg) – Deadmau5 & Aly-Us

Here is a little host of tunes to start your week off. Sitting on a bag of ice to keep cool…cheers.

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Animal (Fred Falke Remix) – Miike Snow

Hot-N-Fun (Crookers Radio Edit) – N.E.R.D Feat Nelly Furtado

Pjanoo Lovers (David Puentez Bootleg Mix) – Eric Prydz

MP3 Doug Bogan Exclusive:

Bombing the Starry Eyed – Doug Bogan

I ranted about it before, you’ve all heard it somewhere else I assume, and I just can’t wait until you grace your ears on this shit. Thanks to the guys at Vacay Vitamins,  I am able to bestow you with these sonic treasures. The production quality is of unknown proportions, and this is shit quality rips. Cheers.

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Deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner – Untitled (Preview) by VacayWave

Some extra unreleased Wolfgang rips…

Illmerica (Preview) – Wolfgang Gartner

Untitled 2 + Vocal (Preview) – Wolfgang Gartner

A student at Bucknell University, and a Chubby favorite, Doug Bogan is taking the college mashup scene by storm. I was lucky enough to sit down with him for an extensive interview just before he took stage at Webster Hall a few weeks back. Take a look for yourself…

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Doug Bogan/Chubby Beavers Interview

CB: Doug my man good to see you. So tell me, what would be the first drink you would order at a bar?

A pint of milk, hands down.  Builds strong bones, even at the bar.

CB: Excellent choice. Now moving on to the important shit – tell me how you got into music production?

Well, it’s actually an interesting story.  Back in high school, I established my own concert promotion business, called Thee Productions.  However, in addition to promotion, I decided to incorporate live sound into the company, providing concert venues with both the talent and the sound requirements they needed to pull off bigger shows.  During my junior and senior years of high school, one of my good friends, Greg Golterman, took up DJ’ing both in our town (Wilton, CT) and in the surrounding areas.  For shows where the venue didn’t have adequate sound gear to throw down, I’d come in as Thee Productions and provide live sound/lighting for his shows.  Each time he played, I took mental notes as to how Greg was doing his thing and decided to try it out myself on my way out to college last fall.  After a couple months, I was playing shows every single weekend on campus out at Bucknell, meeting tons of new people and putting out new tracks every week.  The rest is history.

CB: You told me your mom was at a Vampire Weekend concert – she a big influence on you? Does indie have an influence on your beats?

Oh heck yeah man.  My mom has the best (coolest/broadest) taste in music of anyone I’ve met in her generation (my dad sticks with Earth, Wind and Fire).  But seriously, it was she who really helped me develop my deep interest in music, beginning when I was three with piano lessons (oh yeah, I’m also a classical concert pianist).  All along, both my parents saw eye-to-eye with me on music and have clocked countless hours supporting me in my involvement in the arts.  In terms of indie, yeah, I have quite an appreciation for the movement and where today’s leading indie artists are taking their work.  The genre is becoming less and less “underground” with its proliferation through outlets such as the Internet; thus, I seek to incorporate it into my work to span genres and connect to my audiences.  Remixes and mashups resonate best with audiences when the crowd can understand, recognize and relate to that which it hears.

CB: How do you plan on making the transition from mashup artist to an original production artist?

Right now, I’m not really sure.  With the emergence of new genres that seem to be gaining a stronger foothold every day (dubstep and nudisco, for example), mashups incorporating these genres still seem to be a hot commodity both live and recorded.  I really enjoy exposing my audiences to new genres and sounds, so if they keep responding to mashups of all genres, I’ll stick with that.  The mashup “genre” is so broad that I don’t see stopping in the near future.  Bottom line: I’ll cross the mashup-original production bridge when I need to get there.

CB: As you know, I am not a fan of mashup artists. I do indeed think it is a great gateway into the music industry. What would you tell somebody like me to convince them that mashups are really a form of musical artistry?

Music artistry?  I’d happen to agree with you that it’s not the most “artistic” of all music.  If we’re being completely honest, I’m still having trouble coming to grips with seeing computers as “instruments” through which music can be created (that’s the classical pianist coming out in me).   But anyways, mashups serve a much greater purpose than just providing musical entertainment: they promote and facilitate musical discovery.  Human nature is such that individuals like to hear tunes they know (or at least recognize) – they respond best to this.  In addition, many people are in search of new music they enjoy, but simply don’t know where to start.  That’s where mashups come in: they have the potential to fuse the familiar and the unknown into one musical “work”, providing individuals with an accessible method to discovering new music.  I can’t tell you how many times people have come up to me after shows I’ve played with comments like, “hey man, I was really diggin’ that Biggie Smalls mashup.  What was that tune you played under the acapella?”.  Questions like these show me how valuable mashups are to my audiences in their quest for new music that appeals to their specific tastes.

CB: What setup do you use at your gigs?

I recently built a big wooden box (aptly dubbed “The Coffin”), in which I’ve laid out all my gear for easy setup/breakdown.  I’m currently rocking either my 17” Macbook Pro or my 13” Macbook, a Hercules Steel MIDI controller and VirtualDJ for live shows.  Cliché, but I’ve explored and configured the software in ways that enable me to utilize the program to its greatest potential.  Trust me, it’s the best fit for me – flexibility and ease in operation.

CB: What production tools do you use at home?

At home, I produce using Ableton Live 7, one of the best DJ production programs out there, with an M-Audio midi keyboard when necessary.

CB: How did you and Brian Pei become buddies and start making beats together?

Well, I first met Brian a couple weeks into our freshman year of college.  He lived two floors above me in my freshman dorm and was the only other kid I’d met at school who’d ever heard of All Time Low and The Audition (ha!).  We soon realized we both have a very similar taste in music when it comes to pop punk/alt music, so we started playing acoustic shows on campus, Brian on his acoustic guitar and me on my keyboard.  Thus, when I realized I could really use some help with my live DJ sets, I floated the idea by him and he was very receptive.  Thus, we teamed up and have been …On The Rise… ever since.

CB: Now to the good stuff. How has Bucknell University influenced your music? Say pros and cons?

Oye vey.  Well, that’s definitely the “good stuff”.  Bucknell is very interesting in its musical taste as a whole.  I know there exist small undercurrents (more under-trickles) of individuals listening to other genres besides Top 40 and jam band music, but they are few and far between.  First, the pro’s: Bucknell introduced me to rap, a genre which I can now safely say I have given a chance.  As an electronic artist hailing from Wilton, a virtually-homogenous upper-middle class community in Southern CT, I have always had a difficult time relating to the subject matter and content of rap.  Furthermore, as a classical pianist, rap seems more to me like poetry than music.  However, through the input of my peers, I’ve been exposed to many of the popular rap tunes and have stored them away in my “DJ bag of tricks” to be used/incorporated during live shows.

Another “plus” to living in an environment worshipping the iTunes Top 10 is the fact that I have had no problem keeping up with the latest, “hottest” Top 40 tunes, songs everyone goes nuts for Friday and Saturday nights (i.e. Ke$ha and Taio Cruz).  Although I personally cannot stand most of these tracks as originally released, I throw down electro remixes/mashups of these tunes on the weekends, people go nuts and the vibe in the place is sick.  This further reiterates that people respond best to tracks they know.  Throw in a couple dubstep/nudisco tunes in between, and the night is satisfying for both the audience and me.

CB: You are so detached from the electronic music scene while residing in Central Pennsylvania – how has this affected your music and how do you stay true to yourself when there is a present shallowness of music literacy at Bucknell? I mean, your vein of music is definitely progressive.

Yeah man, good question.  One thing that is of paramount importance to me is staying true to my musical self.  I am inevitably influenced musically by my surroundings, but I always seek to reach a place that pleases me.  Music is a highly personal experience – the type of music to which one listens says a lot about them.  Therefore, I have to keep up with the genres that define my musical identity as best I can.  I guess you could say my detachedness from the electro scene out in Central PA has simply required an added effort on my part to discover new tracks.  Sites such as The Hype Machine and Skreemr.org are among my holy relics of the Internet music community.

Regarding my staying true to myself: as I briefly mentioned above, I have found that happy mediums are critical to success as an electro artist in a musical environment such as Bucknell University.  In essence, all my released tracks and DJ sets are happy mediums between my taste in music and that of the general populace at college.  In my dorm room, I bump the tracks of Skream, Benga, The Widdler, Rusko and other dubstep greats as-released.  At parties, I simply incorporate these artists’ more mainstream tunes with today’s fresh Top 40/rap tracks, thereby establishing a musical happy medium between audience and artist.

CB: How do you structure your live sets, and how do you find a way to bring all that intensity?!

Structure is key to a successful live DJ set.  My method is this: start off with something the crowd knows and in which they will become interested, branch off to more obscure music and then swing it around full circle, culminating in other familiar tracks.  I always begin with the same couple ‘90’s tunes mashups (Ants Marching, Ben Folds, Third Eye Blind, Good Charlotte, etc) to capture everyone’s interest and get a solid vibe established in the room.  In fact, people have come to expect these first couple tracks – “familiar territory” for them, so to speak.  Then, I usually throw down some electro/dutch house Top 40 remixes, still songs to which everyone can sing along.  Next, dubstep: this is where I get to satisfy my personal taste in electronic music.  However, even here, I make sure to throw some rap acapellas over the tracks that people will recognize to ensure accessibility to the music.  Finally, a couple more fast-paced mashups or, depending on the audience and kinkiness of the chicks to get down, I may go into some grimy rap for people to get their drunken sillies out.

In terms of the intensity, it’s the most natural thing ever for me.  Classical piano, playing keyboards and DJ’ing: passion takes over in all three scenarios.  Albeit cliché, music speaks to me – intensity is simply the by-product.  However, for live DJ sets, the more people are dancing and establishing a solid vibe in the room, the more “into it” I get, feeding off their energy.  Also, contrary to popular belief, I never pregame my shows or drink during live sets, as I want to provide my audience with the best performance I possibly can and always bring my A game.

CB: What are your plans moving forward?

Moving forward, I’m really seeking to travel to other markets for shows.  I’m looking to hit up any Northeast colleges beginning this fall to throw down with new crowds, thereby spreading …On The Rise… music.  In addition, I’m looking to feature local rap talent during some of my live sets to take a bit of a Chiddy Bang approach every once in awhile.  We’ll see how that goes.

CB:  You are stuck on a desert island with yourself and what CD to listen to for the next year?

A year is a long time.  I unfortunately have two favorite albums, so it’d be a tough decision.  It’d either be BB King/Eric Clapton’s “Riding with the King”, released in the early 2000’s, or Bela Fleck & The Flecktones’ self-titled album.  I could listen to either for hours.

CB: If you could hit the studio with one producer right now, who would it be?

Diplo.  Nuff said.

CB:  Any advice you want to give any other artists like you?

I’d tell people to never ever forfeit one’s personal music tastes simply to please a populace.  You can always find a happy medium between your personal tastes and those of your audience that still enables listeners to connect with your music.

© Harrison Telyan. All Rights Reserved.

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Doug my dude, Chubby wishes you the best of luck in your musical endeavors. We look forward to hearing how your music evolves, whether it falls in the vein of dubstep, mashup, or some hybrid of both. I once read that Deadmau5 said to let the music you make nurture itself, and not be overly influenced by other artists. Creating is the best form of musical artistry. With that being said, your music will eventually occupy a niche of its own, maybe like Diplo, or maybe even better. Luckily, you’re off to heck of a start. Cheers my man, and enjoy this new exclusive track from Doug.

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Bombing the Starry Eyed by dougbogan

Again, dubstep is gaining serious popularity. In a school where electronic music is far and in between, hearing dubstep on the reg is a surprise. Got some new nu for you folks. Amtrac takes dubstep/electronic and incorporates hints of hip hop with it…the outcome…dirty. Cheers.

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Tabasco (Feat aRUG) – Amtrack

Across the Wall (Feat. aRUG) – Amtrack

People all the time are asking me “omggg have you heard that song like it goes like something like speakin no american or something,” and my response is “YES it’s been out for awhile now buddy calm your shit.” Sorry do not want to sound condescending, I guess the song just took the world by storm and I was left behind. Well, thanks to Deniz Koyu, he combined Angello’s relatively new hit “Knas” to make for a destructive track. Cheers.

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We No Speak Knas (Deniz Koyu Mashup) – Steve Angello vs Yolanda Be Cool & DCup