Purple Sneakers DJ - EXCLUSIVE!!

It's a special moment in any blogger's life when he/she gets their first exclusive. I don't really think you've made in the blogging world until you've had a first release and, thanks to Purple Sneaker Head Honcho and one of FHM's most influential people under 30 PhDJ, Highlighter now has their's. This is a track that is a special remix of a Wons Phreely track Another Thing that features on the spankingly new Purple Sneakers Mixtape of Indie Joy (Available soley on iTunes).

Here at Highlighter we are big fans of the mixtape and Martin has done a stirling job of mixing up a storm of Oz Indie goodness. Starting slow and moving the BPM's up towards the end, PhDJ has chosen some of my favourite tracks floating around New Holland at present. Here is the tracklist with a few goodies filled in for you

Yves Klein Blue - The Streetlight

Rivo Crew - Smash a Kangaroo

Gotye - Thanks For Your Time

The Paper Scissors - We Don't Walk

I Heart Hiroshima - Punks

Dappled Cities - Vision Bell

Teenager - Pony

Wons Phreely - Another Thing (Mailer Daemon & PhDJ remix) - EXCLUSIVE!!!

Urthboy - We Get Around

Soft Tigers - Mr Icecream (Kato & DJ Spruce Lee remix)

Melanie Horsnell - Like Love

British India - Tie Up My Hands

Muscles - One Inch Badge Pin

The Beautiful Girls - Thought About You

The Mares - Biscuit Tin

bLuejuice - Vitriol

Regurgitator - Blood & Spunk

Mercy Arms - Kept Low

Horsell Common - Good From Afar

Cut Off Your Hands - Closed Eyes (Kiwi Bros)

Being a Perth boy I have only heard stories from my mate's cousin's stepdad's dog about how fucking good the shows that these guys put on at the Abercrombie. Not only do they have an exceedingly good party in Sydney on New Years Eve (Dappled Cities, The Tongue, Young & Restless) but they have their own label Boundary Sounds that is supporting awesome Aussie up-and-comers. They are currently making their way around the country and after playing the Newport last night, tomorrow night is the big one with Purple Sneakers vs Death Disco on @ Amplifier and if you're in Perth, Highlighter encourages you to clear your schedules and get your ass down for some Purple partaying

Love all round to PhDJ and the Purple Sneakers Crew

And as an added bonus, the You Am I track the team adopted their name from

You Am I - Purple Sneakers

Ministry Of Sound Mixtape

Its only 11 sleeps until Ministry Of Sound Annual All Day Outdoor Festival @ Supreme Court Gardens to launch off our Summer festival season (I know Parlife but that was Spring). And, as I'm aiming to do for all the festivals this summer, I thought I'd throw together a Mix Ceedee of all the artists involved in the festi'. It is a good lineup for MOS and I'm particualrly looking forward to seeing Bookashade for the first time and Midnight Juggernauts again (As is evident from the doubles on the Ceedee.)

Without Further Ado.....

Highlighter Presents..... The MOS AADOF Mix Ceedee

Booka Shade - Night Falls

Sneaky Sound System - Tease Me

Midnight Juggernauts - Twenty Thousand Leagues

Trentemøller - Moan (Trentemoller Remix)

Fedde Le Grand - F to the F Wheels In Motion

Pnau - Come Together

DJ Mehdi - Steed Lord 'Dirty Mutha'

Paul Harris - I Love You Revolver

Infusion - The Only Thing I Know

Booka Shade - Numbers (DJ-Kicks)

Smokin' Jo - Sausage Dog

Goodwill & Tommy Trash - It's A Swede Thing

Electrofunklovers - I Dont Think You Know

The Aston Shuffle - For Everyone

Midnight Juggernauts - Raised By Wolves

Love yous all

NME: Love Music Hate Racism

The good folks of NME have initiated a program to counter the recent actions of the British Nationalist Party (A 'White Power ' political group) of distributing racist mixtapes of white power music outside British primary and high schools. How fucked up is that. Anyway, NME decided to make their own mixtape called Love Music Hate Racism, that promotes multicultural love and tolerance, something the world needs a lot more of. The mix CD has a range of British acts from many different cultures and many different styles. Here are a couple of the better tracks both of a reggae mood, the first is a guy I hadn't heard of Natty, from London who has a very good rhythm and vibe and a dubby Babyshambles track that I do quite like, even though i still think Pete can't sing.

Natty - If I . . .
(If you like it go to his Myspace to download a free mixtape of his new stuff)

Babyshambles - Stone Me - What A Life!

You can download the whole double CD and artwork/CD covers from the NME wesbsite but they are a single mp3 for each CD, not broken down into tracks. Very frustrating. Anyway here are the links anyway.

Download Disk 1

Download Disk 2

Download CD1 artwork

Download CD2 artwork

Get 'em while they're hot.

Also here is the 2007 NME Cool List, it's a load of wank but humourous (Quoted from the NME website)

1)Frank Carter, Gallows (new) 2007: the year punk broke again. One man led the charge. It was blood at first sight…

2)Jamie Reynolds, Klaxon (last year 13) Broken-boned new rave mongrel

3)Lovefoxxx, CSS (last year 10) Three XXXs, two catsuits, one fiancé, zero holiday time

4)Ryan Jarman, The Cribs (re-entry) The enemy of generation Razorshite

5)Lethal Bizzle (new) Most sought-after grime star since Mr Muscle

6)Alex Turner, Arctic Monkeys (last year 32) Fluorescent adolescent

7)Kate Nash (new entry) So cool she’d much rather be with your friends, mate

8)Amy Winehouse (last year 50) Was there any question of her not being on the list? We say, “No, no, no (etc)”

9)Beth Ditto, Gossip (last year 1) Last year’s Number One

10)Keith Richards (last year 26) Who the fuck is Mick Jagger?

(Thank fuck Pete Doherty didn't make it, cuz heroin just aint cool)