Deckhead 2.0

What cannot be said about Central Coast DJ/Producer Aaron Lee North?

Well for starters he was a runner up on FBI’s underage sets for consectuvie years, he is already a big name in the Sydney music scene holding down residencies at Chinese Laundry, Moulin Rouge and Candy’s. His production work also hasn’t gone un noticed having been signed to Bass Kleph’s Vacation records and as a dj he is managed by the aweome Jam Music crew. I truly believe he is a man with a great future in this music industry. He has also formed a production/DJ duo with fellow Central Coast boy Benson the crew is well known as Brain Matters DJ’s and the spearhead of his own design company entitled Heres Johnny Promotions.

and to think he only just turned 20…

I guess I could write all I want about what he has done, and how good he is, but too be honest the truth is in the pudding. Northie has sent me a few of his latest tracks, on offer today we have a clever little bootleg sampling the Fresh Prince, a multi layered mash up and a remix for Melbourne band For Our Hero.

♪ Northie – Looking Fresh (Fresh Prince Bootleg)
♪ Northie – JSided (Jesse Rose, Justin Timberlake, Kelis Mashup)
♪ For Our Hero – Mr. Prozac (Northie Remix)

Bonus:

I think this is pretty much a match made in heaven, two of my favorite up and coming producers at the moment are Hey Now & Brain Matters, well I have just been sent through the Brain Matters remix of Hey Now’s epic track Bring That. Remember to get Hey Now’s debut ep simply type in “Hey Now Queens Boulevard”  into Itunes and you can purchase it for the low cost of $7!

♪ Hey Now – Bring That (Brain Matters Remix)

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If your a fan of the For Our Hero remix, check out their Myspace as they have some pretty cool tracks!

Jax

In all honesty I am kind of happy that Deckhead got taken down, I guess I would have preferred it on my own terms, but hey shit happens. On Saturday morning I received an email from Google stating:

We’d like to inform you that we’ve received another complaint regarding your blog. Upon review of your account, we’ve noted that your blog has repeatedly violated Blogger’s Terms of Service. Given that we’ve provided you with several warnings of these violations and advised you of our policy towards repeat infringers, we’ve been forced to remove your blog.

Occasionally google would send us an email saying that one of our posts has been taken down aka a DMCA notification, there is a lot of ambiguity when it comes to these notifications. Not once are bloggers ever told the song that caused this take down or do they get told what the problem, there is a generic email sent out and basically the bloggers cannot do anything about, you just have to accept it and move on.

This is why I have decided to start up a new page, with a fresh outlook on music. Deckhead 2.0 will be focusing on supporting Australian artists, and especially Sydney based ones, the music that will be posted wont be posted as a way of getting more traffic or posted because we want to do a post. It will be quality music, whether it is original works, remixes, bootlegs or dare I say mash ups. We will try to be more culturally aware with events that are going on in Sydney, whether it is club nights, festivals, or gallery openings or shows. My goal is to make Deckhead a place where people can come to not only find out the latest music doing the rounds, but a way they can learn more about the artists of Sydney and Australia. Saying that I will still be promoting international producers and Djs, but tracks will not be posted to generate traffic.

Frequent readers of the old blog are sure to know Hey Now, for a few months we had weekly Wednesday posts dedicated to their production work, it was a way of getting support for their production work and also a way of promoting their Australia wide tour with Grafton Primary. Here is their latest remix of none other than Grafton Primary, this is one of their best remixes to date, I think being surrounded by their music so much has helped Hey Now create such a great remix. This news just in the Hey Now Debut Ep is finally on Itunes, all you have to do is type in “Hey Now Queens Boulevard” and purchase it for the low cost of $7, whoa! Good work boys

Grafton Primary – Records For The Righteous (Hey Now remix)

Redial has been one of the pioneers in recent years of the harder hitting electronic music scene of Sydney, releasing such bangers as 45 Overdrive, 1985 and more recently Stop The Noise with Blaze Tripp. In more recent times he has been tweaking his sound and has started to evolve as a producer, he has now modified his hard hitting synths to a more subtle and effective sound. I have two of his latest remixes on offer today, the La Roux one blew me mind.

Stay tuned for some information about a remix competition for his latest single featuring Nik Valentino.

La Roux – Bulletproof (Redial Remix)

Ladyhawke – Delerium (Redial Remix)

Just to show that we are not just focusing on Sydney talent, I have a remix from a talented young Melbourne producer by the name of Airwolf, I have been monitoring his progress for a few months now, and he is finally coming into his own as a producer.

The Aeons – Beyond The Satellites (Airwolf Remix)

Finally, this mix has been on repeat on my ipod and itunes all week, it’s a disco inspired mix by Sydney boys The Gameboys, the thing that I find most amazing about this mix is that after listening to it I could only identify one track that I knew. They have been working hard on producing some original music of their own, and if this mix is anything to go by Sydney should have a new dynamite disco duo in the shape of Shazam meets Flight Facilities meets Light year.

The Gameboys – Disco Cosmic

I would just like to thank Diego from Trashbags for helping with the relaunch, he helped out with creating that amazing banner. Check out his wonderful blog that is Trashbags Kids and stay tuned to those sites as well as Deckhead for more information about Tuff Em Up!

Jax