Come Down Monday EP27 feat TRAFIK & CHRIS STOCK

From Cape Town to the World …it’s Come Down Monday, the sound of Trance & Progressive.

Hosted by Mixed-Up Productions’ residents, Shaun Holiday and Scott Small …the show feature’s the best of what the Trance & Progressive seen has to offer …new tunes, Label and Artist features, interviews and promos.

This week’s CDM features TRAFIK [Global Underground#image] & Chris Stock [Plastik Philosophy#image]

CDM WARMUP mixed by TRAFIK

1. Moby – Pale Horses (Apparat Dub)
2. Abe Duque feat Virginia – Following My Heart
3. Filburt & Good Guy Mikesh – Freddy
4. Joel Mull – Soursweet (Petar Dundov Remix)
5. Fever Ray – Triangle Walks (Rex The Dog Edit)
6. Airwave – Trilogique
7. Felix Da Housecat – Elvi$
8. Daniel Portman – Dark Is The Night For All
9. Trafik – The Stars (Trafik’s Dark Night Remix)
10. Luke Chable – Pressure
11. KiRA & James Warren feat Rachel Lamb – Taking Control (Dub Mix)
12. Doves/Florence & The Machine – Jetstream (Sasha Dub)/Rabbit Heart [Trafik Bootleg#image]
13. Apparat – Arcadia (Boys Noize Remix)/(Telefon Tel Aviv Remix) [Trafik Edit#image]
14. Muse – Knights Of Cydonia (Ocelot Remix)
15. Delphic – This Momentary (Les Matos Remix) [Trafik Edit#image]

CDM CLOSING mixed by CHRIS STOCK

1. Dtollio – Smell Of A Season (Original Remix)
Martin Jarl – Moonstruck (Gus Gus Remix)
Dtollio – I Come To Play
2. Luke Dzierzek – Profound (Original Mix)
Luke Dzierzek – Profound (Cass Mangans Deadset Play Around Again Mix)
Hatikvah – Modern Times (Efdemin Remix)
3. Rick Nicholis Asher Jones – Boogie Night (Original Mix)
4. Itamar Sagi – Dramatical (Pig & Dan Remix)
Mark Brown – New Heights (Christian Smith John Selway Remix)
5. Ali Walson Matt Smallwood – Jagged (Rick Nicholis Remix)
6. Secret Cinema – Kurzwell (Original Mix)
7. Dtolio – Extraopus (Minz Palimpsest Remix)
Audiojack – Japan 4 (Original Remix)
8. Le Noir – Eleny (Luke Dzierzek Remix)
9. Lars Behrenroth – Ice On The Sun (Original Remix)
10. FSonik Tomy DeClerque – Pleasant Noise (Smith & Selway Remix)
11. Steve Lawler – Sleepwalking (Original Remix)

**** Track Edits & Additional Samples by Chris Stock ****

TRAFIK – GLOBAL UNDERGROUND
John Elliot & Andrew Archer (a.k.a. Trafik) …signed to the world’s foremost independent dance music label, Global Underground, have just released their second studio album, ‘Club Trafikana’.

This new album has been specifically created and produced to be taken on a worldwide club tour and was recently described in the dance music press as a “fresh take on the standard dance album concept” and “a great way to reinvigorate the fragmented nature of download culture”. The unique live show utilises a mixture of decks, efx, synths mixing desks and controllers, and is followed by a rocking DJ set which work seamlessly together, leading to recent sell out gigs for ‘Trafik Live’ in Dubai, Singapore, Dublin and Spain.

Trafik’s first album ‘Bullet’ released in 2004, successfully achieved cult status with a blend of genres and styles that was likened to Orbital and Hybrid. Their music has gained respect from the likes of Paul Oakenfold, Sasha, Nick Warren, The Plump DJs and Deep Dish. Their experience has been revered by Nick Warren, using productions from the duo on 3 of his 4 Global Underground albums. Added to that, the likes of Dave Seaman (Kylie Minogue’s producer on ‘Confide In Me’), UNKLE and Tilt have all commissioned monster Trafik remixes in recent years.

With music appearing on two of the world’s most watched TV shows ‘CSI: Miami’ and ‘CSI: NY’ and on a selection of the latest Sony Playstation games, the sound of Trafik can undoubtedly be heard in all four corners of the world.

Trafik have also mixed some of the most seminal compilations in dance music history, collectively amassing well over 1 million sales in total to date. With 19 mix albums so far released, these include the new ‘GUMIXED’ and ‘GUMIXED 2′ albums, and the recently huge ‘GU10′ album quoted as “Possible the best album GU has ever released” by iDJ Magazine, and the ‘Afterhours’ Series (1-4) including ‘Afterhours 2′ which Pete Tong made his “Essential CD of the week”. Added to this, Jive Magazine labelled Trafik’s now renowned ‘Electric Calm’ series, as “the best chill out CDs ever”, and the last ‘Electric Calm V.3′ was an instant hit on iTunes reaching #1 in Canada, #2 in the UK and #3 in the US download charts.

Trafik are Andrew Archer and John Elliott. Andrew found fame as one part of the Forth achieving huge notoriety re-mixing the top 40 hit BT – ‘Loving You More’. Andrew, with the aid of DJ partner Scott Dawson then developed the Forth as an all conquering DJ outfit that would see them travel to the four corners of the globe. One memorable moment was Andrew’s DJ show on the Great Wall of China, which was the first live performance there by a western DJ in China; contrary to a claim made by a certain Mr Oakenfold. Then came the release of the Forth’s debut EP ‘Reality Detached’, described by DJ Hyper as his favourite track of all time. Also featuring on this EP was a destructive club track ‘Solavox’ which featured vocals from a certain John Elliott.

Previous to this first meeting of the minds for the Trafik boys, John had been living the life of a rock band member, and since leaving school at the tender age of 16 he toured with the widely loved British indie band Solavox. John experienced the highs and lows of the music industry ranging from being the youngest songwriter on Polygram’s books in a £250,000 deal, to the cold and lonely road home after rock and roll excess were laid waste by other members of the band that at the time had been labelled by Melody Maker “even better than the real U2″. With no regrets though, time on the road gave John an education in the world of live music, where he learnt to not only sing live but play guitar both axe and bass, keyboards and ‘a bit of drums!’; raw and crucial experience that cannot be taught anywhere else.

Trafik’s unique sound was thus created, combining the DJing and programming skills of Andrew and the live ability and production skills of John. With plans in the making for a new third album, more licenses and remixes, alongside sync music for TV shows, advertisements, film and computer game soundtracks, and more ‘Trafik Live’ world tour dates coming up, expect to hear much more from the duo…

CHRIS STOCK

2009 already has Chris Stock listed on the prestigious Urban Wave webpage with the top of South Africa’s “Superstar” DJ’s; international acts such as John Digweed, Sasha, Deep Dish, Jimmy Van M to name a few; AMN Events DJ listing & is now signed with Japan’s pioneer & number one house artist Masashi Osaku from IBIZA Podcast, iTUNES on the new UK based record label Plastik Philosophy.

This will see him releasing singles, as well as an album/ qtr CD releases in Europe. Events lined up & in discussions currently within the EU include Dance Valley (Holland), Creamfields, music festivals in Amsterdam, USA, the United Kingdom this June & Japan for September with Masashi Osaku.

Established as a leader in the ‘underground house’ scene in Africa, this South African based producer is at the cutting edge of the industry with the latest approach to DJing; not playing conventional vinyl or cd’s but having entered the digital realm of live music production, utilizing state of the art technology.

His genre of music could be described as not in one particular sound or direction & is not restricted to one genre; instead there are elements of many, drifting seamlessly in a contemporary cosmopolitan mashup of progressive house, blistering tech & minimal agendas. When performing live, audiences can expect an emotional ‘electronica’ ride combined with mid tempo beats, burbling sequences & glitch based grooves.

Alive & soaking progressive rhythms have broadcasted & featured Chris Stock through-out the world, recently with DJ DAN on a global exclusive Easter weekend show covering 30 major radio stations aired from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Czech Republic, Brazil, Ireland to the USA.

Live performances have seen him continuously with international acts; alongside acclaimed producer/ DJ Dealer from the USA (Look At You Records), November 08. the Fire & Ice event hosted by international coordinators Harderfaster with over ten of South Africa’s finest & most influential DJ’s.

Dec. 08 Chris Stock took his digital release ‘Mainroom’ on tour starting in Johannesburg at the Nukleuz Trance Adrenaline Event with Pierre Pienaar (Nukleuz) & Simon Qudos (UK); Durban’s Traxx Lite Fridays featuring Chris Stock & supported by Durban’s Warren Rhodes to The Assembly, Cape Town with a 5000+ audience at the MCQP dance event; the MASK new years eve party which took over Napier Street with a triple bill in dance floors as well as 3 International DJ’s, Red Richard (USA), Tony Morris (USA) & Colin Jowell (Australia). The Return performance for 09. to the mother city for the J&B MET Chris Stock & finally to Sugar in his home city.

With today’s technology, the combination of DJing & music production in live performances is the way forward; through software such as Ableton Live combined with the latest developments in hardware & hardware made possible with Allen & Heath Xone midi interfaces. This is a new era in our music industry, one which celebrates the digital in electronic music – where any sound is possible through a computer; and where the touch of a rotary enables the unique ability to manipulate energy on any dance floor.

COME DOWN MONDAY is produced by MIXED-UP PRODUCTIONS

Website: www.mixedup.co.za
Email: cdm@mixedup.co.za

File Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?rj0zddkjmoi