Robyn – With Every Heartbeat (Nacey Bootleg)

I’ve been screaming at the mountaintops about DC’s Nacey for what it seems a hot minute now. The DJ/producer, 1/3rd of the super Nouveau Riche crew, has been dropping ridiculously dope mixes for a while now, and has the eye of everyone from Fairfax to Finland.

His rework of Robyn’s With Every Heartbeat is, just like fellow DCer Outputmessage’s Robyn rework, hands down better than the original. He flips a house breakbeat into what my UK friends call, a floor filler. Check it.

Original track by Robyn:

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DECIBELLE – Sweet Nothings Mix (just a taste of what will go down on Saturday)

Senari returns to Baltimore for a special edition of Big Bang! alongside music-bloggers & nightlife aficionados The Couch Sessions! Expect a night of hip-hop, club, house, and all sorts of danceable goodness all night with Baltimore’s own DJ Pierre (just voted Best Club Music DJ in City Paper’s “Best of Baltimore” issue), DC’s Nouveau Riche’s Nacey, Bmore/Electro’s Craig Sopo, and Woman/ultimatebabe Decibelle. Beers will be cheap and the music on point!!

RSVP ON FACEBOOK!

JUST ADDED:

A special Birthday set by KING TUTT!!

DJ PIERRE
BEST CLUB MUSIC DJ : City Paper’s Best of Baltimore 2009

NACEY
Nouveau Riche : DC

CRAIG SOPO
More Or Less : Bmore

DECIBELLE
Woman : DC/Bmore

Wale – Chillin‘ (Nacey Remix)

My boy Nacey has been on his grind for a while now, dropping mixes every day it seems. If you don’t know, Nacey is 1/3 rd of DC’s Nouveau Riche party, and 1/2 of the duo Starks and Nacey. His remix of Wale’s Chillin’  is slowly taking the cake for the most remixed track of the year, as he flips Cool and Dre’s beat for a Motown sound. What do y’all think?

Nacey (l.) and Steve Starks. The most potent DC connection since Doug Williams to Ricky Sanders. Photo by Sexy Fitsum/iLLIMETER – http://illimeter.com

Nacey – Lose Your Love

What DC has known for awhile now is that Columbia, MD natives and friends since high school Nacey and Steve Starks, two-thirds of the Nouveau Riche triumvirate with Gavin Holland, are two of the most underrated DJs and producers in the country. The reason why the rest of the country didn’t know, is, well, Nacey and Steve Starks are also two of the most humble DJs and producers in the country, opting to let their mixing and skill speak louder than their marketing and voice. However, with a less than inspiring Winter Music Confernence spurring on the talented duo to replace thir humility with quiet confidence, Starks and Nacey have rolled out the most consistently solid remixes of the year, Nacey gaining the big prizes from Mad Decent and Discobelle, along with tracks rapped over by former Yo Majesty! rapper Shunda K, and Starks quietly honing his craft, a musical viper waiting for the right time to attack. Amd that right time was this past Tuesday, as the duo released their debut EP, a six song compilation of completely original tracks and reworkings of popular tunes as well, a clear shot to DJs everywhere that the duo are forces to be reckoned with.

Nacey’s three songs reflect his diverse interests, with a particular investment n his love of Southern bass and appreciation of an upbringing saturated in Bmore club. The EP kicks off with “Lose Your Love,” where Nacey deftly handles one of the most emphatic disco breaks of all time from the extended mix of The Emotions’ “Don’t Wanna Lose Your Love,” where the sisters sing the title as chorus over horn stabs, and with the aid of the break from “Doo Dew Brown,” and ambient noise, creates a perfect track that doubles as the perfect breakdown at the height of a Bmore club specific set, or to jazz up any disco mix. It’s a hit for sure, and I FULLY expect to see it showing up all over the place this summer. “Money on the Dressa” turns a sample of Bun B’s iconic voice from “International Playa’s Anthem” into a gangstafied house banger, replete with samples of a shotgun loading and shooting, squealing car tires and violin strings over a futuristic and hollow breakbeat, creating the perfect soundtrack if Major Lazer wasn’t a Jamaican freedom fighter but a Dolemite clone. “Work For This” may be the most sonically lush and mentally stimulating of the three tracks he delivers on the EP, taking what sounds like a sexed out Trina sample and creating a classic house jam, lush Arabian horns mixing with jazz horns over a syncopated bassline to create a sexy, sexy, sexy club heater that is certain to get the ladies moving seductively on the dancefloor.

Steve Starks on the other hand is similar, but with his deep house and funk explorations is a different DJ entirely. “So Sexy,” his first EP track, plays as an homage to Green Velvet (i.e. Cajmere of “Percolator” fame’s later project), all distinct spoken word vocals, deep synthy basslines and tinny hi hats with congo drums, it’s a classic deep house track, a retro fit for these most interesting times. “You Don’t Want None” follows next, a far more bass heavy and big sounding Bmore club exploration than Nacey’s smooth as silk “Lose Your Love,” it sounds like a Brick Bandits type club cut, the enormous filling sound mirroring what Philly has done with the early 2000s work of Debonair Samir and others. He closes his section and the EP itself with his most accessible for the current sonic atmosphere track, “Don’t Let Me Go” (Dub Mix f/ Manulita) featuring samples of heavy and orgasmic breathing, it’s a very dubbed out mix of a classic sexy club jam, and certain to be a necessity in the Serato boxes of any DJ looking to create the perfect mood as nightcapper to a night of playing nerve pounding wobbly basslines.

The EP is clearly aimed at creating noise and being relevant to the current set of producers and DJs presently making noise in the mainstream. At the same time though, neither Nacey nor Steve abandon what stylistically brought them to the forefront, instead weaving it into a set of tracks that are certain to continue the trend of DC infiltrating the club music mainstream.

DOWNLOAD EP HERE

Rye Rye – Bang (Nacey Remix)

Most of y’all know that I’ve gotten back into dance music hard core, and the dude’s from DC’s Nouveau Riche party are some of the top dance/electronic cats I’ve heard in a while. The night combines hip-hop, electro, bass, dubstep, and whatever else they want to throw into the mix. 

if you don’t now, Rye Rye is an 18 year old Baltimore MC and the first signee to M.I.A.’s N.E.E.T. label. You might remember her from those tracks “Wassup Wassup” and “Shake it to the Ground,” which were hot last year. Her newest entry into the scene is the Switch-produced “Bang,” which is a certified club banger in B-More right now.

Nacey reworks this track beautify, flipping the drums and adding that jungle frog sound that keeps creeping up lately, and making a perfect compliment to the original source material. These dudes have more remixes up their sleeves, so I’m wondering what this production crew is up to next. Check Nacey’s other remixes of AC Slater and AA247.

As for Rye Rye, she killed both SXSW and WMC and is dropping a major release this summer. Check out her MySpace for more information.

Rye Rye – Bang from SXSW

Photos by The Love Drones