Rifoki is a hardcore punk project from Steve Aoki and Bobby Rifo from The Bloody Beetroots. The collaboration brings them back to their roots in hardcore punk rock. Not at all surprising when you consider they both produce some of the hardest electro out there. Here’s their first video:

Rifoki – Zombie Attack

They’ve got a 5 track EP called “Sperm Donor”, out now on Dim Mak.

I hope everybody’s simply having a wonderful Christmas time. This is a BUSY time of year, but I want to share some stuff before I start writing some Christmas cards.

Rammstein – Frühling In Paris

Rammstein is on tour right now, promoting their new album “Liebe Ist Für Alle Da”. I picked it up recently and I’m still finding my way around it, but this track jumped out as an instant favorite. Frühling In Paris (Springtime in Paris) is an awesome ballad that borrows lines from Edith Piaf on the chorus (“Je ne regrète rien…”). I guess everybody gets their lighters out when they play this song live, but that shouldn’t surprise you because I’m pretty sure everything is on fire all the time at a Rammstein concert. I used to listen to Rammstein’s first album while I played with Lego when I was about 10 years old, so I always love hearing new stuff from these guys. I could easily listen to this track if it was 30 minutes long, there have only been a few songs that I’ve had on repeat in my car this year and this is certainly one of them.

Ingrid Michaelson – Breakable
Here’s a record I wasn’t aware of until pretty recently. It’s a nice song, but stick with the video for the first 30 seconds or so, because she does eventually take off her hat. Get outta here, Drew Barrymore, with your trilby hats!

Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness (Steve Aoki remix)
With MGMT and Ratatat doing their thing on the original track, Pursuit of Happiness is already one of the biggest tracks on Cudi’s album, but Steve Aoki takes Pursuit of Happiness in a totally new direction and turns it into a massive hoover-heavy club banger.
Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness (Steve Aoki remix) at Usershare, big ups to pigeonsandplanes.com

Hello again, all galdem / all mandem. I’ll be honest; for a while there I wasn’t particularly amped about the weather getting colder. I was trying to cling to the remaining threads of summer UNTIL- UNTIL I REMEMBERED WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT THE FALL AND WINTER. We’re talking about holidays! We’re talking about your thanksgiving, we’re talking about your Christmas. We typically don’t get Halloween off, but this year it falls on a Saturday so everything is diamonds for the tail end of 2009.

I’m In The House is the new[ish] Steve Aoki video, it features an MC I’ve never heard of called Zuper Blahq. It all works

Here’s one I didn’t get around to posting last month, it’s Imogen Heap playing Wait it Out live for the audience at TED talks.

I think I went a couple weekends in September without posting, and not for lack of bangers! Maybe I’ll heat things up again in a few days to try to get through this tremendous backlog of MASSIVE CHUNES.

Hey young world, wanna hear some music?

Tonight’s first thing is by N.A.S.A.  It’s called Gifted (Steve Aoki remix feat. Kanye, Santigold & Lykke Li). For some things in life there are no words, so let’s just enjoy the music in eachother’s company.

The Hood Internet also did a raw mix with Dialogue Inc., you can check that magic out here.

And a double-shot of Dizzee Rascal; check out Dance Wiv Me (Shazam remix feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome) (via hypemachine)

and Bonkers (feat. Armand Van Helden) on youchube:

THEN HIT’EM WITH THE YA’MEEN

Mr. Hudson – Supernova (feat. Kanye West)

Santigold – Your Voice

Maino – All the Above (remix feat. Young Jeezy) – This one’s for Ben

Drake – Still Drake – off his “Friends With Money” mixtape, which has some big fire and a few misses.

That’ll do! At ease.