01. Kaskade – Eyes (Intro Edit with Swanky Tunes Mix)
02. Kaskade (feat. Skylar Grey) – Room For Happiness (Gregori Klosman Mix)
03. Kaskade vs Nicky Romero – Angel On My Stronger (Kaskade Mash Up)
04. R3hab & Swanky Tunes – Sending My Love (Kaskade Mix Mash)
05. Kaskade vs. Franz Novotny – Be Still Big Bang (Kaskade Mash Up)
06. Kaskade vs. Tommy Trash – Empty Streets Cascade (Kaskade Mash Up)
07. Kaskade vs. Swedish House Mafia – Fire In Your Antidote (Kaskade Mash Up)
08. Kaskade vs. Dada Life - Dynasty Noise (Kaskade Mash Up)
09. Feenixpawl & Ivan Gough – In My Mind (Axwell Mix)
10. Kaskade vs Nicky Romero – Turn It Down Toulouse (Kaskade Mash Up)
11. Kaskade & Deadmau5 VS. Swanky Tunes, Matisse & Sadko – Move For Me The Legend (Kaskade Mash Up)
12. Dirty South & Thomas Gold – Eyes Wide Open
13. Kaskade – Llove – Dada Life Remix
14. Kaskade vs. Hard Rock Sofa – 4AM Quasar
15. Kaskade & Skrillex – Lick It
16. Kaskade vs. Sandro Silva & Quintino – Call Out Big Bang (Kaskade Mash Up)
17. Kaskade (feat. Neon Trees) – Lessons In Love (Extended Mix)
18. Kaskade vs. Deniz Koyu – It’s You, It’s Hertz (Kaskade Mash Up)
19. Kaskade vs. Qulinez – Stars Align Troll (Kaskade Mash Up)
20. Kaskade & Adam K – Raining
21. Deadmau5 & Kaskade – I Remember (Strobelite Edit)
This set was recorded at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2012. I placed a Zoom H4n handheld recorder in my booth to try and capture some of the audience reaction. I put that with the audio that came directly from the mixer. Enjoy!
Mansome trailer (by Morgan Spurlock so you know it’s a documentary but maybe it’s a mockumentary) starring Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and lots of others. :) What does it mean to be a man?
I’m loving this brand for guys and girls!!! Check it out!
My kid is singing Gotye!
My dad and a friend of his introduced me to a lovely pastis last fall while I was Germany with them. It’s an awesome way to spend some time. I think I’ll have to go check this place out soon!
Pour Vous
It’s the lingering question of the Los Angeles cocktail avant-garde: Where to next?
The answer isn’t simply the name of a would-be bar, but the era that the bar evokes, the school of mixed drinks it takes as its muse, or the unassuming neighborhood it calls home.
The newest next is Pour Vous, the latest effort from La Descarga and Harvard & Stone owners Mark and Johnny Houston. As with their other bars, the brothers are sticking to that nebulous space around Hollywood, bringing this so-calledsalon de Champagne to a Melrose Avenue intersection that is also home toAstroburger and an architecturally underwhelming corner of the Paramount lot.
That drab street view makes stepping inside Pour Vous dramatic. With all of the smoky mirrors, brass details and crystal chandeliers, Pour Vous resembles aMidnight in Paris set, one where you might run into a Henri de Toulouse-Lautreclook-alike.
The most exciting drinks were those that took the amaro craze in a Francophile direction. If you’ve ever lovingly lingered over a glass of Pastis at a Parisian café, order the Phylloxera Flip (pictured; $13), in which that licorice-y drink is shaken with egg and Bénédictine.
Pour Vous, 5574 Melrose Ave., Hollywood; 323-871-8699 or pourvousla.com
I love it when Rapha puts up a new video!
SELLA
Directed by Andrew Telling
Named after the arduous climb in Spain, Sella is a highly atmospheric and visually arresting insight into life at a pro team training camp. Shot during Rapha Condor Sharp’s recent training camp, the film is the work of Andrew Telling, winner of the Rapha Condor Sharp Film Competition. Andrew’s compelling short perfectly captures the rhythms and rituals of training camp life, with seemingly mundane tasks such as team meals, meetings and massage offering a marked contrast to punishing rides in the winter sunshine. To capture each rider’s style and personality on their bikes, Andrew spent hours interviewing each rider off them. Andrew’s dedication pays dividends out on the road, as elegant and innovative camerawork, set to Andrew’s own haunting score, results in a rarely seen glimpse of what it looks – and in some cases feels – like to ride among the pros.
I don’t need speakers but if I did, I’d buy these!
Well Rounded Sound
You sleep on a bed fashioned from discarded Clapton guitars.
Your religion is listed on Facebook as “The Holy Order of Cranking It Up to 11.”
You’ve inquired about changing your name to Baba O’Riley.
The point is, you dig music.
And we have some speakers for you…
Kick out the jams for Well Rounded Sound, an earnestly named line of made-to-order and bespoke loudspeakers that are basically the sonic promised land, available now for tasty lick playback.
So, speakers. You plug them in, press play. Music commences. Everyone’s happy. These are no different. Except for the fact that they’re pretty much acoustically perfect. They’ve got full-range drivers that produce 3D sound (which is a thing), pure signal paths and sound-optimized wooden or felt enclosures. We don’t have a clue in hell what any of that means either, but it translates to versions of “Stairway to Heaven” so clear you can practically hear the studio engineer ashing his cigarette in the background of Page’s solo.
The move here is to hop on their site and pick out a pair. Include a little note about what finish you want (you’re partial to carbonized bamboo). And yes, of course they’ll work with you on bespoke models. In a few short weeks, your neighbors will hate you.
But dammit, they’ll respect you.
T-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts!!!
Pop Chart Lab Tees
We’ve got a serious man-crush on Pop Chart Lab. We don’t know why we just assumed a company was a dude, but we did, and now we feel a little weird. Their prints are always well-designed and extremely (understatement) informative. Our only issue has been the fact that carrying around a poster to educate friends on rappers’ names or various beer varities is annoying and highly bizarre. Lucky us, now you can wear around some of the best work from Pop Chart Lab. Each 100% ringspun cotton tee is slim fit and perfect for having girls stare at your body for extended periods of time. $16+
Who was at Coachella and what did you think of the Tupac hologram?
This seems pretty brilliant!!!
Scream
Spiked Ice Cream, Delivered
The weather is beautiful. Summer’s coming soon. You can taste it.
And it tastes, incidentally, like bourbon-drenched ice cream.
Or it will once you meet Drunken Udder, a new service existing only to get you some generously spiked ice cream on a hot day, now delivering throughout Los Angeles.
Think of this as your next barbecue’s secret weapon. Sure, everybody loves your ribs—but things will really get lively once you wave all of your guests toward the pool and bring out the bourbon salted caramel ice cream. Or the tequila lime sorbet. Or the cinnamon spiced rum. At like 2pm.
This isn’t just a hey-this-tastes-a-little-like-whiskey gimmick, either. You’re basically having a cocktail in ice cream form. (You’ll get carded when you buy it.) And if you’re not the type of person to plan an alcoholic-ice-cream blowout anytime soon, we have two things to say to you:
1) It’s also on the menu at the W Westwood, Boneyard Bistro and Franklin & Company.
2) You should really reconsider throwing an alcoholic-ice-cream blowout.
I’m in search of a light fixture for our dining room so I can be obsessed with lighting right now but these are REALLY COOL.
Menlo Park Lamps
Everyone knows that the best place to look for cool, vintage style lighting—when you’re not on a Restoration Hardware budget—is Etsy. These Menlo Park Lamps from The Dapper Llama are the newest addition to our “lamps to buy as soon as we find somewhere to put them” list for the following reasons. Each lamp is hand-carved out of solid cherry, walnut or rainbow poplar wood. They all have pull-switches or guitar knobs for dimming, vintage Edison or filament bulbs and gold, cloth covered vintage style plug connectors. Available in one, two or three bulb varieties, these lamps wouldn’t be out of place in the next Sherlock Holmes movie or on your nightstand. $95+
Buy Here: Dapper Llama
Everyone with a Weber on their apartment balcony needs one of these!
When it comes to grilling, we try to be purists. We’re guilty of the occasional gas cook out of sheer convenience, but we always feel bad about it when we take the first bite out of whatever meaty concoction we just charred. Charcoal with a chimney is the best way to go, but it’s also a pain. Until now. Grill Cube is the easiest solution possible for charcoal grilling and only slightly less convenient than gas. Light the bottom of the cardboard Grill Cube, throw it in your Weber and 10 minutes later you’re cooking with fire. No lighter fluid, no charcoal fingers and better tasting food. You still have to cook the food yourself, but Grill Cube takes care of everything else. $TBD
Ummm…how do you say AWESOME in Swedish?
IKEA UPPLEVA TV
When you want inexpensive furniture you can put together without the hassle of “words” along with a side of meatballs, there’s only one place to go. Soon, while checking the specs on some IKEA items with your paper tape measure, you may stumble upon something unexpected. UPPLEVA is IKEA’s answer to your current cluttered TV setup. Besides the HDTV itself, the unit includes a Blu-ray player, 2.1 surround sound with a wireless sub and WiFi. UPPLEVA will role out in certain European cities in June and most likely won’t hit the states until 2013, which will give you some time to debate buying your next piece of electronic equipment from IKEA.
(Via Gizmodo)
“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.”
More cool t-shirts!
Arka
When you name your company Arka, defined as “the king of all kings,” you better be able to back that up. Which is probably why this blog isn’t named “Coolest” Material. They seem to put their money where there mouth is, due in part to a heavy emphasis on the details and the perfection of every piece. The graphics (applied with non-toxic, eco-friendly inks) reflect an eclectic blend of various influences from around the globe, each possessing its story and purpose. $32
T-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts!!!
Altru Apparel
If we revisit a brand, it means they must be doing something right. And that isn’t just code for “we ran out of material.” Since our last look at Altru Apparel plenty of equally fresh designs have popped up. Some favorites include a nod to Facebook and a correction for all those asshole bosses who love to call you into their office to tell you there’s no I in team. Oh really? ‘Cause my shirt seems to seem to think there is. $36
This looks pretty cool. Much better than the boring maps I used to have as a kid!
Black World Map
Tracking your travel has never been easier than it is right now. There are fifteen different apps on Facebook, Foursquare, Google Places and countless other ways to let other people know where you’re at and where you’re going at any given moment. But what about a long term solution for personal use that’s also a design piece? The Black World Map from Kawaii Stationery doesn’t automatically update on your wall, but the trade-off is worth it in our opinion. The map is printed on paper and wall-sized, so you can actually draw on it, push pin and thread it like they do in the movies or you can just leave it blank and leave it empty. It’s going to look way better hanging up than it is on your monitor, so you should probably just find a creative use for it once it gets dropped off. $14
Summer is coming and WE ALL need one of these!!!
Flameless Grill Smoker
When we smoke meat, we want it to taste like we just walked into a Parisian jazz bar back in the day—extra, extra smokey. The problem is, due to limited space and our sometimes limited budget, getting that flavor is often easier said than done. If you’re like us, and happen to always be on the lookout for a quick fix—not tending a fire or building a new deck—The Only Flameless Grill Smoker available from Hammacher Schlemmer is exactly what you’re looking for. The cylinder can be placed atop hot coals or a gas burner to release that wonderful smoke injection your meat is craving (we’re not sure exactly why, but that sentence felt extremely sexual). Plus, thanks to its size, shape and vents, The Only Flameless Grill Smoker generates smoke without any flames, leading to a more concentrated flavor. Problem solved. $40
These are totally hot for guys this summer!
Batten Sportswear
Your modest stake in some sort of phone-camera-based social network just netted you a tidy sum courtesy of one M. Zuckerberg.
Economics is crazy.
Also: we assume you’ll be heading to an undisclosed tropical location posthaste.
And this is what you’ll be wearing.
Introducing Batten Sportswear, a line of funky-colored, wearable standbys inspired by the more sandy parts of the world, available online now.
Let’s get philosophical for a second: in order for nude beaches to exist, there naturally have to be other places—ones where clothing is expected. And for those places, there’s this stuff.
Picture brilliant anoraks you can jam into a bag and weather afternoon typhoons with, and a couple of so-over-the-top-they’re-amazing Hawaiian-print shirts and shirt jackets, complete with unabashedly ’70s-style pointy collars. It’s like Serpico retired to Maui, or like seeing Magnum, P.I., in the disco era (but, you know, if it were awesome). Boardshorts also make an appearance.
You’ll probably be wearing this stuff more often than you initially intend to. Which is fine. That’s just what broken-in cotton T-shirts, floral “I don’t give a f***” shorts and the forthcoming bottomless supply of sunlight are for.
It’s okay if you do give a f***.
I love the idea of this. Will have to go check it out and see what the vibe is. :)
Outpost
The inter-generational feuds. The damsels in distress. The epic showdowns.
Sometimes Hollywood feels just like the Old West.
But at least there are pulled-pork fries and obscenely large cocktails…
If, that is, you’re hitting Outpost, the surprisingly old-timey saloon in the heart of the Cahuenga Boulevard scene, opening Thursday.
You won’t walk in through dusty shutter doors here. It’s just… a front door. But inside sort of feels like every cowboy movie you’ve ever seen—with lots of dark wood, plenty of animal skulls… and heaping baskets of pulled-pork fries. In short, it’s the kind of bar that would make Eastwood’s day.
So yeah, even though this spot is from the guy behind Villa and Premiere, it’s the place to go in Hollywood when you’ve totally OD’d on Hollywood. You just want a brown-leather booth, obscene amounts of burgers and wings, an easy view of the game and sturdy Southern Lemonades (part sweet tea vodka, part lemonade) served in mason jars.
And if a mason jar isn’t enough, you can get your drink in a boot. Seriously. They hold 45 ounces of the good stuff.
Your German cowboy friends will love it.