Celebrating their debut release on Mad Decent – the highly recommended “Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo” EP – Crookers present another banging mixtape, this time exclusively made for the Mad Decent Radio podcast #32, released July 29th. They play a lot of them tunes that set the Man Recordings floor @ Melt! festival on fire. Boyaa!

Here´s the download link: http://www.zshare.net/audio/1622397284dc56d0/

CROOKERS ON MAD DECENT RADIO #32
INTRO
CROOKERS-BIG MONEY COMIN’
BART B MORE BINGO PLAYERS (DIPLO MIX)
MIA-XR2 (BOY8BIT EDIT)
BOY8BIT-THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME (DTL MIX)
CROOKERS-IL BUONO
DUKE DUMONT-HOY
COBRA KRAMES-WHATEVER SHE SAID
BUSTA RHYMES-I GOT BASS
BENGA-26 BASSLINE
RUSKO-HAMMERTIME
DJ Q-YOU WOT (WIDE BOYS MIX)
OUTHERE BROTHERS-ENJOY (CROOKERS WORK IN PROGRESS MIX)
ALPHABEAT-BOYFRIEND (BLOODY BEETROOTS MIX)
MADERA LIMPIA-LOCO (DANIEL HAAKSMAN MIX)

World exclusive – here´s the brandnew mixtape by our upcoming hot ticket KU BO, the new project by Viennese bass king STEREOTYP. The mixtape features classic cuts by KU BO plus unreleased and upcoming tracks. Expect KU BO Vinyl #3 to drop on Man Recordings in autumn, followed by a full album in February.

Download it here:
KU BO MIXTAPE SUMMER 08

TRACKLIST

01. Daniel Haaksman feat. SD Boys Parolar De Veso Ku Bo Remix
02. Rebola feat. Joyce Muniz
03. Turnament Version feat. Yasmine Seydi
04. Turnament feat. Fefe MC
05. Uepa feat. Joyce Muniz
06. Um Korpo feat. Joyce Muniz
07. Kubo Precut (no name yet )
08. Lem Lem
09. Tindao

YEAHH! WE BOMBED! We certainly rocked the best stage at this year´s 2008 Melt! festival. Never mind the mud, never mind the rain – we blasted it for more than 10 hours nonstop. Even Franz Ferdinand came down to bounce.

See the first selection of shots, we´re still collecting further footage.

MELT FESTIVAL MAN RECORDINGS STAGE LINE UP

07.00 PM – 09.00 PM DJ BEWARE
09.00 PM – 09.45 PM MC GRINGO LIVE
09.45 PM – 10.15 PM DANIEL HAAKSMAN DJ
10.15 PM – 10.45 PM DEIZE TIGRONA LIVE
10.45 PM – 12.00 PM DANIEL HAAKSMAN DJ
12.00 PM – 02.00 AM EDU K
02.00 AM – 03.00 AM BONDE DO ROLE
03.00 AM – 05.00 AM CROOKERS

The night´s only downturn: Count+Sinden cancelled their show. Sinden caught an ear infection and as he is the guy repping Count+Sinden Live on international stages, he had to cancel the show short termed. A real pity, but it allowed the others to prolong their bombing.

Here´s the chronology – further shots will be added soon.

THE PICKUP IN BERLIN
Daniel Haaksman ready to leave

MC GRINGO TUNING HIS GUITAR

RAIN POURS
Our floor opened at 7pm. Within 15 mins, DJ Beware got the floor from 0 people to ca. 1250 and instantly, hands were up in the air. Unfortunately, at the end of DJ Beware´s set, rain poured. Manic dancing prevailed.

MC GRINGO ACOUSTIC
Despite a merciless 15 min thunderstorm with hardcore rain, die hard fans of MC Gringo remained on the floor.

IN THE SCHLAMM PIT
The heavy rain turned the dancefloor into a mud pit. But shortly later, people didnt cared too much.

DANIEL HAAKSMAN PUSHING THE VIBE
Daniel kicked off with half an hour straight baile funk and backed Deize for her show. Impromptu-hands-up-in-the-air ensued.

DEIZE TIGRONA ROCKING IT
For the very first time, Deize Tigrona performed her anthemic “Sex-O-Matic”, live with Edu K

EDU K BLAST OFF
Edu K got the crowd into a craze with his muscle ballet performance with which he supported his block rocking party set to enthusiastic response.

IN THE MEANTIME: BACKSTAGE
Some photos from behind the scenes

VISUALS BY SAFY SNIPER
Our favourite VJ, SAFY SNIPER, produced the most outstanding projections. Wiggleing booty dancers? Michael Jackson lip synching to an Edu K mashup? You name it, Safy had it all in stock….

BOYS R US – THE MAN REC CREW
From left to right: DJ Beware, Phra/Crookers, Bot/Crookers, Daniel Haaksman, MC Gringo, Giorgio Ronna, Edu K

DEIZE TIGRONA + DJ GORKY

DJ BEWARE + DANIEL HAAKSMAN

BONDE DO ROLE
Bonde Do Role tore the roof off and the crowd went bananas

BONDE DO ROLE + DEIZE TIGRONA
BDR invited Deize on stage

CROOKERS BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Our favourite ragazzi smashed it. Cazzzoooo!!








MORNING DAWN
When Crookers dropped their last tune the floor was still rammed.

And then there was still mud:

BACK IN THE BUS
Crookers, DJ Beware and Daniel back in the bus with some friends

BIG THANKS to everyone involved in making this night so wonderful: Stefan Lehmkuhl @ Melt!, Julia Gudzent @ Melt!, Safy Sniper for the great visual projections, Alexandra SickGirl for taking care of us, Giorgio Ronna for the patience, Tobi Seen for the free T-Shirts, Angelika Götz for the Apfelkuchen, and of course: All artists. Thanks for the photos: DJ Beware, Katrin Näher, Edu K. See you next year again! VALEU!

ARTIST: MADERA LIMPIA
RELEASE: LOCO – DANIEL HAAKSMAN REMIX
CAT.NR.: MAN 030
FORMAT: 12“ Vinyl
DIGITAL RELEASE DATE: JULY 11TH, 2008
VINYL RELEASE DATE: JULY 18TH, 2008

With Madera Limpia, Man Recordings temporarily moves from it’s Brazilian focus and looks up to the Carribean for an exciting new band – Madera Limpia. This band is the sound of young Cuba. Real, contemporary, explosive, and far away from the nostalgic cliché of Buena Vista Social Club. The six musicians from Guantánamo fuse Son and Changui with Hip Hop and Reggaeton, mixed with pulsating beats. Their music mirrors the culture and everyday life of a new generation which listens to hip hop, dancehall or reggaeton but doesn’t ignore the vast musical traditions of Cuba. Madera Limpia texts reflect real life. Instead of joining the rest of the lot recycling the worn out myth of the colourful decaying Havana, cigars and rum; they talk about the hardships of life in a burnt out Cuba on the verge of change; with only music to ease the pain.

When Man Recordings label boss Daniel Haaksman was asked by Munich based Out Here records to remix Madera Limpia’s „Loco“ he was so enthusiastic about the parts he got sent that he locked himself up in a studio to create a mix of Madera Limpia that would fit his booty bouncing DJ sets. In his hands-up in the air, 100% booty shaking mix the melodic and rhythmical power of the original track was injected with pure dynamite: A bouncing uptempo beat, a thundering bass drum and a raved-up synth hook. This is „Loco – the Daniel Haaksman Remix“ which has been destroying dancefloors everywhere ever since Haaksman sent out promo MP3s of his remix to befriended DJ mates, such as Sinden, Diplo, DJ Beware or Zombie Disco Squad.

Eventually, Haaksman dedcided to license his remix together with the original track to Man Recordings releasing it in a loud, DJ friendly volume on vinyl. The remix introduces the release of Madera Limpia’s upcoming hot new album „La corona“ on Out here records in September 2008.

TRACKLIST VINYL

A1 Loco – Daniel Haaksman Remix
A2 Loco – Original Mix
B1 Loco – Daniel Haaksman Remix Instrumental
B2 Loco – Acappella

Wasted German Youth: “Drei Tage Wach” (”Three days up”) by Lützenkirchen is of Germany´s most hyped summer 2008 tunes. With it´s main lines “Pille Palle, Alle Pralle” (”Pills, Going Nuts, Everyone´s hammered”), “Druff druff druff” (”on it, on it, on it”) it captures the madness of speed/cocaine/whatever-induced marathon raving, which has become associated with Berlin nightlife in recent years. At the start of the techno mania a somewhat subversive act, pill popping and coke snoring nowadays hast just become another mainstream leisure time activity.

Berlin DJ Tim Turbo mashed up the stupendous German summer anthem with some baile funk beats – making it the most unlike musical pairing.

Download it from here: http://www.zshare.net/audio/1512228647f5d339/

See the original video here:

Check also the remix by Scooter