… Remember how mad excited we were about our DJ gig at FluxFriday here at PDC? Well apparently, we’re not the only ones getting wet eyes and dancy feet when Jay-Z hits up the speakers. Which is why we’re mad excited once more. This event that’s about to happen to Berlin is an ice-cream-lickin’ dream come true. Here’s the deal:

• The bestest of the best Hip Hop from the 90s and 00s will be back and loud, so pull out your moves cause I wanna see them.
• You’re free to start fingerlickin’ right now – there will be Bum Bum for everyone. That’s right, the epic ice cream from our childhood with the chewing gum stick. Priceless.
• More yuminess is on its way, brought to you by Efas Frozen Yoghurt, because we like it sweet and melty.
• Because it ain’t no party without the booze, your thirsty lips will be enjoying one of the finest. The produce of Kreuzberg’s Our/Berlin Vodka distillery, that is.

It was all a dream, now it´s all with C.R.E.A.M.!

Now. You guys in it to win it?

WIN IT: We wouldn’t be your PonyDance babes if we didn’t make this even creamier for you. That’s right, we’re giving away 1×2 spots on the guestlist for this biest of a party!
To win, simply be our friend on facebook and shoot us an email containing the subject line ‘C.R.E.A.M. O.N.”, your real name and a link to your favourite GIF until Friday, 1pm.

When: Saturday, May 25
Doors: 00h
Where: Backyard, Gitschiner 22, Berlin-Kreuzberg
DJs: Dreea / Ein Mædchen Aus Sibirien / G.NA / SIOUX PAC
Also, here’s where you RSVP.

Our tune of the morning comes from Michigan’s upcoming MC Waldo, a name to put up high on your one’s to watch list if you dig hip hop and mind my humble words. Waldo’s latest release Finally sports electronic influences and an agile vibe plus that classic U.S.-hip hop energy that can’t take a track the wrong way. With talented producer Sango on his side and recently signed to Soulection, chances are high what we’re about to hear from Waldo this year is worth a lookout.

While the original version of Holy Other‘s Held works with a very subtle use of vocal clips, floating synth pads and drums, the hands of London’s up-and-coming house producer Mike Greene aka Fort Romeau added some warmth and some heaviness to the beats, lifting the whole thing up to a seriously addictive sensual downtempo track – one just right for a dull work day.

Manchester-based producer Holy Other released his eagerly anticipated debut album featuring the title track Held on TriAngles in summer 2012, a solid ten-piece showcasing neatly executed inspiration from American Hip Hop and R&B which you can get yourselves here.

Let me introduce you to my latest obsession. Their band name is Baby Alpaca (omg!) and one could call them The Smiths of 2013. If such a daring comparison may ever be drawn. Others might even call Singer/songwriter Chris Kittrell names such as “the young Morrissey”. The New York based lads have an EP out on June 25 this year on Atlas Chair Records, and at this point I would like to stress the beauty in the lyrics of their newest release Sea of Dreams: Sunrise growing from the sea, Reflections lilac in the clouds, Sea lion’s eyes awaken me, Take me to the sea of dreams. Let’s just say my dreams are never like Chris Kittrell’s “Sea Of Dreams,” but I wish they were. Just like the animation in their new video below. Dream on.

Well this Sunday is sunny over here! Which is why I won’t be losing any unnecessary words over this – here’s your dish of sun-drenched tracks full of happy beats for happy hearts.
Have the best day.

XOXO,
Pony.

Newly-signed to Modular People and dishing up a first single full of a sophisticated use of tropical-feeling percussion, MOVEMENT are a hot candidate on our one’s to watch list for 2013. The three-piece based out of Sydney is made up of Jesse James Ward, Lewis Wade and Sean Walker, dude friends that have been creating music together for two years before officially releasing their debut single. Feel Real is due out digitally on May 24 via Modular, with a remix EP on its way and set for release in late June.

SO – enough of the facts. If you’re up for the weekend in a HELL-YESS-ish way like I am, you just found your track of the day. Carefree and ready for a meaty barbecue tonight.

Newly-formed producer collective Clientèle out of Helsinki has just released their first song off whatever there is to come – sure thing is: I can’t wait to hear it. With heavy beats, raw hip hop vocals and sleek synths, Clientèle‘s debut Genny evolves around a vibe that’s reminiscent of that overly epic Jim-E Stack Bootleg of A$AP Rocky‘s Purple Swag. And I can’t find a single bad thing about that. Scandinavia, you’re the best thing that ever happened to us. E-VER.

Call it futurebass, call it chillwave, call it post-dubstep, call it ambient, call it what you will. Fact is, ambiance is what the Re:Antarctica EP creates, and it lingers all around you even when it’s over. So you hit play again. Glitch-heavy and full of slick beats, the tracks are wrapped around gentle melodies and vocal snippets that create a bright beachy feel, just right for a mellow summer evening.

Tiger Tsunami is the electronic project of London-based producer Christian Parker, who – having heard some nice words about his music by a couple of big names on the internetz world of music, he decided to release a free download EP, featuring remixes by upcoming electronic artists Nuages, Koloto and Fxxxyblnt.

The Santiago-based duo, consisting of Ives Sepúlveda and Manuel Parra, made their debut in 2011 with a self-released LP, after which they were quickly picked up by Brooklyn-based label Sacred Bones. Below you can listen to Noctuary, their first LP for Sacred Bones, which was released earlier on this year. So not exactly recent, but it’s never too late for good music now is it?

It had never gotten really quiet around Barbarossa ever since his start-offs Chemical Campfires and Sea Like Blood on Fence Records back in the lates Naughties. Having left that smoochy acoustic phase behind for a sound more made of drum machines and slight synths, James Mathé suddenly makes us go all excited about his upcoming 10-track LP Bloodlines, due out August 5 via Memphis Industries.

While the first teaser track The Load sports a somewhat indie-poppier, more classically singer-songwriter sound, Turbine, the second release off Bloodlines is out today and just the drum-heavy kind of jam that wakes up your mid-week numbness. Stream both tracks below and head over to the man’s website if you dig it – Turbine is available for free download in exchange for your e-mail data.