This Saturday (3/12) in Toronto, new neighbors Jokers Of The Scene and Nacho Lovers team up for a late night of mind expanding dance musics at The Social. Check full details on Facebook, and be sure not to miss this one!
You may have read about Jason Forrest’s new project, Network Awesome – but did you know Jokers Of The Scene had their own channel of crazy YouTube finds? Watch it here, and look out for the Jokers’ remix of Forrest’s upcoming single “Raunchy.”
In other JOTS remix news, you can hear their handiwork on this dub of Funerals, the forthcoming Akwaaba Remixed compilation, as well as the debut single from Auburn. More to come…
As you may have heard, the FG ROAD GOLD tour is coming to a town near you, starting this Saturday (2/12) at Soundlab in Buffalo.
Check us accross the US and Canada: Treasure Fingers, Congorock, LA Riots, Jokers Of The Scene, Nacho Lovers, Kingdom, Nick Catchdubs, Sammy Bananas and Telephoned teaming up from city to city, with special guests Just Blaze and host-with-the-most Kid Sister joining us in LA for a very special Dance Right throwdown at La Cita.
Full dates, lineups and ticket links after the jump. Be sure to grab Fool’s Gold Vol 1 (if you haven’t already) for new tracks from everyone involved! Read More
Photo by Paul Gallipeau
Canadian duos unite! Jokers Of The Scene put their signature spin on Chromeo’s “Hot Mess,” taking Dave and Pee’s dance pop into previously uncharted italo / techno / industrial territory. “Moroder at the goth night,” says RCRD LBL, who premiered the remix today. Download and jam out…
This month, the FG fam is literally taking the show on the road…
C’mon out to ROAD GOLD as we sweat across the US and Canada: Treasure Fingers, Congorock, LA Riots, Jokers Of The Scene, Nacho Lovers, Kingdom, Nick Catchdubs, Sammy Bananas and Telephoned teaming up from city to city, with special guests Just Blaze and host-with-the-most Kid Sister joining us in LA for a very special Dance Right throwdown at La Cita.
It all kicks off Saturday, February 12th at Soundlab in Buffalo; check the full dates, lineups and ticket links after the jump. Be sure to grab Fool’s Gold Vol 1 (if you haven’t already) for new tracks from everyone involved! Read More
Continuing the tradition of value-minded year end round-ups, we just dropped another “Holiday Bass” playlist on iTunes, featuring some of our ‘evvyest chunes of 2010 for just $3.99. Drop some pennies and crank the volume on tracks from electronic music’s leading lights.
Todd Edwards chopping Kingdom into jack-your-body heaven? Check. Boy 8 Bit kinking out Jokers Of The Scene’s “Revolting Joks”? Yep. CFCF vs Nacho Lovers in a Canadian icicle synth showdown? We got you. Make merry and check the full lineup after the jump. Read More
Photo by Paul Gallipeau
Jokers Of The Scene recently made Toronto their home, and to celebrate the move (and the release of their “Joking Victim” single, of course) they’re taking you on a journey this Saturday at The Social, with none other than Andrew Ross of Nacho Lovers on board as co-pilot of this technotheque.
Check Facebook for the party details and pick up the “Joking Victim” single now with remixes by Shit Robot and Vin Sol. As a matter of fact, why don’t you download the Shit Robot remix gratis right now, courtesy our friends at RCRD LBL. Get moody!
For more JoVic vibes, you can also download the latest JOTS mix from their Soundcloud.
Buy the new single now on Beatport!
For the past few years, Jokers Of The Scene have ranked amongst the brightest, weirdest lights of Canada’s dance music renaissance. Between their Fool’s Gold originals and their enviably deep remixography (including a droning take on Salem’s “Asia” that turned ears to putty and blogs to cinders mere weeks ago), the duo have passed on a “signature sound” to craft an unpredictable approach that’s as cerebral as it is speaker-decimating.
DJ Booth and Chameleonic have ransacked decades of electronic history to build music from the future. Their latest mutation, “Joking Victim,” blends cinematic synth melodies – think Tangerine Dream or Vangelis at their moodiest, or the Jokers’ own ambient soundtrack for the “Bright Lights Big City” art installation that took over Toronto’s CN Tower late last year – with heavy, Detroit-style drum programming and a club throb that is 100% JOTS. Whether delivered as a bombastic intro track, set closer or soaring peak-time call to arms, “Joking Victim” simply cannot be denied.
If the nine-and-a-half hypnotic minutes of the original weren’t enough, the “Joking Victim” remixes also rank among the most unique in the FG catalog. DFA maestro Shit Robot makes a beeline for the darkly funky melodies the Jokers only hinted at, flipping the track into an industrial disco opus, while SF producer / DJ / cratedigger supreme Vin Sol turns the tempo down (and the cowbell up) for his delicious, boogie rock-influenced “Trocadero Mix.” Each version is like nothing you might have expected, but isn’t that the whole point? Keep your antennae locked in to JOTS’ wavelength for whatever surprise comes next…
Jokers Of The Scene have turned in a †Ø†▲LLY CR▲ZY remix of Salem’s latest single “Asia,” nine minutes and twenty-two seconds of nightcrawler drum machines and droning chords. Get hypnotized at Stereogum and The Fader. More JOTS on the way…
This Saturday, Red Bull Canada is throwing a massive audio/visual event in Vancouver called Megahurtz. Our boys Jokers Of The Scene will be taking the stage, but not as the DJ duo you know and love. Instead, they will be performing as Blank Capsule, a new live band team-up with Vitaminsforyou. Stay tuned for video from the show and more BC news; meanwhile, get a taste of what this combo has in store on their track from Fool’s Gold Vol 1, “Power Slave.”