Junior Caldera
by Bradley Stern
filed under: Far East Movement, Junior Caldera, MuuMuse Approved, Natalia Kills

Kills1  23 1 MuuMuse Approved: Junior Caldera   Lights Out (feat. Natalia Kills & Far East Movement)

Though she’s usually found sharpening knives and pouring hot candle wax on her latest victims, it seems Mizz Natalia Kills might just be toying with the notion of becoming a disco diva. Well–a dark disco diva anyway.

Her latest song to hit the web–”Lights Out,” crafted by “Kill My Boyfriend” producer/DJ Junior Caldera and featuring Kills and her Cherrytree Records labelmates Far East Movement–is an explosive club anthem, and probably her most straightforward dance offering to date.

Floating above a four-to-the-floor smooth House beats and an electronic guitar strum (almost reminiscent of a Junkie XL or Kaskade production), the cold-hearted vixen lets her otherwise heavenly crooning fly loose: “I can read your dirty mind/That good guy shit won’t fly with me,” Kills warns.

“I see you and you’re pulling the wool over my eyes,” she continues. But before she’s even got a chance to finish, the boys of Far East Movement are already here to crash the party: “Lights out!” we hear as the song slams hard into an ferocious beat breakdown.

Filled with surging beats and half-cutesy, half-sinister lyrics (“Boy, I got a Ph.D/I got a Masters in Boy-ology”), Natalia’s got a serious hit on her hands with “Lights Out.” If she lets this one loose on the clubs, we could be looking at a dance floor massacre.

I absolutely love this track, Mizz Kills!


by Bradley Stern
filed under: Freemasons, Junior Caldera, Kaskade, Madonna, Paul Oakenfold, Sophie Ellis-Bextor

dc04185cf53923a4953f67c71a8a4cbf Sophie Ellis Bextor: Cranking Em Out
Sophie Ellis-Bextor‘s been busy lately. If she isn’t too occupied poppin’ em out two months before their due date, she’s off releasing singles from all directions.

Well, not entirely: Previously recorded collaborations is slightly more accurate.

Two days ago, the Freemasons announced on the MySpace that their next official single will be “Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer,” an immense, dark disco Bextor collabo many have already deemed quite worthy of following up her last release, Trip The Light Fantastic.

What we didn’t already know is that the song, which first made rounds around Fall of last year, was actually a demo. In fact, the boys are still working out a final version at the moment! With any luck, they won’t glitch and glam it up too too much, seeing as the mix we’ve been given has already set the blogosphere ablaze.

Additionally, Bextor’s collaboration with French DJ Junior Caldera, “Can’t Fight This Feeling,” is about to see a proper release sometime in March. To hear the original version, click here.

The pros?
It sounds a bit like the Paul Oakenfold edit of Madge‘s “Give It 2 Me” in places, Kaskade in others, and includes the line “I just can’t fight this feeling…We should be lovers, we should be lovers.”

And as for the cons?
A bit generic.

Nonetheless, I look forward to the Glorious Re-Uprising of the Great Mizz Bextor.

DL: Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer (Demo Version) (Sharebee)
DL: Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Can’t Fight This Feeling (Mischa Daniels Remix) (Sharebee)