Featured Mixes: DJ Vous-Moombahcore (local-produced Moombahton)

It’s almost preposterous to think of how a seemingly benign happy accident behind the turntables can result in the formation of an entirely new style of music. Early 1990s breakbeat hardcore, which ultimately spawned drum and bass, can be traced as far back as the late 1980s. Many argue it came about when DJ’s in the U.K. would play house records at 45rpm (instead of their intended 33) to build the energy in the club (or, derelict warehouse if it was a true “rave”) to a heightened frenzy. 20 years later saw a different genre form in 180-degree fashion: taking a house record and pitching it down to “accidentally” create what we now know as Moombahton. You can thank Dave Nada for this, and you can also thank Evan Langley, aka DJ Vous for being one of the early ambassadors of the sound in New England.

Last year I wrote a piece on Vous and the original work on his Soundcloud account, notably a freebie he posted there called “Doin My Thang”. Since then he hasn’t slowed down, playing out around town, producing and preparing for his long awaited first proper EP: Roswell. It’s only coincidental that I post a mix he shared with me a couple days ago because Roswell will be properly released on Soundcloud tomorrow. Talk about perfect timing.

Don’t be alarmed by the “Moombahcore” title of this mix. It’s actually an energetic slice of summer that one can even enjoy in the bitter January cold. Soccer moms will appreciate Phil Collin’s voice making an appearance at the four-minute mark, which just so happens to be a remix by Vous himself. The vast majority of the tracks on here are remixes that flip the script on electro and house anthems, but doing more than just slowing them down to -12% on the pitch slider. A very active producer on Soundcloud, Vous linked up with multiple independent artists for this mix, including New York’s Delicious Layzas, Burlington’s Two Sev, and, to round things out geographically, Florence Italy’s Ckrono. All three provide a number of songs, including the ones you hear in Vous’ mix, for FREE, on their Soundcloud pages (linked above).

Expect to hear more from Vous this year, the Roswell EP is just stage one!

Moombahcore (Traktor Scratch Vinyl Mix) by DJ Vous

Popeska: Back to the Strets
Phil Collins: In the Air Tonight (DJ Vous Remix)
The Jungle Brothers: Jungle Brother (Van Tek Moombahcore Remix)
Nano: Broken Glass
SHM & Congorock: One + 109 (Ckrono Moombahton Edit)
Kito & Reija Lee: Run For Cover (Basscamp Moombahton Remix)
Two Sev: Internet Friends (Go Buck! 108% Moombahton Edit)
DJ Vous: Roswell
Knife Party: Tourniquet (Ckrono’s 108% Moombahton Edit)
Knife Party: Fire Hive (Delicious Layzas 108% Moombahcore Edit)
Dface: Vamos a La Playa (Moombahcore Remix)
Skrillex: Kyoto (Gladiator Moombahton Remix)

Matt And Kim Ticket Giveaway Contest For House of Blues Show (12.9.11)

All right guys, any Matt and Kim fans out there? If you are, then today’s your lucky day. I’m giving away one pair of tix; all you need to do is leave a comment below with your name and email addy. This is a 24-hour drawing, it will close at 9am sharp tomorrow. Show is on Friday at the House of Blues with Mutemath and Mean Creek opening. Good luck! If you don’t win, you can still buy tix by following the link below.

Ticket and event info here

Crookers Comes To Boston, One Lucky Person Gets In For Free. 9.1.11

After a very short summer hiatus, Embrace Presents kicks off back-to-school and football season correctly by bringing a very big duo to downtown Boston. Crookers: you know the name, and even if you don’t, you know the influence they’ve had on a good deal of chart-topping music over the past several years. I’m honestly not even sure if they’ve been to Boston before, but following a youtube search that turned up zero videos, I’m willing to bet the answer is a solid NO. So if this duo is on your bucket list, get ready to scratch that shit off come Thursday.

Let’s start with their biggest song, a remix of Kid Cudi’s “Day and Night”. I first heard it when B.Rich (who lived in Boston at the time) handed me a mix CD back at the beginning of 2008 when LA Riots played at the same spot Thursday’s party is happening: The Middle East Downstairs. The song left an instant impression on me as the most memorable track on a mix CD rammed with cutting-edge house and bassline-driven gems. Fast forward to the beginning of 2009, I started hearing the same song in full rotation on Top 40 radio stations, probably the first song to achieve such status since Darude’s “Sandstorm”. 73 million views on YouTube is no joke!!!

Do the math to figure out what Crookers was doing between 2008 and 2009: impressing the pants off both the underground and mainstream, while getting asked to remix and do production work for dozens of well-known dance and pop acts. Synthesized and bassline driven music has become fairly prominent even on the FM airwaves these days, and I think this was in no small part due to the success of acts like Crookers.

CROOKERS FREE BEAT PACK by Crookers.net 

What have they been doing since “Day and Night”? Well, for starters, they released a well-received full length album in early 2010 titled “Tons of Friends”. Living up to its name, guest appearances from, well, friends of theirs, were rammed into every song on the disc. Everyone from Will.i.am to Pitbull, Spank Rock, Drop The Lime, Rye Rye, and Kelis (no big deal there, seriously…) But the music itself made as much of a statement, serving as less of a DJ tool and more of an artist’s album. The music itself included everything from the house and electro sound they are known for to bilal funk, salsa, borderline pop (but with soul), no-frills hip hop, and even dancehall. It was so well received they’re still touring and hustling remixes based off of it. 

Crookers present Dr Gonzo - Bust ‘em Up + Springer ( World Premier on Annie Mac BBC ) by Crookers.net 

Non-album track “Bust ‘Em Up”, a duo between Crookers and Savage Skulls, have shown that during all of the touring, these guys still make time to get into the studio and crank out some beats. Returning to their dancefloor friendly format prior to the 2010 album, you’ll have the vocal stutter-edits of this one in your head for a LONG time after a listen. And be sure to check out the French Fries remix; he flipped that one HARD. (Hey by the way, did I mention that one’s FREE?!)

So thanks to Embrace, as per usual, we have a contest. Same as we always do, I’m going to give away one free pair of tickets to one lucky person who leaves their NAME and EMAIL address in the comments section below. And, despite the lame pun, you have one DAY and one NIGHT to get your comment in. Contest closes at 12am this Thursday. So you’ve got 24 hours, good luck.

On opening duty are Hot Pink Delorean, Bangarang, and the Bass Alchemists. You know who all these guys are, and if you don’t, get there early and get your learn on. They’re all making moves of their own.

Facebook Event Flyer
Purchase tickets here

Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge
Doors open at 8pm, show goes until 1:30.

Get-A-Wiggle: Electro, Funk & Deep House at All Asia in Cambridge, 8.25.11

Electro swing & House dance party. Facebook event invite.

Free Before 10:30, $5 after
ALL ASIA, 334 Mass Ave, Cambridge

DJ Chandelier http://www.facebook.com/pages/DJ-Chandelier/120762498000750

Super Surprise Hidden DJ TBA

Come dance ‘n’ shit.

Cops And Robbers Party At Throwed! Middle East Downstairs, 7.12.11

Tuesday July 12th - THROWED BOSTON (18+) DANCE PARTY

“Cops & Robbers” Party w/ DJs: E-Marce + Kevin Wang + Texas Mike

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Dress Up Like

“Cops”
- Blue Shirt + Tie
- Blue Pants
- Fake Police Badges
- Aviator Glasses
- Fake Moustaches

“Robbers”
- Whitey Bulgar
- Striped Shirts
- Top Hat / Fedeora
- Old School Mobsters

With DJ’s
E-MARCE TEXAS MIKE 
KEVIN WANG

PHOTOBOOTH PICS by: G. Kwan
PARTY PHOTOS by: Lara Callahan
PARTY PHOTOS by: James Coletta
VISUALS by: The Vjays

18+ | 9:00pm - 12:30am
480 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA

Electro Monster Feed Me Plays Middle East w/Skism & Terravita, 6.29.11. Ticket Giveaway!

Next wednesday Embrace Boston brings another massive producer to Cambridge to work the Middle East’s subwoofers: Feed Me! Also known as Spor to drum and bass fans, as well as Jon Gooch to his parents, this guy has become very well regarded as a producer during his short, yet significant, music career of 6 years. 

Feed Me’s earliest work under the “Spor” alias reaped the rewards of several very successful 12” singles and EP’s released on popular drum and bass labels such as Subtitles, Renegade Hardware, and Lifted. Thanks in no small part to Andy C’s rinsing of his tracks in the UK, as well as Evol Intent and Ewun’s support of his work on this side of the Atlantic, this guy became established very quickly. Many producers aspire to Gooch’s high level of skill in the studio.

In 2008, Deadmau5 signed him to his Mau5trap label to put out what was supposed to be a “side project” consisting of house and electro. Momentum and support was so strong for the release, which included “The Spell”, that we can pretty much call the rest history. His “Big Adventure” LP, released last year on Mau5trap, devoured the Beatport Top 100 late last year, many of its tracks becoming nightlife staples. Since then, he has released several respectable remixes for Chris Lake and Robyn, on flagship labels Nervous Records and EMI respectively.

Although Feed Me stays pretty true to his electro and house sound, culling massive drums and booming bass against piercing synths and catchy hooks, he also dabs in dubstep on occasion as well. “Strange Behaviour” on his most recent EP on Mau5trap a good example.

If just a little dubstep isn’t enough, Skism will also be there to provide support in that arena. With a wobbly, dancefloor driven sound, he is a perfect fit for a mid-summer heater and has plenty of original material to bring to the table(s). I’m personally a fan of his throwback (and Henry Rollins)-laced “Rave Review” on Never Say Die, but also be sure to check his cuts on Rottun Recordings, which event openers and local favorites Terravita also happen to be signed to.

Feed Me/Spor/Gooch has not been to New England since 2005, when he played a party in Providence with good friend and label mate Ewun/Kill The Noise. He touches down with Skism, Terravita, and Efrain Vargas at the Middle East Downstairs (472 Mass Ave) on Wednesday, June 29th. 8-12:30 PM. Facebook Invite

And here’s your chance to win a pair of tickets. As we have done in the past, leave your full name and email in the comments section below. I will draw a winner at NOON, on Tuesday June 28th. Thanks to Embrace once again, good luck and see you on the dancefloor next week.

Tickets at ticketweb.com

2 L.A. DJ's in Boston: Doc Martin @ Goodlife, Paparazzi @ Rise, 4.1.11

Create Space Collab is back once again with the ill behavior at the Goodlife. This time around, they give the podium to Doc Martin, one of the longest-running house DJ’s stateside and beyond. Doing his thing for more than two-and-a-half decades, Martin was a pioneer of crafting the extended “journey” set, and inspired many people to pick up a pair of headphones and get behind the decks themselves.

This is Martin’s first set in Boston since Avalon in 2005. He’ll be playing a signature extended set downstairs for 3 hours, with Matt McNeill opening. Upstairs, CSC and Banana Peel residents Fens, Doctor Jeep, Elkid, and Mzungu represent. 

Let’s just put it this way: although the cover is $7 before 11, and $10 after, expect to NOT get in if you’re there after 11. This place is going to fill very rapidly. Martin is not a guy who comes to town very often, and people will be coming out of the woodwork for this.

After Goodlife kicks you out at 2, you can still go party at RISE (306 Stuart St), So Dope (yes they’ve returned!!) will be hosting Paparazzi in the main room upstairs. I saw him at Rise last year when Damian and company brought him out, and he covers everything from house to electro, dubstep, hip hop, everything hot at the moment. Jay K and Damien Paul on opening duty. $10/members, $20/guests, $15/college ID.

House/Electro Producer Clockwork Plays Foundation Room, 3.24.11

Ok Boston, here’s another opportunity to claim “I saw this producer in 2011 before he blew up” bragging rights. Although he’s only 20 years old at the moment, Henry “Clockwork” Steinway has gone straight from the bedroom to wearing the headliner hat in just two years. Initially renowned for his remix work, Clockwork’s alias does the talking: his renditions of other people’s tracks are functional, make the crowd lose it on the dancefloor, and, like that old grandfather clock in your mother’s dining room, just plain WORKS.

Clockwork has spent a great deal of time in both LA as well as New York. He has churned out official remixes for Crystal Castles and Snoop Dogg, and many of his original joints are getting played by MSTRKRFT, Kill The Noise, and Felix Cartel. Astute dance music afficiandos know full well that these guys are all A-listers, a place where Steinway will soon be headed himself, especially with a couple more high-profile remixes on his resume.

You can check out his mix below, as well as many of his originals on his soundcloud. Just don’t listen to the mix sitting down. Do some pilates or jumping jacks in your living room, or to hell with it and just straight up go to the gym, this is a bassline workout from one side of the book to the back. Once you’re through listening, just go ahead and mark tomorrow night on your calendar. Clockwork plays Foundation Room in Boston (15 Landsdown Street). 

Clockwork Presents: 2011 GDD™ Mixtape by ClockworkMusic

The second in the Creme De La Creme series hosted by Mike Tran and company, you can bet these guys are going to be bringing you plenty of fresh talent on a once-a-month basis. The Nightriders, Voltran, and NE Tempo are opening. Cover is FREE with Admission (click here for more info), and Facebook event page is here. Rock on.

THROWED Presents Designer Drugs & Mustard Pimp, Middle East, 3.3.11

GET YOUR TICKETS FOR THIS ASAP- THIS IS VERY CLOSE TO SELLING OUT!!

EMBRACE is proud to present DESIGNER DRUGS & MUSTARD PIMP w. HOT PINK DELOREAN, E-MARCE & NRL at the MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS on MARCH 3, 2011. DOORS AT 8PM.

TICKETS: http://www.wantickets.com/affiliates/EventDetail.aspx?e_id=149131&id=420

DESIGNER DRUGS
Designer Drugs (Michael Vincent Patrick and Theodore Paul Nelson) lead lifestyles of the rich and famous, but are really just poor boys who love helicopters and pop banger music…and a few other things that will not be noted. Currently, Designer Drugs is releasing new material with iheartcomix Records. They’ve also been found partying on the couch at the Iheartcomix office. With one member attending med school and the other drinking whiskey across the globe, to keep from going crazy last year - the DD boys produced over 23 remixes and DJ’d over 100 shows around the world. This year, to keep from going crazy, Designer Drugs is putting the focus on original material while continuing to tour the galaxy and party harder than ever.

DATAMIX - X by Designer Drugs Official

Most recently, Designer Drugs released their single “Zombies! / Back Up In This” on Iheartcomix Records, in 2009 with Remixes by Nadastrom, Don Rimini, Le Castle Vania and Bird Peterson. Designer Drugs has also completed remixes for labels such as Kitsune, Dim Mak, Fools Gold, Warner Brothers, Ministry Of Sound, Hail Social, Iamsound, Etc Etc, Coco Machette and Calamity Jane for artists such as Little Boots, The Veronicas, Thieves Like Us, Treasure Fingers, Mariah Carey, Jupiter One, Heart’s Revolution, Mission Control, Hail Social, and IAMX.

Both members of Designer Drugs are mentally controlled by ELLE REX (www.ellerex.net), photographer of NYC’s sleaziest and most entertaining electro party - RUFF CLUB. You can find her tagging along to shows, documenting the debauchery that ensues when DD takes the decks. What will happen next? You haven’t partied until you’ve partied with Designer Drugs!

MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.designer-drugs.net/
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/designerdrugsclubmusic
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Designer-Drugs/21951474675


MUSTARD PIMP
Started mid 2008, MUSTARD PIMP is a french duo including Baron and eKa. Baron started 9 years ago DJing mostly acid and techno stuff. eKa was a former guitarist from a french metal band.They started to make diverses remixes and quickly got support from lot of artists, they already remixed officially CROOKERS, STEVE AOKI, STEED LORD, PARTYSHANK, A1 BASSLINE, LARRY TEE, DADA LIFE, STEREOHEROES, BRYAN COX, and a lot more to come shortly.

Mustard Pimps debut single Oh La La Satan is out on Crux Records in September 2008 on digital,quickly then they released in October their second EP Raging Blood on Idiot house records.Early 2009 they released their 3rd EP RER EP freely on internet.

In July 2009 ,Mustard Pimp signed on DIM MAK RECORDS, and their debut Single Cherry featuring Kali from Steed Lord will be released In September 2009.

Initially inspired with Metal and Rock music but also with every music theyve heard or played during their lives, Mustard Pimps music is unclassifiable, they actually use to experiment diverse styles in their tracks ,from House to Breakbeat,from Electro to Maximal

Mustard Pimp also already released more than 25 mixtapes since March 2008 and have a strong establishement in worldwide blogs,they already count on more than 100 000 download from them mixtapes, and approximatively the same amount of download for all the tracks they set free around internet.

Check Out Them On Myspace: myspace.com/mustardpimp
Become A Fan on Facebook: facebook.com/mustardpimp

Mustard Pimp - Catastrophe Mixtape Series Vol 5 by mustard pimp

Silent Disco Invades Somerville: Holiday Treats With Voltran & TL @ ThinkTank

You KNOW you don’t have work the next day so come ring in the holiday’s with us at Think Tank in Kendall Square!!! We’ll be doing it up right SILENT DISCO style with our 2 favorite dj’s, TL and Voltran plus Riot Now(House/EDM)! will be kicking off the night from 10-12! They will have all the tunes you need to get down!!!!

21+, $5, 10-2am 

Bar will be serving up some amazing drinks and FOOD!!

AND IT GETS BETTER!!!!

If you bring 2 friends you get in FREE!!!! So gather up the troops and let’s DANCE!!!!

What is SILENT DISCO?

It’s a simple concept: We use our wireless headphone technology that links up to a dj/live band/ipod etc… and transmitts the music directly into your eardrums! Everyone is listening to the same thing and each head set comes with it’s own volume control so you can turn it up and GET DOWN, or keep it low and chat. YOU decide how you want to party!!!

Silent Disco in Boston by
Silent Storm Sound System

Photos by Beantown Boogiedown

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Throwed Presents Jack Beats & Hot Pink Delorean @ Middle East, 10.28.10

Be sure to order pre-sales HERE before they sell out!!

THURSDAY OCTOBER 28TH - THROWED + EMBRACE PRESENT:

HALOWEEN COSTUME PARTY!!! - w/ JACK BEATS (LONDON) + HOT PINK DELOREAN +E-MARCE

TICKETS: http://tinyurl.com/297gbz7

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THIS IS NOW A HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY!

SO DRESS UP IN YOUR COSTUMES IF YOU GOT EM !!!


THROWED + EMBRACE PRESENTS:

THURSDAY OCTOBER 28TH

JACK BEATS (UK!)

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HOT PINK DELOREAN

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E-MARCE (Throwed Resident DJ)

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PARTY PHOTOS by: Lara Callahan (http://www.elciphotography.com/)
PHOTOBOOTH by: G. Kwan

Hosted by: Rage Brigade + Sophia Fatale + Red Blue Records + Joey Fisher Tattoos

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18+ | 9:00pm - 1:30am, $15 Advance Tickets week 1pm-7pm)

MUST HAVE A STATE ID OR PASSPORT
NO COLLEGE IDs ACCEPTED

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@ The Middle East DOWNSTAIRS
(http://www.mideastclub.com/)
480 Massachusetts Ave.
Central Square
Cambridge,MA

SET TIMES:
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9:00pm = DOORS OPEN
9:00-10:00 = DJ MICHAEL SAVANT
10:00-11:00 = E-MARCE
11:00-12:00 = HOT PINK DELOREAN
12:00 - 1:30 = JACK BEATS

Society to Party Presents NSFW Feat. Tommie Sunshine, Underbar, 9.16.10

A new collective is in town, spearheaded by the one and only Mike Tran! Society to Party is kicking off their official launch this thursday at Underbar with NSFW, featuring Tommie Sunshine, along with an additional launch of local tech house label Banana Peel Records. You better believe they have plenty of festivities in store for you at this location, so stay tuned. Event info below:

Tommie Sunshine is currently touring in support of his latest single, “5AM (A Girl Like You) feat. Oh Snap!! – out now. The single is demonstrative of the latest sounds in dance music right now – a confluence of Pop, Electro, and Hip Hop. Covering ground as an artist, re-mixer, producer, taste-maker, DJ, songwriter and traveling the globe with his legendary DJ sets it won’t be long before there will be, at least a little or a lot of Tommie Sunshine in your life.

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) [Tommie Sunshine’s Quaalude Edit] by tommiesunshine

Bordello Room DJ set by Banana Peel Records
(Check out the interview I just did with BPR founder Matt Rohr here)

Capricorn’s Millenia by Fens

Opening DJ set by VOLTRAN

sucez le visage by DJVolTran

Featured DJ set by BREK.ONE

Visual Imagery by ZEBBLER

Photo’s by Dan Marino

UNDERBAR, 275 Tremont St, (THEATER DISTRICT), Boston MA

Doors open 9:30
Table Reservations 617.388.7883

21+ Proper ID Required
GET YOUR ADVANCED TICKETS TODAY:
http://societytoparty.ticketleap.com/

Embrace Presents Caspa at the Middle East Downstairs, 8.4.10

CASPA **LIVE** @ THE MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS ON WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4TH 2010.

WITH TERRAVITA, J. RABBIT & SCOUNDRELS

Originally associated with the dubstep genre, McCann founded the Storming Productions music label in 2004.

Co-founder of the dubstep record labels Dub Police and Subsoldiers, he mixed the first commercially released dubstep compilation for Fabric Live and has a bi-monthly residency at London club Fabric with his label partner Rusko. As a producer he has turned out a variety of remixes, including a dubstep remix of Deadmau5’s ‘I Remember’ and Rusko’s ‘Cockney Thug’.

Caspa has also been featured on Pete Tong’s weekly 2 hour electronic dance mix on Radio One, the Essential Mix.

It has been suggested by critics, that Caspa revolutionized dubstep and certain sounds from the genre. Many artists in the scene note Caspa as a major influence.

DONT MISS THIS CHANCE TO SEE HIM LIVE - THIS SHOW IS GOING TO BE BANANAS. CASPA IS ONE OF THE LARGEST DUBSTEP ARTISTS ON THE SCENE AND HIS SHOWS SELL OUT FOR GOOD REASON! 

Buy your TICKETS here:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/010044C9A8167F0E?artistid=1456137&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60

Throwed Jungle Party: Tonight 6.29.10 at the Middle East Upstairs

TUESDAY - JUNE 29th THROWED!

“WELCOME TO THE FUCKING JUNGLE”
WEAR YOUR PARTY ANIMAL PRINTS!

Featuring:

E-MARCE
BEETKEEPERS
KEEP ME CONSCIOUS
THE ENVY OF AUGUST

PARTY PHOTOS by: Lara Callahan
JUNGLE PHOTOBOOTH by: G. Kwan
VISUALS by: JELLZ {Visualcoholic}

Hosted by:
Jellz + Rage Brigade + Sophia Fatale + Red Blue Records

$10 | 9:00pm - 12:30am
(Come EARLY , we no longer end at 1:30am!)
18+


@ The Middle East UPSTAIRS (small room)
(http://www.mideastclub.com/)
480 Massachusetts Ave.
Central Square
Cambridge, MA

UPCOMING EVENTS:

TUESDAY JULY 6 - THROWED - w/ INNERPARTYSYSTEM 

Kid Sister, Bodega Girls, Frank White & Leah V, Middle East, 6.19.10

Kid Sister is performing tonight at the Middle East Downstairs, get there early to avoid the line and secure tickets! Presented by teapartyboston.com

Kid Sister - Pro Nails (Rusko Remix) (DJP’s Dubfunk Refix) by scratchabit

Kid Sister - Control by ScionAV

An Horse - Listen (Bodega Girls Remix) by ghostbrittm