These two disco-electro stars must have 100 million YouTube views between them and tickets are just $15. I’m excited to drop a *rare* hip hop set in the VIP with Kraig + Barry Woo – expect golden age jams. Gangstarr, De La Soul, The Roots, Blackstar, Common, G-funk, maybe even Kid N Play?

Grum | DCUP | U-Tern | Pat Lok | Kraig | Woo

Plus tomorrow I’ll be spinning with my pal Jeremy Lim at Canvas Lounge for the Vancouver Foodster 1st Anniversary Party. Cant wait for to taste what the head chefs of  Coast, Hapa Izakaya and Sanafir have in store!

My PNAU and Bonobo remixes got onto Hype Machine, and now I’m at #4 on the Twitter Charts and #28 on the Popular charts! Not that it means much, but I’m in front of Tiesto, which makes it all worth it.

Anyways, with just 12 hours left on the charts I don’t know if I’ll rise any higher, but thank you so much to everyone who has supported me over the last three days with love, <3s and Tweets. Seriously I love you guys. And if you haven’t yet, spread the word and <3 my track!

Bonobo – Prelude [pat lok '60 minute monkey' remix]

I <3 Bonobo! The genius is coming to the Commodore next Wednesday. In celebration I threw together a house version of the debut track on his new album, Black Sands.

Download it!

PAT LOK – RUNNING FOR LOVE

Check out my new disco house track RUNNING FOR LOVE, its flush with some old school filters and re-pitched samples. Hope you like the chops!

UK stutterfunker GoGo Bizkitt! did a wonderful disco house retake on this.

And of course, the Fresh Prince version.

Kano – I’m Ready

- The Tennessee sun feels like pressing a George Foreman grill against your face and body from sunrise (630am) until you sleep pass out from exhaustion. Pemberton was a walk-in freezer compared to this. I have never seen so many people just lying prostrate wherever they fell down, and I now look like one of those minstrel show blackface characters.

- Best festival vibes ever. You could punch someone in the face here and they’d apologize and ask if you were okay.

- The $7 shower would probably have been worth it (even with a one hour wait). Going from Thursday to Monday night without bathing, maybe not the best idea.

- Best/My Favorite Performance: Dan Deacon Ensemble – A must see. They had an entire tent of fans doing interpretive dance, as well as a 1-on-1 “tag your man” dance-off circle. The frontman may or may not have fired the bass player during the set – “Get outta here! Bass players are a dime a dozen!” These guys redefine stage presence and audience engagement.

- #2 Favorite Performance: Beth Ditto of The Gossip is to dancerock what Shaq is to basketball. Huge, overwhelmingly powerful, fun, hilarious, one of the greatest.

- Honorable Mention: Phoenix (would have been better if Ween didn’t put us to sleep with a 3 hour set in the scorching heat beforehand, but still had an exhausted crowd bouncing with a sincere effort, and a killer finish) and LCD Soundsystem (where throwing glowsticks at James Murphy is a team sport).

- Best band I’d never heard of: John Butler Trio. (disco country?!? MORE PLEASE.)

- Honorable Mention: Dead Weather (Jack White and the dude from The Kills)

- Performer that caused the entire audience to fist-pump for 60 minutes straight (except when he dared to play a drum and bass track): dub-step freak Bassnectar

- Performer nonpareil: Stevie Wonder - Not much to say, I think the entire festival attended this one. Sounded awesome but I couldn’t see him at all. Likewise, probably.

- Performers with the Most aggro, vibe-ruining fans (the only ones in the entire festival): Jay-Z / Deadmau5

- Most Disappointing: Nas with Damian Marley (a 10 minute appearance? maybe because no one knew Represent?)

- Worst Music and Lyrics Ever: Michael Franti. I fell asleep to his mind-numbing reggae and was woken up by his horrible Shake It song, which sounds like it was written by an Yugoslavian immigrant just learning English who knows 2 chords on guitar.

- Some other bands I rocked out to but can only muster three words to describe: Tenacious D (energizing, hilarious, sweaty), She & Him (cute, fresh, soulmate), The Flaming Lips (man in ball)

- Worst Buzzkill: The girls selling  ice-cold beers for $1 (Us: Thanks for the beers! Nice business you got! Them: It’s all going to court on Monday.)

- Best One-Hour Best Friend: Lindsay the mixed hottie from Toronto, who traded racist jokes on the bus with me before vanishing as quickly as she appeared. (Her: I’m half Indian! Me: You mean like this [pokes middle of forehead] or like this? [mimes powowow chant])

- Number of Hairy Beavs Spotted: 1

- Number of Cape-draped Dongs flashed/tackled at Phoenix: 1

- Number of Bare Boobs covered by nothing but volunteer finger paint: So many, and yet not enough

- Number of attendees with tattoos: 95% of 100,000

- Number of hillbilly southern accents and sayings overheard: A Billion Gajillion

- Number of New Yorkers camped with: 4

- Number of Brooklyn, Joisey or other “TV” New York accents heard: 0

- Number of $7 showers taken: 0

- Number of free “mist” showers taken: 3 per hour

- Number of shitty American beers consumed: Too many to count

- Number of sun-ripened, thrice-thawed Salmonella Burgers consumed: 4

- Number of times passed out in front of a booming bassbin and woken by concerned security guards: 1

- Number of disposable cameras purchased for trip: 2

- Number of pictures taken: 0

- Pairs of Moldy Shoes left behind: 1

- Number of skin rashes brought home: 2

Other random thoughts:

- Do we really need glowsticks at a Jay-Z concert?

- All festivals start to smell like feces after a couple days

- In 110 degree heat, a large fountain spurting cold brown recycled water becomes heaven on earth,  with nubile college sorority girls frolicking happily with no regard for their (lack of) bikini tops. I approve!

Download it here: http://www.soundcloud.com/patlok/pat-lok-big-gay-disco-mix-french-funky-filter-gay-disco-house

PAT LOK – BIG GAY DISCO MIX (70:49)

LBCK – Disco Thrills
Le Batman – Funk It
Mix Chopin – Bliss
In Flagranti – Louvre For Yo
Laberge – Love As One
Daft Punk – Technologic (Le Batman Rework)
Le Knight Club – Soul Bells (Quinten 909 Remix)
la ZEBRA – Wrong Number
Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream (Go Go Bizkitt! Remix)
Lady Gaga & Holy Ghost – Alejandro Will Come Back (Pat Lok Edit)
Fare Soldi – Pompa O Non Pompa
Machine – There But For the Grace of God (Le Principle)
Swivel Hips – Cheaters
Quinten 909 – Sophia
Fedde Le Grand – Let Me Cross The Dance Floor (Kraak & Smaak S.H. Edit)
Funkabit – Mininova (Fare Soldi Remix)
Olav Basoski – I Feel So…
Down N Dirty – Forbidden Lover
Light Year – The Pop Shot
Duck Sauce – You’re Nasty
Thomas Bangalter – Colossus (Hana Yori Kichou Na Remix)
Swivel Hips – Lucky Miami Stars
Soundblasters – Karate Lessons
PNAU – With You Forever (Pat Lok ’1 Night on Granville’ Remix)
Phonat – Set Me Free (Louis La Roche Reconstruct)
Noob & Brodinski – Peanuts Club (Leonardus’ Too Late Remix)
The Holidays – Moonlight Hours (The Swiss Remix)
Gorillaz – Superfast Jellyfish (Evil Nine Remix)
Moullinex – Superman (Lorenz Rhode Remix)
Kit – Animals (Jupiter Remix)
Hazel & Entyce – In Da Club (Fukkk Offf Remix)
Cassius – 99 (Reset! Remix)

DRAYGO’S GUILT – BLACKLIST [PAT LOK "dirty hackney" REMIX] by patlok

My first ever indie dance/electro (wince) remix is of London indie rockers Draygo’s Guilt. They’re good sh!t as not everyone gets to play in Madame Jojo’s in Covent Garden. Download their new album here.

The Twelves live in Vancouver May 6

GRUM live in Vancouver w/ Pat Lok May 6

Anyway I’m playing this Saturday at Shine (get at me for the guest list!) so here’s a simple edit I did for the dancefloor. I literally went to the Beat’s top 20 chart and downloaded whatever was #1 to make an edit. And of course we all love Holy Ghost!

This one’s for every 20 year old girl out there asking the DJ for ‘something with words.’
Lady Gaga & Holy Ghost – Alejandro Will Come Back [pat lok edit v1] by patlok