'TROUBLE COMES' #1 on Traxsource Lounge Essentials for this week!!!

'TROUBLE COMES' #1 on Traxsource Lounge Essentials for this week!!!XO

TROUBLE COMES — Feat. on Traxsource 'Lounge | Chillout' main page

TROUBLE COMES EP featured release on Traxsource's Lounge / Chill Out' main page!! Get it here, prior to its worldwide digital release:

"Trouble Comes", the 2nd single from my 7th studio album 'Light Sweet Crude - Act One: Hybrid'. More than a simple remix release, the expansive 'Trouble Comes' EP features two mixes of the single by producer Lem Springsteen (Mood II Swing) and a chill samba-infused mix by moi – Plus two new and previously unreleased tracks: the left-field hip-hop inspired "Love and Kameras" produced & co-written by Kahari Mays and the smoky jazz-hued "Welcome To My Blues". The set closes with 'Scrap Processors' sultry, minimal deep-tech rework of "Welcome To My Blues" 

XOV

'TROUBLE COMES' EP — Pre-release on Traxsource

"A wolf howls in the canyon / Obeys some ancient rule / No echo to follow / The sound's beautiful and cruel..."

TROUBLE COMES:::: The second single lifted from my latest album 'Light Sweet Crude: Act One - Hybrid' is available for pre-release on Traxsource
The EP includes a remix by LEM (Springsteen), plus two new tracks - "Love and Kameras", a collaboration with Kahari Mays, & "Welcome To My Blues" w/ a remix by Scrap Processors.

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LOVE is (not) Black & White

Love! So closely aligned with regret & too often, revenge!

I prefer the quiet, personal kind, by re-grouping & re-calibrating yourself & rising above the remorse & turning the negative into positive creative energy.....

Write a song, sing it, dance, and remember : time is wasted looking back & regretting....! XO

Vanessa Daou - Black & White (Jori Hulkkonen Dub)

Black & White



Black & White

Here's the pen you gave me
To write my poetry
I said I'd give it back to you
The day you stopped inspiring me
Here's my glass it's empty

When the burning comes
When the liquid numbs
We go on to say
"Hey isn't Hell fun?"

When Salome said 'No'
The first to ask had to go
When the second tried
She just kept on dancing

All night with her boots on
All night, all night long
All night 'til we can't go on
All night long

Here's your portrait I painted
It's in black & white
"There is no in between for you."
I said when you ask me 'Why'
We ***k through the night

When the burning comes
When the liquid numbs
We go on to say
"Hey isn't Hell fun?"

When Salome said 'No'
The first to ask had to go
When the second tried
She just kept on dancing

We live in a dream
No reality
We who believe in Love
Life goes on without you
Love always, V

A playlist inspired by 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' — Windy City Times

A playlist inspired by 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' 

WINTER MUSIC SPECIAL 

Special to the online edition of Windy City Times 

by David Byrne 

2013-12-12

When Twentieth Century Fox released the first trailer to X-Men: Days of Future Past, I was excited to get a glimpse at this anticipated sequel. The storyline has the franchise's key character, Wolverine ( Hugh Jackman ), traveling back to the '70s in an attempt to prevent a murder that leads to a horrific future, where his fellow mutants are hunted down. I was so moved that I decided to create a playlist inspired by the upcoming blockbuster.

Some of the music's themes are despair, hope, time travel and heroes. I wanted to stray from obvious choices like Madonna's "Bedtime Story," Tina Turner's "We Don't Need Another Hero ( Thunderdome )," Mariah Carey's "Hero" and The Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Time Warp." The next step was narrowing down the collection to under 20 songs.

The playlist kicks off with fiery rock anthems from Canadian artists. "Positronic" by The Pack A.D. salutes science-fiction icon Isaac Asimov and paints an image of the Sentinels, which are huge man-made machines used to hunt down mutants and protect humans in the X-Men universe. Jane Child is best remembered for her pop-funk hit "Don't Wanna Fall in Love." Here, I am including her guitar-heavy "Step out of Time" from her sophomore effort, Here Not There.

Vanessa Daou sings coolly on the dramatic "Manifesto," which has an absolutely marvelous version on her compilation Speak/Easy: The Moonshine Mixes ( Joe Sent Me Revisited ). The piece climaxes intensely, as her digitally enhanced voice proclaims, "Only I can save you." This captures how Wolverine solely is trusted by the leader Charles Xavier ( Patrick Stewart ) and his unlikely ally, Magneto ( Ian McKellen ), to accomplish this mission.

Read more @ Windy City Times

DANGER AHEAD | Beatport Minimal Top 100 Releases

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Danger Ahead — The Updownsuite review

“Come along and walk among us / The polyglots, the derelict / The ones whose shoes never seem to fit…”

Underground poet/down tempo electro-goddess Vanessa Daou unleashes "Danger Ahead" as the official first single from her highly anticipated upcoming album Light Sweet Crude: Act One - Hybrid.  Trading the gin and jazz soaked sounds of her speakeasy themed project – 2008's Joe Sent Me, "Danger" finds Daou flirting with early 90’s house a la Danny Tenaglia.  Heavily layered and club ready, "Danger" is brimming with Daou's signature breathy and sultry vocals.  Dealing with those who exist on the outskirts of society's norms, "Danger" is a welcome addition to Daou's already diverse character studies and by incorporating tribal beats and strings, it also recalls the sonic richness of Daou's earlier work. 

B+

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'Danger Ahead' | DMC Single of the Week

DMC

Just in case you missed out on this, as I almost did, ‘Danger Ahead’ really is another treat from the voice which adorned the classic The Daou ‘Surrender Yourself’ amongst many others. Lifted from the forthcoming album 'Light Sweet Crude - Act One: Hybrid' its dirty, bass driven lines are suitably offset by the bittersweet and rather breathy vocals, accompanied by strident piano chords and classy House beats on DJ Hen’s Boogie Extended Mix. A further eight versions are also available varying the style. Second track ‘Dirty Blonde’ plays an altogether different game with down-tempo grooves and even more sultry vocals.

4 out of 5
Reviewed by Greg Fenton

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Vanessa Daou – ‘Danger Ahead’ (MANIK Rework) - Soundplate

"MANIK has dropped this big new remix for Vanessa Daou and KID Recordings (in association with Daou Records). This will come out tomorrow (19/11/13) alongside remixes from DJ Hen Boogie, Son Of Sound, Kenny Summit, Many Ward, Culture Fires and Vanessa, herself. Check it out and leave a comment or tweet with any feedback you have."

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SPEAKEASY | THE MOONSHINE Mixes — 7 weeks @ #1 Electronica on TRAXSOURCE

 VANESSA DAOU Speak/Easy: The Moonshine Mixes (‘Joe Sent Me’ Revisited) held the #1 spot in Electronica Downloads for 7 weeks @ Traxsource

Many thanks to all involved: OUTSIDER MUSIC | KID RECORDINGS & the brilliant produces who spun their magic in the mixes.

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Speak/Easy: The Moonshine Mixes ['Joe Sent Me' Revisited] featured as one of Traxsource's "What's Hot This Week"

 Endorsed: “Lovely to hear Vanessa Daou back in action. New remix album coming out. If you’re digging this, keep an eye out for @dusk, a new lounge night at Chicago’s Downtown Bar starting in December. ” — Endorse, Not Endorse

Vanessa Daou ‘Speak/Easy: The Moonshine Mixes ['Joe Sent Me' Revisited] is featured as one of Traxsource’s “What’s Hot This Week” in Lounge/Chill Out releases and has several selections in their Essential 20 Lounge tracks and is #3 in their Essential 20 Lounge tracks for the week!

Congrats to all the great producers involved!

XOV

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ABOUT THE MOONSHINE MIXES:

VANESSA DAOU closes the chapter on her sixth studio album, JOE SENT ME, with the release of the remix companion SPEAK/EASY: THE MOONSHINE MIXES [‘JOE SENT ME’ REVISITED]. The 16 track set assembles a cherry-picked collection of new and previously released mixes culled largely from her string of successful remix single releases – “Consequences”, “Black & White”, “Once And A While” and “Heart Of Wax” – that bring into focus Daou’s intrinsic love of sonic experimentation and diverse musical genres.

Featuring an all-star cast of international, dance and electronic music, innovators including BLANK & JONES, MARK REEDER, CHARLES WEBSTER, TERRY LEE BROWN JR., ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ, JORI HULKKONEN, GANGA, SLEEPTHIEF, RALPH MYERZ and DJ HEN BOOGIE, the release effortlessly flows from smoky nocturnal jazz and pastoral chilled-out grooves to deep, dark and sultry house and radiant synth-pop with a seamless fluidity.

It’s a satisfying soundtrack ideal for clubs, lounges, late-night drives or intimate “back to mine” sessions that will undoubtedly please DJs, as well as, Daou’s legion of loyal fans while introducing a new generation of mature music lovers to the artist’s sophisticated and eclectic pedigree.

'Heart of Wax' — News, Reviews & Remixes

"Beauty never beats in a heart of wax, it comes down to that / Lovers never sleep once the conversation comes, they're empty as a drum..." So begins 'Heart of Wax'....

I received an email from a long-time fan who was asking about the impetus and inspiration behind 'Heart of Wax'. 

The beauty of language is the ability to communicate one's feelings, those emotions trapped inside of one's heart and mind, those inner-most sanctums. 

The ever-piercing thorn in the side of every Writer & Poet is the inability of language to every fully convey the manifold shades of meaning. It is only possible to approximate, approach, and tease out ones thoughts and feelings through language through the use of metaphor, similie, analogy, etc.

In the opening line of 'Heart of Wax', for instance, it is unclear whether it is the lovers or the drums that are 'empty' "once the conversation comes".

For me, every song is a reflection, rumination, an offering. Using the metaphor of a burning candle to convey the slow, languorous unfolding of Love , 'Heart of Wax' is a song about the natural defenses a person in love puts up, the invisible boundaries that are drawn until that moment of recognition and surrender, that one is - inexorably, and beautifully - in Love.

'HEART OF WAX'— News, Reviews & Remixes:

'Heart of Wax' — Nominee at the 27th Annual International Dance Music Awards at the WMC

'Heart of Wax' is nominated for Best Chillout/Lounge track at the 27th Annual International Dance Music Awards at the Winter Music Conference in Miami Beach.

You can view the nominees here -

And don't forget to cast your vote for this year's nominees here -



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 Photo by the George Pitts

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iTunes

1. Heart of Wax (Richard Morel Mix)
2. Heart of Wax (Richard Morel Dub)
3. Heart of Wax (Craig C's Master Blaster Mix)
4. Heart of Wax (Craig C's InstraBlaster Dub)
5. Heart of Wax (Emjae Club Mix)
6. Heart of Wax (Emjae's Subterranean Disco Dub)  
7. Heart of Wax (Blank & Jones Late Night Mix)

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In case you missed last year's review of 'Heart of Wax' @ the inimitable JOE MY GOD:

"As a JMG exclusive, here's a free download of famed remixer Rich Morel's take on Vanessa Daou's Heart Of Wax. Veteran househeads will fondly recall Daou's epic 1992 classic Surrender Yourself. (Work it, learn it, serve it, bring it to the ball.) I'm loving this new single."

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Scents & Sensory @ Calming Park:

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FIERCE ANGEL

Tracklisting

 

CD1      

1. Tommy Bones & Lydia Rhodes - What I Feel - Original Mix     
2. Karin De Ponti I Am The Moon Chris IDH Remix
3. Newland & DJ Vivona Ft. Jade - Set Me Free Extended Mix 
4. Madelin Zero Love The Love Original Mix Edit 
5. Morel Shoegazer Disco Linus Loves Vocal Mix 
6. Vanessa Daou - Heart Of Wax Emjae Club Mix

Fierce Angel is celebrating 5 fabulous year ! Set up in 2006 by Mark Doyle the creator of Hed Kandi Fierce Angel has been picking up critical acclaim worldwide. The company is on a mission to provide simply the finest music and the most memorable nights out.

Read more @ FIERCE ANGEL

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Further info @ the ever glamorous & fabulous MAXI: 

Vanessa Daou and Calming Park Candles have joined forces to illuminate her brand new video for “Heart Of Wax” and your Valentine’s Day.  The organic palm wax candles, made in Grasse, France in Vanessa’s favorite scent Pack Of Cactus, are featured in the video for her sultry new single out on youtube and video outlets Feb 14th.  What’s Valentine’s Day without a little candlelight? Now you can bask in this glow.  

Check out Calming Park’s groovy compilations featuring Goldfrapp, Melanie Gardot, Sia and Gotan Project.

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Vanessa Daou - Heart of Wax

Buddha bar-heart of wax 

Heart of Wax (Ganga mix)

Blank & Jones - Heart of Wax (feat. Vanessa Daou) Heart of Crystal Mix 

Vanessa Daou - Heart Of Wax (Emjae Club Mix)

Joe Sent MDE, Part 8 of 9 - Heart Of Wax

JOE (MY GOD) SENT ME: 'Joe My God' reviews 'Heart of Wax'

"As a JMG exclusive, here's a free download of famed remixer Rich Morel's take on Vanessa Daou's Heart Of Wax. Veteran househeads will fondly recall Daou's epic 1992 classic Surrender Yourself. (Work it, learn it, serve it, bring it to the ball.) I'm loving this new single."

Read more @ Joe My God

'Heart of Wax' Part II **New Mixes**

"The follow-up to Vanessa's top 40 Billboard Club Play single “Consequences” is the second part of her tender late-night grinder “Heart Of Wax”.  Where Part 1 went for more of a subtle set featuring the languid sounds of Alpha Motive and Ganga’s heady dubby vibe, Part 2 drives the sultry slow burner into ultimate getting down and dirty on the floor territory with Richard Morel, Craig C and Emjae remixes. The mixes are a perfect start to the summer with filtered, swirling synths, pulsating rhythms, progressive grooves, glitch and straight up house.  After this sweaty workout, you can then take a hookah break in the lounge with Blank And Jones’ hazy, Balearic moonscape. The collection of Vanessa’s remixes Moonshine Mixes is coming in Fall 2011."

MAXI