LimeWire Music Blog

San Francisco-based DJ/producer/label mogul Claude VonStroke can rock a house party but also knows you don’t always have to drive the mixer into the red and make the speakers smoke. He’s well aware, especially on his latest full-length, that sometimes less — as in volume, tempo and overall digital madness — is more. In fact, he subscribes to the Parliament-Funkadelic “it’s what you don’t play” funk theory so much so that he brought in none other than P-Funk bassist/spaceman Bootsy Collins. Bootsy’s charismatic interstellar rap gives “Greasy” a unique electro-funk touch that can’t be faded. The funky piano-driven “Bay Area,” meanwhile, is driven by old school 808 drops, dreamy synths and an angelic female vocal line that imagines Kraftwerk-meets-Moby. And the sleek “California” and the distorted bliss of “Beat that Bird” are new millennial electro lounge at its most head-tripping. Dial your party meter down from teeth-clenching rage to pulsing vibe all night and this is your soundtrack.