Not only is Cisco a consistently successful producer, he also knows how to hand pick the best talent to collaborate with. Last month, we heard tracks from Mike Posner’s “31 Minutes to Takeoff,” many of which were actually produced by Cisco himself. “Do U Wanna” is a synthy but releaxing, hard hitting but refreshing reason why Cisco is so gifted. He can mix seemingly incompatible vibes and styles together in a beautiful way.

Long time favorite deejay Jason Smith takes care of the scratching technicalities on “Fly Out The Window” which rounds out the entire track.

Stream the track here & download via Cisco’s BandCamp.

Cisco Adler and the Pigeons (with Jason Smith) – Fly Out The Window [download via Cisco's BandCamp]

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Clinton Sparks has spent days in the studio, facing the a steep demand curve of famous deejays wanting their copy with the supply limitations of only 24 hours in a day. From his twitter, it looks like he’s recorded more custom versions of this track than most artists will record in a lifetime. Clinton Sparks is not only our favorite deejay, but also the hardest working one. It’s no surprise he was just recently picked up by Interscope Records.

Wynter Gordon also recorded a custom version of her popular track “Dirty Touch” exclusively for Ted the Dillinger. Just like Sparks, Gordon not only focuses on her own career, but records for other deejays too. Helping others has never sounded so good, so thank you Wynter & Clinton!

Wynter Gordon – Dirty Talk (Ted the Dillinger Edit) [download]

Clinton Sparks – Favorite DJ (Ted the Dillinger Edit) [download]

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Unlike other modern pop-artists, Posner has risen to the top with his head on right and his morals perfectly intact. The only thing that’s changed is that he’s now a pop superstar and household name with skyrocketing popularity.

On August 12^th, the biggest day of his life, he continued to put his fans first in typical Posner fashion. My buddy Schubert sent him a message about how much he loved the album – and within like thirty minutes, Posner had responded to him. Somehow, he has maintained the rare quality that makes him seem like the artist next door.

We were all intrigued when we found out Posner and Cisco Adler were teaming up on a handful of tracks on the album, and their productions do not disappoint. “Do U Wanna?” is my favorite Cisco/Posner collaboration (even though it shot out my iPhone headphones). It’s a really synthy track with high and low frequency faders that that bring in big sound to the album while still maintaining Posner’s unique style and voice.

Posner also shares some personal stories, which allow us to put a name to his pain: Caroline Stevens is finally announced as the wrecking-ball of love that provided him with an endless supply of artistic inspiration. This girl put her high heel through his heart and made him bleed gold records. If it wasn’t for her, 31 Minutes to Takeoff would have like three tracks on it.

I also love the chorus of “Gone In September.” It narrates the recurring dilemma for all college lovers: the summer relationship. When Fall semester rolls around, summer love is almost always extinguished as things fade back into normality.

I said I loved you in the summer
But will I love you in the fall??
I thought I wasn’t like the others
Guess I’m an asshole afterall

Posner manages to remain charmful while calling himself an asshole, and the sincerity in his voice totally negates the fact that he’s breaking a girls heart. This guy could sweet-talk anyone.

In an emotional contrast to many of the other songs that focus his past relationships, the track “Delta 1406” (the flight from LAX to Detroit) makes you feel like you’re eavesdropping on a deep and personal conversation between him and his parents.

“I can’t come down, maybe I flew too high?” mimics the message of his mixtape track Speed of Sound which details how he has “a hundred million people inside of my phone, but I still got no one to call.”  The entire album is a genuine glimpse into the emotions and thoughts of a truly talented artist that is navigating the turbulent journey of being famous.

It’s been an enlightening year learning about Posner, especially for the girls in his life. By now, I hope they know to proceed with caution and play nice… any drama they create will undoubtedly make it to the top of all the major music charts in the world.

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Posner also just tweeted this song by Cee-Lo Green as the Song of the Year. When Posner tweets, we download and listen. Enjoy

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(His record label wants you to watch it via his Facebook Fan Page, so this video will probably get disabled pretty soon)

Mike Posner is calling it the song of the year, and CNN has dubbed it as the “hit you won’t hear on the radio.” Watch the video and see why.

Cee-Lo Green – F*ck You [purchase via itunes]

This New York Times Article sums it all up:

A Hit Song on YouTube, Unnameable on the Radio

By NOAM COHEN
Published: August 30, 2010

THERE is a world where when you see someone driving in a fancy car with the girl you love, you shout out, “Forget you!” It’s the same world where friends will talk smack about the crazy stuff their dads say.

That world is called traditional entertainment.

And while traditional entertainment increasingly relies on the anything-goes Internet to cultivate and stoke interest in music, TV shows and movies, there are still some important boundaries. The return to civilization comes at a cost.

A case in point is a recent viral musical sensation — a bouncy song by the soul-pop singer Cee Lo Green with over three million views on YouTube in little more than a week. The singer is peeved at a girl who has left him and concludes that “If I’d been richer, I’d still be with ya” and though “there’s pain in my chest, I still wish you the best …” followed by a certain crude phrase, and an “ooh, ooh, ooh.”

This is hardly a fleeting expletive of the kind the Federal Communications Commission has tried to regulate. While songs with vulgarities in them are a dime a dozen (actually more like $12 on iTunes), Cee Lo’s single is unusual in that the crude phrase is the title, chorus and punch line to the song, said Craig Marks, the editor of Billboard magazine. He could conjure up only a handful of hit songs in a similar bind — rarer still was the song that played a peppy tune against the crude lyrics.

“Even if it is the most happy song, radio is not going to play it,” Mr. Marks said matter of factly, imagining crude lyrics praising sunshine and lollipops or even the joy of radio itself.

Hence the riddle for Elektra Records, Cee Lo’s label, part of the Warner Music Group, which will release his latest album, “The Lady Killer,” in December and hopes to sustain interest in the single offline.

Cee Lo already has cut a cleaned-up version of the single for the radio called “Forget You!” which has been played in England and may be soon in the United States, too. But “Forget You!” can seem inauthentic — the peculiar phrase for such foul-mouthed-turned-mealy-mouthed expressions is “minced oaths” — and probably will not get the girl’s attention.

Rather than mince their oaths, however, radio stations have edited the song themselves, bleeping out the phrase but interrupting the musical flow. That will be true, one imagines, even with the smoother official edit that the record company is to release soon.

Indeed, much about the “Forget You” story is instructive about promotion of music online. And the main lesson: the Internet simply will not play by the rules, even for a business that tries to leave as little to chance as possible.

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Cee Lo, who is from Atlanta, is probably most famous for being half of a duo called Gnarls Barkley, which had a hit, “Crazy,” that itself was a viral phenomenon in 2006. But “Crazy” was nothing compared to Cee Lo’s latest.

A first wrinkle: The video for something similar to “Forget You” that has racked up so many views on YouTube was meant to be a place holder before a “proper video” is released this week. The Cee Lo single, though, has been aided by a nifty design that used the lyrics to great effect. They bounce along with the song — appearing and disappearing, growing bigger and moving across the screen. The title words, unprintable in a family newspaper, are largest of all.

“I was only approached a couple of days before the song needed to be released on YouTube,” Terry Scruby, 33, who created the video, wrote in an e-mail. “I designed and animated the entire song in only one night, and actually had to drop additional ideas I wanted to incorporate to take the video to the next level because I simply didn’t have time.”

Mr. Scruby, whose company, based in London, is called TD4, said he had never been caught up in an Internet phenomenon before. “It has been the first piece of my work that has been forwarded back to me by my friends and colleagues in a ‘You must see this’ type way, which really highlights the viral nature of how this song has spread,” he wrote, adding, “Yep, that’s right — none of my friends who posted the link on Facebook knew that I had made it. I hadn’t told anyone about it because I had no idea it would be so popular.”

The second wrinkle is that viral sensations move much more rapidly than even the greatest optimist could imagine. The bright-flash success for Cee Lo caught many by surprise — including the record company. For the first week, while the song was being played to death on YouTube, the single was not actually for sale.

By Thursday, it was. The iTunes store, where it is listed with an “Explicit” warning label, charges $1.29. It had risen to No. 28 by Sunday afternoon. Cee Lo’s Web site sells the single at the same price and also packages it with a T-shirt of some of the lyrics for $20.

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A final lesson for people like me is that no matter how pervasive the Internet has become, it still prospers in conjunction with the mainstream entertainment world, not separate from it. Few recording artists are too big or too Internet focused to ignore radio.

Likewise, the creator of a popular Twitter feed about the stuff his dad says — only put a bit more colloquially — ended up writing a book that added an asterisk where a vowel should have been in the uncensored title. When it appears as a TV show on CBS this fall, it will be “$#*! My Dad Says,” which uncannily resembles the word, but has plausible deniability.

The two worlds feed off of each other. “Stuff My Dad Says” might never have caught anyone’s attention, no matter how clever those comments may be. And had Cee Lo’s song started out with bleeps, or even worse, as “Forget You,” it might never have been forwarded online.

“I have heard the radio friendly ‘clean’ version,” Mr. Scruby wrote from London. “I feel it loses some impact. Part of the attraction to the song is how upbeat and joyful it is, whereas the insulting lyrics offer a counterpoint that strikes a perfect balance.”

He added: “As far as I’m aware, there are no plans for me to make a ‘clean’ lyric video, and certainly no one has even mentioned doing it.”

-Noam Cohen / The New York Times

David Solano ft. Morgan Haze – Another World Apollo V Mix (from Juicy Ibiza 2010) [purchase via itunes]

This David Solano track was ranked #16 on the Beatport Charts and was selected to be on Robbie Rivera’s “Juicy Ibiza 2010″ and also on George Acosta’s new album, “From Miami to Ibiza.”

[HD] DAYGLOW 2010 FALL TRAILER from Committee Network on Vimeo.

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19Sixty – AM Tribute Mix [download]

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Wynter Gordon – Dirty Talk (Produced by David Guetta) [purchase via itunes]

Pitbull – Bon Bon (Yolanda Be Cool Hybrid Mix) [download]

Kelly Rowland ft. David Guetta – Commander [download]

Stromae – Alors on Danse [purchase via itunes]

Edward Maya – Stereo Love [download]

Dan Clare ft. Varski – Dynamite [download]

Dan Clare ft. Varski – Dirty Touch [purchase via itunes]

Far East Movement ft. Cataracs & Dev – Like a G6 [purchase via itunes]

I’ve always enjoyed how Vinny takes a few mainstream tracks and blends them with less played-out stuff to balance out the entire mix. You’ve got some deadmau5, some Enrique Iglesias, Wynter Gordon and Swedish House Mafia all vibe-ing well together.

Vinny claims this mix is for “casual fist-pumping” (in leu of toasting wine, maybe they do that at dinner parties in Belmar??). But no, really, I was super excited when Vinny posted the DL link up on twitter for this latest production.

A++ to Vinny for another great mix, thanks dood!

Dj Vinny Goods – ONE SUMMER NIGHT [download]

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