In anticipation of the Scumfrog's 'Collection 2021', released at the end of October, here is the recording of his return to DJing. Recorded in front of a packed dance floor in NYC on September 16th. 

After lockdowns, quarantines, isolations and live streams, The Scumfrog returned to the decks in front of a real crowd for an extended set at the venue where he started MBTS 6 years earlier. For once, he managed to press 'record' on his recorder before he started. Enjoy more than 3 hours of dancing to The Scumfrog's interpretation of post-pandemic boogie.

Extended set in NYC. September 16th 2021

TheScumfrog - Dionysian (Rapture Mix)

Sometimes you're in a timeless mood, when you just want a great chuggy underground groove that doesn't end. This mix is for such a mood. No big drops, no songs, no epic synths...just the rhythm and some rhythmic sprinkles. Cannot wait to play a set like this soon for you in my own Brooklyn. You know... in a small dark room with a four point sound system.

Timeless groove for a small dark room with a four point sound system

It has been quite some time since the last time we gathered for a night of MBTS. I wanted to take some time after the pandemic to be quiet and see how the dance music scene would evolve, and what sounds would come out of the standstill that was Covid. Now that I have a good sense of where I want to be sonically, and what kind of energy I want to spread onto dance floors, I am ready to restart MBTS in 2023. Stay tuned for more info, and enjoy this preview of what's to come.

Much love, 
The Scumfrog

M.B.T.S. (Most Below The Surface) 2023

To celebrate one of my favorite albums of all-time (if not my number 1 favorite!) I put together this rework. Do not expect an official release.

50th gig

Rework of one of my favorite Dutch club tunes from the infamous 90s.

Luvspunge - Didn't I Give U Love (The Scumfrog 2024 Mix)

A fun little mashup for the holidays. Might delete. Might get flagged. We'll see.

Jay, Jah, Amil & Billy -  Without A Face

From the Life Blood EP, comes this brand new track with trumpeter Ryan Montaño, called Life Groove. Life Blood and Life Groove are available for purchase on Bandcamp, and on all other digital platforms January 18th.

Buy here:https://thescumfrog.bandcamp.com/album/life-blood-ep
Watch the incredible Life Blood video here: https://youtu.be/LG8m4YGeMAg?si=4cA481Izm3Im9Dpl

Check out Ryan Montaño's music here: https://www.ryanmontano.com

Life Groove (ft.Ryan Montaño) (preview)

Life Blood EP

Life Groove

Life Blood

Taken from the custom-made Scumfrog DJ set "A Place Where We Belong"

Tiny Trendies - The Sky Is Not Crying (The Scumfrog Remix) (2011)

Thirty five years of professional DJing this summer! 

I have spent many past posts musing about the early days, so I will spare you words of nostalgia today. Instead, I want to hit you with the kind of set that I feel is an accumulation of my past experiences of what works on a dance floor, what I personally love, and which of those sounds I feel connect with what's happening today. 

Music has largely stopped giving us anything truly new in the past decade, but the absence of newness doesn't mean we shouldn't discover music that is new to US, and sometimes we should also remind ourselves of the great eras, genres and grooves we may have forgotten. So today, instead of giving you newness, I present to you my musical opinion on contemporary timelessness.

I would personally dance my ass off to this set. LMK if you would too.

2024; EMBRACE THE RETRO


For more brilliant remixes by @TheReflex, check out https://thereflex.bandcamp.com/album/million-sellers-vol-2

Listen to the full sunrise set that originally featured this track here: https://soundcloud.com/robot-heart/the-scumfrog-robot-heart

Once In A Lifetime (The Reflex & The Scumfrog Rework)

Out now on Beatport!
https://www.beatport.com/release/just-before-dawn/1852303

Fantastic visuals by Trey Ratcliff here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlrF_7dNrRY

Buy on Beatport

Just Before Dawn

From the compilation "Bootlegged and Unreleased". Exclusive edits and remixes by The Scumfrog that were previously unreleased, now available for FREE download as individual tracks, and continuous mix at www.thescumfrog.com

Love To Love You Baby (2015 Sunrise Mix)

A new version of this cult classic by Laid Back.
https://www.facebook.com/laidbackofficial/

Happy Dreamer (The Scumfrog 2016 revision)

The traditional preview of this year's sunrise ritual in the desert. Tuesday night into Wednesday morning at Robot Heart. 

Track "Pessoa" written by Marcos Balter, performed by Claire Chase http://www.clairechase.net and produced by @TheScumfrog

Image by Vito Fun-Tumbarello


The Scumfrog & Claire Chase - Pessoa

In Case We're All Still Here

The Scumfrog feat. Vassy - Don't Give Up

Published: November 2016

This mix and every other Scumfrog DJ set can be downloaded from the Scumfrog DJ mixes archive: https://www.themaven.net/thescumfrog/archive

The third online DJ mix representing the sound of the infamous @TheScumfrog Wednesday night events in NYC.

Check out volume 1: https://soundcloud.com/thescumfrog/mbts-most-below-the-surface-vol1
Check out volume 2: https://soundcloud.com/dancing-astronaut-mixes/the-radar-mixed-by-the-scumfrog
Check out volume 4: https://soundcloud.com/thescumfrog/mbts-most-below-the-surface-vol-4
Check out volume 5: https://soundcloud.com/thescumfrog/the-scumfrog-mbts-most-below-the-surface-vol5

M.B.T.S. (Most Below The Surface) vol.3

Love the groove and vocals of this version. Just made it at a steady 92BPM and added extra snare and didgeridoo and some basic efx for dance floor accessibility.  As heard at the MBTS nights. 
Original version here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sixty-six-steps/id304822574

Mike Gordon & Leo Kottke - Sweet Emotion (The Scumfrog Edit)

Music by @deemontero (Aeon) @shlomiaber (Foolish Games) and @TheScumfrog (additional production and edits). Voice and words: Elliott La Rue.

Recorded live in Black Rock City during The Scumfrog's sunrise set on Robot Heart. Full set here: https://soundcloud.com/robot-heart/the-scumfrog-robot-heart-10-year-anniversary-burning-man-2017

The Scumfrog ft.Elliott LaRue (excerpt from sunrise 2017)

From the compilation "Bootlegged and Unreleased". Exclusive edits and remixes by The Scumfrog that were previously unreleased, now available for FREE download as individual tracks, and continuous mix at http://www.thescumfrog.com

Bootlegged & Unreleased

Free Download

Comes The Sun (Free Download)

Love To Love You (Free Download)

Dionysian (Original Mix)(Free Download)

Summer sounds from The Scumfrog, containing two tracks from the new Scumfrog EP 'Ethereal Subterranean', available now: https://www.beatport.com/release/ethereal-subterranean/2334939

Volume 5 out now as well: https://soundcloud.com/sunset-grooves/sunset-grooves-podcast-154-the-scumfrog

Full tracklist:
00:00 - 04:00 https://www.beatport.com/track/fenyek-original-mix/8165288
04:00 - 11:11 https://www.beatport.com/track/sinergia-holed-of-mom-remix/9917221
11:11 - 17:30 https://www.beatport.com/track/parabel-original-mix/10258056
17:30 - 23:00 https://www.beatport.com/track/the-endless-jam-of-mr-quintessence-original-mix/10057157
23:00 - 28:00 https://www.beatport.com/track/keep-your-bags-packed-original-mix/10791694
28:00 - 31:40 https://www.beatport.com/track/seasons-in-the-sun-original-mix/7848643
31:40 - 37:00 https://www.beatport.com/track/safe-changes-original-mix/8913426
37:00 - 41:51 https://www.beatport.com/track/folha-de-jurema-crussens-creamy-cocodub/9714896
41:51 - 49:49 https://www.beatport.com/release/nabia/2042133
49:49 - 55:12 https://www.beatport.com/track/sun-of-lemuria-original-mix/9526569
55:12 - 1:00:40 https://www.beatport.com/track/hummingbird-blues-original-mix/10286840
1:00:40 - 1:07:20 https://www.beatport.com/track/antrea-original-mix/10049444
1:07:20 - 1:12:50 https://www.beatport.com/track/gold-town-original-mix/10117228
1:12:50 - 1:20:20 https://www.beatport.com/track/your-fortune-awaits-original-mix/10791692
1:20:20 - 1:25:00 https://www.beatport.com/track/lost-drums-original-mix/9582018
1:25:00 - 1:29:00 https://www.beatport.com/release/aragatz/2144079
1:29:00 - 1:35:00 https://www.beatport.com/track/muy-original-mix/9993600
1:35:00 - 1:40:15 https://soundcloud.com/sarkis_mikael/sets/sarkis-mikael-dekado-ft
1:40:15 - 1:46:00 https://www.beatport.com/release/caddo/1989419
1:46:00 - 1:51:30 https://www.beatport.com/track/kasra-atish-remix/10182681
1:51:30 - 1:56:00 https://www.beatport.com/track/for-the-message-don-ramon-and-san-marcos-dont-stop-mumble-mix/9580987
1:56:00 - 2:02:00 https://soundcloud.com/pablofierromusic/jose-gonzalez-stay-in-the-shade-pablo-fierro-edit
2:02:00 - 2:08:49 https://www.beatport.com/track/to-the-sun-feat-bel-ami-moon-mix/10485047

Download this mix and the three previous Friends With Boats mixes from the archive at www.thescumfrog.com

www.thescumfrog.com

The Scumfrog - Friends With Boats Vol.4 (2018)

* Glam Scum Recordings 009 *

* The Scumfrog – Ethereal Subterranean EP *

The Scumfrog returns with his signature mix of underground grooves and hypnotic harmonies in the Ethereal Subterranean EP, aided by vocals from shaman Tëté Bero on Your Fortune Awaits, and serious percussion performances from Neil Symonette on the piano piece Orche Strada. Rounding off the pack is the downtempo groove Keep Your Bags Packed, made specifically for the recent Scumfrog mix Friends With Boats Vol.4.
Check out all the Scumfrog music on his new site thescumfrog.com

Release on all digital platforms: August 16, 2018
Beatport: August 1, 2018

Ethereal Subterranean E.P.

Orche Strada

Check out the video of Keep Your Bags Packed here: 
https://youtu.be/BaV4kvGegQU

The Scumfrog returns with his signature mix of underground grooves and hypnotic harmonies in the Ethereal Subterranean EP, aided by vocals from shaman Tëté Bero on Your Fortune Awaits, and serious percussion performances from Neil Symonette on the piano piece Orche Strada. Rounding off the pack is the downtempo groove Keep Your Bags Packed, made specifically for the recent Scumfrog mix Friends With Boats Vol.4.
Check out all the Scumfrog music on his new site thescumfrog.com

Release on all digital platforms: August 16, 2018
Beatport: August 1, 2018

Keep Your Bags Packed

Originally released on EMI in 2002. The re-mastered versions of all the Scumfrog mixes of this song will be released soon. Check back here for more info.

Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (The Scumfrog 2002 Dub) Re-mastered for 2013

Out now: https://campsite.bio/scumfrogmusiclinks

Watch video here: https://youtu.be/2SJ33I0DzhU

The Scumfrog on his new song Tiny Little Human: “"Sure, my quarantine is very comfortable and spacious, but it does evoke thoughts and emotions that I see resonate around me. It addresses how much I have taken for granted the value of basic touch in my daily life. I sense that many people around me are struggling with the sudden absence of human touch. I hope we can remember this frustration when it is once again ok to mingle, and to appreciate the value of a basic hug. We, as humans, made it to the top of the food chain. We essentially 'won earth', but what is that worth if we cannot touch each other?"

The remixes on this stellar package come from Australian production outfit @theoddness (delivering two funky downtempo mixes), U.S. producer @pezzner with a stripped-down haunting mix, and the emerging art collective Voodoo Porn Space Disco delivering a chugging feel-good House anthem.

The video of the song is currently in post-production, and consist of a fan-sourced collection of ‘Legotography’, where the assignment was to photograph a single Lego minifigure in a real-world setting depicting isolation and quarantine. The video is edited together by legendary film and video editor Bob Jenkis (Michael Jackson, Madonna, Chris Isaak)

The Scumfrog - Tiny Little Human

Sunrise at Burning Man
It is high on the list of the things I could write a book about.

The relentless wrench that is 2020 forced us to consider and reconsider almost every aspect of our lives and routines, including Burning Man. In the quest of finding solutions for all this disruption, we all came up with some pretty cool stuff so far, and the creative forces that take the spectacle of Black Rock City to increasingly bigger heights each year went into overdrive to create and a virtual version of our beloved dust bowl. 

Comparing the virtual Burning Man to its IRL counterpart is as foolish as comparing ‘2019 Burning Man’ to the 1998 edition. Each year is different, and 2020 forced us to adapt to a new kind of different. Playing a sunrise set on the real playa is incomparable to doing one in VR, where only one out of the 24 global time-zones experiences the actual sunrise while the music unfolds; where there are no collective goosebumps, shivers and hugs, and where you can probably not feel the bass like when you’re standing in front of a battalion of dusty sub-woofers. 

However, there were elements of yesterday’s sunrise that made it uniquely special for me. The most important element was the inspiration to make a long three-hour Deep House journey again, which I had not done in months. Quarantine had made me explore different genres and moods, dismissing Deep House as something pointless that should only be played in the presence of collective energy. But even though a streaming event and a VR event are ‘cheating’ when it comes to collective energy, this one still had that feeling that the moment is being experienced by many people at once. 

I very much enjoyed the act of imagining the full extent of collective energy, even though my screen only revealed the implication of this energy. I am very proud of this musical journey and I published it for re-listening. I hope you enjoy it too, and you too can close your eyes when listening, and imagine the moment when we are all standing in front of those bass-bins again, and we can scream, shout, gaze, and hug. The power of music is an incredible force, and I am honored to be a link in its chain. 

www.dustymultiverse.com

The Scumfrog - Burning Man sunrise 2020 (multiverse VR edition)

The Scumfrog - Dionysian (Original Mix)

Even though I recorded this mix in my small New Zealand quarantine hotel room, ‘the lagoon’ is a very real place. Last time this year, a small group of friends and I threw a secret bonfire moonrise party at this undisclosed location and I played a set there. This year I can sadly not be there, but I recorded a set with the event in mind. The result is over two and a half hours of eclectic psychedelic sounds. Channel your own inner lagoon the way I did over the past two days putting this set together. 
Much love to all my friends scattered around the world. Happy New Year,  and stay strong! (watch footage from last year here: https://youtu.be/LZFTI_Yr62o )

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