Paul Oakenfold, Boys Noize, Afrojack, Dillon Francis and Alanis Morissette all made their own fake campaign ads poking fun at the DJ Mag Top 100 awards.

“Vote for us. That way we don’t have to get kids in India to do it for you”

Definitely a must-see.

Last weekend the Dutch hardstyle-festival Defqon.1 took place. Next to being well-known to thousands of hardstyle, hardcore and harddance fans for its music, the festival is also famous for its epic endshows. This year the organization exceeded all expectations and put together a spectacle that’s probably, whether you’re a fan of the music or not, one of the greatest endshows you’ve ever seen. Take a look at it below.

The 8-Bit musician Joe Jeremiah once again created an 8-Bit gem. His latest video features an 8-bit cover of the famous Trololo-song, also known as Eduard Khil’s ’I Am Glad, ‘Cause I’m Finally Returning Back Home‘.

Check it out!

I know this isn’t a Monday (yay!), but some mixtapes just call for a quick posting. Like today’s mixtape that features over thirty minutes of samples used by Daft Punk.

The nice guys behind WhoSampled have put together a great mixtape today containing the sample material behind some of Daft Punk’s greatest hits. Curious what the French duo used as a base for their hits such as ‘Robot Rock‘, ‘One More Time‘ and ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger‘? Even more curious how these originals sound in a thirty minute mixtape? Check Daft Punk – The Samples below and enjoy!

Daft Punk: The Samples mixed by Chris Read by Whosampled on Mixcloud

It might have been one of the greatest mysteries of your musical childhood: Michael Jackson’s anti-gravity illusion. How the hell did he do that? Well, today you can finally unravel this mystery. Die hard Michael Jackson fans might have seen the patent below before, but for me (and probably for many others) the pictures lead to the reaction: aha, so THAT’S how he did it!

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If this orchestra would play the music of this inflatable-arm-man, what do you think it would sound like?

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Agreed, there’s no shortage of Boiler Room sets being shared on our information highway today. However, when a DJ-set with the energy, fun and freshness of Disclosure’s set below comes by, there’s also no reason not to share it again. Enough reason to talk a bit about Disclosure and again emphasize that you should definitely check out the energetic set they did at Boiler Room, innit?

‘Two youths that are totally killing it right now’. This is how Boiler Room describes the London duo Disclosure, consisting of the brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence. The duo produces garage/bass music akin to Joy Orbison and Mosca and released their debut-single in 2010 on Moshi Moshi Records. Since this release things have been going very well and with their recent remix of Jesse Ware’s ‘Running’ the duo is indeed totally killing it right now!

The mix below was recorded at one of the renowned Boiler Room sessions on June 28 2012. Although the mixing is a bit jumpy from time to time, Disclosure’s choice of records is awesome. Definitely recommended!

What if Spotify had been invented in the 1980s? YouTube user SquirrelMonkeyCom made a video of how it would’ve looked back then. Oh how it could have changed the world!