If you’ve ever wanted to become a DJ then this video will amplify those feelings tenfold. I pretty much want to go buy some decks and start practising right now.

Steve Aoki spent this summer touring around Europe, and had his Dim Mak camera team in tow to document the experience. I had the pleasure of watching him in Spain this year and I should hope a lot of you saw him perform when he was touring South Africa last year [Read our interview here]

The video shows Aoki jet setting from stage to stage within the Euro-zone including Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Ibiza and Corisica. The video also provides some insight into his lifestyle while touring and his tough life inbetween gigs, which includes winding down on Bono/Steve Wynn’s private boat.

The clip features appearances from Diplo, Atari Teenage Riot, DJ Mehdi, Tiesto, Brodinski, Felix Cartal, Afrojack, Mr. Oizo, and Armand Van Helden.

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German animator and multi-award winner, Andreas Hykade created this wikid animation short. The hand drawn lines morph fluidly between sponge bob, betty boop, tweety bird and every abnormality in between. You gotta check this…

Boys Noize unleash ‘Power’, the 2nd album from the Berlin dj/producer. It is genre bending electronica that the man himself describes as party techno. It is a supreme follow up to the 2007 debut, ‘Oi oi oi’. It may not be as catchy as its predecessor but the the artist’s growth is prevalent, and the intricate clips and tweaks don’t go unnoticed.

Notable bangers include ‘Starter’, which is guaranteed to start riots. Its swirling siren bass instills a sense of temporary madness as it wizzes and whirls around you with immense force. ‘Jeffer’, the most clubby tune on the disk, is as creepy as it is cute, its disco weirdness comes across in a motherload of squeaks and squishy acid synths, delightful. Towards the end, ‘Sweet Light’ is tinged in the kind French electro we have learned to love over the past few years. It takes you on a bipolar emotional rollercoaster through attitude, euphoria and melancholy, and finally ‘Heart Attack’, with its eerie downtempo futurism, concludes the tale by putting you softly back on Earth wondering what the hell happened.

On the whole the album is the kind of thing we have come to expect from Boys Noize, freshness beyond comprehension, rough and raw beats but still maintaining melody and fluidity, and best of all, refinement, although it is something of an oxymoron given the brash climate of ‘Power’. With two top albums, one of the most exciting labels of the year thus far and the award for Beatport’s best indie dance artist of 2009, Boys Noize is proving to be serious contender for top post. We like him even more since the man proved he isn’t just another computer dork, when he recently played his entire Radio 1 essential mix on vinyl. Booom.