“We from Los Angeles…this is where the party is.”

Cold Blank (Christopher Gaspar Isla and Manuel Luquin) are Los Angeles-based Electronic House Music DJ/Producers. That’s pretty much all we know.

Something you should know is that I cyber-stalk Cold Blank so you don’t have to.

I also do it for several other reasons.

First, they make the type of House tracks that will blow your wig back. Second, though I have never met or exchanged so much as an electronic message with these guys, I feel we are connected.

Here’s why.

I got my soft, delicate, over-moisturized girl hands on my very first Cold Blank tracks just as I was moving to L.A. (1.5 years ago). Coming from Indianapolis where there was not much of a House music scene, it was trippy for me to be moving to the middle of the city where this incredible new heat I was hearing was being made. Seeing as how C.B. are from L.A., and I am also living in the city now, I feel like I finally have a rooting interest in the goings on in the world of House music. Watching these guys become the next Electronic icons is like watching my younger brothers (who are way cooler than me, more talented than me and never hang out with me) blow up.

[SIDEBAR: I want to clarify my use of the phrase “blow up” above. Considering the run that Cold Blank has already received from massive DJs worldwide, and considering how they are currently lighting up Hype Machine and BeatPort like pinball machines, they have already “blown up.” I’m referring more to the type of “blowing up” that means reaching the status where they can’t even walk down the street without adoring fans/Audio Muffin writers asking for autographs. Just be clear, the secret is out.]

“Marshmallow Man” was the track that popped my cherry. After running that to death, I started searching the www and found a C.B. remix of “Paper Planes.” Like most everyone else, I am a proud owner of 3,844 “Paper Planes” remixes, so I was reluctant to take on another, but since I thoroughly enjoyed my maiden voyage I decided to see what they had cooked up for M.I.A. After that 5:15 of insanity, I was hooked…and questioning whether or not these guys were in need of a therapist. Since then, I have been following the explosion of their career and obsessively hoarding their tracks for my DJ sets all along the freaking way.

Cold Blank’s style is crazy.

Good Crazy.

They can give you that hard, sinister Bassline/Electro-House that makes you want to get outlandish (“2012”), and then have the versatility to flip it and bang you with a poppy Disco-House joint that makes you inadvertently sing while wearing headphones (“Doin’ It Right”). The great part is, C.B.’s choice of elements and flawless arrangements makes even their deepest tracks easily palatable-even for novices first beginning to lean into Electronic music.

I don’t know if all of the other Electronic producers are taking notes, but they should be.

Simply put, this is the type of music that I like to party to. I suggest you do the same. Speaking of partying, if you needed to, you could DJ the peak-time hour of your next function just by streaming tracks from Cold Blank’s MySpace page (it goes that hard).

If you think you are ready to move up from the Junior Varsity, you should do YOU a favor and follow these wild sons of bitches on SoundCloud and MySpace. Then, go to BeatPort, type in “Cold Blank,” and buy everything that pops up (don’t tell me you don’t have a BeatPort account…).

Speaking of BeatPort, Cold Blank’s new “Dutchie” EP just dropped on 2/22/2010. It might be a good idea to drop that in your virtual cart first. I’m just sayin’.

Just make sure you wear a jockstrap, cuz when you blast their music, shit gets physical.

Cold Blank is about to take Electronic music over. Remember that I wrote that.

I meant every word,

-The Todd

[Below are a couple of remixes to get you wet. I personally favor the OG’s, but I am going to make you buy those from BeatPort.]

Cold Blank – Doin’ It Right (The Squatters Remix)

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Cold Blank – Los Angeles (Lee Mortimer Remix)

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