I'm working like crazy and there is nothing better than a pumping mixtape, featuring nice whompy electro breaks and ass-shaking mashups playing in my headphones. Beat Assassins deliver the required mind fodder for my corpo slavery. The Mixtape features new tracks by Beat Assassins and other artists plus some classics. Fasten your seat belts and start the ride!
Akira Kiteshi from Edinburgh always offers interesting, gender-crossing trips. As in his new remix, of Let the Music Play's Waves. The original is an uplifting electronic voyage reminding me a bit of the French techno productions from the middle of last decade (Laurent Garnier?) with too much soft trance for my personal taste. Akira Kiteshi just used the base melody line to squeeze a totally different juice from this track, full of crazy breaks, super fat bouncy bass and smashing drops, while keeping its cosmic acid appeal. ROLLER!
I always welcome new stuff by Starkey with great excitement and anticipation. Judging by the preview, his forthcoming "Space Traitor vol. 2" to be released in June on Civil Music will be huuuuuge. Master of heavy miasmatic bass'n'synths squeezes all juices out of his machines. The sound of e.g. "Street Rockers" simply kills and "Bricks ft. Curly Castro" is the best what street bass can offer. The remixes accompanying the originals (Monky, The Elementz, to name my favorite ones) create really explosive package. Excited!
Jillian Ann from L.A., a DJ, producer, singer & song-writer releases today on Olaris Records a package of three remixes of her spacey and touching "King of Solitude". You can easily skip techno remix of Royal Sapien, and move to quite nicely rolling and smooth Artette's remix but the real treat awaits in a glitchy breakbeat remix by Great Scott, a producer and notorious head of Glitch.Fm radio. WARNING: I really encourage you listening to this track on a proper soundsystem with good subwoofer, otherwise you won't hear da Bass :)
And now something completely different - for those of you who are into juke / footwork / ghettotech shit.
DJ TAMEIL has just released a 5-track Tek 9 EP on Moveltraxx. This music is pretty simple & 'silly' (not 'stupid' silly but 'goofy' silly if you know what I mean), but I still like it. Good enough to rock some bottoms and force you to make a fool of yourself at the dancefloor.
Glitch hop crew of Blunt Instrument, hailing from Australia decided to play a bit with classic tracks treating them with mid-tempo breaks and glitched out beat. Akon, Tom Jones vs. Art of Noise, Bob Marley and Missy Elliot - you can hardly go more diverse in selection of subjects for cruel retweaking :) The duo did quite a good job with their tools, which comes as no surprise if you heard their Blunt EP, one of the best releases last year, production-wise in glitch / mid-tempo department. I liked Tom Jones' re-fix best, pretty dope synth work there and nu-school breaks would definitely work on any dancefloor. Missy Elliot's Boom Clunk remix is another cool joint in the pack, licking the speakers with properly bass heavy juice. Bob Marley's dubbed out version based on stomping pads and swinging beat moved my legs and head in unison.
What is more, if you don't like Tom Jones or cheesy Akon's vocalizations, you can grab pure instrumentals from their bandcamp site, which I highly recommend.
