The Italian duo, Planet Soap returns to Car Crash Set with a new EP Escape From Supernova 500 to be released on June, 21st. The package includes two original tracks and three, quite diverse, remixes.
Supernova500 is an ambitious heavy-bass symphony with lots of distortions and very nice orchestration successfully painting extratterestial sonic landscapes. Escape from Supernova is a more up-tempo thing and I feel like attending a steam-punk party for decommissioned robots...
My personal highlight of this EP, Bass Science's remix of Supernova 500 is a 'silly' wonky banger full of unnverving cosmic synths, broken voice samples and off-tempo drums in a kind of twisted - and kitschy - space drama. Not to be taken literally of course :)
Escape from Supernova refixed by the master of cyberblap + verb is a real orgy of neon synths slowly burning through your mind with a power of E-class planet destroyer.
96wrld hailing from Lithuania, in Space Invaders Remix goes totally off the hook playing with his 8-bit toys like crazy m***er.
I encourage you to check this EP when it is finally out. Kudos to Car Crash Set for consistently releasing quality stuff.
Great, experimental beats coming from ELOS, a new name on Alpha Pup roster. DunDeals comes from the forthcoming Flying Sky Fortress EP to be released on April, 26th. Definitely an artist to be watched in the future.
Robox Neotech dropped two freebies by our filthy friend NastyNasty who is about to release the monstrous EP on this German label. Sick as always, not to be missed! I am a big fan of Jasper and I simply knew his cooperation with Robox Neotech could not fail. Music for MechaBeatNicks!
Lazers, neon synths and more lazers in a fantastic remix by Broken Haze (part of Raid System crew) hailing from Tokyo. This music is soooooo uplifting, forcing your body to break dance instantly. This tune made my day!
Grab the original and Broken Haze's remix via bandcamp
NastyNasty is baaad, filthy and beautiful in this mind-twisting, bass-heavy way. I am his devoted fan and has never been disappointed with the quality of his music which combines robotic machines on one hand and a lot of deep feelings and emotions on the other. He has recently released an EP Puke Paint on FriteNiteshowcasing his absolutely unique mastering of distorted synths and ultra heavy basslines. The EP includes the track I fell in law from the first hearing, i.e. Toxenne. It is an absolute banger of enormous heat and the synths will burn big holes in your brain. Trust my werd! The rest of the material is equally good. One of the best releases this year without a doubt. I attach one free track for your listening pleasure.
That's not all from the lazer boy :) SF Weekly Blog has published an exclusive Lazer Soul Mini Mix by NastyNasty. 22 minutes of absolute bass-heavy heaven. NastyNasty himself provided insightful descriptions to the tracks in his mix :)
NastyNasty "Priceless (Edit)"
The live edit of one of my staple openers. It's a lonely city we live in, so on the rare occasion that you meet someone worth spending time with, you'd better tell them. If you're bad with words like I am, this is how you tell them.
NastyNasty "Choker (Dub)"
I had the biggest crush on this girl. I actually told myself last February that I wouldn't date until 2010, but I broke down in December for her. The vocal snippets borrowed from Usher's "You Got it Bad" were synonymous with the sentiments I felt at the time.
NastyNasty "Melting You (Dub)"
It's really no wonder this track mixes so well with "Choker," as they're about the same girl. Once I finally had the nerve to tell her about my crush, I then began the process of breaking down all of our silly, guarded boundaries. "Melting You" is a song about breaking down little walls to see what lies beneath.
NastyNasty "No Names V.I.P. (Dub)"
After a year of playing the original a few times a week, I was bored with this one. After another six months, I was downright annoyed by it. Undoubtedly my most popular song to date, I knew it'd be cruel to eject it from the sets altogether, so I made this V.I.P. edit of "No Names" both to keep me interested and give the audience something special. Fun fact: "No Names" is about the furthest thing from a love song. The vocal samples were originally intended as painfully tongue-in-cheek. I was in the wake of one of my most painful breakups when writing the original, and I would have given the left side of my face just to speak to her again.
NastyNasty "West Coast Hardcore (Dub)"
I didn't grow up on electronic music by any means. I listened to a lot more Misfits and Black Flag than Stockhausen or Kraftwerk. I made a series of short tracks that took aesthetics from my roots in punk and applied them to bass music. I sort of took punk's minimalistic effectiveness and simple structure and wrapped loud bass and synthesizers around it. Due in no small part to its simplicity, this track has proven itself to be one of the most effective tracks in my repertoire. Almost instantly resonating with people, this one rips through dancefloors like a slithering cattle prod.
NastyNasty "DEAD STAR"
A good portion of the stars we see at night are, in fact, dead. They have actually been dead for hundreds of thousands of years, and their light is just now reaching us. Comparatively, a good portion of the stars we see on TMZ are dead. They have also been dead for years, and are simply hollow shells of former individuals kept inflated by teams of media moguls until they lose their tabloid usefulness. Deep shit, yo.
Nit GriT & NastyNasty "Say My Name (Dub)"
Both outsiders to the scene, more or less, Nit GriT and I frequently bounce ideas off of each other. When we finally sat down in the studio together, it was sheer mayhem. Like Rusko, Danny (a.k.a Nit GriT) has a flare for pairing melodies with aggressive dubstep sounds, so I knew when we sat down together we'd have quite a pairing on our hands. Also for the record, I totally love Destiny's Child. "I'm a survivor, I'm not gon' give up..."
The Knife "Behind the Bushes (NastyNasty Remix)"
When I first started NastyNasty, I did alot of mainstream rap and R&B remixes. I got to a point where I realized that, while it got me alot of attention early on, it would undoubtedly become a crutch, and if I wanted any sort of longevity in this game, I would need to stand on my own two legs. Having put a ban on doing full-fledged remixes of any mainstream rap or R&B, I now look to other sources when it comes time to pretty up my live sets or color a blog with a remix. The Knife is pretty much awesome. Initially, I was gearing up to remix "Heartbeats," but in all truth, I'd be hard pressed to make that song any better than it already is. "Behind the Bushes" (the closing number on The Knife's Deep Cuts album), however, struck me as the perfect number to re-appropriate and incorporate into my sound.
NastyNasty "Out Here (Dub)"
In the words of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, "I am trying to break your heart." I'd say about 75 to 85 percent of the songs I make are about love or the lack thereof, and I feel like I'm failing if I don't rip your heart directly through your ears at some point during my set. One of the beautiful things about music is that it can make us feel less alone in our moments of darkness. I find most of my best music comes in times of loneliness because -- contrary to the definition of the term -- it is a universal feeling that we all take part in at some point; we are more or less unified as humans by the sense that we are alone in the world.
NastyNasty "Pictures (Dub)"
I'm not famous by any stretch of the imagination, but I have managed to make a bit of a name for myself in the last year or so. As my music travels, my name travels with it, and as my name travels, so does interest in the person behind the name. This is all kind of abrupt and a bit jarring for somebody like me, who is, by nature, a bit of a hermit. People want bios, pictures, stories, and gossip. All I want is a secluded space with some speakers and my laptop. There is a delicate dance going on between my actual person and my professional self.
NastyNasty "Bad Scene (Dub)"
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." --Hunter S. Thompson
NastyNasty "Sore Loser"
I am not a perfect person by any means, but I do want better for myself and for others. Hope paired with activity is what makes humans so special in my opinion. And not just the fact that we can wish for good, but our willingness to execute those ideas.
NastyNasty "Perforate (Dub)"
[London-based electronic music label] Planet Mu contacted me about doing a release earlier this year, and, being the longtime Planet Mu fan that I am, I was ecstatic. I instantly sent them a catalog of what I considered to be my best work. [Label head] Mike Paradinas rejected a large body of my work, and encouraged me to keep sending tracks as I finished them so long as they were "in a different musical key." It was the first time I had been called out for my endless use of G minor, and I was a bit angry, to be quite honest. I made "Perforate" as a keyless track to transition between keys during my live set, as I set out to expand my key range, and also as a kind of abrasive 'Eff you, I can totally work in other keys, dude,' track. [It's a] mean little bugger to boot.
Starkey "Robot Hands (NastyNasty Remix)"
Starkey has been a favorite of mine for quite some time now, so when I was asked to do a remix for his release for Civil Music, I jumped on the opportunity. The original is quite a weird tune even by my standards, and if anything, my remix stands to normal it out a bit. Although, it's still rather leftfield.
I've shamelessly nicked the great mix from perf10.net, it is a 14th installment in their great mix series (previously featuring e.g. + verb, pixelord, DZA, Coco Bryce), this time hosted by a German beatmaker known for his crazy beat mixtapes, Paul Pre. 78BPM Madness is way too good not to be shared. Just look at the tracklist, every single artist there is a genius of future electronic sound production, but it is the selector that put all these anthems together into one super electric collage of champion mutant beatz. One of the best mixes I've heard this year! Copy that shit and swag your head haaaaaaard, but please take care not to hit your office / home equipment, this could be detrimental to you health :)
