It’s time to have some fun. The boys in Vinyl Life have been at it for years rocking classic Hip-Hop, rave and house cassettes while at the same time collecting an impressive array of vintage analog gear. Seriously pissed off with the lack of presentation in modern electronic music, Vinyl Life built their debut album from the ground up and it’s all about the live show. Think Joey Beltram meets The Jungle Brothers meets Fast Eddie meets The KLF.
A true live act, New York City’s Vinyl Life is comprised of founder/programmer Butcha, MC Phaze Future and Keyboardist Richie Roxx. The stage show is comprised of a full on “rig” of analog gear set up on the stage where Phaze Future stands front and center dropping his signature rhymes and making an instant connection with audiences. And since most Vinyl Life tracks feature lyrics, this show is much more exciting than 45 minutes of instrumentals. There’s a classic pop element here that’s hard to resist and it’s the “gear-only” philosophy that gives Vinyl Life a sound like no other. Studio tracks have a live feel because they are produced in a dub style – the mixing board is the main instrument.
With a needle-on-the-record crackle, “Hot Sauce” immerses in some fresh Hip-House packed with Phaze Future’s hysterical lyrics, vocodered choruses, P-Funk bassline and 4/4 beats. “Hi-Tops” takes it way back to the rave era, throbbing with all of those great elements that made it an inspirational time for dance music. Yes, sirens are included. “Bass Go Boom” ventures out into breakier territories matching jagged beats and heavy synths with lyrics that cite Brillo Pads, Weed and Blanka from Street Fighter. Next, we turn down another road and find the album’s ballad – “Electric Symphony (feat. Nite Club).” It’s pure robot love with vocals split between Richie Roxx and Butcha. We wash away the tears and get ready to boogie once again with “Innovation (Sebastian Marciano Remix).” This is the big room dance track of the album and it possesses quite an electro synth line. It’s simply massive.
“Like This” is the album’s first single and a classic sing-a-long for the breakdancers. You can listen to this song and imagine kids spinning on their heads. “Elevator Up,” “Future Beat” and “Etch-A-Sketch” provide some more Hip-House madness, while “Good Life (It’s More Fun To Compute)” is Vinyl Life’s ode to Kraftwerk and a pretty sick cover. Next, for a real pace changer the boys visit the islands and recruit dancehall prophet Uzimon who spits some tropic thunder on “Press Rewind.” And if Vinyl Life’s comedic side was not yet apparent, then look no further than their 2009 reworking of De La Soul’s “Take It Off.” This one features Prince Paul collaborator J-Zone and proves that the more times change the more they remain the same.
Preston’s electro pop magicians Team Waterpolo return with a new single in August in the shape of ‘Letting Go’. Seasoned Waterpolo watchers will know the track in its demo form as the moment where the band first caught the public eye propelling them to the forefront of the web as MySpace featured artist of the week and bagging them an NME Single Of The Week into the bargain.
The track is a taster for the band’s debut album, recorded in France at Black Box Studios and is radically reinvented from the version familiar to the diehard fanbase. Across the formats the single comes back with new Team Waterpolo music in the form of ‘Return To Sender’ and ‘Sexual Ice Age’ alongside a club classic in waiting courtesy of a Starsmith remix of ‘Letting Go’.
The summer has already seen the lads spend a weekend in at Glastonbury Festival, playing three sets at the Queens Head, The Orange Stage and the Dirty Boots Stage, whilst July is all about the Secret Garden Party on Thursday 23rd July.
Summer may be at its tail-end by the time our August installment at matter comes along, but at Kinky Towers, we’re taking our clubbers to new heights. This is because our appetite for gargantuan line-ups is insatiable, our hunger for the finest performers is never suppressed and our thirst for new music is never quenched. Who cares what the weather’s like outside? At Kinky Malinki the sun will always shine on our salacious dancefloor.
In previous months at matter, we’ve given you Tom Novy, Kurd Maverick, Seamus Haji, Raymundo Rodriguez, Audiowhores and Kid Massive – all purveyors in the kinkiest house music around. What’s that? You want more? Okay then.
This is the Kinky Malinki playground at matter in August. Enjoy…..
ROOM ONE:
FUNKERMAN
Dutchman Ardie van Beek, or Funkerman as he’s now known around the world, teamed up with friend Raf and fellow Dutch DJ/producer Fedde Le Grand to create Flamingo Recordings in 2004, a house and electronic-tech label that is currently one of the hottest imprints in the world. Over the past5 years Funkerman and Flamingo Recordings have been behind such hits as ‘Put Your Hands Up For Detroit’, ‘Take No Shhh’, ‘The Creeps’, ‘Speed Up’ and the current smash, ‘3 Minutes To Explain’. Not only that but as far as DJ diaries go, Funkerman’s is fit to bursting point. With his own Flamingo Nights series of parties becoming an international benchmark for high-class production and world calibre guest mixes, a successful label and a fast-growing reputation as the man to front up any dance floor, Funkerman’s finger is firmly on the house music pulse!
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D.O.N.S
D.O.N.S, are one of the biggest and finest house producers coming out of Germany at the moment. Notorious for their anthemic remixes of classsic house tracks such as ‘Pump Up The Jam’, ‘Big Fun’, ‘The Night Train’ and their current reworking of the Ralph Rosario classic ‘You Used To Hold Me’, D.O.N.S duo Oliver and Nils are also adept at remixing the more current and future sound of house, working with the likes of Dirty South, Erick Morillo, Steve Mac, Robbie Rivera, Bob Sinclar, John Dahlback and Roger Sanchez. Prepare to don your finest dancing shoes for these guys….
http://www.kinkymalinki.com/matter
PROK & FITCH
Brighton boys Ben Prok & James Fitch joined forces after meeting in a record store in 2006. Both DJ’s in their own right with 18 years experience between them, they discovered that their tastes were very similar and soon became the formidable DJ duo we know today. Their debut, Outro Lugar,was picked up by Roger Sanchez and released on his Stealth label. Since then, remixes for the Utah Saints, Freemasons, Seamus Haji, Funkagenda, Hoxton Whores and Kinky’s Kid Massive have fuelled their bouncy and energetic sound and unleashed it to the masses. With their own record label ‘Floorplay’, a string of new releases and DJ dates across the globe, Prok & Fitch are the hottest new thing on the electro circuit and we’re hoping for plenty of Kinky Floorplay indeed….
RAYMUNDO RODRIGUEZ
Raymundo Rodriguez is one of the most prolific DJ’s working today, with a relentless DJing schedule that has earnt him the reputation as ‘The DJ who never sleeps’
Ray is among the few dj’s in the world that can boast a healthy domestic and international dj career without having released a single track, something that is near enough impossible to achieve in this dj/producer dominated business. His devotion to everything house means he has a passion for it in all it’s forms, from deep lush grooves, right through to jackin beats and techno. Resident at Jaded, London’s biggest and most famous after party. After 2 fantastic years at the Egg club in Kings Cross, and 2 more legendary years at AKA/The End Raymundo goes into his 5th year as Jaded’s main resident, which has now moved to the Amazing Gothic Warehouse that is Ghost in East London!. Jaded has become a Sunday morning institution, guests that have dropped in for a spin include Paul Woolford, Ralph Lawson, James Zabielia, Nic Fancuilli, Tony Humphries, Clive Henry, Jose Nunez, Phil Weeks, Mike Monday, Tiefshwartz, Dan Curtin and Jamie Jones.
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ROOM TWO:
RASMUS FABER
Globe-trotting DJ, classically-trained pianist, producer, Farplane record label owner and remixer to the stars, Sweden’s Rasmus Faber is one of the most talented and captivating entertainers of the house music scene. Rasmus sets himself apart from his industry counterparts by incorporating not just three CDJ’s into his set but also flawless live piano playing which adds a whole ‘live’ elementand leaves crowds amazed and dancefloors in shambles. His star is risingnot only because of his showmanshipbut alsohis remix duties for industry icons such as Junior Jack, Miguel Migs, Axwell, Kaskade, Tiger Stripesand Kings Of Tomorrow. Needless to say, his own productions have truly stood the test of time with classics such as ‘Ever After’, ‘Divided/United’ and’Get Over Here’ as well as recent hits; ‘Are You Ready’ and ‘Everything Is Alright’ being permanent fixtures in many a DJ’s record box.
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CJ MACKINTOSH
Well not many clubnights can claim to have absolute clubbing legends and Godfathers of house musicas theirdistinguished regular guest but here at Kinky Malinki we can do just that. CJ Mackintosh has been setting our Kinky dancefloors alight ever since he came on board. What else is there to say about him? His sets are uniquely mesmerising and spellbinding. His ability to bring a dancefloor to its knees is second-to-none and his ear for sourcing out the finest in cutting-edge house music has had us in raptures for over two decades. He is CJ Mackintosh and he’s ready to do it all again at matter in August.
http://www.kinkymalinki.com/matter
So, there you have it. 5 of the biggest hitters in house music today. Allin one line-up, all exclusively with Kinky Malinki and all waiting to entertain. It’s play time…..
Club Name: Kinky Malinki
Venue: matter
Address: The 02, Peninsula Square, London SE10 ODY
DROP to the ground; take COVER by getting under a sturdy table or other piece of furniture; and HOLD ON on until the shaking stops. If there isn’t a table or desk near you, cover your face and head with your arms and crouch in an inside corner of the building.
Stay inside until shaking stops and it is safe to go outside.
This is it. The penultimate London party before we set off around the UK on the huge Mixmag club tour in September. And this time around it’s all about bass.
From the kingdoms of drum and bass, dubstep, electro and house, we’ve assembled the biggest bassiest beasts around.
We’ve got Sub Focus, the hottest rising star in drum and bass. We’ve got Hatcha and N Type, original dubstep legends. We’ve got DJ Zinc, junglist supreme. We’ve got incredible new talent in the form of Crystal Fighters playing a full live set, the smokin’ hot Basque electro five piece already being talked about as the single most exciting live show in dance music. We’ve got the superfresh Boy 8 Bit, new young star of grinding epic electro. We’ve got the fantastic Filthy Dukes, London’s lords of indie dance, the party starting genius of Radio One’s Jaymo & Andy George, the dubbed out madness of High Rankin and the sheer dancefloor ignition of usual suspects People Are Germs and the Union DJs.
This is room shaking, floor trembling, speaker punishing, party rocking mayhem.
This is a solid ten on the Richter scale.
This is Mixmag Big In The Bass.
Line-up in full
Crystal Fighters LIVE (kitsune)
Filthy Dukes (Kill Em ALL)
Subfocus (Ram Records)
DJ Zinc (Bingo Beats)
Jaymo & Andy George (BBC Radio 1)
Boy 8Bit (Mad Decent)
Hatcha Vs N-Type (FWD >> & Rinse)
Technicolour
Danaeo Live
I:AM
Fish Don’t Dance (1980 records)
People Are Germs
Union Djs
Jacob Husley WYS! & John&On
Plus guests: Supermilkmen, HeyBoyHeyGirl, Dansette Junior, John Ryan, Jul Bricks, OhLiuLiu, Jason Marx, S.O.N.A, Future Freakz, Dave Winney, Pure Filth Electro, OutofControl, 3D Music, Leroy Roberts, Labrum & Meekcoms, Mick D, Harez on Bongo’s + Many more
Another month another party marathon with Bitch. If you haven’t been in amongst it at a Bitch session – either in Ibiza, Leeds or Manchester – you certainly should be this month. In their summer home, BoHo – with its circular interior and opulently decorated confines– Bitch is likely to excel as drinks are cheap and entry prices are fair. You’ll also be treated to a state of the art light and sound installation and some all important pulsating electronica.
This month’s sounds come from:
Mason – a Dutch electro houser who, in the studio, remixes the works of Mylo, Luetzenkirchen for labels like CR2, Ministry of Sound, King Kong and Great Stuff. Having played institutions such as London’s Fabric and Germany’s Cocoon – this man is well versed in how to hold a dance floor in the palm of his hand.
Oliver Lang – a chunky and jacking man who acutely tailors his sets according to the dance floor vibe – be he spinning Judgment Sundays, Bora Bora or Ministry Of Sound – and who sites Danny Tanaglia as an main influence. That tells you all you need to know really.
Danny Savage – hard working DJ and promoter behind Leeds’ first and best fidget house and electro night, expect 4/4 from every nook of the genre.
H2 and Matteus complete the line ups and are beloved favourites of the Bitch crew wherever they happen to be playing. Perfect accompaniments to headliners, the pair wouldn’t keep getting air time if they couldn’t do the business.
It started in humble surrounds in drizzly, grimy Manchester, and flourished into a night Sankeys was quick to lock into regular sessions, so full and bouncing was the club, week-in, week-out. And now it is set to fully bloom under the Ibizan sky in what is fast becoming known as one of the Isle’s most beloved, intimate clubs – BoHo.
Festival season is well and truly underway here in the UK and with the beast that is Glastonbury behind us (South West Four artists Layo & Bushwacka, Timo Maas and David Guetta smashed the Dance Village!) we’ve a great SW4 video interview featuring the world’s undisputed No.1 DJ and Gallery resident DJ Armin van Buuren!
Voted the world’s No. 1 two years running and having just released the latest instalment of his hugely influential ‘A State Of Trance’ mix album series Armin looks set to dominate 2009. With a hectic summer schedule packed to the rafters with headline slots at festivals across the globe alongside his weekly Armada parties set to take place at Amnesia in Ibiza, this is a man truly at the top of his game. Having made such an impact at last year’s South West Four we’re more than thrilled to have him back. Check out a video interview where Armin talks about his summer ahead, his top picks for the summer and of course South West Four…
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Michael Jackson has died after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest.
His brother Jermaine Jackson said he believed the 50-year-old singer fell ill at his Holmby Hills home in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon.
He was taken to the UCLA medical centre where he was pronounced dead at 2.26pm Pacific time (10.26pm BST).
The self-styled king of pop had been due to perform 50 farewell concerts in London this summer, bowing out on an illustrious music career spanning several decades while aiming to resurrect his fortunes.
Jackson’s brother told reporters: “My brother, the legendary King of pop, passed away on Thursday June 25 at 2.26pm.
“We believe he suffered a cardiac arrest at his home, however the cause of his death is unknown until the results of the autopsy are known. The personal physician who was with him at the time attempted to resuscitated him.”
A spokesman for the Ronald Reagan UCLA medical centre added: “When he arrived at hospital at approximately 1.14pm a team of doctors including emergency physicians and cardiologists attempted to resuscitate him for a period of more than one hour, they were unsuccessful.”
TV footage showed a rescue helicopter flying the star’s body to a waiting ambulance.
A Los Angeles Police Department spokesman said the robbery and homicide team was investigating Jackson’s death because of its “high profile” but warned reporters not to read anything into his team’s involvement. A post mortem examination is expected to take place, Los Angeles Coroner’s Office spokesman Fred Corral said.
Tributes have flooded in from across the UK for pop legend Michael Jackson.
London-based singer Madonna said in a statement on the BBC website: “I can’t stop crying over the sad news. I’ve always admired Michael Jackson – the world has lost one of its greats but his music will live on forever.
“My heart goes out to his three children and other members of his family. God bless.”
Family friend Mark Lester described him as “a very sweet, kind and loving man”.
The former child star, who is godfather to Jackson’s children, said they first met more than 30 years ago. He said: “The last time we saw him he was in London a few weeks ago. He was absolutely fine. I can’t believe this, it’s such a shock.”
Friend and psychic Uri Geller said from his home in Sonning, Berkshire: “I’m shocked and devastated. I am hoping this is a dream I will wake up from, but it is not. Michael is dead. For him not to be around, that he’s gone, is just surreal. It cannot sink into my psyche. He was a genius.”
He said he feared it may have been the “stress” of Jackson’s planned comeback tour that killed him.
Matt Blank, from the Michael Jackson World Network fan club, told BBC News 24 he was “a bit dumbfounded and a bit shellshocked by it all”.
He added: “I find it hard to believe this could be a reality. In the past, health issues of Michael Jackson have always been rumoured. I can only imagine this is down to the amount of stress he was under to come out and perform.”
Foreign Secretary David Miliband wrote on Twitter: “Never has one soared so high and yet dived so low. RIP Michael.”
Pure Pacha Ibiza entered its 7th year in formidable fashion last week with their renowned opening party, which featured Sander Kleinenberg at the helm as new Pure Pacha resident and his special guests, Basement Jaxx.
Sander has been a regular fixture at the Balearic landmark for many years and was joint resident with Axwell last year. After years of playing Pure Pacha, hosting such an artistic show himself and generally smashing it in the club last year, it seemed only right that Sander take the reign and become involved with the music programming and creative art direction of Pure Pacha. Sander is very much involved in the look, feel and projection of Pure Pacha; casting upon his wealth of experience years, encompassing a full 360 appeal. Sander was a natural choice to the people who know the club best – here is what Danny Whittle, head honcho of Pacha Ibiza, had to say:
“Having worked with Sander for many years its fantastic that Sander will be fronting Pure Pacha this summer. He has consistently rocked Pacha every time he plays so it’s great to have that confidence in the quality of music for every Friday night this summer.
With Sander and Basement Jaxx setting the precedent for the upcoming summer, this years guests include Calvin Harris, who is the exclusive monthly resident, Justice, Cassius, Sharam, Faithless, Paul Oakenfold, Trentemoller, Mark Knight and Darren Emerson. Renaissance and Toolroom Knights will each take the reign twice during the summer, while Pacha Brazil, Sharm El Sheikh and Zouk make a special appearance at the club too.
DJs Trevor Nelson and Maxi Jazz make a triumphant comeback in the Global Room and joining them on rotation will be Andy Baxter, Mo Funk and Mucho Muchacho, who are serving the Pacha glitterati with a soundtrack of smooth grooves, soul, funk and upfront R & B.
Built on a reputation for bringing together musical quality, great parties and like minded people, Pure Pacha provides you with the most upfront music, spectacular live pearformances, opulent surroundings and the most beautiful people in town. With so many areas to play in… whether it’s on the dancefloor, chilling on the terrace, grooving in the global room or celeb spotting in the VIP, Pacha caters for all palettes. You really will not get a true Ibizan experience anywhere else.
….. Blur have begun their comeback at the scene of their first ever concert The Britpop heroes played for around 150 people in a goods shed at the East Anglian Railway Museum, where they launched their careers in 1988. For Saturday’s gig, their first show for nine years, they used a vintage carriage as a dressing room and played surrounded by station memorabilia. They will now go on tour, taking in headline slots at Hyde Park, Glastonbury and T in the Park.
Built on a reputation for releasing some of dance music’s most significant moments in its career, Strictly Rhythm is no stranger to buzz tracks. This year the label celebrates its 20th anniversary with another such signing, one that again shows how Strictly Rhythm is continually pushing innovative house music and promoting new talent.
‘La Mezcla’ (roughly translated as ‘the big mix up’), released on Luciano’s Cadenza imprint from Switzerland, has been relentlessly hunted by DJs since featuring in numerous DJ sets at this year’s Winter Music Conference and in the last few months has grown to near mythical status.
Swiss producer Michel Cleis is the man behind the mysterious and distinctive La Mezcla, a track built on a vocal and flute sample adapted from the Colombian traditional and Afro-Latin performer Totó La Momposina.
During the six long months it took to clear the sample, La Mezcla was simmering slowly in the live DJ sets of the likes of Ricardo Villalobos and Luciano, spreading out to Dennis Ferrer, Louie Vega, Laidback Luke and Erick Morillo. Luciano especially was instrumental in the record surfacing by releasing it on his own Cadenza imprint and the ferocious bidding war that followed saw Strictly Rhythm emerge with the spoils.
Big Ibizan tune is a cliché thrown around with little regard to reality, but trust us when we say that La Mezcla is the real deal – and one of the biggest tracks of 2009.
House Master is a title which many may claim but few can justify.
House Masters is the DJ friendly compilation series now in its fifth addition. It showcases the work of the world’s most talented house music producers who through their musical achievements have earned the right to be entitled a true ‘House Master’. Previous collections have presented the works of Louie Vega, Dennis Ferrer, Sandy Rivera and Bob Sinclar.
This is a series that brings both the artists’ own productions and all their most prominent remixes together in one collection – unmixed.
This series is aimed squarely at the DJ, with some tracks being made available digitally for the first time and all presented at full length. This is a perfect tool for any DJ and a valuable addition to your music collection.
House Master No.5 had been brought to you by two of France’s most talented producers DJ Gregory and Julien Jabre.
DJ Gregory is the extraordinary, passionate and unique house music producer and DJ. He is well known as one of the pioneering original French house set that established the foundations of the scene in the early 90’s.
Now re-located to Amsterdam from Paris, his signature sound has been heavily influenced by the African, West Indian and Caribbean community that populates Paris. This influence is shared by the head of the French house pack Bob Sinclar, and together they produced the critically acclaimed ‘Africanism’ project, from which two of Gregory’s productions ‘Block Party’ and ‘Tournament d’Amour’ became international club hits.
It was the Africanism project that ultimately led him to set up his own label, Faya Combo, a well respected label which released ‘Tropical Soundclash’ and ‘Elle’, both of which became instant successes.
Julian Jabre is a producer of equal integrity, being a long time collaborator and studio partner of Gregory.
Julien originally met DJ Gregory whilst DJing on the legendary Parisian radio station Radio FG. A former DJ who now solely produces, always looks for the emotional angle when creating dance tracks. This was especially apparent for the release that first brought him notoriety in 2005, ‘Swimming Places’, a huge WMC hit at the time and arguably his biggest record to date. It was not too long before he produced more tracks with the same passion and vibe. The ‘Talking Walls EP’ featuring ‘Talking Walls’ and ‘Stagger’ firmly put him back in the collective consciousness of many DJs. 2009 has started off powerfully for Julien with release of the ‘Vicious Circle’, being included in many of the elite DJ’s tracklists, as well as his most recent production ‘Boomerang’ which will appeal to the techier DJ’s.
This package is a collection of twenty of their best works. Essential to have in your DJ collection.
As familiar as the seasons, a Summer is not deemed to have fully arrived until the first opening parties of Ibiza’s legendary nightclubs have kicked off in typical hedonistic glory. Still 20 years on and clubbers from all parts of the world see the white isle as their spiritual summer home for dance music.
Cr2 Records, and owner Mark Brown, can proudly claim to have played their own part in making Ibiza that magical place for so many people. As one of the leading independent dance music labels in the UK, they are respected worldwide for their broad roster of talent old and new and cutting edge A&R.
Think back to tracks such as ‘The Rub’ by Kurd Maverick, Fedde Le Grand ‘Put Your Hands Up For Detroit’, Federico Franchi ‘Cream’, Ito & Star ‘Sudoko Kid’ and one of Ibiza’s most played tunes in 2008 ‘Hulk’ by DJ Wady & Patrick M.
Cr2 released their first Ibiza LIVE & DIRECT compilation in 2008, and it still remains in the Top 50 dance album charts in Denmark, France & Sweden, and Top 10 in Spain & Portugal. In the UK, the album made it into the Top 3 of the dance album chart on it’s release last June, sitting firmly alongside established brands such as Defected and Azuli.
Such success in it’s first year is testament to the high regard for the label, the strong branding…and most importantly, fantastic selection of unreleased and classic tracks featured on the album.
Ibiza LIVE & DIRECT 2009 follows a very similar format; CD1-Day kicks off with the Mark Brown & Adam Shaw remake of David Morales’ classic Ibiza anthem from ’98 ‘Needin U’, and features the massive ‘Cyan’ by Arno Cost and Cr2’s latest signing, the dutch sensation that is DJ Chuckie.
CD2-Night showcases the darker, techier releases forthcoming on the label from artists such as Tapesh, Paolo Mojo, Danny Freakazoid & Stu Hirst, and CD3 once again features a mix of classic tracks from the catalogue over the last 5 years.
Expertly selected and mixed by Mark Brown, and all for a quarter of the price of a vodka limon @ Pacha, Enjoy!
Originally set up in 1994, Christian Smith’s Tronic label holds a special place in techno circles. A leading force in shaping a less purist techno sound Tronic was amongst the first labels to embrace sounds from house and techno and to create records that DJ’s from both scenes would play; and now in 2009 Tronic is making a very welcome return with a series of exceptional releases.
2009 has already proved to be a landmark year for Psycatron. Having been a mainstay of the techno scene in Northern Ireland for the last seven years via residencies at the legendary Shine and latterly Stiff Kitten, Psycatron’s profile is about to move to the next level with a string of high profile releases on some of the world’s best respected labels.
Carl Craig’s Guilty Pleasure off shoot label, the uber-underground Simple Records and Fergie’s impressive Rekluse imprint have all hosted Psycatron productions that have gained serious attention from tastemakers such as Sasha, Carl Cox, John Digweed and Dubfire. Now Tronic are proud to unveil what we think is the biggest release of the lot.
Directions is a soon-to-be-techno-anthem. Built around an instantly memorable vocal hook this is a genuine big room tune for the summer. Pitched to a chugging groove and mounted on a low, throbbing bassline, no time is wasted in introducing the looped vocal hook that builds and drops towards a sprawling, crowd-pleaser of a breakdown.
Backing up the package is the equally impressive Tipping Point. Appearing in two versions, the 3am Front Left Speaker Mix is a shimmering, bass-heavy fusion of old school techno riffs and soaring strings while the Delusions Of 315 mix has a percussive, drawn out brooding vibe, twisting out the monster bassline with distorted effects.
Psycatron
A. Directions
B. Tipping Point (3am Front Left Speaker Mix)
Bonus Digital Track – Tipping Point (Delusions of 315 Mix)
Peter Kruder (one half of Kruder & Dorfmeister) previously remixed DJ Hell’s huge ‘Listen To The Hiss’ on Gigolo in 2005. The melodious ‘Visions LTD’ (his first 12” in a long time) is Kruder’s first Gigolo maxi and will be released on April 28. It also features on DJ Hell’s ‘Eleven’ compilation, released in March; Hell’s yearly showcase of the sound of Gigolo. The title track ‘Visions LTD’ is a soundscape of dance floor dreams – soft yet progressive, a track that commands you to dance. ‘Shine’ kicks up the pace, balancing a heavy elasticized bottom end with some deep and dark synth action.
When Peter Kruder plays, everybody listens! As one exact half of Kruder and Dorfmeister, one very impressible third of Voom Voom, and one solid whole as Peace Orchestra, he is universally praised for being responsible for some of the finest electronic music in the last fifteen years. This is a DJ, producer and musician that refuse to look left or right, and certainly will never look back. Peter Kruder is all about forward vision and imagination to what the future may bring. Single minded, exact, and ultra professional in all his work. His DJ sets are legendary and noted for surprises far beyond what is expected of him. We could go on about the past where Peter Kruder has featured or presided, about how cool the K&D ‘Sessions’ and remixes were and still are, about how far and wide he has traveled on this monumental musical journey, an incredible account of the series of events making up this extraordinary person’s life. But to some one that lives solely in the now and the future, this would seem out of place, Peter would never really enjoy this anyway.
As a producer, he is unsurpassed. His understanding of music and the making of music is an indubitable factor in him releasing unquestionable excellence every time. What is most apparent in his work as a producer is that Peter simply adores music. It is a love affair that seems only to get stronger and stronger. Another and very admirable fact is that Peter Kruder only releases music that he wants to release. He will always refrain from releasing average or mediocrity or to churn out like a conveyer belt just to suit others or get his name in the press. Peter Kruder is not a music machine; he is a sonic heart with strong convictions and an unshakable belief in releasing only the very best. His goal every time is to be better and better with each outing.
Also, be sure to catch Peter Kruder on Hell’s landmark 2XCD artist release “Teufelswerk”
Here’s a little something you should know about. It’s underground sensation Dada Life and their just-released “Happy Hands & Happy Feet” EP. The boys are dropping this bomb in advance of their debut artist album Just Do The Dada (set for release later this spring / summer) and decided to offer you lovely people a download of the title track free of coinage.
The brainchild of Stockholm-based Olle Corneer and Stefan Engblom, Dada Life doesn’t care about genres. They don’t care about smartness. They don’t care about the things you care about. Dada Life just wants to make you jump up and down. Then make you crash into a wall with a smile on your face. That’s exactly what’s gonna happen upon listening to the“Happy Hands & Happy Feet” EP. The original’s got a totally unique with a dirty 4/4 beat, bleepy effects and some truly warped vocals. Just download the tracks and see for yourself. On the remix front Dada Life secured the talents of Malente, Alex Gopher, Moonbotica and Phatzoo for some twisted alternate versions of the track.
Inspired by John Cage, Early Acid House, Trance, 60s Psychedelia and Little Richard, among other things, Dada Life has emerged with a unique sound that’s modeled from a broad canvas of musical stimulation. When performing as a live act Dada Life is one box of bananas, a couple of bottles of Champagne and a lot of sweat and broken equipment. On the other hand, Dada Life DJ-gigs tend to go the same way with an MPC and some controllers that enable the boys to play around with samples and loops even when they DJ. They also constantly produce their own remixes/edits of good tunes in order to have something unique to play during the sets. North American audiences will experience this firsthand when Dada Life takes to the States for a full tour later in 2009!
“Happy Hands & Happy Feet” is out now on The Hours. Be on the lookout for Dada Life’s debut artist CD Just Do The Dada this spring/early summer.
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