Just a few bits and pieces that have been amusing me lately. Firstly I’ve been hitting the disco wave hard recently and dusting off some of my old vinyls. I’ve got loads of cosmic oddities to share with you but I’ll save it for another post, or just upload a new mixtape, whatever comes first. Here’s a couple to wet your appetite.
Ladyhawke is about to drop her highly anticipated debut EP shortly through Modular which I’m extremely excited about. Remixes are slowly showing up for her next single ‘Dust till Dawn‘ which, in this case, has been sculptured by Linus Loves (Remember him?).
Miami Horror has been busy lately teaming up with non other than Fred Falke, remixing the likes of The Presets and touring the USA but he’s taking a different approach with his latest remix of ‘Totally Michael‘, a new signing to IHEARTCOMIX.
Finally I’ll leave you with a link to the teaser mix for the next Bang Gang double mixed cd compilation to be released on Modular in October/November, containing tracks by Cut Copy, Fred Falke, Surkin, A-Trak, Ghostface Killa, Pryda, M.I.A, Treasure Fingers, Kid Cudi, Beni, The Presets, Breakbot, Das Pop & Louis La Roche. 45 tracks in 10 minutes, it’s a rave in itself, Gurn away!!
I didn’t take long for Australia (and the UK) to fall in love with the intergalactic foursome that is The Galvatrons. In just under 12 months these synth-bearing mavericks from the future (or past?) have conquered the indie-dance world with their addictive 80’s movie soundtrack melodies and power ballad anthems. They now have a shiny new EP entitled ‘When We Were Kids’ in stores which includes some fun disco hits and a couple of killer remixes. You can catch these interstellar kids playing all over Australia throughout May and then taking on the UK crowds in June and even rocking the O2 Wireless Festival, you show em lads!!
Here’s the always impressive Bag Raiders with their neon remix of ‘When We Were Kids’…
While on the topic of the Bag Raiders who, i’m told, are almost finished with their own debut EP. We have yet another remix of their ever so popular track ‘Fun Punch’, this time by rising Sydney producer Toecutter. He puts a glitchy, hacked up spin on the original while keeping the bounce and fun contained within. Also check out a Toecutteroriginal, which i believe is getting an official release later in the year on Bang Gang 12 inches, it’s a very catchy distorted disco/pop tune which cleverly uses a vocal from Kool and the Gang and turns it into something that can you jive to for hours. This is the extended dub mix, expect the original to be much shortly!
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the likes of Riot in Belgium but it seems one of it’s members, Beni Single, has been working in the shadows on a new track for the upcoming ‘Relish Compilation EP Volume 2′, due out in June, from Relish Recordings. Could this be a new direction for Beni, well i certainly think we’ll be hearing a lot more from him. This is the sort of sound that’ll keep the kids bouncing in the clubs, whether you’re into French house grooves, Crookers basslines or Switch fidget squelches.
