It has been exactly one year since JD and I started this blog. I was actually looking around lastweek for some backed up MSN logs of when JD and I discussed music blogs (which lead to us starting this humble little blog). Little did we know that our idea would actually hit off into something magical! Where has the time gone? Something that started so small, yet has now matured into something so beautiful - I’m shellshocked. Happy Birthday Waves. For the team, I thank you people, the readers out there, for coming back to this blog for tunes, news, watevs; it’s why I and the rest of us here do what we do. Thankyou again.
We will keep bringing you the sounds that crash to shore, to wash over you at night…. through another year!
I thought I’d share with you a couple of jams from someones who’s always continually impressed me with each new release…Mr. Todd (Tango) Terje. Infusing latin-jazz-bossa-disco beats together has always come easy for this Norwegian born producer. You can find a stack load of edit’s under his ‘Tangoterje‘ moniker including re-works of Michael ‘Jacko’ Jackson, Chic, The Bee Gee’s, Kraftwerk’s ‘Home Computer’ and even The Knight Rider Theme.
Below is an older edit under his ‘Tango’ alias of Paul Simon’s ‘Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes’, simply titled ‘Diamond Dub’. It’s a 7 minute exploration through the African savanna accompanied by loads of percussion and plenty of echo’d vocal samples from the original track with a killer bass line.
The Simon Baker edit of ‘Plastik’ was something that Todd started for fun and then realised it’s potential and released it on the Playhouse label, complete with rolling bassline and simple cosmic treatments.
One of his most recent productions is a remix under his usual guise of the terrific Jose Gonzales track ‘Killing for Love’. The original is so powerful and strong it’s hard to imagine it being improved upon but somehow Terje has done so. He created some catchy guitar samples and threw them under an amazing bass riff that screams to me Fleetwood Mac ‘Tusk’ (does anyone else hear that too?).
The last track is something I stumbled across the other day, it’s a progressive chaotic beast with a great drum beat and synth work all fighting for somebodies attention. Although an odd intro, you must wait at least 40 seconds for the fury to begin….
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!!
Hailing from L.A but currently residing in Sydney, Snob Scrilla is quickly being recognised as Australia’s freshest new talents in hip-hop. His single ‘There You Go Again’ has been getting plenty of love on Triple J and FBI and the film clip can be seen heavily on Rage. The Hey Now posse, also hailing from Sydney, have turned the bouncy original into an early morning electro bomb, utilising the catchy vocals and twisting them round a heavy synth bass line until the final breakdown which builds into something truly epic…similar to something D.I.M would produce. Let me know if you can pick the synth sample used towards the beginning of the track!
Another Sydney sider CSK OK (who you should be very familiar with by now) has also provided the remix treatment to another Snob Scrilla track, Mr. Officer. This is another brilliant remix from the young producer, who seems to get better with every new production, this time adding unique synth lines and claps to the clever lyrics from Scrilla.
