PREMIERE: Bombay Bicycle Club - How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep (Tom Vek's Big Beatnik Mix)
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Glitchy big beat is the name of the game here as Tom Vek does his thing and raves-the-hell-out on Bombay Bicycle Club's "How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep." There's a sly undertone throughout – the kind of stuff sauntering is made of – as pop mixes with dance music in a way that makes moving hard to resist.
DOWNLOAD: Kerowack - Dirtgrabber
Cribbing your name from the most notorious of Beats invites a lot of criticism and/or assumptions, but thankfully Kerowack avoid any embarassments at the hand of their moniker by doing the slouchy, big-beat acid thing really well. "Dirtgrabber" is from their First EP (these guys are cheeky), pairing overdriven drum samples with a sqirumy 303 riff that sounds like a funk bass line run through a dishwasher. Also, shout to Saul Good, one-half of the New York-based duo, as it's his birthday today. Happy Birthday dude.
Sounds like: Lo-Fidelity All-Stars, Beck's Odelay, The Chemical Brothers
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Oliver Koletzki & Roland Clark - Yes We Can (Enzo Elia Remix)
Nothing quite enriches the ears at the moment than that set of producers finding new ways to link long-disparate etiquettes of beat and bass - Eindhoven's Martyn, featured at RCRD LBL in April, is right at the very forefront of that culture. What does that have to do with Oliver Koletzki? Well, this track - produced in collaboration with house vocalist and producer Roland Clark and remixed by Italian DJ Enzo Elia - kind of sounds like Martyn might if, instead of melding techno with drum'n'bass and dubstep, he'd decided instead to produce big beat deep house tracks for inner city youth projects, enlisting a children's choir here to sing out that Obama hook. And techno of course. Much techno - it remains in the barely sated skip of hi-hats and weird synths that sound like evaporating globules of Teutonic rain.
Sounds Like: Marco Bernardi, The Source, Martyn
Oliver Koletzki & Roland Clark - Yes We Can (Enzo Elia Remix)
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