PREMIERE: Shy FX - Raver (feat. Kano, Donae'o & Roses Gabor) (MJ Cole Remix)
Here, MJ Cole prefers it when the machines sing. His take on "Raver" largely does away with human throats, preferring instead the grind and whine of agile synths and clattering breakbeat snares. It's the kind of thing that makes Friday nights sound good, so unless you're planning on dying in the next few hours I suggest you check it out. For those craving Kano, Donae'o and Roses Gabor, jungle don Shy FX's original arrives free on December 6, while his new album Larger Than Life drops in 2011.
Shy FX - Raver (feat. Kano, Donae'o & Roses Gabor) (MJ Cole Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Freestylers - Bounce To This
The blowtorch is really an apt metaphor for Freestylers' M.O.–these guys make genuinely pyrotechnic club music; galvanizing, wildly unsubtle shit for floor hooligans/beer vacuums. "Bounce To This" is the most breakbeat-y tune on their new EP, Past, Present, And Future, and features Miami's inexplicably named MC Alaska. If you've yet to click play, hopefully that will push you over the precipice. The EP's out on Beatport now, and an album, Calling Me Home, is forthcoming this summer.
DOWNLOAD: The CB's - Misdemeanour (No Fakin Remix)
A version of a version of Foster Sylvers' 1973 track of the (sorta) same name, this one is pulled from the first release on Jam City Records, a new imprint run by London DJ A.Skillz. For the most part, Liverpudlian turntablists No Fakin keep The CB's sounding classic and funky, their main addition a mole-like bass synth that's burrowed itself to the bottom of the mix. Get full "Misdemeanour" single over at Beatport.
Sounds like: Jackson 5, The Commodores, The Dust Brothers
The CB's - Misdemeanour (No Fakin Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Spinnerette - Rebellious Palpitations + Sex Bomb (Adam Freeland Remix)
I imagine there are thousands of young men, now aged somewhere between 21 and 25, who at one point in their young lives cherished no woman more than Brody Dalle. For the retro-punk rock fraternity circa 2002, Brody was perfect: she had more tattoos, a bigger mohawk and looked like she could beat us to a pulp, and The Distillers' first two albums indulged the confused fantasies of adolescent males as in thrall to The Clash and hardcore punk as they were to their stash and, er, hardcore gunk. Spinnerette is not as much dirty fun, but Brody still sounds like she's been swallowing rocks, from her throat a feral howl backed by platforms of guitar fizz and, in Adam Freeland's slightly preposterous breakbeat remix, electro synth punishment. Brody Dalle is married, has a kid and is still harder than you'll ever be.
Sounds Like: Hole, DFA 1979, Justice
Spinnerette - Rebellious Palpitations
Spinnerette - Sex Bomb (Adam Freeland Remix)
