Best of the Week: 24/03/2010

Whether it glitches or grooves, distorts or harmonizes, you still gotta dance to it, and this week the selection fits just that formula. Tastings from New York, Hamburg and the UK, take in indie disco, shimmering deep house, and the new school imaginings of the British bass scene.

UK based Sully is a producer mixing pure Warp-style electronica with booming dubstep, and in the process making some seriously cool dance floor IDM, this track is out on Keysound/Sully-In Some Pattern

Underpinned by a truly unique rhythm, this excellent remix from Ramadanman builds to a blistering tribal intensity disrupted by mutated pads and bleeps, showcasing two of the dubstep scenes most consistent talents/Scuba-Tense (Ramadanman remix)

French based duo John & Jehn are a group worth checking out in their own right, but this remix from new disco darlings Mighty Mouse is something else, turning the track into a indie jam so catchy this will be stuck in your head all day long/John & Jehn-Lookin’ For You (Mighty Mouse NYC Sensations remix)

Hamburger Tensnake is another disco/house producer set for a huge 2010 on the back of some incredible productions. This subtle but effective cut is from his recent EP on Permanent Vacation/Tensnake-Coma Cat

Prolific yet nothing less than incredibly consistent, New Yorker Falty DL always makes a mash up of rave samples, dubstep rhythms, clicks and feedback, into something more than the sum of its parts. This is from his All In The Place EP out now on Rush Hour/Falty DL-St. Marks


Show these artists your support: Bleep, Picadilly, Rush Hour, Conch and Samurai.

Best of the Week: 10/03/2010

This week we are blessed with some true disco throwback goodness, with a singer famed for her mid-nineties sounding the business on top of a killer rhythm, a new Australian outfit given the treatment from a producer moving into the big league, then into a an edit that is crafted to perfection over slow and low funk, before we finish with some futuristic electronica some Philly’s grime king in a more reflective mode, and another eccentric individual from the north of England.

Great track out on DFA here from Ray Mang, this tune updates a George Clinton funk jam into a new disco anthem featuring a great vocal from Lady Miss Kier/Ray Mang-Bulletproof (feat. Lady Miss Kier)

New Modular signings The Swiss feature the talented Sidwho? This remix from Hamburg’s Tensnake will appeal to fans of Permanent Vacation’s recent output, mixing German engineering with cosmic disco overtones, and the results are very cool/The Swiss-Manthem (Tensnake remix)

This brilliant edit by Canadian Eddie C sits somewhere between disco, early rap, and 80’s boogie, and is crafted so lovingly that it is absolutely dripping in soulful goodness/Eddie C-Hold On

Philadelphia based grime producer Starkey continues to astound with his broad body of work. Whether it be his darker side, or like this cut, his more reflective. This is a producer demanding your attention right now/Starkey-Stars (feat. Anneka)

Another producer making exciting electronica right now is Werk Discs main man Actress, who has quietly been creating some noise since 2004, yet this remix of Girl Trouble favourite Joy Orbison plus some co-productions with Zomby seem to finally be getting this artist the attention he deserves/Joy Orbison-The Shrew Would Have Cushioned the Blow (Actress’ Neu Haus So-Glo Mix)


Support these producers; get their music here-Picadilly, Bleep, Rush Hour, Conch, Samurai