TV’s 1st birthday is here- on 16 October – with a brilliant line-up of underground UK acts.
Hot City is Pelski’s top tip – his productions take all the early dubstep influences and meld them (UK garage/2step) with classic house, harking back to old school ravey sounds, with elements of his tracks reminiscent of chicago house and detroit techno.
Here we have two blog-cleared Hot City tunes. The first is a brand-spanking new remix, that only gets better with each play. Hot City cut the originals vocals down to glitchy snippets, leaving just the chorus, a higher tempo and that satisfying whiplashed beat:
Funktuary – Wip Electric (Hot City Remix) [pelski highly recommends]
Skippy drums, piano house samples and a slowed down 4/4 structure come together to make a strangely original production on ‘Setting Me Free’. For the full quality copy, and the equally excellent flipside of ‘No More’, buy the whole release here.
One underrated Hot City release from earlier this year was the low-key Hot City Bass / Sweat EP, melding UK funky sounds with old school piano stabs. Buy it from beatport here.
Boy 8-bit hardly needs an introduction on this blog. Here Greenmoney brings some of that funky house percussion to the original’s winding melody:
Another highlight is Idiotproof – the formidable collaboration of Jamie Anderson and Deepgroove, or so far as I’m aware. I read an interview in DJ mag recently, in which they proclaimed to be a couple of artists who wished to remain anonymous (sighh…), behind their horse masks (another sigh…). No matter, their big main-room tech-house productions speak for themselves. Check out their superb remix of Cevin Fisher’s ‘The Freaks Come Out’. Below is their Cagedbaby rejigg, filled with slow builds and techy bass surges:
Head to Room 2 to hear one of Solo’s tastemaking mixes. And For your dubstep fix, hit up Plastician or Boog-A-Loo Crew in the main room.
Boog-A-Loo Crew are on the up with a number of brilliant productions – and you can buy each one for a mere 70p here. Or all you northern monkeys can catch Boog-A-Loo crew later in the month at my electro/techno/house night in York, idioteque, supported by our buddy Park Ranger. In the meantime check out a Trouble Vision promo mix from the Crew themselves (tracklist in comments):
The Boog-A-Loo Crew – Trouble Vision Mixtape No.001
The Boog-A-Loo Crew – Trouble Vision Mixtape No.001
Early bird tickets have sold out, but you can still get advance tickets here and check the facebook event.
