It’s time, again, for me to post a number of miscellaneous tunes that have slipped through the pelski net over the last month or two. We’ve got growling electro, big house beats, some thumping brea
kbeat, one bassline remix, a couple of minimal flavours and even a small slice of reggae-infused pop, just in time for the summer. Pelski highly recommends them all:
kbeat, one bassline remix, a couple of minimal flavours and even a small slice of reggae-infused pop, just in time for the summer. Pelski highly recommends them all:
The band currently holding the most outlandish name is London’s Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Their tunes are as quirky as their name. I posted their Foreign Beggers remix a while ago here and now they’re back with an upbeat, wobbly one – jumpy bass womps along to some breezy 80s-style synth work:
I’m unsure as to whether this really is Proxy, since I heard nothing of a Proxy remix… and it came from Disco Demons – the pranksters who convinced everyone on April Fools that a remix knocked up by themselves was a hot-off-the-press Fake Blood remix of Darude’s ‘Sandstrom’, which swiftly forced its way up the popular hypem charts. But this soudns like Proxy, in its slow humming elements, even if it is a slight departure – dark, bassy strumming growl behind looped vocal snippets. A slow broody remix. Be sure to check out Proxy’s thumping remix of Shottieville too:
Frenchkiss Records sent over a little taster of Sean Bones’s album ‘Rings’. A little different from the usual peski fodder, it’s summery, uplifting Reggae-infused indie-pop. And very nice too:
One of my favourite tunes of the last few months was Renaissance Man’s Spray Can – all jittery, bouncy minimal house. Sharkslayer – first blogged here – replace some of the cleaner beats with electro fuzz and whirring, but the essence of the original’s – the bleepy hook – remains in tact. A slightly more maximal affair, but still great fun. Sharkslayer’s also just put out a simple edit of Nadastrom’s spluttery dub of Lenka:
The Yank briefly came to everyone’s attention last year with the superb ‘We Can’t Be Stop’d‘ – sampling The Beatles’ ‘Birthday’. It was suprisingly good dancefloor stuff, but his latest Beatles-fixated tune – another YCCMPelski exclusive – isn’t especially suited to dancefloors, but its big ol’ dusty kick-drum beats bang along with glorious vigour. All vintage charm:
N.B. Funky (this tune appeared in the May chart) provides some funky afrobeat flavours – it’s captivating minimal and from a producer someone who’s just at home producing hip-hop, r’n'b, drum’n'bass or garage as he is these stunning tropical beats:
As Jack Beats’ squelching sounds progressively descended closer to absurdity in their quest to provide even more obscene and dirty wobbles of bass each new production… they have pulled back from their often unrelenting onslaught of wonky noise – though I’ve always enjoyed those Jack Beats’ bangers – they’ve crafted a lovely, stripped back remix of Patrick Wolf – the consistently weirdest, and Ketamine addicted, musician around. Jack Beats’ best remix in an age, or possibly ever:Some trendy whiny female, vocal stuff going on here. Catchy or enoying? Take your pick. But I’d say it’s good fun electro house:
I only post breakbeat from time to time. Here we have a mammoth dancefloor remix from Splitloop (AKA Phil and Bren). A huge thumping broken beat bangs over a hefty, spluttering bassline. Nasty, rasping remix of one of Mr Tubbs’s big tunes from the ‘Knuckle Sandwich’ album:
I was sent over this remix of Cyprus Hill, that the whistling ‘Insane In The Membrane’ sample without sound like a cheesy, throw-away remix. They forge a fun house tunes equipped with a rasping bassline:
Noob’s blippy, techy remix has been floating around for a bit now and is one of my favourites of the ace Tiga smasher:
Brooklyn’s Trouble & Bass recently releases Princess of Bass’ debut EP on the label, equipped with this banging remix from established London bassline don Dexplicit. Dirty basslines and ominous beats make for a big banger:
An older one, but similar to Lazy Jay’s massive Float My Boat – this time he’s sticks with the minimal approach and thudding house beats and with an equally catchy bleepy trumpeting:
Evil Nine readily switch between filthy electro, hip-hop, breakbeat and everything inbetween. Always keeping their diverse productions fresh, Evil Nine have remixed their Icicles EP, with growling electro riffs beefing out the rocky vocal stomper. Check out the label boss’ – Adam Freeland – remix for a simpler bass-oriented take:
Alex Metric is consistent. Consistently good. His remixes are plain and simple electro – nothing fancy – they should sound bland and boring, but they’re well produced, and always work well. His INfadels remix was charming electro remix indie without sounding fluffy stuff. (His recent Freeland remix was superb too and keep your eyes peeled for Alex Metric’s incoming ‘What Now’) :
Londoner Para Beats has flitted between hip-hop and garage, and is experienced in the music industry to say the least, but recently put out this fidgetty bangers that possesses some lively electro verve. Big ups to my chums over at Noise Porn for this one:
Ernold Sane sent his remix of Major Lazer last month, it’s a great remi and a good taster of the huge Pon Di Floor – the exciting collaboration of Diplo and Switch before their album drops tomorrow on Downtown Records. Displaying some crazy reggae and dancehall sounds blended with everything from afrobeat to baile funk:A couple of months ago the writors of Bump blog sent over a couple of stabs at production. Thissimple techno remix of Tiga works strangely well – they bravely and rightly remove Tiga’s main bassline and replace it with some addictive, bumpy bleeps of techno – and a clattering drum breakdown halfway through – making for a refreshing take on Tiga’s ‘Mind Dimension’. Check out their superb blog too:
Hey Today’s latest – I’m keen to hear the Van She Tech remix too – has been given a clanging old-school house remix from Institubes’ star Bobmo – all . Another recent remix of Bobmo’s worth a look-in is his David Rubato a simliar ghetto-house take that blends rave organ house chords with bmore percussion:
The always-impressive Trevor Loveys has moved away from the bombast of fidget house to this brilliant remix. I think I’m right in saying this is slightly different from the remix he did with In Flagrenti of the same tune. The chirpy percussive intro drops into a humming and twanging melange with plenty of character: 
Last but not least, we have the brand new and unreleased Fake Blood remix. It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the eponomous Fake Blood, and here he gives the fake blood treatment to that summery slice of indie pop from Mike Snow that’s been cuasing a stir. Fake Blood’s remix is free of his usual thick slabs of floor-shaking, contorted bass, replaced with bouyant and fuzzy reverb synths (left-click the link – it’s mediafire):
