bongos, congos and Funky House
A remix I haven’t stopped playing is this Downtown re-edit of Mixhell’s Boom Da – it knocks Petit Pilous’ driving dirtier and Crookers bleepy rerubs out of the park. And who is Downtown? None other than one half of Renaissance …
July: Pelski Highly Recommends Chart
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short and sweet Q&A with Digitalism
A couple of months back a handful of the best-of-the-best blogs were asked to compile a number of questions for a short interview with electro purveyors – and now stadium fillers – Digitalism, in promotion for 02 Wireless festival. Pelski …
Freedom fighters
Crystal Fighters first came to my attention a year or two ago with the weird and wonderful ‘I Love London’ – hyper-active folktronica enocorporating everything from cowbells, fizzing synths and crazy vocal calls. It’ll be receiving a re-release on Kitsune …
trendy and tribal, yeah?
I pined after it in my first pelski chart 3 months ago, waiting, with baited breath for a full version to drop. Now it’s here. And it’s nothing too big or fancy, but a solid, excellent re-edit that gives Jesse …
Pelski’s Playlist – Pt. VIII
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 breakbeat, one bassline remix, a …
June: Pelski Highly Recommends Chart
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‘Get Rude’ with Nat Self
So far Zombie Disco Squad have smashed 2009 – and everyone from here to Berlin are jumping on that current african percussion fixation. ZDS’s ‘Eurovision’ has been championed by the likes of Annie Mac and Jesse Rose, though my favourite …
crack house and dubble step
To D’n’B fans, any mention of DJ Zinc will evoke memories of grimy, raucous drum’n’bass nights. But he’s now (wisely) turned his hands to house music – or at least his take on house music; the self dubbed ‘crack house’.
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