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 Man. The bitrate has been reduced here – buy the full quality version here. Brazilian Mixhell’s tune was released a couple of monthsago and features Oh Snap! and Jen Lasher. It’s more of those bouncy tech-house rhythms, with a synth-led intro dropping into some deep percussion and satisfying clicks and clacks:
Mixhell – Boom Da (Downtown Remix) [pelski highly recommends]
Boss of the famous baile-funk pioneering label Man Recordings, Daniel Haaksman, is dropping
his second ever EP, ‘Gostoso’. (Pick up the mighty five track EP here). The B-side is awonderful slice of tech and disco-infused baile funk, enforced with whistled melodies, chipper high hat tiks and a tech-house feel. Stunning stuff:
his second ever EP, ‘Gostoso’. (Pick up the mighty five track EP here). The B-side is awonderful slice of tech and disco-infused baile funk, enforced with whistled melodies, chipper high hat tiks and a tech-house feel. Stunning stuff:Daniel Haaksman – Pobum Coco [pelski highly recommends]
While skirting yet more tropical flavours, here’s another Buraka Som Sistema remix, this time from Matiksoul. Equipped with some choppy mixing and thumping tribal drums and congos:
All these bouncy, not entirely – but verging on – minimal, tunes are a new breed of tropical, tribal and afrobeat influenced sounds. And another sound very closely linked to this, emerging on the UK scene is UK Funky – no, not the funk-laced house of naff clubs and endless crummy compilations that you’re used to, but a new brand of house that pulls on garage, jungle and techno. The likes of Roska, Fr3e and Donae’o are at the forefront, but really pushing the envelope are Crazy Cousinz: a couple of Leeds, yup, cousins called Lukes and Paleface who smashed last year with Do You Mind and have appeared on YCCMPelski countless times. This insanely catchy tune revolves around latin percussion and a chiming Xylophone. Summer is here. And so is Funky:
Crazy Cousinz – Inflation [pelski highly recommends]
Trendy purveyors of all things house, I move onto Zombie Disco Squad. Alongside Riva Starr,Mowgli and Solo, Zombie Disco Squad are bringing minimal flavours back to house music with slow builds and a tribal sheen. They also write the Gutter Broadcast blog with Round Table Knights and Renaissance Man, where these and couple of other tunes from this post came from. ZDS have posted an edit of Ricardo Villalobos ‘Baile’ and plodding South American techno tune. They’ve cut down to size and given it a couple of subtle twists:
They’ve also put together a delicious bootleg of Hard House Banton’s ‘Zulu Form (another staple of the Funky scene) and that inescapable and classic Fingers Inc ‘My House’ acapella:
Lastly, and with little to do with the theme of this post (besides a slight kuduro edge on behalf of Norrit’s original), I was sent this remix over a month ago but failed to post it. Austin’s Dubbel Dutch featured in a pelski mega post earlier in the year here. Now, Think 2wice Records have sent over Dubbel Dutch’s remix of Norrit’s ‘Feel The Rhythm’, injecting some jackin house beats round those crooning vocal and oscillating sythns are forced home with a rumbling, spluttering bassline. Buy the full release(with a Norrit and White Girl remix included) here.
