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 Rose’s much-spun, Mr Scruff-sampling ‘Touch My Horn’ even more dancefloor clought. Those lofty horns remain, the beat broken up by jackin, punchy drum slaps, a jittery affair, but breathes a new lease of energetic life into it. And it’s a maturer turn from Crookers, who’ve wisely ditched that samey bass style this time round:
Jesse Rose – Touch My Horn (Crookers Remix) [pelski highly recommends]
Another huge tune here. Both Riva and Renaissance Man have continued to blow all competition out of the water this year. Riva’s new minimal style never bores – each of his tracks possessing a new and quirky quality. These afrobeat and tropical influenced percussive sounds are, without a doubt, all the rage right now. It’s inescapable, and rightly so. Sound Pellegrino are certainly pushing this techy tribal sound right now, but you don’t need to look that much further afield, with the likes of Dubsided and MadetoPlay dropping similar sounds.
Some of that funky tropical percussion – that was so delicious about N.B. Funky’s recent ‘Riddim Box’ (in the latest pelski’s playlist) – clangs around Dre Skull’s poppy samples in this first-rate free-release from Bok Bok:
Another huge tune here. Both Riva and Renaissance Man have continued to blow all competition out of the water this year. Riva’s new minimal style never bores – each of his tracks possessing a new and quirky quality. These afrobeat and tropical influenced percussive sounds are, without a doubt, all the rage right now. It’s inescapable, and rightly so. Sound Pellegrino are certainly pushing this techy tribal sound right now, but you don’t need to look that much further afield, with the likes of Dubsided and MadetoPlay dropping similar sounds.
Renaissance Man’s ‘Spray Can’ had expectations running ludicrously high for their second release, but with the double release of ‘What Is Guru/Aloha’ they’ve done a darn good job. Techy house beats thudd against a neatly cut-up tribal call in ‘What is Guru’. Riva Starr’s remix is superb, speeding up the BPM and cutting straight to the chase. [I've reduced the bit rate of this track: be sure to buy the full quality version along with the original RM tunes here]:
Renaissance Man – What Is Guru (Riva Starr Remix) [pelski highly recommends]
Another tune that runs along the same kind of african vibe, is Radioclit’s ‘Secousse’. Yup, it was release a year ago, and received another remix release a couple of moths ago. The Round Table Knights’ effort trumped, but Riva Starr’s is an excellent rework [again the bitrate is reduced, buy the full 320 here]:
Radioclit – Secousse (Riva Starr Remix) [pelski highly recommends]
Some of that funky tropical percussion – that was so delicious about N.B. Funky’s recent ‘Riddim Box’ (in the latest pelski’s playlist) – clangs around Dre Skull’s poppy samples in this first-rate free-release from Bok Bok:Bonus:
…admittedly a little old, but while on the subject of Radioclit, this rerub (Radioclit’s also produced an inferior but notable ‘French’ version) brings pattered congos and screeching accordions. Lovely:
