So, I do a little search on my favorite website for dance music, Trackitdown.net, to see if my latest Aaren San/Plasmapool remixes have dropped, and whaddayaknow, I have a son. Right there. A little bastard Phatso. I have no idea who the mother is, but all signs point in the direction of Spanish digital label [...]
Forgotten Classic: Lee Coombs-Shapethrower
Taken off the Finger Lickin’ legend’s 2004 debut Breakfast Of Champions, Shapethrower channels quite a bit of Leftfield for an old school progressive house vibe Barnes and Daley would’ve been proud of (and which they either failed, or were unwilling, to recapture on their follow-up clunker Rhythm And Stealth). At the time, Lee was championing [...]
Slappin’ The Bass! Great Basslines In Dance: Mr. Oizo/Flat Beat
The basslines IS the track. That, and the puppet, and the music video, and the Levi’s commercial, made this arguably one of the the weirdest number ones in UK chart history. Look past the gimmicks however, and you have a fine specimen of what I like to call Electrobass: fart-tastic analog nastiness, skippy minimal beats [...]
Super Electro Of The Week: Bam Bam Bam: The Noobish Compilation
May kicks off with the Creme De La Creme of Electro compilations. Sounding a bit like a 70s Swedish porn series, Bam Bam Bam (on the red hot Noobish label) features a veritable who’s who of the international Electro/House scene: Lazy Rich, Steve Velocity, Donique, Yenn, Refracture, Frederick Olufsen, Zedd, Dermot Bateman, Dead Wasps, and [...]
