FRIDAY FLAVOURS. CLEAN BANDIT. SHADOW CHILD

CLEAN BANDIT A&E EP

Clean Bandit are a DIY electronic, instrumental group from London with a really fresh, unique sound.  A&E is fantastic swagger-pop; completely British sounding and delightfully eccentric.  All the instruments are played by REAL MUSICIANS (saywhat?!), there is no Ableton or Logic as far as I know and the vocalists are members of a community singing group who the core band members found.  Oh, and they also made this brilliant video themselves.  Lovely.

Out on December 9th, on the excellent BLACK BUTTER RECORDS

ZINC feat. SASHA KEABLE - ONLY FOR TONIGHT

Proving once again, why Zinc is still at the top of his game in providing dance-floor fillers, Only For Tonight is just that.  Although Zinc has his detractors for his slightly more commercial tracks, you can't deny the catchiness and simple joy gained from his wobbly, dance-floor bombs.  Sure to be everywhere; proper festive banger.

JUSTIN MARTIN/LEROY PEPPERS - RIDING SPACESHIPS (SHADOW CHILD 'IN SEARCH OF 94' MIX

If you've not listened to Justin Martin's Ghetto's & Garden's album yet, then please get on it.  It's a unique fun-filled journey through booty-bass, dn'b, dubstep, deep house and everything in between.  A remix album dropped in  October, which I featured on here.  It included the bumpin' house remix of Don't Go by Dusky which has topped a few charts recently.  Well, Justin Martin is set to drop another remix album pretty soon.   This remix by Shadow Child is going to be on there, but we will have to wait for the full track because this is only a snippet. The original was a slow booty bass burner, but Shadow Child has gloriously dropped a HUGE breakbeat line throughout, giving the whole track a mad, atmospheric old skool sound

FRIDAY FLAVOURS. WOZ. PHOTEK. GEORGE FITZGERALD

WOZ - Origin (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Fresh off the back of last months successful ZYLO E.P, Woz offers up a huge tune as a FREE DOWNLOAD.  Download Origin and get a taste of Woz's fresh, big-bass vibes.

Lana Del Ray - Ride (Photek Remix)

First off, I really, really like Lana Del Ray.  I like her drama, and her videos; her voice and style.  Ride is a track featured on the re-release of her Born To Die album, with a fucking brilliant video reminiscent of an 80s road movie.  There are several remixes floating around by high profile DJ's but it's, original dub-stepper, Photek's re-work that has caused the most of a stir.  He strips back the track with a simple piano line and gentle bass and makes it sound like it should have sounded to begin with.  

Jessie Ware - No To Love (George FitzGerald Remix)

George FitzGerald

Berlin based British DJ, George FitzGerald had added himself to the list of quality producers remixing Jessie Ware tracks recently. Disclosure's remix of Running got the ball rolling and now FitzGerald has produced a brilliant, Chicago-infused club banger. Ware's vocals are emotive and intense, and the production has a bumpin', techno darkness to it; it's going to be huge. FitzGerald is surely going to be one to watch in 2013, after cementing his name in 2012. He started out producing 2-step tracks for Scuba's Hotflush label, but his latest material, such as the huge Child E.P, has a depth of sound that embodies Chicago, garage and house.



No To Love remix E.P, out now on PMR, digital download.

C.R.S.T FREE DOWNLOAD

Downoad a quality FREE download from underground garage head TONY BLITZ, of C.R.S.T.  This is a bumpin' track with a brilliant vocal.  This is apparently a lost one from the 'vault'.  How casual.

THURSDAY FLAVOURS. MJ COLE. MK. SHADOW CHILD

Daley ft Jessie J "Remember Me" (MJ Cole Vocal Mix)

Do you remember the original Remember Me by Blueboy? Then this track is sure to put a smile on your face. The soulful Mancunian, Daley, re-works the original and Jessie J takes on the Marlena Shaw vocals. She sounds really, really good actually. Daley's cover is fresh, but the MJ Cole remix brings the fire! The piano snippets are inspired and the classic garage jingle and two-step are suitably old school. Proof, not that it were needed, that MJ Cole can do no wrong.
Release date-November 19th 2012

MJ Cole

Forward Motion (MK Reverse Remix)

Forward Motion was a massive deep, disco party track in 2011 from Hot Natured feat. Ali Love.  The track has now reappeared on another Hot Creations release, Benediction, as a B-Side, remixed by classic house head Mark MK Kinchen.  MK impresses me with his remixes because he always brings the classic houses sound that I love, without it being cheesy.  Check out his incredible Storm Queen MK dub remix featured on this blog:
http://soslk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/friday-heavy-rotation.html
On Forward Motion he drops a heavy, stripped back bass-line and keeps it simple, leaving Love's vocals to do the work.
Out Now on Hot Creations

MK.  Classic as hell.

Zoe Xenia + Cari Lekebusch 'Good Love' (Shadow Child back to '93 mix)

How about some more bass-work from the hard-working Shadow Child?  On his Back to 93' remix of Good Love, he works in some seriously classic chords.  I think this is what you would call a BOMB.