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.

FRIDAY FLAVOURS. SPECIAL REQUEST, ERASE RECORDS, ANGEL HAZE

PAUL WOOLFORD SPECIAL REQUEST 'RIDE' / 'RIDE VIP'

Special Request Lolita release

Special Request is house/techno Ibiza veteran Paul Woolford's new alias.  Taking inspiration from pirate radio and jungle, this is the second 12 inch, vinyl only, release due from the project.  In 2011 Woolford gave us some techno inspired releases on Scuba's Hotflush label and the incredible T William's Heartbeat remix.  Now, Woolford has sidestepped into ambient-jungle-hardcore, remixing a Rick Rubin produced track as Special Request.  The use of the Lana Del Ray sample over the dark jungle-hardcore sound is mesmerising.  The second track throws in a deadly 90's hardcore Belgian hoover over some nasty broken beats and some funked up bass.  The results are equally nostalgic and fresh sounding, and pretty astounding.
An album is in the pipeline.

 

SPECREQ003 vinyl in stores soon.

Sebastiano Sedda & Phil D'Bit are an Italian house-tech duo who found a creative kinship around the age of 15, started running all the club nights in their native Verona by their 20's, and have also had an E.P released on Riva Starr's Snatch! label.  The duo's latest release is on the very fresh Erase Records, and could roughly be described as clinking, playful and irregular shaped techno, with a pulsing house soul. 




Angel Haze is the latest female rapper to be compared to other female rappers, purely because she raps, and has a vagina.  Truth is, Angel Haze doesn't need sexuality to make a mark in a male dominated world; she's more Drake, than Minaj or Banks.  It's simply her fierce and frightening ability, her almost sinister New York drawl, knack for twisted syllable defying dark poetry and an unrelenting ambition that sets her head and shoulders above the rest.  And I'm not just talking about the women.  She knows it too; her youtube channel has the tag, 'Subscribe, idiot'.  You can forgive her if she sounds a bit rude; she really is that good. 
Check out fellow Gil Scott-Heron sampler JamieXX doing his thing all over radio 1 favourite, New York. 



The video for Werkin' Girls is genuinely creepy, and looks how your worst nightmare on bad drugs would feel.  It's a perfect representation however of the sinister energy of the song: sparse, cold and a brilliantly bad trip.



Download the free Reservation mixtape HERE.