Strider’s recently provided
remixes for Ground Level Records,
Control Breaks and Gene Poole,
pre-ceded by his previous release on Splank!
‘Inner City Sumo/The Edge’.
He’s successfully forged a unique sound of
late, matching crunchy beats with distorted bass
hooks to create wonky twisted electro and breakbeat.
‘Tokyo Loading’ is a classic Strider
affair, vocal edits galore & tight as you like
programming, with a Daft Punk (circa Discovery)
inspired synth sequence breakdown slotting in between
the punchy beats & warmly distorted bass hook. Brothers Bud, which we consider
one of Fingerlickin’s finest
artists, get busy on the remix. Having last year
provided massive remixes of their own single
‘Yap Yap’ as well as Soul
Of Man’s ‘Acid Punch’
the guys are back with an absolute belter. Chunky
beats, screeching leads and bottomless subs are
all present. Not to mention the second to none production
skills, just check out the breakdown!!!
Apart from providing summer smash ‘The
Drip’ which topped Beatport’s
Breaks chart, The Groove Allegiance
have been fairly quiet on the production front of
late, focusing attentions towards running things
at Splank!, mixing ‘The Shirk Off’
CD compilation, and gigging, including a recent
2 week tour of Canada and opening the Breaksday
tent at Glade. However, in the last few months they’ve
been locked away in the studio, honing a new sound,
including these 2 new single’s for Splank!
Moston & Malente return to
Splank! for their second single with the label.
Their first outing in the form of ‘The
2 & Only’, crowned record of
the month in IDJ, dates back over
a year now. But that’s not to say these guys
haven’t been busy, far from it, Lars
Moston has provided ‘So Bad’
on Erase Records and ‘We
Like This’ on Hammerskjoeld,
whilst Malente has just dropped
the massive double CD “Whow”
on Unique Records, a collection
of the best Malente remixes and a killer mix CD
that features Moston & Malente’s original
version of “F*cked Up”, fitting snugly
in between Malente’s favourite current club
burners from the likes of Jaimie Fanatic,
Touché, Claude Von
Stroke and Speaker Junk. Stupd Fresh saw their ‘Ho’
single featured on the recent Hook ‘n’
Sling compilation for Chew The
Fat, whilst also releasing some killer
single’s on Big Licks Digital.
Strider’s been busying himself
in the studio recently, having witnessed his remix
of Darftphunk & Slakshot’s ‘I
Dance U’ come out on Splank!,
he’s now got material lined up in the form
of a remix for Control Breaks with
Squatter’s ‘They’re In
My Bowels’, collaborations with both
The Analogue People and Funkasaurus
lined up, as well as these 2 new belter’s
for Splank! ‘The Edge’
is a foray into 4/4, laced once again with killer
riff’s, layers of synth lfo, vocodered darlek
noises and extreme trickery in the drop, this one
is massive!
Whilst ‘Inner City Sumo’
has a straight break, robo-electro synth styling’s
and a distorted bass hook full of chord changes.
Strider shape’s the track with clever pads,
tight fills, and a well thought out arrangement.
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Phonat makes a more than welcome
return to the Splank! Set up, absent since his 2006
released 3 tracker ‘Just The Fx/Burnin/Burnin
(Electro Inspection)’. The ‘Burnin
(Electro Inspection)’ being the pick of the
3 and featured on Basskleph’s
In The Mix is 6 compilation. Earlier this year also
saw Phonat remix the Young Punx’s
massive hit ‘Rockall’.
‘The Quake’ has a completely fresh sound,
not strictly breaks, house or electro, but possessing
elements of all 3 genre’s, it’s about
the groove, warm synth work and the Phonat style
cut up female vox.
Splank! favourite Malente provides
the remix action for this single. Having released
‘The 2 & Only’
on Splank! last year alongside sometime production
cohort (Lars) Moston, this year
has also seen Malente release his fourth studio
album on Unique Records ‘How Can You
Still Stand to Stand Still?’, and
more recently he’s remixed Coburn.
The remix takes a 4/4 route, as Malente keeps many
of the original parts, but re-arranges them into
his original production style, and create’s
an absolute monster that goes into overdrive after
the drop.
