Last Friday Hacksaw Ent. joined up with Solid Bump Records to present Carte Blanche (i.e. Mehdi & Riton). The show was top notch and featured an opening set from Shane King (half of Hacksaw’s team) followed by Eric from White Girl Lust. His set wrapped up with a short performance by SBR’s resident Diva – Alona who was accompanied by the Counter Culture Collective dancers for a full blown Burlesque style show.
We have full video we will be posting soon, but for now, read the interview from SF weekly to get a bit of the inside scoop about the full collaboration.
Carte Blanche (a.k.a Mehdi & Riton) have set off the start to their North American tour and reports are flooding in that their 4 turntable, 1 Pioneer CDJ, 1 TR-909 sets are MURDERING dancefloors. Thus we could not be more hyped for the SF show July 2nd at Mezzanine.
Shane King and White Girl Lust got together and compiled a 22 minute mix featuring selected tunes from all the artist involved – just to get you a taste of what to expect. We also included the debut of the full vocal version of White Girl Lust’s remix of Ghost’s of Venice “Her” featuring Alona. She will be joining White Girl Lust that night at the end of his DJ set to debut some more forth coming tracks. Expect some extra surprises in tow for that performance.
This Thursday White Girl Lust is performing at the Temple in San Francisco with Craze, Gaslamp Killer and a slew of the Bay’s best. The Scionify team caught up the the Solid Bump kingpins and got some insight into their approach to music, the label, as well as some tips for up and coming artist.
With the help of our new homie David, we finally set up Solid Bump and White Girl Lust Resident Advisor pages. To kick it off we put together a Top 10. One thing that is lame about Top 10′s is having to track down all the songs to see if you even like them. Well, look no further, we have decided to do accompanying mixes on Soundcloud that include all the tracks.
All these tracks except the SBR exclusives are on Beatport. Support good new music and keep your eyes peeled for the ‘Her’ and ‘Paper Cat’ dropping on SBR this summer!
For SXSW, our pal Mike 2600 of Burlesque North America compiled the 3rd installment of his Do It To It series. It had been literally a couple of years since White Girl Lust had done a bootleg (remember when those were white labels?) – thus we signed up. The result was this pumped up filter house remix of the purple crusader’s infamous 1979 hit. What else is there to say? Classic and useful = a winner.
Feel free to blog, distribute, manhandle… whatever… this 320 MP3. While you are listening become a fan of WGL on Facebook & Soundcloud.
Things have been busy at Solid Bump HQ. Meroz’s first EP is burning up the Turntable Lab and Juno charts. A new member of of the Solid Bump family made it’s way to Clayton’s life. Paper Cat masters are good to go. So that being said, Solid Bump has teamed up with Hacksaw Ent. to begin a series of Solid Bump sanctioned events in San Francisco. The first is a perfect fit.
Medhi of Ed Banger and Riton have teamed up to start a new act called Carte Blanche. While both are known for their more electro productions, the idea with this project is to get off the bangers and jack the house. That is totally a good sign that bumpity house music is coming back – which is the whole mission statement of Solid Bump.
July 2nd Carte Blanche will be touching down in San Francisco at Mezzanine. White Girl Lust will be opening up with a hybrid DJ/ live set along with Shane King of Hacksaw. We will let you know once tickets go on sale!
Last week Le Principle dropped another stellar edit on the world. It’s a reworking of the 1979 Machine classic “But For The Grace of God”. This is a top notch edit and 100% dancefloor ready.
Clayton from White Girl Lust also had a big release. The birth of his first born child. It’s definitely best work to date and we expect that it will continue to be a really big release for him for decades to come. Congrats! In homage of his family, here is my fave track on the subject of children.
Last week, the disco don of the bay area – Sergio, invited me (Eric from White Girl Lust) and Solid Bump on his weekly show on KALX 90.7fm. I dipped in for the last hour and played a slew of new material from the label and ran my flap periodically – thus displaying my quick witted banter and extremely loud voice. Sergio was cool enough to post up a Soundcloud link to the full show. You can peep the first 2 hours of Sergio’s funky collection of disco and funk. The Solid Bump mix starts at 120.00
You can catch Sergio at one of his many events in the SF area such as Go Bang and Machine.
Phew, we survived SXSW and had a great time. While we were away Clayton from WGL wrapped up a piece of modern cinema brilliance – the trailer video for Pleasure & Pressure Vol.2. It gives you a little glimpse of what we look like in the real world and what our daily lives are like at Solid Bump. Just keeping it real, ya know?
The EP has been getting an AMAZING response – currently it is #1 on the Turntable Lab charts as well as the “Release of the Moment”! Also big up to everyone who has been dropping it in their sets as well as those who said they were going to give it some burn in Miami! If you don’t have it, get it!
Pleasure & Pressure Vol. 2 featuring Le Principle, White Girl Lust, Alona, Mykill, Laberge, and Meroz!
At last the time has come. I have to say I am as excited as Octo-mom about our eighth release on Solid Bump. Our continuation of the Pleasure & Pressure series has hit digital music stores everywhere. We are so hot we got our art censored by iTunes, as well as 4 out of 5 fires on Turntable Lab! The iTunes staff made it up to us though and tossed us on the front page – so we’re cool. If you do buy from iTunes and want the unedited booty version of the art, be sure to right click the above image.
If you don’t know the deal on Pleasure & Pressure, check out this review by Snack at Turntable Lab…
“The Solid Bump gang are back with the second volume in the Pleasure & Pressure series. If you ain’t knowin’ bout this label’s uptempo disco and house cut-ups, then you better ask someboday! All the tracks here will get your party jumpin’ with quality filtered, cut up disco house business to make the people sweat. Check the heat from White Girl Lust, Le Principle, Laberge, Mykill and Meroz. If you were feelin those recent XXXchange edits, you gotta peep these. They don’t call it Solid Bump for nuthin’! Recommended.”
In celebration we are offering up another free track, this time is a floor stomper from our newest artist also featured on P&P2, Mykill! Enjoy this taste and then go grab the new release at your favorite retailer!
