Solid Bump Posse is poppin up everywhere. Garrett Shrigley and Lee Dunn, better known by their artist monikers, Adulture and Ghosts of Venice have both been prolific as solo artists to date. 2011 will kick off their joint effort as Second City Rhythm. The two offered this track up for free this month to generate hype for a forth coming release on Dust Traxx. The Download is exhausted but the track is not. Top notch sampling and quality dynamics make this track a burner! Look for Adulture on Solid Bump’s Pleasure & Pressure 3 this february.
One of White Girl Lust’s favorite releases of summer was Robert James’ moody yet enticingly funky Sleep Modes EP on Jamie Jones’ Hot Creations label. The imprint’s short but distinct discography is concise and focused in an amazing way.
RJ’s latest mix is a great example of the label’s sound. Reserved boom-bap house beats that lean heavy on samples, yet in a almost dismissive manner. The backbone of most tracks is the bassline and reverbed subtleties which evoke a eighties vibe, while clearly sounding new and cutting edge.
Dimitri has been doing the disco thing (regardless of trends) since the early 90′s. To be completely frank he had kind of fallen off my radar until Niles Rodgers (yes, THAT Niles Rodgers) announced on twitter the pending release of the Chic box set. He mentioned that Dimiti had done a couple edits of the band’s tunes and linked to the Parisian’s soundcloud. Here I found a goldmine of top notch edits and a few mixes.
You could spend all day on his page, so let’s start with a general mix.
Fresh from last week’s exclusive Chemical Jump interview and mixtape, which garnered 1800+ plays in less than a week, White Girl Lust presents a top secret bootleg house dub of “Mesopotamia” – which was included in the mix. The original B-52′s track was the result of an arguably failed recording session with David Byrne as the producer. Tensions were high during these sessions and ultimately the idea of a full album was scraped. In our opinion (as well as many other people) the friction injected just enough nervous funk into the Athens New Wave band to be deemed a classic.
Here the founding duo of Solid Bump Records strip the original composition to it’s essence and reconstruct the track as a stomping dub for the dancefloor. The result is too reserved to be called “big room” but far too massive to be a categorized a “beard stroker” edit. Let’s split the difference and call it “Mid-Sized House”.
“OH SH*T SON” – Ghosts of Venice (Defected/ Strictly Rhythm) “√+” – Acid Jacks (Idiot House) “Really am loving the stripped-backed sound of this!” – Bit Thief (Plant Music) “Love it! My favorite B-52′s song of all time.” – Johnny Dynell (infamous 80′s disco DJ of M.U.D.D. Club & Danceteria. Tensnake recently remixed his CLASSIC 80′s hit “Jam Hot”)
It’s not often we shout out new artist, who are not related to Solid Bump, however this is one of those occasions. Soul Clap began sneaking into our consciousness here and there over the last year. For me, the lid on the whole thing blew off when I heard Break 4 Life on Crosstown Rebels. It is a mammoth of a tune for a “deep” house song. The real catch for me was provided by the sampling of Goldies “Inner City Life”. I had been working on a few house edits of my fave d’n b tunes very casually in the previous month. When I heard this I was like “damn, I have been beat”.
This week is a big one for the Boston boys, as they were the featured artist on Resident Advisor’s free podcast. If that is not enough, they also dropped a free EP of friends and family producers. Get it quick as their last free EQ was only available for a limited time.
Paper Cat fever continues! After rocking up Turntable Lab’s charts to #2, hitting Beatport’s Nu-Disco charts, and being selected as a “Must Hear Track” by the fickle Beatport editors – we drop a freebie on you.
Free Magic is one of the good people behind the infamous Discovery party at Santos NYC. In addition, the Discovery crew are shaping up to be a crew of producers to watch as well – as is displayed with this re-lick of Paper Cat.
A few years ago we randomly met a fellow named Jules who was into our Pleasure & Pressure Vol.1 release. He shared some music from his new band Clubfeet and mentioned they had just signed a deal with Plant Music. Since then we have stayed in touch and they have released two awesome singles. White Girl Lust even did a remix of the amazing “Count Your Lovers” that never came out.
Yesterday I got the word from Plant head honcho, Stretch Armstrong, that Clubfeet’s Gold on Gold LP was finally dropping on July 27th and they were offering up 5 songs for free. I highly recommend going to the link and checking out these free tracks, as it is definitely Solid Bump approved.
Yesterday, a bud of Solid Bump, Moonchild a.k.a. the down under thunder, dropped his great new jam, ‘Girl’. He never let’s us down with his mixes and he definitely impressed with this track. Keep your eye out for everything with his name on it.
Casual Days – that is totally true. Laberge might not have a new EP but he is not slumping. Instead he is steadily feeding the internetz with a slew of new material ALL FOR FREE. If you don’t take a listen – you are a damn fool. The scat-ish vocal coupled with the uber-funky bassline is reason enough to love it… and I could come up with 1000 other reasons you should listen. It’s summer? Oh no one told San Francisco.
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