Normally we are pretty strategic in out post but… this live set from the beloved Danilo Plessow project – Motor City Drum Ensemble just came to our attention. LISTEN. It’s that simple. Best there is at the moment.
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EMERGENCY POST!!! – Motor City Drum Ensemble live DJ set!!!
Published June 4, 2010 Mix Tapes , Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Danilo Plessow, Motor City Drum Ensemble
NERD ALERT! Please Listen to My Demo (Part 2)
Published May 26, 2010 Nerd Alert , Uncategorized 2 Comments
When I posted a link to the last Nerd Alert on the Erol Alkan forum, the thread got a surprise contributor from Mike Mind of the infamous Turbo label. He chimed in with a very helpful and well thought out response and I think it really closes up this chapter of Nerd Alert.
On an additional side note, Mike recently did a stellar remix for Nacho Lovers new single “Deeper” – which is available now on Fools Gold and highly recommended. Buy it on Beatport.
Read Mike Mind’s 8 demo tips after the jump.
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These internets are a wild place. Oh, the people you meet and random e-buddies you make. Toronto’s Mix Chopin is one such person – and he happens to be a stellar up & coming producer/DJ.
He will be contributing a remix to the forthcoming official release of Ghost of Venice’s single, “Her”. For now here is a recent mix, in which he features a slew of Solid Bump material. We edited his artwork for all the NSFW posse. Track listing after the jump!
White Girl Lust @ The Academy of Sciences in San Francisco 4/29
Published April 28, 2010 Gigs , Uncategorized 2 Comments
I know tonight’s free show with Telephoned at Harlot (RSVP HERE) – which features a open bar from 8-10 – is going to be a most uncivilized affair – so tomorrow Eric from White Girl Lust will be bringing classy back.
The Academy of Science is a sight to see no matter what day it is, but Thursday nights they open op their doors to the 21+ crowd. Cocktails are on hand and funky music flows like the fishy waters. On any given Saturday, the place is filled with tourist, long lines, and screaming babies – so this is a chance to get all the awesome from the Academy without any problems.
The event happens from 6-10 this Thursday. Get the full scoop here.
Solid Bump Merch – Yeah, It’s Awesome
Published April 2, 2010 Merchandise , Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Merch
SXSW was a awesome experience. We spent quality time with Laberge, got up with tons of people we knew… or thought we knew, from the interwebs and, we gave away a shit ton of Pleasure Packs. They consisted of a set of Solid Bump’s signature Serato Control Vinyl cover-up stickers, a CD of Pleasure & Pressure Vol. 2 containing WAVs of all 5 songs, and some killer packaging.
We have a very limited number left over, so we thought we’d give you a chance to cop a set.
Catch Laberge and Eric from White Girl Lust running around acting a fool at SXSW. We have some awesome pleasure packs with Pleasure & Pressure Vol.2 as WAV files and Serato cover up stickers.
If you are down here and wanna meet up – follow us on twitter and we’ll meet up somehow.
Solid Bump Influences – Murk Records
Published March 9, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: murk records, Oscar G, Ralph Falcon, solid bump records
Although it may be surprising – judging from the recent Solid Bump discography – but Chicago and French disco house are actually just a small part of the label’s influences. One of my earliest and most pronounced influences came from the unassuming (at the time) location of Miami in the form of a series of mysterious white labeled 12 inches with little information on them. As it turned out, these were the productions of Murk – a duo who would go on to have a huge influence on 90′s house music.
In the beginning, the label was nothing more than two dudes, Oscar G and Ralph Falcon, doing records under an assortment of monikers (Liberty City, Funky Green Dogs, Deep South, etc.) to deliver the illusion that Murk Records was bigger than it was. The duo hit gold with it’s third release – “Some Lovin”. It is still common to hear this track (almost 20 years later) in current DJ sets. Soon Kevin Saunderson licensed a Murk “best of” EP, which helped the Miami boys gain international exposure. It wouldn’t be long before Murk attracted the attention of Tribal Records, who eventually released a complete retrospective of their tracks in 1993. You can read a great interview with the Murk boys here where they discuss their early career, working with 90′s pop stars, and such. Read the interview here.
Burlesque Presents Do It To It Vol.3 (feat. White Girl Lust)
Published March 2, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: MIKE 2600, Smalltown DJs, Jimmy 2 Times, Nick Catchdubs, Bird Peterson, DJ Ayres, Zebo, Willy Joy, Bassanova, DZ, BK-One, Michna & Woodman, fONKSQUISh, Kid Cudi, Cubic Zirconia, Prince Klassen, Pumpkin Patch
Mike 2600 has been a friend of Solid Bump from the start. His company Burlesque of North America is a top tier design studio, known mostly for their cutting edge screen printing. This year for SXSW, the team decided to do another installment of their Do It To It series.
This installment continues the tradition of big name artist with the likes of Amanda Blank, DJ Ayres, Nick Catchdubs, Emynd, and many more… including Solid Bump chiefs – White Girl Lust.
The compilation will be given away at SXSW at the Burlesque event (Thursday March 18th at Silhouette – 718 Congress Ave, Austin TX). The packaging will showcase the screening styles of the design camp. For now, here is a preview of the diverse selections. White Girl Lust’s contribution is a bootleg edit of Prince’s Wanna Be Your Lover. After SXSW we will be releasing the track for free here at Solid Bump. Watch this space!
That’s right, after months of running my mouth about how excited I was for the release, it is here! Laberge just started posting around here in the last few months. If you are not familiar with his brand of champagne infused disco house, now is your chance. Personally I am as excited as a school girl.
Promo Video for We Don’t Know!
FREE TRACK: Download the DJ EQ remix at 320 (Direct Link)
and everywhere else you can buy music.
Here is what some people are saying…
“Love the Meroz remix, Todd Edwards style!” – Matt Walsh (Clouded Vision/ Turbo Recordings)
“I’m a big fan already of Solid Bump and Laberge. This is how disco house SHOULD be done!” – Acid Jacks (Idiot House/ Trouble & Bass)
“Some amazing French house from Vancouver’s own Laberge! Certainly one to watch out for in 2010!” – DJ Neoteric (Dubsided A&R man)
“Great release. Loads of tracks that I will be playing out. My pick is the Meroz Remix of True Love.” – Lee of Kill The Rhythm & Ghost of Venice
“Hell the f*ck yeah, just started listening but TRUE LOVE is a jammie!” – Lazer Sword
Halloween is the 5th anniversary of White Girl Lust. Since Clay and I are sentimental little girls, we thought we would recount the start of WGL in all it’s self indulgent eloquence in the weeks leading up to Halloween.
We last left off with the final drum ‘n bass tunes Sabotage and I wrote but that was only the start. This was right when the idea of “anything goes” began to apply to dance music. DFA had just dropped “Beat Connection” & “House of jealous Lovers”, 2 Many DJs were only a few parts deep in “As Heard on Radio Soulwax”, blogs were still just a funny word to DJs, and although Final Scratch had just appeared on the scene, it was a clunky piece of shit.
Clayton, Shawn, and I began fooling around with writing a little taste of everything under the sun. We started off making Clayton multi-track himself playing every instrument in the rock band of our dreams… I mean this was a whole new world to us. The dude PLAYED INSTRUMENTS. Shawn and I earned our keep by putting distortion and delay on everything. Most these tracks were total trainwrecks of ill inspiration (except for the Tom Waits-esque ballad Clay and I wrote for Shawn’s trial separation from his GF – that shit was epic) and will never be heard by humans, but in me reviewing a long forgotten hard drive I found one thing that has some type of value.
We borrowed a 303 and Clay figured out how to program it. We tracked him on drums, recorded the 303, plugged in a mic and went totally apeshit. Yeah, it is nothing we would ever put out. Yeah, it gets much too nutty by the end. Yeah, at one point I sound like a screaming banshee being sodimized… but there is a little hint of something that would become Solid Bump Records 5 years later.
