"the go to label for bangin' disco house" – ttlab staff
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.
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.
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.
I played bass in a band in college that covered a lot of this stuff (I was 20 years younger and 100% more white than the rest of the dudes in the group!). Definitely where i got my taste for funky cowbell and pocket riding bass-lines.
One of my favorite memories from that time is during a set break Norm (the blind keyboard player) and I stepped out for a “smoke”. He asked me to drive around so we weren’t close to the building. I was in a sketchy part of Topeka Ks (think Littlerock Arkansas circa 1994) so seeing as my passenger was blind and our heads werent totally right, i just drove back and forth up and down the same 3 blocks 5 or 6 times. Norm was like “we’ve been driving for a minute we should head back”….
This song reminds me of those times.
Solid Bump best bud Kenneth “Pepper” Macey knows socks. His Ashi Dashi sock line is pretty much the biggest thing to happen to your feet since striped tube socks. Solid Bump and Pepper go way back… we’ll save the stories for another time. These Prismo’s come in the ballin’ black you see here and a super clean white. Check Ashi Dashi’s online store!
You know the only thing this store is missing? White Girl Socks!
This Halloween is the 5th anniversary of White Girl Lust. It’s been a hell of a ride. So the next two weeks we are going to share some of the legacy with the world.
As some of you may know, I used to do drum ‘n bass as D.Ecco & Sabotage on Andy C’s Frequency label with my partner Shawn. Around the time of our first little taste of success, Clayton of WGL fame (who will here out be referred to as Yoko) moved into our house/ home studio. He brought all these exotic instruments like guitars, bass guitars, drum kits, and shakers. At first we had no idea what to make of these foriegn objects, soon we were captivated by Yoko’s voodoo.
Around this same time I was getting bored with the “rules” of d’n b and listening to a ton of old punk, electroclash (remember that), and the emerging DFA empire. Soon we were doing D’nB songs trying to use these influences and they were all quickly shot down by the label. Ha! The popular D’nB was getting more and more heavy metal and the dance floors were a bunch of sweaty dudes with their shirts off slam dancing. Not exactly a place for a sexy ass dude like myself.
Here is a taste of the final D’nB tunes we turned out. Next episode you’ll learn how Yoko broke up the band.
D.Ecco & Sabotage \”Wanna Be Your Dog\”
Extra trivia point: This song is actually where the White Girl Lust name came from.
My boy Dre gave me this for my Birthday a while back! Good lookin out Andre – Disco chants are my thing!!! This track goes down great in the club or at home while running the Vacuum. Your choice!
