OH GOODNIZZ!! Scion, the people that keep bringing worthwhile parties in events to cities I live in, has teamed up with Brooklyn based Fool’s Gold (A-Trak, Kid Sister, Flosstradamus, etc.) to bring out Volume 22 of their CD Sampler.
It’s a two disk present that gives you:
On disk one: remixes of the Fool’s Gold crew’s stuff by reputable names like Chromeo, Surkin, and Juri Hulkkonen that have been made just for the Sampler
On disk two: label co-founder Nick Catchdubs selected their biggest club hits and whipped it all together in a frothy DJ mix.
Why should you be excited about this in addition to the dope new mixes they offer? The EVENTS that come along with it (and we all know Scion event= free with RSVP) if you happen to live in Miami, Atlanta, Philly, or Baltimore.
The great thing about supporting a project like this is that all the proceeds from purchase of the Sampler go directly to the artists. You can get this stuff in person for FREE at the events they have and from some of their retailers. Should you be unable to do so- no worries, you can also purchase the remixes online starting October 14th.
One of the catchiest songs you’ll hear this summer is “Cross the Dancefloor“, a really fresh track with a bit of funk and elements of filter house. It’s so infectious and feel good, that the dance floor is immediately filled whenever the song is played. The producer behind the track is Treasure Fingers, a former Atlantan that recently moved to Brooklyn.
While some may know Treasure Fingers through hard step/drum & bass act, Evol Intent, most people are completely unaware of his history. And even though there is a huge trend of drum & bass producers turned electro blog house producers, Treasure Fingers is completely different. Offering music that is more fresh and feel good and roller rink ready then pump your fist, stage dive, and wear neon.
“Cross the Dancefloor” and other productions were so ear-catching that Fools Gold scooped up Treasure Fingers for a 12″. Updating and remastering the track to be even better than before and getting superstar producers Laidback Luke, Lifelike, and Curses! to lend remixes to the release. Then they packaged it up and made it beautiful and ready to purchase through beatport, turntable lab, and itunes.
To celebrate the release, I met up with Treasure Fingers and we did an interview and he also provided us with one of the remixes of the 12″ single.
sirhan: so, you are in evol intent, why did you decide to start treasure fingers?
treasure fingers: i had always done some house/funk style production stuff on the side and just never pushed it. i played some of it for jordan (of Snowden) one day and he really pushed me to get it out there. The first treasure fingers remix I did was for Snowden’s “Anti Anti”.
sirhan: how do you feel about the way its going now?
treasure fingers: I love it, it just took off and everything started falling into place.
sirhan: you still tour with evol intent?
treasure fingers: yeah, it’s a little sparse with bookings right now because we are all working on other projects at the moment but we’ll have a couple new releases out later this year though and we just released a full length album in march.
sirhan: so you just released, “cross the dance floor” tell me a little bit about it and how did you get such awesome remixes?
treasure fingers: That track actually started out as just a funky instrumental house type tune, then one night I decided to put some vocals on it, then got the idea to have my girlfriend sing a part to play off mine. I meant to write out full verses and put into a pop song structure, but after I showed the rough draft version to Preston/Kiss Atlanta, he wanted to blog it as is, so I mixed it down and let it go as more of a club track. Fool’s Gold sorted out all of the remixes. Once I signed it to them, they hit me up one day and was like.. ‘hey what do you think about these guys to do remixes?’
I’m a fan of all those guys so I was pretty excited. Chromeo also did an amazing remix. It’s going to be featured on a Fool’s Gold CD.
sirhan: so whats the next thing you’re doing?
treasure fingers: I’ve done a bunch of remixes over the past couple months that should all be getting released soon. I’ve got 2 more that I’m wrapping up over the next week, then I’ve got an australian tour. When I get back from that, I plan on working on some original material again.
sirhan: so this is a typical question but who are some of your influences and who should kids go diggin for?
treasure fingers: lots of the 80s funk/disco era stuff. midnight star, shalamar, zapp & roger, dazz, carl carlton. I was really influenced by the 90s french house stuff as well.
sirhan: any particular records by those producers?
treasure fingers: carl carlton - swing that sexy thing / dance with you, most people just know ’she’s a bad mama jama’ by him, but he’s got so much dope stuff!
sirhan: what about new stuff?
treasure fingers: love a lot of the new lifelike stuff, symbolone, that really synthy euro sound, and miami horror also.
sirhan: so you’ve been to tons of places whats you best place so far?
treasure fingers: i think the best / craziest parties ive played have been in ATL or LA. I love traveling though, every city has it’s own charm. I think sometimes, the small towns that you don’t expect much from turn out to be amazing.
sirhan: so, any good stories from your travels?
treasure fingers: i’ve never had anything super crazy. there’s always something going wrong though. last time I was in LA, my door lock had broke after I had left for the gig and no one could fix it and I had an early flight the next morning. they ended up giving me another room, then breaking the door down at the last minute the next morning so I could get my stuff out… I’m not a heavy drinker so I don’t have any crazy club stories.
sirhan: music obiviously takes a lot of time whats your other passions?
treasure fingers: I used to paint/draw a lot. I’d like to get back to that when I get the time. that’s probably the closest thing to a passion, other stuff I do in free time is just for relaxation/fun. xbox360, movies, friends, whatever.
sirhan: so lets close off here any advice to budding producers or closing words?
treasure fingers: It’s kind of contradicting, but find a really good producer and copy them until you can get your engineering and mixdowns really tight, then switch it up and try to do something completely original and different. Most producers lack in one or the other, so I think the key is having something that sounds really fresh and original, that also sounds great sonically.
Closing words: go buy “Cross the Dancefloor” & bug your local promoter until they book me.
Record Label, Fools Gold is about to make this summer even hotter with a slew of new releases scheduled to come out in the next few months.
If you have been living in a cave or maybe some how stuck in time back in Soviet Russia, Fools Gold is the new indie record label started by Nick Catchdubs (who was just featured here on Trash) and A-trak. The label, so far is famous for bringing the world rapper Kid Sister and rapper Kid Cudi, who surprisingly are not related but both amazing. They have also introduced Canadian powerhouse producer/dj duo, Jokers of the Scene and Sammy Bananas a member of East Coast phenoms, Certified Bananas.
This is the kind of thing Fools Gold is about; introducing and breaking new talent to the scene and keeping things fresh. Not to mention the artwork is astounding because creating it is super designer, Dust La Rock.
They have recently released a Kid Sister remix ep with mixes by Simian Mobile Disco and JFK from MSTRKRFT. Head over to RCRDLBL to hear a preview.
Next up is the KAVINSKY picture disc vinyl “BLAZER”.
And it keeps getting better and better.
Atlanta’s Treasure Fingers is releasing his hit single “Cross the Dance Floor” with huge remixes by Laidback Luke, Curses! and lifelike.
Then Canada invades the scene with “Acid Bagg” ep by Jokers of the Scene. Almost everyone has been waiting to get there hands on a copy of “baggy bottom boys” and this will be the chance. Brodiniski and Destroy Disco will also be appearing on the ep remixing “acidrod”.
And speaking of Jokers of the Scene, they have just teamed up with NYC clothing company MISHKA for their new mix tape series “Keep Watch” – listen to the mix tape here – MISHKA explains, “Mix tapes have always been an integral part of NYC’s underground culture and burgeoning music scene, and as such, Mishka is proud to carry on the tradition with the launch of Keep Watch. Featuring top DJs hailing from every genre and geographic corner, Mishka’s Keep Watch party-mixes celebrates one of the most widely practiced American art forms. Released on a semi regular basis (usually to accompanying party), the mixes will be available for free download through our site, the Bloglin and very shortly podcast on Itunes.” The mix features a track from the “Acid Bagg” ep and one from labelmates, Nacho Lovers, ep.
other scheduled releases are:
FGR011 - Four Color Zack & Pretty Titty Sing Sing Breaks
FGR012 - Sammy Bananas Braids & Fades
FGR013 - Jokers Of The Scene Acid Bagg EP
FGR014 - Nacho Lovers Go On / Acid Life
FGR015 - Bag Raiders Big Fun EP
FGR016 - Trackademicks Enjoy What You Do
FGR017 - Crookers EP
FGR018 - Congorock EP
FGR019 - LA Riots EP
FGR020 - Malente I Like It
So keep a look out and be aware!
Also if you’re in the Chicago area on August 23, 2008, co-owner of Fools Gold, A-trak will be performing at Subterranean. It’s a 17+ show, so buy your tickets here. And grab those two tracks of his off his blog here.
With a mutual love for old school bikes – the tricked out sort like BMX, Haro, Hutch and Skyway, it was only natural that Leroy Washington and Sevenfive chose Tuff Wheelz as the moniker they would use to create their music. “Skyway made these incredible colored plastic wheels called Tuff Wheels. That’s the reason of our name,” adds Sevenfive.
2007 marked the year Leroy and Sevenfive joined forces for the French label Discolor as the official label Dj’s and decided to team up as Tuff Wheelz. But by no means are the duo new to the music industry. With a long run as a top French D&B Dj, Leroy has been in the grind for over 10 years and Sevenfive producing electronic music since 1997.
Leroy is the curator of the monthly ‘Let Me Bang’ parties in Bordeaux along with Kazey and has played with Dj Funk, Para One, Surkin, Bobmo, Strip Steve and Dj Gero. Sevenfive is the co-founder of audio/visual collective, Neurosystem and has been edited by such labels as Soulseek, GC recordings and Digital Kranky. He has gigged with Modeselektor, Jean Nipon, Danton Eeprom, Ovuca and Yuksek.
Offering up a good dose of 90’s, acid, deep and filtered house, baltimore, electro and techno, Tuff Wheelz deliver a fine mix of flavor. They’ve edited Davina’s house classic “Don’t You Want It” and have done remixes for Purple Crush, “Fuck The DJ“, The Shoes “Knock Out” and Strip Steve “Ready Steady“. Check out their latest track “The Ride“, featured below!
Tuff Wheelz are currently working on a track for Damaged Good$ out of Texas and have some new original productions in the works. They’ll continue to provide bouncy music in the country of wine and cheese at their ‘Keep On Pumpin’ monthly in Bordeaux and they’ll be playing with the EATDISCO crew who will be celebrating their 1st birthday 11th July at The End in Newcastle Upon Tyne!!!!!!!
TM’s favorite bass boys, Trouble & Bass, have been quite busy lately and have a massive string of various releases and compilations forthcoming. To mark their latest release of Math Head’s “Turn The Music Up” EP with Palms Out, hitting online stores and limited vinyl, they provided us with a sample from the EP in the form of the heaviest, bassiest tune from the T&B camp yet. It makes Proxy’s Dance In Dark sound like a nursery rhyme.
And since they are so generous they’ve also given us yet another remix of Drop The Lime’s biggest hit to date “What I Need” this time from Top Billin’s Sharkslayer from Finland. He remains in the same heavy bass vein but with a taste of garage and a think break. DTL’s four track digi-EP “Like Thunder”, containing “Good Inside”, “I Love New York” and “I Want 2 Know”, will do wonders to your brain. Be sure to check Drop The Lime’s Fabric mix on Trash, here.
‘Turn The Music Up‘ and ‘Like Thunder‘ are available for purchase! Limited edition full color vinyl coming soon! We’ve taken care of the search for you, choose your buyer, click a link below, drop $’s and enjoy.
Upcoming Trouble & Bass Releases:
Curses! What I Need (Sharkslayer Remix)
Baobinga “State of Ghetto Jackin”
Blackfinger “Fearless”
Drop The Lime e.p.
Mikix The Cat “Freeze”
Little Jinder
Heavy Bass Comp
T&B Artists Comp ‘No Escape From NY’
The long-awaited, modern-discoid-psych-rock heavyweight album of the year arrived when Vincent, Andy and Daniel Juggernauts decided to let “Dystopia” out of the Terrordome a month back. Exceeding the anthemic killer Institubes single “Road To Recovery” from ages ago - and that record was certified showstopping - and proving that modern-discoid-psych-rock fully deserves 50 mins of supersonics, Midnight Juggernauts just slayed Glastonbury and will be hitting Europe this month.
Terence: Old school slasher movies seem to do it for ya, what’s the most absurd b-movie scene that you love?
Vincent Vendetta: “Blastfighter” is a special film for me. It’s not very good but it’s one of the first films I bought on VHS. It’s basically another action about a guy killing people one by one. The premise of the film on the cover describes nothing but information about how powerful the lead character’s gun is, and nothing about the plot. That probably says it all.
Terence: Did you learn any French love-making tips from Justice?
Vincent Vendetta: Yes. Never kiss and tell.
Terence: What’s your number-one-how-to-stay-sane-on-the-road, tip?
Vincent Vendetta: Number one would be to remember to enjoy yourself. As long as you remember it’s an adventure and to savour it. Also check with the locals before jumping into new swimming holes.
Terence: How’s Melbourne? The arts and music and video scenes seem to be pretty fun right now?
Vincent Vendetta: Yeah Melbourne has a pretty healthy arts scene and lots of music venues so it’s easy to start a band and get playing. Maybe it’s because it has colder weather than the rest of Australia so people spend more time indoors being all arty and poetic, rather than surfing and crocodile hunting.
Terence: How did you meet the Krozm (the film/art collective/tyrants who helped direct and edit MJ’s experimental “Twenty Thousand Leagues” video) guys?
Vincent Vendetta: They were friends of ours. One of them used to live with Dan from Cut Copy and we all bonded over a love of trashy movies. It’s great when you meet a bunch of like minded individuals so you don’t feel so bad about being a nerd.
Terence: The range in the album may come as a surprise to peeps who got into you guys with “Road To Recovery”, can you describe the rest of “Dystopia”?
Vincent Vendetta: Yeah, we wanted to create a classic album which tells a story from start to finish, and traverses through different moods and styles and emotions throughout, rather than just being a collection of dance tunes. So there’s songs which are up-beat and down-beat, and other tangents which all help strengthen the mood we wanted on the album. It’s definitely not all for the dancefloor. Regardless of its style or genre we wanted to create songs which people can lose themselves within.
A while back I did a little post on Florida heroes KMFX and pair of darling bootlegs they gave us to give you. Well they have come back at us with even more this time around. They have been kind enough to bless us with something even better, three of the four tracks off of Illeven Eleven Records most recent release, “Feelin The Luv“. Featuring vocals from Yolanda (often spotted collaborating with breaks superstars Deekline and Wizard) this is by far their best release to date, IMO. I’m partial to the “Original Chicago Mix” with it’s old school keys and banging beats but this release has a little something for everyone centered around Yolanda’s uplifting vocal. The Tampa Mix has the same drive but substitutes the bang for the mechanical choppy electro beat that put Florida Breaks on the map many years ago.
Chicago mainstay Zebo puts a Chicago house meets B-more break twist hanging on to the breathy part of the vocal and those infectious piano stabs. The best part of this version is the breakdown into very traditional Baile beat that adds real depth and a unique twist to the original. The final remix comes from recent, bass heavy, dancefloor friendly upstarts, Twocker, who worked their usual magic with the tune cranking out their expected banger that will be found in a diverse array of DJ sets, working extremely well in each. You can got to Beatport to check this one and, of course, buy it.
But Wait!!! There’s more!! Remember when, not too long ago, Surkin came out with his most recent “Next of Kin EP” and it had this great tune “White Knight Two“? You hustled to buy it (or download it you bunch of limey pirates, YARRR) and when you tried to play it out there was something missing in the low end. Not sure everyone felt this way but i sure did and I guess KMFX did as well. They spung this breaky re-fix on me and low and behold, White Knight is rocking on the floor with the bass that it was so sorely missing and gave me the go ahead to pass it on to our readers along with the rest.
KMFX will continue to be mainstays in the american breaks scene and is likely to emerge outside the limited world of breaks and into the vast EDM universe keep checking for future KMFX and illeven eleven Records for brilliant upcoming releases.
We caught up with Drop The Lime today, all the way from Tel Aviv. Straight outta NYC he’s bringing his undeniable and incomparable Trouble & Bass sound, not only to clubs around the world, but to street markets as well. Droppin’ limes, and droppin’ bass, check out Luca’s antics filmed for Rafi Barbiro’s “The Black Market Column”.
And as an added bonus - a Drop The Lime/Curses! Remix Mega Mix to get your weekend started right. DROP IT!
Where in the world is DROP THE LIME?!?!?
Next up . . .
Vice & Colt 45 present - “Tales of Colt 45 Tour” feat. Drop The Lime @ special guests
June 2 - 7, 2008, USA www.vicelandandtalesofcolt45.com
iheartcomix @ Scion Tour feat. Drop The Lime, Radioclit, & Franki Chan
June 22 - 26, 2008, USA
MGMT hit us up with their newest video for “Electric Feel“, day glow Lord of the Rings party action going on in this one, mixed in with the bands chillaxed, smooth and sexy sounds. At this year’s Coachella, it was a hot blistering day in the desert, but it didn’t stop their fans. Their tent was over capacity, no one could move. People were struggling to get as close as they could, and boxing out for space on the grass. I was in the tent at one point, but getting crushed to death, no one wanted to move to let me out, afraid they might lose their prime vantage point to see the band. I ventured outside the tent, trying to find a spot that left me with a little wiggle room, and that too, proved to be a difficult task. I spotted others in my predicament, members of the Institubes crew, Pedro and his fellow Ed Bangers, Danny Masterson aka Mom Jeans Hyde from “That 70’s Show”. MGMT delivered an amazing performance, and I earned a bright red burn, braving the sun, it was great.
Monday June 2 – Los Angeles @ King King
Wednesday June 4 – Atlanta @ Drunken Unicorn
Thursday June 5 – Chicago @ The Hideout
Friday June 6 – Philadelphia @ The Barbary
Saturday June 7 – New York @ Glasslands
Bolt for a Colt, and get ready for NYC Bass Heavy Champion, Luca Venezia aka Drop The Lime aka Curses! to hit a US city near you. And catch him while you can, as he’ll be dashing off across the pond for a summer filled with dance floor madness, that includes the UK Festival circuit. With remixes dropping on Mad Decent, Greco Roman, Savant Guard, and collaborations with the likes of Herve, Sinden, Switch, Trevor Loveys & Fake Blood as the collective “Machines Don’t Care”, we’re delighted to nab a track to share with you from Luca’s upcoming “Like Thunder EP”, dropping July 4th on his very own “Trouble & Bass” imprint.
The Bloody Beetroots and Crookers aren’t the only stars to come out of Italy these days. Milan’s 3 IS A CROWD are quickly creating a buzz with their production, as well as edits and remixes for the likes of Crookers, Congorock, Fagget Fairys, Yelle, Armand Van Helden, Amari and others. Things are lookin’ mighty good for them as they’re currently collaborating with Larry Tee, Bryan Cox, Chew Fu Phat and have several releases due to come out on a few labels!
Consisting of three members, Alberto, Francesco and Ivo, 3IAC are influenced by just about everything that is good in music today – house, fidget, crunk, electro, funk, breaks, broken beat and jazz. If you spend your time watching the music that is covered on the blogosphere, more than likely you’ve heard past 3IAC remixes for Congorock, “Exodus (3IAC Back to Home Remix)”, as well as the Fagget Fairys, “Uzela (3IAC Crunch My Crunk Remix)”. Both caught my attention and are fine examples of the kind of work these guys are making. Their latest, “Take It Back”, proves it!
So what is in the pipeline for 3IAC? Francesco clued me in on the latest happenings, along with how this Italian trio came to be and two of their latest remixes.
“News about us: We are finally about to sign a contract with RuNT Records for a release; the name of the EP will be “Amarillo EP” and will feature 3 tracks. We have received a proposal for a couple of releases on A New Hope Records; We still have to release our EP for Italian Indie label Mozzarella Records (this release will feature our tracks “Bullshit”, “Guns”, “Almighty Vibes” and a remix) and of course we are waiting for our remix for Bryan Cox’s “Where You At?” to come out on his Crux Records label. We are collaborating with his blog Crux Da House as well and we are working on several tracks including a remix for Larry Tee!
About gigs: We’ll be playing alongside Congorock in Rome the 23rd of May, with the Crookers the 1st of June and in Berlin the 6th of June and we have a gig in London in July that still has to be confirmed.
Start of 3IAC: “In 2004 we started the project 3 Is A Crowd as a dj collective where we could express ourselves and our different musical tastes both in djing and producing electronic music. We used to play different styles on the decks including techno, electro, hip hop, breakbeat and some drum ‘n’ bass too!
Things began to change after a Crookers Edit we made in 2007 that made us become a little bit popular in the blog world. So at that time we were interested in this new sound clash between house, hip hop and techno and that’s why we started working hard on our own tracks as well as remixes and edits: we started to rework different acts and artists such as The Chemical Brothers, Fagget Fairys, Congorock, Yelle, Amari etc.
We believe that every remix we have done so far has its own personality and a “3IAC” flavour: We are trying to make our production recognizable but at the same time we are putting different ideas around to make people enjoy what we do. The Tamborzuda remix we made starting from the original acapella, received compliments from Daniel Haaksman from Man Recordings. Other supporters of our music have been Drop The Lime/Curses!, Dj Fame, Dj Orgasmic, Dj Donna Summer, Scuola Furano, Blatta & Inesha, Bryan Cox, Larry Tee, amongst others.
“Now we are trying to get inspired from other styles: One of our two new remixes for the Italian indie rock band, “Perturbazione“, (”Nel Mio Scrigno Pianissimo Remix”) is showing our interest for a clash between electronic music and real played instruments that we would like to develop in the future, alongside our dance production. Anyway, we hope that we will make people dance and bounce around the globe! Make sure to check our MySpace for more news and don’t forget to take a listen to our special mixes!”
Drop The Lime @ SXSW - Mad Decent & I Heartcomix Party
“Set the standard, then raise the bar.
Or in New York City’s Luca Venezia’s case – totally destroy that bar on a global scale. The 25-year-old known as Drop The Lime (and Curses!) is the iconoclastic club fiend of the 21st Century. Producer, remixer and DJ, he started out at 17 and has since dropped approx 150 underground classics, each year breaking boundaries of the musical zeitgeist – relentlessly developing concepts and sounds that leaves his many imitators wiping away tears with a white flag. Lauded by critics - XLR8R, Dazed & Confused, premier blogs - Discobelle, Trash Menagerie, Fluo Kids peers (UK production God Switch named Luca in his top artists of 2007) and the world’s cutting edge record labels - releases on Mad Decent, Counterfeet, Shockout, Ambush, Institubesm Fools Gold, Interscope, and Mute, he is the undisputed, celebrated NYC Bass Heavy Champion.
Drop The Lime’s acclaimed solo albums - 2005’s “This Means Forever” and 2007’s “We Never Sleep” on Tigerbeat6 saw him murdering bass and bytes - an evolved style, re-appropriating breakcore, bassline house, rave, jungle and dubstep, unforgettably touched with Luca’s own original vocals. Recent remixes for Moby, Robyn, Blaqstarr, Health Disco, Midnight Juggernauts and Infants have fueled the blaze. HEAT. Lest we forget Trouble & Bass. The movement-defining party, DJ crew and record label established by Luca in September 2006. In two years T&B has smashed the NYC club scene apart with such deafening impact, the rest of the world found the blasphemous bass impossible to ignore. From Brooklyn warehouses to Manhattan clubs, touring his party through London and Paris - with a summer spot at this year’s Coachella. It’s time to get hysterical”.
