Elephant Man

And for another regular installment of Hostage fun. This time round, things have gone a bit stranger, darker and dubbier. This isn't to say Hostage's trademark jump up wiggly basslines have been forgotten.

Instead, Hostage goes for grubby and it works like a charm. Bit concerned about the photoshop work though Alan.. your head must be a dark dark place.

Hostage - Elephant / YSI

Esser - Work It Out Remixes

I can see Esser getting some attention in 09. He seems to have a pretty hectic myspace schedule - drop by and give him some love. His 'work it out track' feels like a retro version of a Lily Allen song (take that as you will):




I much prefer the Jaymo mix however. (teaser):
Esser - Work it Out (Jaymo Remix) / YSI

Bonus A1 Bassline version:
Esser - Work it Out (A1 Bassline remix) / YSI

Scotty on Twitter

Join me on Twitter! Like a number of my fave people and blogs - I have quietly been Twittering away for some time now. Like those frustrating mini-flash games you dont know why you do it - you just do.

Twitter is basically 'micro blogging', you send out short messages to people that follow you - Think facebook status updates, but better. Find me @scottynaispas - peace !

Beni Bidi Bici

Beni seems have a much lower profile than he should. I dont know why, but he is very underated and seems to have a lot of talent.

As you may already knpw, Beni is formerly of Riot in Belgium, who made some seriously pumped up electro tunes in 2007 (think La Musique for a starter...) Beni has since released his latest discoey house stomper 'My love sees you' a good while back on french label bigwigs, Kitsune.

I do really like the original, a funky number, with slap bass, housey vocals and cheeky electro chunks which squeak over a groovy bassline. The Etienne de Crecy remix however is a fair bit different, but really floats my boat. Its an electro-come-techno hybrid of a track which builds up in a similar way to Yukseks rather large Del Adeu track, but drops into a filter heavy technoey bassline.

Beni - My Love Sees You / YSI

Beni - My Love Sees You (Etienne de Crecy Coco Walsh Remix) / YSI

Government Petition Hoax Shitebags

I dont know if you got this message through Facebook, forums whatever a good while back... If you didn't, basically there was this big hoo ha about the government trying to introduce a bill to reduce sound in nightclubs. Not good. However today, i get this e-mail :


So basically i got duped into signing some government petition for no reason - not wanting to be para or anything: but how the fuck can stuff like this just happen? Has someone deliberately just set this whole thing up to waste peoples time...?

Anyway.. on the upside, we can still play loud music in clubs - yay! To celebrate this glorious day enjoy Modeselektors loudest of loud spasm inducer:

Modeselektor - Kill Bill Vol 4 / YSI

Keith + Supabeatz

Now that Italy is officially on the wonky house map, im sure its just a matter of time before more of the nations producers get some blog coverage. 'Keith' from Hypotron records is a new one for me, with funky jacked up beats and a remix catalogue of everything from fidget, jungley stuff through to unusual and darker techno sounds. Keith has already gained some interest from DJs like french party starter Don Rimini and the hotly tipped Mustard Pimp's, so keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Keith (aka Marco Palazzo) also teams up with fellow Italian Supabeatz on this crackin' remix of Franz Ferdinand's 'Ulysses', which as it happens won the offical Beatport remix competition set up by Domino Records. Felicitazione !!

Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses (Keith & Supabeatz Remix) / alt

Supabeatz feat. Ninfa - No More Down (Keith Remix) / alt

Royksopp - Happy Up Here

The new Royksopp album 'Junior' is going to be a big dance album for 09, i enjoy their upbeat, poppy electronica ways (especially their first album Melody A.M). They have started things off with the release of their first single 'Happy Up Here', which has been given the remix treatment from Boys Noize, Breakbot and Datasette.

Boys Noize keeps it dark and stompy, Breakbot goes for light and chirpy and Datasette's is chilled and floaty.

Royksopp - Happy Up Here (Boys Noize Remix) / YSI
Royksopp - Happy Up Here (Breakbot Remix) / YSI
Royksopp - Happy Up Here (Datassette Remix) / YSI

Mustard Pimps

The Mustard pimps seem to have slipped me by, not on purpose, just one of those things. Luckily for us, they have added me to their promo list and dropped some new tracks. If you havent heard them before you might be slightly weirded out at first - Take a listen to their track "Gold" if you don't know what i mean.

Rubik is no better; a strange, evil, childrens TV theme tune gone wrong:

Mustard Pimp - Rubik / YSI

The remix of Mo Do's "Ein, Zwei, Polizei" Is a more conventional banger with added German military vocals, which i love:

Mo Do - Eins Zwei Polizei (Mustard Pimp Remix) / YSI


They also have a new mix doing the rounds, take a looky:

PLAYLIST :

1) Sodom - Among The Weirdcong
2) Mr Oizo - Pourriture 7 (Bot Edit)
3) Crookers - What Up Y'All
4) Ninfa - My Baby Left Me (Keith Remix)
5) Blatta & Inesha - El Ritmo Barbaro
6) Straaatch - Brass Hysteria (Gaetan Remix)
7) Ill.St.M - All Classy For Me
8) 666 - Alarma! (Bot edit)
9) Mustard Pimp - Valium
10) The Body Snatchers - We Here (Heavyfeet Remix)
11) Mom & Dad - This Is Shit (Edu K Triple X Transudo Mix Ft Barbarella)
12) Acid Jacks - Crack House Talk (Gigi Barocco Remix)
13) Junkie XL - Booming Right At You
14) Gigi Barocco - Puah!
15) Atari Teenage Riot - Rage (Mustard Pimp Remix)
16) A1 Bassline - Bad Man Horror Theme (Mustard Pimp Remix)
17) I-Robots - Frau (Database Remix)
18) Far Och Son - Panik (Phatzoo Remix)
19) Straaatch - Stratosphere
20) Sound Of Stereo - Heads Up! (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)
21) Detboi & Foamo - Girls Demo Go
22) Cazals - Poor Innocent Boys (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
23) Dilemn - Flying Guitar (Original Mix)
24) The Prodigy - Omen (Hervé's End Of The World Remix)
25) From Monument To Masses - Beyond God & Elvis (Felix Cartal Remix)
26)The Cool Kids - 88 (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Remix)
27) Modo - Ein, Zwei, Polizei (Mustard Pimp Remix)
28) Crookers - Love To Dubit

signing out x

Let it Snow

Snow has landed in a big way and London is officially on lockdown today. Buses, trains, tubes, everything has grinded to an abrupt halt, and i seem to be one of the few idiots that turned up to work anyway.

In a 'snow' related theme, check out Miike Snow's (har har) 'Burial' remixed by Ed bangers very own DJ Mehdi. The track is a slower, funkier number with soothing piano riffs and the odd bit of gentle slap bass to brighten up the main riffs.

Miike Snow- Burial (DJ Mehdi) / (Y.S.I)