HIGH POWERED BOYS — Rippin’ Off Canvas mix

Enjoy and download this epic new mix by HIGH POWERED BOYS on Soundcloud! — and don’t forget to show your support by buying the ‘UDON / WORK’ EP on Beatport this Monday!

HIGH POWERED BOYS — Rippin’ Off Canvas mix by soundpellegrino

Tracklisting: 
intro — Arp Freeze Udon 
Dj Mike Q - Whip My Ha 
T Williams - In the Deep 
Das Glow & Strip Steve - Calcium (tape version) 
Jacques Greene - (Baby I Don’t Know) What You Want 
Canblaster - Clockworks 
Starks - Gave You Love (Nacey Remix) 
High Powered Boys - Udon 
Manare - Sugar Rush 
Youngbloods - Got Me Burnin’ Up (Todd asskicker mix) 
Todd Edwards - I Might Be (Feadz remix) 
Depressed Buttons - Ow (Para One remix) 
Geeeman - Rubberband 
Julio Bashmore - Footsteppin’ 
Armand Van Helden - Hear My Name (Solid Groove dub) 
Cajmere - The Warehouse 
Myd - Victoria 
Dj Rashad - Teknitian 
Dj Nasty - King of Kings 

HIGH POWERED BOYS will be the guests on the Sound Pellegrino Podcast this Wednesday — Subscribe here: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id409700483 
Follow them here: http://facebook.com/highpoweredboys 

Picture borrowed from B. de Langeron 

HIGH POWERED BOYS ‘Udon / Work’ EP preview!

HIGH POWERED BOYS ‘Udon / Work’ EP preview by soundpellegrino

Beatport release: March 14th
iTunes and all other music stores: March 28th

THIS MONDAY FEBRUARY 14TH ON BEATPORT!

There is something unique about Savage Skulls members Måns and Carli’s natural charisma. Ever since I met them in a not-so-good italian restaurant in Paris I knew right away that I wanted to be friends with them, that I needed to be DOWN with them, that I wanted to BE them. After all they have that dichotomy that has always fascinated me with electronic music producers who are able to hang out with Robyn at the Swedish grammy awards, produce songs on her album, drop an EP on legendary label Dubsided, make beats with maestros Douster and Tony Senghore and still find time to co-produce one of the most forward-thinking underground/weird bangers of recent memory: Carli and Marcus Price’s “Matt Bira Kvinnor Weed”. So we sat down and ate that bad italian food and right away we started talking about my old obsession for crazy Swedish singers à la Neneh Cherry / Leila K, my passion for smoked fish, my collaborations with swedish rappers… They had answers to all my questions, they told me fun stories about finding Jean Nipon’s long lost smiley gloves, I was mesmerized, and we had an amazing time. But it’s only a couple of months later that Orgasmic and I litterally fell in love with one of their tracks, the mighty “Caravan”, while hearing it in a Brodinski set. The track was unsigned, we HAD to have it.

“Caravan” is a nicely updated throwback to the early Sound Pellegrino days of sample-based tech house, think Renaissance Man’s “What is Guru” and Solo’s “Rawmania”. Except it’s not really a sample, but tiny little bits of chopped-up re-sung vocals, transformed and molded via modern Swedish studio magic from the future, recreating the melody of a classic jazz standard we all know and love. Crazy sensual breaks and build ups, irresistible grooves, instant catchiness make “Caravan” an absolute sure shot on any dancefloor. Ask Brodinski or Jesse Rose who have been playing it non stop in their sets since the last few months.

Montreal prodigy Jacques Greene known for his releases on excellent labels Night Slugs and Luckyme, who is single-handedly building the proverbial bridge between true skool house aficionados and UK-obsessed garage heads, provided us with a fantastic 90’s sounding remix of “Caravan” in his signature groove, complete with funky stabs and vintage drum sounds.

We asked Savage Skulls to come up with a b-side to “Caravan” and they delivered “Watching You”, co-produced by Tony Senghore and featuring Sprinkle Juice. This one’s a filthy backroom anthem reminiscent of the best of Green Velvet, and early Tiga club bangers from —dare we say— the electroclash days? Minus the pompous new wave references and with added tech-funk sexyness + dangerously FAT kicks. For those too shy to cope with the Sprinkle Juice vocals but who still wanna hear the word “nasty” whispered in their ear, we included a dub.

And then came Payme’s 303 rework. Payme is the latest alias of Idiotproof’s Jamie Anderson, known for his collaborations with Switch, Deepgroove and Jesse Rose. His remix strips down the original to its most essential parts and adds a classy discreet acid line while keeping it highly tool-esque and hypnotic. Special DJ tip: it sounds even better when slowed down to 120 bpm!

Panteros666 ‘X Lova’ (Cubic Zirconia remix)

Download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uw6516ec8r82l8r

“X LOVA” finds inspiration in a mixture of dreamy euro hardstyle, Chicago hard house backroom grooves, as well as the darkest of witch house. Pan flutes from the mysterious cities of gold and invocations of the Quetzalcoatl meet sweaty leathery hardcore rave and chopped up rap vocals, late at night during a ritual pagan ceremony in a forest somewhere in Wisconsin. Enigmatic New York post-everything group CUBIC ZIRCONIA deliver an amazingly swampy-yet-beautifully erotic remix. Tiombe Lockhart the group’s soulful vocalist whispers words of revenge over cold drum machines before producer Nick Hook screws the tempo down into a dark codeine dream.

C’est dans un mélange idéalisé de Hardstyle européen, de Chicago hard house de backroom et du plus sombre de la Witch house qu’ “X Lova” est né. Les flûtes de pan des Mystérieuses Cités d’Or et le réveil du Quetzalcoatl heurtent des vocaux rap découpés dans une rave hardcore tendance cuir dans une forêt quelque part dans le Wisconsin. L’énigmatique groupe “post-tout” new yorkais CUBIC ZIRCONIA nous fait l’honneur d’un remix aussi marécageux que terriblement érotique. La vocaliste Tiombe Lockhart murmure des promesses de revanche sur de froides percussions avant que leur producteur Nick Hook ralentisse le tempo jusqu’à atteindre le point d’équilibre codéique.

PANTEROS 666 “Kegstand / X Lova / Horreo” EP

ON BEATPORT DECEMBER 20TH!