Turboweekend, “Trouble Is (Joker Remix)” MP3
- story Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
- photo Guy Martin (F61).
Joker, can we just tell you how much we feel your skunky bass vibes? Natty Danes Turboweekend’s angsty single “Trouble Is” is like their One Republic “Apologize” as seen through the bass lens of Blank Dogs, which kinda on principle we’re not that mad at. In lesser hands a remix coulda gone the way of a Filene’s dressing room but Joker never, ever goes out like that. He’s clearly been busy since he’s been “IN DENMARK” as his myspace says, processing Turboweekend’s new-wavy bassline through a dubinator and translating the concept of “GUITAR LICK” into a slick riff in the futurezone. It’s an excursion into the dark crevices of your feelings, but don’t EVEN try and tell us you’re not at least a little emo. Meanwhile we’re counting the days till he hits the States (New York on the 21st!).
Download: Turboweekend, “Trouble Is (Joker RMX)” (Via Neonized)
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posted on Nov 10, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags dubstep, electronic/dance, Joker, purple, rock, Turboweekend
Simian Mobile Disco f. Beth Ditto, “Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)” MP3
- story Peter Macia
The consensus on Simian Mobile Disco’s newest album Temporary Pleasure is that it’s not as earth-crumbling as their debut, Attack Decay Sustain Release, but some of the criticism seems to be aimed at the fact that SMD recruited some all-star guest vocalists instead of relative unknowns like Ninja and Char Johnson as they had before. Considering the quote/unquote all-stars are Alexis Taylor, Chris Keating, Telepathe, Young Fathers, Gruff Rhys, Jamie Lidell and Beth Ditto, and we’re pretty sure 99% of the human race doesn’t know who at least 75% of those people are, that doesn’t seem like that valid a criticism. A better one would be that SMD made a mostly mid-tempo, one-note pop album instead of another crazy disco one. But there are still some jams, including “Cruel Intentions” with The Gossip’s Ditto, a smoldering open-ended request for “good times.” One of our young favorites, Bristol’s Joker, got license to turn it into an, uhmm, electro/house/dubstep/purple/strip club/early/late/anthem? Whatever it is, Joker can do no wrong right now, and he should get as many famous people as possible on his debut album, in the works right now.
Download: Simian Mobile Disco f. Beth Ditto, “Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)” (via NME)
Ginz Purple Podcast for Data Transmission
- story Peter Macia
A forever interesting peculiarity of UK dance culture is its constant incremental evolution. Where US hip hop and JA dancehall are always hip hop and dancehall no matter how massive the shifts in style and technique, the Brits sometimes seem to tweak genres just so they can make up a new name. The newest of these is purple, a G-Funked and massive bisection of antecedent dubstep, whose most provocative purveyors are Joker (who first appeared on The FADER over a year ago) and Ginz, incidentally collaborators on some of the most ridiculous purple remixes so far. The former was profiled in FADER #61 (photo above) and the latter recently made a mix for UK site Data Transmission that collects a ton of their recent work. It is insane. Check the tracklist after the jump, even though you probably won’t recognize a name on it.
Download: Ginz Purple Podcast for Data Transmission
UPDATE: If you want to hear more stuff like this, preview and pre-order Hyperdub 5 over on Bleep.
Video: Joker Live at Sonar
- story THE FADER
On Friday, we posted audio of Joker’s set at Sonar, and now we’ve got the video. Or, Radio 1’s Mary Anne Hobbs has the video and we watched it. A few months ago, when we spoke with him over the phone for a story in the last issue, Joker was pretty shy. Times have changed! Or maybe Gaslamp Killer got him drunk. Because that dude has to be drunk. Look at him dancing with his computer! Dude is a scene stealer. And so is that track at 1:30, when Joker breaks music.
Freeload: Joker’s Sonar Mix + The Heavy, “How You Like Me Now” Remix
- story THE FADER
Two different FADERers were listening to two different Joker joints this morning, a tracklist-less rip of his mix from Sonar in Spain one week ago (you can tell because someone yells BARCELOOOONA really loud) and (courtesy of Pinglewood) his remix of The Heavy’s “How You Like Me Now,” a song we have zero interest in ever hearing the original of. The last scene of Jackie Brown, when Pam Grier is driving around listening to music, looking completely zoned, over being melancholy tired or upset, just needing some self-motored reassurance—this is what she would be listening to if she was born in 1991. Or if she wanted to karate kick a bunch of invisible demons while on steroids, Joker would also work as a soundtrack for that. Or just if her face started to melt off spontaneously.
Download: Joker’s Sonar Mix
Download: The Heavy, “How You Like Me Now” (Joker remix)
Bass Odyssey, Part 47
- story THE FADER
Yep, like a cat that’s been locked out in the rain overnight for weeing on the new carpet, here I come, crawling back with my tail between my legs after another unnecessarily long hiatus.
I’ve come back just to tell you that Skepta and Wiley are currently “at war”/”beefing”/”desperately trying to muster up some hype around the time of their respective album releases”. (Side note: Skepta and Wiley were supposed to both release albums on the same day in a 50 Cent-Kanye-style face-off, and had posters all around London of them squaring up with boxing gloves on. But Wiley, being inextricably suffused in calamity, put his album back a week at the last minute, rendering the whole carefully organised campaign an utter waste of everyone’s time.)
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posted on Jun 18, 2009 in MUSIC NEWS tags grime, Joker, Prancehall's Bass Odyssey, purple, Skepta, Wiley
