The Count & Sinden, “Mega (Camo UFOs RMX)” MP3
We could barely resist screaming “BIGGGG CHUNNNNE” when Toddla T dropped the original “Mega” at his Flashing Lights gig a few weeks back, and we never thought the Count & Sinden’s massive brain-thrower could possibly get any bigger. Enter the Camo UFOs’ earnest excursion in pure-ass junglism, and a song that threw our resident Brit ex-raver Chioma Nnadi for a loop when she heard these dudes live in Los Angeles and had not teleported in from the “Helter Skelter” rave at club Telepathy, Central London, 1996, which was her first rave: “I had to buy an outfit specifically for it.” What did you wear? “This cropped Adidas shirt with long sleeves and a combat skirt.” Of course, and “cropped Adidas and combat skirt” is the essence of this song, all swampy triplets, jiggling breaks, saucy sub-bass in the quasi-bridge, vocal sample so metallic and doing guttural shimmies. Camo UFOs are Mike B and Nate Day and we’re hoping this track sparks up a full-on revivalist movement with its eyes to the trippy sky. Meantime, though, download Sinden’s sick new podcast for Bodytonic over here, which includes the original and several of our top tunes of right now, cause he’s just good like that.
(Via Nicholas P. Catchdubs over at Fools Gold)
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posted on Nov 5, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Camo UFOs, electronic/dance, jungle, Mike B, Nate Day, Sinden, The Count
Interview: Sinden
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Graeme Sinden, UK producer and bass-assaulting DJ, relentlessly surfaces regional electronic music and innovative tunes from every continent on his weekly KISS FM radio show, and continues to raise the standard for musical discovery in the world of dance music. In addition to endlessly danceable remixes for everyone from Rye Rye to Bjork, Sinden and Joshua Harvey (bka The Count or Hervé et al) are preparing to release their first full-length album this fall, led by the massive first single, “Mega.” While he was in New York recently for a show, we caught up with Sinden to discuss his brutal schedule, love of radio and his new music. After the jump, read the interview and watch “Mega”’s video.
Freeload: Chairlift, “Evident Utensil (Sinden Remix)”
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Up above is a video with poorly recorded sound of Chairlift performing “Bruises” at our CMJ FADER Fort last year. Below is very nicely recorded Sinden remix of Chairlift performing a totally different song. If these media were two children, the crappy one being our own and the good one being someone else’s, we would have to kidnap the quality child and leave ours at the playground, hoping it couldn’t find it’s way home.
Download: Chairlift, “Evident Utensil (Sinden Remix)” (via Sinden sending us a Discobelle link)
Audio: Maga Bo Plays A Bunch Of Songs We Have Never Heard
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Over on Sinden’s unfuckwithable KISS radio show, DJ Rupture’s Soot Records signee Maga Bo came through to play a bunch of “transnational bass,” which apparently is just another way to say JAM CITY: POPULATION MAGA BO. One of our favorite moments comes when Maga Bo blends Unknown, “Untitled,” (Unknown) into Unknown “Work it Cumbia” (Unknown). For real, we appreciate Maga Bo for reminding us the world is ridiculously huge, and encourage other DJs to do the same. Tracklist after the jump.
Audio: Maga Bo on Sinden’s KISS Radio Show
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posted on Feb 12, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags caribbean, DJ Rupture, electronic/dance, hip hop, Maga Bo, Sinden
Video: Esser, “Work It Out”
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Since the temporary suspension of our weekly UK pop column Dollars To Pounds, we’ve been forced to seek out new Transatlantic jams for ourselves. One guy we’ve been steadily checking up on is this Beaker-coiffed kid from London named Esser and this particularly bubbly song that starts out with the same synth effect as “Peacebone.” Anything Animal Collective even if just mnemonically is good with us, but Esser actually has a whole slew of good songs up on his MySpace and Sinden has his remix of “Work It Out” up on his.
Freeload: Metronomy, “A Thing For Me (Sinden Remix)”
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After posting the video for Metronomy’s new single last week, we proceeded to play the actual song about a thousand times over the following three days, including once last Friday on our radio show. And now we got this Sinden refix that is just different enough to make us freak but not so much that we want to stop listening to the original. In fact, this has become Sinden’s new shit: whipping already awesome songs like “Township Funk” or Esser’s “Work It Out” into the best possible shape. He’s like Tony Little for the club in that way.
Download: Metronomy, “A Thing For Me (Sinden Remix)”
Freeload: Tigerstyle f. Vybz Kartel, Mangi Mahal and Nikitta, “Balle! Shava! (Sinden Remix)”
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When we talked to Pops and Raj aka Tigerstyle, the producers of Glasgow’s finest bhangra, in Issue 36, they explained their melting pot styles this way, “Scotland is home, but we’re travelin’ so much that it kinda becomes irrelevant where you are.” At that point they’d already worked with artists from India to London to North Carolina and remixed a mess of dancehall. They also looked really cool in the photos. So it’s good to see them continue their international ways, throwing Vybz, a Punjabi folk singer (Mahal) and a Glasgow-via-Manchester pop singer on the first single for their upcoming album Mystics, Martyrs & Maharajas. You can stream “Balle! Shava!” from Chakdey’s MusicBox below. However, Sinden sent us his official remix, which extracts the tumbi and adds some eerie synth stabs, and generally makes us want to leave the office immediately and dance in the street. That is dangerous though, so we will just spin around in our office chairs. The “Balle! Shava!” single will be out on September 3rd on Nachural.
Download: Tigerstyle f. Vybz Kartel, Mangi Mahal and Nikitta, “Balle! Shava! (Sinden Remix)”
Stream: Tigerstyle f. Vybz Kartel, Mangi Mahal and Nikitta, “Balle! Shava!”
Video: Rye Rye Breaking It Off To New Song With The Count & Sinden
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Domino Records is putting out a new EP by our dudes The Count & Sinden this October featuring a song called “Hardcore Girls” with Rye Rye, who may be our all-time favorite Baltimore resident. Yes, we are counting Michael Phelps. That dude has never made a YouTube this awesome. Both Sinden and Rye Rye have been in the Gen F section of the magazine and The Count aka DJ Nine Million Names has been on this blog plenty, so this is pretty much a supergroup. Dance along to the video and try not to have a heart attack.
Freeload: Sinden’s We Make It Good Mix
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According to this new mix from We Make It Good, Sinden has the illest CD-R collection known to man. Basically everything on here is from the future and he has it on a CD-R. Not that we care, but Sinden knows who Fake Blood is and everyone is always asking about that. We don’t actually care though, because good music is good music and there is a lot of it here and it is free. Check out the track list and also comments from Sinden where he says like two words about every song and it seems really exciting anyway.
Download: Sinden’s We Make It Good Mix
Dollars To Pounds: The Hitman And Hervé
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Another week, another ton of records with Joshua “Hervé” Harvey’s grubby fingerprints all over them. Like our hero Wiley, Hervé’s output is so prolific and scattershot that it’s difficult to know where to begin, especially since the quality control knob clearly worked itself loose some time ago. But messy and erratic is a lot more fun than grimly reliable. Late last year, he went too far with an EP of obvious tunes that sampled Jacko’s “Thriller” and the Rocky theme. But without doing anything vastly different, his new album of collaborations with the likes of Toddla T, Drop The Lime, Fake Blood and Trevor Loveys under the Machines Don’t Care moniker puts Hervé right back in the game.
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posted on Jun 11, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Count of Monte Cristal, Dead Soul Brothers, electronic/dance, Fake Blood, freeload, Hervé, Machines Don't Care, Sinden, Solid Groove
