If you only download one tune from this list, make sure it's this one. Filthy Dukes are funny ones. Sometimes banging out twisted disco-punk, other times producing straight up indie-electro or strange bassey house.
. Tupac Robot Club Rock's original is a dirty electro-house stomper. Oliver $ brings his minimal fidget flavour (minimal + fidget = 'midget', apparently) to the banger with bumpy, punchy womps of buzzing bass (also check out L-Vis 1990 bassy hummer):
Filthy Dukes - Tupac Robot Club Rock (Oliver $ Remix) (Direct Link)
This year both dubstep and bassline have generated a real buzz. Rossi B and Luca consistently pump out innovative tunes fusing dubstep, bassline and grime. Here we have ominous dubstep, shouty grime and spooky FX to boot.
Rossi B & Luca - Music Money (Direct Link)
Oizo's produced a real beauty here. Admittedly he's always been a dark horse; the runt of the pack - his experimental album material often crossing over from strange and weird to the downright unlistenable. But let's not forget he gave us 'Flat Beat' - a tune almost a decade ahead of it's time. Last week Oizo dropped his latest album 'Lambs Anger' - his most accessible to date, and certainly more danceable than some of his most jarring, glitched stuff. This tune sees Oizo's doing what he does best: soulful vocal-house, jazzy instrumentation and a delicious retro disco sound.
Mr Oizo feat. Carmen Castro - Two Takes It (Direct Link)
Winehouse has a possessing voice - beautiful, melodic and strangely suited to this dubstep remix. The best dubstep tunes tend to weild some kind of accessible hook - be it vocal or otherwise. This was released earlier in the year:
Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game (Moody Boyz Remix) (Direct Link)
This tune by Fukkk Off has been everywhere and, thought it's not their best, has finally gained them the attention they deserve. . Le Castlevania bring their boisterous brand of growling electro. Big room banger:
Fukkk Offf - Rave Is King (Le Castle Vania Remix) (Direct Link)
Andy George injects Toddla T's trademark bashment sound with some extreme
wobble - thudding dubby and wonky bass. Andy George's recently been signed to bassey, fidget label Potty Mouth Music. Alongside Metronomy, Toddla T is currently bathing in limelight thanks to his lent production skills on Roots Manuva's latest album 'Slime and Reason'. He has an album coming out later in 2009 and can be caught at the next Trouble Vision, Corsica Studios, 6th March:
Toddla T - Manabadman (Andy George Re-fix) (Direct Link)
Junkie XL's a master of big beat and stadium-sounding electronica (
electronica is the word people often use when they don't want to admit they have no idea what genre that artists really is...) - think the rocky vibes of Chemical Brothers and Prodigy, with a little Fatboy Slim charm. Here we have a filthy monster, equipped with a heavily looped vocal sample, some whirring vintage synths and dirty crunchiness:
Junkie XL - Booming Right At You (Direct Link)
Croydon's very own FrankMusik is another one of those electro-poppers whose cheesy, delicious vocals are ripe for remixing. The crooning, high-pitched vocal-work is glitched and set against some fizzing electro fun. (thanks to my homies over at
Copper Tallis for this one):
FrankMusik - 3 Little Words (Louises Lovers Remix) (Direct Link)
Jack Beats: one of my favourite remixers of the year. These days Jack Beats are nudging in on some mean line-ups, while their AC Slater and Boy 8-bit remixes have garnered crowd-pleasing status in DJ sets. And they have some highly anticipated original material to be released in 2009 on Herve's Cheap Thrills. I believe it's titled 'K-hole'... make of that what you will. Maybe it's just about... cereal and... er... holes. Don't fear yet, I'm sure it won't be as cringe as Kissy Sell Out prancing around the mixmag tent in a neon wife-beater, brandishing a fog horn, banging on about how he's "back in the k-hole, back in the zone agaaain". I have trust in the Beats.
Be sure to buy their all whirring and whining remix of Project Bassline. Below, Steed Lord's latest is given their trademark squelching bass treatment:
Steed Lord - It's What U Do 2 Me (Jack Beats Remix) (Direct Link)
Shame on you if you haven't heard this one yet. And shame on me for not posting it earlier.
Perfectly glitched disco-house, echoing vocals and a reverberating bassline. Eat it - and in case you feel the stuttering momentum isn't quite suited to the dancefloor grab the '4 to the floor' version too:
Phonat - Learn To Recycle (Direct Link)
Phonat - Learn To Recycle (4 To The Floor Remix) (Direct Link)
Rogerseventytwo's remix of DJ DLG is another of those dreamy disco-house numbers, reminiscent of some of Daft Punk vocal-styled tunes: 'Around The World', 'One More Time' and 'Too Long'. Whirring synths and slap bass keep this one firmly rooted in the 80s:
DJ DLG - Paramount (Rogerseventytwo Remix) (Direct Link)
Mightyfools (previously Man Eat DJ and DJ Jizm) They're remixes are pure filthy, crunky fun - be sure to check out Mightfools remixes of DMX and Oh Snap!. Fusing elements of hip-hop, house and techno, Mightyfools know how to get you bouncing. Here we have a bumpy, wobbly remix:
Dj Rockid - Girlz (Mightyfools Remix)(Direct Link)
London's The Young Punx have put together this superb mashup - blending Deadmau5's Ghost's N Stuff's jackin house beat with Shapeshifters' uplifting strings. The strings and brass were apparently rerecorded live by The Young Punx in order to clarify the harmony. Mash-ups tend to run the risk of ending up sounding gimmicky, tacky and throw-away. This is brilliant (thanks
Vogelspand):
The Young Punx - Lola's Ghost (Deadmau5 'Ghosts N Stuff' vs Shapeshifters 'Lolas Theme') (Direct Link)
Bonus:Day 'n' Night: one of those few tunes that
everyone liked this year (bar perhaps your parents) - you'll hear this humming away in your local spar, you'll hear it on your 15 year old sister's ipod and you'll hear it blasted out of sky-high speakers at Global Gathering. But you can take smug comfort in the fact that you found it well before any of those latecomers (
and you found it on Pelski). Just for fun, we have a garage re-rub of the overplayed Crookers remix, courtesy of Curb Crawlers:
Kid Cudi vs Crookers - Day 'n' Night (Agent X) (Direct Link)
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