OK I’m going to be upfront. This guy is fucking incredible.
I’ve played or produced on about 300 records by many different acts in the past 3 years, and including some platinum sellers, and out of all of them, Gotye’s album “Like drawing blood” is the one I am most proud to be involved with.
Let’s get the facts out of the way to start with. Gotye is pronounced like “Jean Paul Gaultier”. He’s a Belgian living in Australia called Wally de Backer. He plays incredible drums and sings with a pure innocent voice, that suddenly intensifies into and kind of ethereal Sting at high volume. He makes beautiful thoughtful music out of a mixture of live instruments and leftfield found fragments of other peoples records. OK that’s just sampling, but he has his own way with samples that makes it sound curiously personal and intimate. Read the rest of this entry »
Me and Phonat did this remix for Gut Records well over a year ago now. We played it on our podcast and hence have quite a lot of enquiries about where you can buy it. The answer is… absolutely no-where… since Gut have now gone bankrupt, along with large number of other record labels.
I bumped into the Tastemakers at the (rather over packed and hellish) DJ magazine Top 100 DJs party at Ministry of Sound last week and basically it seems likely the track can never be released unless they buy it back from the administrators, which is unlikely to happen.
So we decided to just give it to you.
Its a little dated now… music has moved on a bit, but it still has plenty of merits, and I get regular requests for it.
I’m always a fan of any cross cultural mash up, so i found a moments entertainment in this footage of a (DAMN GOOD) B Boy locking and popping to old timer blue grass music. It takes a while to get going (fast forward it), it IS an Obama activist video, and it isn’t THAT awesome, but I felt it was in the spirit of what we like round here.
Or in fact, while we are on the subject of the election (if you need any tips, vote Obama) how about a dance off between Obama and MCCain? (This is incredibly well done!)
+ Special Halloween MashUp - “Ghosts vs Ghouls”
+ The Young Punx create 30 minute Halloween mashup guest mix for BBC Radio One.
To celebrate Halloween this year, BBC Radio One have commissioned The Young Punx to do an exclusive guest mix for the Annie Nightingale show which goes out late on Halloween night.
As a teaser for this show, here is the opening section of the mix, the cheekily titled “Ghosts vs Ghouls” which blends Japan’s 80s masterpiece with a recent Claude Von Stroke remix of “Ghouls” by Luke Solomon to create a spooky dancefloor classic which spans the decades. Bring this one out for your Halloween party!
Listen in to the show live on UK Radio on Halloween night, or on the internet “listen again” feature the following week to hear the whole mix, which blends breaks, electro, dubstep and drum and bass with a variety of spooky classics, including some very unusual reworkings of the likes of Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” and Iron Maiden’s “The Number of the Beast”.
The Young Punx - “Ghosts VS Ghouls” (Japan - “Ghosts” vs Luke Solomon “Ghouls (Claude Von Stroke Mix”)
