The 2 Bears absolutely smashed it last year with their whimsical hit ‘Bear Hug’ lodging itself in the brains of many bear/electronic music lovers like a funky splinter. This year is set to be even more of a grizzly ride with their debut album Be Strong due for a January 29th release which will no doubt send us folks residing here in the ‘blogosphere’ (as people who write newspapers like to call it) bloody mental. First, however, we have been gifted — or at least, gifted the opportunity to purchase — a cracking remixes EP featuring some ball-busting edits of the Bears’ recent single ‘Work’ alongside the full version of the track itself. Employing the galactic talents of Toddla T, Oliver $, Supabeatz and Franky Rizardo, it’s a heavyweight line-up and the resultant tunes are more radical than your cousin when he wears that sun visor backwards AND upside down. Now that’s flippin’ cool.
Below is Toddla’s offering which features vocals from former Roll Deep member Trim as well as Scrufizzer and Trigganom and I guarantee that if you like it, you’ll like it. Have a listen and I’ll give you a bear hug…although I’m not particularly bear-like. It would probably be more of a bear skeleton hug. It would still comfort you though, you cold-hearted zombie you.
This one actually came out at the end of March but you could easily mistake it for a deep ’90s tune where shoulder pads ruled the city and pirates sailed the airwaves. Hints of rave meet garagesque vocals courtesy of Shola Ama and J2K and it makes me regret being born so late in the 80s…not that I wish I had any control over it, that would just be weird. It’s early anyway and this has woken me up with a smile on my face so I’ll wish you a happy St. George’s Day before I deteriorate into my usual bitter self.
VBS have just kindly uploaded the first episode of their Red Bull sponsored series, The Producers. This instalment follows Sheffield’s Toddla T as he explains the role of production in his life and how he views and experiences the whole process of musical creation. It’s fairly interesting and fairly short, so unless you’re some kind of high-flying executive who has literally zero minutes to spare because you’re too busy going to meetings, chastising your secretary and lying to the wife, then you have no excuse. Watch.
If Clipz is Bruce Wayne then Redlight is Batman aka they’re exactly the same person. Redlight is what Clipz calls himself when he isn’t making drum & bass, and to be honest, I prefer him this way. Dubstep and carnival club bangers make up just a portion of his alter ego’s repertoire and most of it seems to be very upbeat and cheerful, almost reminiscent of Toddla T.
This is a short mix he did exclusively for Fact Magazine late last year and it consists solely of his own productions. Some of which are awesome — ‘Pick Up the Phone’ is pretty mad — and some of which don’t quite twang the right note. It’s still ultimately a decent mix and an interesting insight into what Clipz, usual purveyor of all things heavy, is really capable of. Fuck knows what it has to do with crab meat though.
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