Big up Stretch Armstrong for including “Dre Skull – I Want You (Dre Skull Remix)” in his recent Five Favorite Songs To Spin playlist for the February issue of Vanity Fair magazine. Make sure to check for Stretch’s weekly radio show Delancey Music Service with Eli Escobar on East Village Radio. Tune in for quality music from two heavy hitters every Monday!
Show Stretch some love on myspace or on his record label Plant’s website.
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UK magazine Digital Arts checked in with Pomp&Clout and got a behind the scenes look at how they made the video—including the secert on how they bypassed three weeks of render time to get the “I Want You” video finished on deadline. Check the interview and get the details here.
As a young label, we don’t have the PR muscle to break every record as hard as we’d like, but we’re keen to believe that quality releases will breakthrough…even if it takes some time. In that vein, we’re proud to relay that Fool’s Gold boss and DJ extraordinaire A-Trak has picked Dre Skull’s “I Want You (Dre Skull Remix)” as an honorable mention on his October Top 10 list. We’re more than pleased to grab that eleventh spot! Check out his full Top 10 for some other great cuts.
Limited pressings of “I Want You” are still available.
Alex Gopher has a new compilation of his recent remixes coming out in October and it includes his big remix of Dre Skull’s “I Want You.” Download the minimix he put together and check the full tracklist below.
Alex Gopher MiniMix (My New Remixes)
Disc 1
1. Ladyhawke – Paris Is Burning (Alex Gopher Remix)
2. Shinichi Osawa – Push (Alex Gopher Remix)
3. Alex Gopher – Brain Leech (Alex Gopher Bugged Mind Remix)
4. Kid Sister – Get Fresh (Alex Gopher Remix)
5. AutoKratz – Stay The Same (Alex Gopher Remix)
6. Dada Life – Your Favorite Flu (Alex Gopher Remix)
7. WhoMadeWho – Out The Door (Superdiscount Remix)
8. Sharam Jey & LouLou Players ft. Princess Superstar – Monday Morning (Alex Gopher Remix)
9. Disco Trash Music – Neon Disco (Alex Gopher Remix)
10. Benny Benassi vs David Bowie -DJ (Alex Gopher Remix) [Bonus track for the CD Edition Only]
Disc 2
1. Air, Alex Gopher & Etienne de Crécy – Ash Sync (Alex Gopher & Etienne de Crécy Version)
2. Fischerspooner – The Best Revenge (Alex Gopher Retaliation Remix)
3. Dada Life – Happy Hands & Happy Feet (Alex Gopher Remix)
4. The Subs – My Punk Is Funk (Alex Gopher Remix)
5. Tocadisco – Better Begin (Alex Gopher Remix)
6. Shameboy – Rechoque (Alex Gopher Remix)
7. Dre Skull – I Want You (Alex Gopher Remix)
8. Kraftwerk – Aerodynamik (Alex Gopher & Etienne de Crécy Dynamik Mix)
9. In The Club – She’s A Man (Alex Gopher Remix)
10. IAM – Ça vient de la rue (Alex Gopher Remix) [Bonus track for the CD Edition Only]
Alex Sushon, AKA Bok Bok, is on fire these days. Between DJing London’s East Village excellent Night Slugs parties, blogging at Lower End Spasm, hosting a radio show on Sub FM, producing some of 2009′s freshest music, doing graphic design work for Fact Magazine, L-Vis 1990′s “United Groove” EP, and getting praised in Dazed & Confused’s New Media Top 50 piece, it’s safe to say that 2009 has been a pretty massive year. It’s also understandable that Bok Bok was taking a vacation in his hometown of Odessa, Ukraine when I got hold of him, where I had the opportunity to chat with him about sincerity, his recent remix for Mixpak Records (which you can purchase here), post-DJing snacks, the downfall of grime, “synth ecstasy,” The-Dream and his video design work for Simian Mobile Disco.
Exclusive interview for the Mixpak Blog by Brendan Arnott (my text in bold).
Also, peep one of Bok Bok’s favourite mixes that did for LuckyMe!
Bok Bok – Manara’s Golden Fleece Mix for LuckyMe (tracklist here)
Brendan: Your Night Slugs parties sound like they’ve been continually successful, I’m curious about what sort of things are important to you when you’re organizing this kind of night?
Bok Bok: Well, what I really wanted to do with night slugs was make a fun accessible party for people that DIDN’T compromise on music, that’s to put it simply. It’s really a dance / club music party that’s frameworked by the UK soundsystem heritage, so what’s important to me is – good, heavy but CLEAR and bass-heavy sound, a really cutting edge music policy that’s still fun, and stuff that makes people focus on what’s happening in the club, the sound and the dancing, and bond together over it and have some shared experience. Stuff like having a host on the mic, and rewinding tracks, all that stuff helps people focus on what’s going on.
Dre Skull’s new synth pop single “I Want You” is out now on vinyl and digital. Remixes by AC Slater, Bobmo, Alex Gopher, Bok Bok and Dre Skull. Vocals by Shannon Swain and cover art by Taadaki Mori.
Consider buying the release from these fine stores:
VINYL
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