With a piano sample seemingly lifted from my favourite house song of all time Pete Heller’s Big Love, this stomping classic house tracks gets a vocal kick from Bizarre Inc’s ‘I’m Gonna Get You’. Basically a load of good stuff thrown together with that classic LOL Boys feel, the guys even put this track in the ‘Feel Good’genre on their soundcloud.
Blockz is the lead track off the new EP from Discobelle’s mystic LOL Boys, and I really can’t describe it better than they did:
The ‘Blockz’ video is a trippy rendition of what would happen if your friend’s inspirational wolf shirt lost its way to the cleaners and wound up inside Bryce 3D…It sends you into a THC induced journey through underwater caverns while you’re riding on the back of a bottle nosed dolphin. Rumored to be originally released as a homemade Sega Saturn disc back in 1994, the shimmering analog casiotone evokes the ambient bliss of lovesick teenagers laying in a field drinking a slushie laced with ecstasy. struggling to stand up.
Go grab the free remix from Gown Folk, or buy the whole EP over at Beatport.
Ay Carumba!! Samo Sound Boy is making one artist who’s big waves in 2010 on the Mixpak radar. From Aaliyah bootlegs to his space age cumbia-on-blast called “The Bandit” EP on Run Riot Records, Samo has demonstrated stellar comfort and expertise with everything from hip hop production, guarachero and cumbia to a kind of supercharged “dancing while the sun comes up at 6am” rave aesthetic.
I caught up with him to talk about bootleg t-shirts, remixing Ludacris on your Nintendo DS, and my new favourite term of 2010: “Keeping It Bort Sampson”. He was also kind enough to grace Mixpak with an exclusive mix featuring tons of future productions, which you can find in this interview after the jump.
Interview by Brendan Arnott (my text in bold)
Before getting into your production, someone who is introduced to Samo Sound Boy is going to notice a lot of Bart Simpson iconography, be it on your myspace page or your “Bort Sampson” blog. Can you explain why Bort keeps making an appearance?
Haha yeah. I just love the Bart bootlegs, especially the t-shirts that were so big in the 90s. All the bizarre knockoffs and different versions.
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I am still wondering whether LOL Boys are real, or intricately constructed androids with a penchant for head throbbing, game changing percussive dance music. A quick google search will give you an idea of how expansive their remix work has been over the past year, with an arsenal mainstream R&B re-edits to spine crumpling drum patterns overtop indefinable dance anthems of the future.
But who exactly are these two strange musicians? Real people, or a manifestation of the internet becoming aware of its own existence and using that consciousness to start making dance music?
These two mystical overseers of the web took a moment to shoot the breeze about influences, forthcoming work, (never) forgetting about Dr. Dre, and also provided us with a fantastic mix of exclusive club music – much of which I can absolutely guarantee that you have never heard in your life.
Interview by Brendan Arnott (my text in bold)
For those on the internet who don’t know – who are LOL Boys and how did they start making music together?
We met through a music message board. We were both into each other’s music and thought “Why not try something together for this remix competition?” We liked how it came out, so we continued to work together. So, basically, the whole concept behind LOL Boys was like, to exist on the internet… to make music over the internet sending parts back and forth, try something different. It’s an ongoing collaboration. We’ve made beats where we’re in the same room but normally we’re about two thousand miles apart.
