Top Billin’ drop this from Finnish beatmakers Femme en Fourrure on the 18th of March, as part of their Bronco EP (which also features some dark remixes from Nguzunguzu, Teeth & Square Mode). The video’s got horses, vomit and snow, typical day in Scandinavia, right?
Brodinski’s latest curated project, “The Best of Everything, Volume 2″ is exactly that – a compilation that throws underground dance music allstars against the best r&b and hip hop of the last two decades. There are myriad highlights (Renaissance Man remixing Lil Wayne?! I almost died), but one of the standout tracks is the grimey Bok Bok redux of Lil Scrappy’s recent Mixpak single.
Bok Bok turns Lil Scrappy’s “grown ass man rapping” into a cough syrup injected drawl where you can almost hear Scrappy’s gold teeth clacking together nervously in between lines, ready to run off somewhere.
Be sure to grab the whole release, as Bok Bok, Brenmar, Dubbel Dutch, French Fries, J-Wow, Nguzunguzu, Renaissance Man Wildlife! and more throw down spectacular versions of your favorite hip hop guilty pleasures.
Grab it here:
Lil Scrappy- Look At Me (Bok Bok Remix)
New York, don’t forget to RSVP for $5 admission! And while you’re at it, show some support for the new NGUZUNGUZU EP!!
Club Infinity – New York City’s premiere club night for future-minded dance music from around the world – is back this month! Come hear the newest mutations of House, Garage, Dancehall, Crunk, and everything in between. Brought to you by resident DJs Dre Skull and Kingdom, with special guest NGUZUNGUZU and visuals by Blackmoth.org!
WHEN : Friday, October 29th
WHERE : Glasslands// 289 Kent Ave, Williamsburg
DOORS : 10pm
COVER : $5 with RSVP ($10 at the door)
Halloween Edition!
Los Angeles locals Nguzunguzu (Asma Maroof & Daniel Pineda) are a two-piece production team with a style as hard to described as their name is to pronounce. With the help from Sinden, Jubilee (Nightshifters), Dubbel Dutch, Girl Unit, DJ Slow, Neoteric, Kingdom and many more, Nguzunguzu have quickly become a blogs best friend over the past couple of months. Their latest spin on Vancouver vocalist Filip Filipi is an infectious, bass rework complimented by their signature”visual house” antics. Want more Nguzunguzu? Then head over to the Truants Blog for an exclusive mixtape and interview. Enjoy!
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Melé’s Bombay EP comes with a groovy remix by French Fries that helps you to let go of your daily worries by providing a sweet rhythm pattern that will secure good vibes. One of French Fries’ equally crazy talented label companions, Manaré (previously known as RiotKid) will release his debut EP named Speakeasy over the weekend and has given away a remix for Pirog by Lazy Flow yesterday. This tune is a successor-freebie to the Beware & Motorpitch remix for Speakeasy that has been floating around on some blogs (click). The latter will be included on the EP alongside remixes by Dubbel Dutch, Renaissance Man & Lorcan Mak, whereas the Lazy Flow one won’t be included in the final package. The more reason to give it a listen because it would be a shame to miss out on a summer track like this one:
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Manaré – Pirog (Lazy Flow Summer Mix) (direct link)
LA’s NGUZUNGUZU have recently put out a new mix, too. This laid-back mix features the likes of Ciara, one of NGUZU’s new tracks in progress Strut, DJ Chuckie and Girl Unit. It’s only about a twenty minutes long but is all in all a very sweet listen with a refreshing track listing that once again perfectly accompanies this sunny season. The interview that goes with the mixtapes provides some news about collabs with Rye Rye and M.I.A. and for the Europeans amongst you, a quick note on their upcoming tour through your continent this Summer. Big fingz in store for NGUZUNGUZU!
Truancy Volume 11: NGUZUNGUZU (Mixcloud)
I’m not even going to try to describe what LA-based NGUZUNGUZU sound like… to be honest, I don’t have a clue. Instead, I’d suggest that you give their independent deut EP a listen, which is available for free on their website… hopefully it will transport you to another universe within your mind where you can give it a meaningful description of your own.
I spoke to both NGUZUs (Asma & Daniel) just before they drove twenty four hours to SXSW, and they talked a bit about their tremendous vision- community, taking pride in being weird, plans to overthrow the status quo and create a new virtual reality world of future club music.
At request of the Nguzus, I have included both their responses under the same NGUZU heading. So even though there is only one “NGUZU” responding to my questions, there are three people in the interview. Got it? Cool, it only gets weirder from here.
Interview by Brendan Arnott (my text in bold).
What can you tell us about the origins of NguzuNguzu?
NGUZU: Origins? As in, how we started out? Or our name?
Both would be great. Maybe a bit about when you started making music together and what inspired the type of music you’re making.
NGUZU: Well, we started making beats together for fun on cassette tape. Super improvised with no edits, really raw live takes with mpc 2000 classic and keyboards. We made mixtapes that were always sort of dancey or raw beats that you could bump hard in your Chevy. Our friends really responded to these tapes and we began using Ableton and started sending stems to each other via emails. We compiled like 30 tracks onto cdr from cassette and sent it out to some people. Kingdom got a hold of one and we’ve been friends ever since.
NguzuNguzu redefine “eclectic” with this mixtape, culling old house music, ghetto bass, Gucci Mane, beatboxing and even Ginuwine’s “Pony” into thirty seven minutes of harmonic dissonance – each track sampling elements from “Moments in Love” by Art of Noise.
