Luta – The Remixes EP is finally out and up for download at bandcamp. Luta the track originated on the 2008 Dusted Wax 2nd all star compilation, and then went on to become a minor hit. Then things got a bit mixed up here, i lost a couple of important files while upgrading my pc and couldn’t re-open the original track anymore. Shame, real shame, as i needed to prepare a serious live treatment for upcoming gigs. What i did instead is I started remixing it on the fly, gauging the effect on the audience and then expanding upon it.

Cut to months later and we have a series of tight remixes that push the original track into different genres, getting as far as four to the floor territory thanks to a fruitful collab with the talented ‘Gulla’.

But it’s not just retreads of an old track, there’s some brand new material there too. There’s TKNW, an 80s-style-electro-breaking banger to dance off to, and Jamprime 1, first cut in a series of old school joints all blunted-out, mashed-up classic breakbeats and little else.

And that’s still not it. Taking advantage of Bandcamp’s new ‘bonus items’ feature, i included some nifty extras to sweeten the deal. There’s alternate cover art for some of the tracks, a digital pdf booklet, exclusive desktop wallpapers and an high quality version of the official Luta videoclip. Mind you, a lower quality version of the video will be let loose on the web in the next few days, as soon as we can make vimeo work actually, but for the time being it’s exclusive to the release.

That is all, I think, now click here and go check it out!

Tracklist

1. Luta (Original mix)
2. Luta (Gold Mosquito Remix)
3. Luta (Wrist Wrist movie Remix)
4. Luta (Gulla Mini Max Remix)
5. Luta (Gulla Orlando Nights Remix)
6. TKNW (Uncut Mix)
7. Luta (Long Uncut Mix)
8. Gold Mosquito Beat
9. Jamprime 1

• getting the art in, it's all good. rather futuristic / pixel digital looking. #
• finishing stages on the video, this is clearly the worst part #
• got terrible urge to play bubble bobble now! #
• and it crashes. adobe's getting the best talk like a pirate day material out of me. #itlapd #
• @anamanaguchi you won't regret it. benga rocks hard! in reply to anamanaguchi #
• rendering! din din din! #
• RT @freedarko: RIP Roc Raida. http://bit.ly/1xZ1ko #

• dude, we back! #
• working on the video. fuck this thing is hard! #

There’s something cooking, and that something is the official Luta video.  It looks very cool right now, hope to release it soon, it’s gonna be among the bonus stuff included in the Luta remixes ep, and of course it will be available on Youtube.

• need more disk space! right nao! halp! #
• certainly not gonna upset the rhythm #
• beat block sucks. can work around it, but end up with mediocre stuff. better off cutting samples! #still­trapped­in­beat­block #

There still some glitches with the sit but everything should be all right in the next few hours. Hope so at least!

• @benwestbeech go and do your worst!! in reply to benwestbeech #
• tireeeed #
• did it! finished at last! the record i mean. #
• Actually might be adding an interlude track to that. #
• sampling flight of the conchords! #
• Never thought i wouldn't feel sad when MJ died. #
• hdr stuff is scary #

• road tripping ain't easy #
• is blip.fm fun? looks like. #
• #bookideas – sampling mel torme for fun and profit. #
• heading out to roast a bit in the sun! #
• new stuff has mostly synth sounds in it. should i worry? #
• unproductive day. still tired as hell #
• shitty weather in the summer is actually good when you really have to finish stuff #
• new track is, to be completely honest with you, rockin'. real hard. #
• first tests positive – girlfriend thinks it's the best thing i ever done. #
• not the best thing ever though. too bad #

abusing the Electribe

Nice stuff, you can peep the whole album on facebook here

looking scary during the performance

• finishing up a new track. then i might go out a bit actually. #
• dudes pressing me for my tracks, halp! #
• but gonna have lunch first #
• what’s this spymaster thing? all the cool kids are at it #