So, just head over here, on bandcamp, and get the lot of them for free. Cheers!

Over the last months i’ve contributed original tracks for upcoming compilations like Mad Hop 4 and Beat.it and remixed a lot of great people: some of the tracks aren’t out yet, like the Demokracy, Darkrm and Apes On Tapes remixes, but others are actually available now.

Check it out -

Minoo – All The World (Grillo Remix)

Handbook – Amnesia (Grillo Remix)

Uxo – LSB (Grillo Remix)

And i’m pretty sure i’m forgetting somebody here, but yeah, i’ll write an errata corrige post if i missed some stuff.

Oh yeah, there’s also a bonus track, a remix-mashup of Shontelle’s T-shirt that i put up on soundcloud last week, please enjoy, download, share, go crazy!

T-Shirt (Grillo Doesn’t Count Remix) by grillo

The long-awaited follow up to “I Had U Ken” is finally here.

9 New tracks, 32 minutes of music.

A collection of deep, bad beats inspired by the unparalleled sumo power of Edmond Honda.

As it happened last year, after making a handful of tracks i find myself with a lot of scrapped material: some of that, after a bit of time and polish, turn out surprisingly good. This new collection covers a lot more sonical ground, with some dubstep / uk garage vibes and even a little crazy jaunt into 4/4 territory.

And, of course, a definite Edmond Honda vibe.

Tracklist
1. The Sumo Clinic
2. Bathhouse of The Rising Sun
3. Sumo Splash
4. Oicho Throw
5. IMDB interlude
6. The Sumo Clinic Remix
7. Sumo Splash Dub Mix
8. All Oichos
9. Flying Headbutt

10 original tracks, roughly 30 minutes of music. Free high quality download, multiple formats from mp3 to lossless FLAC. High quality cover and pdf booklet included with the release.

I’ve been working on a lot of new things recently and built up a stock of tracks and ideas that sat there gathering up dust, which is not good at all. So i’ve decided to turn it into a street fighter themed little piece of work. I cut samples from the videogames and funny youtube videos and mixed them pretty much on the fly with the beats and synths in Live. The results aren’t bad, there’s a lot of noodling and screwing around, sure, definitely background music, but it thrums along nicely.

And it has a definite Ken Masters vibe, so beware.

Tracklist

1. Shoryuken

2. TaDaDa

3. Online Saltiness

4. Step Kick (Krazy Kicks 1)

5. Tatsumaki

6. Senpuu-Kyaku

7. Inazuma Kakato Wari (Krazy Kicks 2)

8. Shoryureppa

9. Masters Theme

10. Thunder Kick (Krazy Kicks 3)

And remember this is just the start. Other characters and big news to follow very soon!

Unstable Compound takes Double Rare Tender firmly into dubstep territory, and i really dig the grunge treatment applied to the vocal samples, sounds grittier and neater than ever. Costa and Fulgeance go hard at it turning Be Aware and Brown Box into legit space funk bangers, much more danceable than the originals. Last but not least Railster nails a great rework of Can Never Be with sweet synths and a rolling drumbeat.

Couldn’t be happier with the results, really, this whole project makes me incredibly proud.

Grillo – Fireworks Remixes (HWK 016)

Unstable Compound – Double Rare Tender (3:49)
Fulgeance – Brown Box (5:02)
(costa) – Be Aware (3:43)
Railster – Can Never Be (2:47)

As one of Homework’s best albums ever, “Fireworks” deserved a bomb remixes release, meant to underline and deconstruct the original one.
FIREWORKS REMIXES adds a wider look to the downbeat scene already visited by Grillo.
Everything in our plans just happened as we involved an important international name like the parisian Fulgeance; a well known italian one like (Costa) and a rising talent from Bologna: Unstable Compound.
Fireworks is revisited but not destroyed: Fulgeance gives a further demonstration of is open minded music with a pure down-funk remix of Brown Box. (Costa) brings some dusty synth shots to the battle remixing Be Aware. Unstable Compound reveals for the first time his new obscure, filtered dubstep side, playing with Double Rare Tender. In the end, Grillo himself liked everything a lot and decided to put his second vision of Big City Lights, which looks more like a brand new track than a remix.
And the fireworks launch didn’t finish yet…

A bit of old school, a lot of visionary abstract instrumental hiphop, some dubstep references, a bunch of sweet melodic taste mixed with dusty sounds: this is the receipt of a great downbeat album like “Fireworks” and this is how Grillo kicks off his debut match with the Homework Records team!

Matteo shows how the new Italian abstract hiphop movement is active and fresh, winking to old school stuff and watching to contemporary instrumental tendencies at the same time.

“Fireworks” puts together influences by Prefuse 73′s melodic taste, powerful triumphal beat lines and a lot of attractive spoken quotes perfectly cut into the main rhythmic pattern.

Nine tracks that will easily and gently fall into your headphones!

On one hand, you know, it is like it is, and i don’t think we can ever go back to the pre internet days, but you still have to take into consideration the fact that musicians need to support themselves in some way, like everybody.

Personally I’ve given away quite a bit of my music for free over the years, and i’ve gained quite a bit from it, and if not in money, at least in recognition (and karma). Here’s a list of tracks available to download, right after the jump.

Milano Centrale (from Dirty Pretty Deluxe)
Got Skillz (from Addtnl Prod Work 1)
Luta (from The Luta Remixes)
TKNW (from The Luta Remixes)
Jamprime 1 (from The Luta Remixes)
The whole “Side B EP”
Harmonic 313 – Problem 1 (grillo remix)

That’s all for now, but i’ll keep adding more tracks to this post as they are posted online, so stay tuned.

Not many good remixes of this track around, probably because this is already effing brilliant to begin with. I tried to play around with it for a while but i wasn’t completely happy with the results, as i already said there’s nothing to improve and in my opinion taking the track to a completely different territory wouldn’t do the speak and spell style vocal justice. It needs to sit squarely in robo-chip-8bit hop territory, where it belongs.

Enjoy. And don’t forget to friend me on soundcloud!

Harmonic 313 – Problem 1 (Grillo remix) by grillo