09/03/10 by grillo | featured, releases | 1 Comment »
Angry lo fi synth lines buzz along with deep, stilted beats in I Had U Ken, Grillo’s tribute to the all american awesomeness of Street Fighter’s Ken Masters. Videogame samples and xbox live scrubs spouting profanity during online play adorn the shorter tracks, while Ken’s own in game voice is autotuned and vocoded to sing along in TaDaDa, feeling like drunken yodeling on acid. There’s also a chiptune remake of the original street fighter 2 ken theme, a nice trip down memory lane before the dark, dubby and moody Thunder Kick closes out the record with its menacing guitar riff.
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)
Download it here.
04/08/10 by grillo | blog, mixes, radio show, releases, tunes | No Comments »
Oscillations compilation pt 1 by Juslikemusic and Apple Juice has been out a couple of weeks now, and i’ve been listening to it non stop. That good. If you still haven’t got it head over here and grab it for free, also look for volume 2 to drop very soon.
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02/02/10 by grillo | featured, releases | No Comments »
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.
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)
Grillo – Fireworks Remixes – Free Download
12/02/09 by grillo | featured, releases | No Comments »
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!
Grillo – Fireworks (HWR-015)
1. Richard From Seattle
2. Double Rare Tender
3. Brown Box
4. Be Aware
5. Can Never Be
6. Clicks
7. Toy Harder
8. Big City Lights
9. Lontano
Grillo – Fireworks (free download from Homework Records)
09/21/09 by grillo | featured, releases, tunes | No Comments »
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
