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

Go Savant is a collaboration with the buddy UXO, and while it’s still firmly rooted in beats and bass stuff it certainly has a different vibe than my usual stuff.

Sort of a cosmic, more psychedelic feeling with lots of synth sounds, drones and general assorted throwback sci-fi stuff.

Check our first four tracks out HERE

Feedback has been great so far, so enjoy this but know that more is definitely on the way!

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

Shiny cover uh?
Inside there’s 7 tracks, including the already mentioned remixes of Cosmic Heel and Sumo Splash, plus a couple of older tracks and some demos, all unreleased stuff (for now at least)

To get Bonus you just have to go to my bandcamp and buy something or donate for the pay what you want releases, and i’ll get back to you with the promo code!

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

1- All Oichos - on Soundcloud and in this Feed Me Weird Things mix

2- The Sumo Clinic in this guest mix i did for Pixelatique

3-Sumo Splash in the latest Bubblegum Beats

Yeah, it’s kind of a big spoiler i guess on the theme, but the free download full release is coming next week (hopefully) so if you’re curious keep an eye on this page in the next few days1

Honestly my own contribution is among the weakest stuff on there. Yeah i said it, can’t front, the overall quality of this is well beyond the standards, this is clearly no hastily put together release. Here’s the track in question.

Vee fun by grillo

For me it’s a bit of a throwback to things i used to do a couple of years ago. The drums have more of a breakbeat feel, there’s less synth stuff and it sounds a bit more funky. All in all i like the track, but it doesn’t seem to fit well with other things i’m doing nowadays, and i’m glad i was able to still find a good, great outlet for it!

PS pretty much all the drums in this track come from the VEE drumkit that you can download for free from here.

Besides my track you can find reworks by Railster, Planet Soap, Bunny on Acid, Foolk, Matt The Good and Brotto himself, for a wide variety of different styles.

I must admit it wasn’t really easy remixing grassland, i kept fumbling and never seemed to find stuff that sticked with it. Eventually i ended up working around the main drone and letting it drive the track, so it has kind of a liquid, psychedelic kind of flow that i tried to somehow reign in with all the little fills and edits.

Hope you enjoy it.
Brotto – Grassland (Grillo Remix) by grillo

Remixing this proved to be extremely difficult, as it always does when the original track is that good.

And this one is really incredible.

A 100 bpm funky number with an half-tempo, half steppin sparse groove that swings every which way, with Opolopo providing creamy beautiful synth licks to support Amalia’s silky smooth voice.

At first i kept sticking too close to the original and ended up scrapping a lot of ideas because they quite simply didn’t measure up. So after scratching my head a little bit i ended up going in the complete opposite direction, with a more up-tempo number with a straighter groove and loads of new synth textures, brass stabs and arpeggios.

Yeah, i know, probably the song wasn’t really well suited for this style of arrangement, but i hope i made it work somehow.
Amalia – All The Funk I Need (Grillo Remix) by grillo

Here’s the widget to stream the tracks.

And here’s a short blurb about the artists involved in the project

Acre is a deep dubstep/electronica producer from Manchester, UK. He has an EP due for release on Saturate Records in the coming months featuring the track ‘I Saw The Crescent’ that we featured a few months back.
Twitter: @AcreUK

My Dry Wet Mess is a Barcelona based producer signed to Daedelus’ Magical Properties record label. He has gone from strength to strength this year from dropping his debut album ‘Irrational Alphabet’ (one of my favourite albums this year!) to performing at Low End Theory in LA.
Twitter: @MyDryWetMess

Grillo is an Italian electronic hip-hop producer who recently self release his ‘I Had U Ken EP’ a “tribute to the all American awesomeness of Street Fighter’s Ken Masters”. He also featured on Justlikemusic’s Oscillations compilation and dropped his Fireworks LP on Homework Records at the end of 2009.
Twitter: @Grillobeats

Bastille is an insanely talented producer from Cambridge, England. Brought up surrounded by a large variety of music his sound spans multiple genres and styles with quality and perfection. The younger brother of Drum & Bass superstars Logistics and Nu:tone, Bastille is paving his own way into the industry with his own unique style.
Twitter: @bastille_music

Ghosts of Fireworks are based in the South of England making hip-hop influenced electronica music. This year they have been self releasing numerous tracks and EPs from the 52 Ghosts project which I have really enjoyed. The project saw the release of a new track every Thursday and new EP every 4 weeks.
Twitter: @52Ghosts

Annu is a Virginia based hip-hop producer who gained a following through the free release of his Dream Runner EP in early 2009. He further cemented his place in the beat scene with his self released debut LP Def Vibrations at the end of 2009.