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Videolog: Launchpad day one

grillo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:23:53 +0000

A while ago i grabbed a Novation Launchpad for my live sets and hoping to integrate it into the studio workflow. I’m not gonna do an in depth review, but it works as well as advertised, looks great, is fairly cheap and can be repurposed to do all sorts of other cool things in a pinch.

I’ll admit i’m not an ableton power user, especially in the studio, so the bundled stripped down edition is more than enough for my actual needs, though i may be tempted to upgrade in the future.

In the video i’ve just thrown a couple of loops from a piece i’m working on in the session view and noodled on. It’s loads of fun, and i’m quite happy with the tune as it is. It is bare bones and needs a lot more fleshing out and bells and whistles (well maybe not really bells and whistles, you know) but it bounces along pretty well. When i’m using samples i always try to pair recorded sounds with my own synth tones, and the marriage is always a difficult one, so to speak, especially when real brass is involved. Don’t know, i just feel this might wind up a real swell chilled out tune.

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Get the Fireworks Remixes

grillo — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:29:44 +0000

So, if you still haven’t grabbed it yet head over at www.homeworkrecords.net and get it now. For free. I listened to it all week and it’s really great, trust me. 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.

Tracklist, press release and download link after the jump

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…

Download Here

Rassegna stampa

grillo — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:25:28 +0000

Great review on the February 2010 issue of ‘Blow Up’ magazine.

Also these blogs have been rather kind to the record, all compliments and nice words.

Musicaoltranza
Canforaaa
Non si scherza più
Batteria Ricaricabile

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Upcoming! Fireworks Remixes

grillo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:59:31 +0000

Gonna be out feb 15th on homework records
Let’s say i’m very very proud of how this turned out. The guys at homework did an excellent job roping in the talent for this, and i’ve been playing the tracks non stop for weeks now, yeah, they’re that great. But please listen for yourself in the promo video.

Bubblegum beats radio show – episode 4 – year end mix

grillo — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:00:15 +0000

Tune in 7pm-8pm (western europe) or 6pm-7pm (uk) for the special year end mix episode of Bubblegum beats on spaceinvaderradio.com featuring lots more hiphop!

Here’s the playlist

Soul Litchfield – Throw Ups.mp3
Harmonic 313 f. Phat Kat & eLZhi – Battlestar
Closed Sessions featuring Amanda Diva – I Can See
Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo
Foreign Beggars – Shake It feat. Noisia
Medeski Martin And Wood – Bloody Oil
Sade – Soldier Of Love
Reflection Eternal,Jay Electronica,J. Cole & Mos Def – Just Begun
Portformat – U Gotta Find (feat. Shuanise)
Basement Jaxx – Scars
Rox – My Baby Left Me
J*DaVeY – Get Together
Mos Def – Casa Bey
Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco – I’m Beaming
Grillo – Brown Box (Fulgeance Interstella’Funk Remix)
Erykah Badu – Didn’t Cha Know (Biscope Boot Remix)

Bubblegum beats radio show – episode 3

grillo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:00:40 +0000

Tune in 7pm-8pm (western europe) or 6pm-7pm (uk) for the third episode of my radio show on spaceinvaderradio.com

Listen via the player on the website or with winamp with this link.

playlist and cloudcast widget player after the jump.

Teebs – Untitled 5
Herv – Seequinn
Nneka – Deadly Combination
Slum Village – Fall In Love
Goapele – Milk and Honey (Tiger Milk Remix)
Little Dragon – Fortune (AFTA-1 Remix)
Comfort Fit – Fuh Real (Feat. Dyno, Naboobia)
Onra – Shhhh
Florence + The Machine – You’ve Got The Love (The xx Remix)
Miike Snow – Animal (Mark Ronson Remix)
Clutchy Hopkins and Shawn Lee – Name Game
Fulgeance – Revenge Of The Nerd
Moderat – Seamonkey (Untold Remix)
Defiant Kinetics – Synaptic Crush
WAX TAILOR – Go Without Me (feat Charlotte Savary)
BigGIE DaM KON – DAM.KON! GOING BACK TO CALI

Bubblegum Beats 03 by Grillobeats on Mixcloud

Downloads – SP1200ized drumkit 4 (plus bonus loops!)

grillo — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:36:35 +0000

Welcome to the final post in the ‘amazing sound samples from the Emu SP1200 drum sampler’ series. This time there’s a drumkit (16 different one shot samples) and 8 drumloops in the pack. All the sounds come from an old session with a vintage sp unit, but they have been somewhat processed, and while they may be now sound a little bit crispier (especially in the high end) they still retain the crunch and the grime imparted by the hardware and the infamous sample transpose technique.

And here’s the links.

Sp1200 drumkit 4
Sp1200 loops 3

As usual the drumkit samples are in Battery, Kontakt, EXS24, Renoise .rnsi and of course straight .wav files format, while the loops are straight 44/16 .wav files.

If you’ve downloaded all the packs you should now have 5 drum kits and 16 beat loops, not too bad. If you feel like it, you can thank me with a paypal donation, that’d be great.

Bubblegum beats radio show – episode 2

grillo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:57:23 +0000

Tune in 7pm-8pm (western europe) or 6pm-7pm (uk) for the second episode of my radio show on spaceinvaderradio.com

Listen via the player on the website or with winamp with this link.

playlist and cloudcast widget player after the jump.

tracklist

Cmd/Ctrl – The Keener.mp3
Some Freak, Andreya Triana, Ritornell remixed by Dorian Concept – The Light (Dorian Concept Remix)
Foreign Exchange – Sweeter Than You (Muhsinah’s Mix)
Shlohmo – Socks
Waajeed – Tetris
Wayward Saints – Cruisin
Suzi Analogue – Good Reason
Tweet – Call Me TOKiMONSTA remix
Paul White – Get’em Up
Comfort Fit – Bit By Bit
FLYamSAM – The Offbeat
Deviant & Naive Ted – Shoes Not Not
Peverelist – Bluez
Untold – Stop What You’re Doing
Smania Uagliuns – Psychedelici (Railster Remix)
KenLo Craqnuques (Orange) – Floorscraper
Harmonic 313 – Problem 1 Grillo remix
RUSTIE – keesha resmak

Bubblegum Beats 02 by Grillobeats on Mixcloud

Bubblegum beats radio mixshow debut!

grillo — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:19:16 +0000

Tune in 7pm-8pm (western europe) or 6pm-7pm (uk) for my first radioshow on spaceinvaderradio.com

Listen via the player on the website or with winamp with this link.

playlist and cloudcast widget player after the jump.

Bubblegum Beats 01 by Grillobeats on Mixcloud

Jesse Boykins – Chanel (Machine Drum Remix)
Muhsinah – Lose My Fuse
Mike Slott – 40 Winx
Flevans – All To Play For Flevans Rmx
Paul White – Highlife
fLako x Noir – Milky Way
Blakroc feat Raekwon – Stay Off The Fuckin’ Flowers
Strong Arm Steady prod. by Madlib – Get Started f. Talib Kweli
DJ Mitsu the Beats – Tokyo Girls Feat. Maspyke
Hudson Mohawke – Overnight
AEED – Elektricity
Kulez – Creeep
Kidkanevil – Lantern 2
Robot Koch – Gorom Sen (Shlohmo Remix)
Grillo – Double Rare Tender
Zo! – My Flame (Ft. Phonte)
S.maharba – Heels
Chris Randall – Naej Yllib
Lukid – Slow Hand Slap

Fireworks out now!

grillo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:26:37 +0000

Finally out, 9 tracks, free download, get it here!

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!