Enjoy!

I’ve got a track of mine in it, which is conveniently called ‘Fronting the Weekend’ due to my propensity in scoffing the usual weekend activities in the last months. But everyday i’m hustlin like they say, and can’t seem to make time for every single thing. But i digress.

You can listen to the track on soundcloud also, and i’m getting a lot of good feedback about my newer stuff, which is always appreciated.

Fronting The Weekend by grillo

Last but not least, i’m celebrating the oscillations in today’s episode of my bubblegum beats radioshow on spaceinvaderradio by playing some of my favorites. Catch it here live from 6-7pm (uk time) or check back here after that for the cloudcast widget.

Broken Haze – Block
N.A.S.A. Gifted ft. Kanye West, Lykke Li and Santogold – ‘Gifted’ (Mattb rmx)
Flying Lotus f. Thom Yorke – …And the World Laughs With You
Machinedrum – Freshkids (Fresh edit)
BUG – Indica
Erykah Badu – Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long
Wayward Saints – ghost town (khurse remix)
Grillo – Fronting The Weekend
Portformat – Provide Everything feat. Obey The Altar Native & Denone (Railster Remix)
Jackhigh – Turbines
Vital – Gaffer Tape
Dessa – The Chaconne Feat Matthew Santos
Paper Tiger – Good Feelings feat. Sabira Jade
Lusine – Two Dots
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – She ain’t a child no more

Here’s the remix track, enjoy
Lil Wayne – A milli (Grillo Grungecake remix) by grillo

And here’s the setlist
Grillo – Grungecake mix intro
Lil’ Wayne – A Milli (Grillo Grungecake Remix)
Mike Slott – 40 Winx
Jesse Boykins III – Chanel (Machine Drum Remix)
Grillo – Can Never Be (Railster Remix)
Scritti Politti Tinseltown To The Boogiedown – Psycho Les Variation
Bullion – God Only Knows
Basement Jaxx – Scars (feat. Kelis, Meleka & Chipmunk)
Freddie Joachim – Vikter Duplaix – In The Middle Of You (Freddie Joachim Remix)
Flying Lotus – Quakes
Gorillaz – Stylo (Radio Edit)
KenLo Craqnuques (Orange) – Boiling light
The Heavy – Coleen (El-B Remix)
Lukid – Chord
Dorian Concept – When planets explode
Aloe Blacc – Are You Ready
TOKiMONSTA tweet callme remix
Betty Davis – Nasty Gal

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.

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…

Spoiler alert, gets a 7, which is not too bad i guess. Not shabby at all.

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

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