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The fine folks at Cascade Records in Paris had me for a guest mix and a little interview over on their webpage.

Japan’s Made In Glitch label turns to relative newcomer Grillo for its latest release. The Italian producer comes with five tracks of wonky, bleepy, 8-bit mayhem that will appeal equally to fans of dubstep’s purple wing and Brainfeeder’s convoluted hip-hop. One listen to his jumped-up din, and you’ll understand immediately why he chose an artist name that translates as “grasshopper.”

MIGREC 12 – Grillo – Claws

I contributed a track, OCV, to the Random World Generator EP selected with love by the fine tastemakers at You’ll Soon Know.

Yeah, been a quiet month on that front  but the podcast is not dead. It’s coming back later this week, bigger than ever. It will air as a radio show on Space Invader Radio every thursday night, 6-7 pm in the uk. Check back regularly for news.

It’s been raining a lot here, for the better part of the week and the weekend. But when i can stay at home, warming up with a cup of tea then i don’t particularly mind. I actually get more thing done, so i dusted off my pretty much unused soundcloud account and put some stuff on it. This track here is called corners, and it’s a bit rough around the edges, a quick sketch kind of thing. I just thrown some old loops from unused material in the shredder and this is what came up.

Corners by grillo

Not too bad actually. And while i may end up nowhere with this i already reused a couple of techniques and ideas in a soon to be released remix track. Talk about that later though. Hit me up on Soundcloud!

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.

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