A remix continuing in my current leftfield direction for the mighty Sound of Habib label. The original track is a collaboration between the label head honcho Johan SOH and Canadian breakbeat wonderkid Myagi.
Originally conceived in a basement flat in Hackney (owned by my adopted bruv Bobafat) on a pair of lovely custom speakers owned by his flatmate this remix has a dirty edge and scratchy beats underpinning the floating vocals of Sandra Nagano.
Now available to buy on Beatport
Another remix for Real World of a track taken from the Big Blue Ball album that was initially started at the legendary Real World recording weeks nearly eighteen years ago by Peter Gabriel and Karl Wallinger and featuring a huge range of artists from around the world.
Habibe features vocals from Natacha Atlas from Transglobal Underground
The remix is available as a bonus track on the Big Blue Ball download from iTunes.
Real World Records was asked to commission a remix of ‘The Warning’ by Nine Inch Nails to appear on the Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D remix album and I was delighted when they asked me to do it as I was a big fan of NiN back in the day and the chance to remix your heroes is always a treat.
Mixing African drumming from Doudou N’Diaye Rose’s amazing Rose Rhythm and the source Nine Inch Nails multitrack was more a case of not messing up what was already great about the two songs and injecting just enough of my touches to make it feel like mine again.
It appears (though I’ve not confirmed it) that this remix has been licensed into the game Need For Speed: Undercover which would be pretty cool had the game not been universally panned for it’s inherent flaws.
Tom Robinson on Radio 6 played my Imagined Village remix at the end of his show this week.
Which was nice.
You can listen again till next Tuesday if you fancy it.. The track list looks eclectic to say the least!
I love a bit of rock me, so when the hard drinking, hard playing Grand Rose Band asked for a remix I was well chuffed. Front man Adam Rose is a bit famous round these parts for cracking his skull open during a gig and only going to the local A&E after the encores. Proper rock that is.
One of the few times I’ve had someone else take a look at the mix and a friend - Bruno Ellingham - happens to be an in demand engineer so he did me a massive favour and mixed these down for me. I still owe him a bottle of wine for that actually, sorry Bruno…
