FUR COAT - SPACE BALLAD (FEAT. ARGENIS BRITO) (CRM083)

 

Crosstown Rebels are immensely proud to present latest signing Fur Coat and their epic tech-funk odyssey. Featuring an absolutely killer remix from man of the moment Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs ‘Space Ballad feat. Argenis Brito’ is about to blow your mind.

A feast of funked up jamming, discoid transmitters and wonky tech wizardry, ‘Space Ballad’, featuring the extra-terrestrial vocals of Argenis Brito, is a twisted excursion to a parallel party universe. The chunky house groove and tricky weave of funk and techy kicks make for a thrilling cosmic ride that’s underpinned by a deep and dirty bassline. Fiercely championed by label-head Damian Lazarus, Fur Coat are about to mark themselves out as beacons of light in the Rebels stable.

In an almighty coup, Crosstown Rebels have snared one of dance music’s brightest talents to deliver a remix for the Venezuelan wunderkind. Bringing his innovative, boundary crashing style to the package, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs packs a bit more punch in the groove and propels epic soaring synths into a murky rave dynamic of gritty bashment beats and bass. TEED also lends his vocals to the second remix. The adventurous character recently travelled to the Congo in Africa as one of the personally invited producers to collaborate on Damon Albarn’s new LP project, working with local musicians for an album on Warp in association with Oxfam. After three magnificent EPs on the London/Berlin based Greco-Roman label, TEED’s next single ‘Garden’ is out in October and the highly anticipated debut album is expected early 2012.

Fur Coat aka Sergio Muñoz (Delete) and Israel Sunshine both grew up in Venezuela under the influence of old groove music from the funk, soul and disco era and 90’s jams as well as Latin grooves. Joining forces late in 2010 after their solo involvement in South America’s dance music scene brought their creative visions together, the Fur Coat project was born. The unpredictable nature of their evolving musical style will captivate the dancefloor but these gentlemen intend to transport your soul to another dimension. With an album in production and another EP on the way, ‘Space Ballad’ is just a taster for what’s in store.

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T.E.E.D. COMES TO CROSSTOWN REBELS

One thing about Damian Lazarus’ A&R choices for Crosstown Rebels: they’re never predictable. After Caribou (in his Daphni guise) recently turned up remixing Art Department’s ”We Call Love,” Lazarus brings us another left-field pick in the form of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, remixing new Crosstown signings Fur Coat.
Out on September 26, “Space Ballad” is just a teaser for what’s to come from the Venezuelan duo of Sergio Muñoz (Delete) and Israel Sunshine, who have an album and an EP in production for Crosstown; Argenis Brito sings on the track, and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs offers up two mixes, including one with his own vocals.
You can check out a SoundCloud stream of the latter mix after the jump; just click “continue reading.” Get more Crosstown, including Deniz Kurtel and Mykle Anthony’s recently released “Best Of,” featuring a Dixon remix, on Beatport here. And hear Fur Coat’s remix of Russ Yallop’s “Crossroads” here.

MACEO PLEX - SWEATING TEARS EP (CRM082)

 

Crosstown Rebels get set to unleash one of the year’s most highly anticipated records ‘Can’t Leave You’, from one of the biggest stars of 2011, Maceo Plex. The flawless ‘Sweating Tears EP’, is a three tiered dancefloor delight – taking you from anthemic disco-house gold to the dark and driving Tale Of Us remix.

Eric Estornel aka Maceo Plex has performed some kind of phenomenon in the relatively short time he’s been on the radar of everyman and his dog. From his cloaked techno beginnings to ‘Vibe Your Love’ and ‘Life Index’ (Crosstown Rebels) – one of house music’s most talked about albums of the year so far, Maceo Plex in live mode is seducing the masses with his aural Prozac – an innate blend of sun-kissed soul and vibrant disco house.

‘Can’t Leave You’ is without doubt a smash record of epic proportions. Already winning over legions of fans after its outings at some of the world’s biggest dance events over the last few months, the demand for this record is now reaching fever pitch. ‘Can’t Leave You’ is Maceo Plex truly arriving at his signature sound. Eric’s fusion of lush instrumentals and disco bounce with a darker vein of rumbling bass – along with funky hand-claps and guitars and lively synth lines, amounts to an irresistible concoction of immaculately produced dancefloor disorder.

B-Side ‘Stop Your Hate’ is going to be a fellow summer terrace favourite with an epic build and disco breakdown that showcases Maceo Plex at the peak of his technical prowess. Just as stomping as ‘Can’t Leave You’ but with a murkier quality ‘Stop Your Hate’ is Maceo flexing his interplanetary funk muscle while delivering an affirmative message to the party crowd.

Berlin-based wonders, Tale Of Us, appear to be on top of everyone’s list of remix artists and for good reason. As well as delivering their magnetic blend of forward-thinking groove music on the ‘Dark Song EP’ for Visionquest, garnering the Italian duo over-night kudos from those in the know, Tale Of Us sure know how to make a outsider’s track their own (think Thugfucker’s ‘Disco Gnome’/ Who Made Who’s ‘Every Minute Alone’). Transforming ‘Can’t Leave You’ into a deep and moody groover, their remix is driven by a lover’s lament and awash with sinister synths stabs and rolling percs.

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DENIZ KURTEL FEAT. MYKLE ANTHONY - BEST OF (CRM080)

Crosstown Rebels gets set to release the next single from one of the reigning queens of House music, Deniz Kurtel. ‘Best Of’, taken from her dazzling debut album ‘Music Watching Over Me’ is a stone cold dancefloor killer, honoured here in the remix by Berlin’s Innervisions founder, Dixon.

Radiating an aura of effortless cool, Deniz Kurtel is an artist with that innate ability to communicate beauty. Whether through the visual art of her alluring LED and mirror Sculptures/ installations seen glowing at Burning Man Festival and bedecking the Wolf + Lamb label parties or in the roughed up lustre of her music, Deniz’s work has an enveloping quality that is precise yet warm and undeniably sensual. Her debut LP out this year on Crosstown ‘Music Watching Over Me’ won scores of accolades from the global music press for its mood- enhancing ingenuity and was declared Album Of The Month and among the best albums of the year by DJ Mag and Mixmag respectively.

A weapon of choice for many a prolific DJ, ‘Best Of’ in its original form has been lighting up countless dancefloors over the past few months with its breathless work out in strutting deep house. Featuring the vocal talents of Mykle Anthony, who peals away the years back to 90s Chicago, it’s impossible not to be carried away by the charged currents of ‘Best Of.’ Fluid and tightly crafted with a criminally infectious bassline pumping against the juxtaposing strings, Deniz evokes the old school house sound with a fresh modernity that defines her stripped back elegant style.

Crosstown are thrilled to have on board for remix duty one of house and techno’s finest producers, Dixon. Having started the luminous deep house label Innervisions with Ame in his native Berlin, Dixon has carved a pristine reputation through his outstanding DJ sets, magical parties and remixing midas touch. For ‘Best Of’, Dixon ups the murk factor by driving deep gaps between the sonic elements and creating a warped warehouse creeper that builds into a techy electro stomper.

In the ‘Best Of Freestyle Version’, Deniz creates a totally different atmosphere of apparitions and haunting organ melodies. A playful mix of dubby textures, down-tempo rhythms and swirling synths, it displays her technical prowess and knack for delivering a range of deep, emotive sounds. With this increasing versatility, it seems Deniz Kurtel is only getting started.

 

Label: Crosstown Rebels

Cat no: CRM080

Web: www.crosstownrebels.com

Distribution: Above Board Distribution

Released: Mon Aug 1st, 2011

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FUR COAT

Crosstown Rebels are delighted to welcome a brand new act to the label, they are Sergio Munoz (alos known as Delete) and Israel Sunshine, and they go by the name Fur Coat. Hailing from Venezuela, the guys first met when they discovered they were neighbours in Caracas and they both describe themselves as "100% party people".

Sending four demo tracks to Damian Lazarus was what it took them to land them an album deal and the results are astonishing. Their debut single, Space Balled, features Argenis Brito on vocals and comes with a super cool remix by man of the moment and Crosstown Rebels favourite, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Out at the end of September.

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PEZZNER - ONE MORE EP

Pezzner
One More EP

Crosstown Rebels offshoot label RebelLION strikes again with a superb four- tracker of off-kilter subsonic house from the illustrious Pezzner.

Each cut is unique in it’s own charm and quirkiness. The two killer cuts on the A side feature the infectious, driving, heady resonance of ‘One More’ and the beautiful, transcendental nature of ‘Try it Again’ featuring the vocal talents of Nneka Gryffyn from APT Entertainment. The flip features the piano driven, snake charming ‘Native Language’ and the staccato sub-ska rhythm and flute- infested genius of ‘Not A Good Idea’. What a cracking EP!

Dave Pezzner released his debut album, ‘The Tracks Are Alive’, last year on Freerange. He has a plethora of single releases on Om, Viva and Freerange, as well as releases as Jacob London (along with Bob Hansen) on Classic & Doubledown and countless remixes.

Already a firm favourite in the Rebels Camp, this great EP is a feather in Dave’s cap, and is to sure cement RebelLION’s burgeoning cutting edge reputation.

• Label: RebelLION
• Cat no: RBL005
• Web: www.crosstownrebels.com
• Distribution: Above Board
• Released: Mon Aug 15th, 2011

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HOT HOT HOT (CRM081)

 

Not a label to miss a trick, Crosstown Rebels snap up the sonic ashes of what seems to have been an epic studio session with some of electronic music’s most distinguished gentlemen, Inxec and Droog. It’s also plain to see that when they fight it out in the studio some kind of voodoo mischief goes down...

Choice trans-Atlantic partnership Inxec vs Droog deliver ‘The Westbound EP’, their spellbinding debut offering on Crosstown Rebels. Comprising 4 original cuts destined to get deep inside your nerve centre, LA trio and Culprit label bosses Droog and Brit techno accomplice Inxec strike that all-important balance between magnetic dancefloor appeal and impeccably smooth and compelling production, rich in complexity and atmosphere. It’s got DC-10 written all over it.

A-side ‘Westbound’ is replete in eerie techno soul. Electronic drops of water convey a spiritual dimension amid the dark and dreamy rolling textures - a skilfully placed sample juxtaposed as the grit. In what seems to be a running theme for the EP, ‘Westbound’ is danceably dark and entirely riveting. Murkier still, ‘Accidental’ is a melancholic ride along a dubby elastic bassline with sweeping ambient techno circled by a haunting female cry.

Flip over to the B-side and enter increasingly druggy territory as the outfit gets ‘Unhinged’. Hypnotic, deep and sexy, ‘Unhinged’ is laced with sinister dissonant chords, out of which emerges a soul-piercing female voice, sensual and strange. “Pulling me closer” echoes distorted as if through disembodied souls as the techy hi-hats pick up along the melodic, gothic bassline. The overall effect is intoxicating.

Out of the dark with the rising sun over the terrace comes the fourth and final instalment, ‘Sleepless Knights’. Structured around arpeggiated synths and a slowed down vocal refrain, housey and full of warmth, the atmosphere touches on both deep minimalism and electro all geared towards a pulsing, spaced out dancefloor at dawn. Sprawling and sanguine, ‘Sleepless Knights’ could be an anthem for sleepless nights.

Nottingham-born and Munich-based Inxec is known for his epic, enthralling tech-house and Droog is North America’s most exciting DJ team, their stars on the rise. All hail the dream team and may they go to the dark side and back, again. Expect more from Droog on Rebels.

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