DOWNLOAD: ORGASMIC "The Sixpack Anthem"
If you have ever owned an Institubes tee shirt, you know about SIXPACK. If not, allow me a moment to try to conceal my disappointment.
Sixpack (.fr) is a tee shirt label based in the south of France issuing two collections every year with designs by the world greatest illustrators including friends like Akroe, Gaspirator, Ill Studio, KRSN, So Me, personal favourites such as La Boca, Noah Butkus, Steven Harrington, Parra, Huskmitnavn and many others. The upcoming collection includes great surprises and artworks from bona fide legends whose illustrous names (I’m not bluffing, you have no idea how big this is) I can’t disclose right now. They also manufacture our official tee shirts (glow-in-the-dark logo, Surkin tee, Para One tee...) since day one.
Akroe (he did our logo and all the designs of Institubes’ early years, in case you haven’t read this) did a whole collection featuring tees, sweaters and jackets called THE FUTURE, and ORGASMIC did a beat, Teki wrote some lyrics about his clothing obsessions and BOOM! there you go: an anthem.
(this is Orgasmic wearing a sweater from the Future collection and some naked chick as shoulder padding)
You see, when labels such as Sixpack and Institubes are so close, them doing something together can’t be called a collaboration: it’s a child. And a spoiled one at that.
(Orgasmic again, with the naked chick acting this time as a safety belt)
There are three versions on the EP.
The original song, by TEKITEK (aka Teki Latex from TTC).
The Harvard Bass remix (more on that one later this week).
Orgasmic’s Lay Low remix feat. E.Mackey.
The latter is the one we’re sharing with you today.
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Edwin Mackey is a vibe singer, producer and clothing designer hailing from Tallahassee, FL. He describes his own Pop-Hop style as “some Pop music with Southern Rap drum patterns and Miami Bass”. We say long live Pop-Hop.
The Sixpack Anthem EP is available right now on iTunes, with the proper vinyl release coming in a few weeks.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=299635495&s=143442
Oh and happy new year!
-- Emile
DOWNLOAD : "THE SIXPACK ANTHEM" - (Orgasmic’s Lay Low remix feat. E.Mackey)
Das Glow sheds some light on the History of Life
No more than once or twice a year, something makes you realize how much you love this job.
My last five were: Para One getting a shot at remixing Daft Punk (and BOY what a remix), taking the train all the way to Belgium with half of the Institubes family to see Daft Punk play live two years ago (no names, but some of us were literally crying by the end of the show), Thomas Bangalter playing at Institubes & Ed Banger’s 2006 Xmas party (although his set was somehow ruined by us acting crazy stupid / drunked out of our minds / operating no less that 4 bullhorns - you get the picture, if not check it on YouTube), Surkin’s set at his own release party (playing at least 4 songs simultaneously at every point of it, with ALL our french comrades shaking the booth like it was some kind of car-sized maraca), and finally Cuizinier & Orgasmic opening for Clipse in Paris this summer.
You can tell things are pretty busy schedule-wise when you reach the point where you’re promoting songs you haven’t heard in their entirety.
So: last Tuesday I’m uploading Das Glow’s new single on Institubes.com and halfway thru “LITE BRITE” it’s getting obvious that not only this version of the track is totally new to my ears, but it’s one of THESE moments, a new entry in the pattern that only reveals itself once a year. All planets aligned, the office reaches perfect temperature, the sound of birds and traffic in the streets fades out, caffeine+taurine abuse and sleep deprivation hug each other in harmony. The bass line enters and everything since the apparition of the very first microbe on Earth to this very second has an evident purpose, the entire History of Evolution plays before your eyes as a Ghibli-animated short, Charles Darwin ressucitates so he gets a chance to bitchslap Sarah Palin for a minute of two, and your imagination draws a picture of an immense crowd made of all your friends and co-workers standing ready for war like one of these cool posters with every Marvel Comics hero and villain on it.
The other track on this single is “SUNBURNT”. It’s been around for a while, most notably on Boys Noize’s “Bugged Out” mixed compilation. This one is a club thing, with its own Das Glow touches (some of them involving the engineer of the first mastering session throbbing every knob with disbelief for 15 minutes until he realized it was entirely produced and mixed in mono).
“LITE BRITE” is definitely not a dance cut, and even Das Glow doesn’t know how to label it. So let’s file this one under SENSE-MAKING if you will.
--Emile
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Midnight Juggernauts - Into the Galaxy (Danger Remix)
Our French bros Institubes just posted two new remixes of the upcoming Midnight Juggernauts single "Into The Galaxy" on their RCRD LBL blog, so head over there to cop fellow patriots Danger and Chateau Marmont's versions of the track. Danger's is like battery acid leaking through a gameboy while Chateau Marmont's sounds as seductive and debaucherous as the LA hotel that shares its name. Needless to say, we're jamming them on the hi-fi and setting up our telescopes on the patio like RIGHT NOW.
Midnight Juggernauts Exclusive Galactic Downloads @ Institubes RCRD LBL blog
Download: Midnight Juggernauts - Into The Galaxy (Danger Remix)
Download: Midnight Juggernauts - Into The Galaxy (Chateau Marmont Remix)
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