Brighton’s Murlo turns Serocee’s UK dancehall smash (on Jambrum Records) into a soca road mix with bird noises and rumbling bass. You can still grab Serocee’s OG version with all the remixes including ones by Zed Bias and Famous Eno.
Serocee – Oh Na Na (Murlo Remix)
[audio: http://www.mixpakrecords.com/mp3/Serocee – Oh Na Na Oh (Murlo Remix).mp3]ps So Shifty are also kindly giving away their blend of Serocee’s track with a classic slice of house music over on their soundcloud.
Grime man Trim has recently teamed up with the talented Mark Pritchard to release a 2 track 12″ and digital download on the popular Planet Mu imprint. I’m not sure why I was so surprised when this was announced a while back, the pair’s individual approach to creating music, whether it be instrumentals or vocals, complement each other with such ease. One of the tracks, ‘Kiss My Arse’, has been uploaded to Soundcloud, have a listen below. Preorders over at the Planet Mu site.
This weekend is the Tramlines festival in Sheffield, a free festival celebrating music in the steel city. The 2 Bears, Toddla (of course), Shy Fx and Ms Dynamite will be performing as will youngster Checan. Checan just released his new garage track with Sheffield producer Ross Orton. It’s an interesting link between a lot of older influences such as MJ Cole, Basement Jaxx and Zed Bias. You can see Checan and Ross making the track in this video here.
Checan also guested on the S Dot Phillie show last weekend.
Tifa is one of Jamaica’s top young deejays, and singjays for that matter. When an artist gets full support from legendary production crew Ward 21, you know they’re gold. After her first tunes, ‘Crawny Gal’ and ‘Bottom of the Barrel’ blew up in Jamaica, she continued on climbing, joining forces with Timberlee and Natalie Storm to form JA girl group TNT, making singles with top producers like TJ, Stephen McGregor and Equiknoxx, not to mention supporting Ward 21 on tour.
Tifa has just joined the Mixpak family, voicing on a Dre Skull-produced Moombahton track set for release later this year, so we thought we’d get the 411 on her background, making it in Jamaica, working with Ward 21 and being a tomboy.
Mixpak: Tell us a bit about your background – did you grow up in a reggae household?
Well my growing up was in a mixture of down town (or what people would refer to as the ghetto), uptown (suburbia) and a lil’ North America. I did grow up in a reggae dancehall household. My grandmother had a local bar and restaurant and music was always apart of the happenings. I was always surrounded by music. When I went overseas to see my mom, she was an avid party goer, she would always be playing tapes and we would always be listening to music. Seeing her dress up and go out, also developed my fashion sense. My uncle also owned a popular record store in Toronto and I would always travel with him to Dynamic Sounds to purchase goods. Later on my mom met my stepfather, who was a producer. So let’s just say I couldn’t escape the music.
Corcovado has given us his latest release, ‘Give It Up’ for exclusive download! It’s a mean Moombahton jam laden with melodic, tone-bent R&B samples. It’s a must-have for your deep-cut summer mixes. Jump on it!
Watch out for future releases from Corcovado, including a track for the Futur Tribal compilation on Get Flavor, and an EP for Cumbia label, Choles Records.
[audio: http://www.mixpakrecords.com/mp3/Corcovado – Give It Up.mp3]
Corcovado – Give It Up
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