Before our show at Paris Social Club, Dre Skull & Dubbel Dutch will be joining new Rinse France show host Koyote for a special warm-up! Lock in to www.rinse.fr from 4pm EST (10pm French Time).
We were overwhelmed by the response to the Gypsy Riddim remix contest, and now can finally announce the lucky winners! We (Famous Eno, Dre Skull, Rubi Dan and the Mixpak team) deliberated over every single one. There were many strong entries and in a large variety of styles, from afrobeats to heavy metal. The entries were judged on their both their craft and their vibe – the winners we picked were, in the end, songs that either “took the track somewhere else or worked on the dancefloor” as Eno says.
So, we are proud to announce:
Koyote’s third in a trilogy of Mixpak EPs is out now on Mixpak! This is perhaps his deepest, most thought (and body) provoking work yet. Created solely on hardware, the EP is an idiosyncratic trip through the annals of dance music, lost in space and ready for the dancefloor. Listen to the full stream courtesy of XLR8R below.
Buy now on iTunes / Mixpak Store / Juno.
Mixpak FM 064 is brought to you by London DJs and promoters, Hipsters Don’t Dance. Made up of Hootie Who & Kazabon, the duo have been pushing the dancehall-soca-rap-afrobeats sound for years, with their longstanding clubnight and mixes. They were also responsible for these edits of our Douster release last year. With an encyclopaedic knowledge of all the aforementioned genres, it felt right to ask them to dig in deep to one of the most exciting sounds to blow up in London lately: Afrobeats.
Hootie Who describes how they were inspired for their Mixpak FM mix:
“Ever since Kazabon and I started the HDD club night we wanted to explore our respective heritages and its musical output. Kazabon’s heritage is Ireland by way of Trinidad which helps explain her voracious appetite for Soca. I am from Nigeria but born and raised in the west. It’s funny because until recently Naija music reflected Trinidad’s Soca season in the sense that artists tried to release music around a specific time of year (Christmas). The day after Christmas is Calabar Carnival, the carnival is still in its infancy but it’s already Africa’s largest street party. That carnival experience heavily influenced this mix. From the floats pumping out the biggest Afropop songs of the moment, to the Channel O/ MTV Africa after parties where South African house reigns supreme to the packed clubs where people try out the latest dance craze. It’s all here in this mix that captures the sound of the past few years. This mix can’t do that experience the justice it deserves especially the feeling of connecting with your homeland but we did our best. Trust me you haven’t lived until you have seen someone on roller skates azonto in the middle of the blazing hot summer.”
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