In recent years Chrissy Murderbot has been a tireless enthusiast and standard-bearer for Chicago juke music, playing an instrumental role in bringing the music to Europe and beyond.
Those of you who were at FACT’s footwork party in London last year will probably have caught Chrissy warming up for his pal DJ Spinn, and have been suitably impressed; 2011 will see the young DJ/producer take centre-stage with an album, Women’s Studies, coming soon on Planet Mu and featuring guest turns from Spinn, Coool Dundee of DMG$, Johnny Moog, MC ZULU, Popeye, Rubi Dan and Warrior Queen. The LP will be preceded by a limited edition 12″ EP, not to be missed.
To whet your appetite for the coming storm, check out the Murderbot refix of Spanish indie darlings Delorean. He chops up the original’s wistful harmonies like so much meatloaf and dubs out the keyboards before pitching up the main hook and letting it fly across a tom-heavy 808 juke beat. The result is at once a high-octane dancefloor smasher and a distinctly melancholy lament – quite a combination, you’ll agree. Stream and download (by clicking on the arrow) below.
So we’re kicking off our new sister label LOOSE SQUARES with a party here in Chicago on January 7. DJs for the night are DJ Spinn & DJ Rashad (Ghetto Teknitianz / Planet Mu / Juke Trax), Chrissy Murderbot (Planet Mu / Sleazetone), and Dave Quam (It’s After The End of the World). PHOTO BOOTH by GLITTERGUTS (www.glitterguts.com)
The whole thing happens January 7 at BEAUTY BAR, 1444 w Chicago Ave. See you then!
Check out what Michaelangelo Matos at Resident Advisor has to say about Kanji Kinetic’s new “Thrill Seeka” EP on Sleazetone:
Chicagoan Chrissy Murderbot is behind the dizzying My Year of Mixtapes project, 52 DJ sets that roamed all over but whose true heart was in the breaks-and-bass mutations of the first half of the ’90s. Murderbot’s label Sleazetone issues music with the same basic thrust, as this EP demonstrates in spades.
Kanji Kinetic is from Bristol, so he’s no stranger to rave history, and “Thrill Seeka” offers an ingenious twist to the spate of early jungle redux we’ve heard lately… ["Thrill Seeka"] is very Euro-hardcore, with scraping synth riffs reminiscent of Human Resource, but its 3D kick drums bring it into the present day. He turns that trick even further out on “Scatter,” the EP’s finale, which commingles Euro-blaring rhythm riffs and 4 Hero-style pitch-shifted drums to eye-popping effect.
Both “Seeka” remixes are strong. New Yorker Kingdom furthers his hot streak with a shadowboxing subwoofer workout; a gaseous hands-in-the-air keyboard riff surfacing about three minutes in makes it even ravier. Krazy Fiesta’s mix is more carnivalesque, a liquid, tropical bounce with sharp snares and Wayne’s chant tap-dancing all over it.
Recently we released a 12″ of super-dodgy (but super-awesome) illegal bootleg remixes called “Sleazetone Party Trax #1″. We figured it would be an under the radar one-time-only kind of thing, but through the wonders of Juno’s licensing department we’ve gotten the go-ahead to release these digitally! We’re super-hyped about it, so head over to Juno and cop these tracks ASAP! Chrissy Murderbot – Sleazetone Party Trax #1 by sleazetone
