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Another book that you must cop - The Boombox Project by Lyle Owerko. This book covers the golden age of portable stereos (aka boxes, ghetto blasters) with beautiful photographs and quotes from all kinds of folks including yours truly. The photos from the book are available in signed editions and tomorrow is the opening of the show as well as a book signing with Lyle. Oh yeah, and I will be djing. As the propmaster Kool DJ Red Alert would say, “See ya!”
The Glass Four Four Letter single just dropped on Beatport exclusive with remixes by Black Van (DFA), Heavyfeet, Ian Pooley, NYC’s Bad Decision and Hamburg’s My Fellow Citizens. Four Four Letter is from their forthcoming album At Swim Two Birds which drops on Plant in the US on November 16 and on CD on November 9. Check out new posts on Discobelle, Baebble & APC.
Four Four Letter + Remixes out now by theglass
The single has been getting huge DJ support:
MALENTE: Diggin the HeavyFeet remix on The Glass single, but the original for me is the best here. Strong tune!
ALAN BRAXE: Black Van Remix!
EVIL NINE: Really like the original but guess I’ll favour the Black Van for out n’ about.
LEE MORTIMER: Really like what HeavyFeet and Ian Pooley have done. good solid tracks
RESET! – RESET!: Good release!! Cool track, absolutely brilliant Black Van remix, and also liking the new Heavy Feet sound!!
TONY HUMPHRIES: Another nice Remix from Ian Pooley, Pop and hyped.
AUTOEROTIQUE: This is solid! The heavy feet Remix is our favorite – they have had really solid releases on plant records also. cool.
TRONIK YOUTH: Tune, love it.
PUNKS JUMP UP: HeavyFeet Remix is a nice take on speed garage, like the original very much.
RUSS CHIMES: Favourite track: Four Four Letter – Black Van Instrumental!
DOWNLOAD new DJ mix by The Glass
Plant Music are back at Nicky Digital‘s Ella Wednesdays with Eli Escobar, Dominique Keegan, Gavin Royce and more….
Check the Facebook invite.
No Cover, drink specials, great music.
Here is the video for HeavyFeet’s “Here We Go Again,” with footage from the aNYthing/Panda “Pandamonium” Park Jam in the Lower East Side, shot by Allison Spain and edited by Jessie Auritt. The Fader just posted it with a great blurb by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd. These kinds get busy. Our joints and necks get sore just from watching, especially the kid who seems to have arms that can disconnect from his shoulders. Ouch? Anyway, we love the feel of these New York kids’s take on a West Coast dance set to the house/garage/breaks sound of Heavyfeet from Manchester.
“Not sure if Manchester dudes Heavyfeet made it to aNYthing’s jerk competition, where the footage for their video was shot (we didn’t and are pissed about it, but at least there’s a document). But the remarkable dexterity of the dancers fits the elasticity of the track, which has an almost turn-of-the-millennium UK garage-ness to it until it warps up and breaks into a really cathartic diva house crescendo. Then it gets back into the dirty synths, but these dudes sneak in tricks when you’re not looking—windy little synth parts, for instance, or a tiny snippet of classic hip-hop break. It’s almost like dance music nerd hide and seek, but fortunately for y’all normies, it drives smooth on the dancefloor too. Win-win. Track is off the Sawdust and Sultans EP on Plant Music, and it is coppable now!” – Fader
