DANGEROUS DAN
"THE RITZ"
*DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE*
1. The Ritz
2. The Ritz (Riton Live in Amsterdam Version)
BangGang12s started off with it's first release from Dangerous in 2006 (remember that cover of Around The World) and it only took 29 records for him to do another. either he is ingeniously lazy or ingeniously sporadic or ingeniously lucky, whatever it is here is BG30 from Dan, look forward to BG60 from Dangerous.
And now a few words from the man himself about this record...
Just in time for summer, here is your now mastered version of DANGEROUS DAN'S new Jam "THE RITZ". It's called "THE RITZ" cause it actually uses bits of an old song called "THE RITZ", or putting it on "THE RITZ", or put it on "THE RITZ", whatever - TACO did a cover of it in the 80's. Cool.
Well this is the 2000's, not the CDJ 2000's but the year 2000's. Whatever (again). This song is a mega dance jam, kinda cheesy but still kinda cool, its got some noise but got some groove and in the middle its got a gimmick of a breakdown that kids go nuts too. It is a banger. Mega, festival, mainroom, high in your car type banger.
TIGA said its not his style but he gets it and don't change a thing. AEROPLANE love it and promise to play it every set. My brother BENI who I hold in the highest of respect says its DOPE and he is gonna do a remix when he has time. The rest of my friends who have heard it have written a reaction below...
RITON has been caning it and had the courtesy to give you an example of what its sounds like "live" playing it at a festival in Amsterdam, you get to see what its sounds like when 12,000 Dutch try to groan in key. Weird.
Download it, listen to it, love it/hate it, cue it, mix it, drop it, dance to it, enjoy it, play it again.
PUT IT ON THE RITZ.
Link: BUY ONLINE
Artwork: ???
HYSTEREO
"CITYSPEAK"
A1: Cityspeak
A2: Hysterica
B1: Cityspeak (Arveene + Misk Remix)
B2: Cityspeak (Deadbots + Hystereo Remix)
CITYSPEAK and HYSTERICA - in typical HYSTEREO style - are straight-up noisy dancefloor bangers with synths and big as fuck drums. ARVEENE & MISK strip it back and take things a few leagues deeper with their its-all-about-the-bassline techy tech mix and HYSTEREO along with fellow citymen, DEADBOTS, pretty things up in their melodic retake.
Link: HYSTEREO
Artwork: Mitch Beige Brown
POLARGEIST
"HOME FROM THE CAN"
A1: Home From The Can
A2: Use Me
B1: Home From The Can (Tensnake Remix)
B2: Home From The Can (nes Remixed by The Bang Gang)
Polargeist. 2 guys from Germany. That's all I know about them. This is their first release. It's got two dark building tech chuggers with some blissed out chords, and a fruity lil breakdown in one of them. Tensnake reworks "Home" into a moody summer persussive house number and BangGang get all aussie-French house on the original. With that we have this 4 track release. Enough said. Who even reads these blurbs anyway? Sheesh.
"The orig is my fave track of the year so far... Bang Gang have been putting out some of my fave tracks in the last few months..."
EROL ALKAN
Link: ???
Artwork: Gus Da Hoodrat
CASSIAN
"FRIDAY NIGHT" EP
A1: Friday Night
A2: Fuck Song
B1: Final Round
From the bright sunny heights of Sydney suburbia, after months spent tweaking in his studio/parents living room comes the original fuuuuuunky-fresh Zulu synth warrior, Cassian, with his 3 track release on BangGang 12s. This is Cassian's debut outing after remixing the likes of Empire of the Sun, Bag Raiders, Damn Arms, Classix and Miami Horror.
The lead track, "Friday Night" is the perfect weekend synth jam with wah wah guitar, disco vocals, stabbing guitar chords, horn stabs and more. "Final Round" is feel good summer opus with distorted bassline (of course), arcade game samples, knockout drums and filters filters filters. The "Fuck Song" (as the title suggests) is a super smooth jazz piano funk number with strat riffs, filtered funk chords, trumpet stabs, crooning vibrato solos and a smoooooooooth deep synth bassline.
Lots more coming from this kid real soon.
Link: CASSIAN
Artwork: Gus Da Hoodrat
GOLDEN BUG
"ASSASSIN" EP
A1. Assassin
A2. Ghost Day
B1. Last Dance In Tokyo
B2. Last Dance In Tokyo (GLOVES Rewrite)
Just in time for the (Australian) summer, Golden Bug touches dooooown with his long awaited "Assassin" Ep After his debut album "Hot Robot" on Gomma a last year and remixes for the likes of Delphic, GLOVES, Adam Freeland, Rodion and Lost Valentinos the robot loving French Barecelonian, now crosses many a ocean to release his best-yet-sick-stuff 5 track cut-disco feel-real-good release on, BangGang 12s.
The title track "Assassin" is a slow tempo new-not-nu-kinda-old school electro track with a dark hypnotic bassline, acid keyboards and pitched vocals.
"Ghost Day" is a chugging spaced out cosmic disco builder that swings all over the place and features Yoshimi Yamano Aka AMWE from Japan on guest vocals.
"Last Dance in Tokyo" is a Tribal discoid summer jam with tonnes of vocoder, 80's keyboard stylings and a killer of a watch-ya-bassbins-bassline.
"Lord of Pleasure" is a building somewhere-between-start-of-the-night-and-peak of-the-night-dancefloor-weeapon with tripped out "for your love" vocals, guitar hits and moody breakdown blissed out breakdowns.
And then on remix duties Melbourne all round partyman and synth lover, GLOVES, takes "Last Dance", keeping slabs of the original and reworks in into a ozzie hands in the air summer piano disco house affair.
Link: GOLDEN BUG
Artwork: Adam Paquette
TOECUTTER
"BEST PARTY EVER"
A1. Best Party Ever (Toecutter's Banggang 12" Mix)
A2. Best Political Party Ever (Captain Ahab)
A3. Best Cocksucking Party Ever (Dj Rainbow Ejaculation)
B1. Best Party Ever (Shazam Remix)
B2. Best Party Ever (Jono Ma Remix)
B3. Best Party Ever (Electromeca Rotten Cream Cheese Mix)
Toecutter has been sitting on this one since 1984 when he recorded the hook onto a cassette and spent nearly twenty five years deliberating on its merits. In the last two years, it has been remixed by such dance music notables as Shazam, Jono Ma, Captain Ahab, Electromeca, and Dj Rainbow Ejaculation.
Basically, it's been the "Cops are Coming!" anthem of Sydney's squat party underground but the Bang Gang boys have now brought it into the light!!!
So enjoy the Rough Trade, acid-come-down, Roule inspired, world domination, 8-bit gabber, grind-house festival of noise provided by these outstanding artists!
Link: TOECUTTER
Artwork: Emily Hasslehoof
GLOVES
"PYX"
A1: PYX
A2: Too Much To Dream
A3: PYX (Ben Browning Remix)
B1: PYX (Golden Bug Remix)
B2: PYX (Strip Steve Paradise Dub)
From the deep dark cold depths of Melbourne down and out disco suburbia comes the long-long-please-send-me-the-masters-already-long-long awaited debut release from serial hit maker, synth wiz, coffee addict and all round dudebabe, Gloves. Fresh, from the titanic sinking of his former musical yacht, Damn Arms, and off the back of remixes for the likes of Cut Copy, Vanshe, Sneaky Sound System, The Deathset, The Scare and Ted & Francis, Gloves sails bright into the dance horizon with his first 2 track original release on BangGang12s.
The lead track, P.Y.X is a cut up party Prince-esque monster full of electric guitar solos, live bass guitar slaps, silky smooth pianos, Jarre-esque laser harp and movie vocal chops... "are we having fun yet". First appearing in demo mode on BangGang's "D Is for Disco, E is For Dancing" mix CD late last year, PYX has been newly check-out-the-engine-on-this-hotted-up for the release. Then "Too Much To Dream" is a dreamy slow dance disco house joint showcasing why Gloves is as popular with the ladies as is with the bloggers...
And then for the remixes... Golden Bug, our favourite French-Barcelona-Gommazonian turns PYX into an epic summer disco affair, Cut Copy's bass playing wizard Ben Browning converts it into a guitar heavy early night foot tapper and Strip Steve offers up two retakes - the "Paradise Dub" - reworking it into an extra length late night disco number and the "remix" adding Strip Steve's signature erratic boy-noize-rekids cut up 90's house touch.
Link: GLOVES
Artwork: Lachlan Dickie at KROZM
Hey Today!
"Wonderman E.p."
A1: Kicktro
A2: If I Was Wonderman
B1: Wonderman
B2: If I Was Wonderman (Bobmo Remix)
Hey Today!, the Hamburgian duo of Raik Fargo and Dy! emerge from long months spent twiddling knobs, eating icecream on mars and listening to themselves twiddle deeeeep inside their tekhno bunker to offer up their latest and greatest 3 track (plus Kicktro), 'Wonderman E.P', on BangGang12s.
Following on from their debut release on Kitsune last year, remixes for Digitalism (Kitsune), Shazam (Bang Gang) and Zombie Nation (Turbo) and time spent appreciating the wonders of German sausage, Wonderman combines the duo's epic production talents with robotic vocoding, synth solos and female (not diva) vocals to produce a very German-non-German-sounding-superhero-house stormer.
"Wish I Was a Wonderman" is a slow chugging euphoric noisy-but-not-too-noisy jammer that works just as well for foot tapping, head nodding, chin stroking and body moving alike. As big on the breakdowns as it is on the synth stabs, this one will tear holes in the dancefloors from Beirut to Berlin.
Wonderman reworks the title track into a faster and even noisier affair that is straight up peak-time hands in the air "have you got any more Es woah here comes the breakdown im peaking" fun.
And Parisian Instituber Bobmo takes the original and jams it through his trademark 90's cut-ghetto-dance-maniac hit machine to produce a rave-but-not-nu-rave missile to finish off this release.
Sick. More coming from these two real soon.
Link: Hey Today!
Artwork: Mitch Beige Brown
Damn Arms
"Destination Remixes"
A1: Destination (DerDieDas Remix)
A2: Destination (Banggang12s Happy Acid Reshuffle)
B1: Destination (Jaunt Remix)
B2: Destination (Munk Remix)
After the release of Damn Arms' two part not-quite-smash-hit-but-should-have-been-"Destination" release early this year, BangGang 12s has roped in a bunch of their favourite artists for remix duties to set the good ship Destination a sail once more. And wow did we get a lot of remixes. Woah. One million and counting.
DerDieDas... The two men with the most German sounding name in dance produced the least sounding German remix possible, turning out a super feel-good melodious synth-heavy retake; Jaunt reworked it into a French-House-Slash-Dark-Trance-affair (is that a new genre?); BangGang (that's us!) don't stray too far from original, injecting a tad more acidy balls into it; and Munk lend their signature Gomma-fied blissed out Summer disco vibes to it. Then Cassian (latest stupidly young musical man on BG12s) makes that shit FUNK-Y (yes I did just use the word funky). Mitzi (winner of Spank Records/BangGang12s Destination remix compeition) offer up a slow chugging percussive kinda disco version; Ted & Francis keep things all 80s soundtrack, and Riggarutz turns it into a piece of beautiful eleontronica so nice you feel like crying.
Told you there are LOTS of remixes on this one. Phew.
Link: Damn Arms
Artwork: Mitch Beige Brown
The Lowbrows
"Dream In The Desert"
A1: Dream In The Desert
A2: Dream In The Desert (Hystereo Rebrand)
B1: Melody & Shudder
B2: Melody & Shudder (Daniel Haaksman Remix)
Japanese boyfriend/girlfriend super dance duo, The Lowbrows, roll up and serve out their, "Dream and the Desert" and "Melody & Shudder" double-headed sumo debut on BangGang 12inches this June.
Dream in the Desert is an epic and dramatic, sci-fi-esque mover with strings, karate movie vocal chops, slap-happy bassline and dreamtime synths. Underwater lullaby electro to watch manga and eat shabu-shabu to.
"Melody and Shudder" couldn't be more different... A melodic, euphoric, baltimor-ish stomper. Nursery ryhme club music, carousel-carni-beat, Hoe-Down-Dodgem-Car baltimore at it's best.
And then for the remixes: Hystereo bang out two versions of "Dream In The Desert" with the "Rebrand" keeping things extra cut-up and arpeggiated and the "Revision" taking things a few leagues deeper with it's growling rolling bassline.
Man Recordings head-honcho and all round nice guy, Daniel Haaksman adds his trademark beauty touch and hooverfart bassline and Flight Facilties camp shit up with an epic 8 minute piano disco retake.
Link: The Lowbrows
Artwork: Kyle Bush
