Deckhead 2.0

Lately Australian (mainly Sydney) based producers have been killing it lately, names such as Cassian, Flight Facilities, Aston Shuffle are names that immediately spring to mind, with most of these artists dominating various genre’s beatport charts. There is one track that stands above all however, and that is Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP’s We Speak No Americano, it is currently sitting number 2 on the Beatport top download list.

The thing that makes the original track so special is the fact that YBC & DCUP both have different styles of music, on one hand we have a tropical party tech flavour and on the other hand we have one of the kings of Australian Nu Disco.

Spank Records and Sweat It out have just announced that the second annual Spank! Records remix competition and the track that has been chosen this year is non other than We Speak No Americano and on offer is a swag of prizes worth more than $5000.

Full details with how to enter, as well as the list of prizes up for grabs, sponsors and partners will be released at http://www.spankrecords.com.au/sweat-it-out-comp/ on Friday the 23rd of April. The competition will begin the same day.

As a little treat for you today I have a Spenda C edit of the track to give you a little taste of what people are doing with it. He keeps the quirky hooks and main themes of the original and has edited it by chopping up various drops making it a more Bmore/Dutch House/ Uk Funky vibe on the track

♪ Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP – We No Speak Americano (Spenda C Edit)

After a series of cheeky mash ups and killer mixtapes, Elmo Is Dead has finally finished his first remix and its pretty special! He chose to remix The Party Squad’s debut release CrazyFunky Style which was released in 2007 through Mad Decent. For a while this fun track flew under the radar and wasn’t noticed by many Australians, but recently many deejays have been using this as a kind of secret weapon to keep their crowds moving. The main man who has been promoting this track heavily is the king of cool Ajax, who even included it in his April chart of favorite tracks for the month.

Anyway back to the remix by Emoh, he has made it even more of party anthem adding additional horns drums and sirens to turn it into a “Ghetto Glam” (his words) remix. Let’s hope that this is the first of many remixes by the man.

♪ The Party Squad – Crazy Funky Style (Elmo is Dead Remix)

Jax

For someone who claims to be dead Chris Emerson aka Elmo Is Dead is doing a pretty good job of balancing production work, mixtape making and djing throughout Sydney. In the past year he has exploded onto the scene since parting way with his childhood friends Kas_Cid.

He managed to be the runner-up in the Soho DJ Search Competition and world famous judge Tommy Trash,  said this”Wow… I think you’ve just given fRew a little Dj Boner over here”. Was also a finalist for the ITM finalist ITM We Love Sounds Mixtape Competition and was the youngest performer at last years stereosnic music festival

Last year I featured some bootlegs last year on the old Deckhead and one of them peaked at No.1 on the hype machine music chart and Ajax played the track at We Love Sounds.

He has sent through two of his latest bootlegs today, I must apologise to all of you and him for holding them for so long, its just that they are pretty amazing to play out when I dj and wanted to keep these dj weapons for myself. Much like his dj sets, these two tracks are crowd pleasers. His ability to mash these together is pretty creative and is something that he mimics live.

Hopefully there will be more tracks to come over the next few months and maybe even a mixtape or two to showcase his ability.

Bootlegs:
♪ Underground Theme (Elmo is Dead Bootleg) – Debonair Samir/Bart B More/Seductive

♪ Make it Creamy (Elmo is Dead Bootleg) – Alvaro/Arcade/Federico Franchi

Jax