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This April sees the debut release from Graeme Sinden's brand new record label, Grizzly. The London-based producer and DJ has a syndicated show on Kiss FM and column in DJ magazine, so it's only fitting that he should add Label Boss to his list of titles.
Constantly questing after quality new sounds, Sinden cut his teeth making productions with Switch and is now part of the hotly tipped production partnership, The Count and Sinden, whose debut album is due out on Domino in Autumn 2010.
Who better to get the proceedings underway than the label boss himself alongside elusive masked man SBTRKT (remixer of Tinie Tempah, Basement Jaxx, These New Puritans), a producer Sinden has been supporting since hearing his tracks on MySpace (remember when people used to do that?) at the tail end of 2008. SBTRKT has recently had the airwaves in a stir with Mary Anne Hobbs, Annie Mac, Mistajam, Benji B, Rob Da Bank and Gilles Peterson all singing his praises. It was only when Sinden booked SBTRKT to play one of his Get Familiar parties and SBTRKT tipped back his trademark wooden African mask that he realized this producer he'd been supporting was actually a friend from way back! Swapping ideas soon after, the collaboration was on instant lock!
'Midnight Marauder', is rolling techno fuzzing with a teetering bass line, reggae sirens and jamaican patois adlibs. Typical of the two involved, it's decidedly grey area - impossible to categorise if you tried. One thing about this track is certain though - it's primed for peak time on the dancefloor, with swung drum rhythms and a snaking acid line that wont quit. 'Kind Of Familiar', on the flip side, is a different Grizzly beast altogether. A much deeper Grizzly beast. Opening with astral twinkles, cosmic pads and longing melodic chords we're introduced to a whispering female vocal. "Kind of familiar," she murmurs, but the stabbing pizzacato strings that come next are totally unexpected. As is the wiggly bass line and hard stuttering drums - a perfect juxtaposition.
The second Grizzly release, Brodinski's 'Arnold Classics', looks set to be no less special with a number of speaker-shattering remixes already in the bag from the likes of Tony Senghore, Egyptrixx and DJ Sega, and widespread tastemaker DJ support. See if you can guess the 'windy' sample...
TRACKLISTING:
A. Midnight Marauder
B. Kind Of Familiar
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04.05.2010
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GRIZZLY002
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