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Life Is A Highway

Produced by Jean Charles Carre, Joachim Garraud, David Guetta & Pascal Lemaire for Gum Records. 

David Guetta - ACDC

It was great to witness the outpouring of love and respect for Gil Scott-Heron over the weekend. 

A true innovator and inspiration to so many, I wanted something to play out over the weekend and came across this forgotten classic whilst digging through the collection.

Even though it has very little to do with Gil Scott-Herons usual production style being a house track (produced by Paul Waller) built on a selection of samples from classic records including Mr Fingers 'Can You Feel It', 808 State's "Pacific State' and vocal snippets from First Choice's "Let No Man Put Asunder', there's a rawness to the production that's totally fitting to Gil Scott-Herons apocalyptic tale.

Gil Scott-Heron - Space Shuttle (Leftside Wobble Edit)

A teaser of a forthcoming Little Dragon remix. It may get tweaked slightly but I've been road testing this stripped back Chicago influenced version and it always gets a huge response so thought I'd preview it here.

And a little reminder of those forthcoming parties. If you're in London on December 10th I'm hosting another party with the legendary Sancho Panza crew at The Regent in West London, further info at http://tinyurl.com/cqyvesg

And a little closer to home I'm playing alongside the kings of Balearic, the Project Club's Steve Lee & Graham Fisher at Big In Japan this Friday @ The Book Club in Shoreditch. Always a complete roadblock, this should also be a rather special evening - further details @ http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?310227

Almost forgot to add that Elisco gets it's digital release tomorrow and something not many people know is that as well as making fab tunes with Lou Teti , Jkriv is also the bass player in Escort so it really would have been sinful of me to forget! You can get it exclusively from Juno download - http://www.junodownload.com/products/elisco/1865413-02/

SummerTearz - Leftside Wobble Remix

So hard to pick a favourite from Grace Jones but this is definitely up there for me. Completely restructured the song with this edit, creating a huge tease before the chorus finally kicks in.

As ever, hope you like... x

Grace Jones - Walking In The Rain (Leftside Wobble 'Being Grace' Edit)

These are tracks created by users of Paul McCartney's New Rude Studio at http://www.paulmccartney.com/web/guest/rude-studio

Monkberry Moon Delight Mix2 - Stacy Brandt

A personal edit that I'm releasing to celebrate the 6th Birthday of Big In Japan this month: http://tinyurl.com/bnsnc93 (with a party featuring the legendary Daniel Wang and disco don Ray Mang).

This ones all about the rhythm track overdubs and subtle filtering. Sometimes an edit needs a very light touch and with a track so perfect this is certainly the case here.

St Germain - Rose Rouge (Leftside Wobble Bump & Hustle Edit)

GIL-SCOTT HERON [Lady day@ John Coltrain recode]

First edit of 2011 (I know, I've been a bit slack of late!). This ones an alternative spin on the Patrick Adams produced Jocelyn Brown classic. 9 minutes of dubbed up late night disco shenanigans. Hopefully you'll approve...

A couple of DJ bits for the diary too. For any followers in Florida, I'm playing a maiden set of Chicago house meets disco at the Electric Pickle in Miami tomorrow night (Friday 21st Jan - http://tinyurl.com/6xfudwx ) and then from Sunday through till Wednesday I'm be doing a bit of a Cafe Del Mar number poolside at the Fontainebleau on Miami Beach. On my return to UK you can catch me at Stereo Sleaze in Shoreditch on Saturday 29th Jan - http://tinyurl.com/6ktju2m

Till next time. x

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