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The masterful Budakid is back on Exploited with two beautiful tracks.
A spellbinding, slow-burning slice of melodic-tinged house music, ‘Ringo Bingo’ has shades of Todd Terje in its spacious arrangement, rolling groove and gorgeous riffage. An electro arpeggio percolates over the throbbing bass tones; heavily reverbed percussive hits create atmosphere; and nagging piano chords build a tense melodic backbone. The cute lead melody is at once euphoric and melancholy, and a stunning synth solo in the mid-section adds some dazzling freestyle energy that really opens the track.

‘’Ringo Bingo’ is for me a travel between fusion, club and a glimpse of electronic jazz” says the man behind the track. “I n the break I asked an old friend of mine — Rolf van de Sande, with whom I used to play in a band — to come up with a jazzy and extraordinary solo. He totally nailed it. I wrote the arrangement in the end around the solo, and let the groove take over the focus at the climax to get more of a dance feel to it. This is one of the tracks that was a pain in the ass to finish and mix because it was full of harmonies and melodies. But I thought "If Snarky Puppy can do it, I can try to do it..."

‘Aku Aku’ goes deeper still, with lush strings decking out a light arrangement where shuffling percussion and dreamy, crystalline chime melodies flit across the surface. The chimes are seamlessly bolstered by live bass guitar, doubling the melody up a treat, with splashes of percussive texture here and there bringing a little extra spice. A few piano chords later on are all that are needed to complete this sublime track.

"Aku Aku" is more of a dubby groove based track where I tried to use only a few elements. A hallucinogenic melody that's very repetitive, but easy on the ear due to its polyrhythm and harmony. Once a friend listened to it and said "Kevin, this sounds like an old 00's game". I totally agreed, so one of my favourite game characters was an inspiration for the name.”

Early Feedback:
DJ Mag France: Ringo Bingo is a nice mixture of sounds.
5Mag: He will appear in the next issue of 5Mag.
Dave Aju: Love the texture and 6/8 line in Aku Aku, would be dope to hear it over some alt rhythms too, nice one!
Claptone: Thx!
Riva Starr: Thanks for the music.
Matthias Meyer: Aku Aku is cool. 
Christian Martin: Love Aku Aku.
John Digweed: Downloading.
Biesmans: Ringo Bingo is a nice groover. 
Horse Meat Disco/Severino: Lovely.
Eelke Kleijn: I know this is good!
DJ T: Thank you for the music.
Annie Mac/BBC Radio 1: Downloaded for Annie.
Karotte: Aku Aku is cool. Like it.
RSS Disco: On the point - as always. Smooth & warm. Takes me places! Quality material. 

Artist: Budakid 
Release: Ringo Bingo
Label: Exploited
Cat: EXPDIGITAL211
LC: 15799 
Publisher: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing
Releasedate Beatport/Spotify: 19.02.21
Releasedate I-Tunes (all other stores): 05.03.21

Ringo Bingo

Ringo Bingo (Radio Edit)

Budakid - Ringo Bingo (Radio Edit) I Exploited

Amine Cherif, aka MAC, found his way into electronic music at a young age, co-founding his first collective and landing an early residency at Play Bar with the “Disco Fresh” nights. He quickly became a familiar name on the Tunis scene, playing regularly across bars and clubs. Later, he joined Downtown Vibes and helped shape the country’s underground culture. Now based in Paris, MAC continues to make his mark. Having held a residency at Rue Princesse and co-founding Paris House Community, the first French media dedicated to house music. His sets blend deep grooves, electro, and nostalgic emotion, always aiming to tell a story.

| | Feierfront, Uslar | |
| | Deep House Metropolis | |
| | Rhythmustherapie, Göttingen ||
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Kontakt: martin.inoffiziell.musik@gmail.de
oder Instagram, Soundcloud.
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Martin got connected to electronic music by his brother. He was fascinated by DJ gear and DJing, and he learnt mixing quite quick. Basically from the dancefloor into the booth.
After gathering first expieriences at "Feierfront" in his hometown Uslar, he was hired for first gigs in local clubs, open-airs and radioshows.
His prefered genres are Tech/Deep House, Melodic/Organic/ Afro House and Downtempo, but also grooving Techno. Driving, melodical, rhytmic, dancing summarieses Martins style.

Martin is a crew member of Deep House Metropolis and Feierfront Uslar.
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Gast Podcast :

- HOMETOWNRECORDSHN PODCAST
- MELODIC. DEEP. HOUSE (HOT SHOT SERIES 030)
- LOVE IS LOVE PODCAST NO 36
- 1:KLANG PODCAST 059 
- AKA TAPES NO 167
- BUNTELIEBE RECORDS BLR RADIO 26
- DEEP HOUSE ORGANIC "MIRUM"
- HSTLR PDCST # 27
- TEHRAN EYE RADIO SHOW # 43
- NATIVIS PODCAST
- DEEP HOUSE METROPOLIS
- WELTENBUMMLER PODCAST # 53
- ORCHESSONS - GUEST MIX # 23
- THE KARISMATIK PODKAST # 82
- UNDERGRUND COLOMBO SUPTERRÂNEA # 068 
- KOLLEKTIV.BLAUE.STUNDE - PODCAST 049 
- MONTAGSGRUSS # 52
- SCHUBCAST 042 
- VELVET MIX VIBES
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Styles:  
- Electronic Music

Clubs/Gigs:
- Panoptikum - Club (Kassel)
- Red Carpet (Göttingen)
- Capo Bar (Göttingen)
- Electric Note (Göttingen)
- Matrix (Nörten - Hardenberg)
- Rhythmustherapie (Göttingen)
  diverse Open Air´s and  Gig´s
Radio:
- Just Crazy (Stadt Radio Göttingen)
- Radio e-volution (Stadt Radio Göttingen)
- Minimalcityradio (Freies Radio Kassel)
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Ex Dj Duo Er & Ich ( Feierfront Uslar, Kellerkinder Göttingen )

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