High Powered Boys (Surkin &amp; Bobmo) - Work. SOUND PELLEGRINO 2011

High Powered Boys - Work

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/girly-crash-single/id435995348 
http://beatport.com/s/r1xAit

Surkin and Bobmo are originally from Southern France, respectively Avignon and Bordeaux, and they were still living there when they decided to launch their duo project High Powered Boys about 5 or 6 years ago. They both followed successful solo careers, spinning all over the world, in underground Japanese clubs as well as huge Euro festivals, and have been mostly releasing their material on Institubes so far, and dozens of remixes over the years. Oh and a Surkin LP is to be released on Marble in september. 

The boys have been settled in Paris for some years now and still pursue their collaboration, as shown on recent Sound Pellegrino release « Udon/Work », and right now on the third Marble installment, called « Girly/Crash ». Pushing further the riddim-based freakish bipolarity of « Udon », those two tracks are sure gonna cause mayhem on dancefloors, but in an alien, psychoactive way. 

« Girly » is a juke-influenced beat led by insane bleepy hi-toms and a start-stop groove that claps and shakes like nothing else before except that lady with the Louise Brooks haircut in the video for Sean Paul’s Get Busy. Synthhorns breaks and digi-whistles make this monster track even more vicious and angular-grooved, yet totally overwhelming. This is mental body music at its best, straightly aimed towards the future but not really making a whole thing about it – this is actually pretty sparse, minimalistic music. This is not even recommended : this is necessary listening. 

« Crash » begins with E’d-up, old school UK style bleepy melody and washes, plus some equally hazy-eyed vocal bits, then breaks into a rushing, stiff Funky riddim without all the flowing, easy vibe usually heard within the genre – instead, this is kevlar-plated bass stabs and psychic-ward arpeggios all around, both giving the tune a strong dystopian flavour. Then it goes back to the defunct utopia, but then goes back again to the dark side, setting a mechanically hypersyncopated feeling to the beat. Distinct bipolarity here, most definitely.

Boys Noize 5/5 : "Girly is a bomb" 
Annie Mac 5/5 : "Sublime. Love this" 
Drop The Lime 5/5 : " Girly is BULLET IN A CLUB GUN!" 
Bok Bok 4/5 : "This is totally crazy, i'm definitely on this Girly track" 
Teki Latex 5/5 : "A blacker and fatter Errorsmith yet still white and skinny" 
Crookers 5/5 : "Both tracks are amazing" 
Trevor Jackson 5/5 : "Totally retarded, and dumb as fuck but for some strange reason i like it?!..."

Illustration by Jonathan Zawada : http://zawada.com.au/ 
Identity by Museum studio : http://www.museumstudio.se/ 
Text by Etienne Menu.


High Powered Boys (Surkin & Bobmo) - Girly

High Powered Boys (Surkin & Bobmo) - Crash

http://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/marble-summer-ep/id443178097 
https://www.beatport.com/fr-FR/html/content/release/detail/383426/marble-summer-ep#

Summer’s here, and following their late winter-early spring installment, the Marble Players Para One, Bobmo and Surkin have something warmer and easier to show you. This is the Marble Summer EP.

« Let You Go » is just the bomb. A feeling from nineties hedonistic, horny French dance music is definitely on, complete with multiple vocals from the goddessess of joy, engaged in a dialogue with each other about what they’re gonna do after sunset. The bass has massive feel-good-feel-cool potential while the strings and keys are making the whole thing lightly deeper and briefly romantic. An exhilarating triumph of emotional confusion, miraculously enclosed in one single club hit.

« Paris is Burning » opens up with a sample from the eponymous classic documentary movie about NYC vogue scene in the late eighties. The track itself is all feverish pumping beats and in-your-face bass, infused with a vintage NYC Tenaglia/Vasquez dark, tribal feeling. Get ready Ibiza. Get ready Miami. Get ready, World.

« Wipe Out » is the summer riddim, a juvenile Riviera cousin of « Marble Anthem » or « Girly ». Glittering vocal bits and bittersweet organ chords switch to big deafening bass, hi-res dominatrix synths and punishing electrofunk beats. Just let yourself whip by the heat.

« Minute of Love » is just what it says except it’s actually three minutes and a half. It’s a midtempo house ballad featuring gliding keyboard washes, clavinova stabs and melancholy whistles, reactivating a long-lost summer rammed with hazy sex sensations and life-changing reflective lights. A soundtrack for the end of love – or for its very beginning.

Text by Etienne Menu 
Identity by Museum Studio : http://www.museumstudio.se/ 
Illustration by Rimo : http://rimofrommocrock.com/

Marble Players (Surkin, Para One, Bobmo) - Paris Is Burning

Marble Players (Surkin, Para One, Bobmo) - Minute of Love

http://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/marble-summer-ep/id443178097 
https://www.beatport.com/fr-FR/html/content/release/detail/383426/marble-summer-ep#

Summer’s here, and following their late winter-early spring installment, the Marble Players Para One, Bobmo and Surkin have something warmer and easier to show you. This is the Marble Summer EP.

« Let You Go » is just the bomb. A feeling from nineties hedonistic, horny French dance music is definitely on, complete with multiple vocals from the goddessess of joy, engaged in a dialogue with each other about what they’re gonna do after sunset. The bass has massive feel-good-feel-cool potential while the strings and keys are making the whole thing lightly deeper and briefly romantic. An exhilarating triumph of emotional confusion, miraculously enclosed in one single club hit.

« Paris is Burning » opens up with a sample from the eponymous classic documentary movie about NYC vogue scene in the late eighties. The track itself is all feverish pumping beats and in-your-

Marble Players (Surkin, Para One, Bobmo) - Wipe Out

Marble Players (Surkin, Para One, Bobmo) - Let You Go

Fan Out

Radio Fireworks

Streetwise EP
1 Mind Games 
2 Streetwise 
3 The Bim Bam Song 
4 The Machine 
5 Chords

OUT NOW http://itunes.apple.com/album/streetwise-ep/id526381298

High Powered Boys (Surkin & Bobmo) - Streetwise

Mighty Love → I Want You Back → Your Way

Produced by Surkin & Todd Edwards @ Marble Studios

Surkin & Todd Edwards "I Want You Back" music video directed by @LILINTERNET : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3T2XblxvPg

Pre-order 'I Want You Back' now on iTunes: http://bit.ly/IWYBitp
Limited vinyl edition of 100 available here: http://bit.ly/IWYB12v
More info on http://www.soundpellegrino.net


Surkin & Todd Edwards - I Want You Back EP (Teaser)

ADVANCED ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM EP
OUT NOW :)

http://itun.es/i6Jz5VV


Oedo 606

Here is a mix I did for Monki's Radio 1 show a couple of weeks ago. 
Enjoy!

Elektroids - Stun Gun (A capella) - Warp Records
French Fries - Space Alarm - Dirty Birds
Sinjin Hawke - Prom Night - Pelican Fly
Para one - You (Live Mix) - Marble
Maelstrom - Lux - BNR trax
Symphony Hall - One Night Stand (Canblaster & Brodinski Remix) - Marble
Worldlife - Vision - Motorik
Kikumoto Allstars - Jack The House -  International Deejay Gigolos Records
Girl Unit - Club Rez (Beatapella)- Night Slugs 
Dopplereffekt - Superiour Race - International Deejay Gigolos Records`
Randomer - Need U - Randomer Records
Bobmo - Hot Spot - Marble
Xpansions - Move Your Body - Optimism Records
Wildlife - Armagideon Time (Sam Tiba Remix) - Phree Music
Clouds - Terrorcore - Twin Turbo
Skream - Bang That
Djedjotronic - Kaiko - Boys Noize Records
Surkin - Tiger Rhythm - Marble
Canblaster - I Can't Wait (Demo) - Marble

Surkin - BBC Radio 1 Guest Mix

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