Phone Dat!

Trash Menagerie
“Phonat is creating eye-opening and inspiring music”

The Culture of Me
“We're saying it: you may be looking at the best track and best video of 2009, from none other than Phonat"

Italian producer Phonat has been catching the ears of a fair few tastemakers with his last few singles and EP releases. Include the likes of Annie Mac, Annie Nightingale, Fake Blood, Steve Aoki, Andy George and Pete Tong to the list and you can see why the lofty Italian has been marked out as one to watch this year.

Now, ahead of his eponymous debut album due out in September on MofoHifi Records, Phonat releases ‘Set Me Free’ a staccato-synthed stomper of a track, where classic 80’s rock vocals provide the support. A standout from the forthcoming album, Phonat hasn’t skimped on remixers with the first coming courtesy of Avicii, the latest ‘made’ man in the Swedish House Mafia. Proving his pedigree Avicii chops vocals and swirls synths to create a hands in the air Balearic bomb, early copies of which are already becoming staples in the record boxes of the more discerning DJ. Trust us, this guy is killing it!

Bleeps and basslines are the order of the day on High Rankin’s re-rub as the dubstep dandy leads listeners to the dancefloor, albeit down a slightly murkier back route, before Louis La Roche’s Reconstruction adds a tougher, twisted edge to complete the package. While your going to love every last peice of Phonat and his remixing-legion's EP, our pick is the Avicii remix - what a winner!

Phonat - Set Me Free (Original Extended Mix)

Phonat - Set Me Free (Avicii Remix)

Phonat - Set Me Free (Louise La Roche Remix)

Phonat - Set Me Free (High Rankin Remix)

Check Phonat on Myspace and Beatport nowwww.

Enjoy!
Sammy.

Avicii Hey?

Floating around at in the early hours of the morning and the lads behind Black Candy Productions bust a great bootleg over to us from an artist straight out of Stockholme. Knowing the impeccable and broad tastes of the BC Productions crew when it comes to a musical aspect, we we're sure the tune was going to get us going. It did. The bootleg is by a Swedish guy named Avicii and he's mashed up his sounds with 'The Beastie Boys' (for a modern electro blog we are talking about these lad's way to much!) tune 'Time To Get Ill'. It all works, it smacks you around with very heavy lead synths and thumping breakdowns, all concluding into a nice progressive bassline that makes you pray for something other than laptop speakers!

Avicii vs Beastie Boys - Time To Get Ill (Avicii Bootleg)

Avicii on Myspace Music and Beatport

Hope you enjoi,

Sammy.