R1 Ryders are back again, this time smashing up Major Lazer’s dancehall monster Pon De Floor.
These guys seem to seriously have their finger on the pulse right now. They’ve picked up an already remixed to death tune and still made something fresh sounding whilst retaining enough of the original to make it recognisable and a surefire dancefloor smash in a dj set. Similarly to what they did with their funkitek remix of La Roux (see here) – they’ve crafted a monster that will cater for both sides of a crowd, those who want singalong tunes that they know and those who are sick of hearing the same tunes everywhere and want to hear something fresh. I’m definitely playing this on Saturday at Southern Sound festival.
They seem to have fully mastered the art of self promotion as well, they regularly update their twitter and facebook (unlike a lot of artists) with relevant stuff, which is the whole reason why I follow them in the first place. I found out today that their first EP – Burnout EP – just got released on iTunes (get it here). This is a seriously good move on their part – generally if I’m looking for tunes I have to scour so many sites just to find what I’m after that most (non DJ) people would give up. The iTunes store is the first port of call for most people, and it’s really disappointing the lack of UK underground tunes that are on there. Rant over – go buy Burnout EP now if only for the insanely catchy Rubberband which I have been humming constantly since I got the vinyl and will probably have to get now to slam on the iPod.
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