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The Stapler EP, out NOW! on Control Breaks

Here’s the press release:

“Lord of the twisted beats, Squatter, returns to Control Breaks with the long awaited Stapler EP. It contains two original tracks from his dark and malevolent mind, first up is the mercurial magic of ‘Roll It Up’. A true gem this track utilises the vocal talents of MC Regimental to give it that extra special punch.

‘Roll it Up’ arrives accompanied with a remix from Control Breaks top man, Section. He turns the track in a more 4/4 direction with some oh so very contemporary, heavy bass added.

Finally we reach the second piece of Squatter mayhem – ‘Married to a Stapler’ is a moving and deeply emotional tale of one man’s struggle to find happiness in a world that thinks him a perverted freak. Thankfully this sad tale is told not through poetry or lengthy monologues but jackin’ beats, thumping basslines and menacing synths.

All in all a truly startling package from a soon to be superstar producer!

Be sure to check out www.controlbreaks.com or www.myspace.com/controlbreaks for more details and a little sample from each of the classic tunes.”

And here are a few sites where you can get hold of the tracks:

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/178588/the_stapler_ep

http://www.breakbeatonline.com/search.php?searchString=squatter&criteria=0&format=3&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

http://www.trackitdown.net/artist/145515/squatter.html

http://www.djdownload.com/artist/Squatter/754523

Everyone should get RSI

If you missed the RSI radio show last night on Leith FM, the full download and playlist is here.

If you want some more squatter mixes, have a lookie here.

Mlle Y - Contemporary Dance Performance

Leith Radiyo

I’ve got me a guest mix slot on the mighty RSI Radio show on Leith FM. It’s this Friday evening, 26th June 2009 at 23:00 (I’m on at midnight).

TUNE IN AT http://www.leithfm.co.uk through your browser or download to a player of your choice. In the Edinburgh area at 98.8FM on your wireless transistor radios.

Kicking off this week’s show is Mike McGarrity from Edinburgh’s Pins and Needles club night followed by Kenny Redstar for a wee while playing some new material he’s picked up recently.

And a little heads up…

Next release is out 29th June on Control Breaks - ‘Married to a Stapler’ / ‘Roll It Up feat. MC Regimental’ (plus Section Remix) - a brooding, automated assault of an EP which will hopefully reearn IDJ Magazine’s recognition for ‘oddest track title of the month’

Collabs

I’ve just stuck up a list of links of people i’ve worked on tracks and things with and remixes etc. If i’ve missed you out then just badger me about it

collaborations

There are lots of new tracks a-brewing at the moment, but none have actually got to a finished point yet, hence no posts recently!

Incase anyone’s looked out of the window recently you’ll also notice that it’s summer, which may have something to do with it as well..

‘I dislocated the floor today’

Yes indeedy! Well, truth be told i didn’t, Rhian did. I was just asked to work with her to create some ‘upside-down dubstep’ for her contemporary dance film piece. One of the more interesting briefs i’ve had

The music for the piece has been called ‘vs gravity’, purely for my own amusement so that in a tracklisting it will appear as ’squatter vs gravity’ which suits the amount of trampolining i’ve been doing recently. yeah!

Blurby:

A piece by Rhian Farnworth.
Dancers: Cornelia Turner-Klier and Robert Keates
Music - ‘vs gravity’ devised specially for the piece by Squatter.

‘a screendance inspired by theories on the inverted world by Maurice Merleau-Ponty the oddness of an upside down world translated into a screendance of bodies supported by the wrong surfaces, gravity pulling from all directions and layers of dislocated legs.’

Head to the videos section to watch some other vids…

Metachemical - ‘Ghosts and Rockets’ + Squatter Edit released

Head to Juno or your favourite download site to have a listen…

Label press release:

PYRDD007

Hailing from Kingston, Ontario - half way between culture hot spots Toronto and Montreal. Metachemical has come into his own in 2009 as a spokesman for the Canadian breaks scene. Built on the foundations of big kick drums, LFOs, distortion and always a catchy hook.

Ghosts And Rockets is straight from the dance floor of broken beat goodness. Metachemical’s superb standard of production takes you on a rolling breaks journey with skill and flair. Its his first full release through Pyrate Music and its a belter !

http://www.myspace.com/metachemical

Also featured is Squatter’s edit, with his unique and eerie style. This remix has all the hallmarks that make Squatter justifiably Pyrate Music’s top remixer.

Flotsam … again

As is its wont, ‘Flotsam’ is still drifting about, and it has finally found its way onto the player on the right. You can have a listen through the 4 tracks of eclectic breaks, electro 4/4 housey weirdness and if you want one for keepsies then head to Juno (or whatever your favourite downloady place is) to get a copy.

Let me hear you say ‘garrrrrr’!

Advent Remix Challenge CDs finally available!!!

Wooooohooooooo!!!!!

For those blissfully unaware of my production endurance test, throughout advent i remixed a track from a different artist every single day.

These tracks are now available as shiny CDs in little clear boxes, expertly forged into seamless mixes by two of Pyrate Music’s top DJs Disfunk and Anek, and feature not only bucket loads of original music but also exclusive Squatter stylee artwork.

The mixes will be available at a later date, but these CDs are strictly limited edition, so act fast. In order to get hold of one do the following:

1. Email me - squatter.email at yahoo.co.uk - tell me your address, and how you want to pay for it - either in person or by post

2. I’ll then send you an email back with payment instructions

3. You pay the dosh - need i remind you that every and all profits from this are going to charity (making music). i get nowt

4. I post it in the next few days or hand it to you. hell, i can even sign it if you really want, or dribble on it a little bit.

How much you cry? For two CDs featuring 26 tracks comprising 140 minutes worth of music?

Ten pounds (plus £2 postage in UK, a bit more for overseas) Bargain. And it’s for charity.

Just think how cool you’ll look walking down the street holding the CDs high above your head and shouting for joy…

(here’s what’s on em. clickey pictures a few times to make them biiiiiig)

Disc 1 – Mixed by Disfunk

- chilled and dysfunctional

1. Iced Doughnut Collision Matrix – ‘Icarus Falling’ (Squatter ARC Refrain)
2. Bella – ‘Southbank’ (Squatter ARC Demix)
3. Spacebaby – ‘Morning After’

4. Azer Mantessa – ‘Sunsets’
5. The Report To Sorsha – ‘Mr Taylor’
6. A Sweet Niche – ‘How You Like Them Apples’
7. Metachemical – ‘Orange’
8. Gary Page – ‘Fake Lunar Landing’
9. Nicolette Corcoran – ‘Stronger’
10. Venetia and the Voltage – ‘Is This The Best’ (Squatter ARC Chill Mix)
11. Rhys Miles Thomas – ‘I Just Don’t Know’
12. TWISTOR – ‘PARIS Je t’aime’
13. UK Funk Junkies – ‘Junkie’ (Squatter ARC Medley)
14. LemDom – ‘freestylin’

all tracks (Squatter ARC remix) unless otherwise stated

Disc 2 – Mixed by Anek

- stompy breaks and dirty beats

1. Dougie Evans – ‘Statica’

2. Jason Porter – ‘Four in a Box’

3. Lightshapers – ‘Havana’

4. Electric Soulside – ‘What I Want’

5. Jonny Loves House – ‘Care About Your Love’

6. Chop, Chop: Bear Touch? – ‘The Dancefloor is a Scary Place’

7. The Poopahs – ‘Lead Me Out’

8. Diarrhoea Victim – ‘Me Ow’

9. DJ Somsay feat. Gen - ‘Keep It Up’

10. The Specialist – ‘Sister Medusa’

11. Venetia and the Voltage – ‘Is This the Best’ (Squatter ARC Trancy Remix)

12. Dee Mond – ‘Pyrate’s Gold’

all tracks (Squatter ARC remix) unless otherwise stated

Hull International Short Film Festival

I recently completed some sound design work for a short film titled ‘Endless Cry’.
The film is wicked and went down well, and as such it is to be shown at the 7th Hull International Short Film Festival ‘Glimmer 2009′.

Huzzah! Nice work V!