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The Stapler EP, out NOW! on Control Breaks
Written by Squatter on June 29, 2009 – 1:03 pm -
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.trackitdown.net/artist/145515/squatter.html
http://www.djdownload.com/artist/Squatter/754523
Tags: ep, malevolent, married to a stapler, mc regimental, remix, roll it up, section, stapler
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‘I dislocated the floor today’
Written by Squatter on April 27, 2009 – 5:42 pm -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…
Tags: briefs, contemporary dance, film, i dislocated the floor today, rhian farnworth, trampolining, upside-down dubstep, video, vs gravity
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Metachemical - ‘Ghosts and Rockets’ + Squatter Edit released
Written by Squatter on April 21, 2009 – 9:31 pm -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.
Tags: broken, eerie, ghosts, kick, rockets
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Advent Remix Challenge CDs finally available!!!
Written by Squatter on March 18, 2009 – 5:27 pm -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
Tags: advent remix challenge, cds, wooooohoooooo
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Flotsam EP - out 9th March on Pyrate Music
Written by Squatter on February 27, 2009 – 1:51 pm -
Tracks:
1. Piefaced
2. Who stole my name
3. Whingeing
4. Just Because it Wobbles
Available on the mighty mighty tech/electro/breaks label Pyrate Music
“We are pleased to announce our sixth digital release with a superb EP from our man Squatter!
Filled with fire and circus tricks, this is Squatters first EP release and its bound to tickle your trumpet (If you have one). Due out on March 9th 2009 “Flotsam” is a broad pallette of 4/4, Electronica and Breaks designed to fill your ears with aural bliss.”
Until then, feel free to have a listen to some other recent tracks on the player on the right, or head to the tracks menu drop down for some freebies.
Keep on floating.
Tags: aural bliss, broad pallette, flotsam, just because it wobbles, piefaced, pyrate music, trumpet, whingeing, who stole my name
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Shite vidz rool ok
Written by Squatter on February 19, 2009 – 11:40 pm -I am still heavily encouraging people to make vids for any of the noise i’ve done, from epic and intelligent filmic pieces through to ones that are rather shite; i will love them all
This is a particularly shite effort from one TepidSeagull - but i urge you to look past the initial appearance of a lack of any sort of effort, and to peer deeper into the potent layers of meaning lurking therein. Just look at the enormity of expression in that scribbly gaze…
Tags: beetar, epic, potent, scribbly, shite vids, tepidseagull
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Dee Mond - ‘Pyrate with a Y’ (Squatter Edit)
Written by Squatter on February 16, 2009 – 5:25 pm -Incase anyone missed it the first time around, it’s on rerelease today because we’ve changed distributors.
Here’s the downloadybuy link:
http://www.junodownload.com/ppps/products/1387244-02.htm
This is what was said the first time around:
Chart return for Stu Cox - 10/8/08 on: Dee Mond - ‘Pyrate with a Y’ [Squatter Remix] (Pyrate Music)
“Breaks hero Squatter first grabbed our attention last year with “They’re In My Bowels”. This incredibly well-executed remix is deep and dark with a warm, evil bassline but a chunky beat to get your head nodding like a Churchill dog.”
There’s a whole bunch of other stompin Pyrate Music tracks out on rerelease at the moment as well, so if you like it dark and techy, have a listen.
http://www.junodownload.com/labels/Pyrate+Music/releases/
New stuff coming soon
Tags: churchill dog, deep and dark, downloadybuy, evil, hero, pyrate with a y squatter edit, remix, rerelease
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Street Fighter II - Squatter Remix
Written by Squatter on January 30, 2009 – 3:23 pm -With the upcoming release of Street Fighter 328 Hyper Mega Ultra Fist Haircut Edition, Capcom have released all the audio from one of the countless versions of Street Fighter II, and are having themselves a wee competition.
Here’s my lil remix:
Somehow I don’t think it’s the promotional gimmick they were looking for 
you make me … HADOUKEN!!!
Tags: capcom, fist, hadouken, haircut, remix, street fighter 2, wee
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Test noise post
Written by Squatter on January 22, 2009 – 2:27 pm -squatter - ‘don’t stop don’t tidy’
this is only a test. repeat. this is only a test.
Tags: don't stop don't tidy, remix, stoppit and tidyup, test, track, turmoil
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