Dutch label Shipwrec and Fremdtunes cast off for uncharted waters, setting sail to proudly introduce the fresh new release ‘The Grinder’ by Julian Edwardes! Julian Edwardes is a Dutch artist that bends the limitations of hiphop and bass music, his first outing on vinyl takes elements of these sounds and twists them into a new form. The title track (previously released digitally on ‘Paragon‘) judders and shakes into life with a controlled tempo adding gravity to the mix. Sombre notes drop to create a melancholic muscular beast. The flip sees E.R.P. aka Gerard Hanson aka Convextion flying in from Texas on remix duty. The rougher edges of the original are cleaned by reverberating arpeggios before a terse broken beat lands. Hanson weaves his magic, a lush melody of IDM depth descends to elevate this remix into something sublime. Something special from Shipwrec and Fremdtunes…
Vinyl (10-INCH!) only with amazing artwork by Graphic Surgery!
We present! Fremdblend – tunes for the future – volume five: a mix of snippets of recent and upcoming releases mixed by OptiMace (DJ’s Mace & Optimus). The mix features tracks and appearances by artists like Big Mister Doom, Coco Bryce, Emufucka, E.R.P., Jay Hats (new on our roster!), Julian Edwardes, Kid Sundance, Planes and many others…artwork is done by the irreclaimable Mister Adam. Ecoute on Soundcloud or Mixcloud!
We have a bunch of live gigs coming up: here’s a selection.
First of all: fine-art-and-music-label Eat Concrete and electronic music festival FaQ Festival join forces and have invited Matthewdavid (Brainfeeder/Dublab), Diva Dompé (Critical Heights), Pete Concrete (Eat Concrete) and DJ Mace (Fremdtunes) for a great evening with experimental music at De Toonzaal in Den Bosch (NL) on the 17th of March. So, that’s this Sunday, starting at 20.30.
Following is an all-Fremdtunes night at Mono, BG-22-24 (Almere) on Friday 29th of March. With a live-set by Julian Edwardes ft Wouter Jaftoran and DJ-set by Coco Bryce (premiere, he’s playing Coco-tunes only…), DJ Mace and Snef (Mono) this is going to be one hell of an electronic music feast. We’re starting at 21.00.
Finally we surely have to mention the release-party of Coco Bryce’s Club Tropicana and post-release party of Julian Edwardes’ Paragon EP during the POBParade in Club de Santiago, Breda on March 31st. Besides performances by Julian (with Wouter Jaftoran) and Coco Bryce, there’ll be performances by MMM!, Esolar (aka Saccage) and Fremdtunes DJ’s. We set it off at 22.00.
We have split release with the ever-surprising, wonderful Dutch label Shipwrec!
We’re casting off for uncharted waters, setting sail to proudly introduce a new release to our ever expanding rosters. Julian Edwardes, who only just released his debut EP Paragon, presents his first outing on 10-INCH vinyl taking elements of Bass and Hip Hop and twists them into a new form. The title track judders and shakes into life with a controlled tempo adding gravity to the mix. Sombre notes drop to create a melancholic muscular beast. The flip sees E.R.P. aka Gerard Hanson aka Convextion flying in from Texas on remix duty. Hanson weaves his magic, a lush melody of IDM depth descends to elevate this remix into something sublime.
Vinyl only with amazing artwork by Graphic Surgery! The vinyl’s distributed by Clone (Rotterdam).
In April we celebrated our second anniversary. And next Sunday (July 15) we will celebrate it ‘in the flesh’ at Bird, Rotterdam – during Street Science Festival.
We organized a record fair, where a bunch of great DJ’s (like Coco Bryce, Pathless, Frankadelic and OptiMace) will be spinning records. Plus: Mister Adam, Saskia Haex, Lucky Dubz and Hans Foks will create live artwork on blank record-covers.
We are also invited together with filmmaker/producer/label-owner/DJ Mike Redman (Redrum) to join the talk-show ‘Mybio’ the same day (starts at 17.30). Special guest DJ is our Swedish friend DJ Devastate.
We celebrate our second anniversary on April 26 2012! ‘Just’ or ‘already’ two years of blood, sweat, no tears, ear- & eyecandy. And being in motion, on a rampage, in a roller coaster, discovering, uncovering, pondering, rustling, just being there and most of all: having fun.
Of course, we want to celebrate this joyous event with you and we are giving away 4 prizes.
How to become lucky?
- We would like to hear from you which artist you want to see working with Fremdtunes (for example: an outstanding musician, the best graphic designer in the world, Pulitzer price winning photographer, exceptional writer etc.). And explain: why him or her?
- Place your answer in the comment section beneath this post. Don’t forget to state your name and e-mail adress.
- Let us know what price you’re interested in (only one bundle per person).
- Respond BEFORE April 25 (GMT +1 timezone).
We will pick 4 persons who come up with the most original, relevant, beautiful, striking answer and announce their names on this website on April 26.
Yesterday we received, in the traditional mailbox, a beautiful gift by our good friends at Thefindmag HQ: a nicely designed 7-inch called ‘PaleBlueDot‘ with music by Mr. J. Medeiros, an L.A.-based rapper, producer, singer and songwriter. The original version, produced by Stro Elliot and a hook sung by Giannina Ashe, switches smoothly from a ‘Easy like Sunday morning’-vibe to powerful, lyrical eruptions that sound like Urban Dance Squad‘s Rudeboy’s. The remix, done by 20Syl with extra vocals by Canadian MC Shad, adds more electronic Funk synth-lines and heavy drums. Gogetit a.s.a.p., because this one will be sold out quickly!
Sometimes surfing the net for new tunes can be a disappointing. Sometimes you’ll surf into surprises that make your day: like this one, found via 20jazzfunkgreats: A track called Union, by a guy named Saitam, bringing drums, gamelan and an ocean of sound to your ears. Getit.
A lot of water falling from the sky, so it’s time for another Weather Fremdcast.
We’d like to kick off with some more news on SEE-A-SOUND. The first results (soundbites and sketches) of the collaborations are to be viewed/listend to on www.seeasound.com. Mister Adam and Coco Bryce ping-ponged chopped up audio-files and graphic forms. Boris Tellegen screen-printed, during the Dutch Design
Week, his reaction to DJ Mace’s dusty, offbeat sound-design. And it seems that Attak and Grazzhoppa formed a new superhero-team. Find out about the collaborations right here: http://seeasound.com/samenwerkingen/en/ and Thefindmag introduces you to the project right here.
Dutch label Shipwrec and Fremdtunes cast off for uncharted waters, setting sail to proudly introduce the fresh new release ‘The Grinder’ by Julian Edwardes! Julian Edwardes is a Dutch artist that bends the limitations of hiphop and bass music, his first outing on vinyl takes elements of these sounds and twists them into a new form. The title track (previously released digitally on ‘Paragon‘) judders and shakes into life with a controlled tempo adding gravity to the mix. Sombre notes drop to create a melancholic muscular beast. The flip sees E.R.P. aka Gerard Hanson aka Convextion flying in from Texas on remix duty. The rougher edges of the original are cleaned by reverberating arpeggios before a terse broken beat lands. Hanson weaves his magic, a lush melody of IDM depth descends to elevate this remix into something sublime. Something special from Shipwrec and Fremdtunes…
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