OUT NOW! Worthy and Yankee Zulu - Bad Side with killer Hannah Holland remix
If you thought Spinach Boy had a sort of wonky, honky wrongness to it, wait till you get a load of our new one - Worthy and Yankee Zulu track present ... the Bad Side.
Their last track on Playtime, the BS Connection, was described as "a bomb" by Shir-I-Khan and as "stupid fresh nightclub music" by Prins Thomas. Now they've turned to the Bad Side (c'mon, you knew that was coming ...), and they've taken Hannah Holland with them.
The original is a synthy monster, and on the flip Hannah gives it a bit of slinky Batty Bass and turns it into pure London. Welcome to the Bad Side, princess!
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"Mean, clean and dirty, all at the same time" - Ben Watt.
"Utterly, utterly brilliant." - IDJ
"Excellent track. Can't wait to play it." - Abe Duque
"Really like the woozy bass of the original here." - Philip Sherburne.
"BS connection was a big tune for me, so this is in da wallet. thanks." - Tom Findlay (Groove Armada)
"Das Original ist ganz fett!" - Lars Wickinger
"Yeah, really liking the wonky/rave house cross that this track pursues" - Joe Gardner, Radio1
"Cool groove" - Sebastian Leger.
Spinach Boy - Lost Cowboy - NOW OUT!
With raves for recent tracks from Cassius, Phil Hartnoll of Orbital, Prins Thomas, Arthur Baker, Zombie Disco Squad, Prins Thomas, Style of Eye, Luke Solomon, Rodomaal, Jesse Rose, Tenaglia and more, Playtime is succeeding in its mission to reinject lazy grooves, wry humour and impeccable techno production chops into every scene. From the underground to the mainstream, we think everyone needs tracks that swing but don’t bang – a bit of rest and refreshment in the frantic world of today’s dancefloor...
"This label really can't do anything wrong at the moment" - IDJ.
"Wicked tune" - Only for DJs France.
"Really like the original and lukes mix too" - Ewan Pearson.
"Ace!" - KISS FM.
"Another Playtime winner" - AXM.
“Top tune” – Radio Reverb.
“Both mixes really cool” – Laurent Garnier.
“ORIGINAL MIX IS GREAT” – Anderson Noise.
“ANOTHER strong release!” – More about Music blog.
Almost here: Andre Crom, Jazz thang and Gettin' Funky - also with added Riva Starr!
Out on Beatport 9 Feb.
REACTIONS
2 x plays on Pete Tong already and plays on Galaxy UK, JJJ Australia, Play'house radio Belgium, Radio FG Paris, Sonnett77 Germany, VIVA95 Greece, Dinamo.fm Turkey.
"Massive" - Tommie Sunshine.
"Really nice" - Marcus Vector.
"Loving all the tracks here" - Jimpster.
"Love the Riva remix" - D.Ramirez
"Shows a new side to Andre" - Alland Byallo.
"I love the Riva Starr remix" - Tocadisco.
"Outrageous funk!" - IDJ.
"Very good" - Karotte.
"Full support" - Shir-I-Khan.
"Love it" - Zombie Disco squad.
"Proper" - Tom Middleton.
"Really love it" - Rainer @ Great Stuff.
"Spot on" - Laidback Luke.
"Awesome" - KISS FM.
"Cool" - Tenaglia.
"Cool techy business" - DJ mag.
Claude von Stroke playing as well.
Worthy and Yankee Zulu - The BS Connection - out Jan 19
And now it's time for track two! The rejuvinated Playtime presents Worthy and Yankee Zulu's "the BS connection" -the San Francisco / Katabatic / Dirtybird star Worthy versus Ireland's Yankee Zulu, whose recent tracks have had raves from Luciano, Pig and Dan and Playtime favourite Justin Robertson. It's already being played to death by Claude von Stroke, it's got that wonderfully lazy funk that we like round here, and it's got a killer Andre Crom remix that makes the groove simultaneously more insistent and weirdly looser.
“Love them” – Phil Hartnoll, Orbital.
“THANKS FROM A PLAYTIME FAN. LOVE THE ORIGINAL AND THE ANDRE MIX“ – Zdar (Cassius).
“BOTH MIXES ROCK!” – Dirt Crew.
“Loving the original” – Zombie Disco Squad.
“Lovin’ both tunes!” – Riva Starr.
“The original is great. Supid fresh nightclub music“ – Prins Thomas
“This is a bomb” – Shir-I-Khan.
“Love it” – Emerson Todd.
“Really into the original” – Arthur Baker.
“This is dope! Love both mixes!” – Style of Eye.
“Cool” – Jesse Rose.
“This rocks” – D Ramirez.
“Best promo I’ve had in months” – Groove Armada.
“Two of my favourite producers” – Pete Tong show.
Hannah Holland - BANSHEE - with Mike Monday mix...
LISTEN AND BUY AT BEATPORT: here.
What is Playtime? For the press it was "one of the best labels to come out of 2005" (DJ), or "the label of the moment" (One Week to Live), and the record label that bought you Mike Monday's debut, Smorgasbord, an IDJ album of the year and a "classic" (One Week to Live). For clubbers it was the first night to bring Claude von Stroke and Abe Duque to the UK - "one of clubland's finest inventions" (DJ) and "the last mixed club left standing" (TNT).
But mainly it was a bit of wonky fun - one of few labels of its time waving the flag for wonkier electronic music. So as it relaunches over the next few months, look out for off-kilter new rave music and remixes from Hannah Holland, Riva Starr, a little mechnical jazz from Germany's Andre Crom, Luke Solomon, Worthy and Yankee Zulu, the Lost Cowboy, and our original Big Daddy and of course Mike Monday - who incidentally, will be headlining the relaunch of the club on Fri Sep 26 at the newly-returned-to-house Bar Rhumba (and whose new album, out next month, manages to be both wonky and wonderfully serious. Check out playtime the club and the official launch party at Wet Yourself, London, Oct 12).
But for now, it's Banshee, by BuggedOut and Trailer Trash's Hannah Holland, London's queen of batty bass. It's a slinky, knowing nod to the rave - but not as you knew it - with a deeper, more overwhelming Mike Monday mix ...
"DOPE!" - Style of Eye.
"Mike's remix is great" - Rob Mello.
"Sickkkkkkk!!!!!" - Worthy.
"Love it!" - D Ramirez.
"I'll hammer them" - Paco.
"Cool!" - Crookers.
"Awesome. I will hammer this everywhere" - Laurent Garnier.
"Really good" - Brodinski.
"Great stuff!" - Fil OK.
"Bouncy and hot" - Luke Solomon.
"Amazing stuff" - Tomboy.
"Nice" - Rodomaal.
"Thanks! Love the original" - Zdar.
"Lovin' the original" - Cormac.
"Particularly feeling the Mike Monday mix" - Philip Sherburne .
Max Cooper interview on DJDownload / Earworm
"The bad side indeed" - IDJ raves about The Bad Side
Andre Crom's Jazz Thang - "oodles of jackin' bounce" - DJ mag
"Way out and far out" - IDJ on Andre Crom's Jazz Thang
Two Playtime artists in IDJ's people to watch in 2008
Data Transmission on Banshee: "8/10 - expect to hear these tracks a lot in the upcoming months"
BS Connection in Mixmag - "full of wonk, jack..."
8/8 for Banshee in M8 mag
"...loud and lewd house music with plenty of swagger"Hannah Holland
We first found her in the East End of London - at one of Playtime's favourite clubs, Trailer Trash. But these days she's a lot harder to track down ...
Worthy
OK, we admit it - we stole him from Dirtybird.
Yankee Zulu
First he was following Carl Cox and Joey Beltram. Then David Holmes and Ian McCready, who ran the legendary SugarSweet parties in Yankee Zulu's home town of Belfast. But as he got into his own style,