greetings from the hyperterrainean lair, fam!

So 12/15 marks the 12" release of my tune "Break Your Heart", featuring the illustrious Maggie Horn from NYC on vocal duties. This one started making the rounds on dubplate back in May of this year; shouts to DQ, Breakage, monkeytek in Portland, and XI in Toronto-- amongst many, many others-- for the spins and shouts for it.

"break your heart" grew out of a bunch of things... a new djembe at home... a real desire to build some music at 140 bpm that wasn't sludgy or aggy and could connect to a broad swath of people on a dancefloor. Ultimately, the instrumental bits came to form as i was working on a remix of "I feel it all" by Feist with Dan and Eugene from Escort (catch the remix on itunes). We had all the stems and hearing Leslie Feist up close and sonically away from everything else was... moving, to say the least.

Knowing that the acapella was off limits, i went on a scavenger hunt for the right vocalist. Out of nowhere--and, as is always the case in NYC, everywhere, as she'd worked with a huge amount of people that I know-- Maggie Horn popped up on the radar, popped into the (painfully un-airconditioned) studio on a super-hot day, and absolutely nailed it.

Neil and Pete Forsaken (Bubonic? pete you gotta help me out on the monikers here) from Soul Motive picked up immediately. Neil had been sending me over the dubs from the label for the past year and... Jesus. Amazing bits (Joker. TRG. Pete feat. Ben Blackmore), with proper 12x12 artwork-- THIS is the way to experience music. When they inquired about the tune, i signed up immediately. When they told me it was a co-release alongside Coleco's amazing, amazing tune "Campfire Funk," it seemed like everything was falling into place-- check out their myspace to hear it!! FORWARD in every sense of the term.

Anyway, i'm really excited that this one's coming out, really glad to have worked w/ Maggie and couldn't be more pleased that it's coming out via the Soul Motive folks.

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In Sub Swara land, we're in the final preps for our last monthly at LOVE. I got beaten in (JESUS sunder hits hard) almost exactly a year ago and it's been a blast squaring away the record, cutting dubs and slaying dancefloors, and finding Dhruva a doctor in Sweden on a saturday ;). Come out, come out, and celebrate with us as we welcome DC's groove masters fort knox 5, and celebrate the release of both the 1st round of Sub Swara remixes (KILLING. OH. MY. GOD) and Juakali's "Breakground" EP.

for the future, there's mnuch, much, much more in the works-- Dhruva and Haj are on tour on the west coast, the BBC is spinnning my D2D remix of "Get on the Bus," started a Shiva Soundsystem remix today, finished up one for the illustrious Guillermo E. Brown, in the midst of one for the Glass via Wondersound, Sha'iir and FUNC on deck, a tune for Juakali, a remix for Other Weapons, and a tabla collabo w/ Breakage... my cup is proverbially running over.

AND since i'm home for a good amount of time, i'm FINALLY getting to teach again-- let me know via PM.

love to everyone!
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