FANTASTIC FOUR
This issue’s hottest four names in dance music
French Horn Rebellion
Rod B
Top brass band Brazilian Teggno producer
DESPITE a name suggesting unruly private school music lessons, Brooklyn- JOINT HEAD of Teggno Records, alongside production partner Lance Blaise,
based brothers, Robert and David Perlick-Molinari, tick all the boxes when it Rod B, or Rodrigo Barreto, has been increasingly troubling the top of the
comes to indie electro-rock cool: David produced and engineered MGMT’s mas- Beatport techno download charts.
sive ‘Time To Pretend’ EP, while fi rst single, the insanely catchy ‘Up All Night’, A Rio native now living in Miami, the last couple of years have seen him help
opened Kitsune’s ‘Maison 8’ compilation. produce the Winter Music Conference and Annual International Dance Music
Next up is the ‘Beaches & Friends’ EP, out 1st March, on Once Upon A Time Awards, as well as touring extensively, including a spot at Creamfi elds in
Records. Having already topped Hype-Machine, it’s a collaboration with Bra- Brazil and a Teggno party in Ibiza.
zilian duo, Database, with whom the band toured in 2009. Collectively produc-
ing the vocal hooks and synth lines, they’ve each created individual versions, With Carl Cox naming Teggno his favourite American label (two tracks appear
with another from second Brazilian DJ partnership, The Twelves. on his Global Underground ‘Black Rock Desert’ mix), Rob B and Lance Blaise
kick off 2010 with their ‘Meet My Monkey’ EP, out now. Tripped out, late night
The results range in mood from the laidback swagger of the ‘Hey Champ Remix’ techno of the highest order, it’s a double-header with ‘Meet My Monkey’ and ‘I
to the full-on electro-party vibes of the ‘Club Edit’, demonstrating their genre- Ate My Monkey’, whilst remixes come from Italian Simone Tavazzi and Subfrac-
juggling ingenuity. Just don’t expect any French horn solos along the way. tal, who provides a menacing twist to the terrifying idea of eating a monkey.
Ceephax Acid Crew Jet Project
House is a 303-ling Up and away
“EVERYBODY LOVES A 303”, Fatboy Slim once rightly pointed out, but we FORMING their production partnership after a couple of back to back DJ
doubt many could be as enamoured as Ceephax Acid Crew, aka Andy Jenkins. sets, Belfast’s Timmy Stewart and John McIver’s Jet Project has gone from
The brother of Squarepusher, his abstract electronica pushes bubbling acid strength-to-strength over the last year.
to the fore, while a similar taste for exploring the unexpected has seen him Embracing the many annexes and extensions of house, plus a whole wing of
record an album on Eurostar, launch new label, Waltzer, with a cassette only techno, their debut album, ‘Heads In The Clouds’, gave a taste of their chunky
release, and host an Acid Karaoke event at Bloc Weekender. sound when it was released on Darkroom Dubs last summer. Since then, label
Extended Play, run with Swag’s Chris Duckenfi eld, has provided an unfailing
Latest album ‘United Acid Emirates’, out now on Planet Mu, however, throws a parade of dancefl oor killers.
whole heap of ’80s melody into the madness with moving results.
Whether tapping into Italo, as on the shimmering ‘Commuter’ and ‘Topaz’, ‘Zuma’, out now on Get Digital, provides a prime example of their solid groove,
beatless ambience like ‘Trabzonspor’, or 8-bit computer game funk , as in the driven along by manic percussion and brass stabs, and precedes single, ‘Un-
frantic happy hardcore stomp of ‘Castillian’, it delivers a knock-out emo- derstand This Groove’, released on Get Physical before the spring.
tional analogue punch, dispelling any notion of just being a novelty act, and Having already rocked the foundations of Slam’s legendary Pressure night
resulting in an atmospheric acid masterpiece. Destined to be tackled at Acid at the Arches in Glasgow twice and Barcelona’s La Terrrazza club, Jet Project
Karaoke nights across the land... should soon be getting used to aeroplane food.
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