The Early Years out on 27/09/10

I will be releasing my first artist album The Early Years on my new label Bergerac on 27/09/10. It’s a selection of the best tracks from my various singles on Untracked, Tirk, Society, Deep Freeze and Undertones plus some new ones as well. The artwork is all sourced from family photos circa 1985-1990 as a metaphor for the early years of my music production.

It’s had some nice news pieces on it on Resident Advisor Electronic Beats and Juno

No promo audio yet but I will put a set on soundcloud soon.

How I Program out on 06/09/10

As you may remember, I am starting my new label Bergerac in September with the release of the How I Program EP.

Each release will feature bespoke artwork from German illustrator Silke Eiselt. I asked her to draw pictures of all the houses I have lived in chronologically. How much more fucking HOUSE can you get than that?

The artwork is impressionist style btw so try checking out the graphics from a distance and it becomes clearer and clearer.

It’s been getting great feedback from people like Gilles Peterson, Move D, Jus Ed, 2562, Robert Owens and Atjazz and you can hear a preview of each track in the soundcloud player below.

Red Rack’em – How I Program EP – Bergerac 001 by Red Rack’em

The vinyl mastering was by Shane @ Final Tweek and Digital Mastering was by Chris @ Blacklisted.

It’s out on vinyl on 06/09/10 and digital will be about a month later. Distribution is by Kudos.

I am playing with Atjazz, Yam Who, ISM and the Shift guys tonight at East Village.

Today I suddenly remembered that Atjazz has a U Stream channel. A couple of calls later and Prestso – all sorted! Live streaming from the event. Nice.

So tune into http://www.ustream.tv/channel/atjazz from about midnight tonight (fri night/sat morn) if you can’t make it to the club.

If you’d like to be on the concessions list please email matt[AT}shiftlondon.net with names before 5pm on Friday

No Radio Show On Wed Night

No Smugglers Inn On Wed night as I am off to the Garden Festival for a week. The show will be returning on Wed 21st with a hot guest mix from The Kelly Twins who run the ace UFO night in Bristol.

If you want to hear some new music from me then please check out the brand new Hometaping mix which is HERE

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Garden Festival

Anyone who’s gonna be there – I am really pleased to be making my debut at this years Garden Festival in Croatia with 3 appearances.

I will be playing at the Garden in Zadar on Thu 8th July with Ron Basejam, Andre Schmoov and a few more people from Nottingham no doubt. Then on Friday 9th I am playing on the Basement Boogaloo Boat Party from 7pm. Then on Sat 10th I will be playing at the Tiki Bar and Beach Terrace from 4-6pm. BRING IT!

More Info Here

Hometaping EP out Now

My new EP is out now on Home Taping Is Killing Music. Tracks are Pressure, Back Home plus a Kez YM remix of Pressure. It’s had DJ support from some pretty cool people including Laurent Garnier, Ashley Beedle, Rub n Tug, Crazy P, 6th Borough Project and Luke Solomon.

Full reactions and soundclips are HERE.

It’s now available in Piccadilly (who made it one of their staff picks) Phonica and Juno

It’s vinyl only for now but will be on digital in about 2 months.

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Underground, Red Rack’em from ///Shift on Vimeo.

Underground/Exalt Out Now on Shift Music

Soundclips, Press Release and Reactions HERE

DJ Support from Ewan Pearson, Laurent Garnier, Jazzanova, Atjazz, 2562 etc

Vinyl is in Juno and Phonica. It’s available digitally as well in quite a few places including Juno Download.

Big thanks to Little White Earbuds for giving it a nice review as well.

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Chris Coco – My Beach House – Red Rack’em Remix – Out on Big Chill Recordings July 5th

Audio HERE

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Ron Basejam – Voices – Red Rack’em Remix out now on ISM – Beatport Exclusive (vinyl to follow with Mr Scruff remix coming through too)

Audio HERE

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New Slow Mix and interview on Sahin Meyer Blog

Just did this brand new Beatdown mix and interview for Sahin Meyer

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Garden Festival

I am really pleased to be making my debut at this years Garden Festival in Croatia with 3 appearances. I will be playing at the Garden in Zadar on Thu 8th July with Ron Basejam, Andre Schmoov and a few more people from Nottingham no doubt. Then on Friday 9th I am headlining the Basement Boogaloo Boat Party from 7pm. Then on Sat 10th I will be playing at the Tiki Bar and Beach Terrace from 4-6pm. BRING IT!

More Info Here

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Motion FM Syndication

I am pleased to announce that the Smugglers Inn Radio shows will be broadcasted @ http://www.motionfm.com/ a week after their initial airing on myhouse-yourhouse.

So starting this wednesday 16th June – the show will be on at these times – London: 22.00, Paris/Berlin: 23.00, Los Angeles: 14.00, Montreal/New York: 17.00

There’s some great DJs playing on Motion FM including Dirk Rumpff, Charles Webster, Fred P and Patrice Scott so it’s nice to get to join them.

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Heart On Sleeve

Want to read about my favourite record sleeves?

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Ron Basejam feat Holly Backler – Voices – Hot Coins Remix by Red Rack’em

I did this remix for Ron Basejam (aka Crazy Ps keyboard wizz Jim Baron) of his track ‘Voices’ which is taken form his brand new album Deep and Meaningless on Yam Who’s label ISM. Vocals are by Miss Holly Backler.

It’s out on digital on May 10th. My remix is available initially at Beatport only as an exclusive…

I have bowed down to industry pressure and am now on Twitter. Follow me HERE

I have finally managed to upload some tracks onto Soundcloud. So if you want to hear most of my back catalogue and some new stuff too please go to http://soundcloud.com/red-rackem to check out some tunes in their glorious waveform displays.

I must say I am really enjoying how easy it is to share music with people on Soundcloud, it does seem a lot nicer than just sending people download links.

01. The Post Office – Rust
02. Ron Basejam – Into My Life
03. Bugge Wesseltoft & Sidsel Endresen – Try
04. Those Norwegians – Dom B. Sensi
05. Hot Coins – You Can’t Pray For Your Soul
06. Owusu & Hannibal – Lonnie’s Secret
07. Hot Toddy – Late Night Boogie
08. Crazy P – Never Gonna Reach Me (Hot Toddy Remix)
09. George Double – Breast Meat
10. The Haggis Horns – The Traveller Part 2
11. Crazy P present The Syndromes – The Hit
12. PBR Streetgang – J2thaB
13. Clyde feat. Capitol A – Serve It Up (Original Mix)
14. Tahuna Breaks – We Funked The Party (Crazy P Remix)

Crazy P have included the A side of my first Untracked EP ‘You Can’t Pray For Your Soul’ on their new compilation called ‘Later…by Crazy P’ which has just been released on Seamless Records. It’s a great mix of fairly obscure stuff but it all has a tangible link to the Crazy P sound. It’s available to purchase all over the place including Phonica and Juno.

Hot Coins ‘You Can’t Pray For Your Soul’ by Red Rack’em

Big thanks to Chris, Jim and Danielle for all the support.

New Revenge Single with Red Rack’em Remix OUT NOW

I have remixed the new single by pitched down house hotshot The Revenge. It’s in the shops today and it’s on a hot new label called Home Taping Is Killing Music. The track is called ‘Forever In Their Debt’ and it’s about the artistic debt that all modern house producers owe to the greats of the past – Larry, Chez, Ron, Frankie etc. The original track is stripped back old school techy business.

With my remix I wanted to encompass the different house moods that I like in just one track (maybe a bit of a tall order!) so it starts off on the stripped down beatdown tip, then drops into fairly tough deep house and ends on a reflective techno ish note.

The Revenge ‘Forever In Their Debt’ [Red Rack'em Remix] by Red Rack’em

The EP has had DJ support from Laurent Garnier, Chris Duckenfield, Steve Bug, Ashley Beedle, Llorca, Ewan Pearson, The Unabombers, Pete Herbert, Phil Cooper, Luke Solomon, Damian Lazarus, Rocky, Trevor Jackson, Rub n Tug, Jimpster, Charles Spencer, Harri, Neville Watson, Jaques Renault, Murray Richardson, Lance De Sardi, Domu, Moodymanc, Maelstrom, Frank Booker etc

It’s available in Piccadilly, Juno, Phonica and will be in Europe in the next few days…

SOUNDCLIPS are here – http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/370290-01.htm

http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/59068

More info on Home Taping Is Killing Music HERE