Friday, December 08, 2006
Posted at
10:04
by
Carly Carioli
IF YOU GO:
- Certified Bananas + DJ A
Enormous Room
567 Mass Ave, Cambridge
They're too bigshot to write home anymore except in form-letter emails, but CERTIFIED BANANAS are finally in superstar DJ territory. In case you hadn't heard, Sam a/k/a P-Nice has been living in NYC and runnin' thangs for Brooklyn's legendary The Rub crew; right off the bat he got himself an official remix by UK bigshots the Editors, alongside huge names like SebastiAn and friends like Ghislain, even beating out Paul "Phones" Epworth for a spot on the wax. P-Nice is something like a phenomenon. Go spend the damn 99 cents and buy the track at iTunes.
Meanwhile, Sam & Max Bananas are bringing it back Certified style. Starting today you can download their new 30-minute mix for Discobelle, the hysterically-titled "Sweden on Blast." We were hoping for some Hives and Hellacopters and got half our wish; for most of you it'll come as absolutely no disappointment to have a bunch of Robin (vs. Nelly Furtado), Concretes ("feat." Spank Rock accomplice Amanda Blank), Dungen (vs. X-tina's "Ain't No Other Man") and lots of other blended goodness (that we won't spoil) from the Soundtrack of Our Lives, Jens Lekman, and the rest of your blog-hyped swede faves. As usual, it's door-to-door dope; let us be the first in line, however, to request the stand-alone remix of Jose Gonzales: just when you were convinced nobody could do anything new with that damn song, here comes something completely different. BTW, we miss those free, monthly CB Radio mixes these dudes used to do; we hope there's a few more of these to come. The boys are said to be at work on an album called Haemonetics, a follow-up to their official mixtape debut Sprang.
DOWNLOAD: Certified Bananas, "Sweden On Blast" (mp3)
Some of you may remember DJ A (a/k/a Doc Money) from his Bonde Do Role remix, pitting Rio's most famous teen baile-funk clan against the 'pella of "Don't Fear the Reaper." He's also, not coincidentally, buds with our friends at Mad Decent, makes beats, and is the technician behind lots of maje-label remixes, not to mention the master-er of some of your favorite Diplo and Paul Devro refixes. He's living in our neck of the woods these days and makes a guest appearance tonight with Max and Sam's monthly Certified Bananas residency at Enormous Room. Get familiar:
DOWNLOAD: Dizzee Rascal, "Fix Up (DJ A Remix)" (mp3, via MySpace)
DOWNLOAD: Project Pat, "Good Googly Moogly (DJ A Remix)" (mp3, via MySpace)
