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PLY016 - Nick Verwey - Horn Rash Out Now!

25 Aug 2009, 11:10

It's the first unsolicited release we've ever accepted for Playtime, but it's sooooooooooo much fun.

Nick Verwey is an Australian producer who, like Claude Von Stroke, turned out his first few wonky tracks on surprisingly old-school technology - in CVS's case Reason, and in Nick's case Fruityloops. He started out making his own tracks to play out at a few Melbourne residencies, and his take on the brassy, funky and wonky sound - the old school vocal snippets, the horn section, the stumbling rhythm of Horn Rash? Well, we think he's a bit of a talent.

Which is why we've paired him this time round with Belgian wonderkid Tom Dazing, another talent and the remixer for Honey Dips. This is not music that will ever be Beatport-approved (TM), but it's as infectious as hell, as unserious and as serious as you like, and Tom's got the production chops to throw in everything but the kitchen sink - though in this case, he's thrown that in too, and a couple of them at that. This one is firmly in Playtime's tradition of "WTF?" remixing - a curveball as strange as the much-loved "bouncy bouncy" U&K remix of Mike Monday's Zum Zum.

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