Control pres. Zodiac Cartel on 01.15. @ Avalon
Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00 Written by Firedog Monday, 11 January 2010 17:13
The Zodiac Cartel ethos is simple. --> ‘Jackin’ House Music With A Techno Soul’.
It was late 2006 when the mysterious Zodiac Cartel burst onto the scene, with the shredding ‘Devil’s Music’ on Lot49, and the massive selling remix of Elite Force’s ‘Used & Abused’ on U&A Recordings. Both tracks sold in large quantities and immediately installed the Cartel as one of the ‘go-to’ producers in his field, with supporters such as James Zabiela, Crookers, Kissy Sellout & Sasha amongst the many A-listers supporting his prodigious career to date.
Whilst some have him pegged as a ‘fidget’ producer, there’s a lot more depth on offer in his productions, and a broad & diverse range of remixes this year has served to showcase his virtuoso production skills. Remixes have ranged from the deep & druggy (remixes such as Butter Party – Wriggle (Dark & Deep Mix), Harvey Mackay – Reflex) to the peaktime & anthemic (Fukk Off – Rave is King / Rennie Pilgrem – Drumma) to the wonky (Elite Force – Jack The Joint / Sawtooth Suckas – Ordinary Girl). After a year of outstanding remix production work, he dropped the ravishing single, ‘Klappyn / Robots’ on U&A to great commercial and journalistic acclaim.
The Cartel began 2009 with a serious spell of studio time, during which he secured two further single releases, with the aggro-latino-street-sounds of future anthem, ‘We Don’t Play That’ (U&A Recordings) and the peaktime raveathon, ‘Beyond The Dancefloor’ (Lee Mortimer’s Wearhouse Music). Both enjoyed long runs in the upper echelons of the Beatport charts, alongside a series of peerless remixes for the likes of Calvertron, Death Kit, The Subs, DJ Dan, Jesse Brooks and Rene Van Munster.
As if that wasn’t enough, ZC has also found time to launch the ‘Weapons of Choice’ series, a series of FREE downloads of remixes undertaken by the maestro, beginning with his amazing re-construction of the Franz Ferdinand single ‘No You Girls’, which was featured and lauded on no fewer than 40 blogs. The second release in the series was a complete deconstruction of Santigold’s ‘L.E.S. Artistes’, and with a further 4 ‘Weapons of Choice’ set to appear over the coming months, world domination is just around the corner!
Whilst some have him pegged as a ‘fidget’ producer, there’s a lot more depth on offer in his productions, and a broad & diverse range of remixes this year has served to showcase his virtuoso production skills. Remixes have ranged from the deep & druggy (remixes such as Butter Party – Wriggle (Dark & Deep Mix), Harvey Mackay – Reflex) to the peaktime & anthemic (Fukk Off – Rave is King / Rennie Pilgrem – Drumma) to the wonky (Elite Force – Jack The Joint / Sawtooth Suckas – Ordinary Girl). After a year of outstanding remix production work, he dropped the ravishing single, ‘Klappyn / Robots’ on U&A to great commercial and journalistic acclaim.
The Cartel began 2009 with a serious spell of studio time, during which he secured two further single releases, with the aggro-latino-street-sounds of future anthem, ‘We Don’t Play That’ (U&A Recordings) and the peaktime raveathon, ‘Beyond The Dancefloor’ (Lee Mortimer’s Wearhouse Music). Both enjoyed long runs in the upper echelons of the Beatport charts, alongside a series of peerless remixes for the likes of Calvertron, Death Kit, The Subs, DJ Dan, Jesse Brooks and Rene Van Munster.
As if that wasn’t enough, ZC has also found time to launch the ‘Weapons of Choice’ series, a series of FREE downloads of remixes undertaken by the maestro, beginning with his amazing re-construction of the Franz Ferdinand single ‘No You Girls’, which was featured and lauded on no fewer than 40 blogs. The second release in the series was a complete deconstruction of Santigold’s ‘L.E.S. Artistes’, and with a further 4 ‘Weapons of Choice’ set to appear over the coming months, world domination is just around the corner!
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