Dirtybird has been dropping basslines and creating smiles on the dancefloor since 2005 and Barclay Crenshaw (aka Claude VonStroke) has A&R'd some of the most influential house music producers in the world. A shortlist includes Justin Martin, Catz ‘N Dogz, Julio Bashmore, Riva Starr, Breach, Shiba San, Eats Everything, J Phlip, Style Of Eye, Kill Frenzy and many more, most of whom had their very first records on Dirtybird and even created their artist names for the label. Today, Dirtybird has offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles and has expanded into events and tour production. As it grows, the brand continues to expand beyond music into merchandising, licensing and artist management.
Review: The Dirtybird US team have pulled together a serious sizzler with this one as they invite the sumptuous sounds of Hugo Massien inside for a four track bubbler, kicking off with the spacey pad textures and lofi-style drum techniques of 'Fast Forward, which through its alienistic timbre delivers glittering introduction. From here, the beautiful chord progressions and padded backdrops of 'Dynamic Symmetry' combine beautifully with some warbling sub textures below for a very enjoyable creation, followed swiftly by the more acidic sounding moog sweeps of 'Quantum Mechanics' for a bit of a switch up. Finally, the stuttering synthetic designs of 'Astral Waves' gives us a smooth finale, rounding off a very impressive collection indeed!
Review: If you haven't heard by now Dirtybird's White Label series from 2021 is where it's at. For this latest unheralded drop comes an EP from the little known but clearly talented and inspired Danny Goliger. Very much a synth head before beats, Goliger's drums will by no means let you down, with stepping rhythms, boss claps and broken beat arrangements sequenced to a tee underneath the sweetly stair-sailing synths of tracks like "Inchoate" or the swathes of deep textures in numbers like "Venality". "Deliverance" opts for a positively arpy, Aphex-sound, with the track "Fog" looking to dope garage and post dubstep motifs in a collaboration with Michael Fam inspiring Ibiza sunsets of the mind.
Review: A pretty sweet, always tongue-cheek-selection of tracks that takes in all types of club forms - Dirtybirds' Campout Compilations 2021 has arrived. Keeping it real for another year is real-time Dirtybird-vibes via the minimal club bangers of E.R.N.E.S.T.O's "Not Again" and Claude VonStroke & Harry Romero's "House Stepper". Keeping on key with the glitchy-trips is Cour T.'s "Restless Thinking". More tearout experimental dancefloor numbers come from Ardalan's "Road To Campout", with some hi-hat acid classics in Arnold & Lane's "Snooooo". For your serious surreptitious burners check Dipzy's "The Means" and for some mega Miami beats it's all about "Booty" by Teknicoz & JYNX!
Review: Justin Martin has dropped onto US label Dirtybird on remix duties for Strafe, furnishing a two-tracker that takes a dual approach to Strafe's Set it Off. The first remix is the slightly more relaxed of the two; imagine a classic rave sound merged with retro-esque stabs and melodies that leaves you plenty of space to move but still packs a bubbly bassline that evolves in tandem. Justin Martin's Party Starter Remix then lays down the real heat, a long intro gets you excited before twists of low-frequency bounce entwine with a proper funk injection. Suspenseful and driving, this is house that'll satisfy pretty much everyone.
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