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RV Exclusive Prerelease and Chart from Tony Craig!

Tony CraigAs you know, we’ve been working tirelessly to simultaneously improve our new site and to make sure we’re back up to speed on everything we had to offer on our 1.0 site. One of the things that has been missing since RV 2.0 made it out into the water… exclusives. Thanks to Dublin Xpress Recordings, we’re putting the wheels back on the exclusive cart. On the 23rd of November, we will be the only outlet for Tony Craig’s Dog Head release. I’ve been listening to it over the past few weeks, and I think you’ll be as pleased with these tracks as I have been. This is not one of those releases that has a decent original and a host of throwaway filler remixes. Mr. Craig’s original is spot on techno. The solid sparse beats lay down the foundation, and are complimented by several well-placed builds and transitions. My favorite remix is the Cricky Lyttle cut, which has major crowd-pummeling potential.
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Tony was kind enough to send us a chart of his top 10 tracks of the moment. This should give you a good idea of where he’s coming from. (I know, a preposition)
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1. Fuck in Time (Original Mix)GlitterTrebol Records
2. The Crickton Factor (Original Mix)Cricky LyttleDublin Xpress Recordings
3. Dog Head – Tony Craig – Dublin Xpress Recordings
4. Mathlete (Original Mix)PercOvum Recordings
5. Look Who’s Stalking (Original Mix)Steve BugCocoon Recordings
6. Untamed (Original Mix)Jay RiordanDublin Xpress Recordings
7. Bubbles & Wobbles (Original Mix)KhainzEchoes Records
8. The Fugue (Extended Version)Dusty KidBoxer Recordings
9. Messy (Cricky Lyttle’s Crickton Factor Remix)Ignition TechnicianDublin Xpress Recordings
10. Within You (Nasty Bobby’s Nasty & Nasty Remix)Mark O’SullivanNice & Nasty
(I can give a big thumbs up on Mark O’Sullivan. He dropped two releases in the same week and I had a hell of a time deciding which one to feature in my top 10 blog that week.)
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There you have it. Our fist exclusive in months. See you on Monday.
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RV Exclusive Interview with FreQ Nasty

At RV, we have a company subscription to receive the monthly CD releases from Fabric Live. For those who don’t know, the 42nd installment of the series was mixed by FreQ Nasty. If you haven’t heard it, I’m not sure I can accurately describe it for you. It’s a very different mix, which suggested (to me) it was created by a very different artist. With these thoughts in mind, I jumped at the opportunity to bring you an exclusive interview of FreQ Nasty, the man with an eye-catching hairstyle and ear-catching sound…Enjoy!

Q: It’s really a pleasure to be able to interview you. There’s a lot of industry buzz about FreQ Nasty right now, but let’s go back to the beginning…You were born in Fiji. Can you tell me how and when you started getting into electronic music? …and who were some of your most important early influences?

A: The first electronic record I remember hearing was at school when Grandmaster Flash’s “White Lines” came out. I was just a kid and led a pretty sheltered NZ lifestyle, so I probably didn’t know it was about drugs…but the beats blew me away. The early days of hip hop are in part the roots of electronic dance music…but the first proper “electronic dance music” tune I remember buying was Baby Ford’s “Oochy Koochy.” I actually found the etched 12” in a shop in the UK years later, and it still sounded DOPE – acid house with huge bass. I remember reading in the (three-month-old) press that got to NZ that this record was notorious for destroying pre-electronic-music sound systems in London in the acid house days. Fucking brilliant record!

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