
2008 will surely go down as the year of fidget house.
So many kids - artists and hipsters alike - have already jumped on this bandwagon. But really it's been the sonorous expeditions of two Italian, hip-hop lovers (of all places and things!) that have largely reintroduced the cut-up, glitch style to the dominant "electro" form of house ...
and perhaps to a greater extent have made it their own.
"Basically, every day we wake up and in the morning we make music, in the afternoon we make music and in the evening we make music; and on the weekend WE MAKE MUSIC ALL DAY and at night we DJ ... and in the morning we go to sleep."
-Francisco and Andrea, A.K.A. Phra and Bot of the CROOKERS
Over the weekend the 'mad kidz' met up with Pete Tong in his BBC studio in the UK to record an essential mix ... and now it's here:
The Crookers - Radio1 Essential Mix - 06 21 08.mp3*
But better news still - if you happen to reside in L.A. - the Crookers themselves will be here in the flesh at Cinespace, Hollywood this Tuesday, June 24th.
*I'm hotlinking to the peeps over at newmixes.com, but you're still gonna have to hit the download link below their tracklisting - hopefully they don't mind a little more traffic, albeit redirected. I'm working on getting my own domain and ultimately picking up this site with daily updates ... a little more patience, y'all won't be disappointed.
[Note: Excuse my subjectivity on the matter, but I would just as easily place the
Bloody Beetroots on the same (high) level of influence over the burgeoning
fidget genre. The real question being, which of the two groups has it more ...]