THE DJ 12:1

TRACKLISTING

A DJ Hell Feat. P. Diddy - The DJ (Pa ul Woolford Blackout Remix)
B DJ Hell Feat. P. Diddy - The DJ (Sis Remix)



INFO
'The DJ, on which P Diddy (yes, him again ) shouts a lot about how "motherfuckers" should play the 13-minute versions of t racks is one of the most ridiculous, brilliant things you will have heard in a l ong time.' Tony Naylor in The Guardian.

The latest single taken from the much lauded 'Teufelswerk' long player sees Hell "hooking-up" once more with hip-hop superstar P. Diddy for the freestyle jack-track "The DJ". The pair worke d together before on "Let's Get Ill" and "Check This," creating two classic danc e floor hits. But for 'The DJ' these two masters wanted to set the techno world straight and send a very clear message 'to the mother fucker plays a 4 minute ve rsion.' That you 'can't get even get into your thing with a 4 minute version.' W ith this in mind Hell is very pleased to present his latest single 'The DJ feat. P. Diddy; one original track, five remixes, over one hour of music! So yes, "Th is goes out to all the mother fuckers that like 15-20 minute versions of a mothe r fucking record."

Many of us might wonder what sort of position P. D iddy has commenting on the state of clubs and the forgotten art of playing the f ull version of a record. This is a man who's own Production work with mega-stars such Notorious BIG redefined East Coast Hip Hop. But for those in the know P. D iddy is no stranger to club land. Hell himself describes P. Diddy as a man who ' knows about techno music... When he was a kid he was going to the Sound Factory to see Junior Vasquez.' In the higher-echelons of Dance Music history this was a very important time for US "Rave" culture, much like the European Halcyon Rave days of the early 90's. The most striking difference being that, as with all gre at New York clubs from the Paradise Garage to Sound Factory, these parties went on for days and so did the records. But more recently P. Diddy has been ubiquito us in club culture, from Partying with Hell and Claude Von Stroke in Miami and t earing it up with Felix Da Housecat in Ibiza So P. Diddy has a privileged positi on, in that he was there then when the art of playing the long version was at it s peak and he is here now, a time where blog culture and Rock Star have-a-go DJ' s line-up on mass to play low bit-rate MP3s.

As an internationally re vered performer Hell knows a thing or two about DJing and with his recent releas es we see a definite shift towards lengthy mixes. On his long player 'Teufleswer k' two of the poppiest moment clock in at 9 + minutes. The last single to be rel eased from this album, 'Hells Kitchen' featured an 18-minute remix from Playgrou p aka. Trevor Jackson. But nothing prepared Gigolo for the package we have here, 5 tracks, 60+ minutes of music with the Radio Slave mix weighing in at a coloss al 28 minutes. Speaking to Resident Advisor Matt Edwards aka Radio Slave said "I 'm down with the 20 minute versions! I'm also into Dj's playing the whole record ! Most producers still make records with a start and an end... I actually wanted to do a 60-minute version and my friend Tom Gandey (Cagedbaby) recorded a lot o f piano parts in Bordeaux, which I used in the last 10 minutes... So I guess I j ust let the track do its thing. I played about 25 minutes at Fabric and it defin itely wasn't boring!"

This seems to be an understatement; the next ti me Radio Slave would play this record would be the following Sunday at 'We Love. ..' at Space in Ibiza, in the presence of one Pete Tong! So impressed was Tongy that he played it the following week on his BBC Radio 1 'In New Music We Trust' show in the Big Three section. But this is not the first time the record has bee n played on Pete Tongs Radio 1show. In fact the original was played by the man h imself and also guest DJ Laurent Garnier for the Essential Mix. So it is fair to say that this record is already pretty Hot with most big name DJ's!

Speaking about his collaboration Hell has said that P. Diddy "is a provocateur and he likes to do his own thing but at the same time he is a genius business gu y... I was doing some music for him and like he said 'You do something for me an d I'll do something for you.' I'm very pleased he let me release that song and h e's even dissing the DJs on it, you know the crowd pleasers." Which makes you wo nder how Hell approached the Remix selection and whether this selection is sympa thetic towards the message of the record? This is a question that might never be answered, because Hells approach was very straight forward, he wanted the very best DJ's to remix what he sees as a track by a DJ for the DJ's. Ass such the on ly way to approach this was to send a personal message to each collaborator/remi xer. The response was the package. Deetron, Jay Haze Paul Woolford, Sis and Radi o Slave, all presenting diverse remixes that take the original vocal as the lead . Ideas so far include a E2-E4 style vinyl release for the Radio Slave mix, whic h will see it presented across two sides of a Long Playing vinyl. Another vinyl release is penned strictly for DJ's with the Deetron & Jay Haze remixes.