THE DJ 12:2

TRACKLISTING

A DJ Hell Feat. P. Diddy - The DJ (Ja y Haze remix)
B DJ Hell Feat. P. Diddy - The DJ (Deetron Remix)



INFO
'The DJ, on which P Diddy (yes, him again) shouts a lot about how "motherfuckers" should play the 13-minute versions of tracks is o ne of the most ridiculous, brilliant things you will have heard in a long time.' Tony Naylor in The Guardian.

The latest single taken from the much l auded 'Teufelswerk' long player sees Hell "hooking-up" once more with hip-hop su perstar P. Diddy for the freestyle jack-track "The DJ". The pair worked together before on "Let's Get Ill" and "Check This," creating two classic dance floor hi ts. But for 'The DJ' these two masters wanted to set the techno world straight a nd send a very clear message 'to the mother fucker plays a 4 minute version.' Th at you 'can't get even get into your thing with a 4 minute version.' With this i n 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, "This goes ou t to all the mother fuckers that like 15-20 minute versions of a mother fucking record."

Many of us might wonder what sort of position P. Diddy has c ommenting on the state of clubs and the forgotten art of playing the full versio n of a record. This is a man who's own Production work with mega-stars such Noto rious BIG redefined East Coast Hip Hop. But for those in the know P. Diddy is no stranger to club land. Hell himself describes P. Diddy as a man who 'knows abou t techno music... When he was a kid he was going to the Sound Factory to see Jun ior Vasquez.' In the higher-echelons of Dance Music history this was a very impo rtant time for US "Rave" culture, much like the European Halcyon Rave days of th e early 90's. The most striking difference being that, as with all great New Yor k clubs from the Paradise Garage to Sound Factory, these parties went on for day s and so did the records. But more recently P. Diddy has been ubiquitous in club culture, from Partying with Hell and Claude Von Stroke in Miami and tearing it up with Felix Da Housecat in Ibiza So P. Diddy has a privileged position, in tha t he was there then when the art of playing the long version was at its 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 revered perf ormer Hell knows a thing or two about DJing and with his recent releases we see a definite shift towards lengthy mixes. On his long player 'Teufleswerk' two of the poppiest moment clock in at 9 + minutes. The last single to be released from this album, 'Hells Kitchen' featured an 18-minute remix from Playgroup aka. Tre vor 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 colossal 28 minu tes. Speaking to Resident Advisor Matt Edwards aka Radio Slave said "I'm down wi th the 20 minute versions! I'm also into Dj's playing the whole record! Most pro ducers still make records with a start and an end... I actually wanted to do a 6 0-minute version and my friend Tom Gandey (Cagedbaby) recorded a lot of piano pa rts in Bordeaux, which I used in the last 10 minutes... So I guess I just let th e track do its thing. I played about 25 minutes at Fabric and it definitely wasn 't boring!"

This seems to be an understatement; the next time Radio S lave would play this record would be the following Sunday at 'We Love...' at Spa ce in Ibiza, in the presence of one Pete Tong! So impressed was Tongy that he pl ayed it the following week on his BBC Radio 1 'In New Music We Trust' show in th e Big Three section. But this is not the first time the record has been played o n Pete Tongs Radio 1show. In fact the original was played by the man himself 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 lik es to do his own thing but at the same time he is a genius business guy... I was doing some music for him and like he said 'You do something for me and I'll do something for you.' I'm very pleased he let me release that song and he's even d issing the DJs on it, you know the crowd pleasers." Which makes you wonder how H ell approached the Remix selection and whether this selection is sympathetic tow ards 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 only way to approach this was to send a personal message to each collaborator/remixer. The r esponse was the package. Paul Woolford, Sis, Deetron, Jay Haze and Radio Slave, all presenting diverse remixes that take the original vocal as the lead. Ideas s o far include a E2-E4 style vinyl release for the Radio Slave mix, which will se e it presented across two sides of a Long Playing vinyl. Another vinyl release i s penned strictly for DJ's with the Paul Woolford & Sis remixes.