THE DJ (RADIOSLAVE REMIX)

TRACKLISTING

A DJ Hell Feat. P. Diddy - The DJ (Ra dio Slave remix Pt. 1)
B DJ Hell Feat. P. Diddy - The DJ (Radio Slave rem ix Pt. 2)



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

The latest single ta ken from the much lauded 'Teufelswerk' long player sees Hell "hooking-up" once m ore with hip-hop superstar P. Diddy for the freestyle jack-track "The DJ". The p air worked together before on "Let's Get Ill" and "Check This," creating two cla ssic dance floor hits. But for 'The DJ' these two masters wanted to set the tech no world straight and send a very clear message 'to the mother fucker plays a 4 minute version.' That you 'can't get even get into your thing with a 4 minute ve rsion.' With 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, "This goes out to all the mother fuckers that like 15-20 minute versions o f a mother fucking record."

Many of us might wonder what sort of posi tion P. Diddy has commenting on the state of clubs and the forgotten art of play ing the full version of a record. This is a man who's own Production work with m ega-stars such Notorious 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 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 t his was a very important time for US "Rave" culture, much like the European Halc yon Rave days of the early 90's. The most striking difference being that, as wit h all great New York clubs from the Paradise Garage to Sound Factory, these part ies went on for days 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 Mi ami and tearing it up with Felix Da Housecat in Ibiza So P. Diddy has a privileg ed position, in that 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 internati onally revered performer Hell knows a thing or two about DJing and with his rece nt releases we see a definite shift towards lengthy mixes. On his long player 'T eufleswerk' 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. Trevor Jackson. But nothing prepared Gigolo for the package we h ave here, 5 tracks, 60+ minutes of music with the Radio Slave mix weighing in at a colossal 28 minutes. Speaking to Resident Advisor Matt Edwards aka Radio Slav e said "I'm down with the 20 minute versions! I'm also into Dj's playing the who le record! Most producers still make records with a start and an end... I actual ly wanted to do a 60-minute version and my friend Tom Gandey (Cagedbaby) recorde d a lot of piano parts in Bordeaux, which I used in the last 10 minutes... So I guess I just let the track do its thing. I played about 25 minutes at Fabric and it definitely wasn't boring!"

This seems to be an understatement; th e next time 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 w as Tongy that he played it the following week on his BBC Radio 1 'In New Music W e Trust' show in the Big Three section. But this is not the first time the recor d has been played on 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 i s fair to say that this record is already pretty Hot with most big name DJ's! < br>
Speaking about his collaboration Hell has said that P. Diddy "is a pro vocateur and he likes to do his own thing but at the same time he is a genius bu siness 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 s ong and he's even dissing the DJs on it, you know the crowd pleasers." Which mak es you wonder how Hell approached the Remix selection and whether this selection is sympathetic 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 su ch the only way to approach this was to send a personal message to each collabor ator/remixer. The response was the package. Paul Woolford, Sis 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. 2 other vinyl release a re penned strictly for DJ's with the Deetron, Jay Haze, Paul Woolford & Sis remi xes.