Nothing beats a funky bassline. Now if you add some jive talking over a funky bassline? Then you’re hitting the sweet spot. Created on the holy grail of samplers, the E-Mu SP1200, Like I Said is A-Trak at his grooviest, cutting up drum breaks for the dancefloor. When the world is divided, we turn to one thing: the funk. Keep an eye out for Trizzy’s upcoming 10 Seconds Vol. 3 EP with more rawness for your crates.
The ever-prolific Kaelin Ellis is a rare gem of a musician. His rise to prominence has grown through his skills as a talented multi-instrumentalist and a very earnest need to build community and collaboration. This is made beautifully apparent in his Fool’s Gold debut entitled, You Are Here, Start.
This album is full of the melodic and rhythmic sensibilities that has made Kaelin a respected and revered household name. With features that range from Duckwrth, Guapdadd 4000 and 2-time Juno Award winning rapper TOBi, to savant pianist Anomalie and RnB/Blues crooner C.S. Armstrong, “You Are Here, Start” covers sonic ground in ways only Kaelin can. There’s a certain warmth to this project that wraps around you like the sun.
Montreal’s resident club demon Martyn Bootyspoon has been taking USB sticks by storm with banging releases on Local Action, Future Classic, Rhythm Section International and more. He makes his Fool’s Gold debut with Bingo!, an EP of hedonistic jams with all the crunchiness of High Powered Boys-era French Electro. The lineage of Chicago’s classic Trax Records and Dance Mania is alive and well on Bully-Boy House and La Ronde ’92, but Bootyspoon’s own spin is unmistakable…. and horny. .
Dutch studio wizard Thys is the producer’s producer. As a member of Noisia he pushed the boundaries of sound design with remarkable attention to detail. In recent years his solo output led him to explore more subgenres of club music, in the widest range of tempos, and finding freedom in spontaneous collaborations. On his new Fool’s Gold EP, Eigenwise, Thys is making the most playful music of his career. He jumps from garage to futuristic electro, from hardgroove to jungle with remarkable ease, subverting familiar tropes and flipping them on their heads. He is joined at the boards by Nikki Nair, A-Trak, Machinedrum, Chloe Robinson, DJ ADHD and Holly; all happy to lend a hand in this dazzling display of expert production.
When that asteroid comes for us, will you be hitting the club? There is a grim, frantic energy to the four tracks on this EP, which the New York based Matsu and Matthew Law expertly turn into irresistible rhythms. These are DJ weapons first and foremost, filled with syncopated rhythms, laser sounds, cut-up stuttery vocals with a remarkable attention to detail. If dance music’s core function is to release one’s pressure, these two Slow Roast and Fool’s Gold affiliates delivered an excellent toolkit.
Frank Leone is a self-produced multidisciplinary artist from the woods South of Chicago. A bedroom prodigy who is just as confirmable programming beats, singing, rapping, as he is writing screenplays and creating animated TV shows. His ability to portray raw emotions in all its stillness is apparent on FISH, an album ripe with lush instrumentation and delicate patina. Collaborators such as BADBADNOTGOOD’s Chester Hansen, Coco O. (Quadron, Tyler the Creator) and Hrlum lend a few brush strokes to these songs of longing, as Frank portrays the great pink valley that is FISH.
Bingo!, the first single from Martyn Bootyspoon’s eponymous EP, is a whiplash-inducing synth explosion. Part Oizo & Surkin French electro, part futuristic techno, it is a frenetic piece of work that doesn’t forget to have FUN. Montreal’s resident club demon is on a tear this year and his Fool’s Gold debut is chock full of hedonistic energy.
With his You Are Here, Start. album a little over a month away, multi-instrumentalist Kaelin Ellis stops by with “Its Been A Minute,” an instrumental track that features the head-knocking production that his fans have grown to love. In the spirit of creativity, Kaelin will be releasing the stems for “Its Been A Minute” for download to let his community of creatives put that thang down, flip it and reverse it in anyway they see fit. Drop a verse, chop a drum, or just listen and relax. The choice is yours and yours alone.
Frequent Fool’s Gold collaborator Thando1988 is back with another anthem, linking once again with German housemeister Mat.Joe. This breezy interpolation of the Maxi Priest classic is a timeless piano house jam made for instant singalong. The bouncy bassline is perfect for any sets, from the dive bar to the balearic terrace.
New York based Australian producer BRUX likes big loud drums. She even named one of the songs on her new EP “Big Kick Energy.” The hardware and drum machine expert met A-Trak — who also likes big loud drums — at The Lot, which led to the Gravy EP getting signed to Fool’s Gold and now we can all enjoy these fun, bombastic club tracks. “EMBERS” is an immediate standout, while the title track “GRAVY” features Baltimore legend TT The Artist. BRUX expertly grabs elements of many generations of dance music and creates a digest that is uniquely hers.
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