We have known Soulwax’s music for quite a long time, but only met them for the first time in Milan a couple of years ago. They were there for a gig and asked the promoters if they could meet us, since they had been interested in us after hearing our remixes. The promoters contacted us, and a few hours later we were all backstage together fooling around like good friends! Since then, we’ve seen each other more and more and eventually they invited us to perform at Soulwax Radio and Soulwaxmas in Ghent.

After our history together, asking them to collaborate on a track for our first album was the most natural thing for us to do.

We wanted to only use analog instruments, which is the opposite of what we usually do, so we went to their studio in Ghent and started playing synths all together. Of course we wanted it to sound as Soulwaxish as possbile! The result of our collaboration was the first demo and another track that they are going to use for the upcoming 2 Many djs album, in that one I (Phra) sing and we arranged Italo Synth using only digital plugins. In the end it was basically an exchange!

Here is Demo1

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On the 2nd demo I started singing the “Love, Love, Love” vocals and Igor Cavallera (MIXHELL) offered to play live drums on it after he heard the demo… how could we refuse?

Demo2

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After that we decided to have live bass on the track as well and our man Matteo took care of that! We sent it back to Soulwax who did their last edit, making a more mellow version. More Italo, less dancefloor banger.

Demo3

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After this we headed back toward the first demo, and came out with the final version of “We Love Animals“.

Stay tuned for Epidose #2… No Security ft Kelis

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Once upon a time there were two italian guy’s who were playing their first gig in Amsterdam and just before they had to play I started talking with Phra, who later on introduced me to Bot.

We started talking about creative thing’s such as making pizza!

After a few months, Phra invited me to come to Italy for his birthday to play some music and making a pizza, but it didn’t take very long to see that i’m no good in making pizza and they asked me what else i can do!?so i told them that maybe i’m better in drawing and painting and to show them i came up with the idea of make an animation video….and that’s what i’m working on right now!

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Check out Mixhell’s latest tape and… Merry Xmas!!!

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ENJOY – Crookers feat Soulwax and Mixhell – We Love Animals

There has been a change in plans…

Give away track of December is not Hip Hop Changed anymore but :

Crookers ft. Soulwax & Mixhell -- We Love Animals

TO GET THIS TRACK FOR FREE…
Look out for flyers handed out at Soulwaxmas UK

or wait until we publish here in the blog!!!

Album’s track preview: Crookers ft Soulwax and Mixhell

Title: ??? (still uncertain)

Video by our man Richard from aooa.tv

And….. get ready for more goodies!!