:: New Year - New Tunes ::

2006 has started with a mass of strong new releases landing on the Mixbuster mat. The pick of the bunch has to be the Freemasons new track called ‘Watchin’. What a corker! Both the dub mix and vocal mix are going down a storm and expect some remixes to follow. It has a release date of early March.

Another strong player is the re-working of ‘Thunder In My Heart’ by Meck. The original track was a miss-not-hit for Leo Sayer in the 70’s. Yep, you read that correctly. The short curly one is back! The new version has already made the Radio 1 playlist and has gained credibility from the more hardcore jocks and their respective audiences. The promo I received is a highly filtered remix with Shapeshifter-esque strings, which goes down a treat.

One to avoid, but is already doin’ well, is the re-working of the old Baywatch theme by Sunblock. I’m all for delving through the back catalogue for decent samples, but do we really have to sink so low!? The students are going wild for this track and will probably drag it into the top ten.

Some harder tunes doing the rounds are Haffi ft. Emerson ‘Afterlife’, Plump DJ’s ‘Dr Dub’ and the brilliant Suniba, ‘Call For Me’. The latter has been remixed by FotM (Friend of the Mixbuster) Ben Jones. Synth bleeps and deep beats make up this house-based tune, with great vocal samples from Angie Brown. Suniba are still unsigned but hopeful of a release in time for the summer clubbing season. I’m battering it on my shows, so you can check it out for yourselves.

Lots of DJ’ing means no web updates, no new Mixbuster productions and a serious lack of sleep. All will be rectified in February – hopefully.