Free remix of Ripgroove

It's been an interesting year for me, branching out as a solo DJ as the other half of Pogo (James Furness) had to do some soul searching and find his own sound. This pretty much coincided with me leaving London and disbanding our show on iBreaks. I've had a lot of fun popping back to London playing at the likes of We Have Fun and Supatronix, though there's only so many times you can play for the same people. So over the summer I started focusing on developing my production skills as my musical outlet and hopefully promotional tool. Having taken on the important job of reviewing tracks for This Is Breaks I was interested in trying to do my bit for the scene by producing breaks rather than the electro people might have expected from me. The result was my first release in November (Radio Epidemic) and a couple of other encouraging ideas.

There was a remix competition to work on the classic Double 99 - Ripgroove back at the end of summer. At the time I was getting Radio Epidemic signed and tweeking that all the time as well as starting full time work so I didn't get a chance to make something for the comp. I had managed to make something that sounded promising though, so I still went back to it whenever I found any studio time. As it is there are no clever drum edits or spectacular effects, but some solid beats, the charm of the original and some nuskool synth work make it a proper party banger that I wanted to share.

So especially for all Pogo fans here's a special Christmas/pagan Winter gift:

Double 99 - Ripgroove (Shakes' 2009 Breaks Mix) by I Am Shakes

Download and enjoy!

See you in 2010.