Always Outnumbered But Never Outpunned

Today I have a very special post for you, indeed. It comes in the form of two brand new tracks and one not so new track, all of which can be a bit of a bastard to find unless you know what you're doing. I've been planning this post for a while but unfortunately it has taken me longer than I'd have liked tracking down and obtaining the tracks in question. Many thanks to Chemical Jump, a good samaritan on Youtube and the random punter who decided to upload one of the songs on Zippyshare after any blogs who were willing to upload it got told to cease and desist. It is becoming harder and harder in recent times to run any service that provides music in this day and age due to emerging yet ever-present copyright raids. Although naturally we want to expand and develop over time, sometimes being an under the radar blog has its advantages. After all, if we were any major blog on the circuit right now we would be unable to post these tracks without some form of backlash or removal order.

First up is one I've spent the past couple of weeks tracking down, RackNRuin's Skitzo VIP. You may know this track from the recent Orange Rockcorps ad - the very same place I first spotted it myself. I don't know what it is about Orange but they have some of the best song placement in advertisements there are. This track is no exception either, starting seemingly slow but beginning the build up within the first ten seconds. This build up has to be one of the best I've ever heard because it manages so much despite being so compact. It concentrates on somewhat laidback (if you can call it that) synth work that loops while similar keyboard samples start creeping in only to be complimented by a smooth drum lick, something which phases out as emphasis is placed almost entirely on that synth hook as it builds and builds and then explodes into some of the most contaminated beats you've ever heard. The rhythmic approach to this track is something which I've been missing in recent times that singlehandedly closes the gap. I expect big things from RackNRuin in the future.

RackNRuin - Skitzo VIP

The second song to be posted is Duck Sauce's The Motion, a track which I can already hear you exclaiming has been ripping up clubs and, to an extent, the charts very recently. So how is it rare? Like anything, there is very little that is rare in this world if you know where to look. Unfortunately it looks as if Armand Van Helden and A-Trak are expecting big things from this track because almost every blog who has tried to host it has been asked to remove it. This may not seem like that big a deal but searching on Hype Machine for it comes up with zero, nada, zilch. Thankfully Chemical Jump aren't on the Hype Machine and they seem to have gotten away with hosting it. To be honest, I can't really fault the Duck Sauce boys for wanting to keep this one out of the hands of us internet pirates because this has sure fire success written all over it. The reemerge of disco in recent times has been giving the dance genre a much needed kickstart, especially when artists start blending it with French house hooks. Even if you had no ears you could probably see why The Motion has been setting clubs on fire and making just about everyone in the vicinity get up and break out a boogie. After all, providing you're nothow could you not feel like dancing to this track?

Duck Sauce - The Motion

Lastly is Cold Blank's 2012, a tune that admittedly it hasn't taken me that long to find. I first heard about this track a while ago and I acquired it not long after. Unfortunately even Chemical Jump has its boundaries and despite hosting it a few weeks ago, it was subsequently removed due to the artists request. This is where Google becomes really handy because there is almost guaranteed to be a link out there somewhere, the problem is finding it. I mean, are you really willing to trawl through pages and pages of dead ends in order to get your hands on one track? The answer is that you don't have to because I did it for you (although admittedly in this case it was like the third link on the first page but still). One of the main reasons I love this song so much is because of the sample used within: Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi. There are few things I love more, with the exception of maybe Parisienne baguettes and Michael Biehn, than classical music being dropped into dance music to full effect. It worked with Soulwax's A Fifth Of Beethoven, it worked with Miles Dyson's Live In Mexico and it most definitely works within the structure of this song. Not only do they drop Messa da Requiem early on but they keep it alive through chopped up samples that are accompanied by a bassline that has a dirty, almost primitive quality that'll make you wanna beat your bare chest like Tarzan and howl into the night. Maybe that's just me though. Enjoy the tracks.

Cold Blank - 2012

(Edit: Ironically enough, during the time I have been sitting on this post we actually got a DMCA complaint about one of our TFI Friday posts. We expected this to happen sooner or later but not this soon. Are we starting to get noticed? Who knows. What I would like to point out to anyone who wants their song taken off here is that we will be happy to do it ASAP if you contact us directly. The email address is in the side bar and we'd be more than happy to oblige. Contacting Blogger may seem like the appropriate choice to make, but although the complaint was registered, none of the writers were emailed it, despite Blogger saying an email had been sent. Each of us has checked every email we have and the blog's email itself and there is nothing there, which basically means that the post in question is now in blogging purgatory until we're able to resolve this issue. Next time, if you want a song taken off, please contact us directly. It will make both our lives a lot easier.)