Rhotation (20) Into BPM

Hello, Saturday and that means Into BPM, today's beats still ring...First off, Plump DJ's..i spent a lot of time searching for the Plump Night Out cd..even in my defunkts drawer..(i never throw a disk away). Nothing ! I suspect it will rematerialise again later, well Eargasm was where it should be, so it's the second Plump DJ's cd today, not as stunning a surprise as the first, but still a good dance album. Second up are Freeform Five, i could find the reason for Five apart from the obvious alliteration (FFF) which works with Four (number of bandmembers) aswell, but i guess it shows the perfectionism as FF4 doesnt roll aswell as FF5. Those who' ve heard of them were likely as impressed with their 'Beau Mot Plage' (99) remix as i was. Well the Misch Mash double album showcase their skills very well . Unfortunately they haven't been that productive since 99, that is beside lot's of remixes and DJ ing, latter is an obvious drain of energy for a creative man like band leader Pillai, who's talents go beyond the dancefloor. But then he's still a decade away from a midlife crises.

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Plump DJs - Eargasm (03 ^ 444mb)

Plump DJs Lee Rous and Andy Gardner are responsible for one of the fattest sounds of the new millennium, a throwback fusion of acid house and electro-shock heard all over Britain's dancefloors, as well as Levi's commercials and Sony PlayStation games. Working out of their Laboratoire Plump studio in deepest, darkest Soho, the duo perfected its style with early singles "The Push" and "No Way". Remixes followed for Orbital, BT, Freestylers, and Elektronauts. The next year, they released their first album A Plump Night Out its singles "The Push/Remember My Name". The album stayed in the top position of DJ magazine breakbeats chart for three weeks.Soon after they were approached by dance music culture magazine, Mixmag, to mix one of their cover CD's. The mix, titled Elastic Breaks, featured the Februari 2001 edition. May 2001 they released a two CD mix compilation called Urban Underground, late 2002 they were asked to make another mix for well-known super club Fabric, which resulted in the release of Fabriclive 08 in February 2003.

They released their second artist album, Eargasm, on July 7, 2003. It featured collaborations with Gary Numan, Eddie Bo and Louise Robinson (Formally Rhodes) of Lamb. Surpass their debut album it didn't obviously working with guests demanded more seriousness. Following the release of Eargasm, they established a quarterly night club night of the same name at Fabric in London after the popularity of their FabricLive mix CD. On 4 July 2005, they released Saturday Night Lotion. It is considered their third artist album, due to the sheer number of original productions included on it. Soon after the release of Saturday Night Lotion, they were called upon to precide over the mixing duties of Mixmag's 'Breakbeat Annual 2005' which was to be included in their upcoming November issue.They are one of the few breakbeat acts to have songs that have broken in to more mainstream radio programs. In addition to producing, they have toured outside the UK to DJ at breaks events around the world.2007 they released two singles "Mad Cow" and "System Addict / Doppler" both released on Finger Lickin .



01 - Creepshow (6:11)
02 - Weighed Down (5:04)
03 - The Funk Hits The Fan (Feat.Eddie Bo)(5:30)
04 - In Stereo (3:06)
05 - The Gate (8:06)
06 - Morning Sun (Feat.Lou Robinson) (4:52)
07 - Mantra (7:22)
08 - Pray For You (Feat.Gary Numan) (5:18)
09 - Something Going On (4:20)
10 - Contact Double Zero (5:48)
11 - How Much Is Enough (5:47)
12 - Cry Wolf (6:55)
13 - Tilt (4:50)

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Freeform Five - Misch Masch 

Freeform Five has four members: lynchpin producer, multi-instrumentalist and chief songwriter Anu Pillai and vocalists Cabba, Tamara Barnett-Herrin and Nick Decosemo.

Perhaps more than anything else, it was the much admired and oft-compiled re-fashioning of Isolee's 'Beau Mot Plage' from minimal techno gem into Brazilian-acid-funk-Key-Of-Life house belter that alerted many to the fact that Freeform Five was no ordinary production outfit. 'Beau Mot Plage' featured no less than 11 musicians, and the vocal stylings of moonlighting journalist Nick Decosemo, the second primary number in Freeform Five's fluid configuration.

Pals for years, they met in the sixth form at school in Newcastle. Anu and Nick found common ground in music, forging a friendship over the three Ps: Prince, P-Funk All Stars and, perversely, the Pixies. So Anu and Nick formed their first band. Playing a timely stew of Funkadelic and Stone Roses. But then Nick headed off to college in Scotland while Anu stayed in Newcastle to do an art foundation and put his record collection to good use with his first DJ residency - Friday nights at the (then) Riverside club. By chance, up in Dundee, Nick and two of his new friends, Gary and Roy, were about to attempt something similar with a night called The Spaceship. Gary is now a bonafide rock star with Snow Patrol and Roy is now better known to millions as bootleg mash-up pioneer Freelance Hellraiser.

Anu also left heading for Cambridge 'to DJ and do a degree on the side'. At the same time another Cambridge student, Tamara, was having similar extra-curricular experiences, discovering the joys of dancing around like a loon to house music. The two didn’t really get to know each other until after they left. 'After Cambridge I was searching. ..and then I bumped into Anu and the rest is history'. At this stage Anu was working in music full time – on commercial soundtrack work by day and his own house productions and remixes by night. Keeping a constant lookout for new vocal talent was his way of investing in his future. 'I had an idea for a song, 'Break Me', when Nick dropped into the studio. I got him to sing the chorus as a dummy vocal track to work with, but on playback it sounded great so I thought 'Fuck it! I’m keeping it'.'

The final piece of the jigsaw was another chance meeting, another post-acid house musical vagrant and another exotic background. 'I was born in London,' Cabba begins. 'But via Sierra Leone ended up in Australia when I was eight. Part of a hip hop crew in Melbourne, but then Howard country drove him back to his place of birth, London, seeking out the electronic scene here. He met Anu at a party. who helped him straighten out his life. As for Anu; it made sense with the range of music to have three different voices for it. It's been a kind of haphazard process, but at the end, with Cabba joining it all just fell into place.'

The 2004 debut album “Strangest Things” is an inspired mix of Prince, Blondie and Kraftwerk (thrown into the acid house blender). They also had a series of vinyl-only releases including "Perspex Sex", "Electromagnetic" and "Eeeeaaooww". Anu’s DJ mix albums Bisous Bisous II 2006 and Misch Masch ( 2005) .Where he follows Tiefschwarz's 'Misch Masch' with a glorious mix of disco, dancehall, new wave, electro, techno and Italo. And as a bonus a cd with Freeform remixes, many of them much sought after.

No More Conversations was re-released in 2007 along with new remixes by Mylo, Fedde Le Grand, Mason, Switch and Subliminal Kid. Anu has also written with other artists such as The Glimmers, Mylo, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Richard X and Shinichi Osawa.Freeform Five continue with dj gigs and live performances at clubs like Fabric(London), Manumission(Ibiza), Week End(Berlin), Razz(Barcelona), Paris Paris(Paris), Lux(Lisbon), plus dates in Scandinavia, America and Japan.



Freeform Five - Misch Masch (05, 77min ^ 531mb)

01 - Plant Life - The Last Song (3:04)
02 - Freeform Five - Electromagnetic (Freeform Reform Dub Featuring Lyric L) (3:04)
03 - Breakwater - Release The Beast (1:41)
04 - Freeform Five - Losing My Control (A Cappella Featuring Lateef) (1:49)
05 - Comateens - Get Off My Case (Dub) (1:03)
06 - Skatta - All The Ladies Looking Naughty (0:16)
07 - Kango's Stein Massiv - Eddik (2:07)
08 - Freeform Five - Perspex Sex (Maurice Fulton Remix A Cappella) (1:15)
09 - Impossible Dreamers - Spin (3:08)
10 - Funkadelic - In The Cabin Of My Uncle Jam (0:37)
11 - Mr. Vegas - Pull Up (A Cappella) (2:00)
12 - Punks Jump Up - Be You (Beep Beep) (3:52)
13 - Wax - The Crocodile (1:16)
14 - Freeform Five - Eeeeaaooww (A Cappella Featuring Bounty Killer) (3:36)
15 - Jean Winner - Alive And Kicking (DJ Naughty Remix) (3:43)
16 - Franz & Shape - Countach (1:29)
17 - Freeform Five - Break Me (Jackson Remix) (2:58)
18 - Freeform Five - What Do I Want From You? (Paul Woolford Remix) (5:50)
19 - Simian Mobile Disco - Piggy In The Middle (2:14)
20 - Pink Grease - The Pink G.R.EASE (3:11)
21 - Soulwax - NY Excuse (3:49)
22 - Daan - Housewife (2:13)
23 - Diplo - Newsflash (3:27)
24 - Freeform Five - No More Conversations (Richard X Remix) (3:41)
25 - Seymour Bits - You Must Be The Bass (2:42)
26 - Roman Flügel - Geht's Noch? (2:00)
27 - Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (4:36)
28 - Lindstrøm - I Feel Space (6:20)

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Freeform Five - Misch Masch 2 (flac ^ 486mb)

01 - Isolée - Beau Mot Plage (Freeform Reform Part I & II) (10:37)
02 - Annie - The Greatest Hit (Freeform Reform Vocal) (8:23)
03 - X-Press 2 ( Feat. David Byrne) - Lazy (Freeform Reform Vocal) (10:07)
04 - Elton John - Are You Ready For Love (Freeform Reform Vocal) (9:52)
05 - N*E*R*D - Lapdance (Freeform Reform Vocal) (8:47)
06 - Mylo - Musclecar (Freeform Reform Vocal) (7:20)
07 - Felix Da Housecat - Rocket Ride (Freeform Reform Vocal) (7:23)
08 - Alter Ego - Beat The Bush (Freeform Reform Vocal) (6:02)
09 - Isolée - Brazil.com (Freeform RIO-LHR-TXL-BOM Reform) (6:17)

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