In December 2010 Berlin based Big Chill Label artist  and Fingathing bass player Sneaky  releases a reinterpretation of his critically acclaimed album ‘Feel Like A King…Pluck A String’ imaginatively entitled ‘Feel Like A Remix’.

The new album includes a dazzling array of re-interpretations  by a talented bunch of producers including the legendary DJ High Priest, Peter Parker, Danny Drive Thru, The Glue Kids, Robot Koch, Paper Tiger, Paddy Steer, Filewile and Sneaky himself. Including an exclusive new collaboration with RQM.

Sneaky will also play a selection of dates around the UK to support the release.

Nov 29th – Jam – Brighton

Dec 2nd – Matt & Phreds – Manchester

Dec 3rd – Timbuk 2 – Bristol

“With Feel Like A King…Pluck A String my aim was to make modern instrumental soul music with depth through simplicity, which on an emotional level, expands and contracts with my own heart when I listen to it. To do this I basically put as much of my own playing and feel into the music.” says Sneaky.

“Passing over the tracks to be re-interpreted for this follow up remix album has been a little like letting one’s kids out on their own for the first time (I imagine!). However the excitement of hearing the new perspectives has been absolutely heart warming. I am really thankful to all the producers who’ve risen to the challenge and extremely proud of the result.  I cannot wait for these tracks to be heard.”

Listen to the Feel Like A Remix sampler here:

http://soundcloud.com/totalcreativefreedom/feel-like-a-remix-album-sampler

More info on Sneaky here:

myspace.com/sneakytunes

The Re-mixers

DJ High Priest

Nicholas Taylor (pka DJ High Priest) moved to New York in 1977 to be a musician and photographer. In 1979 he photographs  his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat and then joined Jean-Michel’s band Gray (guitar). They opened for The Lounge Lizards and DNA in downtown clubs CBGB’s, Tier 3 and the Mudd Club. In 1982 Basquiat named him “DJ High Priest”. Experimenting with ‘tape loop dj’ing’, he opened up for Michael Holman’s weekly event with Africa Bambatta, Cool Herc and Jazzy J at Club Negril  in the East Village. He was often the DJ for the New York City Breakers, opening for acts like Soul Sonic Force and Grand Master Flash. At The Kitchen in Soho 1984, Fab Five Freddy selected him for his band ‘Estate Fresh’ including Max Roach.

In 1984´s “Graffiti Rock” Michael Holman’s historical DVD of the legendary TV show features footage of DJ High Priest with K Rob and Futura 2000. Since 2003 he has  made various collaborations with Spiritual Hiphop futurist Rammellzee and his Death Comet Crew.

Soundtrack credits include:
1998 track ‘Suicide Hotline Mode’ / film “Basquiat”
2001 track ‘So Far So Real‘ / film “Downtown 81″ with Gray: opening track with Debbie Harry plus 2 more tracks.
2010 film “Radiant Child” Interview/Photos of Basquiat/Gray: 2 tracks in the soundtrack.

djhighpriest.com

Paper Tiger

Are an 8-piece live band from Leeds, UK producing quality bass driven, forward thinking electronic music. Since its humble beginnings the project has gone from strength to strength, gaining support from Radio 1, 1xtra and 6Music; forthcoming releases include tracks featuring Foreign Beggars, Sabira Jade (DJ Vadim/Hextatic), Dudley Perkins (Stones Throw) and DELS (Big Dada).

myspace.com/origamisounds

Danny Drive Thru

Danny Drive Thru has been a fixture of the Manchester  music scene for 10 years. A turntablist and beatmaker affiliated with such past great nights as Sub Tub and Spellbound, through to a new breed of nights like Hoya:Hoya and Mind On Fire. Danny has appeared on Ninja Tune (with latin jazz-hop n’ bass superband RSL), Fat City Records’ Producer 2 Compilation,and was featured in Thom Yorke’s May top 5 and Kutmah’s massively popular Stones Throw podcast.

myspace.com/dannydrivethru

Glue Kids

Inspired by drugs, junk food, junk music, junk television, dub and techno clubs, Glue Kids is the musical project of Madrid´s own DJ Tres. Heavily influenced by his father´s records collection, where The Specials sat together with Peter Gabriel, De la Soul or Bill Laswell´s Material, Glue Kids claim that hardcore-punk band DFL is their main influence. Subsequently inspired by hip hop´s Golden Era, Glue Kids´ music takes from here and there, using as many things as possible with one main purpose, the head nod. Relocated to Barcelona in 2010 after being a Berliner, the infamous Glue Kids are working on putting together as many dope beats as possible. Nothing more, and nothing less.

www.myspace.com/gluekids

Peter Parker

After coming 3rd in the UK DMC championships in 1997 scratch DJ/Turntablist Peter Parker was spotted by Mark Rae (Grand Central Records) and drafted in to work with Rae and Christian´s live band where he met Sneaky. The duo went on to make 3 ground-breaking LPs of turntable and double bass madness as Fingathing. After a UK tour with DJ Shadow, Parker´s love affair with the MPC drum machine grew immensely and he started to experiment more and more with samples. He joined Manchester group the Realdolls as beatmaker and live MPC player.  Under his alias Parkertron, a 7″ shared with Diesler featuring MPC funk tune Deadly DIY was released on 2 Dogs Records in spring 2010. Most recently, he has completed Fingathing´s highly anticipated 4th LP with Sneaky (due out 2011).

www.myspace.com/24809791

Robot Koch

Hailing from Berlin, producer Robot Koch is not only the mastermind behind Jahcoozi (Bpitch Control), he also produces and performs as a solo artist under his own name and works as a beatmaker and producer. In 2009 he started running his own label “robots dont sleep“. On his first album Death Star Droid , Robot Koch presented a thrilling vision of the point where dubstep, hip-hop and its myriad of influences fuse. After his mix on Flying Lotus`s Brainfeeder site, the rep grew bigger. His 2nd solo Album “songs for trees and cyborgs“ is out now on Projekt Mooncircle.

Robot has made beats and remixed artists like Infinite Livez (Ninja Tune/Big Dada), Bassnectar (child`s play), Rustie (Stuff Records), Marteria and Marsimoto (Four Music), Envy (Start Stop), Mochipet (Daly City), Justine Electra (City Slang), Raz Ohara (Kitty Yo), Al Haca (Klein) and Christopher Wiltis (Ghostly International), Yolanda be cool (superstar) and Amanda Blank (downtown rec). His music has been remixed by the likes of Modeselektor (Bpitch Control), Chris de Luca (Funkstörung) and Ata (Playhouse).

robotsdontsleep.com

Paddy Steer

Paddy is a Zelig like character along the time line of Manchester’s musical activity. It’s a testament to his musicality that he has played with such a wide range of music and artists over the years, be it as a bass player, drummer, or Hawaain guitarist . His own Homelife project released five albums in recent years through  Ninja Tune and his own label imprint Mad Waltz .  Many musicians contributed to the Homelife project, brewed slowly by Paddy in his Attic before being taken out as a small orchestra for some very unique concerts. Never one to blow his own trumpet Paddy quietly gets on with developing his craft.

myspace.com/paddysteer

Filewile

Based in Bern, Switzerland Andreas Ryser (Dustbowl) and Daniel Jakob (Dejot) started out in 2003 as mobile laptop street musicians at the gates of the Sonar festival. This swiftly gave Filewile an international reputation. During endless rehearsals for a Flamenco theater dance piece under the hot sun of southern Spain, DJ Dustbowl and musician and singer Dejot came up with the concept for Filewile, a strict DIY strategy: Music, production, distribution, concerts, merchandise – all done by themselves. The Filewile sound keeps evolving: Dub influenced Electronica, twisted Hip Hop, Space Funk with Kalimba and plastic guitars, cut up farfia organ sounds and jangling percussion from mistreated echo devices with cheesy synthesizer sounds mashed up on top to create their sound.

filewile.com

For more info and press packs email: eugenie AT  bigchill DOT net

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