Seiji

A producer and DJ up now, who rather ashamedly I had never heard of up until a couple of weeks back, this fact made worse when I found out his history and past projects and realised that he's a bit of a legend and one hell of a prolific producer.

Ove the years Seiji has sprinkled his production magic on everything from RnB to Dancehall with his own unique style and was a major purveyor and pioneer of the Broken Beat scene, a scene which had undoubtedly had a huge influence on some of the fresh new sounds to be pouring out of the capital right now.

Seiji is also a driving force behind the much adored Bugz In The Attic crew, and was key to the the formation of the project, enjoying phenomenal success over the years with the project thanks to tracks like this:-

The reason why Seiji has finally come to my attention is thanks yet again to the wonderful Fact Magazine podcasts which he was in control of a couple of weeks back, plucking out a set which did that rare but lovely thing of absolutely blowing me away upon the very first listen.

Seiji seems to be able to skip effortlessly through a whole range of genres such as House, Dubstep, Garage, UK Funky and Hip Hop with a seam and flow that is deadly, moving between tempos constantly, at one point in this mix even employing an Old Skool release on Moving Shadow recordings from 1993 to devastating effect.

Seiji - Fact Mag Podcast(Mediafire)

01. New Sector Movements – Digital Age [Virgin]
02. Greenmoney feat. Mz. Bratt – Who’s Greenmoney [dub]
03. Gorillaz – Stylo (Seiji remix) [Parlophone]
04. Seiji – Elevator [Seijimusic]
05. Seiji – Yesman [Seijimusic]
06. Todd Edwards – Rite Now [Grassroots]
07. Erykah Badu – Honey (Seiji remix) [Motown]
08. Basement Jaxx – Scars (Seiji remix) [XL]
09. Kaotic Chemistry – LSD [Moving Shadow]
10. Donaeo – Riot Music (Skream remix) [Digital Soundboy]
11. Mark Pritchard – Elephant Dub [Deep Medi]
12. Bugg Kann & The Plastic Jam – Made in Two Minutes [Labello Blanco]
13. Seiji – Hohoho [Seijigoodies]
14. Blapps Posse – Don’t Hold Back (Blappstramental) [Tribal Bass]
15. Tinie Tempah – Pass Out (Sbtrkt remix) [Parlophone]
16. Greenmoney feat. Lady Chann – Political Hype Dub [Fool’s Gold]
17. DJ Gregory & Sidney Samson feat. Dama S. – Dama S Salon [Defected]
18. DJ Joe T. Vannelli feat. Csilla – Play with the Voice (MAW remix) [Nervous]
19. DJ Champion – Motherboard [white label]
20. Mr Mageeka – Different Lekstrix [Numbers]
21. Seiji – Loose Lips (instrumental) [Bitasweet]
22. Lady Sovereign – Random (IG Culture remix) [dub]
23. DJ Beware & Motorpitch – El Toro (Seiji remix) [Man Recordings]
24. Seiji – It’s You [dub]
25. Tim Green – Kitsch In [Dirty Bird]
26. Florence and the Machine – Drumming Song (Seiji’s Squelchy Rub) [seiji.co.uk]
27. Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir – Sunrise [Seventh City]
28. Extra Ts – E.T. Boogie [Sunnyview]
29. Seiji – I Can’t Let It Go [Seijigoodies]

The mix has been on constant rotation on my Ipod and a few of the tracks I just had to have, and going over the tracklist it became apparent that some of the best tunes in the mix were by Seiji himself. So imagine how happy I was after a bit of investigation and a visit to his website that a few of these tunes he had already given away for free, in fact there's a pretty obscene amount of free tracks on his site when you consider the quality of them.

I have posted my favorite tune I downloaded from there (although its the remix of Gorillaz that is my favorite track by him, its just not up on the site), and I recommend you go have a peek over there yourself as its definitely a site worth your attention - www.seiji.co.uk

Basement Jaxx - Scars (Seiji Remix)(Mediafire)