Shortstuff

If there's one thing you will have to get used to on this blog, its me ranting on about how in love I am with a producer or DJ, and this post is going to take the gushing to a whole new level.

I first became aware of Shortstuff's name in the middle of last year after a couple of collaboration releases with Planet Mu's mad Garage purveyor Brackles, liked what I heard, and set about delving into finding some other releases by him, and it soon pretty much become apparent that Shortstuff is pretty much both producing and DJ'ing some of THE MOST EXCITING SHIT ON THE PLANET.

Seriously, this guy is on a completely different level to stuff out there at the moment, and the last few months has seen a flurry of releases on numerous labels, highlights being the Run DMC sampling mental synthstep collaboration 'Dont Sleep' with Hyetal on Punch Drunk, 'Pipey D' again made with Brackles released on Blunted Robots (the other side to Bok Boks frighteningly mental 'Citizens Dub'), and then there's the release a while back on Ramp Recordings of what has now become one of my favourite tracks in the past 10 years, the astonishing 'A Rustling', which staggers and stutters along sounding strangely out of time yet maintains a compellingly raucous rhythm.

Like his productions, Shortstuff's DJ sets are apparently a wonder to behold in a club setting (something I am sadly yet to see but will be doing my upmost best to rectify), and again like his productions can prove very difficult to lump into a category, bounding effortlessly through Techno, Dubstep, 2-Step, Wonkyness, Grime and beyond. In short, exactly what I want to hear.

There's been a few Shortstuff sets appear around the net the last few months, and, stand by for the gushing, they are breathtakingly good and structured fantastically, and are packed full of some major major freshness, as well as forays into classic Techno, overlooked Dizzee Rascal classics and so much more. I have posted the 2 sets that have been on non stop repeat for me the past 2 month or so below. Listen, be amazed, get an oxygen tank on standby.

First up is the 'What You Call It' mix he did for the Lucky Me podcast:-

Shortstuff - Lucky Me Podcast (Mediafire)

Hard House Banton – Reign (Roska VIP mix)
>> Martin Kemp – No Charisma
Geiom & Shortstuff – Wardenclyffe
Mos Wanted Mega – Different Lextrix
Martin Kemp – Wot U Got
Martyn - Friedrichstrasse
D Malice & Rebecca Knight – Poison (Roska mix)
Martin Kemp – After The Night
TRG – Discotek 79
Joey Beltram – Back Porch
Deadboy – If You Want Me
Mosca – Square One (Greena mix)
Brackles – Bad Sandwich
>> Youngstar – Bongo
Untold – Bad Girls
Geiom feat. Marita – Sugar Coated Lover (Brackles & Shortstuff mix)
Shortstuff – Tweaked
Ramadanman – A Couple More Years
Untold – Flexible
Brackles & Shortstuff – Ipkiss Riddim
Shortstuff – Galaxy
>> Aardvark – Nosestep
Sully – In Some Pattern
Clouds – Napalm
Pangaea – Dead Living
James Blake – Pembroke

And then next up is his mix put up last month for the bang on form XLR8R podcast:-

Shortstuff - XLR8R Podcast(Mediafire)

Joey Beltram - Upper
Scratcha DVA - Natty
Martin Kemp - Wot U Got
Shortstuff - Swine Time
Hem feat. Terrible Shock - On a Mission (Shortstuff Remix)
TRG - Tribal Flex
Deadboy - If U Want Me (Brackles & Shortstuff Remix)
Brackles - 6am El Gordos
Shortstuff - Galaxy
Steve Poindexter - Work That Muthafucker
Mosca - Square One (Roska Remix)
Brackles & Shortstuff - Roots & Berries
Doc Daneeka - Drums in the Deep
Shortstuff & Hyetal - Crayola
Bok Bok feat. Bubbz - Citizens Dub
Dizzee Rascal - Live O
Untold - Bad Girls
Geiom - Spiral Weave
Lauren Pritchard - Stuck (Guido Remix)

Be sure to check these out, and rest assured I will be keeping a close eye on and updating with any future Shortstuff mixes and releases.