tatu metsätähti and tatu peltonen formed their electro duo mr velcro fastener in the small town of turku, finland back in 1995. in 1999, after a couple of twelve inches, they released their first full length album ‘lucky bastards living up north’ on i220, which was well noted (not only for its hyper colourful cover art by the designers republic). the album took the duo touring in europe and overseas, and led to further releases on labels like stars-music, ali b’s air recordings, solina records, cyber dance and of course billy nasty’s electrix, as well as remixes for the likes of hardfloor, marco carola, dk8, transparent sound and aux88. returning to electrix with their third full ep for the label (and a gap of 13 years!) they have delivered their own unique and recognizable electro sound with two new cuts. ‘a monster in two worlds’ with its electro-funk sound, classic vocoded vocals and grinding groove is a perfect opener, while ‘bakteriofag’ (bacteriophage in english) like its name, creeps up like a virus, infecting the senses with its crisp and shining melody. additionally, there’s remixes of ‘a monster in two worlds’ from silicon scally (carl finlow in his electro guise) and m-twelve (the new moniker recently launched by billy nasty and surface’s nick dunton) to complete the line-up.

4 track ep with large classic tracks : green velvet - flash, aphex twins s windowlicker, dahlbäcks murder was the bass & cisco freiras (aka the advent)- the tremmer (from rotation records), ...ltd repress!

this time the p crew mash up underworld with a touch of dk8 and on the flip we have a serious monster mashup, green velvet takes a trip to brazil alongside laurent garnier...

this is the 2nd part of the remix series of the mighty dk8 . 2 superb remixes from umek and paco osuna. umeks mix is typically funky with great builds and drops whilst paco osuna keeps up the intensity with a really hard mix that takes no prisoners. a must buy!

ultraphat dk8 like bass-driven traxx / tip !!