Corderoy signs to High Contrast

Big Fish Little Fish client Dale Corderoy has signed his latest release to Dutch trance imprint High Contrast.

The young up and coming DJ/producer has come up with a belter of a track entitled 'Run Into The Sun' which features the haunting and evocative vocals of Little Neve White.

The track will surface in February next year. In the meantime Corderoy has been in the studio working on a new track with Judge Jules which is sounding pretty bloody massive!

Morocco's Caravane release debut album

Marakech based downtempo electronic act Caravane release their debut album this week.

The act which combines traditional Moroccan instruments and voices with bang up to date electronic production have self released their eponymous album via the imprint Marakchi Records. It contains performances by some of the country's leading musicians such as Oum and Foulane.

Plaudits have already come in from the likes of the resident Djs at The Supperclub, Cafe Del Mar and Sa Trincha as well as various cognescenti on the chilled scene.

Caravane have just enjoyed a big spread in the inflight magazine of a low cost airline (with orange uniforms ) which resulted in over 3 million eyeballs of the article.

Tracks have already been requested for the next Buddah bar album and support is continuing to grow.

'Caravane' is available on itunes and CD now....

Mason releases 'Le Big Bob' with "food porn" video!!!!!

Dutch electronic supremos Mason release their latest on Animal Language, 'Le Big Bob', a paen to their favourite junk food item.

The track which has been remixed by In Flagranti, Arveene & Misk and Disco Of Doom has gone down a storm so far with such household names as Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada, Aeroplane and Tomcraft among others.

The "food porn" video which depicts various edible items exploding to the beat of the track has over 55,000 views on youtube so far and is either making people salivate or sick depending on their culinary tastes.

Check out the video here and decide for yourself.

The single has enjoyed extensive radio play around the globe including an unprecidented 5 weeks running across the Capital Network ( The Mash Show) and has has a glowing reviews in the press ( see Mixmag review attached)

The single is out now on all major digital portals...

ClassyMenace with duo of releases!!

Don't ever let it be said that we at Big Fish Little Fish Music are not multi-cultural. Italian-South African producer Classy Menace has to big tracks to him name out in ether this week.

First up is Blee Vs ClassyMenace 'Serenade', cheeky a hip-house number with an even cheekier video. It was obviously no fun making this promo! Check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEMwOsgW3xA

The track is released this week via itunes and all the usual places.

ClassyMenace, or Andrea to his folks, also has just signed a new production called 'Get With This Electro Trash' to Italian label Dance and Love.

The track samples the classic Italian disco tune 'Ma Quale Idea' by Pino De Angio which you may recognise as being famously nicked by Madison Avenue a few years back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e935ZQUOonI

The tune looks set to rock Italian dance floors this Winter and there is currently a very tasty vocal on the way just to add some extra icing..

Atalanta produce masterful loops

Brighton based downtempo act Atalanta have just launched a sample series pack for Loopmasters, one of the most reputable outfits in the business with artists such as Deadmau5, London Elekricity and Meat Katie with previous releases.

The pack, entitled 'Atalanta Chill' contains lots of Clive Mead's trademark beats, loops and live instruments and is the first time the company have released anything in the musical genre.

In the meantime the Atalanta single 'Falling' is due for release shortly with an album , 'One Thousand Days' to follow.

Loopmasters pack: http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/961/Atalanta_Chill

Dino Psaras releases 'Indian Summer'

DJ, producer and general dance industry legend Dino Psaras releases his new track 'Indian Summer' this week via Wicked Weekend, an offshoot label of Soundz.

The track comes with remixes by hip German producers Lissat & Voltaxx and has so far enjoyed support from Eric Morillo, Sarah Main ( Pacha), MYNC Project, Plastic Funk and Seamus Haji among others.

Indian Summer is available on Beatport now http://www.beatport.com/release/indian-summer-lissat-and-voltaxx-remixes/682898

Atalanta sign with Total Creative Freedom

Atalanta, the downtempo act based in Brighton have signed a deal with UK based label Total Creative Freedom. The label is the baby of Big Chill label head honco Eugenie Arrowsmith.


The South Coast based imprint will release the band's first single 'Falling' this Summer to be followed with the album "One Thousand Days". 


Eugenie commented that "Atlanta with their blissed-out downtempo  sound, were everything I was looking for when I started Total Creative Freedom. Their debut album is full of great songs and stunning instrumentals, an essential album for music lovers everywhere".


A release date for 'Falling" which includes remixes by Chris Coco, Sumsuch and Innerise will follow shortly. 

Sacha Puttnam Scores Video Game Soundtrack

Big Fish Little Fish are working with composer Sacha Puttnam who is currently scoring Heroes Of Ruin, a brand new game for the Nintendo 3DS published by major video games company Square Enix. The game, developed by n-Space, is due for launch in early 2012. Heroes of Ruin is a multiplayer action adventure set in a fantasy setting.

Sacha, who has worked on numerous film, TV and radio projects is thrilled to be working on his first game soundtrack for such a prestigious company. "It’s a hard area to break into musically as many of the companies are simply a "closed shop". So far I'm really enjoying creating the musical backdrop to this virtual world and hope to be working on more in the future.”

Sacha Puttnam's CV is incredibly varied, having worked with rock acts (Bush) electronic acts ( Hybrid, Chris Coco) as well as scoring a number of feature films and winning awards for his radio play music.

USA Deal for Corderoy

Corderoy's stunning version of Narcotic Thrust's classic 'Safe From Harm' has been signed to New York based label Napith Music. The label is a collaboration between a number of large and established European labels such as Armada ( Holland) and Kontor Records ( Germany). 

Dale Corderoy, the young producer behind the track took a re-recorded vocal from the original vocalist Yyvonne John-Lewis and gave the house anthem a serious update.

Corderoy now joins the likes of Armin Van Buuren, ATB, Avicii, Sander Van Doorn and other progressive/trance luminaries on the Napith Music roster.

'Safe From Harm' will also feature on Belgian DJ Dave Lambert's new compilation 'Versuz Pool Lounge 4' and is set to grow in clubland over the coming months.

Blee Vs Classy Menace sign with Cubit Records

Big Fish Little Fish project Blee Vs Classy Menace have signed their rather tasty 'Serenade' track to UK based Cubit Records.

This truly international act comprises of Montserrat born MC Blee and young Italian/South African producer ClassyMenace. Their debut collaboration is a french style funky electro house number with some pretty fly vocal delivery and really juicy hooks.

Two weeks after penning the deal with Cubit a video has been shot which shall be surfacing very soon. In keeping with the pretty sexual nature of the track the video should make for interesting viewing. Big Fish had the arduous task of attending the castings for model/dancers. Its a hard life sometimes....!

Check out the track here: http://soundcloud.com/bigfishlittlefish/blee-vs-classymenace-serenade

Mason team up with Brazilian legend Marcos Valle !!!

Mason have been working on a track with Brazilian Bossa NOva legend Marcos Valle. The Dutchmen met up with Marcos while touring in Brazil and decided on an experiment to combine their sounds. Mason and Marcos swapped files between Amsterdam and Rio over a couple of weeks and created a unique track with vocals and live instrumentation. The result is 'Solarium' a schizoid latin house tune that is destined to rock the Summer parties this year.

67 year old Marcos is still in the game since his first releases in the early 60's when he was a peer of the likes of Sergio Mendes and Astrud Gilberto, becoming a household name in his native country and gaining fans Worldwide in his long career. He has constantly experimented with music and is even credited as one of the first people to "beatbox" a decade before it became a hip-hop staple. Valle is no stranger to electronic music having experimented since the early noughties with albums such as 'Escape' and 'Contrasts'.

'Solarium' will feature on the Brazilian version of Mason's album 'They Are Among Us' to be released by EMI Brazil and will no doubt find it's way across the globe as Summer approaches in the Northern Hemisphere.

Check out Solarium in youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAuskDG9Lt4

Mason team up with Brazilian legend Marcos Valle!

Mason have been working on a track with Brazillian Bossa Nova legend, Marcos Valle. The Dutchmen met up with Valle while touring in Brazil and decided on an experiment to combine their sounds. Mason and Marcos swapped files between Amsterdam and Rio over a couple of weeks and created a unique track with vocals and live instrumentation. The result is 'Solarium' a schizoid latin house tune that is destined for Summer parties this year.  67 year-old Marcos is still in the game since his first releases in the early 1960's when he was a peer of the likes of Sergio Mendes and Astrud Gilberto, becoming a household name in his native country and gaining fans worldwide in his long career. He has constantly experimented with music and is even credited as being one of the first people to "beatbox" a decade before it became a hip-hop staple. Valle is no stranger to electronic music having experimented since the early noughties with albums such as 'Escape' and 'Contrasts' 'Solarium' will feature on the Brazilian version of Mason's album "They Are Among Us" (EMI Brazil) and will no doubt find its way across the globe as Summer approaches in the Northern Hemisphere.  Check it out on Youtube here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAuskDG9Lt4 www.musicofmason.com www.soundcloud.com/musicofmason

Mason album released!!!!

After 3 years of blood, sweat, tears, arguments and paperwork Mason's debut album 'They Are Among Us' is finally available for public consumption.

The album is available on digital formats as well as a super-duper beautifully packaged CD. Remember them??!!! The longplayer is also available on itunes, Beatport and all other portals as well as the CD being available from Amazon, Play and directly via Mason's website.

'They Are Among' Us Has been getting rave reviews among print media and online already. We are very pleased with the feedback so far....

"Electro Album of the Month" Mixmag
Highly recommended " Data Transmission
"A cracking debut" Future Music
"Prime Your Ears" Music OMH
"A minor musical miracle" 3D ( Australia)

Mason featuring Roisin Murphy 'Boadicea' out on Beatport!!!

Mason's latest single "Boadicea" which features the amazing Roisin Murphy is out this week on Beatport.

Remixes come in all shapes and sizes from Evil Nine and Tony Senghore's more electro house leanings to Mat Playford & Danny Howell's disco vibe. There are also wicked interpretations from L.A's Human Life, Belgium's Polydor and German house supremo Oliver $.

The track has been getting major love from some of the biggest club DJs in the World from the like of  Crookers, Fake Blood, Sander Klienenberg, Hernan Catteneo and Dada Life.

"Boadicea" hit the Cool Cuts chart at No. 8 and has been played on every radio station under the sun across the globe.

The track is available exclusively through Beatport https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/341085/boadicea

Greg Downey get's Everything But The Girl

Big Fish Little Fish managed to secure an official release for trance don Greg Downey's remix of Everything But The Girl's 'Missing'.

Greg's awesome treatment of the 90's classic had been a huge tune out there in the clubs with the likes of Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Jules and Armin all supporting. It was time for the bootleg to go official!

Warner Bros imprint 'One More Tune' were impressed enough to make it part of their official package with Fedde Le Grande for the recent re-release. Greg hit the heady heights of the Beatport chart just missing ( pun intended) out on a No1 spot. Bugger!

Keep an eye on this boy, there'll be some more big tune action from him for sure this year.