SCREENDEATH !

Music | jon.ramsay | February 24, 2010

Northern Ireland isn’t usually considered fertile ground for essential new producers, but after recently discovering Space Dimension Controller (more on him to follow) our latest and possibly greatest find suggests we really are going to have to start paying more attention to that part of the world.

Screendeath is Bangor’s Ryan Thompson, a supremely talented 18 year old who’s barely been producing for a year yet sounds like he’s been at it for a lifetime. We stumbled across his remix of L.A. house peddler Andy Caldwell’s ‘Scream’ with few expectations, yet within a minute we were picking our slack jaws up off the floor. Make no mistake, this shit is epic.

Plenty of people can do funky, grimy, dreamy, nasty, deep and/or pumping. Creating real drama and tension in a track is a skill few can master. This remix exhibits it in bucketloads, going for the jugular with an immediate loop of fuzzy, almost operatic keys before breaking down into the heavily vocoder territory for the intro proper. The beats don’t disappoint either, doing away with the frivolous bounce of the original in favour of a slick, subtle chug. Amazing stuff – check it out below in full 320kbps glory:

MP3 ANDY CALDWELL – SCREAM (SCREENDEATH REMIX)

MP3 COSMONAUT – THE STARS ARE ALL LIARS (SCREENDEATH REMIX)

Fortunately for us, 2010 is going to be a busy year for Screendeath. His new track ‘Vitamin Friend‘ will be included on a compilation album to be released on Tommie Sunshine’s new label Brooklyn Fire’ sometime in the next month or two, while he’s also currently working on an EP with Savile (Southern Fried Records) which will feature a shiny new version of an old track ‘Mitora‘. That’s not to mention recently commissioned remix work for Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Monarchy and We Have Band.

It’s the debut solo EP we’re really looking forward to though. Check out the unfinished preview of new track ‘Sparks’ to see exactly why:

Sparks (Preview) by screendeath

Ryan also took some time to do an exclusive mix just for us and you can only grab it here:

SCREENDEATH TASHED MIX:

Tracklisting:

1. Sascha Braemer – Some Sweat

2. Audiojack – Schizophonic

3. Them Jeans – Flying Rats

4. Solo – Congoloid (Minimow Remix)

5. French Fries – Senta

6. Clouds – Dust Nugget

MP3 SCREENDEATH TASHED MIX

Finally, we would like to round this post off with another shining example of sweeping, cinematic electronic music; a Tashed favourite from back in the day that has plenty in common with Screendeath’s Andy Caldwell remix. We first heard this on a mix album from the master Danny Tenaglia way back in 2002, and after eight years we’re still not sure it’s been bettered. The choral stuff at the start, the main vocal, the bassline, the piano… it’s perfectly-formed prog gold from start to finish. Enjoy.

MP3 FUSED – TERROR

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