Braindead Lovers Vs Kid Kenobi

Once upon a time, dance and rock had turf wars over public opinion. IT was 'underground' versus 'selling out', new versus old,electronic versus live, and never - we were lead to believe - were the twain to meet.

But opposites, as we know, often attract. With a slew of production credits under his belt ‐ and off the back from his much acclaimed rework on Dan le Sacs 'THOU SHALT ALWAYS KILL' ‐ Kid Kenobi does it again with his remix of 'SAPPERS APPETITE', the first track from Melbourne rock outfit Braindead Lovers.

After a year supporting the likes of The
Divinyls, Dukes of Windsor and Children Collide and garnering solid radio support from Triple J(Home & Hosed) and recent national airplay on Nova, Braindead Lovers have stepped out of the shadows and well on to national radar.

The band has made the final cut on the inaugural JD Set initiative and will the hit the road on a national tour with Angela's Dish and The Dardanelles. Their cracking debut EP is out now through Shock Records.

Meanwhile, after 3 years of non‐stop local and international touring, Kid Kenobi's taken 2008 to prime his skills in the studio. Number 1 DJ in the Technics InTheMix Top 50 for three years in a row meant playing packed gigs from Brazil to Canada to Shanghai to San Francisco and not a lot of time left for production.

'I'm still in the early stages of my career as a solo producer so I feel like a bit of a kid in a candy store (no pun intended). It's a wonderful level of creative freedom. Indeed I want to set that as my main intention as a producer. I want to be versatile and constantly try new things and let the original tracks dictate the direction of the remix in most instances, rather than me trying to
bend everything to 'my sound', which will become boring both for me and the consumer."

In a nutshell- SAPPERS APPETITE is a balls‐up rave and rock mix complete with brash drumbeats
and layers of filtering riffs.

'I didn't really write it with the intention of writing a 'big club tune' says Kid Kenobi, 'but rather tried to stay true to the 'song'. Influences here were Evil 9 and Jacques Le Cont. And yes, the percussion really is a recoding of me banging on glasses of water. Ultimately I want my remixes
‐ and my body of work in general ‐ to be like a kid collecting football cards: 'Have you got the deep house one- Have you got the breaks one- Have you got the Baltimore one-' This is my rocky remix. And I'm really happy with it.'

Bringing together the band's unrestrained garage sound and Kid Kenobi's super polished remix rap sheet; 'SAPPERS APPETITE' is guaranteed to test the speakers. The best mix of dance and rock since Bowie met Jagger or The Beatles met LSD-

Well, we think so.

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