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Shotgun Wedding Vol 8 – Sick Girls vs Syrup Girls

Posted on | January 27, 2008 by Mark | Comments

From the press release (with a few amends by me):

Call it synchronicity. Call it fate. But in the mid-2000s, in two different corners of the world, two girl DJ tag-team duos arose, both with the same taste in raw underground bass. Wierder still, the two sets of girls even looked kind of similar; one tall blonde, one sassy brunette each. From New York City came Syrup Girls, California transplants raised on drum & bass, sweaty rock shows, and causing drunken late-night mayhem in the streets of the LES. From Berlin came Sick Girls, throwing middle fingers up to the minimal techno-obsessed with broken breaks and in-your-face style. And then came Tigerbeat 6 don Kid 606, who decided to pair these low-end dopplegang-girls together at last for Violent Turdís genre-busting Shotgun Wedding series.

On side one of Vol. 8, Syrup Girls go balls out in Brooklyn, busting out the gate with dirty breaks (favela funk, rave jams, Bmore jawns) before dropping nasty punk-house and closing out with a fire fight between the Dirty South and spooky dubstep bangers. Yowch!

On the ‘flip’ Sick Girls bring on the revolution, Berlin-style, heat-fusing raw Nintendo grime (Shystie, Sticky, Drop The Lime) with club rap stormers and super surprises, all edited, reworked, chopped and screwed to sweet death in the pairís Kreuzberg laboratories. PURE FIYAH! This mix i’m giving you is pure FILTH! Download, turn it up and rinse the bass – piss off your neighbours!

More on Syrup Girls:

Siren & Star Eyes have been DJing for a combined total of 24 years, rising to fame as two of the US drum & bass scenesters, are best-known female selectors before launching the breaks and UK garage-driven Syrup Girls tag-team in 2000. They’ve released three mix CDs and several tracks’ Siren & Kaos ‘Rush’ (Breakbeat Science), plus Star Eyes vocal turns on John B’s “Take Me Home” (Beta) and Passions “Emergency” (KitsunÈ) as well as playing for the likes of Diesel, OM, Adidas, and more. Since Shotgun Wedding Vol. 4 (their split mix with Drop The Lime), Siren has opened one of NYCís hottest underground DJ bars, Home Sweet Home, and Star Eyes has been playing like wildfire with the Trouble & Bass crew. They are currently obsessed with tacos, Coney Island, and taking it there.

Check out their site here: http://www.syrupgirls.com

Boomkat sell the series usually, but currently out of stock, but check back here from time to time and snag these SUPERB mixtapes!

Syrup Girls – Balls Out In Brooklyn! (Yousendit)

Luke & Lil’ Jon – Head Tonight
Mark Ruff Ryder – Check This Bass (Ruff Remix)
Kicks Like A Mule – The Bouncer (Housequake Remix)
Sujinho & Cassiano feat. Zuzuca Poderosa – Ai Voce Gosta
DJ Technics – Single Ladies
Top Billin – San Fran
Passions feat. Star Eyes – Emergency
Curses – What I Need
Dexplicit – Shy Juice
Alias – Gladiator RMX
Fire Camp – Okay (Instrumental)
Plasticman – Cha
Trouble & Bass – Stitches
Mims feat. Junior Reid & Baby Cham – Why I’m Hot Remix
Mathhead – Dreamtigers
Mike Jones – Still Tippin
Skream – Midnight Request Line
Trina – B A Right

Ps. Ladies, if you’r reading this – come to the UK (again)!

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