DJ Mag, June 2009, Single Review: Killers;
Page 113
Botanika records kick starts with a beautiful song, Polar Pair's "Ever
Happy", featuring the multi-talented Shawn Lee on vocals, wrapped up in
a lovely 10" vinyl package, itself a collaboration between photographer
Dania Heller, designer Heela Harel (Hi!) and our in-house aesthetics
manager Lady Moon tying everything together.
Listen
here
Buy at
Juno,
Fat City, or
Rough Trade
For those of you interested in the digital release, this will be
out soon in a couple of weeks through all major digital outlets.
Black Devil Disco Club "Another Skin" (Polar Pair Remix) (Lo)
How does an Italo-disco tune sound when relocated to cyber Africa? Bernard Fevre's mysterious project already gave birth to a subsequent remix project, and now, Lo are releasing another two remixes. The Polar Pair remix, and another one by New York's Nu-Disco sensations, In Flagranti. get it here
Michelle Amador “Because of You” (Polar Pair Remix) (Sick Trumpet)
The brief was “A tough broken beat number for the dance floor”, the out come is more like Zero DB, Switch and Carl Craig in a beautifully choreographed capuera fight over the beautiful voice of Ms Amador. Get it Here
Polar Pair are Malkiel Grossman
and Nadav Ravid.
They met in Jerusalem over 15 years ago and in 1993 decided to produce music together.
Both share a passion for good music which is accessible yet still pushes the boundaries
of tried and tested formulas.They have been practicing what they preach in various
platforms, together or alone whether on national radio, DJ circuit, Club management
and written and on-line media.
However, the most exciting thing for them is their ongoing joint music production
and the buzz of making music together.
Currently in the studio, PP are preparing the new set of sounds that will shock
the world with their unique style of rough, bass heavy production married to tuneful
pop music.
Discography:
1994 - Weekend work it out
1997 - Cool Panic EP (Distributed by Kudus, UK)
2002 - Cresh, LP (NMC, Israel)
2005 - Shapes Z:EP (Tru Thoughts, UK)
Shapes EP:Z (Tru Thoughts, TRUEP088)
The Shapes 12" vinyl series on Tru
Thoughts is intended as a platform for tracks by new artists alongside new tunes
and remixes by artists already signed to the Label. The
first 'Shape' includes
2 of our tracks on Side A Out of Sight, Which features TALISMAN on Vocals and Over
My Head which was co-produced by
MADDSLINKY and features
MC Karolina.
There are 3 remixes on the flipside The PRINS
THOMAS re-edit of QUANTIC's Mishaps Happenings, DIESLER's rework of Bungee Jump
Against Racism by NIROBI & BARAKAS (AKA Rob Luis and Simon 'Bonobo' Green) and TM
JUKE's remix of the QUANTIC SOUL ORCHESTRA anthem, Walking Through Tomorrow.
Shapes EP:Z was sold out a week after its
release on November 14, 2005.
The tracks
Over My Head, a funky brokenbeat tune,
came to life a couple of years ago, when Dave Jones (AKA Maddslinky, Zed Bias and
Phuturistix) was invited to DJ at the Sofabeat, the now legendary club Malkiel had
managed at the time. The next day he was invited to our studio, and in a couple
of hours we had a killer beat and a new friend (Dave is a charming person). We called
Karolina, and she came over at once and slammed the vocals in a couple of takes.
The track became a favourite on the weekly parties Nadav hosted at the Sofabeat,
With Karolina chanting the club name on the first few bars.
Over My Head's Demo version was first
released in 2004 as a free download via the internet-only label, Tokyo Dawn Records.
Out of sight was first conceived in
February 2005. We had a really sick, bass heavy beat somewhere between Crunk and
Grime. We wanted to escape the obvious, and instead of opting for an aggressive,
dirty vocal performance, we wanted to marry this beat to a sweet, soulful voice.
We contacted TALISMAN and hit it right off - the song practically wrote itself.
Beside the fact that this track generated the most enthusiastic responses, we also
gained a partnership with Talisman which proved to be fruitful and inspiring.
We would like to big up those who supported
these tracks so far:
Michael Rutten (Compost)
Diplo
(Big Dada)
Pho (Phorilla.com)
Nick Barat
(Fader)
Danilo (Inverse
Cinematics)
Joe 90 (Futureboogie)
Simon Harrison (Nu-World)
Somatik
(2000 Black)
Eyal
Quami Friedman (KZ Radio,
Israel)
Joao Cari & Francisco Coelho (NujazzSoul
/ Portugal)
Kevin Beadle (Mind Fluid / Clubbity)
Velanche (Urban
Landscapes /
Beyond
Jazz)
Sammy (UK Vibe /
The Other Side)
Steve Williams (UK Vibe)
Djouls (TIMEC)
Afronaught
(Bugz in the Attic)
Roy Shay (Beat
Chemistry, WNUR Chicago)
Pete (KFM
/New Zealand)
Commusication (Radio
FREI/Germany)
Ben Mono
(Compost)
DJ Clairvo (Mustbeat/Hungary)
Paul Thornton
(itch / Preston FM)
Buy (some) Polar Pair tracks here
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