Design Credit: Electrik SuicideATL come L.A. DJ/Producer Le Castle Vania has earned a reputation for whipping crowds into a frenzy, no doubt aided by this staple of his sets, the hard-as-fucking-nails electro track, ‘Zero Machine’ that samples (or remixes, if you prefer) the alternative gods, The Smashing Pumpkins, classic, ‘Zero’. If last year was all about Mr. Oizo’s RATM remix (or was it, Patrick Alavi’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ (here) remix instead?), this year is all about:
MP3: Le Castle Vania - Zero Machine
Removed by request
Also new in the Le Castle Vania repository is this collaboration with Birmingham (but soon to be L.A.) party monster, Computer Club. Computer Club shot this over to us before his recent string of L.A. dates, including Nocuturnal Wonderland (where he straight murdered it). Nod to event coordinators like Insomniac who have, in the last year, let this indie-electro-blog-house thing get a massive stage of their own and fill it with global players. It’s fun to be along for the ride as a genre goes from fledgling to full-fledged—But I digress… Here’s Le Castle Vania & Computer Club:
MP3: Le Castle Vania & Computer Club - The Messiah
MP3: Le Castle Vania & Computer Club - The Messiah (Radio Edit)
Yo, so why’s it called ‘The Messiah’ (Besides the potentially obvious, it being a straight-up cover of Renegade Hardware junglist, Konflict’s 2000 track, ‘Messiah’), here’s one you might not know, from way back to 2003, when Le Castle Vania was Messiah-1, drum’n'bass producer and operator of his own short-lived label Negaverse Recordings. The release is a tune is ‘Relic’ which got a properly massive remix by L.A.’s Gridlok and the original ‘Red Dust’. Strictly jungle (the crazy bass drops are all about half-way in):
MP3: Messiah 1 - Relic (Gridlok Remix)
MP3: Messiah 1 - Red Dust
Boh! If you love it, know that we love it too. If you don’t, go kick rocks. Or, maybe give this other contemporary Le Castle Vania a try, as remixed by L.A.’s top-shelf’s LA Riots:
MP3: Le Castle Vania - Trouble in Daylight (LA Riots Remix)
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le castle vania & smashing pumpkins… pretty amazing!
i thought the “The Messiah” track was a cover of Konflict’s “The Messiah” which was a massive Drum & Bass anthem back in 2000.
“Zero” 3:15 beat -> just fckng awsm…
@ Scotty:
Also true! The tune pretty much is a remix of the old Renegade Hardware track ‘Messiah’ by Konflict. See, it’s either laziness or strategy, but we leave gaps in the story for some crowd participation. hah. Thanks for helping!
I just wanted an excuse to post some old-ass Le Castle Vania ish that a lot of peeps don’t know about. And it happens to be called Messiah-1 too. Maybe that’s part of the inspiration? Paying homage to the former moniker?
I know Noisia & Spor also have have recent remixes of ‘Messiah’ too. Noisia is my hero. Spor too. Spor just got done touring Austrialia with Ewun (a.k.a. Kill The Noise). Speaking of which (on this loosly associated train of though), I’m going to a rave with Kill The Noise later tonight. We’re gonna get drunk get fucked get down and get PLUR. </digress>
WOW you really did your home work on this one haha. but i do have to ask you to REMOVE ZERO MACHINE RIGHT AWAY. ANY BLOGGERS THAT MIGHT HAVE SNATCHED THIS TUNE TAKE THIS AS NOTICE: YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO REPOST THIS SONG AT THIS TIME!
@ Le Castle Vania:
No doubt. We’re on it. Hope you do something good with it.
@ Kittens
oh i totally dig. had no idea LCV had a Drum & Bass project. if you’re interested in more of “Messiah,” check out The Outside Agency’s version called “Antichrist” on Genosha Recordings.
i’m a Technical Itch fan myself
@ Scotty:
You’ll be pleased to know we’ve got exclusive Tech Itch exclusive stuff coming soon. He’ll be sending it over any day now.
I’ll check out that “Antichrist” record. Good lookin’ on all fronts, homeboy.
I want more blog house remixes of drum n bass anthems. More aggressive as well please.
Someone needs to do “The Nine”
That’d be the ultimate nerd full circle.
I cant wait for this track to be cleared, i posted it late july and had to remove by request… CAN”T WAIT FOR CLEARANCE!
Interesting and fun fact. Le Castle Vania used to be in a band called Zero Machine. A LONG ASS TIME AGO!!!!
BOH oh BOH!!!!
The Messiah remix is straight up bootleg garbage.
You ripped the dnb track and added some Justice drum samples.
All these electro blog kids just try to remix popular tracks for insta-fame…
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@ Donny Berretta:
I’m not talking you out of your opinion about ‘electro blog kids’ but you’ve absolutely picked the wrong track to make an example.
The ‘Messiah’ remix is a cover (recreated everything) created in part by Computer Club a.k.a. Gigantor of the world famous drum’n'bass group Evol Intent. I’m sure you’re heard of them? Arguably the most prolific junglists in the US.
Make sure your evidence supports your claim next time. K thnx bye.
the link for le castle vania’s myspace is incorrect here is the right link :you can get the zero remix here
http://www.myspace.com/castlevaniadisco