Brooklyn’s Dre Skull is bringin’ some awesomeness to the west coast. If you’re not familiar, Dre Skull and his partner Juiceboxxx have been making some of the nicest club-jump-off white-boy rap on any coast. Best example being ‘Sweat’—a bouncy party track that consistently gets hipsters onto dancefloors and the sweat-sweat-sweat dripping off. For the 12″ single, Spank Rock’s Xxxchange (who happens to be playing at Modular’s ‘Party of the Year‘ in London tonight) and DJ Funk did remixes. Here’s one of ‘em:

MP3: Juiceboxxx and Dre Skull - Sweat

MP3: Juiceboxxx and Dre Skull - Sweat (XXXChange Remix)

But it’s not just like that, Dre Skull’s reworks of Motown era classics have become a staple of my iPod playlists, bumping through Civic speakers on late night excursions. And in a fine example of the levels of remix culture, L.A.’s Skeet Skeet took the work of Dre Skull (who use the music of The Jackson 5 liberally) and chopped it up even more for the party DJ. Also, Dre Skull gave some Classic-Rock-meets-Bmore flavor to Ol’ Dirty Bastard by mashing ODB with The Kingsmen doing ‘Louie Louie’:

MP3: Dre Skull - I Want You Back

MP3: Dre Skull - Want You Back (DJ Skeet Skeet Edit)

MP3: Ol’ Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money (Dre Skull Remix)

‘Cause of the way bloggernomics work, I had to wait ’til big bad Discobelle dropped the brand-new heat first. Big up to Discobelle! Now with tracks laid down, there ain’t nothing to do but jump aboard the bandwagon…

MP3: Juiceboxxx and Dre Skull - Center Stage

‘Center Stage’, of course, is the new track in the equation and the single’s artwork is pictured above. It’s released on Vicious Pop Records, and available on limited-to-500, one-sided, hand-pressed, clear 7″ vinyl with a remix by Pittsburg/San Diego group, Extreme Animals who’s subheadline and genre declaration, “Crunk / Punk / Funk” is surprisingly accurate. Keep yr ears peeled.

I caught Dre Skull for the first time last Thursday in L.A. at The Heist, a 18+ weekly where dance-kids loose their minds. Dre Skull plays tonight at another most favoritest party, IHeartComix event, Check Yo’ Ponytail (also 18+). Tonight, Dre Skull plays alongside Instatubes/Paris Terror Club electro-genius Surkin. Last time, I saw Surkin at Check Yo’ Ponytail it was insanity. Expect amazing things if you’re rollin’ out, Get hype’d up in our Surkin archive.

Visit Dre Skull on MySpace.
Visit Juiceboxxx on MySpace.

Shy Child is an electronic music group from NYC that flows in the same vein as Klaxons, Hot Chip, and Soulwax; All of which Shy Child have supported on tours.

Shy Child’s newest full length record (their third), ‘Wall of Noise’, released on Wall of Sound, is their most polished yet. My two favorite tracks off the record, I just discovered, have additional production credits going to Paul Epworth a.k.a. Phones. Phones is one of the best things to happen to electronic music, so I ain’t mad at that! The tracks are their first single, ‘Drop the Phone’ and ‘Astronaut’. The title of the single makes even more sense now!

MP3: Shy Child - Drop The Phone

MP3: Shy Child - Astronaut

Shy Child also features some of our favorite peoples, the Spank Rock crew, on the track, ‘Kick Drum’.

MP3: Shy Child - Kick Drum (feat. Spank Rock)

Visit Shy Child on MySpace to stream tracks and check out where they stop on their European tour happening right now! MySpace is the resource, but they also have a sparse official site. You can get their albums and EPs through Amazon; their new record is quality and recommended.