NOOB SPELL/PROTEIN SNP 024 + ZHAO & MAELSTROM REMIXES © 2011 SOUND PELLEGRINO Club” for Turbo Recordings, defining the sound drums, unraveling the most “hands in the air” of 2009 and getting plays by every major DJ breakdown since the invention of putting your back when high-pitched synth riffs and tropical hands in the air. Incredible crowd reaction on riddims ruled the clubs. That was then, this first listen and massive early feedback from is now, and after delivering a handful of tasty our close circle hint at a very big club success remixes (for none other than heavyweights for this track. Tiga, Para One, Style of Eye, Popof) as well as producing the immense “Dinosaurs With Guns” “Protein” instantly reminded us of early Oizo for yours truly, in early 2011 NOOB majestically and Bpitch-era Feadz productions, as well as flipped the script by showing the world his the the dirty MPC-sounding, analog clashing obsession with intricate patterns and melodies against digital, grease-dripping electro funk through his “Crumble” EP, a very IDM-inspired of old favorites Letroset. It’s weird, aggro yet warped tech house gem on the usually rather minimal, always building up yet never blatantly techno Form records. exploding but rather keeping your feet on the floor for some seriously sweaty dance action. On the night I met him, right after filling in for Those who know us well will understand why Tracklisting: French partyrock club anthem “shouter” Big we are absolutely in love with it to death. 01. Spell Ali (the cambembert-infused french answer 02. Protein to Fatman Scoop) in an Orleans night club, we French Clouded Vision affiliateZHAO 03. Spell (Zhao remix) decided NOOB was gonna have his own Sound transforms “Spell” into a deliciously dark and 04. Spell (Maelstrom remix) Pellegrino EP. The “Kiwi” remix and “Dinosaurs moody, almost UK Bass-y number evolving with Guns” came along, and the idea started quietly into a twisted acid bassline-driven Release date: dangerously drifting away as NOOB kept house track bursting with playful noises and October 10th on all music stores pushing back the moment he would play us voices. Irresistibly weird and groovy, combining demos of his own tracks for a release. Then, all garage vibes and dark electro echoes this is of a sudden, more than a year and a half after a great genre-bending remix in pure Sound the promise was made, apparently the planets Pellegrino tradition. MAELSTROM, another There must be something in the water in were aligned and “Spell” and “Protein” up and coming frenchman (yup: a 100% french Bordeaux. Something that turns quiet kids into appeared in our mailboxes like a ray of light EP. Cocorico motherf*ckers!) delivers a heavy tasteful buttoned-up hooligan technophiles from Mount Olympus on top of which NOOB is dose of his trademark mutant miami bass expert in ghetto house and the art of partying currently sitting, chillin, like a genius Bordeaux juice on his “Spell” remix, while keeping the till you’re brain dead while screaming their techno villain. melancholic-yet-hopeful spirit of the OG intact trademark “CHUI CHO” from the top of their (but with added sex). lungs. First there was Bobmo, then Strip Steve, “Spell” is the huge Sound Pellegrino “choon” Djedjotronic and now we present to you the everyone was waiting for. A groovy sure shot —Teki Latex latest graduate from the Bordeaux school of which combines commanding ferocity and a hard knocks: NOOB. delicate class in a way reminiscent of Style of Eye’s early work, but also hints at NOOB’s NOOB grabbed every dance music aficionado’s passion for IDM and mysterious - almost attention when he co-signed (alongside buddy ambient melodies à la Lone, carried by a Brodinski) the pumpin house megahit “Peanuts strong rhythm built on noble electro and house Sound Pellegrino press: Emile Shahidi www.soundpellegrino.net 5 rue de Douai [email protected] twitter.com/soundpellegrino 75009 Paris France +33 (0) 953 652 646 facebook.com/soundpellegrinoofficial.