RAMON TAPIA
So it’s goodbye noughties, hello twenty-tenties! We’re long past those milestones of sci-fi - 1984, Space: 1999, 2001 - so by all accounts we’re quite literally living in the future. OK, so we might not have our personal jetpacks yet and people like to dress like it’s 1986, but when it comes to music, well… What with dubstep, minimal, fidget house, electro-tango, glitchpop, and a million other clinically synthezised and surgically sampled tunes, everything sounds more futuristic than ever.
Which leads nicely onto this week’s guest mix by the highly respected Ramon Tapia (AKA El Carlitto). With its technified grooves, driving bassline bounce and dash of latin percussion, all slickly produced and mixed, it’s a perfect example of the house sound of now. And as a label mate of Rainer Weichhold (as featured on WPM ltd 008), you know Ramon has the Great Stuff seal of approval, which is more than good enough for us in WEPLAYMUSIC.
When he’s not busy producing his own tracks or remixing the likes of Luomo, Martin Eyerer, and Butch & Amir, you can find Ramon DJing in clubs around the world (with a packed schedule hitting Antwerp, Munich, Lisbon, Moscow and Rottendam in the next month alone).
DYING TO SURVIVE - Android Cartel [Railyard rec]
BASTARDO - Harry Axt [Kiddaz Fm]
SIMBIOSIS - Ramon Tapia [Cdr]
THE DIGG - Ramon Tapia [Great Stuff Rec]
BURUNDI - Stefano Noferini [Deeperfect Rec]
ITS THAT DUB THING - Ramon Tapia[Strictly Rhythm]
BACK TO THE BUSH - Ramon Tapia [Cdr]
WORK THE WEEK - Nic Fanciulli [Rejected]
THIS GROOVE - Ramon Tapia [Strictly Rhythm]
SURFACE - Dj Madskillz [Bitten]
CLOSE TO THE EDGE - Jerome Packman , David K , OTP [Quartz]
