Soul Groove” A summerish and melodic house anthem, with catchy vocal cuts, funky house progressions and pumping Iberican beats. Remixes by Division 4 & Dwayne Minard, “Should Groove” gets it’s commercial release today, Tuesday October 30th as it’s already been getting high praise and full club and chart support by many of the industries biggest producer / DJ’s including Morgan Page, StoneBridge and Rich B of London’s Enriched Records to name a few. A special thanks to everyone already supporting the track.

 

 

[Matt Consola & Leo Frappier Dark Club Mix – Video Editing By Tony Mendes]

Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the award winning, worldwide #1 radio, club and video hit “I Beg Your Pardon [Rose Garden],” Barry Harris’ Kon Kan is back with 2k14 remixes. Before producing more than 20 #1 hit remixes for the likes of Madonna, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lopez, Mary J. Blige, Céline Dion, Cher, Janet Jackson, Spice Girls, and LeAnn Rimes, to name a few, as part of the Award winning remix team, Thunderpuss, Barry Harris (and singer Kevin Wynne), as Kon Kan, scored multiple global hits with the singles “I Beg Your Pardon [Rose Garden],” Puss N’ Boots / These Boots Are Made For Walkin,” and “Harry Houdini” off the album Move to Move.

To celebrate its 25th Anniversary, several record labels around the globe will be releasing 2k14 remixes over the course of several months, kicking off June 03, 2014 on Swishcraft Record’s “Swishcraft Pride 2014″ and followed by this EP of Remixes. Additional mixes on EPride Music and several more labels will join this release, including mixes by Edson Pride & Johnny Bass. The original video is also being cut to multiple remixes for VJ’s, with several mixes already available on the official Kon Kan YouTube page.

For Part One – Swishcraft’s own Matt Consola & Leo Frappier produce a full vocal, Big Room Anthem Club mix complete with dark but uplifting stabs and a heavy club beat. Right on trend, Division 4 creates a happy house mix with throwbacks to the 90’s club genre. Lastly, Cristian Poow, who celebrates his 100th club remix, introduces his new big room remix moniker, The Monstrates. A departure from his Tech House & Electro House ‘Cristian Poow’ sound, The Monstrates is full on, peak hour Anthem House.

For Part Two coming in late July 2014, mixes will include 7th Heaven & Cajjmere Wray.

http://youtu.be/sq9VP8F1MYE

And in the winter of 2012, the Swishcraft hit “Amazing” by Mars & Vans feat Adam Turner became a worldwide club and chart sensation when it was licensed, not once, but twice by Abercrombie & Fitch for the launch of several European flagship stores as well as used as their Facebook holiday campaign theme song and in their in-store runway video campaigns. By the time of this post, the video had 83,253 likes / views.

Lara Fabian – I Will Love Again ’14 (Division 4 & Matt Consola Remix)  © 2000 Columbia Music.

A progressive rework with melodies that intertwine perfectly while the deep bass holds the track together beautifully as flowing rhythms are built. The 1999 #1 Club and Radio classic gets a 2014 Big Room Club revamp just in time for the 2014 Pride season. Strictly for promotional Dj & VJ use only, there is a full 12″ mix as well as a radio edit plus a The 12″ video for VJ’s is on its way. Above is the Radio Edit Video, both done by the amazing Tony Mendez.

This is not a Swishcraft release. © 2000 Columbia Music. Promotional use only. All rights and credits go directly to its rightful owners!

 

Happy June Everyone!

And for most, it’s the kickoff to Pride Season around the globe. That is why I’m so excited that TODAY we see the release of Swishcraft Pride 2014, a 14 track, unmixed compilation with quite a few milestones on it. So where to begin . . .

DJ Barry Harris of the of the groundbreaking and award-wining remix team Thunderpuss, celebrates the 25th Anniversary of his #1 hit “I Beg Your Pardon (Rose Garden) by his band Kon Kan. Swishcraft was honored to be the first to remix and release one of the many remixes coming out over the summer, on various other labels as well. So you’ll get to hear the Matt Consola & LFB Club Mix. And later in the month we’ll release a three track EP with mixes by Division 4 [ Robert Ladič)] and The Monstrates [Cristian Poow]. And what is also exciting is this mix by Cristian Poow marks his official 100th remix for another label. An amazing milestone for someone so young.

DJ Wayne G & Shauna Jensen team up for the club cover of the classic, “Respect,” just in time for Pride. You get the exclusive Wayne G Atlantis Mix.

Kult Records approached us about putting our Swishcraft BOUNZ! sound on their chart topping Pop / R&B act that teams up the two powerhouse groups of The Housewives & California rapper LUCIOUZ. You get the debut of the Matt Consola & LFB BOUNZ! Remix of the track “Beautiful.”

International Superstar DJ Paul Goodyear teams up with our local San Francisco diva Caroline Lund to put their twist on the Olive classic Outlaw. Sure to be a Pride favorite.

Thirteen years after it made it debuted and shot to #1 on the club charts world wide, Vicki Shepard gets a 2014 Pride update to her classic “I Got A Feelin“ by none other than the team of Jose Spinnin Cortes & Chris Stutz. This will be the first of several updated classics to come off her 25th Anniversary Anthology Album out later this year that includes updated classics, all the remastered club hits and many hits never released digitally.

I could not be more excited that two powerhouse Remix Producers, Johnny Labs of House of Labs and Cristian Poow have both done exclusive Pride remixes for my current single “Let The Music Take Control” featuring Zhana Saunders. The House of Labs is a huge Peak Hour Circuit version while the Cristian Poow is a dark, tech house gem sure to pack any floor.

That brings us to a handful of Swishcraft & BOUNZ! remixes (produced by myself and Leo Frappier). While we were fortunate enough to be asked to remix other label releases in late 2013 & early 2014, not everyone always gets to hear what we do for other labels around the globe. So some of these you may know, others you may not. For many of you, this will be the first time you get to hear or purchase these versions. They include tracks for Barona & Bouvier featuring the always amazing Abigail Zsiga (of “Let The Joy Rise” & “If It Don’t Fit” fame) to name two of countless hits. We could not have been more excited to be part of their single “Surrender” with special thanks to Carrillo Music. Then there are mixes for Wayne G and another amazing Diva that needs no introduction, Debby Holiday ,with their update to her smash hit “Dive.” We did a BOUNZ! Nu-Disco Mix. The stunning, San Francisco based Gypsy Love blew up the charts with “Beautiful Thing,” a track that could not be more appropriate for any Pride season. We did a Swishcraft Big Room Anthem. We did a BOUNZ! Nu-Disco mix for Caroline Lund‘s “Come With Me.” We chose the DJ Big Kid & Brian Cua mix of #WhiteLadyProblems to represent our single with the bigger than life Pollo Del Mar and James Torres. No Swishcraft compilation would be complete without the big room, blue eyed soul of the vocal heart of Swishcraft Music, Brenda Reed and her amazing presence on “Dream of Me.” Finally, we round out this Pride compilation with our biggest Swishcraft single to date, Mars & Vans ft Adam Turner – ‘Amazing,’ that many of you in Europe, and especially in Germany, will know as the theme song to not one, but two Abercrombie & Fitch commercials and in-store videos.

 

01. Matt Consola ft. Zhana Saunders & LFB – Let The Music Take Control (House of Labs Club Mix)
02. Wayne G feat Shauna Jensen – Respect (Wayne G Atlantis Anthem)
03. Barry Harris presents Kon Kan – I Beg Your Pardon [Rose Garden] (Matt Consola & LFB Club Mix)
04. The Housewives vs Luciouz – Beautiful (Matt Consola & LFB BOUNZ! Mix)
05. Wayne G & Debby Holiday – Dive 2013 (Matt Consola & LFB BOUNZ! Mix)
06. Bouvier & Barona ft Abigail – Surrender (Matt Consola & LFB Swishcraft Remix)
07. Paul Goodyear featuring Caroline Lund – Outlaw (Vocal 12 Inch Mix)
08. Gypsy Love – Beautiful Thing (Matt Consola & LFB Swishcraft Remix)
09. Matt Consola ft. Brenda Reed & LFB – Dream of Me (Matt Consola & LFB Swishcraft Anthem Mix)
10. Mars and Vans ft. Adam Turner – Amazing (Matt Consola & LFB Swishcraft Anthem Mix)
11. Vicki Shepard – I Got A Feelin’ 2014 (Jose Spinnin Cortes & Chris Stutz Remix)
12. Matt Consola & James Torres – #WhiteLadyProblems [Feat. Pollo Del Mar & LFB] (Big Kid & Brian Cua Hunty Anthem)
13. Caroline Lund – Come With Me (Matt Consola & LFB Bounz Mix)
14. Matt Consola ft. Zhana Saunders & LFB – Let The Music Take Control (Cristian Poow Remix)

So there you have it. We hope you love it. We hope you dj’s play the new and older tracks. But most of all, we hope that when you listen to Swishcraft Pride 2014, it brings a warm and fuzzy Pride feeling to you, your friends and family. From all of us at Swishcraft & BOUNZ! Music, we wish you all an amazing Pride Season!

XXOO – Matt Consola

So excited that the radio edit of our Anthem Mix has been made into a HD video for all of the VJ’s to play. I’m told that videos cut to the two 12″ mixes are also on their way. I’m excited to see them. The great Tony Mendez, video editor to the stars, has done a fantastic job on this video. So happy you all love the update to this classic.