Last year Busy P’s posy got together with Warped Records to throw a party in Paris, called Warp-Ed, it went down a treat and forged a new relationship between the two labels. To take it a step further Squarepusher has just released a new EP on Ed Banger Records, with Mr Oizo on hand for the remix duties.

Squarepusher on the a-side with “Cryptic Motion”, the perfect soundtrack for a remake of Zabriskie Point in 2012, heavy bass that slaps your flesh and some sunset vocoder. Mr Oizo on the b-side for an epileptic p-funk remix only him can twist that way.

You can sample it in full below.

Ed Rec head DJ Mehdi has just unloaded a 33 minute mix for you all to download, you can expect to hear some tracks from Carte Blanche, Chromeo, L-Vis 1990 and other deep soulful goodness.

JAY-Z ‘Dear Summer’ Quick Intro
FLYING LOTUS ‘A Cosmic Drama’
NINA SIMONE ‘Summertime’ INTERLUDE
DJ SDUNKERO ‘Choosing Love’
L-VIS 1990 ‘Forever You’
CHROMEO ‘Don’t Turn The Lights On’ CARTE BLANCHE REMIX
LARRY HEARD ‘The Sun Can’t Compare’
JESSE ROSE ‘You Know It’
SCISSOR SISTERS ‘Any Which Way’ CARTE BLANCHE REMIX
GONZALES ‘I Am Europe’ DJEDJOTRONIC REMIX
HOT CITY ‘If That’s How I Feel’
CASSIUS ‘I <3 U So’
QUEEN ‘In The Lap Of The Gods’
DRAKE ‘Made’

Download here.

Ed Banger Records celebrated its seventh birthday a few weeks ago and to celebrate the fact they made seven part mini documentary that Busy P aka Pedro Winter has been releasing on his Gimpbook page.

If you have seen Justeece’s A Cross The Universe DVD, you’ll have some idea what to expect – it chronicles their time on New York as they get ready to play a massive gig featuring 7 of their best artists. In no particular order; Justice, Breakbot, Uffie, Feadz, Busy P, Sebastian, Medhi, Some & Mr flash are all present.

The first epeisode starts in the ususal dramatic manner with Busy P facing the real possibility of not being able to make the Gig due severe weather in New York – but the ED REC 7 grow a pair and make sure they make it.

The Ed Banger Seven (but I counted 8 ?) touched down in New York safely after a flight of producing, sleeping, playing Nintendo and general french tom-foolery. Next we are greeted with OMG crew who just love Ed Banger – and what’s not to like. The Justice boys grab a pre-show hotdog to the sounds of Sebastian. Whilst the rest of the crew gorge themselves on the best of American fat. Classy.

Episode 3 catches the crew as they are about to go to the show and of course they are running late. And the crew realises they are playing at a under-age party ! Only in America. 3100 screaming teen america’s – going crazy to french electro. Jocks not included.

Next up we’re at the venue and Busy is being usual nice french dude – meeting all the crowd – rather sad really, it looked like a wrestling convention. Weird. But you can’t be impressed with how much love they’re getting. All to hip warm-up track Pocket Piano. As one geek says “French house and techno is the best” – what does he know? We are then treated to Uffie – the latest female to join the ED Banger crew.

Next Episode we are treated to some amazing skills from A-Trak who sends the crowd wild – a true master of mixology. But as usual is overshadowed by the bosses of the crosses Justice, who bang out their best tracks with usual flair that Xavier brings to the decks. Just wait until you see him mix in “It Aint Over ‘Til It’s Over” by Lenny Kravits standing up.

The Ed Crew go onto the after-party where Sebastian shows how to do a dramatic breakdown; with his seven minute track that never breaks or does it? Let’s hope some of this is on his new album – whenever he can be bothered to finish it. Soon please.

The final episode is made up of the commercial commitments of ED Banger and their new EDnies sponsorship deal – a new trainer they are bringing out with the help of American skater company Etnies. After all Busy P and Breakbot used to skate together.

So Ed Banger are seven years old – we can’t wait to see the film they make for the tenth birthday!

WATCH IT HERE

We are celebrating that fact that Harder Blogger Faster is one year old today and we can’t quite believe it. We have been going 12 months – to be honest we totally forgot and just remembered that it’s the 15th today. Which means we started exactly 365 days ago and here’s a little taster of what we have done.

Over the last 12 months we have brought you; 22 Reviews, 19 Videos, Over 140 news articles, 60 mixes from artist’s across the world, 19 interviews, 49 features, and 89 downloads – all for free.

And we want to say thank you to all artists, PR’s, label owners, readers, fellow bloggers and finally friends and family – who have helped us on our journey and one thing is for sure we will be carrying on for many years to come.

HBF Team.

Leeds’ Filth are celebrating their 3rd birthday on the 26th February and they have organised one hell of a party.

Faithless, Funkagenda, and John Dahlback will all rock the o2 Academy, Leeds and help Filth celebrate their third birthday.

Faithless will be bringing their Live Soundsystem down to play their biggest hits and new material from their forthcoming 2010 LP ‘Calling all the Faithful’.

Other notable inclusions will be Alex Metric who has stormed the scene this year including a breathtaking NYE set at the WHP – which impressed everyone who saw it.

Expect the O2 to be filled with motley crew of breathers, acrobats, stunt performers, blasts of ice cannons to get lost in, some mind bending visuals and the usual red-hot Filth dancers!

They have just sent over John Dahlback’s February mix for you to sink your teeth into and get you in the party mood.

Click here to download.