Best Promos: Something 2 Stomp 2

Happy New Year, readers, and what a new year it's been so far! This year is so new......that it's still under warranty! LOL.

I said that joke to all of my neighbours on New Year's Day and they all laughed their heads off. It's a genuinely good remark. I've been approaching random parents with new born babies in their prams for years. I say, "Oh, she's/he's/they're cute. Looks like she's/he's/they're still under warranty, too!"

Some DJs and producers give away free downloads, I give away free remarks. That's what it's all about, everybody. A bit of good will.

Right, back to the blog. I was on Mersea Island over Christmas with the in-laws, and my father-in-law, Pedro, was raving about the return of his favourite dance music festival on the island: the Secret Island Festival. Whilst enjoying a massive pint of Yo Boy at The Victory, he said that him and his mates from Saint Edmund's church choir have been for the last two years and had had a fantastic time, and he said that I must promote it on Best Promos. He also reminded me that it is now my last chance to buy Secret Island Festival Tickets at an unmissable price!

"January treats are on the gang at Secret Island Festival. Just enter Xmas20 at the checkout for 20% off your early bird tickets. Hurry! Ends this Friday 6th January", he bellowed to me over his shoulder as he ploughed pounds into the Deal Or No Deal gambler.

I don't know if the Secret Island Festival team read Best Promos, but on the off chance that they do, I am available on the weekend of SATURDAY 29TH JULY 2023 12PM – 11PM if they need anyone to play some nice daytime warm up music. They don't need to provide me with travel expenses or hotel accommodation because I can stay at Pedro's on East Mersea. Just a plus 1 and some boozing tickets.

Whether I play there or not, I'm certain that it'll be a WHOPPING 10/10 festival, and it's the only time of the year there is anybody under the age of 70 on the island, so go along and experience the thrill...

Buy tickets for The Secret Island Festival here: ultrafunkula/secret-island-festival
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Before Christmas, I was collaborating with superstar DJ, Man Power, on a BANGER. Hmm. Hang on a minute. Is he a superstar DJ? He missed out on that DJ Mag award last month. Hmm. I don't know. Anyway, we had a bit of going back and forth on the Internet about bangers, and what constitutes a banger, and he had the great idea of setting up a Soundcloud page for following his progress whilst he attempted to make a pure BANGER. It's a fun idea, and it pulls back the curtain a bit for people to see how tunes evolve. I liked it and I continue to endorse it. I was going to copy him this year and do my own progress page for a BANGER of my own, but I'm so fab at making dance music that I ended up completing and mastering* a BANGER from scratch in only 20 minutes. It's called Something 2 Stomp 2 because I sampled an NWA song. And yes, Dr Dre has cleared it for use. Here's the email I sent him last week:

*not fully mastered

He replied the very same day to say I could.

So, without further ado, here's the worldwide exclusive play of my 10/10 rated BANGER, Something 2 Stomp 2. Take it away...

Best Promos · Something 2 Stomp 2

That was so banging, all of my hammers just melted! LOL

What else do I like this week? Bit of an old one, but I've only just come around to it because I saw Soul Clap post an old 00s pic of them DJing at the Liquid Bar, a venue I went to a bit when I first moved to London in the early 00s. Look:

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Don't they look young! I've always liked Soul Clap, so I had a listen to the Club Chi’ll Records song they were going on about and it's r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-really good. You have a listen:

See. I told you it was good. It's the kind of record that makes me want to go to a fashionable city hotspot and lean on the bar. I'd wink a lot and do the finger gun point thing at all of the good looking women who walk in whilst drinking a long, tall, cool glass of pink champagne through a straw. I'd probably be wearing a trendy hat, too, and smoking a fag - even though I don't smoke, and you can't smoke indoors nowadays, but that's what I've been doing in my head whilst listening to it.

Can't Help It by Byron Stingily gets a cool and trendy 10/10 from everyone here at Best Promos. Congrats all! Print this off and stick it on your fridge.

Can't Help It by Byron Stingily is OUT NOW on Club Chi'll Records, and comes packaged with some barnstorming remixes by Soul Clap and The Spaces Between (Ian "Snowy" Snowball, Terry Farley, Wade Teo).

Buy it here: beatport/cant-help-it/
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I think I'm done now. Back next week. BYE.

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