Bag Raiders

Bag Raiders Album Preview

The previews are available for this whole album.........

CLICK HERE:Castles In The Air by BAG RAIDERS

New Bag Raiders

The name 'Bag Raiders' is a household name these days amongst us all. The slow rise to the top was bought on by various singles including Fun Punch and Turbo Love. Along with various remixes and bootlegs and Blog famous discobelle mixes. With all these projects under their belt the final Shooting Stars launched them onto a global platform.

Today the boys have announced their self titled Debut Album out October 1st.

Tracklist
1. Castles In The Air
2. Sunlight
3. Shooting Stars
4. So Demanding
5. Gone Away
6. Prelude
7. Not Over
8. Snake Charmer
9. Always
10. Golden Wings
11. Way Back Home

To keep us from going insane, they have a lead single 'Way Back Home'which should begin radio play from early August. Some of you may of heard a Harvard Bass remix of it, which Surkin has been playing, but thats not confirmed.

Mix Monday 32

This is the final installment of the Bang Gang Mini Mix series before they dropped their brand new of complilation of "tracks, songs, jingles and jangles". It's by none other than local Sydney boys the Bag Raiders. I think it's a neat selection of songs including a few old time Bang Gang favourites. By chopping and changing relatively smoothly this mix stays interesting and fun with a few twists. Im excited for the next batch of originals these guys put out.

Mini Mix - Bag Raiders

Tracklist

1. The Eternals - Wrath Of Zeus
2. Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night
3. Vernon Butch - Get Up
4. Royksopp - Happy Up Here (Breakbot Remix)
5. Beni - Fringe Element
6. DJ Swoosh - Swoosh
7. Solo - Congaloid (Minimow Remix)
8. Felix da Housecat - Like Something For Porno
9. DJ Swoosh - Swoosh (Swooshapella)
10. Classixx - I'll Get You feat. Jeppe
11. Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars (Kris Menace Remix)
12. The C90s - 10:01 DM
13. Kid Sister - Right Hand Hi (Kingdom Remix)
14. DJ Swoosh - The Swoosherman (reprise)
15. Nicholas - Goldelectric
16. DJ Swoosh - Swoosh (Mr Swooshy's Nothing But Net Re-rub)
17. Phoenix - Fences (Friendly Fires Remix)

Boys Noize (sic)

Let's kick off a fine post with a couple of tracks from Boys Noize. First up is an original off their most recent EP, and it's one fine tune: named Jeffer, it's very nicely developed, and look out for the cool unexpected chord change at 1:00. Sure, the whole chopped up sample thing is getting very worked out at the moment, but Jeffer does it abso-bloody-exactly right. Also from Mr. Noize (can I call him Boys?) is an edit of a Siriusmo track from a few months back. It ticks all the boxes: DJ friendly, big snare, filter sweeps leading up to a nice drop. Très cool. (P.S. That è took me 40 minutes to figure out).

Jeffer - Boys Noize

Mein Menu Fahrrad (Boys Noize Edit) - Siriusmo

And sure enough, because I'm not clever enough to construct a logical, cohesive blog post, here are a few unrelated tracks. Firstly, everyone's favourite polite Japanese musician with a name that extends stereotypes, Shinichi Osawa, gives the Bag Raiders a go. Then, on a completely different note, Kurtis Blow provides us with an old classic. Enjoy.

Turbo Love (Shinichi Osawa Remix) - Bag Raiders

The Breaks - Kurtis Blow

Baggies

The Bag Raiders played last Friday at Moulin Rouge in Sydney and were partying pretty hard. When they rocked up (15 minutes late), they were straight up in the DJ booth grinding the supporting DJ and dancing on tables. These pricks were loose and it was mad. With their energy rubbing off on the crowd the boys played a killer set, nicely putting some hard elecrto and fidget with some more disco type tunes. Here's what it looked like...



So everyone's coped the most recent EP from the Bag Radiers with 'Turbo Love' and 'Shooting Star'. Now the remixes, re-edits, bootlegs etc have started to roll out. I've decided to provide you with a few or the rarer and in my opinion better pieces of work to pop up.
First, Turbo Love. The orginal of this kills it. Big party tune and quite versatile aswell fitting into a range of mixes and sets. The first remix is a re-edit done by the Baggies themselves and is just a more DJ friendly version with an extended intro. The second is actually a cover. A random one too. It's a jazz song, even with a bit of jazz flute! It's called the Business Class Lounge Version which I think somes it up well, groovy. The third and final remix is largely a dancefloor tune, with a slight nu-disco feel but still maintains it's hardness with heavy bass and kicks.

Turbo Love (Raiders Slamball Revision) - Bag Radiers

Turbo Love (Business Class Lounge Cover Version) - Flight Facilities feat. Louie Austen

Turbo Love (Light Year Remix) - Bag Radiers

Next up we have a couple versions of the dreamy anthem 'Shooting Star'. The first is an edit which adds a few drum machines and synths to increase the intensity, even if it's only slightly, on the original. The second is bootleg. I found labelled as a 'Call Me Up' (Bag Raiders Remix). However, it's actually a bootleg of Call Me Up and Shooting Star. Not quite as smooth as the original but something a little different and definately worth a listen.

Shooting Star (Flashmen Edit) - Bag Radiers

Shooting Star (Call Me Up Bootleg) - Bag Radiers

You have to check out this clip.
This guy thinks he's the shit. That's cos he is. Bit of Snoop Dogg (word has it, it's his second cousin)



Last but not least. From the vault. A sneaky bootleg of Fun Punch with SebastiAn's 'Greel'.

Fun Greel (NAD Bootleg) - Bag Radiers vs. SebastiAn