Mike Monday Kicks The Week Off

VVWI Recordings considers Mike Monday one of the family. Having long been a stalwart guest playing back to back DJ sessions with Tim Sheridan over the years (with an honourable mention to Back to Basics '09)they thought it seemed just plain mental not to have a track from him out on the label when he was one of their most frequent and well loved guests behind the decks.

Your Body is a return to the increasingly inaccurately named and elusive "Classic Monday Sound". VVWI has been a fan of Mike since he first re-emerged as the dancefloor beast of monster island some years ago. It's been a bitter sweet feeling for the label to witness his spectacular rise and they were overjoyed to finally have roped the wonky creature that is Your Body to the corral and ridden it around for a bit, whooping until it throws us off and stamps on our face.

The tune itself starts out like the Chipmunks (they they are again) lost in The Matrix only to explode into a beast of a tune with evil synths, a bleepy pulse, and loads of demonic hand claps that take us deep into the netherworld. It's a bit minimal, a bit spooky, and very very good and explains all to clearly why Very Very Wrong Indeed love this guy. Mike Monday is the voice of a demon run through a keyboard and unleashed upon an unsuspecting public and as the label says...it's very very wrong indeed.

Download: Your Body (Radio Edit)

Mike Monday on a Monday...

Mike Monday is rather fine producer from London. He does wonky housey stuff, kind of, but it's much more than that. His stuff is always musically and rhythmically quirky and inventive, and he is a perennial DJ and press favourite. His last two albums (on Playtime and Om Records respectively) showed off his musical breadth and won him all kinds of critical acclaim. He's also got a release coming up on the seminal Get Physical, which you should definitely track down.

Mike has recently put together a rather splendid unofficial remix of the excellent "Girls" by Animal Collective and he has asked me to share it with you. And who are we at POP! Stereo to refuse him, so here you go folks...a nightcap!

Download: Animal Collective - Girls (Mike Monday's Unofficial Remix) (via Mediafire)

Download: Systematic Sessions Mix