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Time Pilot turn up the intensity on a track from Sydney's Spirit Faces.. Perth producers Time Pilot had a really industrious 2014; edging their way into the contemporary Australian electronic music map with some promising originals, including a killer number, Vowel Play, on our Pilerats Records RAT PACK #2 Compilation, before ending the year with a big undertaking - a remix for Peking Duk & Safia's Take Me Over, that they very much nailed. Their studio work was matched only with their aptitude on the live circuit; as they tore apart the local stage at CIRCO Festival, and took on live sets at a number of WA club nights, with aplomb. Time Pilot show no signs of slowing down in 2015, in fact they've hit the ground running, putting some work into Cloudplay, a warm, low-key offering from Sydney electronic instrumentalist Spirit Faces (TEEF Recordings), that Spirit Faces shared with us as a premiere on Pilerats last last year. Time Pilot imbue the lilting track with razory atmospherics and b

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Dark0 stretches out O.T. Genasis' street anthem, which also scores a racy new vid.. 2014 was a good year for hip hop newcomers making it big on the power of one hit track: joining Bobby Shmurda, Rae Sremmurd and Dej Loaf in this respect was Long Beach rapper O.T. Genasis, a protégée of Busta Rhymes, who basically rose to prominence overnight with his street anthem CoCo, an over-the-top tribute to dealing cocaine.  There’s been two awesome pieces of news on the CoCo front this week: an incredible remake of the video clip with a heap of rap celebrity cameos, and a remix from one of our favourite new grime producers Dark0.  While the first CoCo video took place primarily in a kitchen, and wasn’t even in high definition, CoCo’s upgraded things considerably: the re-make is set in a mansion and in the streets of South Beach, and there’s yachts and Lamborghinis! Also lots of women in racy bikinis, that are, erm, well-endowed in the backend. Most amazingly, DJ Khaled and Timbaland are in the c

Strap yourself in.. WA-based duo Time Pilot have been on our radar for a while now - a) because they're a couple of bloody good blokes, but more importantly b) because they're a couple of bloody talented producers. We froth so hard we featured their track Vowel Play on the Pilerats Rat Pack #2 compilation and it's definitely one of our faves out of a whole bunch of faves. So when they hit us up saying they've got "a bit ov a banger" they wanna share to say thanks to their growing base of fans in 2014, we were understandably very excited. Turns out "a bit ov" could be 2014's last great understatement, enjoy: Follow Time Pilot: FACEBOOK