Phonat - "Ghetto Burnin'"

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Have laptop - will travel. 7 ft Italian seeks new home for musical adventures

21 year old Phonat -- who has arguably the biggest hair in dance music - readies his first full release, 'Ghetto Burnin', featuring the vocals of Yolanda Quartey (who's currently touring with Massive Attack).

A hot tip at the beginning of 2008, Italian-in-London, Phonat, continues to curry favour amongst the world's 'muso' community. Annie's Mac and Nightingale championed his debut single for MofoHiFi, the 'Incredible Sound EP', plus other radio shows at Radio 1, Kiss, and Galaxy, and a whole host of DJ supporters. This notoriety had led to his remixes being included on compilations from Kitsune, Global Underground, and more.

Enticed by our fair capital's club and music scenes, he recently packed his bags, and with nothing but a change of clothes, an old laptop, and his guitar, said goodbye to rural Italy and landed in a bed sit in Canning Town -- it's the stuff electric dreams are made of.

His original, EU-phoric mix of Italian, Brit and French sounds makes for exciting ear candy, and so far, tastemakers have been like kids in a sweetshop, grabbing as many of Phonat's productions and mixes with the zeal of Augustus Gloop. Recent remixes include Sonny J, Supermal, DJ Dan, The Young Punx and Andy Hunter.

'Ghetto Burnin'' features his characteristic addition of crunching guitars with an electro twist, and Yolanda drops a hooky, ragga-style vocal on top to give it that Lahndon sound. Already a firm favourite on both legal and pirate airwaves, this is fast picking up club support.

Remixes come from label buddy Sharooz, who brings a more minimal hat to the party, delivering a club-destroying beast of a mix, while Mohito takes a bow to early Italo house and drops a piano led version to great effect.

http://www.myspace.com/phonat

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• phonat
• ghetto
• burnin
• burning
• yolanda
• quartey
• house
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• new
• electro
• electronic
• rock

[Ashcroftmmo]

burn the childreen wee..wait what?

[PeteMoore]

@Ashcroftmmo It's "Ghetto Burn, burn the children" meaning "when the inner city is in trouble / gang warfare, it is the children who suffer". It isn't an instruction to burn children! :-)

[Ashcroftmmo]

@PeteMoore well i'm sure you just answerd everyones questions for this song

[PeteMoore]

@Ashcroftmmo Well - there are youtube people who seem to think this song is either racist or anti semitic, but only really because the lyrics are mostly in patois so most people can't decipher what is actually being said. Phonat (and me, hal) wrote the backing track and wanted the topic for the song to be about inner city violence and decay. Yolanda who wrote the vocals then for us, in half english half jamaican patois gave it more a black culture angle from her own background/perspective.

[EriksTutorial]

Thumbs up if you don't give a crap about how you got here.

[nextgen60]

@scottymcphat

u suck TDU 2 RROOCKS

THUNBS UP IF U AGREE

[meganico98]

@PeteMoore y' kno, Phonat is just like me. ITALIAN!

[TheBuchi10]

Well I need some sweet cars in the clip! Where are they?



[Ashcroftmmo]

@PeteMoore well i hope more people see you're comment and advance from these level of questions ^_^

[FeatBeater]

Still one of my favorite songs, and I have about 950 songs faved.

This one i faved some time ago and is listed 570th in my playlist

[kikpower86]

25 people live in ghetto

[DjPaddyify]

dirt 3 <3 :D