My next release with Greta Cottage Workshop has already been kicking up dust in the UK as Sasha has been dropping it into his sets the last couple of weeks and he has given it a big thumbs up.

If you would like to be included on the promo mailing list and get a copy ahead of the release date to review or chart please contact me at info@shaneberry.com.

Here is the text from the one sheet.

Greta Cottage Workshop

Release Date: 20th August 2010

GCW015 – Shane Berry

Plugitin
Putiton
Pullitout

How to use a Turntable E.P

Fresh from remix duty for the Little White Earbuds Download of the week, Shane Berry brings his latest E.P to the table. The man takes a swerve in a slightly different direction this time around, but its still 100% Shane, and still Electronic Music from the Soul directed at the Dancefloor. We at Greta Cottage are pleased to see him going from strength to strength as an Artist, and it’s our pleasure to give him the creative freedom he deserves. (the role of the label has changed, but this remains the same)
Plugitin : Micro house wriggler from Captain Berry. Foraging harmonious repetition and digitising bass stabs deliver to industrious effect. Strutting flecks tie in with light whistles of acid taking this into a deepened Detroit flow (This has the potential to swiftly blow ones socks clean off)

Putiton : A proper psytech warbler that touchingly shares a piece of it’s ever evolving self. A maze of 303 oddities reach out with pulsating melody and slick charm. Play it out & about, then watch people wriggle with joy.

Pullitout : A sinister synthesized induced rustler encapsulates a sense of virtual empathy and analog dismissing togetherness, with interweaving filter manipulations attributing to an eventual warm spontaneous combustion. Hi tech soul from Tokyo resident Shane. Can you feel me?

This has been a Sasha Secret Weapon for a month or so, its time to spread the love.

(Jamie “winkle” Slater on the track descriptions. the man is a lunatic. It was his birthday this weekend. He is still lost in East Prawle)

Feedback

‘A very strong release – will support fully. Particularly like Pullitout’ – Sasha

Links.

Greta Cottage Workshop

Ten years on we look into our archives and have a new feeling for these old tunes. . .

1 – re
2 – Hof Ter Lo (Rennie Fosters Dirty Works Mix)
3 – Easy (Shane Berry Dirty Works Mix)*
4 – Hof Ter Lo

* This was one of the tougher and more challenging remixes for me to do.  I only got a finalised .wav file (no stems) so I had to cut up and rework the original track and then layer my ideas in and around the loops I chose.

It was particularly tricky to find variable loops because of the vocals so I basically cut out loops with the least information in them and then filtered off the bottom end (the kick and bass line) with a 4 band EQ  in Ableton Live and then rewrote the bass line in logic (I re-wire everything through Logic Pro) and added my own drums and synthesizer parts.

The clap in the original is fantastic so I kept that in as much as possible.

A lesson in how you should always have an open mind, especially when introduced to new people and music. This E.P almost never happened due to self-imposed rules. We are so glad it did!

PLACENTA – An inspiring piece of Techno. The compulsory phat rolling bassline intertwined with intricate melodies create an immense sense of atmosphere but with enough oommf to deliver at ‘peaked’ moments

SAUCERFUL – Crazily deep venture. Envelops you immediately on first listen, but with enough detail to make you want to hear it again. It has the strength to take the right dancefloor, at the right time to the further reaches. Reminiscent of the electronic sound that you first fell in love with!

A Powerful release, we are proud to have Shane on board.

How Shane arrived at Greta Cottage Workshop

This is a little different to how Greta normally works. Up to this point, all Greta Artists have been long time friends of mine.

Rennie Foster dropped me a mail and said could I do him a favour and consider a good friend of his for the label. Immediately I said No, as I wanted the label to be true to its concept. However, after thinking it over, and chatting it out with Jamie ‘winkle’ Slater (A Greta DJ/ A&R type bod) we decided to go for it. After all, anyone that Rennie is prepared to go to bat for like that is a friend of mine! As it turned out Shane is a totally sound bloke, and we got him to do a Swayzak remix for us at the same time! (Coming soon on 240volts) so there you go. – Matt

Greta Cottage Workshop has been a long time coming.
“Only” Matt Densham has been tweaking about behind the scenes of plenty labels and projects for many moons. He was once old enough to know better, he is now too old to change!
Swayzak Recordings, Peng Records, Post Office Records, 240 Volts & Cadence have all had a helping hand or two. (Currently Label Manager @ 240volts, Swayzak Recordings & Serieculture, as well as Greta Cottage)
He is also pretty handy at Mastering, most infamously being behind the remastering of Swayzak : Snowboarding in Argentina

A Selection of Feedback – Rennie Foster : Songs for Homeless Housers GCW003

Waterdrums is a nice & groovy tool, will use it in my sets.
pierce (get physical / mbf / yellow tail)

Yet another solid release by Rennie Foster. Butterfingers is the one
for me here, a deep journey with warm bass and big horn. I love it.
Thanks,
Kazuumi Ishi

Another wicked release – love it
paul – DJsasha.com

Very cool. Never the “same ‘ol” from you that’s for sure.
Thanks again * have a great weekend,
Tyler Stadius

Once again the sunshines rennie!!!!!!
really good ep, top trax with a quality foster groove, love butterfingers. playing that one out tonight.
Elliot Dodge

Thanks to everyone who has supported the track so far.

Lighting Designer and video artist James Clar is currently working on a video for my remix.

Stay tuned for more details.

It has 4 tracks including a remix by me.

The response to the EP has been fantastic and a big thumbs up to Baiyon on a great release.

“S Soup EP” (DONE041)
A1:S Soup
A2:S Soup (shoup remix by Shane Berry)
B1:the middle
B2:Can Ride Can Walk Can’t Wait

A1 vocal by Nobuko
A1/A2 “Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5″

It is an honour to join a list of artists at Glueckskind which includes some of techno’s contemporary greats.

My catalogue number will be Glückskind Schallplatten GLK 005 and for the digital release check beatport.

Release date is August 29th.

Enjoy!

The remixes are due for release 18th September on Trapez LTD 48.

I am very excited about this record! I can`t wait.

Catalogue number: Trapez ltd 046

A-Side: Losttime
B-side: Freed