Catlips Fade

Catlips Fade

We'll say it again, Catlips has had a big year. Her debut EP Casual came out in March through Pilerats to flurries of love and reviews, she launched it at an extravagant pool party, has just got back from tour with Roland Tings and is soon to jet off to Splendour In The Grass. To add even more excitement, Melbourne producer Roland Tings has a stomping 6 minute remix of the debut single from our favourite Perth wonky house wizardress. The constantly in demand artist choses to only put his touch to the very best new music Australia has to offer. In the last few months he's unleashed official remixes of US talk show alumni Chet Faker, Sydney party starters Bag Raiders and other Sydney classic, Seekae.

Listen to/ download The Roland Tings remix of 'Fade' here

The original is a stone cold kooky dance floor gem, a debut single indebted to many weekends spent in the best nightclubs all around the globe, and a larger than life opening statement for Katie Campbell's 'Catlips' project. In the hands of Roland Tings the track is stretched out into the solar system and beyond, leaning hard on the long build-slow release, the track glistens and bumps through a pitched down vocal, to an ecstatic late night banger of a finale.

Catlips is the moniker of Katie Campbell, who burst onto the scene as the keyboardist for Kucka. She has since brought her funked up tunes to the Boiler Room, officially remixed Kucka and Chela, supported electronic gods like Baths, featured on both Pilerats compilations as as well as spinning records across Istanbul and London. If these stellar performances are anything to go by, her set at Splendour In The Grass is not one to miss.

Across its 5 tracks, t EP explores the fertile corners of UK style club music, with a Perth twist. -U1' opens the release with a sweet cacophony of tumbling drums, featherweight claps and alien voice samples, to pull you into the relentless earworm -Fade'. Onto -Banker', which sounds like it was conceived across the globe and -Candy Crush', a track that belongs in the world's edgiest clubs. Final track -Primary', is layered with miscellaneous tribal samples over tough as nails percussion and body rocking synth stabs. Taken as a whole, it's not hard to see why writers all over the country are calling Katie one of Australia's most exciting new producers. Get it on iTunes now.

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