Summer is finally here and after the brief distraction of the England football effort, what better way to remind us of what summer is really about than the hotly anticipated Kiss Me On The Lips single from Natisse! This is going to be one of the tunes of the summer, with a great new video shot on Brighton Beach, twelve remixes covering every club genre you can shake a lightstick at and the competition winning remix from Zaheer which you’re guaranteed to hear at over 100 UK clubs throughout July. We’ve really pulled out all the stops for this one so would love you longtime for all your support! Please buy the track from the itunes link below and check out the video!
Thanks everyone and hope you enjoy the tunes!!
The World Cup is days away now and with the fever building and everyone and their cat making a World Cup song, Natisse wanted to make her own bijoux video-postcard to wish our boys well in South Africa. Shot to a re-worded version of her last single, Follow Me, it’s called Follow me for England and sees Nat strutting her stuff around London wrapped in an England flag, and it ended up being one of the most gorgeous pieces of pop patriotism we think you’ll see!
Great News! Thanks to all your support Natisse’s video for Follow Me won yesterday’s Video Fight Club on Muzu.tv!
Follow Me strolled it’s way to a commanding lead early on and had David Guetta’s new video following her from a distance of over 80% of the votes all the way! It is now Video of the Day for today, Check it out on Muzu.tv. Click the pic and got to Video Fight Club -
Thank you for your support and check back for another fight club soon with Natisse’s new video for Kiss Me On The Lips!
Quick! Support Natisse in the ultimate battle of established and future pop chart champions. The excellent MUZU.TV have chosen the cheeky ‘Follow Me’ video to go up against the brand new vid from David Guetta, Fergie and Chris Willis in their Friday Video Fight Club feature.
Each week, 2 videos are pitted against each other and put to the biggest test of all – a public vote, complete with comments. Today, it’s a choice between the current Natisse single or David Guetta’s ‘Gettin Over You’ (feat. Fergie and LMFAO). Oponents don’t come with much better pop/dance credentials than the French DJ/producer and his Black Eyed Peas cohorts.
Yet as of midday, you’ll see that Natisse is leading with a healthy 76% of votes! And they are not all simply being won over by the creative shaking of Nat’s rear end in the now infamous video either. There are plenty of positive comments about the tune too. Looks like Guetta, Fergie and co better watch their own rears!
In the second of our series of interviews with the chosen winners from the Kiss Me On The Lips remix competition, we speak to Richard Kemp, aka DJ Kippling.
He’s been busy producing music at home for a while now, but hasn’t had a platform to give it proper public exposure, so he’s really excited at the prospect of what the contest success will do for his career...
How did you find out about the Natisse remix competition and what motivated you to enter?
I found out via an email from the King of the Decks competition I entered last year. This was the first real chance for me as a hobiest music producer to get my name out there. I really want people to hear my music and support me as an artist so I can propel my musical career further. I knew I had to take part in the comp immediately as its about as big an opportunity for someone in my position as you can get.
Where did the inspiration for your mix come from, and what kind of sound were you looking to achieve?
My main inspiration came from the fresh stream of electro which is taking the clubs by storm at the moment. Acts such as LMFAO, Sydney Samson, Wolfgang Gartner etc are all producing wonderfully fresh and inventive electro and I’m really loving it. I tried to achieve the kind of melodies and bass groves that you can’t help but move to, that happy-go-lucky, let’s-get-crazy attitude.
What are you biggest musical inspirations and influences?
My musical inspirations are incredibly widespread as is evident in the hugely varied styles in my original compositions. The main artists I look up to, past and present, include Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk, Pendulum, Prodigy, Imogen Heap, Sneaker Pimps, Noisia, BT and a whole host of others. I’m also a huge fan of rock and metal (I play guitar as well) which I occasionally let influence my compositions. No two songs I make seem to carry the same style. Check them out at www.djkippling.com and see for yourself!
Other than making it onto the Natisse remix package, what have been the key high points to your production career so far?
Doing mixes and work for internet radio stations and playing a set at the biggest club in Ipswich were some of the best moment thus far. This remix competition could potentially open the doors for me if people take the time to check out my music, so expect lots more from me in the near future…
What else have you got going on music-wise in the coming months?
I’ve got a few new songs in the works at the moment so I’d like to get those finished. Starting to look into getting some vocalists to collaborate on some stuff too so that could be exciting. I’m also planning an Electro event which, if all goes well, will happen sometime this summer, and depending how it goes it could become a regular slot.
Where do you ideally see your production career taking you in 5 year’s time?
I’d like to have had at least one single commercially released and hopefully an album. I’d also like to be known a lot more in my local area, perhaps get the chance to work with some of the local talent, remix their singles, collaborate with them etc. I’d love to have some kind of air time on a radio station too, all those things would really be awesome.
What do you think of Natisse/Shed Records making a success putting out music usually dominated by major labels?
I think it’s fantastic. The people working there have clearly put their heart and soul into the label. It’s awesome to see more and more independent labels finding their own amongst the big players. I think the focus is slowly shifting away from the big labels and more towards the independents so it’s an ideal time to be doing this kind of set-up. It also gives more people a chance to get their music heard and released. Everyone has to start somewhere and its labels like Shed that make that possible. Maybe one day I’ll be seeing a release of my own on the label… here’s hoping!
In anticipation of the full release of Natisse’s Kiss Me On The Lips, containing remixes from no less than 5 up-and-coming producers discovered on this website, we are speaking to the guys you voted the best.
First up, Matthew Hamer, otherwise known as Earl E Dawes, tells us how he came to enter the contest and where he sees his career leading after this…
How did you find out about the Natisse remix competition and what motivated you to enter?
Through a friend who is a Liquid DJ at Swindon. No motivation needed to enter but I’ve been working on remixing tracks from just the acapellas to sharpen up my production skills and this seemed like a good track to work on for the next project!
Where did the inspiration for your mix come from, and what kind of vibe were you looking to achieve?
Commercial club tracks that typically I find DJs like to whack on “early doors/earl e dawes (geddit?)” in mainstream bars just as heaters, but yet can also work well in a Saturday night set. It’s about making a good track into a great track.
What are you biggest musical inspirations and influences?
Probably Full Intention, Freemasons, Buzz Junkies, Cahill. Also I guess you could say I’ve a lot of disco influence with a sprinkling of R&B and hip-hop.
Other than making it onto the Natisse remix package, what have been the key high points to your production career so far?
Just the fact that tracks I am putting out there and passing around to DJs seem to be getting genuine and consistent reaction, from the mashups I made years ago to the remixes I have put out over the last four years.
What else have you going going on music-wise in the coming months?
2 DJ residencies and working on some original productions.
Where do you ideally see your production career taking you in 5 year’s time?
I’d really hope to be paid to do some great remixes for chart tracks, and for the DJ bookings to take a leap because of that and take me to gigs all over the globe. If the studio work was paying the bills I’d be delighted, and on my current form I don’t think I’m a million miles away.
What do you think of Natisse/Shed Records making a success putting out music usually dominated by major labels?
I think it’s great that in this day and age it’s more feasible for smaller labels to be able to get great music out there. The costs of putting a great track out there and shooting a video can be kept on a shoestring, whereas years ago this wasn’t possible. Middle men have been cut. Technology has advanced and it has increased opportunities for artists, musicians and producers, including myself. If someone had told me ten or fifteen years ago that I’d have equipment in my own home that can put out a track of industry standard quality I’d have had a right old chuckle. It’s more accessible now…and whilst this increases the amount of wannabes and people who are all talk, it’s meant the standard has been raised across the board.
After a long audition process we’ve finally found our dance troupe for the new Natisse live show. We’re really pleased to have teamed up with Futunity, the Uxbridge-based academy for sports and dance who will provide the 2 guys and 2 girls for each of our live shows.
We’ll also be rehearsing with some of Futunity’s talented teenage dancers, ages 14-15 who we hope to work with at some of our under 18 shows. We’re hard at it in the rehearsal studios this weekend, so look out for some behind the scenes footage coming your way shortly.
For more info on the award winning Futunity, check out their website, and expect to see some of their protégés on stage with Natisse very soon…
The Shed Records crew headed for sunny Brighton recently to shoot the next Natisse video… And happened to pick the hottest weekend of the year so far to do it!
‘Kiss Me On The Lips’ has a lot to live up to if it’s going to top Nat’s famous video for ‘Follow Me’, but with a sexy seaside postcard theme, we think the finished product is going to be the best one yet…
Check out these early stills from the shoot and we’ll let you know on Twitter when the finished video is available to see (so make sure you’re following…)
The full remix package for Kiss Me On The Lips, including the winning track and runners up from our competition, will be released this summer. See you on the beach!
After hearing about the trials of shooting a half naked video in the cold streets of London, today Nat tells us what’s lined up next in the Natisse plans for world domination…
Now ‘Follow Me’ has come out, what comes next?
We’ve just shot a new video, for ‘Kiss Me On The Lips’, in Brighton which was a lot of fun and very different to the last one – it was a lot warmer for a start! The KMOTL remix package contains winning entries to our remix contest from Zaheer and 4 runners-up. We had load of good entries and the public vote went really well too. Thanks to all who entered, and all who voted!
Any live shows coming up?
We’re auditioning for some dancers for my stage show at the moment, and lining up some pretty exciting gigs for the next few months. First up is Air & Breathe in Dartford on June 1st. Being in the studio is quite hard work, but live you really get that buzz and it gets you into the song more easily. I love it.
What else would you like to do now the album is prtty much finished?
I’d love to do a ballad. Something that will make people cry, like Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Beautiful Disaster’. I was at performing arts college in London and we used to play Alanis Morrisette’s ‘Uninvited’, which was later covered as a Freemasons club hit. I’m trying to do things the other way around, recording acoustic versions of my dance tracks. We just did ‘Not Over You’, one of my first tracks, with piano, and ‘Follow Me’ is next, so that’s really exciting. Listen out for them. You recently Twittered (@natissemusic) that you wished all your dreams would come true – can you let us in on what they are?
I want people to stop and take notice. To think, that girl has really got something, she’s brave and she’s doing it. Obviously I want to see my songs and videos on MTV and Ministry of Sound compilations, and I’d like to see myself judging the X-Factor one day! My dreams are to go out there and live the dream.
With Follow Me still being hammered on the nation’s dancefloors, we grabbed a moment with Nat to talk about her music, her dreams and that saucy video…
‘Follow Me’ has been causing a bit of a stir, not least because of the video, which shows more than a flash of bare cheek in the street. How was it shooting the video?
I felt a little bit uncomfortable to start with… but only as I was wearing some new heels! After couple of practice shots I forgot I wasn’t wearing much and it all felt pretty normal. Obviously passers-by didn’t think that though! We had some looks. One guy got in trouble with his girlfriend for staring. You know what girlfriends are like about stuff like that. Then we had a truck driver who stopped and tried to take a picture, a cabbie who kept driving past and a van-load of young guys making rude jokes.
The funny thing was we filmed outside when it was freezing, but I was the only one not complaining about the cold because I was walking around in time to the music all day!
What reaction to the video have you got so far from friends and family?
My friend have been nice, the usual comment being ‘nice bum’. Some have moaned that it’s too revealing, but then I tell them if it was Cheryl Cole in the video they wouldn’t think twice about it, and they usually agree.
My grandparents were a bit ‘ooh-la-la’ when they first saw it – and my parents too – but after the first shock they were fine. I think it was more a surprise to them that I’d actually do something like that than anything else.
You’ve been busy recording an album and lots of singles to come. Tell us a bit about which are your favourite tracks so far and why?
I think the next single, ‘Kiss Me On The Lips’, in my favourite. I’ve got a great songwriting and production team, but I didn’t like it at first. Hearing it with the music was totally different and it sounds very funky. It’s also more upbeat and it’s funny too. Having said that ‘Follow Me’ is so catchy I think it’s going to be a lot of people’s favourite out of what I’ve done so far.
