“General Midi is back baby!” Bristolian club scenester and master producer General Midi, returns with his latest single ‘ 4 Million Ways’. An unashamedly audacious introduction to Midi’s new album ‘Operation Overdrive’, set to raise “...your feet off the ground!”
The single sees Midi joined by Foreign Beggars’ Orifice Vulgatron, spitting double time over a pulsating fusion of syncopated guitar licks and throbbing bass lines. Blending punk-esque riffs against electro beats, Midi proves he knows more than “4 Million Ways” to raise hell on the dancefloor and bring the “…heat to your town”. First up on remix duties is Midi himself, upping the tempo and presenting his signature sound of crisp beats and big basslines in an anodic frenzy! Up next is Dee Zed, smashing his stamp of jaunty electro and squelchy bass all over the track, to provide a fortitudinous assault of the original version. Finally Ginz Purple, Bristol’s Washington D.C. import. Ginz’s (30Hz, EmptySet, P. Dutty and one half of The Body Snatchers) recent collaborations with Joker ‘Purple City’ and ‘RE-UP’ have been smashing up the dubstep scene over the past few months. Stripping back the vocal and accentuating the heavy undulating bassline to create a mash up rife with tension, generating crescendos and heart racing beats.
Midi, or Paul Crossman as his mum and bank manager know him, has a reputation as a man with an impeccable ear for a tune, the producer’s producer and has been busy criss-crossing the globe DJing since the release of his last album ‘Midi Style’. The past few years have also been spent with studio partner Eelz creating the futuristic sounds of ‘Operation Overdrive’ and constantly fine-tuning tuning the tracks. “You get into that painting the Forth Bridge thing where the whole thing continues perpetually,” observes Paul on finalising the album. “We just had to stop and get a record out eventually.”
Throwing electro, punk, hip hop, fidget house and more at the traditional template and bucking the minimal trend to present twelve tracks of Midism causing maximum impact, ‘Operation Overdrive’ is a big, bassy future-disco audio assault, making ‘4 Million Ways’ the perfect introduction. Set to lift him beyond his breakbeat boundaries, collaborations come from a smorgasbord of musical excellence, including NY singer / songwriter Sean Gill (Passengerz), electro shock rocker Leigh De Vries and ex-Devils Gun vocalist Dominique Woolf, amongst others.
Midi’s new album, ‘Operation Overdrive’ drops June 29th.
