About Me
The Savant Guard is a new independent 12" and digital-only label based in Brooklyn and run with great ardor by NYC's favorite multimedia punks, the earthprogram ltd.
NEW RELEASE
CUBIC ZIRCONIA "FUCK WORK" [SVG003] – OUT JUNE 23RD 2009
Can’t get a job, don’t want a job, Fuck Work.
The Savant Guard, Brooklyn's little label with the big sound, comes roaring back with this Summer's irresponsibility anthem, FUCK WORK.
On their left field debut, Cubic Zirconia, a 4 headed genre-defying monster bred in NYC’s lower east side, effortlessly combine acid basslines, crisp pre-software percussion, and noisy guitar stabs with an all too relevant call to arms. Fuck Work? We're down.
Backing the brilliant original are a slew of remixes to keep you bouncing from the unemployment line to after hours. Eight of our favorite DJs and producers from both sides of the pond weigh in, offering something for every headphone and every bassbin this Summer.
On the limited edition vinyl, BBC radio taste-maker Andy George drops a killer wonky head nodder dripping with ravey innuendo, while Nacho Lovers draw from the early days of house in their Chicago inspired mix, filled with live drum rhythms and whistles galore. Los Angeles' DâM Funk smooths it out for the sneaker collectors with his Rhodes-drenched Summer sleeper, and London's Dekker & Johan provide a floor filling banger with stuttered cut-up vocals and a pummeling bass hook. The collectible 12†features cover art by downtown NYC’s go-to illustrator (in MN) Mike 2600 and The Savant Guard’s trademark details.
The digital EP features four bonus remixes, all of which are made for the dance floor. Dances With White Girls flows like no other in his unforgettable tweaky rap filled version, Lord and Master’s Lord Warddd drops a cheeky and infectious distorted hands in the air rendition, Rene Goulet offers a sexy bottle service remix, and Proper Villains & Jubilee drop, it (um..) proper, with a big knee wobbler of divebomb basslines and ravey windups. We couldn’t be prouder.
Fuck work, buy records.
10 track EP available everywhere June 23rd 2008.
Download now exclusively for one month only on TRAXSOURCE .
OUT NOW
TORO Y MOI "LEFT ALONE AT NIGHT" [SVG002] – APRIL 6TH 2009
Brooklyn NY's tiny heavyweight, The Savant Guard, follows their highly praised release of Pink Skull's Drugs Will Keep Us Together EP with a superb debut recording from multi-talented South Carolina indie poponaut, Toro y Moi.
Left Alone At Night is a pop chestnut of sliced up beats, live instrumentation and vocals, looped and layered into a swerving, heady dance gem that showcases Toro y Moi's dreamy sound and melodic ingenuity.
Backing up the original are club shattering remixes from Trouble and Bass Crew's Drop The Lime , Philadelphia remix royalty, Pink Skull , and Kinjo's Dave Allison . XLR8R Artist of The Year, Drop The Lime, offers an urgent and stammering remix with a bassline more wobbly than a supermarket shopping cart, while Pink Skull lays it on the line with a futuristic drug-disco mix of genre hopping house craziness as only they can concoct. Montreal's Dave Allison strips down to the tech basics and provides an absolutely beautiful house rerub, rounding out an impressive and musically diverse four track 12" EP.
7 track digital EP available now everywhere. Features additional remixes from Leeds' Afro Digi Scratch , London's Tom Lown and an extended dark dub from Pink Skull .
Mailorder from Juno or Phonica and Hard To Find Records in the UK, and Turntable Lab stateside.
OUT NOW
PINK SKULL "DRUGS WILL KEEP US TOGETHER" [SVG001] – MARCH 24th 2008
The debut release from Brooklyn's new 12" and digital only label, The Savant Guard, is nothing short of a guaranteed killer. Philadelphia’s Pink Skull serve up an off-kilter tech house banger, "Drugs Will Keep Us Together" that combines left field sensibilities with more progressive elements… freaked out breakdowns, mind-bottling (like your head is trapped in a bottle!) stutters, and a blissed-out hands-in-the-air reprise…On remix duties is none other than Mr. Trevor Loveys who you’ll know for the club battering “Organ Grinder†on Dubsided and a slew of superb remixes alongside Hervé as Speakerjunk. His eight minute plus remix takes a tweaked break beat approach that jacks, twitches and switches in all the right places… quality! The second remix comes courtesy of NYC darlings 33Hz alongside Ming (of Ming + FS fame). Supersaw synths and stuttering basslines give this one a ravey electro-house feel… perfect for the big rooms. So, a superb original and two cracking remixes, use them well people! Limited amounts of vinyl are still available from our distributor, Music Response UK . Mailorder from Juno or Phonica and Hard To Find Records in the UK, and Turntable Lab stateside.
HOW WE ROCK
12" releases feature custom full-color artwork on beautiful jackets, loud heavy european vinyl and limited to the first run pressing. The coinciding digital release is available from all finer digital outlets worldwide, including iTunes , Beatport , Turntable Lab , Halcyon , Traxsource , Stompy , Dancerecords.com , Dancetracks Digital , Juno (UK), Tune Tribe (UK), Beats Digital (UK), Global Groove Digital (UK), Xpressbeats (UK), Track It Down (UK), DJ Download (UK), DJ Tunes (DE), Dance-Tunes (NL), Dance Music Hub (AUS), Wasabeat (JP), and more.
The Savant Guard Clothing line is the wearable component to our highly collectible music label. All garments are hand-made and modified, screened, tagged, and uniquely crafted for a truly one-of-a-kind piece that is all yours. The first collection features dashing reds, blacks, whites, and greys on ultrasoft hand distressed cotton.
AVAILABLE NOW
The trademark SVG "Cross and Fleur de Lis" logo screams bloody murder in silk screened urgency across distressed 100% cotton ash grey t-shirts. Made to order in mens and womens S, M and L. Available online only , not in shops.
MURDER THE NIGHT
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