Jorge Jaramillo - Girlz Rock Da House Music

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Released 29th January 2007

Following international success as one half of Who Da Funk, DJ and producer Jorge Jaramillo presents his debut artist album, "Girlz Rock Da House Music" on his own label Lectro Chik.

As the title may suggest, the album is all about the erm, ladies and features a host of female muses: "The audience love what I play," he says, "I make it a great clubbing experience for everyone, especially the girls. I can get dirty in my set, but women don’t really dig that all night, so I end up playing for them, and that is a good thing."

Setting the stakes with opener "Numb" (originally performed by Linkin Park), Jorge has created a widescreen ode to the worst elements of a relationship, with vocals provided by resident Subliminal diva Shawnee Taylor. Unashamedly commercial, the production is ambitious and the song a clever combination of ballad stylings and dancefloor motion. It is reprised for the ‘Robotixxx Dub’ where Jaramillo strips away the decoration and heads straight for a grimy dancefloor.

Having discovered Colombian electroclash band Bloody Marys on MySpace, the band sent Jorge the acapellas to "New Love", which re-emerged as the sharp, peak -time weapon featured on the album. Attitude-laced Spanish vocals tussle with a tearing electro riff, slightly out of time metal sheets of noise and "Burnin"- style squelches.

A similar thing happened when Jorge got in touch with another Colombian electroclash band, Atomic Brain, who, with Jorge’s remake of "Telephono Roto" (Broken Telephone) have enjoyed constant airplay on Colombia’s major radio stations. The track is Jorge’s own take on punk funk and electro, filtered through his love of house, disco and the lighter touches in music.

Jaramillo is clearly a fan of the spiky and the fluffy in equal measures, recognising the musical worth of sweeter, sparkling instrumentation and production, clearly evident in his loving cover of classic 80s club track "I.O.U" by Freez. Jorge is the first to admit his premiere musical target is the ladies (the men will follow), and the track oozes a confident feminine touch.

"The DJs Girl" takes a decidedly open, modern day "French Kiss" approach to female sexual pleasure over a deep, dark and colourful track that wouldn’t sound out of place on the floor at Twilo or The Sound factory. Following this is Jaramillo’s "Electro Rock" mix of "New Love" which sparks memories of eighties electropunkpop combined with a more underground Girls Aloud. Penultimate track "Stars Crashing Down" could work alongside tracks by Digitalism, Coburn or Black Strobe, and the album closes with the second "Robotixxx Dub" , this time for "Dreamin", an intricate and intense strobelight excursion.

Jorge insists that he’s all about a no ego rule and strives to be totally accessible to the fans through his MySpace site, linked above. "Girls Rock Da House Music" is any day now on Lectro Chick Records.