We’ve always known that sQuare associate and resident DJ Baltimoroder (aka Erik Pearson) is a talented dude. But now, the world is starting to get it too. Recently, his remixes are starting to show up in some high profile web spaces.

We first met Erik when he was a ambient producer and a DJ at our night called Diversion at River Gods. He soon made the jump with Daviday to Pan Am Fridays (old mix here) at the Enormous Room. After years of that gig, we started up Make It New, DJed all around, at house parties (old mix from Erik here) and in the Fort Point Channel.

Now, as the fabulously named Baltimoroder (Baltimore + Giorgio Moroder innit?) Pearson is a part of the phenomenal Hearthrob party, and through Hearthrob’s Red Foxx and friends like Starkness, is getting even larger.

Stark posted Erik’s latest remix at the influencial Palms Out blog, (link here). Our friend Red Foxxworth handed some traxx to the hugely hip NYC DJ Stretch Arm Strong a few weeks back and today came this email from Erik:

SUBJ: DUDE!!!!!!

Body: D’l the mix… 41 minutes in

And there, after a kewl Kelis track, comes Baltimoroder’s “Wile Out” Remix. At the top of the mix even, and almost in its entire length:

Stretch Armstrong - “Triple 5 Soul Sessions 6″

Foxxworth calls such tracks thugrave (we’ve seen it unfortunately called rave-rap elsewhere). Thugrave essentially takes hard rap a capellas (generally dirty south a capellas) and puts them over a new technoid sound, usualy remixed and/or reedited. Foxxworth has had success with the formula already, and the Hearthrob party turns the sound out every other Tuesday.

But Baltimoroder’s latest remix really demos the brilliance of the concept. Here’s the original, which is in itself the product of two world-class DJ/producers: Ewan Pearson and Al Usher from the UK. Together they are Partial Arts. The remix of this track comes from veteran DJ/producer duo Alter Ego.

Partial Arts - “Trauermusick (Alter Ego Remix)”

OK. Real, real nice. Total epic. That Viking-march breakdown is a trip in itself. Three immense talents on one track already. Buy more Partial Arts here.

Add two more — Baltimoroder cybernetically goes to Houston, TX and the Swishahouse clique to find Lil Keke , one of the clearest rhymespitters in the game. He drops out the viking march, keeps the intensity, doubles it up, reeedits some lyrics and:

Alter Ego & Ghost Writers (feat Lil Keke) - “Ghost Musick (Baltimoroder Remix)”

Wow.

Similar to what our movie friends Modeselektor do with TTC, albiet in French. Here’s a lo-fi rip from their forthcoming Boogy Bytes mix, with its exclusive TTC track, which definately gets Thugrave right:

Modeselektor feat. TTC - “Boogy Bytes Vol. III Snippet”

Speaking of the film, we have put up a profile at Virb.com, which we have heard called the “MySpace Killer”. Sounds good to us. Site here.

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