The biggest rave record ever to come out of The Netherlands would definately be Fierce Ruling Diva – Rubb It In. After 19 years (yes, it’s that old) Bart B More got the rights to re-release this gem on his Secure Recordings imprint. He thought we were old school enough to do a remix. We are, and so we did the remix. Bring on synth stabs, glow sticks and shouting diva’s.

Fierce Ruling Diva – Rubb It In (Chocolate Puma Remix) by Chocolate Puma

Buy at Beatport, including Chocolate Puma, Bart B More, East & Young, Tommie Sunshine and Genetik & Gio Martinez remixes.

Update: watch the “official” Chocolate Puma Remix video.

Yes, we got another remix out. It’s a track by Martin Accorsi feat. Sarah Kühne and it’s called Soul Jack.
Released on Roger Sanchez’ Stealth Records, this track has been a firm favourite in our sets, and from what we’ve heard it also gets heavy support from all the usual suspects.

Grab Martin Accorsi feat. Sarah Kühne – Soul Jack (Chocolate Puma Remix) at Beatport.

We also went to Japan to shoot this video. Rumour is that an incognito Laidback Luke did all the ninja stunts.

;-)

Y’all know Robert Owens right? This legendary vocalist is known for one of the best house records of all time, ‘I’ll Be Your Friend‘.
So when we got the chance to remix his track ‘Deep Down’ we were quite chuffed indeed.

Now Underground Collective released it and you can grab your copy here.

Robert Owens – Deep Down (Chocolate Puma Remix) by Chocolate Puma

We already gave it away on the blog of Zouk Singapore, but now we’ve also put a downloadable version of it on our soundcloud page.
Get it while you can, D.H.S. Vs. Brahms & Klement Bonelli – House Of Los Chicanos (KG Vs. Chocolate Puma Bootleg).

D.H.S. Vs. Brahms & Klement Bonelli – House Of Los Chicanos (KG Vs. Chocolate Puma Bootleg) by Chocolate Puma

Here’s a short mix with some new music we’ve been working on lately.

1. Chocolate Puma feat. Colonel Red – Back Home (Defected)
Our forthcoming single on Defected, featuring the mighty Colonel Red.

2. Robert Owens – Deep Down (Underground Collective)
We got the chance to remix one of our heroes, Robert Owens.

3. Martin Accorsi feat. Sarah Kühne – Soul Jack (Stealth Records)
We did this remix voor Roger Sanchez‘ Stealth Records.

4. Zki & Dobre – Disco Sucks (Pssst Music)
Yes, that’s us. Coming up on our own imprint, Pssst Music.

Meanwhile, In The Chocolate Puma Studio… (lofi preview) by Chocolate Puma

Back in 1993 Strictly Rhythm released a record called ‘South Street Player – (Who?) Keeps Changing Your Mind‘. It was a song produced and performed by Roland Clarke, who you also might know from ‘Armand van Helden’s Flowers‘.

Soon it became quite a big club hit here in The Netherlands. We both loved the record so we decided to license it for our Fresh Fruit Label. For our release we made 2 remixes: Fresh Fruit Deep and Fresh Fruit Dub. Both didn’t have much vocals in it, not because we didn’t like them, but because back then we just didn’t have the equipment to include the full vocals. In those early days our ’studio’ was very basic!

Now, 17 years later, we made a vocal edit of our Fresh Fruit Dub, so you can finally hear it how it was ment to be.
Strictly Rhythm is re-releasing it on the 1st of februari 2010, alongside a remix and dub by Daniel Bovie & Roy Rox.

UPDATE: It’s out now on Beatport!

French superstar David Guetta was already hammering some of our tracks like Dub Of Boom, Soul Makossa and our remix of Flo Rida & Nelly Furtado, which is obviously a very cool thing. It got even better when he asked us to remix his new single One Love, featuring American Boy singer Estelle.
So we turned this popsong into something that would fit on the bigger dancefloors.

Releasedate: soon.

Here’s a short preview:
David Guetta – One Love (Chocolate Puma Remix) Lo-Fi Preview by Chocolate Puma

The track that has everybody jumpin’ in front of our DJ-booth is now available @ most iTunes Stores, so now you can grab your own copy of the ‘Chocolate Puma Full Vocal Mix’ and the ‘Chocolate Puma Dub Mix’ of Flo Rida & Nelly Furtado’s ‘Jump’.
For some reason the ‘Chocolate Puma Remix‘ is not included in the package, but who knows it will be released in the future. So go to the iTunes store, type ‘Chocolate Puma Flo Rida’ in the search field, and it should pop up.

This is what DJ Mag had to say about it:
Flo Rida feat Nelly Furtado – Jump (Chocolate Puma Remixes) – Warner Music

Making dance tracks is all the rage for hip-hop and r&b types but if they want proper club grooves they still have to come to those who know. Dutch beat terrorists Chocolate Puma show they have the knowledge here as they twist Nelly and Flo around their usual brand of hard hitting beats and stabbed keys.

The track that has been doing extremely well in our sets, is our remix of Jump by Flo Rida feat. Nelly Furtado. We tried to turn this poppy hip hop record into a rougher old school Chocolate Puma thing, and we think we it turned out pretty good. So dope beats, hard hitting 8 bit stabs, Nelly’s voice and Flo Rida shouting ‘jump’ is definately a very good kickstart for everybody to start jumping.

Expect it @ Beatport soon.

And a short lo-fi preview:

Flo Rida feat. Nelly Furtado – Jump – Chocolate Puma Remix Lo Fi by Chocolate Puma

“One of the wonders of the sheer vastness of house music is the discovery of hidden nuggets in even the most obvious of places. You wouldn’t imagine that a record produced by Louie Vega and released on Strictly Rhythm could be undiscovered in any way, but Bass Tone has been a secret well kept by an unlikely duopoly of US house heads and UK garage ragamuffins ever since it came out in the mid 90s. Here Vega’s early venture into starker, more experimental sounds by way of breaking glass and sirens is taken further along the road of wonderful weirdness by H.O.S.H. and given a controlled dose of musical steroids by Chocolate Puma. ”

Having no parts or multitrack of the original recording, and doing al kinds of geeky trickery and filtering to isolate the sounds was the easy part. Remixing a real classic and one of our favourite Louie Vega records was the hard part! So we did our best trying to capture the spirit, trademark sounds and beats of the original record while updating it for today’s dancefloors. For the deeper crowds we also provided a dubbier version. Hope you like!

Get it @ Beatport.com