Since their humble beginnings in a Wolverhampton suburban bedroom, Leeds-based hip hop, space jazz and bass-loving outfit Paper Tiger have carved their own niche in the electronic music scene, both as a heavyweight production outfit and as a damned fine live band (sharing stages with the likes of Jaga Jazzist, Rustie, Gaslamp Killer, Daedelus, Alice Russell, Amon Tobin and many more).
Irresistible Features
Following on from the release of Laptop Suntan, their much acclaimed full length debut on Wah Wah 45s, Paper Tiger proudly present the second single to be lifted from the album.
Irresistible features the lush vocals of Sabira Jade, and is a low slung, hip hop joint with an immediate hook that’ll get lodged in your brain for months to come, plus those trademark Paper Tiger beats to move your feet. It comes complete with a devastating garage flavoured mix from Debian Blak, as well as clean and, er, not so clean versions of Paper Tiger’s own twist on the original, entitled Resistance, and featuring the witticisms of frontman Raphael Attar.
“Sparkling live future bass music. Paper Tiger manage to put together all that’s best about current electronic music together in one package. Intricate but punchy, weird but very wonderful.”
Joe Muggs, Mixmag“Really excited about this.” Joe Goddard (Hot Chip/Greco Roman)
“Isn’t it lovely? Wonderful, lovely stuff.” Lauren Laverne (BBC 6Music)
REACTIONS
“We love Paper Tiger!” Nemone (BBC 6Music, UK)
“At once familiar and undeniably fresh.” okayfuture.com
http://www.okayfuture.com/tracks/paper-tiger-irresistible.html
“Excellent remix from Debian Blak! Got a couple of DJ sets coming up in the next weeks, I’ll definitely play it!” Dandy Teru (Ubiquity, France)
“Nice! Like ‘Irresistible’ – ‘Resistance’ is the one though” DJ Gilla (First Word, UK)
“Loving it! Full support!” Diesler (Buried Treasure / The Soup Kitchen, Manchester)
“This track (Irrestistible) was probably my fave track from their album, so good to see it released in it’s own right as a single.” Steve Johns (Solar Radio, UK)
“Tasty!” DJ Astroboy (Astrojazz, Scotland)
“Liking this release a lot – Irresistible (Debian Blak remix) played on last nights show.” Phil Levene (Back2Back FM, London)
Always amazing soundz from Paper Tiger! I’ll go immediately with the main version on my radio show.” Cesare Cera (Irma / Black Mighty Wax, Italy)
“All tracks of this EP are great productions, but my personal favourite here is the Debian Blak Remix of “Irresistible” – superb!” Sven Thomschke / ‘Dr.Best’ www.radio-z.net (Germany)
“Irresistible was one of my picks from the Laptop Suntan album, loving the Debian Blak remix, nice garagey twist on the original, gonna be playing this one for a while, big up!” DJ Big Red (Kane FM, UK)
“The Debian Blak remix is mind blowing, for sure a club hit!” Georgios Paroglou (It’s Just Music, Greece)
“Debian Blak Remix is wicked. I supported on my show last Friday. I’ll support again on a future show.” DJ Nelson Ramalho (UK)
“Lovin’ the original version with its nice deep chords! Markus Milz (Further In Fusion, Germany)
- Radio play from Nemone (BBC 6Music),
- Steve Johns (Solar Radio),
- Phil Levene (Back2Back FM);
- Markus Milz (Further In Fusion, Radio Corax, Germany);
- Tiago Santos (Oxygenio FM, Lisbon, Portugal)
