Working late at the AIAIAI HQ from AIAIAI on Vimeo.

Brilliant video by Me And Anton for AIAIAI, soundtrack from Renaissance Man.

Renaissance Man – Stalker Humanoid from Turbo Recordings on Vimeo.

Renaissance Man FADER Mix by The FADER

Renaissance Man – What Do You Do When You Do What You Do from Turbo Recordings on Vimeo.

Tongue twister? Veiled reference to Salt N’ Pepa’s “Shoop”? NEITHER – it’s the latest Renaissance Man video, which is out now on Beatport and Juno, where the vinyl has already not-surprisingly sold out. Remixes from Matthew Herbert, Paul Woolford and more on the digital make it an essential purchase.

Guy Gerber is only getting weirder and weirder, and I couldn’t be more thrilled with it.

For example, did you know he has a collaborative project in the works with Diddy called 11:11, which is shaping up to be an entire album after Diddy was pleased with some remix work? Apparently now Sean John flies Gerber out to his studio in LA to work, where he gives him “2000% artistic freedom.” Considering Diddy’s recent painful name change to “Swag” (but only for a week), it’s probably not a bad idea to have someone else at the helm of the ship creativity wise.

Also notable is the fact that in a show of superior curatorial know-how, Gerber’s already commissioned Renaissance Man to remix their “Tourist Trap” track which you can now stream in its whole sludgy, dragged out glory on the RM Soundcloud page.

Today though, we’ve got an exclusive Gerber cut up for grabs, from the eclectic´Heartbeats´ compilation out now, which features Greg Paulus, DoP, Lee Curtiss and many more.

The track begins as a deeply burrowed vocal sample loops the phrase “it’s off the hook” around twinkling swirling loops and thumping percussion. Quickly, everything gets reconstituted into a mournful high altitude stomper where the song’s title rings out like it was amplified from the top of the mountain out of a fog horn. Here’s hoping your vertigo doesn’t kick in.

Guy Gerber – Nothing Can Be True (Mediafire)

Renaissance Man are smart guys. Sure, that doesn’t affect their status as dancefloor magic workers, as has been repeatedly proven through their Dubsided, Sound Pellegrino and Made To Play releases, but ever since the squeaky graffiti tinged stomp of “Spraycan” came reverberating through the speakers of nightclubs worldwide, there was something else underneath the veneer of twerked out tech house club music.

Their upcoming debut LP on Turbo Recordings may be fleshing out the brainy side of Renaissance Man a bit more, as it’s already been called “a MENSA-level dissection of contemporary dance music”, and if first single “What You Do When You Do What You Do” is any hint of what the rest of the album will sound like, it’s bound to be an organic, earthy descent into the mechanics of making people move. Seeing how the single’s been assembled with primarily organic sound is also fantastic and explains a bit more about Renaissance Man’s recent interest in foley art.

01 What Do You Do When You Do What You Do (Vocal Version) by Turbo Recordings

We’ve also got a Matthew Herbert remix up for streaming, which is considerably less grim and more enjoyable than his recent “One Pig” album, a rather grim techno affair chronicling he life of a pig from birth to death, basing the music around inspiration from his weekly visits. But while “One Pig” might be a vegan’s nightmare concept album, on his remix of “What Do You Do”, Herbert adds some atmospheric vocals and brings his own slightly balding, twisted, borderline crazy pop sensibility to the table.

02 What Do You Do When You Do What You Do (Matthew Herbert’s Little Liar Remix) by Turbo Recordings

RA.273: Renaissance Man (direct link)

Tracklist after the jump.

Ragnar Grippe – Ten Temperaments: 2
Ike – Ribbons
DJ Hell & Anthony Rother – German Bodymachine
11:11 – Tourist Trap (Renaissance Man remix)
Unique 3 – Weight For The Bass (3 Ton Edit)
Michna – Redline Flights
Tevo Howard – Spend Some Time (Underground mix)
Martyn – Masks
The Swiss – Double Or Nothing (Renaissance Manremix)
5 Mic Cluster – Basildon Lover
Aquarius Heaven – Universe
Renaissance Man – Stalker Humanoid
Dexter – Space Booty
Instra:mental – User
The Other People Place – Let Me Be Me

The Swiss – Double or Nothing from Modular People on Vimeo.

Australian discofuturistic duo The Swiss with new single “Double Or Nothing/Womanthem”, it’s released by Modular late September and remixes comes from Finnish master duo Renaissance Man, disco don Headman and Louis La Roche.

The Touch – Sermon from The Touch on Vimeo.

If the brooding, slightly off pitch minimal pop tint of The Touch’s new Sermon EP on Kitsune doesn’t grab you with its purty imagery, then the sewer dwelling remix monstrosity that Renaissance Man have woven out of some stark percussion and swollen vocal chops will absolutely do the trick. Out on Kitsune now.

Plus, if you missed it several years ago now, The Touch provide a robotic tribute to R. Kelly with their endearing bootleg edit of “The World’s Greatest”, obviously a respectful tribute to the Pied Piper of R&B.

R. Kelly – The World’s Greatest (The Touch Bootleg)

Might be midsummer, but this new Renaissance Man sounds like a tornado rolled through a beach and threw a bunch of tourists into the ocean.

That is to say, packed with brooding, dark techy dancefloor killers, including new tracks from Matias Aguayo, Renaissance Man’s upcoming remix for The Touch on Kitsune, as well as an original track from their forthcoming album – the eerie, Tiga charted and already critically acclaimed “Stalker Humanoid”, which sounds like it could be the soundtrack to a movie involving robot consciousness and a dystopian Tokyo in the future where it’s raining all the time.

Renaissance Man 2011 Midsummer Mix by Renaissance Man

Tracklisting after the jump:

Locussolus: Gunship (Andrew Weatherall Dub)
Rebolledo & Daniel Maloso: Loro Lady
The Touch: Sermon (Renaissance Man Remix)
DK7: The Difference (Martin Landsky Remix)
Renaissance Man: Stalker Humanoid
Matias Aguayo: Ligado
STL: Something Is Raw
Virgo 4: It’s A Crime (Caribou Remix)
Matthew Herbert: Kerstin Basler