The Freelance Hellraiser took inspiration for his name from the passport of Oliver Reed (in which the sadly departed professional bad boy rightly listed ‘Hellraiser’ as his occupation), and achieved notoriety back in 2001 with the Christina Aguilera/The Strokes mash-up ‘A Stroke Of Genius’, a track which received wide attention and recently came in at #78 in Blender magazines best records of the last 25 years.
Following remixes for the likes of Richard Ashcroft, Christina Aguliera and Placebo, plus a stint as Paul McCartney’s official tour dj, last years debut album ‘Waiting For Clearance’, featuring guest spots from Harald Faltermeyer and Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol, was well received and saw Freelance Hellraiser shake off the mash-up tag for good, although I’ve just mentioned it.
More recently he turned in an excellent remix for goth high priestess Siouxsie’s second single from her debut solo album ‘Mantaray’- the boombastic, vengeful ‘Here Comes That Day’- which Mr. Hellraiser has described as ‘kind of Smith n Hack meet MSTRKRFT in a dark tunnel somewhere in Hamburg’.
As a bonus, here’s a fantastic reworking of ‘Supa Bajo’ by Lalula – the song used for the current Bacardi commercial – which is guaranteed to rock your socks and has received the remix treatment from Ashley Beedle, South Central and Emperor Machine. Check out the Freelance Hellraiser myspace page for some great blog entries too.
mp3: siouxsie – here comes that day (freelance hellraiser fuzzy kerbox remix).
mp3: lalula – supa bajo (freelance hellraiser fuzzy kerbox remix).
i desperately ,desperately, really really desperately want to download the lalula supa bajo remix but cant find it anywhere to download, any suggestions pretty please
cheers-me-dears
ellsrobbie
i somehow don’t have it anymore. try e-mailing mr. hellraiser on his myspace page, he’ll probably let you have it. sorry about that.