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Artist: Over The Hill
Title: Acid Rasta
Format: Digital 12" - Available on iTUNES
Release Date: 2009-01-21
File Under: Etno-Techno



01. ACID RASTA



Request: Digital Promo - Booking - Interview

OVER THE HILL



Over The Hill is DJ Samo and Daniel Savio bka Kool DJ Dust and they met sometime in the late 90's at the local record store/hangout Snickars Records in Stockholm. This was when Samo still was an intern at the store, Daniel used to come by to do some digging or to jam with the now-legendary DJ-crew Scratchaholics. The two of them hit it off immediately, they both came from families with Sami-blood and both proudly sported a "Euro" hairdo (Like an afro but with straight hair).

Dust was already then producing electronic music, he started a band with two friends called Hundarna Från Söder (which won a Grammy in Sweden for Best Dance Music Album in 2003) while playing records at the local bars and tagging the streets of Stockholm after the bars closed…

Meanwhile Samo who was a couple of years younger (still is) – and wasn't allowed inside the bars just yet, found himself a sampler and started makin hip-hop beats, when not skateboarding or checking out the girls.

Time passed, and Samo and Dust's friendship grew – From the early mornings they found themselves fighting over the same records at the local swapmeet to the late nights they lent each other money for another bottle of well needed Lapin Kulta. It was only natural that they started making music together. Making original tracks and doing remixes for artists such as Sabu Martinez, Them Shepherds etc.

"The music started sounding like a like a mix between the groups Sky and Skyy" Samo says laughing when being asked – how to describe their sound. "That's why we call ourselves Dan Sky n Sam Skyy" Dust says.

Acid Rasta is ethno-techno at a snails pace. A lil sumthin for the wee hours of the night!