Data Transmission Podcast 964 – Illyus Barrientos Tracklist
Illyus Barrientos is back on Toolroom with MALU for ‘Right Here’, and he joins us this week for the Data Transmission Podcast.
The new single lands with proper intent. Big drums, a heavy bassline and a vocal that knows exactly where it wants to be, right in the middle of the room. It follows Illyus’ recent run of club-ready cuts including ‘Never Let You Go’ with MK, ‘People’s PRTY’ and ‘Deep Down’, which dropped on Toolroom back in January.
MALU makes her Toolroom debut here too, arriving with serious heat from Brazil after appearances at Tomorrowland, Green Valley and more. Not a bad first stamp on the label, then.
Illyus has long been one of those names you trust when the record needs to work. Releases on Toolroom, Defected, Glasgow Underground, Love & Other and Nervous Records tell their own story, while support from Carl Cox, Chris Lake, Hot Since 82, FISHER, Sam Divine, Mark Knight and Armand Van Helden puts him in very good company.
He has also turned in official remixes for Armand Van Helden, Duke Dumont, Dom Dolla, Purple Disco Machine, Calvin Harris and Sonny Fodera, alongside sets at Fabric, The Warehouse Project, Printworks, Hï Ibiza, Ushuaïa, CRSSD and Splash House. Add in a BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, Toolroom Radio hosting duties and his A&R role at Electronic Nature, and you’ve got someone who knows records from every angle.
For this week’s podcast, Illyus keeps it moving. His own cuts sit alongside DJ Romain, Danny Howard, Prunk, Airwolf Paradise, William Kiss and DJ Gant-Man, with plenty of bounce, swing and late-night pressure throughout. House music built for basements, festival tents and those sweaty rooms where the kick drum does most of the talking.
Lock in below and catch Illyus Barrientos and MALU’s ‘Right Here’ on Toolroom now.