Cargo Records

We Never Sleep

Rowdy nights in hyper New York City consist of sub-heavy dive bars, sticky dancefloors, backflips off the bar, and smoke-filled limousines.

Drop the Limes We Never Sleep is a headfirst dive into this afterhours world and its creatures of the night. The album, packed with four-to-the-floor funk spiked with grime and growling techno-bass, features eleven gritty club bangers dripping with romance and Italopunk attitude. Wake Up Call opens the album with a bomb of intoxicating dubstep. Over militant beats and bass, Luca Venezia (aka Drop The Lime) seduces listeners with a vocal intro, then snaps the track into a shake-and-break booty frenzy with guest-vocalist, Minty (Glassy Eyes, This Means Forever). Tracks like Triceratops,E-Lock, and Hotsauce Grillz are heavily influenced by recent stays in Berlin and the UK where Venezia performed at parties like BristolÃ"¢s Toxic Dancehall and Londons Bang Face. Full Moon Rising, ButterScotch, and coal Oven Fevers, are Venezias first true verse-chorus-verse pop songs, and while still heavy on the dancefloor, these tracks make We Never Sleep more than just an album for DJs and club heads. Venezia helped introduce UK grime and dubstep to US audiences with his Bangers & Mash parties and his live sets at Cut Crews Dirty Down, Dave Qs Dub War, Konkrete Jungle, and a few epic Rothko events. With underground bass music taking off in 2006, Venezias dark grime, dangerous techno, and romantic vocals make him NYCÃ"¢s obvious new bad boy Sinatra.