Henry “Riton” (pronounced “reeee-ton”, apparently) Smithson is an East London DJ/remixer/musician kid who’s got some a wicked sense of synthy humor. Like this line from the apparently-not-mislabeled “Swuare Eyes” which I very much wish I’d written:
“Square eyes
It’s no surprise
The love of my life
Is not so bright”
MP3: “Swuare Eyes” – Riton
Buy it on Beatport
I found this minimallesque melodic gem on the Tiefschwarz’ Fabric a few months back, it’s a nice break in between the bangers and the full on pop:
MP3: “Hammer of Thor” – Riton
Buy it on Beatport
He also puts out tracks with Ben Fat Trucker as Gucci Soundsystem:
MP3: “Windy” – Gucci Soundsystem
Gucci Soundsystem’s ‘Space
Take a trip to FluoKids and grab Riton’s latest work, a re-rub of Datarock’s “Fafafa.” There’s also a cool new remix of Simian Mobile Disco’s “It’s The Beat” on his Myspace.
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did you ever hear the erol (I think?) one of square eyes called squauque eyes or something?
yeah, that must be where he put the missing ‘q’!
wait a mo’…i did a few searches and i’m starting to think i must have had some weird misspelled mp3…it shows up as plain ol’ “square eyes” on itunes and discogs etc.
hmm. i like the song slightly better when i thought title was a purposeful misspelling. so i’ll make my contrib to pop culture and not edit my post (or the mp3 ID tag).
this post is already the #1 Google search on that spelling!
haha. Yeah it is wrong. I remember it was on some Touche mix cd a couple years back.
I seriously love his cover of ‘Killing an Arab’.