We're so excited about this new mix from our good friend Raffertie that we haven't even had a chance to listen to it yet. One look at the tracklisting let's us know it's going to be monumental... and possibly rather mentalist too. If after listening we find this isn't the case, we'll pack up our Chrome cases and go join a holistic monastery or something.
1. Raffertie - Intro (ft. Shiftee Moova) 2. Kid 606 - Dancehall of the Dead (Kanj Kinetic Remix) 3. Gallops - Crutches (Raffertie Remix) 4. Mr Oizo - Flat Beat (16 Bit Remix) 5. TC - Where's My Money (Jack Beats Remix) 6. DeVille - Quente Demais (Kanji Kinetic Remix) 7. Kill The Noise & Foamo - Work It 8. Lee Mortimer & Foamo - It's Going Down 9. Jack Beats ff. Dynamite MC - What (Foamo Remix) 10. Livin' Joy - Dreamer 11. Montel Jordan - This Is How We Do It 12. High Rankin & Gyto vs. Dizzee Rascle - Bubble & Squeak (Raffertie Mashup) 13. AC Slater - Night Shift 14. Paul Johnson vs. D.I.M. - You Get Get Down (Raffertie Mashup) 15. High Rankin - No Money For Guns 16. Kanji Kinetic - Drive You Crazy VIP 17. Paul Johnson - Get Get Down 18. D-Ream - Things Can Only Get Better 19. Adam Freeland - Bring It (Kanji Kinetic Remix) 20. The Squire Of Gothos - Sandpaper Riddim 21. Raffertie - Stomping Grounds VIP 22. Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Raffertie Remix) 23. Toast - Daft Step 22. Justin Timberlake vs. Flukes - Love Your Wifey (Raffertie Mashup) 23. Stakey - Gutter Music VIP 24. Bruce Stallion - Black Rims (Ebola Remix) 25. Raffertie - Wobble Horror! 26. Raffertie - Antisocial 27. The Scarlet Harlots - Backlash (Raffertie's Bigger Bass Remake ft. Shiftee Moova) 28. Smoke City - Underwater Love (Raffertie Re-Edit) 29. The Prodigy - Breathe (NumberNin6 Remix) 30. Reso - Octacon 31. The Rogue Element - The Hive (Raffertie's S.W.A.R.M. Remix) 32. Paleface - Do You Mind (Crazy Cousins Remix) 33. Akira Tikeshi - Boom N Pow 34. Stagga - Timewarp Dub 35. Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls (Raffertie Remix)
Mr Nice and co horts CJ and Darggy Darg from outta Luton drop a huge Bashment meets Hip-hop track, taking Pharoahe Monch's chorus (also used by Styles P on a track of the same name) and flipping it to good effect.
Also, look out for a stunning Don Leisure remix of DEFine's 48Hrs, which features the other Mr Nice himself Howard Marks. It's due to drop on the Subconscious label later in the year.
HENCH Head Honcho (try saying that 10 times fast) J@kes has just dropped this tense and brooding Dubstep mix, with a fire that definitely burns darkly. For all those who are stuck in tonight whilst the world is off partying, this is for you.
“Hey man, remember that time when we were trekking up in the Himalayas during the 60s and we ended up hitching a ride on the Yellow Submarine to that other galaxy?”
“erm, come again?”
“Yeah man you remember, we hooked up with Captain Kirk and he took us to that crazy seedy little bar where were smoking pipes with Jabba The Hut, and that stripper had tentacles coming out of her...”
“Say what? Nah man I don’t remember that, you must have been like tripping out, or maybe you were listening to the new Enemy Earth Album.”
“Shit no man you’re right, I was listening to that album. Still, pretty groovy though.”
Luminfire from Ants In My Trance might be spreading his flames, cos his boy 607is most definitely on fire right now. Polow Da Don's Milli-fied production serves as the perfect bed for 607 to do his thing, whilst Rich Boy, well I suppose it is his tune originally so it might seem kinda rude to kick him off it but...
Have to say Happy Birthday to the Mixtape Podcast who celebrate their first year of being with some exclusive remixs from the likes of Something Wrong, Dirty Disco Youth and Death To The Throne. It's this remix of the Destiny's Child track Say My Name from Robot Kochthat caught our ear mind. It's like entering the warped mind of Beyonce's Psychotic Stalker (metaphorically speaking of course, we make no such insinuations about Mr Koch). Grab the rest of their Birthday remixes at the Mixtape Podcast blog.
Egon Brainparts and Negatron Johnson from Oakland production duo Bossasaurusseem to be having a laugh. Now I say this in the sense of, they appear to enjoy what they do to the maximum (as they should) and approach pretty much everything with a tongue planted firmly in their cheek, not the “oi mate you’re having a laugh” irate cockney type sense, but it might be easy to confuse the two at first. How serious can you take a pair who wear hoodies featuring dinosaur teeth, eyes, and ‘anatomically accurate plates running down the back’? One listen to their music sorts that question out immediately, these guys are most definitely serious, albeit serious fun.
This Dino Raider Megamix might not work quite so well as a mix, but it’s a handy little introduction to the Bossasaurus sound. From epic Electro Disco, including a remix which makes Kate Perry properly filthy rather than cheap insinuation, to beefed up Crunk Rock, through more thoughtful jazzed out Hip-hopish affairs, all with one foot far in the prehistoric past and the other firmly in the future. They might be slightly overdoing the whole dinosaur thing with straplines such as, ‘good music isn’t extinct’, but they most certainly prove their point.
What's going on? We've got Ciara, Justin Timberlake and Black Eyed Peas up on Chrome Kids? There's not many people could make that happen but seems that Mr Chew Fu is the man that can.
We're extremely excited here at Chrome Kids HQ to catch the new Major Lazer album when it finally drops. As big respectors of both Diplo and Switch, and all life long Reggae fans this should be one of our albums of the year... however. I have to say that personally I'm disappointed in the latest leak from the project.
It's not the weak lyric writing that bothers me. Dancehall generally has a long history of questionable lyrics that would make most songwriters recoil at their childish simplicity, but it has never stopped me from loving the tunes. Bashment is all about the fire, the passion and the delivery so we can forgive it's lack of poetic intricacy.
It's not even that I hate the way the vocoder / auto tune effect had been dominating the scene. I've long given up that rant and come to simply accept it as a given these days.
What bothers me is that in 2009, artists with such a following in the Dance music scene as Diploand Switch, infact no the fact that any artists whatsoever, are putting out such blatantly homophobic hate tunes. This is coming from a man who at my own admission had copies of Buju Banton's Boom Bye Bye on both 12" when it came out and 7" as a remix some few years later. I was a regular at Ragga jams as a teenager, where artists would get the biggest cheer for cursing out 'Batty men', and I was one of those cheering. I'm not proud of these facts, but they are the facts no less and I won't try and make excuses for it either. However it is not just me that has grown up and seen the foolishness in such actions, society in general has grown up too, at least I thought it had. Reggae artists have been put under so much pressure not to preach such hatred by having their records banned or dropped from their label or not being allowed entry to countries on tour, that the level of homophobia within Reggae generally has been reduced dramatically. Pressure has also been put on the media as a whole to show homosexuality in a more favourable light and the stigma is just not as great any more. Even the younger hardcore Christian fundamentalists tend to be seen saying, "we think it's wrong but like whatever".
So why with all this in mind does the new Major Lazer track have lines such as "me a zombie and me don't eat gays / cos me don't like the HIV" (which is even more offensive in it's appaling rhyme flow, "cos me don't like AIDS" would have been a far more effective follow up line I would have thought), and make many an un-complimentary reference to "Batty Men"..
Actually, all Andy Milokanis does seem to do is eat brains, smoke cocaine and jack up heroin all day, so maybe we can forgive him his rather misguided outlook on life then, but the other two should know better. As this is just a leak hopefully they will address the point in question and this track won't actually make it onto the album after all.
I deliberated about actually putting the tune up, but as many readers come through various blog aggregators that pick up the music specifically it's been included.
**** late edition to the post ****
having just seen the video of these guys in the studio and realising that Andy Milokanis is in fact Andy Milonakis (and also finding out who he is) I realise that Diplo and Switch might have been so caught up in the darkly humorous fact that this crazy chubby Greek American with a congenital growth-hormone condition is dropping these kind of lyrics that they didn't give the actual content much thought, or consider it to be anything but funny, but unfortunately any humour is lost in the translation to many of us fellas and the track still needs to be scrapped.
This is the guy doing the vocals...
Actually on watching this I have the sneaking suspicion that he is actually gay, in which case the ironic humour isn't lost on me, but like I said, the whole reason for this post was because I took it on face value, I had no idea who this guy was so I think there needs to be some context to it all. I still maintain that it shouldn't be an album track but maybe a video that makes the humour more obvious. (YSI) Major Lazer (Diplo & Switch) - Zumbi (Feat. Andy Milokanis)
The winner of Sunday Best's competition to remix dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip's now classic Thou Shalt Not was Rory Hoy. Congratualtions to him but to be honest we were feeling these two runner ups just that bit more. You can grab all three of them here.
Mishka keep the big mixes rolling with the next installment of their Keep Watch series. Brooklyn's party starting producer crew Trouble & Basstake us on a journey through some of their favourite Dubstep, Bassline, B'more and Electro tunes.
See we told you that new Peter Bjorn & Johntune lends itself well to Hip-hop. Just had another version come in courtesy of Canadian rapper / producer Don Cash
As you might well be aware by now, Stagga drops his Sick As Sin EP on Rag & Bone next week (30th March). Gonna be gigantic, here's the press release for it:
"For their 21st release, Rag & Bone have pulled out all the stops. Welsh producer Stagga bursts onto the dubstep scene with a refreshingly new take on things. With a history in hip-hop and coming fresh from a debut release on Rossi B & Luca’s Rudeez imprint of ‘Jacqueline/Policeman Get Hype’, Stagga serves up 3 indisputable slabs of wonkiness.
‘Sick As Sin’ is the big hitter with it’s centrepiece phrase “Dropping you out like a bong of smack and waking you up like a bong of crack” courtesy of the vocal talents of Skamma: it’s got big tune written all over it.
On the flip ‘Predatory Control Freeks’ is a different matter altogether. Wise utterings on the sinister intentions of the new world architects drift in and out of an eerie soundtrack. Meanwhile ‘Freight Dub’ gets deep on a smokers vibe. It’s swathes of spooky synths blend perfectly with some hypnotic banter.
These tracks have already seen early support from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs (Radio 1), Starkey (Planet Mu) and Sub FM DJs with more to follow."
Check Stagga's Myspace to hear these tracks, plus here's a little non EP special for you all too.
We have to give a mention and a big shout out to Glasgow promotions company Mixed Bizness whose blog is definitely one of our favourites at the moment. Here's a couple of their recent goodies repping the Cape Town scene that we've had on heavy rotation.
For a full tracklisting on this killer mix of South African Dubstep and Bass heavy Beats, and for more information on both Liver and Fletcher check the Mixed Bizness blog.
The Wizard behind the Mixed Bizness curtain is Boom Monk Ben who has also just put together an hour of phat funked up beats from the bumpin' to the bashie to the down right dirty, all in the shape of his brand new mixtape.
1. Mooquee - Polar Crunk (Good Groove) 2. Leisure Allstars - How We Roll feat The Good People (Substatic Remix) (Leisure) 3. South Rakkas Crew - Mad Again (Mad Decent) 4. Santogold - Say A-Ha (Tepr Remix) (Atlantic) 5. Heatwave - Things Change feat Warrior Queen (DJ C Remix) (Soul Jazz) 6. Jokers Of The Scene - Juggle It (Fools Gold) 7. CLP - Party Hardy feat Yo! Majesty (Shitkatapult) 8. A-Skillz & Krafty Kuts - Happiness (Finger Lickin) 9. Jon Ohms - King Of The Boots (Unreleased) 10. James Brown - Give It Up Or Turn It Loose (DJ Ayers Remix) (Unreleased) 11. DJ TaMeiL - Bump Like This (Unruly) 12. Boy 8 Bit - The Cricket Scores Midfield General - Disco Sirens (Acapella) (Skint) 13. Tittsworth - Broke Ass N*gga (DJ Assault Remix) (Plant Music) 14. Rob 3 - The Chase (Mad Decent) 15. Thunderheist - Jerk It (Big Dada) 16. The Qemists - Dem Na Like Me (Subscape Dub) (Ninja Tune) 17. Mix n Blend - Tantrum feat Sfr & Ej Von Lyrik (Unreleased) 18. Magnetic Man - The Cyberman (Unreleased) 19. SFR - Kwaito Mandla (Unreleased) 20. Schlachthofbronx - Good To Go (Unreleased) 21. 6Blocc - Never Scared (Unreleased)
First up the fantastic new tune from those those swinging SwedesPeter, Bjorn & John gets the Troublemaker golden re-touch with rhymes courtesy of Adam Tensta,U-N-I and The 87 Stick Up Kids. The original track lends itself to Hip-hop so well that after a few listens you'd swear it was always like this.
There's some heavyweight Little Boots remixes about at the moment but think this one from Old Money might be our favourite so far. It's fairly faithful to the uptempo swing of the original but is less Bashie and more Hip-hop Jive-stepper. We've been playing the Ebola Dubstepish remix of this a fair bit too. Not sure if we've put it up already but here it is again just in case.
That 'devilishly' good Dutch producer Don Diablo utilises the same Funkadelic sample as the suggested classic De La Soul track for this dirtified Discofest.
Hopefully we haven't over loaded you with all the dope mixtapes this month because now we have our very own Hulk Hop Vs Crunk Rock mix for you to blast out. Stacked full of some of our favourite recent Dubstep tracks including: Stagga's killer track that's currently smashing dancefloors, Sick As Sin and his exclusive refix of Busta Rhymes' I Got Bass ; Monkey's version of the Velvet Underground track Venus In Furs, a grimeish version of Living On A Prayer by Swedish Hip-hop crew Looptroop; George Lenton's fantastic remixes of MGMT and The King Blues, and a couple of our favourite Raffertie remixes for The Scarlet Harlotsand Food For Animals; there's also plenty more Bass heavy Future Hip-hop and erm Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones too. Please feel free to circulate this wherever you choose.
Love the classic Electro sound on the original of this Mochipet track which features rhymes from oonceoonce & Eriksolo of Meanest Man Contest, but here it gets a full on Electro Breaks re-working from New York producer A-ux
Some more heavyweight mixes we've been feeling recently...
We received this bumpin' mix of Dubstep and Bass Heavy Hip-hop from Canadian Bass Junkie Subvert as a Temporal Fusion Podcast. They drop the occasional megaton bomb from the likes of Glitch Moband Gaslamp Killer, definitely worth signing up to.
New York clothing company Mishka dropped this mix from Skream as part of their Keep Watch series a couple of weeks back. It highlights why he is still one of the best Dubstep producer / DJs in the business, and incase you hadn't noticed, that La Roux Remixis going to be absolutely huge, infact I'd say it is already. He dropped it to sing along effect at Bedlam last week and Caspa included it as the first tune in his Mini Mix on Annie Mac last night. Infact, none of us have heard the rather inferior original played anywhere.
Always rather a contentious issue when artists put 'featuring' artists they've just simply sampled, but then is it really all that bad? The initial feeling is that it is a collaboration that both are aware of and have put effort into. However alot of the time 'legitimite' collaborations are simply cooked up by record companies and artists are blissfully unaware of the other's previous existence. It has also been common practice for artists to demand 'featured' status for the use of a sample - i.e. Joni Mitchell on Janet Jackson's Got Til It's Gone, Junior Reid on The Game's One Blood and Dido on Eminem's Stan are a few bigger ones off the top of the head. This is of course because it is beneficial to them, but why should cash be the deciding factor on it? If a Bronx rapper wants to say his tune features a Glaswegian Indie Rock band then, and essentially it does, who are we to argue. And saying that, who really gives a flying f**k if Glasvegas are aware of this fact anyway, certainly not June.
Hardcore fans might not want to imagine the idea of a John Lennon B'more remix and this track might not be for hardcore B'more fans either but iamxl's version of Woman is obviously done out of love for the original, and although this is something a little different for iamxl, we think it's a fair translation.
Watch out for a new album on San Francisco's Clocktower Collective label called Who Killed Jiminy Cricket from Midwest / West Coast Hip hop crew Blackout Sands.
Dusty melancholic, Blues ridden production def-juxtaposed with razor sharp rhyming that thankfully comes off poetic without being pretentious. For us the stand out tracks are its less moody affairs such as the relentlessly pile-driving Blackout or the dubbed out Blues bounce of Rhythm In Your Soul, but the album works as a whole (which is rare these days) and is definitely worth a listen in its entirety.
Check the opium funk and inner city aggression of this track from the album.
Think it must be dope as f**k Mixtape month cos here comes another fire blazin' bad boy courtesy of UK DMC and ITF Finalist DJ Cable who mixes up Bass-heavy Electro, B'more, UK Funky, UK Garage, Grime, Bassline and Dubstep into The Mash Down Vol 2, showcasing both superior skills and selection. Cable has previously provided mixes for BBC 1Xtraand Kiss FMand was marked out as a DJ to 'watch out for' in iDJ Magazine, a sentiment we strongly second.
01. Intro 02. Boy Better Know - Too Many Man 03. DJ Class - I'm The Ish 04. The Count of Monte Cristal - B-More Forward 05. DJ Tameil - I Get Money 06. Diplo Feat. Rye Rye - Wassup Wassup (DJ Sega Remix) 07. Kazey & Bulldog - Big Truck 08. Dave Nada - Where Brooklyn At? 09. Roundtable Knights - Freak From Desire 10. Dillinja - Twist 'Em Out (Proper Villains Remix) 11. AC Slater - Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix) 12. Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain (2 Bit Thugs Remix) 13. Fake Blood - Mars 14. DJ Mujava - Township Funk (Radioclit Remix) 15. K.I.G. Family - Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes 16. Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall 17. More Fire Crew - Oi! 18. Jammin - Go DJ + DJ Cable "Scratch Attack" 19. Skepta - Duppy 20. Benga - 26 Basslines 21. Kid Sister - Pro Nails (Rusko Remix) 22. Caspa - My Pet Monster 23. TC - Where's My Money? (Caspa Remix - Jack Beats Re-edit) 24. Kid Cudi - Day N Nite (Agent X Remix) 25. Lethal Bizzle - Bizzle Bizzle
Funny but if you'd told us a few years back that Hip House would return, and what's more we'd love it, we might not have held your preminition in high regards. But now it seems like it might be the only way to really save artists like The Game and 50 Cent. Anyone who was feeling the DJ Wool remix we posted up a couple of days back will no doubt bug off this little Electro House rub of How We Do from Bronx crew The Conquistadors ... We did.
We still haven't stopped rinsin' the last Dubstep bootleg of Super Sharp Shooter (Zeno's Blazin, it's on our latest Mix which you can pick up from here on Monday) that Sub.Mission sent us, when they hit us with these absolutely gargantuan versions of Prodigy's Voodoo People and Bone Crusher's Never Scared from another member of the Denver Dubstep fraternity, Dismal Futuresthat come stomping over the soundsystem like Godzilla on a Crystal Meth come down.
We've been waiting for this mixtape even before we knew it existed and our high pre-destined expectations have not fallen short by a millimeter, this is bangin'! Fully stacked up with digi Dubbed out Glitched up Phat beats of the highest order, anyone who knows and loves Robot Koch's own productions, some of which show up here will not be disappointed, and those who don't, it's time to get your learn on.
Big shout to Zwolf for schooling us on the pathmusick free MP3 label for crazy glitched up technoish experimental music. Have to say though, for us his stuff stands headbutt and shoulder charge above the rest. Have a few tracks which we're sitting tight on for the moment, including killer collaborations with Welsh Hip-hop legend Junior Disprol from Dead Residents and Martin Carr from the Boo Radleys (aka Brave Captain). But for now, check these absolute gems from the Forgotten Mnemonics EP...
Zwolf was once signed to Sound-Ink who released the Viktor Vaughn LP, and MF Doomwould indeed sound dope riding on this one. Unfortunately there's been no collaborations just yet.
Love the Timbalandproduced original of this from the Kizzaland Mixtape (mixed by Nick Catchdubs). This refix from Berlin's DJ Wool changes the vibe up, turning it into a somewhat brooding Electro House track. More feet to the floor than hands in the air but dope none the less.
The Last Skeptic just sent us this exclusive new version of a track from the super group Mongrel. It's part of a remix album he's currently putting together that will hopefully be dropping later on in the year.
Skeptic's also re-scheduled his Cardiff show with Kashmere and Verb Tthat fell victim to last months snow chaos. They will now be playing at The Globe on Saturday 25th April.
Couple of fresh mixes for the Electro heads amongst you here.
First is from those 'Whacky French Fu**ers' StereoHeroes who smash a bunch of twisted floor fillers into your face, bouncing between Breaks led bangers, full on jump up Jackers and Fidgety fun monsters.
What Planet Is This - Jesus Theme Aniki - Evil Nugget (Original Mix) Bass Weazal - Twisted Weazal (Original mix) Calvertron, Benga - Whoop (Rudder's There It Isn't Remix) Bulimiatron - Stab Attack (Dskotek's Woooo!!! remix) AC Slater - Jack Got Jacked (Udachi Remix) Gigi Barocco - Pumpin Up The Meter DJ Manaia - Pull Up Modeselektor - Kill Bill Vol.4 StereoHeroes - Fukt (Radio Edit) Djedjotronic - Gum Attack Fil OK - Wink Wink (Blende Remix) Imo B feat K. Sams - 2 Time to Play (1080p Remix) Joey Beltram - Game Form FutureFlashs - Get Down The Funk (Charlie Fanclub Remix) His Majesty Andre - Roxxx D-Bag - Up To The Boy (The Toxic Avenger Remix) Hot Pink Delorean & Fantastadon - Party Favour Metallica - Ride Lightning Vs Enter Sandman (IKKI Remix) StrAAAtch - Offend The Silence (Vocal Edit VS Missill) Utku Sonnez - Heart Attack (Pro7 Kiss My Ass Edit)
They've also dropped us a copy of their next remix for Mendel's Beatburger EP, which is released today on Place Blanche Records.
Next up is from Hagar, whose details are scarce except that he's from Haverfordwest and has put a dope mix together that's kept us bubbling hard for the last 21 minutes, so here it is.
AC Slater - Party Like Us Kanye West - Homecoming (Discotech Mix) Mikix The Cat - Wuz The Kills - Cheap And Cheerful (Fake Blood mix) Hostage - Snake Charmer Armand Van Helden - Shake That Ass (Drop The Lime Mix) Mowgli - Blow Up (Hijack Mix) Dynamite MC - What (Jack Beats Mix) Boyz Noize - Oh! (A-Trak Mix) Defunct! - Flashy Fidget Fame Sany Pitbull - Tribos Boy 8-bit - Frog Bank (Jack Beats Mix) Unkle - ? (Fake Blood Edit) Midfield General - Disco Sirens (Boy 8-bit Remix) Clark Able - Lemonhead (Hijack Mix) Lykke Li - Little Bit (Eke Whaaa Edit) Unicorn Kid - 80900000
Quite a jazzy, soulful affair for us Kids but lovin' the swing on this dreamy little slice of North London Street Funk from Eglo Records' new signing Shuanise Odunaiya, who says her music "is a fusion of everything I love: synth sounds, heavy bass, high frequencies, African choirs, crackling vinyl & talking drums". That could be why we love it too.
Besides my obvious woefulness at the loss of my girlfriend to the Himalayan peaks for 6 weeks (hey, our Chrome plating isn’t immune to feelings you know), there is an apparent bonus of not being sucked into 2 of Australia’s most caustic exports, Neighbours and Home & Away, for a valuable chunk of my life (I know just leave the room, but the devious little suckers just keep pulling you back in). Instead I shall concentrate on 2 of its finest exports, whom feed off each other in a wonderfully Electro-symbiotic relationship that brings danger to the dancefloor in the most wonderful of ways.
Act Yo Age release their new single Lucky 13 on the Sweat It Out label next week, just in time for Friday the 13th, although the track's more malevolent trickster than straight up evil slasher.
If you haven't picked up KillaQueenz single Bitches on Sweat It Out yet then sort it out. We’ve been rinsing the South Rakkas remix of hard but we’re as equally in love with this Ooh Ee re-rub which is just a touch more fun but no less filthy.
Caspa - Noise Disorganiser Richie August - Cloverfield DZ - End Dub Remix G man - Dont Be Afraid The Bug - Skeng Mungos Hifi - Dubplate Fi Dem Unknown - Big Up A Bun Her Bazzle - Kisses Unkown - Praise Jah Intent & Rare Dynamic - Dont Need No One Caspa - My Pet Monster Richie August - Hardstep Synkro - Music Makers (Bar 9 Remix)
Senseless Records just kicked in the door of Chrome Mansions waving a Four-Four in the shape of their first CD project Vocals and Versions Volumes 1 & 2. The Leeds bass junkies have gathered together some of their favourite artists (and ours come to that) such as: Warrior Queen; Foreign Beggars; Starkey; MRK1; King Cannibal; Crunc Tesla; and Rekordah to add a bit of extra spice to their already flavoursome in-house vocal productions from Sarantis, DeVille, Sasquatch and Ghosttown, that are camped mainly within the Dubstep region but spread out into the surrounding UK Bass music areas too.
The album will be released on two separate CDs, two vinyl EPs and digital download. Disc One gets Grimey with vocals from Sick Sense Cruand the Senseless residents, Asher Donand Dialect whilst they also show off their roots in the rich Leeds Soundsystem culture (which spawned such notables as Nightmares on Wax, LFO and Iration Steppas) with guest vocal slots from YT, Oova and Iration Steppas vocalist Bunnington Judah, whilst the ladies represent superbly with Warrior Queen, Honey Brown and Portuguese emcee Violet. There’s also Brazillian Dancehall artist Jimmy Luv, and Foreign Beggars who spit fire as always on Stay Seated, which obviously works on some reverse psychology tip cos I certainly found it hard to keep my arse in the chair whilst it was playing.
Remix duties are taken up by Starkey, Kanji Kinetic, fellow Leeds Dubstep don Jack Sparrowand a Dubbed out offering from Techno legend Billy Nastywhich certainly come as a pleasant suprise. .
This time remixes arrive courtesy of King Cannibal, MRK1, Bombaman from Canadian Dubstep duo Loetech, Hip-hop experi-mentalist Rekordah and Octa Push who joins his fellow Lisbon native Violet. This is probably my favourite Dubstep albums to drop in a long time, definitely worth grabbing if you like what you've heard so far. Here's a few full tunes from the collection to wet your appetite some more.
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