By now, those of you with a penchant for gnarly basslines and swaggering bruiser beats may well have picked themselves up a copy of the new Timestretch EP from the West Coast master of such stylesBassnectar, which was due out this week but dropped early as it escaped from the Beatport cage like the Kracken in Clash Of The Titans. If you haven't got a copy then read no further, run over to here now and grab it (along with special DJ tools, bonus tracks, and bundle packs) before coming back and enjoying this delicious bootleg of the title track which features vocals from Nelly Furtado's Turn Out The Lights
Mondays can be a vicious circle sometimes. We like to post these mixes to help you through this most difficult of days but after a heavy weekend it's tricky to get the motivation up to do that. However, with the help of these same mixes we managed to pluck up enough of our reserve energy banks and last few remaining braincells to bring you: A new DJ Moneyshot mix that will make you want to relive the weekend all over again; also another pair of Solid Steel family members, Hextatic have a mix to promote their new single Gammera which features big remixes from George Lenton and Akira Kiteshi (pick up a copy for just £1.50 here); and Aussie Dubstep diva Kito serves up a new Knowledge mix (there's also an accompanying interview).
If this hasn't quenched your thirst for music then the fantastic mixtape resource Mixcloud have just created a new Dubstep / Bass features section with some great mixes by the likes of Bassnectar, Terror Danjah, Oneman and a certain group of Chrome nippers.
01. Halcali - Peek-A-Boo 02. DJ Moneyshot - Mucky Wizbang 03. Toddla T - Do U Know (instrumental) 04. Casual - That’s How it is (acapella) 05. Don Diablo feat. Example - Pussycat Too 06. A.Skillz - Twang Banger 07. Stevie Wonder - Superstition (J-Roc of the Sould Out DJs remix) 08. Skibadee - Tika Toc (DJ Moneyshot 110 remix) 09. Profisee - Foolz Thinkin’ 10. The Johnny Otis Show - The Watts Breakaway 11. Funkdoobiest - Bubble Butts 12. Big M - Hot Cowgirl 13. Riva Starr - I Was Drunk (Solly remix) 14. Jesse Rose - Touch My Horn (Mad Kids remix) 15. Dire Straits - Money For Nothing (PulpFusion remix) 16. Jay’s Soul Connection - Frank’s Party Life 17. Bassnectar - Superstylin’ Smashup 18. High Rankin - Pimp and Gambler 19. The Benga Boys - Crunk World 20. Hayseed Dixie - I Love Rock & Roll
Many scoff at the idea of live Dubstep saying its alomst a contradiction in terms but there are a few guys who pull it off well. Jazzsteppa are most definitely up there in the top, but not to be slept on are the Engine-Earz Experiment boys who we caught at Glastonbury last year. Here's their new tune which we plucked from the excellent Suspect Packages site.
We’ve been keeping an eye on Texan rhymers Damaged Good$ since their fantastic but seemingly overlooked project with Xrabit. They showed then that they have an ear for a dope beat and now they've proved themselves beyond the call of duty with their new 'mixtape' in which they ride a bunch of killer tracks from the likes of Hudson Mohawke, Rustie and Caspa (his Deadmau5 remix).
We've been looking forwards to the new Metabeats and Mudmowth LP for longer than is polite to have to anticipate anything but looks like the wait is nearly over and it ain't gonna be pretty. The first sign of impending destruction comes in the shape of this controlled explosion from a fearsome foursome. Riding the stutter funk production is three of the UK's finest: Sonnyjim, Mudmowth and Skamma and this tune gives us that warm evil feeling inside like lacing your mate's toilet paper with chilli powder.
Today marks the release of the new Deceptikon album on Daly City Records. Mythology of the Metropolis is a genre-hopping, bass-heavy epic, equally suited for the home stereo and dance floor alike.
Created primarily while Wright was living in Japan, the album is described as an extended love letter to the city of Tokyo. Over three years in the making, it features such diverse guest artists as He Can Jog, Copy, Oly, and Vincent Parker.
"Mythology of the Metropolis Promo Mix" MP3:Stream/download.
This mix also contains the future garage track Baduka from Metabeats' alter ego Chesus and fellow Barry dweller Diverse Conceptswhich we posted earlier and is looking at getting a release sometime soon through Ten Thousand Yen.
This week on the Chrome Mansion's stereo are our Swansea bredren Doc Daneeka has a new EP ready to drop but before that hits the streets he's the latest heartbeat in FACT Magazine's pulse locating finger mixes; on the lower reaches of the BPM scale, Candian Turbo Crunk pioneer Hovatron has put together a phat selection of neck snapping beats for the Lowriders Collective (we should be playing with those guys in Bristol sometime in April so look out for that one); and Baobingaproves his bass seeking, floor filling prowess once again with a big bag a dubz n stuff from his Build label and assorted high ranking amigos.
Doc Daneeka – Doc Daneeka is a Zombie (Dub) Martyn – Friedrichstrasse (Fabric) SBTRKT – 2020 (forthcoming Brainmath) Julio Bashmore – Batak Groove (forthcoming Soul Motive) Yollanda Be Cool – Villalobos For President (Dubbel Dutch Remix) (dub) Mujava - Mugwanti / Sgwejegweje Doc Daneeka – Deadly Rhythm (forthcoming PTN001) Warrior One – King Riddim Venom and Damage – Deeper (Doc Daneeka Remix) (forthcoming Ten Thousand Yen) R1Ryders – Hydraulic (forthcoming R1 Ryders) Bassjackers & Apster – Klambu Round Table Knights – Calypso (Made to Play) Zombie Disco Squad – Esperanto (Solo Remix) (Sound Pallignero) T Williams – Afrik (forthcoming Local Action) DJ Gregory + Sidney Samson - Dama S Salon (Defected) Delphic – Doubt (Doc Daneeka VIP) (Tres Cool) Killa P – Police A Come Run (E10 Riddim/ Rossi B and Luca) (forthcoming Planet Mu) Hot City – Sweat (Ramp) Wookie – Flex (S2S Recordings) Deadboy – Unofficial Girl (forthcoming Well Rounded) Chesus & Diverse Concepts – Baduka (forthcoming Ten Thousand Yen) Julio Bashmore – Footsteppin’ (forthcoming Ten Thousand Yen) Doc Daneeka feat. Mayor Man – like a fool (Dub)
So as some of you might have noticed from my twitterings, we have banned the words d**ty and f*lthy from our vocabulary. They've become far too easy an adjective for the music on these pages. Of course stankin' is still allowed and that is certainly one way of describing this new Sticky K remix.
Always heavy on the beats whether they be phat crunked up remixes, Electro bootlegs or glitched out Hip-hop productions for some of his West Coast compadres on the mic side of the fence, our boy Troublemaker now has a new project with rapper Killer Reese One that combines the whole package into one f'king fantastic duo. Here's the new track from King Fantastic.
Okay so that might have been overstatement of the century, lets face it he never was actually the greatest. Possibly the best on Bad Boy but then Diddy had a habit of signing up really shit rappers (if like us you caught the London show on the mix below you will no doubt remember how truly s**t that loveable crackhead Craig Mackactually was live), probably so he wouldn't look so bad when he tried to rap himself. Still Biggie wasn't too bad with a mic and made some classic tunes now and then, most of which are here on this 'tribute' mix by DJ MK.
PARTY N BULLSHIT BLEND -ONE MORE CHANCE HIP HOP RMX MARY J BLIGE - REAL LOVE RMX HERB ALBERT - RISE HYPNOTIZE UNBELIEVABLE KICK IN THE DOOR GIMMIE THE LOOT DREAMS MR CEE FREESTYLE THINK BIG JUICY WHO SHOT YA DEAD WRONG BIG POPPA ISLEY BROTHERS - BETWEEN THE SHEETS JUNIOR MAFIA - PLAYERS ANTHEM JUNIOR MAFIA - GET MONEY WARNING WEST COAST FREESTYLE MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS BIGGIE SMALLS LIVE AT HAMMERSMITH PALAIS LONDON APRIL1995 FLAVOR IN YA EAR RMX ONE MORE CHANCE
Picking the actual greatest rapper of all time is blatantly an impossibility unless you're the sort of person who believes that there's one meaning to life and one path to God, or that blue smarties tasted better because you didn't get them all the time. Marketing ploys aside we could probably do a list of bloody good rappers if we could be arsed and one rapper who would certainly be on that is Gift Of Gab, who shall be playing with our boy Ruffstylz (who believes he once spat the 'greatest verse in Hip-hop', to less applause then Biggie admittedly but hey mi vida es su vida) this Friday at Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff. He is also on this incredibly dope track from Nick Andre and E da Bos.
The EP also features Marc Stretch (of Foreign Legion), Bicasso (of Living Legends) andZ-Man (of One Block Radius). Here's a link to the EP and a video for the title track.
For those of you loving the new Staggavideo, a special treat indeed as we bring you a whole mix (including Dirty Sydney) from the mini Malkovich himself with plenty of his own productions and remixes plus some family and friends also; also another of our Cardiff bredrens Ill Diddy from Brothahood has been in our radar for a while but has been sadly under represnted up on here. However it wasn't until a recent party scorched early morning session that we experienced the full magic of his mixes... twice. We have his latest hyper-chilled Future garage / Dubstep outing for you, unfortunately no tracklist so you're just gonna have to sit and wonder what the hell those tunes are; lastly to follow on from their killer new mash up earlier we have a newHavocNDeedmix that is seriously weighty business indeed and stomps around the spectrum from Dubstep to Hulk Hop, Old Skool Rave to Old Skool Garage...HUGE.
1) Barrington Levy - Murderer (HavocNdeeD DuB) 2) Bob Marley - Exodus (HavocNdeeD RemiX) 3) Johnny Osbourne - Ice Cream Love 4) Borgore - Ice Cream 5) Hulk - Pixiedust (King Remix) 6) Joker - City Hopper 7) Lea Luna - Leaving For Mars (B. Rich Remix) 8) Get Busy Committee - I Don't Care About You (HavocNdeeD RemiX) 9) Ultrablack - It's Showtime 10) HavocNdeeD - Bass4YaFace 11) B. Rich - We Ball Harder (HavocNdeeD RemiX ft. original congas by Randy Herbert) 12) Cloud 9 - You Got Me Burnin' 13) Skream - Burnin' 14) 2 Bad Mice - Bombscare 15) Doctor P - Sweet Shop 16) Altern 8 - Respect Is Due (Breakbeat Hysteria Mix) 17) Julissa Veloz - Take Control (HavocNdeeD RemiX) 18) Roni Size Reprazent ft. Bahamadia - New Forms 19) N.W.A. - DopemaN (HavocNdeeD RemiX) 20) N.W.A. - Boyz-N-Da-Hood (Heretic Remix) 21) Remarc - Single Finga Killa 22) Major Lazer - Pon Di Floor (Camo UFO's Remix) 23) Q Project - Champion Sound 24) DJ Connie & Bizzy B - Crowd Says Rewind (VIP Mix) 25) Million Stylez - Miss Fatty (MIR Crew Remix) 26) The Qemists - Dem Na Like Me (King Cannibal Remix) 27) Breakage ft. Roots Manuva - Run 'Em Out 28) Stagga - Beeps Get Down 29) Sade - Soldier Of Love (Kastle Remix) 30) The Pixies - Where Is My Mind? (Bassnectar Remix) 31) HavocNdeeD - Roll Call 32) Tinie Tempah - Pass Out 33) Dirtyphonics - Vandals 34) Reid Speed & Mike Balance ft. Sporty-O - Motion 35) Kastle - You Got the Love 36) DJ Luck & MC Neat - Master Blaster 2000 37) MJ Cole - Sincere (Nero Remix) 38) HavocNdeeD ft. Skaught Parry - Headspin 39) Terror Fabulous - Gangster's Anthem (HavocNdeeD DuB)
Another killer refix for you here from HavocNDeed, fast becoming one of our favourite pair of pile driving beat purveyors. This one takes the NWA classic Dopeman through a range of tempo changes, stomping from 140 to 180 to 90. Most useful indeed.
The fellas have a new release on Play Me records called Headspin with a bunch of remixes and this big vocal mix that could easily find itself gate crashing daytime radio playlists.
Those ever prolific connoisseurs of Bass I.D. & Baobinga have just dropped a killer album of tuneage that covers those areas of speaker destroying music that are hard to pin down to one genre (unless you want to bung it all under the umbrella of Funkycrunkbreakstep... but that's just silly). You can pick up the whole lot for whatever you wish to pay (all proceeds to charity) over at their excellent Bass Music Blog but here's a couple of our favourites.
Also from the Bass Music crew isHeavyFeet who launch a new label this week called Stamp! Beats. To celebrate they're giving away this Roisin Murphy refix.
In the ever murky marriage of art, music and corporate sponsorship it has to be said one company are showing themselves to be remarkably in tune with where the money should be going and that's Red Bull. Suddenly theirRed Bull Music Academy seems to be everywhere: music workshops with some of the industry's top names; recording studios across the globe; some of the best line ups imaginable in their live events; and even free daily papers in London. There's a whole conversation that needs to be had regarding this and we'd love to hear your thoughts but for now we can't help but give a mention to their upcoming event with Brainfeeder next Wednesday. The line up is ridiculous.
This should really be experienced live but just incase (like us who shall be making do with Nosaj Thing at Start The Bus in Bristol on Tuesday) you can't make it the great thing about these events is they're all recorded for RBMA Radio. There's absolutely loads of incredible music on there, right now we're listening back to their Culture Clash event with a Sound System show down between Soul II Soul, Trojan Soundsystem, DMZ (Digital Mystikz and Loefah) and Metalheadz (Goldie & Co) all hosted by Don Letts (who drops a killer special of Riot Music). Here's the links to each part of the night.
We're still waiting for them to upload the set we caught from Andreya Triana in Bristol at the weekend. The new Ninja Tune signee performed a stunning version of the classic Eurythmics track Sweet Dreams and her live version of Tea Leaf Dancers (the track she recorded withFlying Lotus) was just beautiful. Her solo Sonar performance from 2007 is available to listen to here but it's without live band and not quite as confident as the Bristol show. Still worth a listen mind. Also, her new single drops April 5th, here's a little taster...
David Starfire hit us up with this quadruple genre splicing mash up, not really a stomper but could work as a dope intro build up. Big tunes abound plus he's added a touch of his Indian flavour to the mix too.
Speaking of Mr Starfire, we have to say we're most definitely feeling this promo video for top bellydancer Sharon Kihara which uses his track Sitarfire.
Rather apt that it took us til St David's Day to upload our Welsh bass music mix for BBC 1Xtrato Mixcloud. If you haven't downloaded it yet take 20 minutes to go have a listen. Nearly alll the artists are from our home town of Cardiff and this scene is buzzing right now. There's no 'sound' to our city as such, but that diversity is what makes it so good. We shall all be back in the motherland next Monday for a gig at Buffalo with Rusko so if you're in the area make sure you reach.
Also whilst we're on a Mixcloud tip here's some of our favourite recent mixes from the site: First is DJ ID from the excellent Bass Music Blog setting something of a marker for where Breaks / Bass music is at right now; some hyper-filth from Kanji Kinetic courtesy of the Trouble & Basscrew; and BBC Radio 1 keep things moving even quicker than we do with two of their mini-mixes from SBTRKT and Four Tet.
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