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Seeing as the snow has fucked up another one of my bookings this weekend, I thought I'd get back on the blogging...

Some of you may remember I made this back in 2009 as a DJ tool. After featuring it in my Discobelle and BBC 1Xtra mixes, and months of requests - here it is. Caspa's banger gets flipped into a breaks/booty bass number.

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).

Download: Damaged Good$ - $pread Love Not Germ$

Or if you want a little taster first here's a couple of the teacks in question.

Download: Damaged Good$ - I Remember / alt link

Download: Damaged Good$ - The Great Escape / alt link

We've had some great re-edit's of this recently from Moneyshot (110bpm Hip-hop style) and Parker (Where's My Monkey) and now it's time for Elite Force to flip it into a Breakstep monster to warm the winter dancefloors.

By know you should all be getting your neck snap on to Moneyshot's remix of Where's My Money, well not to be outdone by his long time partner in crime, Parker has also done this genius bootleg of said track mixed up with the Jungle Book classic King Of the Swingers, time to go bananas people!

Download: Parker - Where's My Monkey? / alt link

This track has been floating around for a while for those lucky enough to catch it but now it's the first official leak from Caspa's forthcoming album. We've always got a soft spot for Dynamite MC here at Chrome Kids, you're kind of guaranteed a beats gonna be banging if he's bothered to bless it. Thankfully after one or two disappointing excursions we're also pleased to say we wholly approve of this rather Crunkish offering from Caspa, who gives a spooky spin on it in keeping with his friendly ghost moniker.

Download: Caspa feat. Dynamite MC - The TakeOver / alt link

As this is mixed by Plastician and features artists such as Benga, Caspa, Starkey and Virus Syndicate, not entirely sure what constitutes it as an LA Dubstep album but maybe we're nit-picking and infact it's just an overview of what's big in LA, and make no mistake Dubstep is big in LA. If you needed any more convincing look at the list of West Coast Hip-hop big hitters who are jumping on board. Ras Kass, Xzibit and Big Snoop Dogg himself. We're not entirely sure who the Cashmere Agency are, and in which way they are presenting Mr. Grustle & Tha Russian but it does present a new era for Dubstep in the US.


Downloads:

Cashmere Agency Presents Mr. Grustle & Tha Russian's Dubstep LA Embrace The Renaissance Vol.1 Mixed By Plastician (zip)

MURS - Madhouse (prod. by Chase & Status) / alt link

Xzibit feat. U-N-I - So What (prod. by D1) / alt link

Ras Kass & 12th Planet - West Coast Dub / alt link

Snoop Dogg - Snoop Dogg Millionaire (prod. Chase & Status) / alt link

01. Deekline & Wizard - Bounce & Rebound (Bassnectar Remix)
02. Foamo - Wardance (Raffertie Remix feat. Shiftee Moova)
03. Tactical Thinking - That's Right Move
04. Kicks Like A Mule feat Ninjasonik – It’s Okay (Mumdance Remix)
05. Zion I - Geek to the Beat (Troublemaker Remix feat. The Deacon) (YSI)
06. Stagga – Timewarp (Kid 606 Remix)
07. Bassnectar - Cozza Frenzy
08. The Nextmen feat. Ms. Dynamite & Andy Cato- The Lion's Den
09. Ruckus & Roke - The Cutting Room VIP
10. Kids In Tracksuits feat. Mr Lif - Zone
11. Jack Beats – UFO
12. Grand Puba - Get It (Caspa's 80Eighties Remix)
13. Felt - Life Vegas (Tatelarock Remix) (YSI)
14. Figure & Flufftronix – Cunt Tongue
15. Caspa - Marmite (Cable VIP Re-Edit)
16. Robot Koch ft Mimi de la Boheme - People Are Strange
17. Hovatron – Gypsy Trader
18. Jon Kennedy - Space O Matic (Ben One's Flickers Vs Fleet Remix)
19. RQM – Barely Evil
20. LunyP - Like Dis like Dat (Bootleg) (YSI)

Image by San from Stolen Space Exhibition, Brick Lane, London.

Been after this Mini Mix from Caspa since we heard it in the Chrome Mobile a couple of weeks back. Thanks to Fried My Little Brain and the guys at Fabric who have a Dub Police take over happening on 17th April (see flyer), here it is.

(YSI) Caspa Mini Mix for Annie Mac (BBC Radio 1) / alt link

For the full tracklisting and an exclusive new Caspa track, head on over to Fried My Little Brain.

Just got back from the Bloom Festival somewhere in Gloucestershire, UK. As with most festivals I end up at there was plenty of bimbling round and not much music listening but did manage to catch a couple of good sets that actually penetrated my 5 minute limit attention span.

As I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be deejaying in Cardiff Saturday night (I was... but found out too late - shit) and the rain, wind and cold, alongside a soon departing girlfriend (just for 2 weeks but still) were starting to tug all 4 corners of my come down even further, I wandered over to try and get a lift back to the city with High Contrast who was presently rocking the Fly 53 tent (and to see him play naturally).

Armed with only a (not so) white puffer suit stolen from a GLC tour; with no idea who had the keys to the van where I'd hidden my tunes; and a borrowed tent still full of stuff, it was probably not the best idea to leave, so luckily by the end of his set I had perked up slightly anyway. It's been a while since I've heard HC play but he always manages to do the trick, although it wasn't til he dropped the Caspa Remix of TC's 'Where's My Money', a demonoid Dubstep stompfest, that he truly had hold of my soul strings... I decided to stay in the field and brave it out for another day.

Good job I did cos I hadn't noticed that Caspa himself was due to be playing the next day in a back to back session with Benga. So after dressing in my Sunday best and visiting Church (of the inflatable kind – sadly deflated due to the weather so services were taking place in the Wedding Disco next door) to drop some rather unholy tunes of my own, I went to see what was occurring in the Funk Tent opposite. Seems that a large portion of the Bloom’s criminally under capacity crowd had the same idea (and rightly so – that’s not the kind of set that you get everyday).



Manoeuvring through the mass of K holed crustified kids from the upper ghettos of Bath and Bristol I set myself speaker side for one of the toughest Dubstep sets this century, I’m not gonna bother giving a tune by tune account, if you weren’t there then hard luck, but both fed off each other nicely as they dropped bomb after bomb, many of their own making as would be expected. I didn’t quite reach the end (but that’s to be expected also) still I was marginally more satisfied than I had been up til then thanks to that quick double dose of Dubstep’s finest. Even the poor guys who had snuck in to the festival hoping to catch a live set from Beenie Man (they might well have been getting confused with Beardyman who was apparently there) would have been happy with the level of ragoness – except I think they’d been thrown out again by then.



I actually only heard the ‘Where’s My Money’ remix last week whilst working in Area 41, a youth arts centre in the rough South Wales seaside town of Barry (or Bazra to many locals), where a hungry young group of local emcees were tearing the mic apart. One of them (R Dott) played me the track through his phone that he’d ripped off YouTube, sounded good then but I was thankful to hear it through the DMT boys fat speakers at Bloom (twice), there’s no substitution for quality (and loudness) with such tunes believe me. Still I’m grateful to R Dott for introducing it to me so as both Benga and Caspa declined to let me put up any of their tunes, here’s one from him.

(YSI) R Dott, Young C & Fusion - Grime Time Remix

And in case you missed it, here's a mix that Caspa did for the Future Breaks show on San Franciso's University Station KUSF from late last year.

Caspa Dubstep Mix on Future Breaks FM