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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.


Download: DJ Moneyshot - Promo Mix Up April 2010

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


Solid Steel Radio Show 19/3/2010 Part 1 + 2 - Hexstatic by Ninja Tune

Reso - Hyperglide - Civil Music
Eskmo - Sister You Have Got To Listen - Mp3
George Lenton - Cold Rocker - Wicky Lindows
Hexstatic - Gammera (Akira Kiteshi Remix) - Lower Level Records
Akira Kiteshi - Pinball - Black Acre
Massive Attack - GirI I Love You (She Is Danger Remix) - Virgin
Gorrillaz - Stylo - EMI
Outputmessage - Glintz - Output Noise
Joy Orbison - The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow - Doldroms
Pantha Du Prince - Saturn Strobe - Dial
Groove Armada - Superstylin (Bassnectar Mashup) - Mp3
Justus Kohnocke - Yacht - Kompakt


Download: Kito - Knowledge Mix

01. Kito & Reija Lee - On The Jam
02. Cosmin TRG - Make Everything Alright
03. Worthy – Crack-El (Justin Martin's Stoopit Crunk-Lil Hyphy Mix)
04. Slevarance and Hackman – You And Me
05. Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction
06. Primary 1 - Outside (Kito Remix)
07. Uffie - MC's Can Kiss (Starkey Remix)
08. Kito - On The Floor
09. Kito featuring Reija Lee – LFO
10. DJ MADD - Corner Dance
11. Ruckspin & Quantum Soul - Venus Project
12. Vaccine - Cascade Failure
13. Cosmin TRG - Strobe Lick
14. Kito featuring Reija Lee - This City
15. Spor - Knock You Down (Eskmo Remix)
16. DJ MADD - Arpz3000
17. Pendulum - Watercolour (Emalkay Remix)
18. Joker - Taste The Rainbow
19. Skream - Amity Step
20. Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Breakage Tightrope Remix)
21. Starkey - Starting Gates
22. ModeSelektor - Prototypes
23. Emalkay – Crusader
24. Kito – Don't Wanna Lose You
25. Numan - She Said
26. Skream – Arola
27. Vaccine – Fever (Kito Remix)

Akira Kiteshi - Ming The Merciless (Hexstatic video edit) from Hexstatic presents TRAILER TRAX on Vimeo.

Gammera from Hexstatic presents TRAILER TRAX on Vimeo.

And if you think that's heavy, check out this building smashing, fire breathing, big beast stomping on your speaker type remix from Akira Kiteshi.

Hexstatic - Gammera (Akira Kiteshi Remix) by Akira Kiteshi

Plus Hexstatic have also hit us up with their latest mix, so good to see these boys are still completely on it. Can't wait to see their added visual representation of this kind of selection.

Download: Hexstatic - NoMix

01. Akira Kiteshi- Ulysees - Black Acre
02. Kalbata - We Are Ninja - White
03. Hudson Mohawk - Fuse - Warp
04. Zinc - Super Sharp Shooter (Bioscope remix) - White
05. Bassnectar - Art Of Revolution - Amorphous
06. George Lenton - Island In The Sun - White
07. Fever Ray - Seven (CSS remix) - Rabid
08. Kraftwerk - It's More Fun to Compute (Busy P remix) - White
09. Dave Spoon and DJ Zinc - Ghost Train - Televizion
10. Two Fingers - That Girl - Ninja Tune
11. Rustie - Zig Zag - Wireblock
12. Charles Wright - Do Your Thing (Lulu Rouge edit) - edit
13. Hexstatic - Gammera - White
14. Future Sound of London - We Have Explosives (remix) - white
15. Yuksek - I Could Never Be A Dancer - Universal

On a similar tip to the AK Kids EP we posted recently, Akira Kiteshi once more eschews the big brutal bass sound for a more atmospheric soundscape created from looped up reel to reels, outboard synths and old jazz vinyl, and again recorded in one take.

Download: Akira Kiteshi - Cheyne Stokes (zip)

Akira Kiteshi - Cheyne Stokes (Mini Album Free Download) by Akira Kiteshi

Much as we love a good speaker stomping beat and a gut wrenching bassline, it has to be said we were pleasantly surprised that the 3 track Free EP we just caught off the AK Kids (the original Akira Kiteshi pairing of Tommy Forrest and Steven Hyslop) is actually pretty far removed from Tommy's solo stuff. More of an atmospheric journey, a rhythmical soundscape of collected sounds and complimentary frequencies underlined with lush synths and overlayed with static, zen as f**k and recorded in just 3 hours in one take.

Download: AK Kids - Free EP (zip)

Download: AK Kids - Klitzing / alt link

We mentioned it before but it's finally dropped and it is indeed as weighty as we'd expected. One of our favourite genre descriptions for the crunked up bass tearing, digitally mutated Hip-hop sound has to be San Francisco all round champion of it An-ten-nae's offering of Acid Crunk, especially with us all being fans of the twisted 303 dirt that Acid House gave us and which definitely has its shadows in the Hip-hop hybrid.

Now for their 50th release, Muti Music drops part two in An-ten-nae's Acid Crunk compilation series. Already hitting number one in no less than 3 of the Beatport charts (Dubstep, Electronica and Chillout, although which crazy bastard has been chilling out to these sounds we have no idea) this is a big compilation indeed and features such chrome favourites as Ooah, Gemmy, Robot Koch and Akira Kiteshi, whose Ulysses track from the compilation made it onto our Knowledge Me mix and thanks to those kind fellas at Muti is included for you here. If that's your flavour then make sure you pick up the whole thing here.

Download: Akira Kiteshi - Ulysses / alt link


Also from our mix and a late contendor for tune of the year (or maybe an early one for tune of next year) is Starkey's new single on Planet Mu featuring Brummie emcee Badness who manages to make what is ultimately a gal tune sound credible and not cheesy despite some rather suspect lyrics (apparently he 'shows luv better than he says' let's hope so for the lady's sake). Helped of course in no small way by the fluid futuristic funk of the Philly Dubstep don. You can pick it up now here along with a few dope remixes including one from our very own Chrome compadre Stagga.

Representing them big, bass heavy Bwomp Beats over on the West Coast, Ev-1 hit us up with his latest Boomstep Mixtape, that kind of speaks for itself really. A well crafted mix of tracks stretching across current to classic, underground to unheard from some of our favourites such as An-ten-nae, Bassnectar, Akira Kiteshi, Mochipet, Rusko, Raffertie, Jayou, EPROM, DZ and Stagga (full tracklisting and download here).

We rolled in force down to Fabric in London on Friday to add some extra legs on the dancefloor for Stagga's set in the Rag & Bone room alongside Raffertie, Kanji Kinetic, noyeahno and Warlock. Some heavy sets from all which pretty much kept us posted in that room except for getting lost on the way to the bar / toilet / smoking area a few times and getting kinda nutty to DJ Hype tearing it down in one of the other rooms.

Next night we touched down at Cardiff's new regular club gathering for all things dutty, electronic and bass heavy, Music By Numbers, which also saw Raffertie's first visit to the city with appearances from the likes of Foamo, Mumdance, Schlacthofbronx, Detboi, Toddla T and Squire Of Gothos all lined up for the future.

As good an excuse as any to post these two recent mixes from the big bouncing ball of banging bonkers beats that is Raffertie. The first was posted on the Fabric First blog as a promo for the night and the other was recorded for Rob Da Bank & Friends on BBC Radio 1 a couple of weeks back.

(SS) Raffertie - Fabric Mix

Tracklisting:

01. Intro
02. Stagga - Face Gets Splat
03. Toasty - The Knowledge (Untold Remix)
04. R1 Ryders - Rubberband
05. Raffertie - Temper Temper
06. L-Vis 1990 - United Groove
07. Raffertie - Sequence Thinking
08. Raffertie - 7th Dimension
09. Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Numan's Zapper Remix)
10. Joker & Ginz - RE-UP
11. Raffertie - Doves
12. Stagga - Sick As Sin (Ultra V.I.P.)
13. Starkey - Creature
14. Raffertie - Vomit Riddim
15. Starkey - Fidelio
16. Outro

This delicious new Stagga track was also posted as a promo for the night.

(YSI) Stagga - Robotomy / alt link


(SS) Raffertie - Rob Da Bank & Friends Mix

Tracklist:

01. Raffertie - Hole
02. Kanji Kinetic - Deep Down South
03. The Squire of Gothos - Old Skool Shit
04. Raffertie - Pumping Like Reeboks
05. Diplo & Laidback Luke - Hey (Foamo Remix)
06. Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy (The Artful Dodger Remix)
07. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby (Acapella)
08. Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On
09. Aretha Franklin - Deeper Love (Acapella)
10. Benga & Coki - Night
11. 2 Unlimited - Tribal Dance
12. George Michael - Freedom (Raffertie Re-Edit)
13. 2 Unlimited - Let The Beat Control Your Body
14. Fragma - Toca's Miracle (Raffertie Re-Edit)
15. 16 Bit - Panic
16. Dubwise - Pull Up
17. Reso - Smash Your Face In
18. Reso vs. VENT - Rumble
19. Raffertie - Eyes Closed
20. Jakes - Rock The Bells
21. Joker & Ginz - Purple City
22. Starkey - Starting Gates
23. Akira Kiteshi - Boom N Pow (Raffertie Remix)
24. Raffertie - Vomit Riddim
25. Akira Kiteshi - Ming The Merciless
26. Raffertie - Antisocial (B. Rich Remix)
27. Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This (Raffertie Remix)
28. Raffertie - Stomping Grounds VIP
29. Raffertie - Sugar
30. Outro

Just before the Raffertie mix was this equally filthy selection from A1 Bassline.

(ZS) A1 Bassline - Rob Da Bank & Friends Mix

1. Robot Koch & Cerebral Vortex - Aftershocks (Robots Don't Sleep)
2. Don Diablo & Example - Hooligans (Doorly's Dubstep Remix) (Sony)
3. DJ Vadim ft 5Nizza & Big Red - Soldier (BBE)
4. Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers (Doorly Remix)/ YSI
5. PANTyRAID - Beba (Marine Parade)
6. High Rankin - No Money For Guns (Cheap Thrills)
Stagga ft Juakali - Science Of Skank (Chrome Kids)
7. Monkey - Draw (Promo)
8. George Lenton - Island In The Sun (Promo) / YSI
9. Bassnectar - Superstylin'(Promo) / YSI
10. Akira Kiteshi - Lorraine Kelly (Black Acre)
11. Kyza - Go (Dented)
12. Bretzel Zoo - Don't Let The Rain Come In Your Ass (Eat Concrete)
13. Harmonic 313 feat Phat Kat and Elzhi - Battlestar (Remix) (Warp)
14. Paul White - Alien Nature / YSI
15. Slugabed - Gritsalt (RAMP)
16. Major Lazer ft Mr Lexx & Santigold - Hold The Line (an-ten-nae Remix) / YSI
18. DJ Zinc - SuperSharpShooter(Biscope Dubstep Remix) (Promo) / YSI
19. Jantsen - gLitchez & hoeZ (Promo) / Direct Link
20. Sub-Versive - Vive La Punk (Promo)/ YSI

image by Mudwig

The latest podcast from seminal Bass, Glitch and Beats show Electronic Explorations has one of our current favourite crews in for a guest mix and it is HUGE. With all the (deserved) hype surrounding Glasgow - Akira Kiteshi are holding it down for the Scottish capital of Edinburgh with some of the phattest and most phucked up tracks around. Their mix includes some of their own exclusives plus sounds from the likes of Rustie, Starkey and Bassnectar... Get the full track listing and live stream here.

(Direct Link) Electronic Exlorations: 071 - Akira Kiteshi


New York rapper Elucid just leaked us a dangerous Kode 9 remix from his forthcoming Sub Bass Diet E.P. Just picked up some killer tracks off his Myspace page too so gonna post some choice cuts up once we've given them a proper rinsing.

(YSI) Elucid - Laser Days (Kode 9 Remix) / alt link


Also out of New York, Sub Swara set the scene for their forthcoming Sub City Sessions at Le Poisson Rouge on April 24th (w/ The Glitch Mob, Lazer Sword, Sub Swara & Ana Sia) with the latest edition of the Sub Swara Podcast on iTunes. Definitely worth subscribing if you haven't already.

(iTunes) Sub Swara Podcast: 5th Edition


You might have noticed this track near the top of our recent chart, The Last Skeptic has smashed it once again with this Dubstep meets Hip-hop remix of leftfield pop starlet Marina And The Diamonds. Look out for more Skeptic remixes from Daniel Merriweather, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Mongrel (which we featured recently), The Game, Eslam Jawaad, Joe Budden and Lowkey which will be included in a remix album later in the year.

(YSI) Marina and the Diamonds - Mowglis Road (The Last Skeptik Remix) / alt link


Loving the new Gouseion EP on Run Riot but nobody does their releases verbal justice more than the label themselves...

"Gouseion back on the missile-test range with More Friends For The Fire, a razors-open titanium jigsaw puzzle EP. Applying more pressure to the squared off rhythms of RRR avantclub, MFFTF takes the compressions of modern electro saws and the dizzy, sweeping drops of hyphy into physically treacherous arenas."

Exactly.

(YSI) Gouseion - We're In High School / alt link


Mary Anne Hobbs didn't make it in to do her show this week as she got stuck on a broken down train, but it did give a great opportunity to catch up on some of the mixes we've missed in the past from: Nosaj Thing, Mono/Poly; Hyetal; Ras G; Ben Klock and Appleblim @ Bloc. Can still listen again on the BBC iPlayer for the next few days.


Regular readers to the blog should know about Troublemaker by now, but the first time we caught him was on a remix of Camp Lo's Luchini alongside fellow Hollyrock co-hort Tatelarock, know they bring double trouble once more to De La Soul's classic Oooh, a timewarping fusion of Hip-hop eras that takes the focus off the floor and turns it into a subtle Electro stepper.

(YSI) De La Soul - Oooh (Tatelarock and Troublemaker Remix) / alt link


Also taking it back whilst keeping that future flavour is this track from JDP, which has a similar feel to fellow Chi-Townites The Cool Kids. Guest vocals come from Swedish rapper Adam Tensta, who also featured on the Troublemaker remix of Nothing To Worry About which we posted up the other day (see the linkage working here).

JDP feat. Adam Tensta - Circa 1987 / alt link

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.

(ZShare) Raffertie - Bigger Than Barry Mixtape

Tracklisting:

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)

Big thanks to those who tuned in yesterday as we took over the BBC Introducing in Wales show for the night whilst Bethan Elfyn was away. We had a wicked session from Welsh electro rhyme duo The Binary Kids, a Mini mix from our very own Monkey & Stagga plus Dregz (aka Jason Camilleri from BBC Radio Wales), Ruffstylz and Don Leisure dropped into the studio also. The tracklisting is below with a few of tracks available for download (via YouSendIt) and you can listen to the show for the next week over at the BBC Radio 1 website. There were also a lot of artists we didn't get to play because of time, language and even 2 because of the War in Gaza but will chat more on that tomorrow.

Show Tracklisting

The Quemists ft. Wiley – ‘Dem Na Like Me (King Cannibal Remix)’ (White)
Shadow Law – ‘Da Law Rocks’ (White)
Silverlink ft. Jammer & Badness – ‘Message is Love (Mumdance Tropical 8bar Remix)’ (White)
DJ Power ft. Deeme, Jammie & Meanzee – ‘All 'Bout Da Money ’ (White)

In Session – Binary Kids
‘She Loves it’

Willo Wispa – ‘What Kind of Girls’ (Associated Minds)
Diverse Concepts – ‘Looking Everywhere Blind’ (White)

Daedelus on why he loves Wales
Daedelus – ‘Hrs:mins:secs’ (Ninja Tune)

Akira Kiteshi – ‘Pinball’ (Black Acre)

Monkey and Stagga live in the mix
Stagga – ‘Policeman get Hype’ (Rudeez)
Monkey – ‘Emmanuelle I Dub’ (White)
Magenta – ‘Cry Out’ (White)
Stagga – ‘Sick as Sin’ (Rag + Bone)
Monkey – ‘Theramon’ (White)
Stagga – ‘The LSD User’ (White)
Unknown Artist – ‘Aftermath Bootleg’ (White)
Monkey – ‘A Thought’ (White)

Mutumbo (Raffertie’s Bigger Bass Remake) – ‘Food for Animals’ (Cock Rock Disco)

Bethan Elfyn's tips from Australia
Afrirampo – ‘Oni-Pika Heart’ (Very Friendly)

PH Fat – ‘Jabu’s Dance Team’ (White)
Ben Sharpa – ‘Hegemony (DPlanet Remix)’ (Pioneer Unit)
Brothahood ft. Chico – ‘Cardiff’ (White)
Axon – ‘A Step Closer’ (White)
Lurk On Film ft. Matt Gamin – ‘Zombie Oasis’ (Lurk Music)

Binary Kids in Session
'Kit Kat'

Shystie – ‘New Style (Doc Nasty Remix)’ (Rat Records)
Robot Koch – ‘Sound Boy’ (White)
Magic Heart Genies – ‘Heartifact’ (White)
Don Leisure – ‘Subway Shampayne’ (White)
Kid Robot – ‘Shortin Circuit’ (White)
Edu K – ‘Sexomatic (Chesus n Rodski Remix)’ (White)