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To celebrate the fact that Daedelus shall be coming over to see us on March 11th we are giving away 2 pairs of tickets to the gig (which also features Darkhouse Family and Mr Healan - whose new mix has been firmly lodged in our CD player for a few days now) as well as 2 signed copies of 'Love To Make Music To' which the lovely chaps at Ninja Tune have kindly given us. To enter the competiton (UK only sorry guys, we're skinflints on postage), simply tell us which Daedelus album name checks a region of Wales.

Read a great Daedelus interview with the Electronic Music Wales blog.

Answers along with name, address and whether you'd prefer CD or tickets to: chromekids@gmail.com

Alternatively if you don't want to risk not winning and missing the show, you can buy tickets.

Download: Daedelus - We All Have Magical Properties

Tracklisting:

*Arcane Information Throughout*
01 James Pants – Seven Seals Theme
02 Siouxsie & the Banshees – Spellbound
03 Machinedrum – Nastyfuckk
04 Toro Y Moi – You Hid
05 Robot Koch – Threats
06 Ad Bourke – One For Me
07 Stagga – Timewarp
08 Teebs – Anchor Steam
09 Dj Rashad – Who Da Coldest
10 Rudi Zygadio – Filthy Logic
11 Jon Wayne – Tears pt. 2
12 Mustard Pimp – Pigeon Flu
13 Stagga – Genik Ridim
14 Daedelus – Fair Weather Friends
15 Animal Collective – Loch Raven
16 Trolley Snatcha – Circle K
17 Bjork – Joga (Strings& Vocal mix)
18 Drake – Fancy
19 AC Slater – Calm Down
20 The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever
21 LDFD – Outta Control
22 Lorn – Army of Fear
23 Untold – I Can’t Stop This Feeling
24 NastyNasty – The Reef
25 Captain Hands – Spell on U

Where is everyone? by darkhouse family

Last of the fuckers. by Mr Healan

Daedelus "Righteous Fists of Harmony" from DestroyRockMusic Inc. on Vimeo.

A Scribble Jam winner and Low End Theory host, NoCanDo is no stranger to those with any kind of connection to the current West Coast scene, so it's perhaps a little surprising then that his debut full length is only just upon us. Dropping courtesy of Daddy Kev's Alpha Pup label and with a producer line up that includes the likes of Nosaj Thing, Daedelus, Free the Robots and Thavius Beck, we were obviously excited about this album before it even hit the player. It doesn't dissapoint either, one of the most well rounded Hip-hop albums for a long time Nocando switches up styles, flows and deliveries in a way that truly showcases his long term love of the music without having his nostalgia chip jammed in any particular heyday. From crunked up club bangers to more instrospective head nodders, this is serious business which never takes itself too seriously.

The West Coast Hip-hop scene has always been a diverse and divided bag of noise. From classic Gangsta Rap to the Good Life Cafe attendees back in the late 80s and 90s, or Bay Area Hyphy and the kind of artists who grace the upper echelons of Low End Theory. Although this album is perhaps a little too grown up to truly cross over and a little too contemporary for the traditionalists, it joins the dots for the current scenes well and in many ways brings everything else up to date. Grab it!

Jimmy The Lock is out on Alpha Pup from January 26th but we have a copy of the new single for you here.

Download: NoCanDo - Hurry Up and Wait (produced by Nobody) / alt link

First up Pete Concrete gives us an insight into his leftside listening habits which shows some of the inspiration between the top choices he makes for the releases on his own Eat Concrete imprint (Take, Herrmutt Lobby, Bretzel Zoo, Aardvarck, etc); Next we have many a twisted turn in Lazyboy's (fyi - not our hombre Rob Da Bank, Dan Carey or the dude from Aqua) mix of 'Future Step, Cosmic Garage and Chip Tune Grime'; and finally El-Mahdy R brings us our first mixtape from Turkey which is more in the straight up Dubstep realm but which, like all the mixes today stays warm and grown up but with more than a hint of youthful mischeviousness and just a touch of menace.



Download: Pete Concrete - PLUG TWO (zip)

Tracklist:

01. Meat Beat Manifesto - Happiness Supreme - Run Rec
02. MIA - Pull Up The People - untitled
03. Dimlite - Ravemond's Young Problems - Rush Hour
04. The Chap - Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley - Ghostly
05. Low Limit - The Club - cdr
06. Blackalicious - Kalakuta Show - MCA
07. Fulgeance - Ann Arbor - One Handed Music
08. The Normal - TVOD - Mute
09. Daedelus - Missing - Mush
10. DJ Shadow - Bring Madlib Up - Ninja Tune
11. squarepusher - Body Builder - Warp
12. Klute - Evo Sniffer - Commercial Suicide
13. µ-Ziq - Burst Your Arm - Planet Mu
14. Mr. Scruff - Ug - Ninja Tune
15. Hearin' Aid - It's A Bwoy - Eat Concrete
16. Debruit - Sole's Sweat (instrumental) - Civil Music
17. Nosaj Thing - IOIO - Alpha Pup
18. BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Dr. Who - BBC
19. Mika Vainio - Galaxies - Sähkö
20. Funckarma - stub dane - FUNCK
21. Urban Tribe - RNA World - Rephlex
22. Aphex Twin - Inkey$ - Warp
23. Luke Vibert - Belief File - Planet Mu
24. Martyn - Vancouver - 3024
25. Black Dog - Tunnels rmx - Soma
26. Meat Beat Manifesto - Guns 'n Lovers - Planet Mu
27. Kenlo Craqnuques - Zoid - Rush Hour
28. The Orb - EDM - Universal
29. Twinnie - Waitin for my love - Cheap
30. Plastikman - Ping Pong Novamute
31. !!! - Pardon My Freedom rmx - Touch And Go
32. Hexstatic - Invader - Ninja Tune
33. Balil - Parasight - Rising High


Eight Drops To Crystal Mix by lazyboy

Tracklist:

01. Eskmo - San Francisco (The Rhythm)
02. Untold - Anaconda
03. Boemklatsch - Bonafied (Eric de Man remix)
04. Untold - Sweat (Original Mix)
05. Untold - I Can't Stop This Feeling
06. Zomby - One Foot Ahead of The Other
07. Martyn - Hear Me
08. Brackles - Get A Job
09. Skepta - Disguise Ft. JME And Jammer
10. Mount Kimbie Sketch on Glass + Skepta- Amsterdam Skit
11. Rustie - Bad Science
12. Slugabed - Gritsalt



El-Mahdy R. - Headstrong Selection Vol1 by El-Mahdy R.

Tracklist:

01 eymen koçlar - gitmeseydin
02 silkie - techno22
03 brackles - get a job
04 beyonce - Say My Name (Robot_Kochs_Birthday_Remix)
05 natasha - Ildebrand I byen (2000f remix)
06 groove armada - superstylin (bassnectar remix)
07 taz buckfaster - kingston bridge
08 tempa t -next hype (starkey remix)
09 fuat - night day feat yener
10 rsd - forward youth

Today saw the release of Peaceblaster: The New Orleans Make It Right Remixes, with 30 big name remixers including the likes of Chrome Kids favourites Daedelus, Glitch Mob, Lazer Sword & Flying Skulls donated their time and skill (along with many of the other people involved with the album) to expertly re-craft a bunch of STS9 tracks with all of the proceeds from sales going to Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation.

Go buy it now!

(YSI) STS9 - Hidden Hand, Hidden Fist (The Flying Skulls Feat. Abstract Rude Remix) / alt link

(also available on the incredible forthcoming Flying Skulls album, but more of that later)

STS9 Metameme (Alex B Concepts Remix) / alt link

The Daly City don of digitally crunked up dirt and devastation, Mochipet, is back with a new album that's more raw to the core than anything that's come before.

Where as Microphonepet was largely about big beats for the guests to ride on and to be honest Bunnies & Muffins pretty much snuck past us, Master P On Atari is all about gargantuan beats that are so in your face it would be impossible to ignore. They've literally taken over and they're pissed off, ready to trample buildings and fling trucks about. The sound is probably best described by taking random words from the track titles, such as: Hyphy; Turbo; Sumo; Robo; Crunk; Bass; Ghetto; Godzilla; and straight up Full Frontal Face Melt.

Master P On Atari is out July 4th on Daly City. Here's a track from the album...

(YSI) Mochipet - Turbo Thizz Petnation / alt link

Plus if like us you need to play catch up slightly, here's a track from the Bunnies & Muffins album, featuring the delightfully dapper genius of Daedelus.

(YSI) Mochipet feat Daedelus - Spring / alt link

XLR8R Magazine have an incredible mix from Kid 606 currently up on their website. Over an hours worth of funked up filthy bass heavy Electronic beats ranging from DJ Nasty to Drop the Lime and Rustie to Dexplicit with a few of his own freakishly phat productions thrown into the 47 track deep mix for good measure.

Kid 606 - Megachurch Meltdown @ XLR8R

(YSI) Kid 606 - Mr Wobbles Nightmare / alt link


Also up on the site is a Top 20 of their most popular April MP3 downloads with the Robot Koch mix of Th' Mole's How 2 B Cool from our latest Fre-Release single holding the top spot! We've included a few of our other choicest cuts below, but for a full phat selection including Ras G, Mochipet and Mr Lif head over to XLR8R.com now.

(YSI) Nosaj Thing - Coat Of Arms / alt link

(YSI) Flylo & Blu - GNG BNG (MeMix) / alt link

(YSI) Serengeti & Polyphonic - My Patriotism / alt link

(YSI) Daedelus - Off to the Races (Meanest Man Contest Remix Feat. Cuzzo) / alt link

Our favourite dubiously adopted Welshman Daedelus has just dropped a great disco-esque mini album on the new Friends Of Friends label. The album is split with fellow muso pal Jogger, who on the next edition will then invite somebody else, and so on and so forth.

Buy the album

He has also recorded a video for one of the tracks from the album which has just been premiered on XLR8R.com... and here tis.



If you happen to be cruising by XLR8R.com it's also worth checking out their latest Podcast from Meanest Man Contest, one for the grown ups on a summer evening.

You can listen to our BBC Radio 1 show for a few more hours here folks. Don't worry though if you miss it we shall be uploading the whole thing pretty soon (plus Huw Evans this weeks presenter will be playing some great Hudson Mohawke and Rustie tracks in his selection. Before we do just wanted to share this moment from the show with you all. Some may be aware of Daedelus' Wales 'obsession'. He used to tell people he was Welsh and called an album Of Snowdonia (a mountainous area up north from where we're based) and has had a long relationship with the country even before visiting. He was extremely kind enough to send us this track in which he talks about his feelings over one of our favourite tracks from the last album 'Hrs:Mins:Secs' and we were extremely touched. If we may be spokesmen for our country then the feeling is entirely mutual sir.

(YSI) Daedelus on Wales (Hrs:Mins:Secs)

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)

Last night we showed off our roots a little bit and did a Welsh Hip-hop Mix for Rob Da Bank & Friends on BBC Radio 1. The mix is probably the most definitive yet for the Welsh Hip-hop scene and incorporates a wide variety of styles. It also shows that far from being an isolated and backwards country as many people in the rest of the UK, and even some in Wales itself would believe, we have emcees from all over the country, from all over the world infact who have congregated here and helped to add to that rich diversity. There are also some great collaborations by Welsh artists with emcees from California, Philadelphia and London on the mix too. Take a listen, we have also included many of the tracks for download via YouSendIt here as well.


Any questions about the artists or the scene in general then hit me up on whosthecaptain@hotmail.com

Listen Now: Chrome Kids: Enter The Dragon - Welsh Hip-hop Mix on BBC iPlayer

Tracklisting (and Downloads)

Metabeats / Ralph Rips S**t / Ruffstylz / Mudmowth /Cervantis – F**k With Me (Radio Edit) (Associated Minds)
Metabeats ft Cesto – ‘Meta’s Cypher’ (Associated Minds)
Qred ft Opus One – ‘Dungeon Siege’ (White Label)
Qred / Joe Blow / 4Dee / Skamma – ‘Lunar Burn’ (White Label)
The Incredible Torture Show – ‘God Told Me To’ (White Label)
Secondson & Humurak D Gritty – ‘Rags’ (SFDB)
Beatbox Fozzy ft Willo Wispa – ‘Tuna Fish’ (Associated Minds)
Metabeats ft Pergyl & Cervantis – ‘Live & Let Live’ (Associated Minds)
Diverse Concepts ft Mind Kontrol – ‘Any Means Necessary’ (White Label)
Y Diwygiad ft Daedelus – ‘W.E.N.G.L.I.S.H.’ (Dockrad)
Ralph Rips S**t ft Dubbledge – ‘Kiss The Guns’ (Associated Minds)
Me One ft Durrty Goodz – ‘Pay Me No Mind’ (Frenemy)
Sweet & Tender Hooligans – ‘I Have Seen’ (White)
Flow Of Thought – ‘I Got My Boyz’ (Flow Of Thought)
Blaktrix ft Vocal Recall – ‘Trouble Trouble’ (Dial Up)
Brigzy – ‘One For The Money’ (White Label)
Hoax Emcee –‘Rhymin’ Son’ (White Label)
Lews Tunes & Nobsta Nutts (Headcase Ladz) – ‘Get What You See’ (Wonky Wax)
Parker & Conrad Watts – ‘Western Soul’ (Good Groove)
Ninjah – ‘Woman In Control’ (White Label)
Ming Dy Nasty & Redeye Knight (Shadow Law) ft Ruffstylz – ‘Damage Done ’ (White Label)
Dead Residents – ‘Smash Robot Vs Pacman Ghost’ (Cuthulu Nation)

If you want a quick idea on what the mix is about then here’s a quick interview between Rob Da Bank and Kaptin that precedes the mix.

One of the other groups to perform at Swn is North Waleian rappers Y Diwygiad (The Reformation). One of my favourite groups out of the Welsh speaking crew, although they also flip it and rap in English too. They’ve just sent over a copy of their new album but I’m currently kicking myself cos it arrived the day I moved house and now I can’t find the damned thing. Still I have heard a few tracks off it and I’m pretty confident it’s a killer. Below is a link to a programme that went out the other night on S4C (co-hosted by BBC Radio 1 presenter and Swn curator Huw Stephens) which follows them on a recent trip to LA where they recorded with Daedelus, who seems to have something of a Welsh fetish (and who can blame him). The new album drops this month so make sure you check that out.

They also performed at Daedalus’ album launch party alongside the likes of Flying Lotus and Gaslamp Killer. You can catch them at Swn Festival here in the Welsh capital alongside Metabeats, Chipmunk, Beatbox Fozzy and High Contrast on Saturday night at The Point in Cardiff Bay. Free to Swn wristband holders or £10 without.

Y Diwygiad in LA on Bandit TV (S4C) November 2008

The programme is all in Welsh but if you don’t speak the language, click on the owl symbol and it brings up English subtitles.

(YSI) Y Diwygiad feat. Daedelus – Wenglish