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How have we not seen this before now? It's amazing!

NOISIA ft. Foreign Beggars - Shellshock from TONYTRUAND on Vimeo.

or there's always the reeeeemix.

Soooo. Right let's get straight to business as we show you the best way to spend your next 3 hours. Firstly is the latest mix from our Chrome Kids compadre Monkey. As you might expect from his productions, Monkey is the deep, soulful fella of the crew and this mix proves that to perfection. Laced with future funk, deep uptempo grooves and a touch of fried filth this is guaranteed to put your emotions on spin cycle; next we have a promo mix from SkisM from the Never Say Die crew who are dropping some seriously scorching remixes of the Foreign Beggars & Noisia track No Holds Barred by Excision and Affinity, and if that wasn't enough the release also includes remixes of Get A Bit More from Baobinga, Demus & Randomplay and SkisM; and also on the promo tip are the guys from Pipedown who are putting on a helluva line up of exciting artists this Wednesday at the Rhythm Factory including James Blake, Om Unit, Greena and Elijah & Skilliam. The mixing here is more than a bit patchy but the selection is still pretty killer.

Download: Monkey - FutureMajikDubSoul Vol. 1

Tracklisting:

Silkie - Spark (Deep Medi Music)
Zomby - Strange Fruit (Ramp Recordings)
Ramadanman - Revenue untoldRMX (2nd Drop Records)
Doctor P - Badman Sound (Dub Police)
Magenta - MS20 (Dub)
Zero G - Bass Culture (Lion Dub)
Falty DL - Party (Ramp Recordings)
Stagga - Tubby's Innovation (Sub Depth Records)
Hot City - No More (Infrasonics Recordings)
Hudson Mohawke - Fuse (Warp Records)
Untold - No One Likes A Smart-Arse (Hemlock Recordings)
Dan Marshal - Footsteps (Dub)
Numan - Secrets (Sub Depth Records)
Monkey - Ezekiel15 (Dub)
Ikonika - Sahara Michael (Hyper Dub)
Starkey - Rain City (Rwina Records)
RSD - Naked Mario Kart part2 (Dub)
Monkey - Lemon Town (Dub)
Ill Diddy - The Drop Out (Dub)
James Blake - Air Or Lack Their Of (Hemlock Recordings)
Exile - Extra FUNK (Scion)
Hudson Mohawke - Velvet Peel (Warp Records)
Dam Funk - Burn Straight Thru U (Stones Throw)


Download: SkisM - Never Say Die Volume 2




Download: cntrst - Promo Mix for Pipedown #01

Tracklisting:

Dowee – Fckurblp
Cosmin TRG – Love 2 Hide
Aphrodisiax – Unfinished Business
L-Vis 1990 – United Groove (Kingdom Remix)
Hanuman – Bola (Atki2 Remix)
Geeneus – Ultrafunkula
Mosca – Square One (Greena Remix)
Martin Kemp – Aztec
Greena – Tenzado
Geiom – No More Tears
Bad Autopsy – Mag
James Fox – Put It Back (Ramadanman Remix)
Africa Hi-Tech – Blen
Mosca – Nike
Hyetal & Shortstuff – Don’t Sleep
Crystal Fighters – I Love London (Brackles Remix)
Destiny’s Child – Bills Bills Bills Bills Bills (Harmonimix)
Starkey – Rain City
Gemmy – Johnny 5
Terror Danjah – Air Bubble [Butterz]
Royal T – Beat Fighter (Bok Bok Remix)
Terror Danjah – Sidechain (DOK Remix) [Butterz]
James Blake – Air and Lack Thereof
Untold – Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake Remix)
Harmonimix – Trim
Zomby – Tarantula
Floating Points – Truly
Om Unit – Lavender
Joker – Digidesign (Om Unit Remix)

Tenuous link number 89.7. Tonight in the UK is Guy Fawkes night, otherwise known as Fireworks night or Bonfire night thanks to the consentual pyromania that sweeps the nation. Back in 1605 Guy Fawkes and his Catholic homies tried to blow up the Houses Of Parliament whilst the Protestant King James I and his bredren were all inside. The Houses Off Parliament nowadays (and we have it on no authority back then as well) are chaired by The Speaker, kind of a referee for politicians. So we have, in celebration of this historic occasion, a bunch of tunes to blow ya speakers the f**k up!


Next Tuesday sees the release of Elucid's brand new album, The Sub Bass Diet with a mixture of original production and choice dubs by the likes of Kode 9 and Joker, all laced with Elucid's poetically exorcised frustrations. We were real excited when we heard one of our favourite Brooklyn rappers had hooked up with one of our favourite Welsh producers Metabeats and the excitement was well founded, Take Charge is sheer fiiiiyaah! We hear there's more from the two on Metabeats album that should be out early next year. DN3 does similar justice on the latest leak from the album too, you can feel the unplugged rage spilling from the mic to the mixing board.

Download: Elucid - Take Charge (produced by Metabeats) / alt link

Download: Elucid - Then We Rage / alt link


Even those who can't remember the days when Jungle was king and Navigator was one of it's mightiest warriors, or even later before Big Beat became Breaks and Freestylers were second only to Fatboy Slim as it's main exponents. Even if you have no memory of such things (and to be honest most who were actually there probably have a hazy reccolection at best) you will no doubt have heard the monster tune that is Ruffneck from Freestylers and Navigator that first dropped over 10 years ago. What? Still no? Well it matters not because a new remix from Ctrl Z relies on more than simple nostalgia to rock a crowd. Already getting play from the likes of Stanton Warriors, Krafty Kuts, Freq Nasty, Deekline and of course the Freestylers themselves, their version will be dropping on Vinyl along with an Excision & Datsik Dubstep remix on November 23rd with a digital package including further mixes from High Rankin, Bassline crew Pirate Soundsystem and this one from Rack n Ruin.

Download: Ctrl Z vs The Freestylers - Ruffneck '09 ft Navigator (RackNRuin Remix) / alt link


With us already being fans of Raffertie's very own brand of Bonkers Bassline it was intriguing to say the least when we heard he was turning his hand to more Hip-hop based beats. We weren't disappointed when he dropped us the mighty Hulk Hop style refix for Foamo's Wardance and it has had some major rotation from us since. Now those kind fellas over at ScenexScience have made it available so that even those of you most recession hit may wash your cares away in a big wave of glitchy killer bee bass music.

Download: Foamo - Wardance (Raffertie Remix Feat. Shiftee Moova) / alt link


Incidentally it was on a Raffertie remix that we first heard Scarlet Harlots who, if there is an ounce of justice in the music industry deserve to be huge. As we witnessed at Bigger Than Barry a couple of months, they're the perfect blend of good honest party rock, underground dance music and credible pop music, without any of the obvious contrivance one might expect from such a winning formula. Their track A Secret came out last month on Bigger Than Barry's own imprint with dope remixes from: Shorterz, who brings us Midget House 'an amalgamation of House, Garage and Electro' and also joins compadre Enigma on a Dubstep flex; and Kitch N Sync who flip a filthy Fidget version. We're a little late on this but the simple fact that we're not already over-run by these fellas on every station shows there's work to be done before justice is served.

Download: Scarlet Harlots - A Secret (Enigma & Shorterz Dubstep Remix - Preview) / alt link

Download: Scarlet Harlots - A Secret (Shorterz Midget House Mix - Preview) / alt link

Download: Scarlet Harlots - A Secret (Kitch N Sync Remix - Preview) / alt link


Finally, at the risk of renaming this site, Foreign Bloggers we have a remix of yet another Beggars track, and yes once again it's huge. This one's been around a while however and is resurfacing due to the remix being from DJ Primecuts from the Scratch Perverts who shall be hosting their annual Beatdown session at Fabriclive (see above flyer) next Friday.

Download: Foreign Beggars - Hit That Gash (DJ Primecuts Itchy Naaan Re-Rub) / alt link

Some excellent press shots from Foreign Beggars that tie in nicely with their United Colours Of Beggatron album, which if what we say holds any sway you should all be owning by now. They also have a brand new single with two of the hottest emcees of the moment Dubbledge and Badness, 7 Figure Swagger which includes a firing Bar 9 Dubstep remix and has the track Don't Dhoow It with a funkalicious Machine Drum refix on the flip.

It's rare that we ever post album reviews on here (infact I think the first post may have been the last time). Mainly because it is rare that we ever get the chance to give whole albums more than the once over anyway. However there are three that have found themselves on rather constant rotation here at Chrome Mansions over the past few weeks so it's only right we give them a special mention.


Bassnectar’s studio must be next to David Banner’s laboratory cos these beats have definitely been mutated by some kind of gamma force. This is what you might call Hulk-hop of the highest order, his mix of Dubstep and Glitch hop is weightier than almost anybody else out there. The beats here are about as in your face as it gets without slipping into alienating noise clash territory but there’s an element of future phunking bounce that keeps the general vibe as frolic full as a free party in a Fun House. There are a number of thoughtful and reflective moments throughout that certainly qualify this as an album proper rather than simply a collection of bangers, but even these are backed up with massive dirty spine rumbling production and we can’t help but feel that the speakers are going to fall through the floor at any moment.

Download: Bassnectar - Cozza Frenzy / alt link

Buy Bassnectar - Cozza Frenzy


The UK Hip-hop scene was perhaps one of the most self destructive musical environments since Norweigan Black Metal, albeit in a completely non-descript and straight forward manner. The spirit of creativity and invention that first spawned the so-called worldwide cultural phenomenon that is Hip-hop was seemingly forgotten amidst restrictive unwritten rules and tedious in-house bitching, something that occurs everywhere, but when the house is so small it becomes even more tiresome. Egos inflated the second an artist was recognised in his local corner shop and the majority soon got lazy and ended up in the deflating paradox of looking back to the good old days and realising even they were actually a bit shit. To put it plainly, everybody, listener and artist alike (generally one and the same anyway) got bored and eventually boring, everybody that is except Foreign Beggars it seems.

U.C.O.B. oozes with the excitement of a crew that are truly in love with their art. If there was ever even a second of boredom amongst them it must have soon been quashed by discovering some of the most exciting producers in the game and getting them to provide the base (or is that bass) for their collection of fun and thoughtful flame roasted rhymes. Their ears are obviously in all the right places as this is one of the best all round Hip-hop albums of the year so far bar none.

Pre-order Foreign Beggars - United Colours Of Beggattron


The more negative cultural commentators amongst us may feel that the rise of computer intelligence, somehow goes hand in hand with the dumbing down of human intelligence. Computers imitate humans whilst humans imitate computers and get locked in the lifecycle of a robotic drone who can’t think for themselves or even feel for themselves and simply follow a monotonous and shallow pre-programmed objective. This is perhaps as over dramatic as it is pessimistic but not even the ones who feel this way could view the musical interaction between man and machine that has come crawling out speakers from LA to Glasgow and many a spot inbetween, finally to end up in this compilation, as anything but thoughtful, emotional and as organic as it is technically advanced. Wild Angels is a collection of tracks that blurs the boundaries between Hip-hop, Dubstep, Techno, Jazz, Folk and a bunch of left leaning beat genres with tenuous titles. All carry as much warmth as they do a disregard for the rules and a beauty that is often caught within sharp, dark and aggressive surroundings. You can certainly see how the title fits. This is not necessarily for the uninitiated but those familiar with the output of Mary Anne Hobbs Radio 1 show will recognise some of the bigger and more forwards thinking names on a scene of increasing relevance that she has gathered here.

Download: Gemmy - Rainbow Road (128) / alt link

Mary Anne Hobbs presents Wild Angels is out now on Planet Mu.

Regular readers of this blog will probably know by now but for years Wales has secretly harbored one of the most vibrant, diverse and talented Hip-hop scenes on the planet. This is no small part due to three forward thinking crews based in the Welsh capital of Cardiff:

Associated Minds who have produced some of the strongest UK Hip-hop releases of the past few years from the likes of Metabeats, Mudmowth, Ruffstylz and Ralph Rips Shit; Higher Learning whose nights set many a Hip hop legend next to the latest cutting edge artists,and have been the primary breeding ground for Welsh acts over the past 9 years; and Mutty Wango, who have consistently supported the scene in their off the hook eclectic nights, bringing the artists to a whole new audience.

Now all three have combined to bring a killer line up of acts.

KYZA & DJ NONAMES


Undoubtedly one of the UK’s # 1 emcees at the moment, Kyza Smirnoff first came to our attention as part of the Terra Firma crew but was always slightly overshadowed by Klashnekoff. Since going solo he's gone from strength to strength and has far eclipsed his former compadres. His new Shots of Smirnoff mixtape is out on Foreign Beggars' Dented Records label and DJ Nonames from the group will be backing him up on the ones and twos.

Download: Kyza Smirnoff - Freestyle / alt link

Download: Kyza Smirnoff - Vibe-Rater / alt link

Download: Kyza Smirnoff - His Story / alt link

DUBBLEDGE


One of the most consistent emcees in the game, with massive releases on Low Life and Dented Records plus a whole bunch of legendary guest spots. He’s also the man behind the hilariously sharp Grime spoof Lips 2 Da Floor.

Download: Ralph Rips Shit & Dubbledge - Kiss The Guns / alt link

Download: Dubbledge - Deep Cover / alt link

Download: Foreign Beggars ft Dubbledge & Kyza - Hit That Gash (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix) / alt link

BEATBOX FOZZY


One of the UK’s leading young beatboxers who has worked with the likes of Dizzee Rascal and Duran Duran. He’s always guaranteed to hype a crowd.

Check this video of Fozzy live at the BBC Radio 1 Studios.

METABEATS (exclusive DJ set)


One of the UK’s finest new producers and a man of many names, faces and sounds, all of them worth looking out for. His last album Metaphysical was one of the best UK Hip-hop releases in years and had major support from a number of BBC Radio 1 DJs. Ever prolific he's got three albums that we know of ready to drop, all of which are being kept under heavy duty lock and key for the moment. There's the Sledgehammer Kisses album with Mudmowth, an instrumental future soul type one (possibly the Darkhouse Family album with Don Leisure) and another straight up Hip-hop monster (we've been assured it will be by the label, all we know so far is Elucid is on two of the tracks).

Download: Metabeats ft Ralph Rips Shit, Ruffstylz, Mudmowth & Cervantis - F**k With Me (Radio Edit)

Check this post from last month for a copy of his future soul track Fruit Salad.

CHROME KIDS

Yup that's right, we shall be up in the place with a big bag of bass. Really looking forwards to this one, we've not played our home town as a crew for some time now.


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01. Foreign Beggars – United Colours Of Beggatron (Album)
02. 808 State – Pacific State (Lazarus Project Remix)
03. Malente & Dex – Lions (Bassnectar & Ill Gates remix)
04. Riton and Primary 1 - Who's There? (Doorly Remix) / alt link
05. Hovatron – Let’s Get Wet
06. Monkey – Ninth Life
07. Doshy – Space Attack
08. Raekwon – House Of Flying Daggers
09. Schlachthofbronx - Belly Full Of Pills
10. Joe Blow – Hour Glass (Stagga Remix) / alt link
11. Uzul - Rumble Inna Station (Skream Remix)
12. George Lenton – Troll / alt link
11. Diversion Tactics – Can’t Swim
12. Old Money – Ackee & Saltfish / alt link
13. Robot Koch vs Addiquit - Killa / alt link
14. Father Abraham – HIAFC / alt link
15. 16 Bit - Jump
16. DJ 0.000001 & Mochipet - Eazy E On Atari
17. Spox – We Have Supreme Weapons / alt link
18. Willie Isz - Gosohaurd (Milky Way Mix by Dr Who Dat?)

image from Rough Cut Nation @ Edinburgh Portrait Gallery

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

Feel slightly out done that Kanye West managed to blog this before us but it's a big look for the Foreign Beggars crew none the less.

Fabric prove themselves to be the super club to end all once again this Friday with another monumental line up that seems to come as standard for them.

This time it's artists such as Scratch Perverts, Foreign Beggars, Jackbeats, Poirier & MC Zulu, DJ Hype, Mumdance and Badness that might well tempt us down for another visit.

Here's a little taster of Room 3 which will be occupied by the Dirty Canvas fellas.

(ZShare) Dirty Canvas ft Brackles & Mumdance on Diesel U:Music Radio

Contender for album of the year has to be DJ Vadim's U Can't Lurn Imaginashun out on BBE. With an already impressive back catalogue of beefed up digital beats featuring a wide range of worldwide talent, and in the face of a whole string of adversities including his recent battle with eye cancer, this album is most definitely a case of lion going from strength to strength. For us one of the stand out tracks is the mix of acoustic reggae vibes and tongue trippin' rhymes that make up the track Soldier, a refix of the track Soldat by Ukrainian duo 5Nizza, with added phat beats and additional vocals from Big Red (not to be confused with the British rapper of the same name) out of seminal French Ragga Hip-hop crew Raggasonic.

(YSI) DJ Vadim ft. Wretch 32, Kyza and Orifice Vulgatron - Soldier (The Last Skeptic Re Re Remix) / alt link

We're not sure exactly how much has changed from the original remix (are you confused yet?) but it seems that the UK version keeps hardly anything from the original, which is a shame but then with emcees such as: new Grime golden boy, Wretch 32; Kyza, who seems to have made it his mission to out do the rest of his former Terra Firma family (and is doing a good job at it too); and of course the mighty Orifice Vulgatron from Foreign Beggars, it stands up as a strong seperate track in it's own right. As the name suggests this is a remix of the remix (of the refix) in a UK Garage meets UK Funky (meets UK Hip-hop) style from The Last Skeptic, who has graced us with some incredible versions of various tracks lately (Marina & The Diamonds, Mongrel) and is just finishing off an album of them at the moment.

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.

(SS) Sarantis ft Warrior Queen - More than Money (Starkey RMX) (clip)

(SS) Sasquatch ft Foreign Beggars – Stay Seated (clip)

The album will be released on two separate CDs, two vinyl EPs and digital download. Disc One gets Grimey with vocals from Sick Sense Cru and the Senseless residents, Asher Don and 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 Sparrow and a Dubbed out offering from Techno legend Billy Nasty which certainly come as a pleasant suprise. .

(SS) Sarantis ft Bunnington Judah - Warzone (Billy Nasty RMX) (clip)


Warrior Queen, Jimmy Luv, Oova, Smasha from Sick Sense Cru, Asher Don and Dialect all make an appearance on CD 2 as well, joined by Sunkilla out of Martinique, Leed-ite Dancehall emcees Bongo Chilli and Urban Vox, plus Boxcar, Optimus and M.J. Zilla who pop up on the Sasquatch remix of Who’s The Leader by Brooklyn Avant-Grime proponent Crunk Tesla.

(SS) Ghosttown ft Smasha - What Goes Around Comes Around (clip)

(SS) Sasquatch - Lifes Changin (Rekordah Remix) (clip)

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.


(YSI) Sarantis ft Sick Sense Crew - Focus / alt link

(YSI) Sarantis ft Bunnington Judah - One Day / alt link

(YSI) Os Crunc Tesla ft Boxcar, Optimus & M.J.Zilla - Who's The Leader of The Club (Sasquatch Remix) / alt link

Here's our latest official chart, we've put some up for download but you can catch more in our Hulk Hop Vs Crunk Rock Mix which we've just finished and will be posting up on here in a couple of weeks.

1. Xrabit & DMG$ - Damaged Good$ (Big Dada)
2. Scarlet Harlots – Backlash (Raffertie's Bigger Bass Remake ft. Shiftee Moova) (White)
3. The King Blues - Come Fi Di Youth (George Lenton Remix) (White)
4. Missy Elliott - Best Best (Two Fingers remix) (White)
5. DJ Zinc - Move ft Foreign Beggars (White)
6. The Lazarus Project - Aftermath (Bootleg Remix) (Cease & Desist)
7. Mr Scruff - Zen feat Skuff & Inja (Ninja Tune)
8. Th’ Mole ft Warrior Queen – Jump Jack (Mochipet Remix) (Daly City)
9. RQM – Bloody Sunday (Robot Koch Vs RQM Version) (White)
10. Shuttle - Rotten Guts ft Cadence Weapon (Ninja Tune)
11. Deekline & Wizard -Back Up (AC Slater Remix) (Against The Grain)
12. Magnetic Man - The Cyberman (White)
13. Stagga Vs Busta Rhymes - I Got Bass (White)
14. Playdoe – The Bombs (White)
15. Andy H – Serious (Tipping Point)
16. Mix n Blend - Tantrum feat SFR & Ej von Lyrik (White)
17. Killa Queenz - Bitches (South Rakkas Crew Remix) (Sweat It Out)
18. DJ POL Style – My Level (White)
19. Herrmutt Lobby – Vampire Remix (Eat Concrete)
20. Two Fingers - What You Know ft Sway (Big Dada)

If any of you are starved by the lack of UK Hip-hop out there at the moment then you could do worse then check out Jyager, whose Encrypted Scriptures drops on 23rd March on Y'N'R. The only one we're really feeling is the track with Foreign Beggars and Kashmere (who's playing at The Globe in Cardiff alongside Verb T and The Last Skeptic on February 7th for all the heads here), but then we kinda got bored of most UK Hip-hop acts a while back (along with everybody else if sales and releases are anything to go by). This isn't gonna resurrect the scene but it might keep some of the die hards happy for a while.

(YSI) Jyager ft Foreign Beggars & Kashmere - Frozen In The Night

The Thunderclaps have put together a heavy new mash up video for their track Judgement Day. If you haven’t heard this biblically big tune yet featuring a well selected guest list of Orifice Vulagtron (Foreign Beggars), Ghetto, Shameless and Hunta, then be prepared for some brimstone and fire.

Rappers Belizean Bombshell and Kween G, collectively known as Killa Queenz hail from Belize and Uganda respectively but are now settled in Sydney, Australia where they met whilst performing separately at the Olympic games and now are regularly ripping up stages alongside the likes of Bone Thugs & Harmony, The Alkaholics and Lucky Dube.


They’re just about to drop their new single (out September 9th) on Grindin (also home to Mystro, Foreign Beggars, P Money and Jehst) called ‘Bitches’, an M Phazes produced hyped up Hyphy style dedication to all ‘…the bitches out in the world (both female and male) who have hate in their hearts for no particular reason’. I’m guessing from the girls’ positive stance that this isn’t a track in favour of such people.

(YSI) KillaQueenz - Bitches