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With their 'Culture' EP riding high on the playlists of Skream, Gilles Peterson, FaltyDL, Machinedrum and Rob Da Bank amongst many others, we shall forgive Bodhi for missing a month in their monthly Groove Series (they did slip out a Mixmag mix instead to be fair). This is another killer mix of Housey, Garagey vibes from the boys, much in keeping with its name.

Well looks like we've got a load of catching up to do in regards to the Bodhi boys, can't keep up with them! So just in case you haven't been keeping an eye, here's a few things they've been up to recently.

First of all is their new single 'Culture / Deliquesce' on Sinden's 'Grizzly' label which dropped this week along with this video for 'Culture'. The video is a collaboration with Chrome Kids resident artiste, Snowskull and the EP itself has been getting some major love from the likes of Skream, FaltyDL, Giles Peterson, Machinedrum and Rob Da Bank (who has booked them for his incredible Bestival festival which we rocked a Chrome Kids set at a couple of years back).

Then of course there's this free download from XLR8R of the Bambanou remix. There's also a wicked Ifan Dafydd remix which you might have caught on our last Radio Show.

Finally there's this mix they cooked up for Mixmag, who gave a glowing review to the EP (big ups to Joe Muggs).

I'm sure there's something we've missed but that should keep you lot busy for now.

Bad Panda Records just dropped the latest tune from Bodez, aka Chrome Kids founder Kaptin and fellow CK family member Leon Piers (aka Falcon Lake, also half of 22/22). It's little deeper and techy than most of their other work (more in line with some of the Falcon Lake material) but it's still grimey round the edges and has a killer bounce to it too. It's a free download so play it, pawn it and pimp it to the world.

It's all change up on here, we'll be back in a couple of months but we're still active on our Facebook Groups, If you haven't joined any of them then this is the kind of thing you've been missing recently.

Chrome Kids (Facebook Group)



Kreayshawn - Gucci Gucci (Brey's The Swagger Is Emosh Refuck) by Brey

LITTLE DRAGON - RITUAL UNION (AN-TEN-NAE REMIX) by an-ten-nae





Brain Juice (Facebook Group)



Wonderwall (Figure Drumstep Edit) - Free DL by Figure

Jace Everett - Bad Things (TRUE BLOOD THEME) (Mister Gray Dubstep Remix) by Mister Gray

We also dropped the first single on Brain Juice Records from Astroid Boys.

Astroid Boys - Welcome To The Zoo (Boson Remix) by Brain Juice



Higher Learning (Facebook Group)



M.E.D. feat. Hodgy Beats - Outta Control (Prod. by Madlib) by stonesthrow

Falling feat James Blake by GenesisElijah



The Chrome Kids Mixcloud also has a Higher Learning Mixtape from Kaptin of great new Hip-hop releases.

01. Hudson Mohawke – All Your Love
02. Ifan Dafydd – No Good
03. iO – You/Me (Listen)
04. The Phantom - Arctic (Buy)
05. Dev79 + Thrills + Skamma – Off In A Minute (Buy)
06. D33J – Reever’s Edge (Download)
07. Venice Calypso – Tunguska (Buy)
08. Falcon Lake – Fortune & Game
09. Son Of A Glitch ft. Adam Rowdyman - Together (Buy)
10. Landslide & Kate Tempest – Parables
11. Josh Osho - Redemption Days (Mensah Remix)
12. Lotek - Rebel Hi Fi (Buy)
13. Paul White feat. Danny Brown - One Of Life's Pleasures
14. Benito – New Planets (Listen)

Tracklisting

Sugarpill - Terrible People
Starkey + Curly Castro – Bricks (The Elements Remix)
Demokracy – ZerothLaw (STD Remix)
Exotope – Dagga
Swizz Beatz - Everyday (Coolin Codes Remix)
Balam Acab – Oh Why (Download)
Tropics - Mouves (Keep Shelly In Athens Remix)
Belle – Open Your Eyes (Quest’s ‘Flyby’ Remix) (Download)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble (Lapalux Remix)
Gappy Ranks Ft. Lady Chann - English Money (Robot Koch remix)
Jehst - Camberwell Carrots
Nightwave – Bit Pony
Hyetal – Phoenix (Fantastic Mr Fox Remix) (Download)
LV + Joshua Idehen – Primary Colours
Guido & Baobinga – Ballin’
Blaktrix - Sour Grapes (First Aid Remix) (Download)

Kastle is fast becoming one of our favourite producers and Seclusiasis have proven themselves once again to be the perfect link between the street, the club and the chin stroking anorak massive with their latest release, strutting around 6 tracks deep, with a completeness that is commendable considering it's contrasts. We have excess love for the title track which is classic UKG 2-Step stretched between a modern Glitch coating and stabs of rave influence and also 'Bring Me Back', which marches around powerfully around the Grime, Broken Beat, Dubstep and Garage territories. I think a favourite though may possibly be found in 'Walking Away', which ventures confidently into the realms of daytime radio, with a sweetly sung hook and rapper Armanni Reign effortlessly and skillfully tripping rhymes over a Summertime sanctioned crisp half-step beat.

The fellas have given us a copy of 'I Know' to give out from the EP, it's a clean purple tinted rave outing that sways around with it's hands in the air before jumping into a 2-step demon that is guaranteed to decimate a dancefloor.

Download: Kastle - I Know / alt link

you can grab the EP everywhere on Vinyl and Digital from June 6th or over on Juno Download now.

Good Monday people, hopefully you will have recovered from this Weekend's festivities in tine for the coming Bank Holdiay weekend, as we are programming an event at Cardiff Arts Institute from Friday to Sunday. Many of the acts playing will be recognisable to our regular readers and if you are anywhere near the vicinity would be great to see you all. Here's the info...



ELECTRIC SHEEP WEEKENDER
Friday 27th - Sunday 29th May 2011 (Bank Holiday Weekend)
Cardiff Arts Institute, 29 Park Place. CF10 3BA
£4 per day (limited £6 passes for all 3 days)


3 SECRET HEADLINERS // DOC DANEEKA + BENJAMIN DAMAGE (LIVE) // MONKY (HOYA HOYA / ROBOX NEOTECH) // DIDZ & CHICO (TEN THOUSAND YEN) // RATCATCHER // TELEGRAM FROM THE QUEEN (JUVENILE SCUM) // MR HEALAN // DAI VERSE (DIVERSE CONCEPTS) // CHROME KIDS // ZWOLF // OWAIN K // STD // DISCORD // KOVAS (64 BARS) // MAXX ROACH //


The Welsh Electronic scene has truly coming into it’s own over the past few years. As musical genres overlap and intertwine, particularly after the Bass music scene in general’s mass migration from formulaic Dubstep, so Wales’ tight knit community of producers and DJs become ever closer, more open and undoubtedly stronger. As celebration of this fact we have brought some of the top artists from the scene together for a long Bank Holiday weekend of showcases, secret sets and a whole lot of drinking and dancing.



We have 3 Secret headliners, all well established acts at the top of their game, plus: Modeselektor’s label signings Doc Daneeka and Ben Damage showcase their new live set ahead of their Melt! Festival debut in Berlin; one of the city’s most forward thinking producers, Monky gets set to show why his future blend of bass heavy beats have been getting so much love across the electronic music world; Cardiff 2 Step tearaways Didz & Chico bring a little ‘something new’ to the table; Chrome Kids drop a rare appearance ahead of shows in Glastonbury and Bestival over the summer; experimental circuit benders Zwolf, STD and Mr Healan step out of the Hip-hop shadows into something altogether more interesting; former CRST member Ratcatcher (Rodski) and Owain K hold it down for the current generation of House producers; whilst Juvenile Scum head honchos and Dirty Sanchez DJs Telegram From The Queen, to quote Redman, ‘come to throw a little mud in this mother**ker’ and make sure proceedings don’t get too serious. With many more up and coming DJs and producers, just starting to cement their reputations as ones to watch also on the bill, this is undoubtedly going to be a great marker on where the scene is now and where it’s heading. There’s plenty more information on each act, as well as free downloads, streaming tracks and videos over at the Cardiff Arts Institute blog http://cardiffartsinstitute.org


More info can be found on the Cardiff Arts Institute Website.

Downloads:

Monky - Hypa Nova (via Robox Neotech)

CHRIS COCO - BUTTERFLY HEART (DIDZ & CHICO REMIX) by chris coco

Crystal Fighters - At Home (Ratcatcher Repercussion) by Ratcatcher

Electric Sheep: Friday 27th May: STD - Nobody Tells Ron Swanson What To Do by cardiffartsinstitute

Electric Sheep: Sunday 29th May: Discord - Sunday Dub by cardiffartsinstitute

Electric Sheep: Saturday 28th May: The Gentle Good - Dawel Disgyn (Zwolf Remix) by cardiffartsinstitute

Tracklisting:
Central Spillz - I Wish (Baked Remix) (from 'Space Travel Remix EP')
Astroid Boys – PunkRockCrowd
True Tiger feat. Professor Green & Maverick Sabre - In The Air (True Tiger 'Mosh Pit' Remix)
Didz & Chico ft Vanity - When I Say
Ossie - The Power Of Love
Halp - Gazziliaan Yeers
Skream - Where You Should Be ft. Sam Frank (Seiji Remix)
Chrissy Murderbot feat Rubi Dan - New Juke Swing
Mr ShaoDow feat Ghetts - Get Stronger (AK Remix)
Maverick Sabre - Where We Gonna Go
Ifan Dafydd - Chop.in.Out.
Blue Sky Black Death - Fire For Light
Wiley - Numbers In Action
Durrty Goodz - Don't Ask Me
Organ Grinder – Nimbus Stratus

[mindset008a] SYNKRO - Look At Yourself by Mindset Records

Although we may be slightly biased due to their support of our family members, the RoboxNeotech label never fails to satisfy, and they’ve smashed it once again with the new EP from Russian/Siberian crew, Demokracy. Like all RoboxNeotech releases there’s the feeling of little machine babies being born and slowly opening their eyes into a strange world of humans. As the track’s name might suggest, it’s cold, like Narnia under the Snow Queen but with a warm sub that heats up your insides from the bottom of the soul to the tip of your strings. This can also be said of the Bass Science remix except he brings elements of mutant rave to the proceedings whilst Monty Clunk come with some drunken cyber-step, puking out circuits like it’s just downed 20 pints of battery acid. All are definitely worth picking up, but the fellas are offering out this moody little low-riding Glitch hop number from Dies Irae as a freebie taster.

Download: Demokracy - Wintermute (Dies Irae Remix)


Still on a winter vibe, this garage-esque track from Hackman has everything right for the season: Warmth; chills; reflection; depth; stillness; but with a driving pulse that beats a path, full steam to spring. First caught him on Fabric’s (should bloody well be) seminal Elevator compilation and it is they whom are offering this out, along with the information that you may catch him in the club’s Room 3 on Fri Jan 14th alongside such luminaries as Horsepower Productions, El-B, Oris Jay and Seiji.

Download: Hackman - Fists Of Ham


And finally, as vocalists finally catch onto the fact that producers have been steaming ahead of them on the underground circuit, the latest in a line of ones to watch (and rightly so), Alex Clare is offering up his latest track 'Relax My Beloved', for free download from his Myspace page. This is incredibly heart warming / breaking electronic encased blues and soul stuff and we’re definitely interested to hear the Diplo & Switch produced long player that’s due out on Island this year.

Relax My Beloved - ALEX CLARE by IslandRecordsA&RUK

Things seem to be busy in Cardiff this summer and we've had a number of various gems from our home town which we keep meaning to post. Here's a selection of some and we shall post a bunch more on Tuesday. Hopefully you would have already caught the new Monky, Paul B and Dead Residents mixes we posted recently. If not grab them here.


A few regular readers may remember previous tracks from Cardiff based duo Shadow Law (aka Lex Umbra). Well producer / rapper Ming from the pair has just released a grimey Dubstep EP through Italian label Young NRG Productions that you can pick up now on Juno, Beatport, Dogs On Acid and Track It Down.


C.R.S.T. are fast becoming the number one Future Garage crew of choice, okay so the majority come from Barry rather than Cardiff but for arguments sake we’ll claim a 10 mile radius for our own. They have adorned many a recent mix including the opening track of Doorly’s new Reclaim The Dancefloor CD. They’ve also provided bubblin hot remix of the new Count & Sinden track featuring the Mystery Jets that Annie Mac recently posted on her site as a free download. Here’s that tune along with their latest mix and a few extra bits and pieces. Make sure you look out for their forthcoming releases on Car Crash Set, Well Rounded and Ten Thousand Yen.

Download: C.R.S.T - Dubplates 2 Mix

Tracklisting:

1. 1 4 Byron - C.R.S.T (Dubplate)
2. It's Like That (C.R.S.T. Remix) - Tuff Wheelz (Dead Speaker Office)
3. Music Takes Me Up (C.R.S.T. Remix) - Proper Villains (Nightshifters)
4. Redeye - C.R.S.T (Forthcoming Catapult Records)
5. Baduka - Chesus and Diverse Concepts (Forthcoming 10,000 Yen)
6. Ultra 64 - C.R.S.T (Forthcoming No hats No Hoods)
7. Dial The Operator - C.R.S.T (Forthcoming Well Rounded)
8. Bump - C.R.S.T (Forthcoming 10,000 Yen)
9. Turn Away - C.R.S.T (Bigger Than Barry)
10. May Not Be Real - C.R.S.T (Forthcoming Well Rounded)
11. Need You - C.R.S.T (Forthcoming Well Rounded)
12. Roulette - C.R.S.T (Forthcoming 10,000 Yen)
13. Shelter (C.R.S.T. Remix) - The XX (forthcoming ???)

Download: Lil Silva - Funky Flex (C.R.S.T. Remix)

After Dark (C.R.S.T Rmx) - Count and Sinden feat. Mystery Jets by C.R.S.T

Bonus Level - C.R.S.T. by C.R.S.T

Download: C.R.S.T. - Bonus Level

1 4 BYRON - C.R.S.T by C.R.S.T

Download: C.R.S.T. - Byron


Undoubtedly one of our favourite rappers from the scene, Blaktrix is due to drop his long awaited album Some People Never Go Crazy at the end of this year. As a warm up he has compiled a selection of unreleased and previously vinyl only tracks into a kind of story so far ‘mixtape’ called The Houdini Footprints of Some People Never Go Crazy. These tracks include a couple of Monky and Stagga’s earlier productions and the Monky ones in particular still bang hard, have a listen for yourself then grab the whole lot from the Blaktrix Website.

Download: Blaktrix - Tek Time (produced by Monky) / alt link

Download: Blaktrix feat Vocal Recall - Trouble Trouble (produced by Monky) / alt link / video

Finally for now, although Stagga has since relocated to Berlin he still has his hands and heart deep in the area as this new killer Grime / Dubstep / Hip-hop track featuring Skamma and Joe Blow from the Squid Ninjaz shows. This is ridiculously beastly.

Stagga feat Skamma + Joe Blow - Genik Riddim by Chrome Kids

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 Baobinga proves 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.


Download: Doc Daneeka - FACT Mix 131

Tracklisting:

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)

Baduka - Chesus x Diverse Concepts by C.R.S.T


Download: Hovatron - Lowriders Mixtape 003

Tracklisting:

01. Hovatron – Max Headroom – INTRO
02. Hovatron – Everything Always
03. Hovatron – The Drip
04. Hovatron – Gold Star Radiation
05. Hovatron – Gold Star Radiation (Cryptical remix)
06. Dopplereffekt – Plastiphilia (Hova remix)
07. Hovatron – One Handed
08. Hovatron – Blaptop
09. Hovatron – Delorean Reprise
10. Hovatron – Super Soaker
11. Cassie – Long Way to Go (Hova remix)
12. Hovatron – Born Under Punches (interpretation of Talking Heads)
13. Hovatron – Already Know
14. Hovatron – Gypsy Trader
15. Hovatron – Case of the Doomsdays – OUTRO

Super Soaker by hovatron


Download: Baobinga - Mix March 2010

Tracklisting:

01. Julio Bashmore - Batak Groove - DUB
02. Emvee - Repeat Me
03. Andrea Lai & Madox - Ganja King (Baobinga RMX)
04. Bubblez aka Grievous Angel - Wicked Inna Bed - DUB
05. Baobinga & Cosmin TRG - I Get Ruff - Build DUB
06. Poirier - Coco Drunk
07. Tinie Tempah - Pass Out (SBTRKT RMX) - DUB
08. Mele - Mugged - DUB
09. Geiom ft Marita - Sugar Coated Lover (Brackles & Shortstuff RMX)
10. Bok Bok ft Bubbz - Citizen's Dub
11. Ramadanman - Tempest - DUB
12. Baobinga & I.D. - Wang It - Build DUB
13. Addison Groove - Footcrab
14. Mensah - Pulse 80 - DUB
15. Skinnz - Make Me Feel - DUB
16. Ginz & Baobinga - The Good Stank - Build DUB
17. I.D. - Handbagger (Baobinga RMX) - DUB
18. Playaz Circle ft Lil Wayne - Duffle Bag Boy

Couple of great Future Garage mash ups here from Cardiff based crew Astrosnooze and Cape Town's Biscope.

Download: Empire of the Sun Vs Martyn - Walking on Memories (Astrosnooze Mash Up) / alt link


Biscope - Little Dragon Versus Burial Twice by biscope

Download: Biscope - Little Dragon Vs Burial Twice / alt link

plus incase we forgot to give you this before...

Download: Sub Focus - Rockit (Biscope Boot) / alt link

We've been loving the first release due to drop on One4Ho, a new label from Mai Harper and Sophie Ruston (aka Ghettozoid). The track from Ghettozoid herself is called Seeking and is on some future garage space age flex, carrying some serious sonic depth with a fairly sinister bassline rumbling out out like a school of whales floating through the sonar system, whilst our favourite Bristolian diva Yolanda manages to add both upliftment and melancholoy, as she effortlessly stretches her rich soul vocals to the outer reaches of the universe.

Zoid Soundcloud bounce by GHETTOZOID

Our favourite mix however is from Blue Daisy with a tripped out excursion, building up a bed of a crisp static crunch and dublike echoes. As if the tune had been dropped into a K hole and managed to float around in it without confusion, paranoia or looking like a complete c**t.

BD Soundcloud bounce by GHETTOZOID

For a bit of a look inside Blue Daisy's head check out his mix for URB that we picked up at Robot Koch's Robots Don't Sleep blog recently.

Download: Blue Daisy - URB Presents: Blue-Tinged Spectrum Mix

I have to admit I have something of a soft spot for 2 Step Garage, it was the first music to come through the club speakers at the start of the last decade and thanks to an old mix CD I dugout before heading from city to city this new years it was the last music I really bubbled to at the end of the decade too. Not that this is an admission of guilt, after all I'm in good company with my ...., seems like a large section of the discerning club crowd have fallen back in love with the sound. As if to highlight the point our first post of the year is a mix of Nu-skool 2 step grooves going into a tropical leaning sound from C.R.S.T. from South Wales, whose members are made up of CK favourites Chesus & Rodski, Tony Blitz and J.D.S. All tracks are from the crew except one solo one (see below) from Chesus, who some of the you might recognise as being the alter ego of Metabeats, we told you he was gonna be one to watch this year and it looks like we're heading for a satisfied smug tone for our 2010 round up. From what we understand also, a couple of these tracks should soon seee the light of day courtesy of the fellas at No Hats No Hoods but more info on that as it comes.

Download: C.R.S.T. Dubplates Mix 2010

Tracklisting:

Inside - C.R.S.T
Me N You - Chesus
Walk On - C.R.S.T
Good Love - C.R.S.T
Take It Back - C.R.S.T
Revisit - C.R.S.T
Jam For You - C.R.S.T
The Bells V.I.P - C.R.S.T
Mighty V.I.P - C.R.S.T
Funky Flex (C.R.S.T Remix) - C.R.S.T
Thank You - C.R.S.T
1 Just 4 U - C.R.S.T

Download: Chesus - Me & You / alt link

Okay so we're possibly way off remit here but f**k it that's the joy of blogs, we can basically do what we want... long as it's good of course. This is indeed set to be a good night by the looks of things. Probably most enticing for us are The Correspondents who we've played with a couple of times over the last year or so. Mixing up Swing era steeze with Hip-hop swagga and a touch of Drum N Bass Charleston, these fellas are some of the most fun you can have in a dance as long as you leave your serious hat at home and let loose a little bit. Add to the line up some of the filthiest funkalicious Fidget / Electro courtesy of 2 Bit Thugs, XFM favourite’s The London Punks and a man with tunes even bigger than his hairdo (which is pretty massive), Benji Boko who can count DJ Yoda, Nightmares on Wax and Faithless amongst his fan base and you have what should shape up to be a flavoursome night of fun indeed. Here's the full details and a tune from our favourite Thirties throwbacks...

C23Management Presents… UPSTAIRS @ THE GARAGE …In Association with Bangers and Mash!

Featuring:

THE LONDON PUNKS LIVE
THE CORRESPONSDENTS LIVE
BENJI BOKO
2 BIT THUGS
NANNA’S AT THE DISCO
DTISM Vs MISS T

£6 B4 11pm £8 AFTER

Saturday 19th December
@ The Garage
20-22 Highbury Corner
(beginning of Holloway Road, opposite Highbury & Islington tube station)
N5 1RD

Tel: 0207 619 6720

***LIMITED £5 ADV Tickets Available from Ticketweb.co.uk***

Download: The Correspondents - The Course Of Last Night / alt link

Having been out to a string of average, apathetic and just plain empty nights of late it is refreshing that there are nights such as Bigger Than Barry to restore our faith that the party proper still exists. We hit their night at The Rainbow Warehouse in Birmingham a couple of weeks ago and had a great time, secret special guests came in the shape of Toddla T (whose firing set instigated a mosh pit) and Annie Mac who brought along the beautiful, bashy and blazing hot Lady Chann on mic duty... you know a night's going well when you can afford to keep guests like these a secret. Elsewhere the likes of Doorly and Tomb Crew tore it up whilst Scarlet Harlots proved themselves to be one of the best young indie rock (for want of better pigeon-holing) bands on the circuit.

Anyway, part of the reason these guys know how to put on a top class night is they have their ears finely tuned to the dancefloor, and they are now putting their learned lugholes to further use by starting up a label. We don't have much info on it but we do have these Dubstep reworkings of some 2 Step classics to give you courtesy of the BTB boys. These tracks have already been getting support from all of the DJs we mentioned.

Downloads:

Shorterz Pimps - Spin Spin Enigma (Spin Spin Sugar Dubstep Mix) / alt link

Shorterz 99 - Enigma Groove (RIP Groove Dubstep Mix) / alt link


Thrills has hit us with a bunch of new hype tracks plus a brand new second installment of Dubstep refixes in a handy half hour mix. The firin' Bassline single Go is out on Sub Philo Music soon with remixes from the likes of Taz Buckfaster, Tony Rocky Horror and Zeppy Zep and has been getting Radio 1 play from Kissy Sell Out.

Downloads:

Thrills - Next Friday (Original Mix) / alt link

Tragik - Crazy (Thrills & Tony Rocky Horror Remix) / alt link

We Are Enfant Terrible - I Can't Help Myself (Thrills & Tony Rocky Horror Dub) / alt link

Thrills - Dubstep Refix Mix 2


Some of you may have caught this guy in our latest chart, but we have a couple more tracks to give away from Polish producer Spox, whose background in the Warsaw Hip-hop and Free Party scenes probably helps to endear him to our ears, although both of these tracks are on a Dubstep tip with an Old Skool Rave twist.

Spox - Diz Bass Shit / alt link

Morcheeba - World Lookin' In (Spox's Let's Get Ravey Remix) / alt link

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.