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The dynamically downbeat duo of Metabeats and Don Leisure who make up the Darkhouse Family have just put this litte beat tape together for the guys over at 92bpm.com and it points to some exciting goings on at the camp with a bunch of unreleased group, solo and collabo material alongside their released tracks on Fat City.

Download: Darkhouse Family - DHF Beat Tape via 92bpm

Tracklisting:

01 - Metabeats - Transposer
02 - Don Leisure - Punta Skala
03 - Darkhouse Family - Stay Blazed
04 - Don Leisure - Slix (Money)
05 - Darkhouse Family - City Rd
06 - Darkhouse Family - Kola Bruiser
07 - Don Leisure - Hear Diss!!!
08 - DHF x Mask - Mein Atari
09 - Metabeats x Diverse Concepts - Embossed
10 - Darkhouse Family - Sliced Up
11 - Don Leisure - Birthday Bounce
12 - Metabeats - Toaster Jazz
13 - Don Leisure - Your World
14 - Don Leisure x Immerse - Artichoke Rising
15 - Metabeats - Opa Beat
16 - Darkhouse Family - Tears
17 - Metabeats - Oh No You Don't
18 - Darkhouse Family - Lemon Drizzle
19 - Metabeats - Whoutalkinto
20 - Darkhouse Family - Blueberry
21 - Darkhouse Family - Blues
22 - Don Leisure - Theme
23 - Darkhouse Family - Meditation
24 - Darkhouse Family - Next Shit
25 - Metabeats - Do Dat
26 - Don Leisure - Elgin Baylor

We've been running round like a bunch of mad March hares for the last month or so and we've taken our eye off the ball a few times. One particular ball just hit us in the face when we realised that the March mix we had off our amgio Don Leisure has slipped into April. We're not the most respectful of rules or time however and this mix will remain fresh for many moons to come so for your listening pleasure...

When compiling our Monday Mixtapes we scandalously overlooked this one from our boys Don Leisure and Metabeats aka Darkhouse Family, who shall be dropping a 12" on Fat City mid April some time.

This mix also contains the future garage track Baduka from Metabeats' alter ego Chesus and fellow Barry dweller Diverse Concepts which we posted earlier and is looking at getting a release sometime soon through Ten Thousand Yen.

Don Leisure returns with a new mix of the month, featuring bags of funk and soul added to the clunk click glitch fuzz of the LA, Detroit and Glasgow post Hip-hop schools of music. Includes a new tune from the man himself which is perhaps fittingly dedicated to the LA Lakers forward and Clippers General Manager Elgin Baylor (see / hear below).

Download: Don Leisure - January Mix

ELGIN BAYLOR v1 by Don Leisure

It's rare indeed that we'll post any straight up Drum N Bass tracks, but what with us being all up in Knowledge Mag and dropping a DnB tune in our mix from Baobinga & ID that you might not have expected and two straight up Jungle offerings from both Count & Sinden and Stagga (which may find it's way into the blogosphere soon), it seems like the perfect time to drop these exlusives on your eardrums from Jamal.

This tune has been floating about for a while on BBC 1Xtra and mixes from the likes of Infiltrata (aka West Coast Dubstep don 12th Planet) but until now has never properly seen the light of day, despite much nagging. Don't let the name and floaty eastern sounding samples fool you, this is some dangerous bass heavy tear out bizness indeed.

Download: Jamal - Blossom (Stomp Mix) / alt link

Download: Jamal - Blossom (Rolling Mix v.1) / alt link

Jamal has been in the studio cooking up some new tracks but his Jeckyl and Hyde style alter ego Don Leisure is keeping his side of things pretty much locked down at the moment, with his Darkhouse Family project alongside Metabeats gaining much love from the likes of Waajeed, Gaslamp Killer, Illum Sphere and Martyn, plus radio plays on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra amongst many. The first official taster from that should come on Volume 2 of Fat City's fairly seminal Producer compilation out next month. Check the incredible full line up for that here.

Bonus Download: Baobinga & ID - Jah / alt link


If you need to mellow out after all that jumping about then maybe this might help to sooth your soul slightly. Also hailing from the Cardiff area, Easy Buffalo just hit us with this funkalicious little Gorillaz bootleg. They also have a few tracks in the pipeline with some of our favourite smoothed out Welsh rappers such as Redeye, Skunkadelic and Louis Boston, we've had a little taster and should hopefully be able to share a little something more with you all soon.

Download: Easy Buffalo - Gorilla Boots (Clint Eastwood Bootleg) / alt link

RDCRD LBL have just posted a while album of blissed out glitchy Hip-hop courtesy of Phaseone. Here's a few of our choice cuts but we fully recommend grabbing the whole affair from the link below.

Downloads:

Phaseone - Temp Tags / Star Fox / alt link

Phaseone - Tim Gun / alt link

Phaseone - Cadence + Athena / alt link

Phaseone - Thanks But No Thanks (Full Album)


Also the guys over at Size? Cardiff have an exclusive mix from the man like Don Leisure featuring some of his very own VIPs and a bunch of classic tracks from the likes of Afta 1, Hudson Mohawke, Waajeed, MF Doom, Dam Funk and Harmonic 313. Pick it up here.

Our man Metabeats has been mightily busy of late. As well as the soon to come Sledgehammer Kisses EP with Mudmowth and the new album from his clique Squid Ninjaz for which he's provided a number of beats, and even a few rhymes, he's also been setting dancefloors on fire with the Chesus & Rodski stuff and is working on a new solo album, for which information is scarce but we do know that Elucid makes an appearance or two in there some place and no doubt some of the other Squid Ninjaz and Associated Minds family will find there way in there too.

On top of all this he's found time to drop us this small slice of Dillafied future soul, new beat generation type business. You can grab the wav here or a 320 MP3 below.

(YSI) Metabeats - Fruit Salad / alt link


If this is your flavour then the track is also included in this BBC Radio 1 mix from Don Leisure who is also collaborating with Metabeats on yet another project under the Darkhouse Family moniker and who, as his Drum & Bass alias Jamal has just hit us up with one of the filthiest half time D&B tracks we've heard in a while in the shape of Untitled Stink which you can check on his Myspace.

(SS) Don Leisure Mix on BBC Introducing in Wales (inc interview)

Tracklisting:

Brenk - Dont Stop (MPM BEAT 45)
Don Leisure – Slix (money) (White)
Don Leisure – Birthday Bounce (White)
Debruit & Om'as Keith – Im going wit you (Civil Music)
Don Leisure – Deluxe Pez Suite (White)
Dam-Funk – Chocolate (Stones Throw)
J-Dilla – Untitled (White)
Hudson Mohawke – Are you feeling hot? (White)
Metabeats – Fruit4 Salad (Associated Minds)
808 State – Pacific State (Lazarus Project Bootleg) (Cease & Desist)
Don Leisure – 1x1 (White)
Don Leisure – Russel Dust (White)

After tearing up the Drum & Bass scene for years as Jamal, with big tracks on Ganja Tek and Rufige, one of our extended family Don Leisure has been busy in the lab making some incredible Dubstep and off key soul inflected Hip-hop. Here's a taster he's dropped us of some of that latter 'Jerky Soul' style.

(YSI) Don Leisure - Jerky Soul Micro Mix 1 / alt link