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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

Another killer refix for you here from HavocNDeed, fast becoming one of our favourite pair of pile driving beat purveyors. This one takes the NWA classic Dopeman through a range of tempo changes, stomping from 140 to 180 to 90. Most useful indeed.

Download: NWA - DopemaN (HavocNDeed Tempo Change Maddness Mix) / alt link


The fellas have a new release on Play Me records called Headspin with a bunch of remixes and this big vocal mix that could easily find itself gate crashing daytime radio playlists.

HavocNdeeD - Headspin (Vocal Version ft. Skaught Parry) by HavocNdeeDsounD

Not only that but Play Me have also hit us with this bumper bucket of bootlegs from some of their other artists.

Download: Major Lazer - Keep It Going Louder (KING! Remix) / alt link

Download: Daft Punk - Da Funk (Claw VIP) / alt link

Bonus Download: White Panda - Ready For My Neck My Back / alt link

As the summer offically starts pretty miserably weather wise for some people, iamxl drops a brand new mix that makes it all sunshine and beaches with a jacking blend of Electro coated Reggae, Funk, Jazz, Hip-hop and Pop. Although the man from Vancouver has been hitting us up with plenty of his own remixes over the past few months this is his first mixtape outing since last year's Back To Berlin, a most welcome return indeed.

(MF) iamxl - D.A.N.C.E. Happens

Tracklisting

01. Sublime - Summertime (iamxl edit)
02. Booty Cologne - Shake What Your Mama Gave Ya (don't feed the monkey remix)
03. Rye Rye ft. MIA - Bang Bang (Nacey Remix)
04. Missy Elliott vs Jesse Rose - Touch my Horn (Hump Day remix)
05. Mowgli - Pa Po Pon
06. N.A.S.A. - Gifted (Steve Aoki remix)
07. Chris Kaeser - Who's in the House? (DJ Chuckie remix)
08. Tiga - Shoes (Noob Remix)
09. Claude Von Stroke - Deep Throat (Justin Martin remix)
10. Douster - More Gunz
11. Armand Van Helden - Bonkers (Doorly Dubstep remix)
12. Santigold - Unstoppable (iamxl edit)
13. K-OS - Sunday Morning (iamxl edit)
14. Too Short - I Need a Freak (iamxl remix)
15. Le Le - Breakfast (Mercury remix)
16. Claude Von Stroke - Peanut Butter Jelly Time (Miami Bootleg)
17. Major Lazer - Pon De Floor (BeatauCue remix)
18. Stoopit - Wamp Wamp (Red Foxx Chopped n FX Edit)
19. Fashen - Bam Bam
20. Switch - A Bit Patchy in Bulo (Tate Re-rub)
21. Bass Weazals - Weazals Love Reggae
22. Krs-One - Sound of the Police (Freq Nasty mix / iamxl edit)
23. Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up, Look Sharp (ButtonMasher remix)
24. Bass Weazals - Weazaling (ultra low remix)
25. Prince - When Doves Cry (Bobentunem remix)
26. Hot Chip - Over and Over (Solid Groove remix)
27. Nostalgia 77 & Alice Russell - 7 Nation Army (iamxl edit)

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

If the recent Bassnectar remix we posted wasn't proof enough that the West Coast is still runnin' tings on the filthy bass ridden digitally mutated Hip-hop tip then we have two more remixes from the region to firmly hit the point home for you.


First up we have a Hollyrock handling of a Tru-skool classic as LA beatmeister Tatelarock takes on Channel Live & KRS One's Mad Izm, sparking it up to date with a little less bounce than the original but plenty of neck snapping punch that puts it safely at the top of our playlist at the moment.

(YSI) Channel Live ft KRS One - Mad Izm (Tatelarock Remix) / alt link


Next up San Fran's an-ten-nae flips the 'surf rock ragga' of the first official leak from the new Major Lazer album (featuring Mr Lexx and Santigold on vocals) into the kind of grimey nastiness that Cyborg Yardies of the future will be doing drive bys to.

(YSI) Major Lazer ft Mr Lexx & Santigold - Hold The Line (an-ten-nae Remix) / alt link

We're extremely excited here at Chrome Kids HQ to catch the new Major Lazer album when it finally drops. As big respectors of both Diplo and Switch, and all life long Reggae fans this should be one of our albums of the year... however. I have to say that personally I'm disappointed in the latest leak from the project.

It's not the weak lyric writing that bothers me. Dancehall generally has a long history of questionable lyrics that would make most songwriters recoil at their childish simplicity, but it has never stopped me from loving the tunes. Bashment is all about the fire, the passion and the delivery so we can forgive it's lack of poetic intricacy.

It's not even that I hate the way the vocoder / auto tune effect had been dominating the scene. I've long given up that rant and come to simply accept it as a given these days.

What bothers me is that in 2009, artists with such a following in the Dance music scene as Diplo and Switch, infact no the fact that any artists whatsoever, are putting out such blatantly homophobic hate tunes. This is coming from a man who at my own admission had copies of Buju Banton's Boom Bye Bye on both 12" when it came out and 7" as a remix some few years later. I was a regular at Ragga jams as a teenager, where artists would get the biggest cheer for cursing out 'Batty men', and I was one of those cheering. I'm not proud of these facts, but they are the facts no less and I won't try and make excuses for it either. However it is not just me that has grown up and seen the foolishness in such actions, society in general has grown up too, at least I thought it had. Reggae artists have been put under so much pressure not to preach such hatred by having their records banned or dropped from their label or not being allowed entry to countries on tour, that the level of homophobia within Reggae generally has been reduced dramatically. Pressure has also been put on the media as a whole to show homosexuality in a more favourable light and the stigma is just not as great any more. Even the younger hardcore Christian fundamentalists tend to be seen saying, "we think it's wrong but like whatever".

So why with all this in mind does the new Major Lazer track have lines such as "me a zombie and me don't eat gays / cos me don't like the HIV" (which is even more offensive in it's appaling rhyme flow, "cos me don't like AIDS" would have been a far more effective follow up line I would have thought), and make many an un-complimentary reference to "Batty Men"..

Actually, all Andy Milokanis does seem to do is eat brains, smoke cocaine and jack up heroin all day, so maybe we can forgive him his rather misguided outlook on life then, but the other two should know better. As this is just a leak hopefully they will address the point in question and this track won't actually make it onto the album after all.

I deliberated about actually putting the tune up, but as many readers come through various blog aggregators that pick up the music specifically it's been included.

**** late edition to the post ****

having just seen the video of these guys in the studio and realising that Andy Milokanis is in fact Andy Milonakis (and also finding out who he is) I realise that Diplo and Switch might have been so caught up in the darkly humorous fact that this crazy chubby Greek American with a congenital growth-hormone condition is dropping these kind of lyrics that they didn't give the actual content much thought, or consider it to be anything but funny, but unfortunately any humour is lost in the translation to many of us fellas and the track still needs to be scrapped.

This is the guy doing the vocals...



Actually on watching this I have the sneaking suspicion that he is actually gay, in which case the ironic humour isn't lost on me, but like I said, the whole reason for this post was because I took it on face value, I had no idea who this guy was so I think there needs to be some context to it all. I still maintain that it shouldn't be an album track but maybe a video that makes the humour more obvious.
(YSI) Major Lazer (Diplo & Switch) - Zumbi (Feat. Andy Milokanis)