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Featured on this blog three weeks ago, Russia’s Demokracy return on Robox Neotech with the upcoming Double Star EP. It’s a wildly assorted partypack of bass flavours, kicking off with the out-and-out bombast of the opening title track, which has a distinct whiff of heavy metal about it. Elsewhere influences from Zomby to Drexciya rear their heads, meshed into spangled dubstep/hiphop beat stylings, cold, blippy synthlines and the occasional (if I’m honest) slightly iffy vocal sample. Messy but well worth checking – as are the two freebies below, which showcase the duo's restless sound.

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

Following on from his Drunkerdz single, our man Monky has a new EP out on Robox Neotech called A Thought which is the proverbial piss that rains down on anybody who attempts to make tunes without first processing their thought pattern through a quantum head space like our Chrome compadre... in other words this is the business! And so to celebrate Monky is giving away this free non-EP track, which Radio 1 new music Guru and Bestival Head Honcho, Rob Da Bank quite rightly said is "friggin' wicked."

Monky - Hypa Nova by Chrome Kids

Monky has also been chatting to Baobinga over at Bass Music Blog about music and other general madness. Plus he's provided them with a cracking new mix as well.

Bass Music Mix 22 - Monky by bassmusic

Tracklisting:

Monky - French Vanilla (dub)
Albert - Crosseyed (dub)
Mount Kimbe - Blind Night Erand (Hot Flush)
IVXX - Back In Business
Superrisk - Find Your Way (forthcoming on Punch Drunk)
Monky - Hey Miss (dub)
Ty - Heart Is Breaking (Che + Diverse Concepts RMX) (dub)
Monky - Hipster (dub)
C.R.S.T. - Forever After (dub)
Monky - Drunkerdz (Rodox NeoTech)
Monky - Train Wreck (dub)
IVXX - P the 3 (dub)
Dan Marshal - Monster tune (dub)
Stagga ft Skamma + Joe Blow - Genik Riddim (dub)
Hudson Mowhawke - Snap Dragon (warp)
2000f + J Kamata - You Don't Know What Love Is (Don Leisure Rmx) (dub)
Monky - Badman Nigiri (Robox NeoTech)
Proper Villains - Music Takes Me Up (C.R.S.T. RMX) (dub)
Lung - Broken V.I.P. (dub)
Doshy - Chip (Monky RMX) (dub)
Mr Healan - Turned Master (dub)

Doshy has been passing us some killer crunkesque tech-step recently from his secret lab in Berlin. We're loving his sound at the moment and seems like the feeling may be mututal as our boys Monkey and Stagga are all up in this new mix from him. Check it out and make sure you hunt down releases from his Robox-Neotech label (such as the latest bleeptastic Who Is Hudson River from Zet). This mix is pretty much what he's playing out at the moment but 'without the rewinds'.

Download: Doshy - ClubMix

Tracklisting:

1. monkey - a thought (forthcoming robox neotech)
2. doshy - space attack + vip (destpub)
+ zomby - aquafresh (hyperdub)
3. doshy - scatter (forthcoming tigerbeat6)
4. mr curtamos - bläh (dub)
5. rudi zygadlo - toys (doshy rmx) (forthcoming planet mu)
6. doshy - chip (destpub)
7. doshy - milky way (dub)
8. stagga - timewarp (forthcoming robox neotech)
9. eprom - humanoid (rewina)
10. doshy - ?????????(dub)
11. stagga - lopside (doshy rmx) (robox neotech)
12. doshy - sunset (dub)