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Whoops the Christmas situation has thrown our days into even more confusion then usual, we only just figured out it was Monday in time to hit you with these. No tracklistings unfortunately but the first is forged from beats entirely of San Fran 'Blap' pioneer Dnae Beat's making, whilst the second is more of a straight up Hip-hop offering from the Associated Minds' catalogue, past present and still to drop including Metabeats, Ruffstylz, Mudmowth, Dubbledge and Elucid.


There's a Wormhole in My Bathroom by DNAEBEATS


Download: DJ Jaffa - Associated Minds Xmas Mixtape

As the rain kicks in here at Chrome Mansions let's look to sunnier climates and head over to the West Coast, USA for a sonic holiday.


Flying Skulls hit us up with two of their new releases, which comprise of remixes from their Take Flight remix by artists such as Mochipet, Ribotto and their own BBQ Chicken Dub alter egos. Abducted Vol 1 is out on Addictech now or on iTunes as of tomorrow. Abducted Vol 2 is out as an exclusive release on Daly City Records and includes this remix of Skeleton Talk. With it's machine gun drum patterns, some of the squelchiest bass alive and twisted G funk synths, it's kinda like listening to classic Dr Dre in a K hole.

Download: Skeleton Talk (BBQ Chicken Dub Remix) / alt link


Meanest Man Contest just dropped us this superbly spaced out remix of their track Day Off Theme from the excellent new Leaders compilation on Subtitle's Briefcase Rockers label (also featuring Lazer Sword, Small Is Beautiful, Debruit, Crunc Telsa and a whole heap more). On this version their pal Calamalka from Vancouver gives it a beautifully liquid sounding Rolf Harris wobble.

Download: Meanest Man Contest - Day Off Theme (Calamalka Remix) / alt link


Not many Emcees can touch Gift Of Gab for straight up free firing flow and liquid lyricism. A master of his art that at times is mind blowing and at others has you waving bananas in the air in a funk fuelled frenzy, so of course we await the new album eagerly. If you're also a fan of the gifted one then you can pre-order his sophomore solo album here. If not then maybe this track can convince you, a latin tinted funk nodder with a lovely dubbed out breakdown at the end.

Download: Gift Of Gab - El Gifto Magnifico / alt link


Muti Music just uploaded this sinister low fi creeper from the Glitch Mob and PantYRaid don Ooah onto their Soundcloud account. We're not certain but it's probably a teaser for the next Acid Crunk compilation from An-ten-nae due out on Muti in November.

The label also have a compilation out now that they've put together for the Symbiosis Gathering festival that is most definitely worth copping (out on Addictech at the moment and full release in the next couple of weeks). It features the original of the Skeleton Talk track posted above and some of our other favourites from the likes of An-ten-nae and Eskmo.

Ooah - Foolish Science by Muti

Eazy E was the first to admit that he wasn’t exactly a role model. Yet that didn’t stop millions of teenagers kids all across the world looking up to the alter-ego of business brain Eric Wright and agreeing that this was indeed one gangsta muthafucka worthy of respect. Many hardcore Hip-hoppers have since cursed the day that guns, bitches and bling became one of the cornerstones of the movement, but secretly they were never directing their ill feelings towards originators such as Eazy E. Without him Ice Cube would probably still be ripping off the Beastie Boys, Dr Dre might still be wearing make-up and both Yella and MC Ren would have disappeared without trace (okay so that happened anyway but you get the drift). He carried an arsenal of guns bigger than he was, had money coming out of every orifice and pussy falling out of his pockets but still managed to donate millions to charities, and regularly took orphans on field trips. Sadly, in a cruel twist of irony, his passion for ‘pussy’ caught up with him and in 1995 he died of AIDS, leaving a bullet sized hole in the Hip-hop world, and spreading fear across anyone in LA who had neglected to use a condom recently.

Now thanks to a rare 92 accapella and the kind of electronic re-engineering that only happens to cyborgs in sci-fi movies, ‘the lunatic psycho muthafucka’ is back from the grave, on a mission of sex, death, violence and revenge, all good family entertainment as usual. Mixes come in a glitched up and bouncy style from Eprom, a juggernaut driving DJ 0.000001 mix for those long lonely highways and a huge Mochipet mash up of the two that comes stomping in like an electronic Hip-hop slaughter fest. Think Ed 209 Versus Robocop or one of the missing evil Decepticons that turns into a crunked up Monster Truck with speakers in its rims.

"That's very fucking rude!" Rob Da Bank (BBC Radio 1)

This EP is the latest in our Fre-Release series that started with a previous DJ 0.000001 track and has since included Stagga, zwolf and Th’ Mole. Look out for plenty more lined up over the rest of the year.

Downloads (Mediafire)

DJ 0.000001 & Mochipet - Eazy E On Atari / alt link

DJ 0.000001 & Mochipet ft Eprom - Eazy Eprom / alt link

DJ 0.000001 - Eazy E On The Range / alt link

Full zip with artwork, acapella and Eazy E On Atari instrumental here...

Mochipet & DJ 0.000001 - Eazy-E On Atari (zip) / alt link

Jack Beats make their San Fran debut this Friday alongside Sticky K and a host of others. This is gonna be MASSIVE so if you're in the area reach down.

(YSI) AC Slater - Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix, Thrills Dubstep Refix) / alt link

(YSI) TC - Where's My Money (Caspa Remix) (Jack Beats Edit) / alt link

(YSI) Jack Beats - What (Foamo Re-edit) / alt link

(YSI) Major Lazer feat Supahype - Jump Up (Sticky K Remix) / alt link

(YSI) The Score - Girls Gone Wild (Sticky K Remix) / alt link

(YSI) B. Rich - Make Me Dance (Sticky K Remix) / alt link

West Coast digital Hip-hop mutants The Flying Skulls have hit us up with a few rocks of their Club Crack remix bootlegs that are almost as disturbing as they are dope as f**k.


To be honest I'd be kinda scared to drop the Spank Rock sampling Club Killer remix out in an actual club, in case it did inspire literal dancefloor murderations, whilst Welsh rhymer Mudmowth is having a 'Circus In The Cemetery' and 'Carnival On Your Carcass' with his classic Skullcrackology track getting the full filth treatment from the The Flying Skulls. The death analogies don't stop there either as the ghost of Aaliyah haunts the live jam remix of Rock The Boat, probably what The Ferryman has cranked up loud on his MP3 player if he's still shipping souls to Hades.

These tracks are essentially mash ups with the beats to be found on their forthcoming album Take Flight, which isn't actually all death and doom, although it is certainly a killer. We'll tell you more about that twisted beauty nearer the time, although if you download the zip files to retrieve all three tracks then there's a press release preview for your perusal.

Flying Skulls - Club Crack EP (zip)

The Flying Skulls - Rock the Boat (Live Jam) feat Aaliyah / YSI

That's right people curb your anticipation we are finally ready to drop our second official Chrome Kids' Fre-Release. Once again we've teamed up with Daly City for a bumper pack of remixes of Th' Mole track How 2 B Cool.



There were two main types of kids at my school, those who were seen as being cool but grew up to be wife beaters and smack addicts, and those for whom cool was an uphill struggle until they finally left education and blossomed in later life. Th’ Mole might seem at first glance to be neither of these. He’s still very much the kid on the outside looking... well not quite in, but elsewhere… which of course is what makes him hyper cool. Not in a Mark Ronson ‘oh look I’m a little bit nerdy, aren’t I cool’ type way, Th’ Mole is the real deal. But have no fear, you don’t have to rock superhero style spandex outfits or make phat crunked out (and slightly tripped out) music to be cool ‘it’s really not hard there isn’t a trick’. To help you out, Th’ Mole has put together this handy 10 Point program.

10 Ways To Be Cool

1. When you're shopping don't just leave your groceries on the checkout counter while you shop. There are other people in the world besides yourself.

2. When driving, try to stay out of the fast/passing lanes unless you need to be there. You have the ability to reduce a lot of traffic, simply by letting faster cars pass you. When passing do it quickly and then get into a slower lane as soon as possible. (Even if you're at or above the speed limit, let people pass you if they want - you're not the freaking boss of the road!)

3. Tell your parental figures all of the things that you've ever been afraid to tell them, or as many of them as you can stand. Because it will help both you and them to grow.

4. Exercise every day. It keeps you healthy and makes you strong! Also, it will make you feel happier, and then you will be nicer!

5. Don't try to talk to someone while they're performing on-stage. Even if they're just staring at a computer, your intrusion may disrupt their performance. Also, just because someone is rapping on-stage, it doesn't mean that it's an open mic or a battle, so if you aren't scheduled to perform, don't try to.

6. Let your friends, relatives, co-workers, employees, employers, etc. know that you appreciate and/or respect them, whether it is with words, eye contact, hugs, or otherwise.

7. Babies are great, but if you decide to have one then you also have a responsibility. When you're in a restaurant or theatre or something, and that thing starts crying, take it outside. You should have known what you were getting into when you made it.

8. Also about babies, change your child's diaper as soon as it needs it. Don't try to pretend that you don't notice the poop smell, especially when you're in a public place. It's gross and inconsiderate. The same goes for letting your snot-nosed kids run around in public dripping snot all over stuff. We don't want your kid's disease.

9. One final parental note: don't yell at your kids in public. I don't think you should yell at them at home either, but unfortunately that's not my jurisdiction. But when your verbal abuse becomes a public nuisance then you definitely should shut up.

10. Say no to drugs!

Simple really, of course you could just download these remixes of How 2 B Cool by the kind of producers who make Fonzy look like Gordon Brown's brief case:

Ladyscraper who takes a break from his Gabbafied Breakcore excursions to drop a Breaky Dubstep-esque version; and Robot Koch (Jahcoozi / The Tape) who adds a slightly wobblesome bass in an Acid Crunk style - both of which give just the slightest hint of menace to Th’ Mole’s simple message of ‘don’t be mean and never tell lies’, kinda like, be cool, or else!

Download

(YSI) Th' Mole - How 2 B Cool (Ladyscraper Rmx) / alt link

(YSI) Th' Mole - How 2 B Cool (Robot Koch Rmx) / alt link

There’s also a remix from Th’ Mole himself who takes the chill factor down to around Blue Rasberry Slush Puppie plus Album Version Acapella & Instrumental. Don’t forget you can still pick up the original on Th’ Mole’s wonderfully colourful Greatest Hits (Ha Ha Ha) Vol. 1 album out now on Daly City Records.

(YSI) Th' Mole - How 2 B Cool (Th' Mole Rmx) / alt link

and the full package...

(Direct Link) Th' Mole - How 2 B Cool Remix EP (Zip)

Bonus Downloads

Couple of bonuses here too. A special track from Th' Mole as he wanders the plains of Europe in search of some parties to rock.

(YSI) Th' Mole - Dear Europe / alt link



Next up is a fantastic version of the Cher / Nancy Sinatra classic Bang Bang from Blondtron out of Canada, who have taken the instrumental from of our DJ 0.000001 Fre-Release as their base. A practice we wholly support, especially when done as well as this so get working on your own versions of How 2 B Cool people!

(YSI) Blondtron - Bang Bang / alt link

Anyone who caught Mary Anne Hobbs' 'West Coast Rocks' programme earlier this week would have heard a killer new remix of the MIA & Rye Rye track 'Tictok'. With 15 years of rockin' the West Coast it was only fair that the man behind the remix was included in the show. An-ten-nae has relatively escaped our radar up until now and f**k knows how cos he produces the kind of stinkin' Bass heavy beats that make you nod your head so hard it gives you concussion. Plus he runs nights such as Get Freaky in San Francisco whose list of guest artists include some of our favourite acts: Mehdi; Jahcoozi, Modeselektor, MRK1;Freq Nasty; and Glitch Mob. Also with his Acid Crunk series (of which #4 has just dropped on Muti Music), he's come up with probably our favourite name to describe the sound so far, infact from now on it is Acid Crunk.

(YSI) An-ten-nae - The Fireman

(YSI) Rush - Tom Sawyer (An-ten-nae Remix)

Any regular listeners to the Mary Anne Hobbs show will know she recently headed over to LA and San Francisco to check the scenes out and deejay at Low End Theory and West Coast Rocks. Well XLR8R have just put up her West Coast Rocks set and true to form it's full of some of the most exciting new Dubstep-esque material out there.

(Direct Link)Mary Anne Hobbs Live in S.F. January 29 - XLR8R Podcast

For a full tracklisting, to listen live or download an enhanced m4a copy head over to XLR8R.com

You can also download the latest Mary Anne Hobbs latest with live sets from Glitch Mob and Lazer Sword via RapidShare here.

Many an old skool Techno producer tried to install a Jazz ethos to the world of computer technology, I’m not convinced any of them truly managed it although I’m sure there are those who would gladly prove me wrong on this. People have found it hard to equate the rigid world of technology with that freestyle spirit, but Flying Skulls certainly help to bridge that gap. For me they might well be the kings of improvisational beat bashing and the two live sets we’ve put up on the blog have been testament to that. It makes sense then that they should release an album of tracks gathered from their live performances. A heavyweight collection of nasty synths, wobbly basslines and crunked out glitchy beats so dirty you'd swear they robbed their MPC players off a crack dealer. J Tonal, Snareface and Jerome Forney are joined by Ribotto and rapperZap Tap , this is Flying Skulls in their element, and whether or not you could class it as strictly a live album, this album is most definitely live. It is also free through the combination of Daly City and 1320 Records so you have no reason not to go grab it right now.

Here's a couple of our choice cuts and a link to the album.

(YSI) Flying Skulls - Skeleton Talk Deconstruxion

(YSI) Flying Skulls feat. Zap Tap and Ribotto- Ill Street Blus

(YSI) Flying Skulls - Xxxmas Morning

(Direct Link) The Flying Skulls - Lift Off (zip)

Proper Tingz, the Wolves raised (Wolverhampton that is, not the furry creatures with big teeth) and San Francisco 'bass-ed' producer has just launched a new website over at www.propatingz.com head over and pick up his wicked Dubstep lick of Lil Wayne's 'A Milli' for free. Also here's a track he made with FreQ Nasty which the FreQuish one included on his absolutely killer FabricLive 42 mix at the end of last year.

(YSI) FreQ Nasty vs Propa Tingz - Peacemaker

Some may have noticed the distortion on the Daly City Radio show a couple of days back. If this seriously hampered your listening pleasure, have no fear as The Flying Skulls, one of the featured acts has given us a crisp and clean (okay it’s filthy dirty but for all the right reasons) copy of a recent live set they recorded for the Daly City Records' Strawberry & Bacon Festival in San Francisco. Expect 46 mins of Crunked Up Electro Prog-Step with: rhymes by ZapTap; Snareface on the MPC ; keys by Ribotto; Jerome Forney handling dirty basslines and a killer trumpet solo; and then finally J Tonal on the mix, engineering, and executive production.

(Direct Link) The Flying Skulls Live @ Strawberry & Bacon Festival, November 2008

Big up to Diversify's brother, Reuben. For giving us a heads up on some killer electro-crunk business outta San Francisco – Lazer Sword. You might remember I mentioned that Egadz was playing an in-store with Mochipet for Puma’s 60th Anniversary, well so are these fellas. So if you are near there on 3rd December make sure you check them out.


(YSI) Restiform Bodies - Interactive Halloween Bear (Lazer Sword Manhole Remix)

(YSI) Lazer Sword Vs Lil Weezy - Stuntin' Like My Daddy's Lazer

(YSI) Dem Franchize Boyz - Lean Wit It (Lazer Sword Turbo Taxin Remix)

They did a mix last month for Mary Anne Hobbs after they were recommended to her by Flying Lotus. If you missed it then head over to Satan Loves Breakcore to download RARs of the whole show.


(Mediafire)Lazer Sword - Blap To The Future Megamix

The mighty Tomb Crew just hit up their blog with a new track from DZ, the San Franciscan based Canadian Dubstep maestro who has a load of heavy new tracks and remixes forthcoming that you should definitely be keeping your eyes out for. ‘Be Cool’ could well be the tracks warning message to itself as it tries (unsuccessfully) to contain the aggravated electromagnetic waves seething out of it in a serious bout of robo-rage.

(YSI) DZ - Be Cool