I'm not sure who was behind this mini remix album for Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi, but top marks to them because there are some stunning collaborations. The album came out this week and includes contributions from Starkey, Phaeleh, Steven Siegel and Robert Lippok. You can buy a copy here.
Also, speaking of Phaeleh, he can be found guesting on the new album from our fellow Cardiff lad Lung, which is out now on Hospital off shoot, Med School. You can stream the whole thing below.
When it comes to the heavier end of Bass Music, very few can touch Starkey in my opinion. He's made consistently huge tunes for a while now, some truly defying all boundaries and pushing things to the limit. This is definitely one of his more accessible tunes and truth be told as a Starkey tune for me it doesn't quite make the grade, however as a great pop tune then it's head and shoulders above most of this kind so definitely deserves props. Plus the video's great, always love Starkey's explorations in Space, can someone please give hi ma Sci-Fi film to score.
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.
In our excitement for getting this video out we accidentally posted a password protected version... sorry for that folks, here's the proper version in all it's twisted glory!
We've told you before about the Astroid Boys and their new single Jungle Booku, well the 'B Side' to that is a track called Party & Bulls**t, produced by Exotope out of Telegram From The Queen, also head of Juvenile Scum records who released the single (got a few of his tracks to post up soon so keep an eye out for them). Here's a video for the track which was filmed at the launch of the single at Cardiff Arts Institute last Friday. Gives you a little insight into how crazy their shows get.
Exotope Ft. Astroid Boys - Party and Bullshit (VIDEO ON YOUTUBE NOW!) by EXOTOPE
The boys will be returning to CAI on Friday 22nd October alongside Stagga who is making a trip to play back home for the first time in a while. Our Chrome compadre has just signed up a few tracks to Starkey's Slit Jockey label. Genik Riddim is due out next month on digital release with remixes from CRST and Starkey, whilst Wild For The Night and Be The Generals are planned as a vinyl / digital single later in the year. Caught Gaslamp Killer dropping Wild For The Night on the Arcadia rig at Bestival, place went off!
STAGGA - WILD FOR THE NIGHT (clip) by STAGGAMUFFIN
STAGGA - BE THE GENERALS (clip) by STAGGAMUFFIN
STAGGA - GENIK RIDDIM feat SKAMMA & JOE BLOW - Seclusiasis Radio Starkey 02 Aug 2010 Sub FM by STAGGAMUFFIN
Anybody keeping an eye towards the goings on of our Mixcloud page would have noticed this rather fine mix of Future Funk flavours from our Cardiff bredren Mr Healan, who was one of the number of acts from the city featured on Starkey's recent Sub FM show (the Philadelphia phuture trooper has also been bigging up the city in his Facebook feed - see we told you our hometown was doing it).
I first heard the Silverman track Can’t Stand The Rain at Pinch’s Dubloaded night in Bristol a few months back. Ghettozoid was spinning it and I remember getting lost inside its rolling tribal drums, warm electronic mist and melancholy Peebles sample. These days it’s rare that I’ll ask about a certain tune or I’d be hassling the DJ all night but this one I had to know. Ironically it was to be due for release on Ghettozoid’s newly launched One4Ho label and now here it is.
This tune has been receiving play from the likes of Falty DL, Starkey and Clark, who also provides a soul crunching remix that seems to flip the original track’s concept of memory, love and loss into a 3 and a half minute masterpiece of dream like emotional manipulation.
The EP is out on One4Ho on August 1st
SiLVERMAN - CANTSTANDTHERAIN by SiLVERMAN
SiLVERMAN - CANTSTANDTHERAIN (Clark Remix) by SiLVERMAN
For all those budding producers suffering from the age old problem that your partner is pissed off about all the time spent in the studio, have no fear. The Dopplerpad seems to be just about the best music making iPhone app out there and by the sounds of their new Outer Spaces EP, featuring tracks by Eskmo, Exillon, Jneiro Jarel and Starkey made exclusively on the app, you could now make some of the best new digitally mutated beats from the safety of your toilet, shopping queue or bus to work. You can download the whole EP for free here but we've included the Starkmeister's selection as a taster.
Download: Starkey - Hurricane's Doppler
Speaking of Starkey, we are most impressed with his latest Sub FM mix which features 2 tracks each from both Monky and Stagga plus our good friend Mr Healan, a relatively new face for anyone outside of the Cardiff scene who is fast making a respectable name for himself.
Download: Starkey - Seclusiasis Radio on Sub FM (June 2010)
Tracklisting:
01 - Starkey "Alienstyles"
02 - Drake ft. the Dream "Shut It Down"
03 - Soulja Boy "Pretty Boy Swag"
04 - Grum "Can't Shake This Feeling"
05 - Kano "Get Wild"
06 - Egyptrixx "Rooks Theme"
07 - Helix "Untitled"
08 - Sheba "Serious (Starkey remix)"
09 - Halp "Leek (Astroposer remix)"
10 - Speaker For the Dead "illusioNaire"
11 - Mestizo "Let It Spray"
12 - Teddy "Devil's Mansion"
13 - Royal-T "Damn It"
14 - Clairvoyants "Modern Day Slavery (Wonder remix)"
15 - Monky "Hypa Nova"
16 - SDUK "InValid"
17 - Gemmy "Jah Kno"
18 - Verb "Drank It All"
19 - Stagga "Ghetto Yutes"
20 - P-Money "Woo Riddim Freestyle"
21 - Slugabed "PO"
22 - Siren "Summer Time in Oakland"
23 - NastyNasty "Apologies"
24 - Stagga"Beyond"
25 - Miki Grems "J'Thumilie"
26 - DJ Nate "See Into My Eyes"
27 - Kastle "Better Off Alone (NastyNasty remix)"
28 - Kanye West "Power (ft. Dwele)"
29 - By Proxy "Under Ground"
30 - Epcot "Bad Dreamcatcher"
31 - DJ Nate "Footwurk Homocide"
32 - Mr. Scruff vs Kirsty Almeida "Pickled Spider"
33 - Swede:art "Wonkybikez"
34 - Amp Live "Turn It Up (Marty Party remix)"
35 - Brisco "On the Wall ft. Lil Wayne (instrumental)"
36 - Range "Ghetto Dance ft. Rick Ross"
37 - Reso & Starkey "Untitled New Thing"
38 - Innerpartysystem "American Trash (Starkey remix)"
39 - Siyoung "Eros"
40 - 8Bitch "G41 (Rustie remix)"
41 - Terror Danjah "Air Bubble (Starkey remix)"
42 - Slugabed "Sex"
43 - Drums of Death "Everything All At Once"
44 - Numan "Quezt"
45 - Mr Healan "Mad Love For Zaggins"
46 - Nelly Furtado "Turn Off the Lights (Dro Carey remix)"
47 - Grimelock ft. Rose T "Balance"
48 - Distal "Coke Bottle"
49 - Cassie "Me & U (Kastle remix)"
50 - Chrissy Murderbot "Poison"
51 - Monky "Hey Miss"
52 - Ghost Mutt "Thouroughbred"
We've been absolutely loving the latest Numan release Skull Crusher, especially the remix from Capricorn One aka Elucid and El Carnicero. They've taken the original Dubstep track and flipped it into the kind of pimped out space age sounds for your lowriding hover car that almost feels like hearing Kool Keith's Dr Octagon album for the first time. You can pick up a copy of the EP over at Juno but those nice fellas at Seclusiasis have dropped us an exclusive remix for you all from SDUK (whose Clunge EP also dropped on the label last week).
Download: Numan - Skull Crusher (SDUK Remix)
You gotta love Starkey for letting us satisfy our MTV Base side in a respectable manner. A worthy outake from his Street Bass Volume 4 album here but if this is still a touch too wet look gel for some of you guys you could do worse then pick up the BD1982 album Let's Talk Math on Starkey's Seclusiasis label now.
Download: T-Pain ft. Lil Wayne - Can't Believe It (Starkey Remix) / alt link
It's about time I hit you with another Thugstep blend. You may recognise this one from my January Podcast; imo it worked so well, that I decided to make a full blend out of it. Fully tagged, encoded at 320kbps...Vocals kick in after 32 bars, giving you a chance to mix/double drop properly.
GetDarker just dropped this absolutely thumping funked out Starkey remix complete with haunted house synths for The Constellations, a nu-school Psych-Funk group from Atlanta, whose forthcoming album also features guest slots from Cee-lo and Asher Roth.
DownloadThe Constellations - Setback (Starkey Remix - 192kbps)
With a new Planet Mu album on the way and the killer OK Luv single with Badness doing damage, we expect some big things from Starkey and that whole liquid digi-funk Dubstep sound in general this year. To highlight the case in point of the lion going from strength to strength Fabriclive are moving him up from the usual Room 3 spot to take on Room 1 for the first time on Friday the 15th of January alongside: those legendary Fabric mainstays, Scratch Perverts; Reggae stalwarts,the Trojan Sound System; and the cool and deadly Tayo. They've also sent us this dope 1Xtra mix that was originally broadcast on Redlight's show.
Starkey - 1xtra Mix by fabric
Tracklisting:
01 - Starkey "Fidelio" (planet mu)
02 - SDUK "Clunge" (slit jockey)
03 - Slugabed "Ultra Heat Treated" (planet mu)
04 - Kuedo "Glow" (planet mu)
05 - NastyNasty "Four Letter Word" (dub)
06 - Starkey "Rain City" (rwina)
07 - R. Kelly "Bangin the Headboard" (jive)
08 - Mosca "Square One (Bok Bok remix)" (night slugs)
09 - Kaiser "Lost in an Analogue Dream" (slit jockey)
10 - Gorilla Zoe "Lost (Starkey remix)" (adult swim/bad boy south)
11 - Starkey "Capsule" (planet mu)
12 - Starkey ft. Badness "OK Luv" (planet mu)
13 - Gemmy "The Midnite Drive" (dub)
14 - Kano "Rock N Roller (Starkey remix)" (bpm)
15 - Bon Iver "Woods (Starkey remix)" (dub)
We mentioned it before but it's finally dropped and it is indeed as weighty as we'd expected. One of our favourite genre descriptions for the crunked up bass tearing, digitally mutated Hip-hop sound has to be San Francisco all round champion of it An-ten-nae's offering of Acid Crunk, especially with us all being fans of the twisted 303 dirt that Acid House gave us and which definitely has its shadows in the Hip-hop hybrid.
Now for their 50th release, Muti Music drops part two in An-ten-nae's Acid Crunk compilation series. Already hitting number one in no less than 3 of the Beatport charts (Dubstep, Electronica and Chillout, although which crazy bastard has been chilling out to these sounds we have no idea) this is a big compilation indeed and features such chrome favourites as Ooah, Gemmy, Robot Koch and Akira Kiteshi, whose Ulysses track from the compilation made it onto our Knowledge Me mix and thanks to those kind fellas at Muti is included for you here. If that's your flavour then make sure you pick up the whole thing here.
Download: Akira Kiteshi - Ulysses / alt link
Also from our mix and a late contendor for tune of the year (or maybe an early one for tune of next year) is Starkey's new single on Planet Mu featuring Brummie emcee Badness who manages to make what is ultimately a gal tune sound credible and not cheesy despite some rather suspect lyrics (apparently he 'shows luv better than he says' let's hope so for the lady's sake). Helped of course in no small way by the fluid futuristic funk of the Philly Dubstep don. You can pick it up now here along with a few dope remixes including one from our very own Chrome compadre Stagga.
The guys over at Adult Swim who always have an ear for great music have teamed up with the Timbaland co-prduced beatmaking game Beaterator to bring some incredible remixes of Atlanta Hip-hop artists by such global leaders of the new school as Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke, Starkey and Dabrye. Here's a player with all the tracks and a few of our choice cuts but you can download the whole lot here.
(player removed for being really annoying)
Downloads:
B.o.B. - Satellite (Hudson Mohawke Remix) / alt link
Gorilla Zoe - Lost (Starkey Remix) / alt link
Goodie Mob - Is That You God (Dabrye Remix) / alt link
Those folks at Mad Decent also leaked this remix of the recently incarcerated ATL rapper Gucci Mayne. The track is taken from the forthcoming Diplo mixtape using tracks from Gucci's own Cold War mixtape, switched up by himself and a few friends.
Download: Gucci Mayne - Dangers Not a Stranger (Diplo Remix) / alt link
And whilst we're in remix mood here's a bunch of our favourite remixes we've recieved this week. Most of whom should need little introduction.
Downloads:
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (Bossasaurus Remix) / alt link
Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine (Psymbionic Remix) / alt link
Bassnectar - Boombox (DJ Vadim remix feat Pugs Atomz) / alt link
Anti Pop Consortium - Get Lite (Tobacco Remix) / alt link
BosBos pick out some gems from Planet Mu's releases this year for a new mixtape. Not hard when their output includes artists such as Hudson Mohawke, Starkey, Jamie Vex’d and Raffertie.
Download: BosBos – The Mµ Wave (51mins, 117MB)
Tracklisting:
01. Syntheme – Mimtro
02. Brackles – Sutorîto Faitâ
03. Starkey – Miracles (Jamie Vex’d Remix)
04. Terror Danjah – Zumpi Hunter (Swindle Remix)
05. Gemmy – Rainbow Rd.
06. Boxcutter – Sidereal Day
07. Pinch – Teleportation (Original Mix)
08. Ital Tek – Massive Error
09. Raffertie – Wobble Horror!
10. Jamie Vex’d – Radiant Industry
11. Floating Points – K&G Beat
12. Hudson Mohawke – Spotted
13. Tranqill – Payroll (Paul White’s Clean Dub)
Dub Technic have a grindingly good new Dubstep release due from Uzul, one of the members of the French live dub band Kaly Live Dub. With a remix from Skream and recent plays from Mary Anne Hobbs, Starkey, Headhunter and Freq Nasty underlining how good this release is, this track should hopefully open some doors for some of the dope new Dubstep producers coming out of France right now. For a taster of the Uzul sound, check out this mix he's just put together using a selection of his own pruductions.
(SS) Uzul - Megamix
Tracklisting:
1. Rumble inna station (Uzul)
2. Under pressure (Uzul)
3. Sweet nightmare (Uzul)
4. Conscious dub (Uzul)
5. Dubwise (Uzul)
6. Airwaves's wobble (Uzul)
7. Ruffneg (Uzul)
8. Boumbaclat (Uzul)
9. Spring melody (Uzul)
S.P.E.C.T.R.E on some crunked out Dubstep meets Glitchy Bass heavy Hip-hop tip.
(MF) S.P.E.C.T.R.E. - BijouBeats Featured Mix - Summer 2009
Tracklist:
Tim Davison – Gateway (intro)
>> Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Serious Drug Collection loop
Mochipet – Godzilla New Year (VibeSquaD remix)
>> Clipse feat Slim Thug – Wamp Wamp (acapella)
Robert Koch vs Cerebral Vortex – Soundboy
>> E 40 – Tel Me When To Go
Samples – Outta Control
Mochipet – Robot Pudding (S.P.E.C.T.R.E. remix)
Mochipet – Godzilla New Year (Mimosa Remix)
>>Terence McKenna loop
Adam John – My Love
edIT & The Grouch – Artsy Remix (acapella)
Klone – Metamorphosis
Prodigy – Poison (Samples remix)
Opiuo – Slip
>> Slim Thug – I Ain’t Heard Of That (acapella)
Nosaj Thing – Coat Of Arms
Tipper – Off Kilter
>> Adam Freeland – We Want Your Soul (acapella)
Siren – Hotley Cru
Editor – No Diggity
>> Biggie Smalls – Party & Bullshit (acapella)
DZ – The Fireman
Kyza – Go (Bar 9 remix)
Joker & Ginz – Purple City
>> Jody Breeze feat Slim Thug – Stackin Paper (acapella)
Reso – Beasts In The Basement
>> Big L – Thick (acapella)
Tek-One – Bug
>> Buju Banton – Driver (acapella)
Z-Trip – MashUptight
Benga – Crunked Up
>> UK Apache – Original Nuttah (acapella)
Mistabishi – White Collar Grime
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb (DZ vs Rastatronics remix)
Craig Mack – Flava In Your Ear (acapella)
Rico Tubbs – Ghetto Funk Baby (High Rankin remix)
STS9 – The New Soma (Bass Science remix)
Propa Tingz – Heavy Metal
>> Rhymefest – Dynomite (acapella)
PANTyRAiD – Get The Money
>> Ludacris – Stand Up (acapella)
Johnny Polygon – Dopestflyestogpimpplayahardcoremutha…
VibeSquaD – Blaze Them Trees
Starkey picks out some of our favourites for this mix from Big Up Magazine.
(Direct Link) Starkey - Big Up Podcast 09
Tracklist:
01 – Spiritualized “Ladies & Gentlemen We are Floating in Space” (parlophone)
02 – Shortstuff “Behave” (dub)
03 – Egyptrixx “Hexagon Ya” (dub)
04 – Kaiser “Agent 2.5″ (dub)
05 – Joker “Taste the Rainbow” (dub)
06 – Starkey “Beatingz” (dub)
07 – DNAE Beats “Blood Royale” (dub)
08 – Ikonika “Smuck” (planet mu)
09 – Monkey “Gloomy” (dub)
10 – DZ & SamXL “Cotton Candy” (dub)
11 – Slugabed “Drown It” (dub)
12 – Eskmo “I Dream I’m Flying” (ancestor)
13 – Buddy Leezle “I Left My Heart in Philadelphia (Starkey remix)” (seclusiasis)
14 – Gemmy “Dolla Digital” (dub)
15 – Mario ft. Gucci Mane & Sean Garrett “Break Up” (jive)
16 – Giorgio Moroder “Leopard Tree Dream” (mca)
17 – Stagga “Juju Science” (dub)
18 – Doshy “Scatter” (dub)
19 – Starkey “Rain City” (dub)
20 – Raffertie “Eyes Closed” (seclusiasis)
21 – Numan “Secrets” (dub)
22 – Starkey “Miracles (Jamie Vex’d Remix)” (planet mu)
23 – Mark Instinct “Invader” (dub)
24 – Starkey “Prism” (starksound)
25 – Dev79 “From the Get (VIP)” (slit jockey)
26 – Zomby “With Lazers” (dub)
27 – Starkey “Dark Alley” (planet mu)
28 – Stina Nordenstam “Until” (atlantic)
Not a fan of ReverbNation generally, not sure why, possibly because it took me a while to navigate the thing at first... however every now and then if you're signed to the right person's mailing list you get a freebie such as this Starkey remix of Wiley's My Mistakes. If it was a 320 I might actually be sold properly but as it is I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt for now. Sign up to Starkey's list and keep up to date with releases such as the forthcoming Street Bass Anthems Vol. 4, as well as the general wanderings of the Stark raving one. There may well be more goodies in future too.
Wiley - My Mistakes (Starkey Remix) / YSI
Starkey photo by Dan Wilton
Chrome Kids - Knowledge Me
Mix recorded for Adam Walton's Mystery Tour on BBC Radio Wales (Oct 2009)
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