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By now, those of you with a penchant for gnarly basslines and swaggering bruiser beats may well have picked themselves up a copy of the new Timestretch EP from the West Coast master of such styles Bassnectar, which was due out this week but dropped early as it escaped from the Beatport cage like the Kracken in Clash Of The Titans. If you haven't got a copy then read no further, run over to here now and grab it (along with special DJ tools, bonus tracks, and bundle packs) before coming back and enjoying this delicious bootleg of the title track which features vocals from Nelly Furtado's Turn Out The Lights

Download: Bassnectar feat. Nelly Furtado - Magical World / alt link

Senseless Records just kicked in the door of Chrome Mansions waving a Four-Four in the shape of their first CD project Vocals and Versions Volumes 1 & 2. The Leeds bass junkies have gathered together some of their favourite artists (and ours come to that) such as: Warrior Queen ; Foreign Beggars; Starkey; MRK1; King Cannibal; Crunc Tesla; and Rekordah to add a bit of extra spice to their already flavoursome in-house vocal productions from Sarantis, DeVille, Sasquatch and Ghosttown, that are camped mainly within the Dubstep region but spread out into the surrounding UK Bass music areas too.

(SS) Sarantis ft Warrior Queen - More than Money (Starkey RMX) (clip)

(SS) Sasquatch ft Foreign Beggars – Stay Seated (clip)

The album will be released on two separate CDs, two vinyl EPs and digital download. Disc One gets Grimey with vocals from Sick Sense Cru and the Senseless residents, Asher Don and Dialect whilst they also show off their roots in the rich Leeds Soundsystem culture (which spawned such notables as Nightmares on Wax, LFO and Iration Steppas) with guest vocal slots from YT, Oova and Iration Steppas vocalist Bunnington Judah, whilst the ladies represent superbly with Warrior Queen, Honey Brown and Portuguese emcee Violet. There’s also Brazillian Dancehall artist Jimmy Luv, and Foreign Beggars who spit fire as always on Stay Seated, which obviously works on some reverse psychology tip cos I certainly found it hard to keep my arse in the chair whilst it was playing.

Remix duties are taken up by Starkey, Kanji Kinetic, fellow Leeds Dubstep don Jack Sparrow and a Dubbed out offering from Techno legend Billy Nasty which certainly come as a pleasant suprise. .

(SS) Sarantis ft Bunnington Judah - Warzone (Billy Nasty RMX) (clip)


Warrior Queen, Jimmy Luv, Oova, Smasha from Sick Sense Cru, Asher Don and Dialect all make an appearance on CD 2 as well, joined by Sunkilla out of Martinique, Leed-ite Dancehall emcees Bongo Chilli and Urban Vox, plus Boxcar, Optimus and M.J. Zilla who pop up on the Sasquatch remix of Who’s The Leader by Brooklyn Avant-Grime proponent Crunk Tesla.

(SS) Ghosttown ft Smasha - What Goes Around Comes Around (clip)

(SS) Sasquatch - Lifes Changin (Rekordah Remix) (clip)

This time remixes arrive courtesy of King Cannibal, MRK1, Bombaman from Canadian Dubstep duo Loetech, Hip-hop experi-mentalist Rekordah and Octa Push who joins his fellow Lisbon native Violet. This is probably my favourite Dubstep albums to drop in a long time, definitely worth grabbing if you like what you've heard so far. Here's a few full tunes from the collection to wet your appetite some more.


(YSI) Sarantis ft Sick Sense Crew - Focus / alt link

(YSI) Sarantis ft Bunnington Judah - One Day / alt link

(YSI) Os Crunc Tesla ft Boxcar, Optimus & M.J.Zilla - Who's The Leader of The Club (Sasquatch Remix) / alt link

Regular readers would already have seen this fantastic video from Virus Syndicate a few months back, but the track is finally being release on the forthcoming Mosquito EP through their very own Contagious Music label, so it's a perfect opportunity to post it again.

Some may remember we posted up the video to Virus Syndicate's wicked little skanker of a track 'For The Music' a month or so ago. Well that's now dropped on Contagious Records so go pick it up...One of our favourite tunes of the moment.

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Plus here's a bumpin' 'Christmas' mix from Contagious label boss and Virus Syndicate producer MRK1 which features 'For The Music' alongside some fresh MRK1 tracks and a selection of Dubstep heavyweights from the likes of J@kes, Skream, Coki & N Type.

(SendSpace) MRK 1 Christmas Mix 08

Tracklisting:

1.MRK1 - Magnetic Devise
2.Lost - Neckback
3.Coki and N Type - Debt
4.Chimpo - The Game and Lil Wayne (YSI)
5.Virus Syndicate - For The Music
6.J@kes - Rock The Bells
7.Crissy Criss - Blow ya head off
8.J@kes - Janoo
9.Benny Page and Zero G - Trigger Finger
10.Bar 9 - Midnight
11.Benny Page and Zero G - Pan Pipes
12.Noah D and Roomate - Street
13.Benny Page - Step Out VIP
14.Bar - Infiltrate the mind
15.Skream - Meta-Lick
16.MRK1 - Kill Zone
17.MRK1 - Bonecrusher
18.MRK1 - I Got Too feat Sizzla
19.Tes La Rok Remix - Gangsters
20.The Bug - Skeng
21.MRK1 - Milli Remix (YSI)
22.Virus Syndicate - Make money everyday
23.MRK1 - Borderline
24.Chimpo - Lock off and War

As well as the 'Neva Argue' video I posted up a couple of days ago this video from Virus Syndicate has also just dropped for a track which isn't available on their Plant Mu released 'Sick Pay' album but is coming out via MRK 1's own Contagious Records. we presume some time soon.

Was hoping to put up the two exclusive sessions from this week's Mary Anne Hobbs show separately both of them were killer slices of dirty grimed out Garage Zed Bias w/ Broke N English and MRK1 w/ Virus Syndicate. Unfortunately that didn't happen (though it still might later), but here's a link to the whole show. Should last longer than the 7 days usual 'listen again' that the BBC give.




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