Fever Ray - Seventh (Martyn's Seventh Remix)

Two step done so incredibly right its hard to imagine why there are so few pairings that sound this perfect out there. While revisiting Great Lengths earlier this week, I realized how well the tunes have held up since it was released earlier this year. GREAT dub/tech/wonky fuckit albums are pretty hard to come by, but Great Lengths looks like it will take a place in 2009 as one of the better complete and flowing albums of the genre. Rinse and Repeat.

Lucky We

Here's a total stunner of a mix from the Kode 9. Only there's no dubstep, just shimmering G-funk and sunny L.A. wooze-hop with a sprinkling of just about everything else stretching from Prince to Dizzee Rascal. Essential sounds taking is into this very purple fall.

Kode 9 - Hyper Lucky Mix

Sa-ra - Dirty Beauty
Prince - The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Kleer - Intimate Connection
Cameo - Back & Forth
Herbie Hancock - Perfect Machine
Slava Tsukerman - Margrets Apartment
The Associates - Message Oblique Speech
Slava Tsukerman - Night Club
Gosub - Last Night at the Stardust
Slava Tsukerman - Seduction of Vincent
Simonetti/Morante/Pignatelli - Tenebre
Simonetti/Morante/Pignatelli - Slow Circus
Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian - Bamboo Houses
Dizzee Rascal - Brand New Day
Sun Ra - Rocket Number Nine

Shortstuff - Progression

Another big tune from at the moment producer Shortstuff on Formant Records. Purchase from Boomkat here.

Hello hELLO.

Sir Kid Kaleidoscope will be back with some real mind altering musics and words in a bittle.

In the meanwhile keep this tune on repeat.

Kasia - Over You (Dexplicit Remix)

WAH WAH WAH WAAAAH WOOAHH WOOAHH

Interweb Highlights - Starkey Big Up Podcast 09

Now this is the Starkey set I wanted to see at his Goodlife gig. Nice to see him slowly moving away from the "over the top aggro for the sake of being aggro" sound that plagued his set the first time I saw him. After he absolutely killed his 4:20 set at Camp Bisco (vids up shortly), it got me thinking that his Goodlife set could have been a fluke brought on by a few too many whisky sours and the few overly enthusiastic fucks telling him to play more wobble. No doubts in my mind after hearing this mix though. Big up to Big Ups for this!!...crazy amount of unheard dubs.

BIG UPS PODCAST 09 - STARKEY

In the Big Up Podcast mix he walks us through various musical flavors, making it hard to categorize his sound. The only thing is certain – you haven’t heard this before and it will make you move. Watch out for the lazers and Starkbots!

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)

Interweb Highlights - TRG Fact Mix 75

FACT continually pushes the boundaries in the ever evolving world of electronic music and covers more music that make my ears happy than not. Earlier this week they put up FACT Mix 75 by the ever versatile, Bucharest's TRG. He's goes on a welcomed Garage/housey/UKF vibe here that definitely gets the party rolling. check it.

FACT MIX 75 - TRG (up for three weeks)

(From Fact)

Cosmin Nicolae by name, you probably know TRG best for his dubstep productions on labels like Tempa, Hotflush and Hessle (his 'Put You Down' was the label's first release, and Martyn's remix on HES004 arguably their most well-known). But judging by his FACT mix, he's currently pushing a housier sound: Karizma, Hot City, Roska and Cajmere feature alongside a host of new TRG productions, and tracks are mixed deep into each other. Plus it ends on 'Trilingual Dance Sexperience', which is such a jam it's unreal.

Tracklisting:

1. Karizma - Necessary Madness (R2)
2. Seiji - Hohoho (CDR)
3. Roska- Elevated Level (Kicks & Snares)
4. Mystery - Speechless
5. Hot City - No More (Infrasonics)
6. TRG - Now You Know (CDR)
7. TRG - Tribal Flex (CDR)
8. L-Vis 1990 - United Groove (TRG Remix)
9. Hot City - Hot City Bass (Ramp)
10. Mescal Kid - Magic (Size Digital)
11. TRG - Purple Lights (CDR)
12. Pearson Sound - Wad (Hessle Audio)
13. Saeed Younan - Kumbalha (Younan Music)
14. TRG - Discotek 79 (CDR)
15. Cajmere - Percolator (Cajual Records)
16. Dorian Concept - Trilingual Dance Sexperience (Affine)

This blog post definitely does not contain a Chris Brown song.

Just forget that this is a Chris Brown song and that this video is collage of his douchey

self, its a pretty fuckin good remix. Ups to Dexplicit for making this song listenable.

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Gamma Knife Podcast

Sup ya'll this is Dj No Request comin' out of the east coast jungle,check my podcast and blog ...got those ill beats all day . Peep the art too , if you need any work done just message me.

word.

New Grooves Volume II: Aug 10th - 16th

Second edition of our weekly feature highlighting the grooves that are tickling our ears this week.

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VA - Echo Expansion (Porter Records)

(Flying Lotus, Ras G, Gaslamp etc)

It's hard to ignore the fact that there seems to be a lot of spiritual soul searching from the more thoughtful quarters of the American instrumental hiphop scene right now, with a bright spotlight of spectral sunshine breaking the clouds and focussing on the City of Angels. Recent records from The Life Force Trio and Flying Lotus among others have really displayed a yearning for something a little deeper, even extending to the psyche obsessions of Gaslamp Killer and Alfred Darlington's many guises. Dublab and Porter Records have succinctly compiled the best of these spiritually connected producers with 'Echo Expansion', dividing a group of 13 artists into two sides, 'Future' and 'Roots'. On the 'Future' side we have 3 tracks from Alfred Darlington (aka Adventure Time, Blank Blue and Daedelus), a psyche rock gem from Gaslamp Killer & The Gonja Sufi, plus a pure bomb track from Flying Lotus, and more from Ras G, Dimlite, DNTEL and The life Force Trio. On the 'Roots' side we have Languis, Jahbitat, Kutmah, Hashim B, Take, MatthewDavid and Andrew Pekler all exploring psyched variations on an elevated theme. It's a lovingly crafted and beautifully presented package that any of the more cosmically inclined heads will lap up. Very good indeed. (Boomkat)

New Grooves Volume 1: Aug 3rd - 9th

There is no way we are able to cover EVERY release that has been pleasing our ears that week, so we decided that to do an oft updated weekly post, highlighting some of the finest cuts that need to heard . All of these come highly recommended.

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I have just enough time to sneak one more tune into this week's selection, and it's a biggun. This will see wax on Danjah's "Industry Standard Vol. 4" due on Planet Mu in the middle of August and could easily be THE truest vinyl release of 2009.



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Shortstuff - A Rustling (Ramp)

Shortstuff on point once again with 2 more big cuts. Both tracks "Rustling" and "Stuff" are heavy on the garage vibes and that highly syncopated left field percussion kick Brackles and Shortstuff have been deep into lately. This is the sound right here.

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Dam Funk - Toeachizown Vol 1: Latrik (Stones Throw)

Throwback boogie g funk beats from Stones Throw's resident synth master Dam Funk.

I really can't think of a good analogy to how great of a pairing this video and this song are, so just watch it. This reminds me of playing Cruisin' USA at Roller Kingdom eating some rotisserie pizza. Thanks Dam. Ups to BenUFO for this.

Lastly on this Dam Funk kick, he recently did an exclusive mix for Scotland UK's, Lucky Me. As one might except from Dam, this mix is an array of early some of the most out there early to mid 80's boogie funk, cosmo synth beats and spaced out prog. He also throws in a few newer releases and an unreleased track of his own. Intro for the mix and tracklisting below.

"This year has been Dâm-Funk's year. Which is kinda ironic given the man is the anti-hipster. He loves this music. He loves its very essence. With Damon you should know you aren't getting a DJ that's just exploring genres looking for ideas. These are not samples on this tape, fresh for the plunder. Nor are you getting a connoisseurial collectors tape here. I mean, who else lists labels and the year on his tracklisting? Dam is for sharing. If this music is rare then so be it. It's only there cause in Dâm-Funk's mind this is the best party in the cosmos - and you are invited. He lives this music. The real deal. We got this in the post with a note saying '"All music was recorded via the 'original wax' recordings. No Mp3's or re-issues were used whatsoever."

louis johnson - she's bad - capitol records 12" - 1985
impulse - can you hear me (calling you) - impulse records EP - 1984
bruford - one of akind pt's 1 & 2 - polydor records lp - 1979
carole walker - rejoice - secret records lp - 1987
lamont dozier - Interlude - columbia records lp - 1981
bronner brothers - what do i have to do - neighbor records lp - 1986
maniacs - sweet ladies (instrumental version) - 25 west records 12" - 1983
gosub - mind travel method - citinite records lp - 2007
reinhard lakomy - der traum von asgard - amiga lp - 1983
mike maineri - flying colours - warner bros lp - 1981
bim marx - stronger - stillove4music records 12" - 2008
kaidi tatham - swift inspiration (quick kid) - freedom school lp - 2008
wizardz - boogie slyde (original version) - sound wave records 12" - 2009
twennynine with lenny white - movin' on - elektra records 12" - 1981
bryan loren - do you really love me" (instrumental version) - philly world records 12" - 1984
ojeda penn - happiness is having you near - ife records lp - 1980
wavelength - funk dreams - glydezone records 7" - 2009
dâm-funk - breakthru - (unreleased dubplate) 12" - 2006

LISTEN HERE

Lil' Girl

This song is beautiful.



big things on their way...

Zomby - One Foot Ahead of the Other EP - SHIPS FRIDAY

Another new Zomby track called Godzilla from the forthcoming "One Foot In Front of Another" EP on Ramp. Thanks for Smoke/Less/Fuels for the heads up. You can grab it at Boomkat HERE. BIG RELEASE.

I've been in Wisconsin without internet for sometime now. Good to be back. New posts in the coming days. Now that I have confirmation (was there any doubt to begin with?) BIG UPS to Sir David Ramadanman for killing it at Bassic this past Friday.

Darkstar, Starkey, Zomby

With only a handful of releases, Darkstar haven't been the most prolific act, but everything they do put out is stands out more than more than the many other producers making similar style synth beat dub. FACT Magazine has graciously put up new track Darkstar remix of one of the best songs of In Rainbows "videotape. It will be out in the coming months on the next Mary Anne Hobbs mix on Planet Mu. You can purchase it from itunes here and directly from Planet Mu, here.

I highly recommend everyone stop what they are doing and go listen to this tune over at Fact.

Listen here. This is a tune that you can lay back, close your eyes and lets yourself get transported to a different world.

Darkstar will be making their live debut at the Social Baller Club 2nd anniversy (BIG Post coming soon on this) with Rustie, Prefuse 73 and more. Debut album is coming out sometime in the near cuture

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Starkey killed it at Camp Bisco this past weekend in Mariaville, NYC. Here are a few vids of his set taken by.. Big ups, I can see myself for a small second. More big ups to Martyn and The Biscuits for putting on other top notch sets.

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New Zomby track called Godzilla from the forthcoming "One Foot In front of another" EP. Thanks for Smoke/Less/Fuels for the heads up.

Hesslin'

As Dubstep continues to spiral outward internationally it's sound is quickly becoming more and more fractured, splintering into what seems like dozens of 'wut u call it?' sub-genres. Summer 09' is proving to be one of the most exciting times in recent memory for new sounds and new rhythms. Much of the best tunes being wheeled right now slow things down to 130 steering ears towards Funky, Dubbage or whatever you'd like to call it; regardless it's all about the House vibes, a breath of fresh air away from the brain melting aggro dubstep that was seemingly the status quo for a good two years. Now however there is plenty of interesting music being made on the fringes of the hardcore-dubstep crowd and perhaps no label is more forward thinking at the moment than the one and only Hessle Audio.

A mere 8(and soon to be 9) releases into their existence, Hessle Audio is slowly sneaking up on Hyperdub as the go to label for tunes which push the boundaries of the whole UK Garage sound and are primed to influence a new generation of producers and DJs. Perhaps the most exciting thing about this label is the youth of its founders, Ben 'UFO' Thomson, David 'Ramadanman' Kennedy and Kevin McAuley aka Pangaea. 3 friends with great taste, great talent and limitless potential.

Back in January, Resident Advisor did a well informed piece detailing the backstory of the Hessle Audio crew(read it here) and made it apparent that the groundwork had been laid for 2009 to be a breakout year for the label. David Kennedy lays out the mission statement for the Hessle sound.

"We just want to put out stuff that you're not going to stop playing after a few months because it's been rinsed—I think that's my interpretation of what the label's about. I think there's a lot of good music out there, but not a lot of really good music, and I think that sometimes not every tune has to come out just for the sake of it."

As of late, Ben UFOs 'Ruffage Sessions' on Sub FM have been amongst some of the most exciting mixes you can find anywhere, connecting the dots between UK Funky, US House, Dubstep and a good bit of w**ky hip-hop(Get locked every Thursday from 3-5 Eastern Time Sub.FM). Ramadanman surprised a few people when he revealed himself to be the man responsible for A Pearson Sound whose track 'Wad'(forthcoming Hessle 009) is one of the most wonderfully alien sounding things around right now, a percussive beast which reminds one of a more Funky slanted take on some of Untold's more bare moments(his refix of Ramadanman's Revenue comes to mind unsurprisingly.) And speaking of Untold, Hessle released his debut 'Kingdom' last year and in 09' the absolutely essential 'I Can't Stop This Feeling/Anaconda' 12", lending no small hand in the breakout one of London's most exciting producers. All this and we haven't even gotten to Pangaea's 'Memories' yet, a gorgeous garagey track with an amazing vocal hook that just dropped on white label and is second only to Joy Orbison's 'Hyph Mngo' for anthem of 2009. Exciting times for Hessle Audio.

Here's a sick mix Pangaea did a while back

Reprise.011.Pangaea. by Reprise Music Group

Also if you lot love these sounds as much as I do don't sleep on seeing Ramadanman on his US tour. He plays Boston next Friday July 24th at BASSIC, I for one, can't wait.


Hessle Audio
Ramadanman
A Pearson Sound
Ben UFO
Pangaea
Untold
Sub.FM


Ramadanman US tour

Jul 17 2009 8:00P	Dub War @ Love	NYC, New York
Jul 18 2009 8:00P	Surefire Sound	SF, California
Jul 24 2009 8:00P	Bassic	Boston, Massachusetts
Jul 25 2009 8:00P	Bazzaar	Atlanta, Georgia
Jul 31 2009 8:00P	Gallery	Washington DC, Washington DC
Aug 1 2009 8:00P	Pure Filth	LA, California
Aug 5 2009 8:00P	Weight	Austin, Texas

Hyph Mngo

And thus...the anthem. I can't wait 'til this hits wax.

Pangaea - Memories

Another big tune from the ever consistent Pangaea. Stunning funky 2 step rhythm with a mysteriously beautiful vocal. Does it get any better than this? Club killer. 12" out July 13th on STHoldings.

Early Morning

"Music is holy to me, and the unblanched truths of the greatest music communicate to me at a level that is completely non-trivial, and the conduits of this force - well, they're not so much like shamen or monks than actual saints or incarnated deities..."

-Matthew "WOEBOT" Ingram
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A couple of good pieces of writing from Martin Clark a.k.a. Blackdown. The first is the monthly grime/dubstep column on pitchfork about a Mr. Joy Orbison, whose dubstep/funky anthem 'Hyph Mngo' is destined to be one of the biggest tracks of '09. Read it here. Blackdown also has an excellent piece on his blog about the state of 'Dubstep' and how the best music is being made on the fringes of the sound. Those tunes which are pushing the boundaries towards house(Funky), hip-hop(W**ky) and synth madness(the Purple stuff) and the worst of the music is the hard-line mid-range aggro-step that goes against everything the Dubstep scene was founded upon. Give it a look here, and also check the healthy discussion on Dissensus about the same, here.

Fresh Greens

This track makes it pretty apparent that Diplomats head Killa Cam hasn't lost a step during his two year hiatus between albums. Crime Pays is Cam's 8th studio release and it dropped in May on Asylum Records. Hate My Job is the lead single off Crime Pays and is straight up one of the catchiest and dopest anthems of the year. Big ups to Skitzo for this beat and the many others he produced off of Crime Pays. THOSE KEYS!!!!! FIRE. Celebrate life motha fuckers.

The quality of the tune in the video isn't very good so go pick up the release on itunes or record shop.

purple sunshine

it's all too good.