Local Love: WED 6.16 - LINKS SOUNDCLASH @ Goodlife

Come out to the Goodlife on Wednesday for the 5th installment of Boston's DIY Links Soundclash with Lost In Bass. Homegrown productions from Boston's own talent all night long. Support. Look out for an unreleased Donovan Sharp tune on the links comp.

In other news, my debut EP titled "Astro Hippie" EP will FINALLY be out in the next few months on tape and CD-R. 1. Get Pitted!! 2. POWER HOUSE 3. Moon Rave. Labels get at me if you wanna help.

Local Love: FRI 6.4 - MARTYN @ BASSIC 3 YR

Felix Cuplianos BASSIC! Been a crazy 3 years.

Like Kode 9, Martyn has slowly dropped out of the 140 dubstep game in favor of a hybrid of funky, 130 acid tribal, and 2 step flavored progressive garage. His Fabric 50 is an essential listen for anyone that has yet to hear it. Don't pass up an opportunity to see some flawless mixing!

BASSIC Presents:
MARTYN (3024, Techtonic, Warp, Revolver)
C DUBS (BASSIC, La Folia)
Damien Paul
Jay K
Goodlife Bar
28 Kingston Street
Boston, Ma
21+
$7

It has been a long road from when we first came together to throw BASSIC in June of '07. There were times we didn't think we were going to make it and times we never thought it would end. And we're still going strong thanks to everyone who has continued to support us on this amazing journey!

Join us on our 3 year anniversary with a special guest MARTYN! This Holland born native to DC transit has been a staple in the growth of what dubstep was before it had a name. His label 3024 has been killing it with a slew of big releases and more in the works with remixes by Zombie and fresh tunes from newcomer Illum Sphere. Always pushing the boundaries with his production and blurring the lines between techno, house dubstep, and beyond we never know what he's got in his record bag for us! Its the long awaited return of one of our favorites! And if you weren't there the last time he graced us with his presence then you just don't know!

This party also marks a huge milestone for Boston! We're celebrating the releases of BASSIC's own C Dubs. His remix of An On Bast's "Upon the Dew Drops" crafted alongside La Folia Label head Inanna has been receiving love from big guys such as Axel Bartsch, Konrad Black, and Luciano! And his first release "Don't Know, which was featured on the TOGETHER festival compilation has also been making waves.

We've got Boston's Bad boys Damien Paul & Jay K rolling out the beats upstairs all night long so there's something for everyone. Don't sleep and get there early b/c we can't guarantee there's room for everybody!

Local Love: THURS 6.3. ACTRESS @ Middlesex for M.I.N

this is how I felt on Tuesday when I found out about this

ACTRESS + game 1 , Martyn back to back. start catching up on sleep now.

FUCK THE LAKERS UP. LETS DO THIS.

WE NEED YOU PATCHY

Tropical Life Mix 004> Slevarance

Tropical Life Mix> 004

SLEVARANCE

Nottingham, UK

BRAP! For the fourth installment in the tropical life mix series we've got a BIG TIME mix from Nottingham's up and coming Slevarance. We've had this on repeat since it was sent over a few weeks back. Serious mix of funky flavors, classic instrumental grime, and some unreleased tracks from the new breed of future garagers, Hackman and Fauxhemian. Slevarances throws in 2 very promising dubs of his own tunes with "Throwing a Wibbler" and an untitled track with Hackman. Be on the lookout for those. "Strung Up VIP" still sounds as huge as ever.

1. Fruity Loops Workshop - Urnie & Bert
2. Slevarance - Throwing A Wibbler
3. Blackjack - Arcade 3
4. Rebound X - Rhythm 'n' Gash
5. Luke Vibert - London
6. Geeneus - You Know
7. Fauxhemian - Levitate
8. Hypno - Over The Top
9. Kano - Signs In Life (Instrumental)
10. Hodge - Apathagy
11. Mista Men - Move Down Low
12. Mr Keaz - Gunfight
13. Hackman & Slevarance - Untitled
14. Dj Narrows - Saved Soul
15. Dj Oddz - Strung Up Vip
16. Hackman - Fell Into Romance
17. SpamChop - Razor Piss

Available Here until it's up on Soundcloud

Links

Slevarance

ps. it shouldn't be this difficult to add text to a fuckin picture. Jobs, put that shit into iphoto. not difficult.

On Repeat: May 2010

Juke is suddenly on the tip of everyone's tongue. A genre(and culture) that seemed entirely inaccessible to most just a few months ago is now embracing the idea of spreading their sound onto a world stage, trying to actually release some songs on vinyl in the coming months and a Dj Nate compilation in the works on Planet Mu(!!!). I envy that I can't cross the waters to see Rashad play with the Night Slugs crew but still being an outside observer it's easy to feel the heady vibes from this completely fwd>>> music.

Also spreading the good word is Chicago native Dave Quam. Our resident sage on the ghettohausmuziks of the world, his blog is quite an incredible pool of words and sounds. He featured a recent interview between Quam and Juke innovator Arpebu, it is quite the read.

words here.




Just got my copy of this from Bleep a couple of days ago and have to say as much as I loved Ramadanman's EP on Hessle Audio, these two songs are absolutely mental fusions of just about everything I love about electronic music right now. Jack 'Untold' Dunning's Hemlock imprint is unbelievably a cut above even the always righteous Hessle crew.

These songs are absolute fire.



A group I don't know much about except that I'm pretty sure they're from the US somewhere. They recently released an EP for free which is four songs of well swung tropical burners for some seriously sweaty peak-time business. Their song Got U was one of the highlights of Girl Unit's epic 2010 mix.

Download their EP here.



James Blake is unstoppable. His remix of 'Stop What You're Doing' is easily one of my top 5 songs of the last ten years and his sound keeps building and transforming. This song and three others are being dropped on May 31st on R&S records and really I can't say there's anything I've been quite so hyped on in a second.

Tropical Life Mix 003> Matthew Hiscock

Tropical Life Mix> 003

MATTHEW HISCOCK

Montreal, Canada

ps.CLICK HERE to DL the correctly tagged mix.

Matthew Hiscock - Old&New&Me&You (dj mix, May 2010) by matthewhiscock

Proud to present the third installment in the tropical life mix series, by Montreal's Matthew Hiscock. This is a nice mix of progressive 2 step, future garage, and funky vibes. Hiscock's throws in some dubs of his own dubs which ride nicely between fg and euphoric funky. Check out his new bass music production blog Make Some Bass, which has already featured the likes of Bok Bok and Hovatron analyze what goes into creating one of their tracks.

1) Kyle Hall - Kaychunk [Hyperdub]
2) VVV - Project Z [Fortified]
3) VVV - Project X [Fortified]
4) Girl Unit - Temple Keys [Night Slugs]
5) Matthew Hiscock - Berry [www.matthewhiscock.com]
6) Pariah - Orpheus [R&S]
7) Roof Light - Street Level [L2S]
8) Todd Edwards - I Might Be (MJ Cole remix) [Scion Audio/Visual]
9) Hissy Fit - Late Night On Parc Avenue [www.matthewhiscock.com]
10) Akua and Matthew Hiscock - Monsters (Make Believe remix) [www.matthewhiscock.com]
11) Egyptrixx - Drive U Crazy [Aaahh! Real Monsters]
12) Gucci Vump - Sha! Shtil! (L-Vis 1990 Remix) [Sound Pellegrino]
13) Matthew Hiscock - Oh Those Sexy Sweatpants [www.matthewhiscock.com]
14) Mutiny - Ya Self [Underwater]
15) Rusko - Woo Boost (Sbskrpt remix) [Mad Decent]
16) Joel Mull - Fantastisch [Underwater]
17) MJ Cole - Thekla Riddim [Prolific]

Links

Matthew Hiscock

Make Some Bass

MH Soundcloud

Mi Ami - Latin Lovers (Thrill Jockey)

Very rarely does a new band excite me as much as San Francisco’s Mi Ami. Their excellent and under-appreciated 2009 release "Watersports" never got the recognition it deserved with it being one of the final Touch and Go releases before they shut down. That didn’t stop it from being on constant rotation in my house all last summer and one of my favorite albums of the year.

Moving forward, the fine people at Thrill Jockey stepped in to release the bands new material and now we have "Steal Your Face." While I'm only starting to digest the album as a whole, SYF expands upon the noisy controlled chaos, tribal beats, and oft incredibly high pitched and sometimes unintelligible vocal screeches that made Watersports a must. There aren’t many other current bands that can mix eunuch no wave with tribal afro beat rhythms and krautrock influenced grooves so smoothly.

“Latin Lover” is a mutating 6 + minute freak out jam of epic proportions that has just about every stylistic element that makes Mi Ami.. well Mi Ami. For those unfamiliar with the band, this song is as good a start as any. Mi Ami will either be your new favorite band, or you’ll hate em. Fuck the haters!

MI AMI - LATIN LOVERS (THRILL JOCKEY 2010)

Links

MI AMI

THRILL JOCKEY

note: kind of reminds of the early Rapture tracks that were so infectious.

Fresh Greens 01> Donovan Sharp & Kid K

First things first, hope all yall had a 420 to remember!! errr.... partially remember!!

I am currently living the REAL tropical life in Costa Rica at the moment, so with a clear mind and not much else to do besides drink beer and hang out with my family, I'll be able to catch up on everything that should have been posted last week. WORD.

..now on to some real nuggets. Let me introduce a new feature to Tropical Life, our Fresh Greens mixes/ podcasts. Fresh Greens will be posted every few weeks and will focus around our collective of friends and Boston artists. This will allow myself, Kid K, No Requests, & mates to post new mixes of our own new dubs, what we are currently grindin too, and really whatever the eff we feel like playing.

Below is the first, juke filled installment in the Fresh Greens Podcast/ Mix series by myself and Kid K that we recorded last Sunday at 2am. Once I figure out how to get these on itunes, all Fresh Greens / Tropical Life mixes will uploaded.

Fresh Greens Mix 01 - Donovan Sharp & Kid K (April 10) by TheTropicalLife

Tracklisting.

1. Pursuit Grooves - Start Something

2. Jay Revlon - Godzilla HA

3. Roulet - Kitamanda (Girl Unit Rmx)

4. Crooker’s - No Security (Zomby Remix)

5. DJ Nate - Below Zero

6. DJ Rashad - Its not Rite

7. DSharp - ASSTRO

8. DJ Nate - May Be Sum Day

9. DJ Lil Red - Bang Bang

10. DJ Pillsbury - Disco 93

11. DJ Elmoe - Whea Yo Ghost at Whea Yo dead Man

12. DJ Nate - Apocalypse

13. James Blake - CMYK

Our neighbors must be going absolutely bat shit crazy with this on repeat 24/7.

BOAT: The Nerves - When You Find Out (1978)

This has been one of favorite songs for years now and regularly gets stuck in my head for days. 1978 pop perfection from one of the power pop kings. Out of all The Nerve's musical nuggets, this might be their best. Its also up there with the best songs the Beatles never wrote.

The Nerves - When You Find Out (1978)

Local Love: TODAY 4.15 ROSKA ROSKA ROSKA @ Enormous Room

This is tonight. This will be funky.

"SoulChampion.com and Subduction Productions are proud to present Roska in support of his first ever US tour. Roska has been Bubbling in the UK Funky scene for the past few years and has grown into being one of the defining artist that has been taking Funky House and making it his own. Watch out for his long awaited full length dropping on the 5th of April."

Locals G Notorious, DJ Vice-T, C Dubz, and DJ Steppo will be holding it down all night.

Here's a couple our favorites tracks off Roska's recently released album on Rinse. Can't find a longer version of Squark, so this snippet will have to do, but it doesn't do the song justice.

Roska – Hey Cutie

Roska – Time Stamp (zshare)

thanks for squeegie and scatterblog for the DLs.

Support and Purchase Roska - RINSE Presents Roska HERE

Tropical Life Mix 001> Donovan Sharp

Long overdue.. Peep my new dub Birds of Paradise.

Tropical Life Mix 001> DonovanSharp by DonovanSharp

Fever Ray - Seven (Martyn's Seventh Remix) [Rabid]

Untold - Just for You (Roska Remix) [Hot Flush]

Christian Martin - Elephant Fight (Justin Martin's Jungle Remix)

Crazy Cousinz - Inflation

Deadboy - U Cheated [Well Rounded]

Mosca - Square One (Julio Bashmore Longhorm Remix) [Night Slugs]

Pearson sound - WAD [Hessle Audio]

Emvee - Rat Race Riddim

Money Steak - Haarlem Drift [Steakhouse]

Greena- Tenzado [Apple Pips]

Doc Daneeka -Funky Bit

Scuba - Minerals [Hot Flush]

Ramadanman - Revenue (Untold Remix) [Apple Pips]

Resolve - Birds of Paradise (Dub)

Cosmin TRG - Siberian Poker [Tempa]

D1 - Pitcher [Dub Police]

The XX - Islands (Untold Remix) [Young Turks]

Breakage - Vial ft Burial [Digital Soundboy]

Introducing > Tropical Life Mix 002> Blox The Fox

A huge exclusive mix from Londoner Blox the Fox. The first installment of many in the now newly christened Tropical Life mix series. Fox puts together a smooth mix of swinging grooves and perfectly airy, early spring vibes. Future Garage business this, get on it.

Trop Life Mix by bloxthefox

1. Most - RxYLAB

2. We Are VCR - Distal

3. Maybe I Wont Find - Duncan Powell

4. Attempt At Yellow - Mite & Distal

5. Orange Groove - Dale Howard

6. Friedrichstrasse - Martyn

7. Perspectives - F

8. Pistol In Your Pocket (Hypno's Tight Pants Mix) - Hackman

9. So Derobe - Joy Orbison

10. Liberation (MJ Cole Dubb Remix) - Corneille

11. Heavy As Stone - Mark Pritchard

12. Time It Take - Rumblejazz

Download Here

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Warp)

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

01. Clock Catcher
02. Pickled!
03. Nose Art
04. Intro//A Cosmic Drama
05. Zodiac Shit
06. Computer Face//Pure Being
07. ..And The World Laughs With You ft. Thom Yorke
08. Arkestry
09. Mmmhmm ft.Thundercat
10. Do The Astral Plane
11. Satelllliiiiiteee
12. German Haircut
13. Recoiled
14. Dance Of The Pseudo Nymph
15. Drips//Auntie's Harp
16. Table Tennis ft. Laura Darlington
17. Galaxy In Janaki

- LIMITED FIRST EDITION PRINT CD W/ FOIL BLOCK SLIPCASE -
- 2 x LP DOUBLE GATEFOLD VINYL WITH VELUM INNER SLEEVES -

BUY THIS RECORD NOW AT BLEEP. NOW STREAMING ON MYSPACE. LISTEN The bar has been raised.

This will end up being one of the best records of the 10's

Interweb Highlights

Loads of exclusives from Hessle Audio's main man Ben UFO in a recent Lucky Me mix. Huge track listing; also check out Hessle Audio's new show on Rinse FM.

Download Here

1. BFC - Galaxy (Fragile)
2. Apple - Siegaliser (White)
3. Addictive - Domino Effect [DJ Naughty Unreleased mix] (Unreleased)
4. Champion - Tribal Affair (White)
5. Floating Points - SHARK CHASE (Eglo)
6. Jo Ann Jones - A Better Love [4am Mix] (111 East Records)
7. Karizma - ICU (Co-operation)
8. Scratcha DVA - Sci Fi (Unreleased)
9. Major Notes feat. Mellody - Friend of Mine (Lossol Productions)
10. T Williams - Afrik (Forthcoming Local Action)
11. Spooky - Rum Punch Riddim (Unreleased)
12. Jam City - A (Unreleased)
13. Girl Unit - IRL (Forthcoming Night Slugs)
14. Mya - Free [Brackles remix] (Unreleased)
15. Wookie - Trooper (Manchu)
16. Jeremy Sylvester - Making Love (United Sounds of London)
17. Ation - Move With You (Unreleased)
18. Solange - I Decided [D Franklin remix] (Unreleased)
19. Ramadanman - Bleeper (Forthcoming Hessle Audio)
20. Addison Groove - Dumb Shit (Forthcoming Swamp 81)
21. Skream - The Bug (Big Apple)
22. Mos Wanted - Hungry Tiger (White)
23. Ruff Sqwad - Misty Cold (White)
24. Cubic Zirconia - Hoes [Ikonika remix] (Unreleased)
25. Joe - Rut (Hessle Audio)
26. James Blake - CMYK (Forthcoming R&S)
27. Mala - Lean FWD (DMZ)
28. Terror Danjah feat. Shola Ama - With You (Aftershock)

On Repeat: Airhead - "Pembroke" (Brainmath) / James Blake - "The Bells Sketch" (Hessle Audio)

We got a couple big tunes for your weekend pleasure. Wonderfully haunting new numbers from wunderkid James Blake (& Airhead) recently released on Brainmath & Hessle Audio. All of which are pretty much necessary listening for any fan of Blake's previous work, Hessle Audio, & Hyperdub.

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2:39 AM

Heavy as an Elephant.

Mark Prichard's massive "Elephant Dub" just dropped on Deep Medi and it's a proper atom bomb of bassweight. The B-side 'Heavy as Stone' turns things more soulful and rolling turning in one of the grooviest tracks I've heard in a minute.





Huge.

Local Love: Tues 2.16. On A Friday Presents: The Grooms (NYC), Young Adults, Earthquake Party

Last minute shout for a very well rounded show tomorrow night at Great Scott. For those of you not exhausted from TGTHR, On a Friday are bringing in NYC noise pop buzz band The Grooms with Boston up and comers Young Adults and Earthquake Party!

If you find yourself looking for something to do tomorrow, hit this up it.

Listen

Grooms

Earthquake Party!

Young Adults

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Biggest of ups to Mistaker, David Day, C Dubs, and everyone that made TOGETHER happen. In my opinion, the entire week was a resounding success and we really got to see what this city is capable of. With the first one down and an additional year of planning, TOGETHER 2011 will surely be even bigger and more blown out. It's not too early to get excited right?

Local Love: WED 2.10 TGTHR Presents, UNTOLD @ Goodlife

If there is one TOGETHER event not to miss this week, this is it. Hands down. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of other solid producers and DJs playing Boston in the coming days; there just isn't anyone else currently hitting their creative stride while redefining sub sections of electronic genres quite like Untold is.

He is one of only a handful of producers that really doesn't put out any filler or half arsed tunes and with his recently released double pack on his own Hemlock label, (which was easily our 2009 release of the year) is in the midst of an unprecedented two year streak of high quality releases dating back to the 2008 Kingdom/Purify/Test Signal 12" on Hessle Audio. With an upper level remix of Islands by the XX and a joint release with LV on Hemlock in the near future, it doesn't look like he's slowing down either. Now we just have to wait to hear the direction he will bring bass in next.

As if you needed any more reason to hit up the Goodlife tonight. In the recently renovated upstairs, DJ's Kon, 7L & Nomadik will be holding it down all night with a motha f'en J Dilla tribute. Doesn't get to much better than that folks.

Get there early for Houston's DJ Wheezie opening downstairs, followed by our good mate and BASSIC resident C Dubs, who will surely be playing some heat to get the groove in motion for Untold. I don't think I've anticipated a show this much since Kode 9 last spring.

Fuck the snow, just make it out. You will regret not going to this.

Links

TOGETHER

Untold

Hemlock

C Dubs

edit. Search the blog for Untold to listen to previous tunes we've put up.

On Repeat: Starkey - Rain City

What gives? Where's that incredible Tropical Life mix you promised a post down.

Well... 1) my fucking awesome cat Pipa passed away.... while not always the smartest or healthiest of cats due to a plethora of problems (scared lungs caused by the people that smoked in the house she was born in and she is a white siamese cat and most likely a product of inbreeding ha) she lived a hearty 12 year life and was always there for me when I went back to the parents house.

2) I'm flying to DC to pick up a car on Friday and won't have time to post this tomorrow.

3) This is actually the 99th real post, just noticed a draft of a post on Edan's incredible Echo Party that was never published. (but will be very soon!)

In the interim, listen to this new and incredibly sick Starkey track that I've had in my head since Camp Bisco mid July of last year. Glad it finally got a release. Buy the 12", both songs are dooooppppeee.

Mix will be up Monday.

Links

Purchase

Starkey