Grievous Angel 'MC Garage' Mix

Defo one of my favourite mixes this year, witness the sickness HERE, tracklist below.

Digital Dubz: Sound of Da Police Refix 1999

Busta Rhymes: Dangerous (Garage refix) 1999

Corrupted Cru feat. MC Neat: G.A.R.A.G.E. 1998

The Corrupted Crew: How Much Gal? 2000

DJ Luck and MC Neat: A Little Bit of Luck (DJ Luck and Shy Cookie Remix) 1999

Tasty Jay and Nicky Nai Feat MC Jenksy: Rinse Out 2000

Teebone, Sparks & Ki: Fly Bi 1999

Jameson: This One (Club Mix) 2000

DJ Chubbstarr & A Fernandes Feat MC Preshus: RInse Out 1999

Headtop: The Don Donna 1999

Uncouth Youth & MC Dee: Steppin’ Up 2000

Headtop: The Don Donna – Dub Mix 1999

Recorded 23/10/2010. All vinyl, two takes. 107Mb 320.

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How to dance to Dubstep

Skream posted a link to this on twitter earlier on saying he loved the video, can you disagree?

Xmas freebies

Here's some Xmas digi-presents I found online in the past few days, you might hear something you like:

Mele' 'I Swear Down'
Dj Wick-it 'The Borhters Of Chico Dusty' (Big Boi VS The Black Keys)
First Word Records - V/A 'Two Syllables Volume 5'
Numan 'Red'
Skips 'Not Enough' 
Martelo 'Down On My Night Hunter'
Zed Bias 'Lost DATs Archive Vol.1' (Xmas Giveaway)
Local Action Records - V/A 'Skydiver'
Falty DL ' And I really know'
Addison Groove 'Footcrab VIP'
Altered Natives 'History of Silence' (19 tracks zip)
Altered Natives 'Danny Does Acid'
Funkystepz 'Remixes & Extras Zip'
Terror Danjah 'Hardrive - TheCompilation 2009' CD 1 & 2
Digi G'Alessio 'Beat A Confronto Vol.2'
Digi G'Alessio 'Shiny Brazils'
Skream Presents 'The Freeizm Album'
Subeena 'Dual'
Silkie 'The Night Before'
Wayne Marshall 'Careless' (Wildlife Edit)
Hypercube 'Space Interlude'
Kingdom 'Hottest In America'
Bok Bok 'Crew' (Instrumental)
Butterz Xmas Zip
Panteross666 'X Lova' (Cubic Zirconia Remix)

Major Grave 'Night Creepers'

Goldy's 'Time Of The Month' - Dec 2010

DOWNLOAD

http://goldy.vwat.net/

ZED BIAS 'Lost DATs Archive Vol.1' (Xmas Giveaway)

 Zed Bias - 'LOST DATS ARCHIVE' volume 1 (Xmas Giveaway) by zedbias 

Captain Beefheart R.I.P. (1941-2010)

Mixology #8 Mixed by Kingthing

Download Here

Tracklist:

Jamie Grind – Remember Those Days (forthcoming Fortified Audio)

Plot Twist – Ohene (forthcoming Fortified Audio)

James Fox – New Jack Swing

Resketch – Ghosts

KingThing – Mad Hatter

Dark Sky – High Rise (forthcoming Blunted Robots)

Gon – Untitled

Distal & HxdB – Untitled

KingThing – You Know

Volta Cab – Give It Juice (XXXY’s Rubicon RMX -forthcoming Wicked Bass)

DJ P.O.L. Style – Vampire Killah

Zed Bias – Neighbourhood (El-B remix)

Submerse – Tokyopop (forthcoming Night Audio)

KingThing – Neglect Me

KingThing – Different Spin

Mock The Zuma – Me (forthcoming Night Audio)

@akingthing

soundcloud.com/kingthing

http://www.nightaudio.co.uk/

http://fundamentalgarage.com/

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PlayPortrait 001 - Terror Danjah

PlayPortrait Inside Terror Danjah from Playground // PlayTv on Vimeo.

Check out Playground, great website for music news, reviews, mixes, videos and all the rest.

Krystal Klear 'Tried For Your Love' (ACKK12x1)

 Krystal Klear - Tried For Your Love (ACKK12x1) by allcitydublin

 Krystal Klear - Tried For Your Love (Hudson Mohawke Remix) (ACKK12x1) by allcitydublin

Big up the All City crew.

Tom Noble 'Fun Company' (CLSS07)

 CLSS07 - Tom Noble - Fun Company by clone.nl

Funk Butcher vs Loleatta Holloway 'Sinister Boogie/Love Sensation' - FREE DL

 Funk Butcher vs Vs Loleatta Holloway - Sinister Boogie/Love Sensation by factmag

http://soundcloud.com/funk_butcher

TWITTER: @Funkbutcher

Various Artists 'Skydiver' (LOC004) - FREE DL

Sum gems in this one! Out to Local Action.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Tracklist:

01. Addiction (Lunice remix)

02. Me & U (Mickey Pearce’s Mickey Luvs Cassie mix)

03. Official Girl (The Blessings remix)

04. Is It You? (Svpreme Fiend remix)

05. Me & U (Brackles remix)

06. Addiction (Altered Natives' Cassie4dannyNATIVE TLA dub) 

07. Thirsty (Slackk remix)

08. Must Be Love (Jacques Greene’s Marriage Proposal mix)

09. Me & U (8Bitch cover)

Cowen says sorry

Another tip from A.K., a simple yet incredibly funny animation on the irish shenanigans to the music of Blue & Elton John. Already a classic. From http://www.tigerreborn.com/

infra rave slideshow

A lil slideshow of the infrasonics rave straight from Picasa to Youtube:

www.infrasonics.net

More slideshows here.

Ebola music workshop #2: "Pumping Bass"

The video was featured in this interview with Altered Natives I was reading...

A.K. 'XXXX Nights' Mix for Le Tanque blog

 XXXX Nights Mix For Le. Tanque by .A.K. 

Get the mix over at Le. Tanque

01: Bombay Bicycle Club – Always Like This (Pariah Remix)
02: Kyle Hall – Ghosten
03: Chesca – The Floor Is Yours
04: Chubby Dubz – 31 Flavours (Late Nite Dub)
05: AK & Gon – Unintended Consequences (Demo)
06: Bleep District – Secret Disciples (Jonno & Tommo’s New Testament Dub)
07: Egyptrixx – The Only Way Up
08: Elgato – Blue
09: Giom – Bring Down The Walls
10: Dirt Crew – BigBadCity
11: House Jackerz – Bad Habit
12: The Fives – It’s What You Do
13: Sepalcure – Music That I know So Well
14: M83 – Teen Angst (Luciano remix)

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MA1 - Rinse 21/11/10

MA1 played a new funky riddim I sent him in his last show on Rinse, check check, he played some real gems, wait to hear that tribal killer by Geeneus halfway through the show!!

DJ MA1 - RINSE 21/11/10

Here MA1 talks in depth about Uk Funky after playing Xtra Large in Germany :

Danny Macaskill: 'Way back home'

Only found out about this guy today via twitter. Sick skills, great footage:

And an older one with a deserved 21 million views on Youtube:

Dubbel Dutch - Pulso

Taken from Kingdom's FACT Mix. Massive drop at 1.33

Future Sound (Short Docu)

Future Sound - An Underground Electronic Music Documentary - HD from Jamie Whitby on Vimeo.

Mixology 7 Mixed by A.K. & Gon

  

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AK

FUNDAMENTAL WEBSITE

Twitter @Fundamental2012

Tracklist:

Soft Wasp – Let me be (Shatterfreak Remix)

Swarms – Function 212

TRG – Everything We Stand For

Ike Release – I’m Gone

Jamie Grind – Bad Attitude (You Know It)

C.R.S.T. – Dial The Operator

Des Demure – Money Beet

Littlefoot – Sell My Soul

Sbtrkt – When Doves Strike

Kidkut. – ILove04

Octa Push – Laika Likes It

Sentinels – Maji

Hot City – Twist feat. MCDT

Kingthing – A2 Dubplate

Corticyte – Nextstep

Falty DL – Phreqaflex

Tom Green gots flow

Tom Green on beats and rhymes with his old group Organized Rhyme 'Check the O.R.' (1993 - Canada)

Bill Hicks & Joe Rogan

I finally got broadband. I had to wait for a month for the phone line to be activated and ditch the money-sucking Usb dongle I've been abusing for 4 weeks. I'm finally back in the real world and I've happily spent a sleepless night on my sorely missed Youtube. It was all worth it, I found a short Bill Hicks video I've never seen before (I thought I knew them all at this stage), one of his last performances from 1993. Not of of his all-time best material but I love the interaction between him and Bonnie,  the on-stage signer. I've also added his famous 'It's just a ride' message, it's always good to listen back to it. All I can say about Bill is that after watching him years ago for the first time doing his stand up on screen, things were never the same. I could go on and on about him but thankfully I found this great interview with Joe Rogan (another great thinker/comedian of our times) where he explains, much better than I would, why Bill was the real deal and how he was inspired by him. Final video is an excerpt from Rogan's Podcast with added animation created by one of his fans from Argentina. Enjoy the next 20 minutes.

R.I.P. Gregory Isaacs (1950-2010)

.A.K. - Grime/Bassline Mix

.A.K. drops another mix with a selection of some of his favourite grime, bassline and bass house tracks, download it below:

 Grime / Bassline / Bass House - .A.K. by .A.K. 


Tracklist:


01: Youngstar - The Formula
02: No Lay & Silkie - Unorthodox Daughter (Kingdom Refix)
03: Roll Deep - Eskimo (Vocal Mix)
04: DJ Zinc - Killa Sound (Skream Remix)
05: Lucy Love - No V.I.P. (OK Formula 4x4 Vocal Mix)
06: Wizzbit - Aquarius (RMX)
07: Breakage Feat. Newham Generals & David Rodigan- Hard
08: Landslide Vs. Slaughtermob - Spulrt
09: JME - Famalam
10: Rude Kid - Jack Daniels
11: Maxsta - East London Is Back
12: P Money - Left The Room (Prod. By Sukh Knight)
13: D Double E - Street Fighter Riddim
14: Foreign Beggars Feat. Stig Of The Dump, Dr Syntax, Farma G, Remus, Kyza & Skandal - 7 Figure Swagger (Plastician Remix)
15: Yoof - John Conner

DRUNK GUY STABS GERMANY POLICE WITH A DILDO!

Breton_ 'Counter Balance EP' (HEK010)

The latest release from the Hemlock camp has finally reached the surface. Untold introduces newcomer Breton_ to the masses and, as always, is a pleasant surprise. Production is crisp and the beautiful vocals in 'December'are already stuck in my head after a few plays, backed by what I can only describe as a epic hip hop beat. Check it out:

  HEK010 BRETON_ Counter Balance EP by Hemlockrecordings

Release date: Dec 6, 2010 

New Mix + Interview by Spatial for Bassmusic blog

Bass Music Mix 24 - Spatial by Bass Music on Mixcloud

Gon - dub

Darling Farah - Berline (Funkineven Remix)

Lone - Raptured 

Lamin Fofana - Dance In Yr Blood

Unknown - Anaconda (Tribal Guarachero mix)

Jamie Grind - Same Old Me

T.Williams - Chop & Screw

Spatial - dub

Spooky - Hayfever Riddim

Bob & Major Grave - Imperial (Gon Remix)

Spatial - dub

C.R.S.T - May Not Be Real

Mista Men - Sure footed

KingThing - Mad Hatter

DJ C ft Ms Thing - Jump Up and Bounce

xxxy - Body Moving

Production Unit - With An X

Spatial - dub

Samo Sound Boy - Taking It All (Melé Remix)

Schlachthofbronx ft. MC Gringo + MC Nem - Fock Me Avontade

Check Spatial's interview over at Bassmusic Blog

Infra 004 is out now - BUY HERE

R.I.P. Eyedea

We lost another one of the most skilled MCs in the game, Michael Larsen, aka Eyedea, at the age of 28.

Big L and Jay-Z's freestyle (Stretch & Bobbito Show 1995)

No one can touch Big L and THIS IS WHY.

TAM 2010

Today I've attended Tam 2010. Lots of refreshing talks, ideas, laughs and calls to activism.

For more info click on the logo below:

Also check:

http://www.randi.org

http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/

The AK review: TUBE10 009

From Fundamental:

Having first stumbled across this producer’s efforts on the cloud sometime back in late 2009 I was immediately taken by his versatile use of melody in creating brooding, lingering and spacious tracks.  With early productions seemingly far more sonically related to the bleak grey cityscapes of these rain nourished isles than his native sun drenched Texas State, VVV had tapped in to the emerging sound that would come to be called future garage as he continued his transatlantic sonic explorations.  Now no stranger to the pages here at Fundamental, or indeed to the release sheets of late, VVV steps up to the plate and delivers the latest installment in the quality Tube 10 series.  The list of artists to previously grace this ten inch specialist label reads like a who’s who of the past few years of bass music and Vertigo & Flames / Slacktide is a sure testament to the status of VVV in the cadre of producers pushing the sounds of future garage ever forward.

Vertigo & Flames, the A-side of this release, is a tasteful melodic builder set to a proper skippy garage beat of crisp high hats, a boomy kick drum and a classic sounding flat tight snare.  The intricate drum programming keeps the beat flowing smoothly throughout, dropping in occasional swooshes and squelches on a fully future garage tip.  As synth stabs and swells introduce the melody, delayed and dubbed out vocal snippets punctuate the proceedings adding to the melodic atmosphere.  Not quite full words or phrases but ooohs, ahhs and half words weaving in and out of the listener’s focus.  The level of effects and their use is pronounced but never overbearing and alongside a wash of icy background winds the track stands as a real display of the producing chops VVV has to offer.

Slacktide, on the B-side, drops the BPMs down a few notches taking on a more tribal and syncopated feel to the beat.  In line with the flip side, the vocals continue with the dubbed out regime but the thick synth chord stabs invoke a Dubtech sentiment while the bass line pushes some serious air through the bins.  Overall Slacktide is a somewhat more aggressive and brash sounding affair to Vertigo & Flames’ meandering melodic sensibilities and will surely find favour among the cavernous spaces where raves still get deep and dark.

These are interesting times for bass-centric music.  Perhaps never before have there been so many competing sub genres or emergent scenes.  Never before has so many producers’ output been so readily available to the dance conscious public.  But no matter how much music is out there, it always seems that some individuals encapsulate certain aesthetics with a vigour that others can only emulate.  To me, VVV is one of a small number of individuals who best describe what Future Garage is.  With this release on Tube 10, he continues to be one of a number of producers who keep me checking the sheets every week to see where the future is going.

Vertigo & Flames (TUBE10 009) is out now on Tube 10 on digital and 10′ vinyl.


VVV INTERVIEW ON FUNDAMENTAL

Tom Waits Releases 78 RPM Record and Player

From Pitchfork

Colz - Infomatics 2010 Riddim

Colz must have posted this little gem on his blog while I was moving because it has slipped my attention.

A refix of a remix he did a while back, borrowing a vocal sample from an Infomatics' tune. Top stuff!