Wednesday Round Up

Not only did Spoek provide us with a killer mix this week but he's also kindly dropped us this filthsome Kuduro style Hostage remix of a track he recorded with So Called Friend.

"Fever" / So Called Friend feat. Spoek (Hostage Remix) by RavingLoonyRecords

Download: So Called Friend feat Spoek - Fever (Hostage Remix)


All round bass music badman Baobinga kickstarts his new Build label with a helluva bang thanks to his very own Tongue Riddim alongside partner in grime I.D. The track is on a tropical tip mixing up Dubstep, Funky and Kuduro with a remix from UK Funky don and Rinse FM player Roska on the flip. to celebrate here's a another track from the duo on a similar tip that has already had support from the likes of TRG and Buraka Som Sistema.

Download: Baobinga & I.D. - Man Down / alt link


Heavyweight bass grinding Hip-hop track from Charlie Tipper and Terror Dactel courtesy of New York label Subdrive. A label well worth keeping an eye on via their blog as they regularly give out all the full-quality stems as DRM-free as part of their release package, to encourage remixers to get their hands dirty.

Download: Charlie Tipper - Vocaloid (Terror Dactel Mix) / alt link


Not one for the hardcore amongst you but a rather pleasant pop tune which floats along nicely over the Dubstep undertones from E Tubbs and Trill Bass. Sounds vaguely Swedish but that's not usually a bad thing.

Download: Owl City - Fireflies (Etubbs & Trillbass Insomniac Remix ft Catt) / alt link

Hot And Cool

As winter kicks in, British bands start to compete for who can be more cold and haunting yet warm and inviting at the same time (think the official term for this is Super-cool). The xx have been obvious top contenders for a while now but we'd say Ninja Tune signing Emika has got a pretty good chance of grabbing the title herself, although having recently relocated to Berlin she might well have to be disqualified from the running.

This track gets extra points in each category thanks to Scuba, a London dubstep pioneer who has also jumped ship to Berlin shores a new. Look out for the single and more remixes dropping in January of next year.

Download: Emika - Drop The Other (Scuba's Vulpine Remix) / alt link

DJ Cable "Mixin It Up" for Discobelle.net

Shouts to Discobelle for giving me the opportunity to do a mix for their Mixin' It Up series, which has been graced by loads of other great DJs such as Bok Bok, Dave Nada and Drop The Lime, to name a few...If you don't know about Discobelle, they're one of the internet's leading dance music blogs, and have been highly influential when it comes to breaking new music.

For this mix, I decided to go with a selection of Dubstep & Grime tracks (both old and new) that I’m into at the moment, accompanied with a tiny bit of scratching here and there; Nothing too intricate though, as I wanted the tunes to speak for themselves.

You can also peep the full post here to see my reasons behind each choice. I hope you all enjoy the mix :)

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Tracklisting:

01. MRK1 - Kill Zone
02. Skream - Burning Up
03. Sukh Knight - Beneath Your Blouse
04. Benny Page & Zero G - Trigger Finger
05. Rossi B & Luca Feat. Gully Gang - Music Money
06. Jakes & Joker - 3Klane
07. Tempa T - Boy Off Da Ting
08. Benga & Coki - Night
09. LD - The King Of Kong
10. Noah D - Seeeriousss
11. Flux Pavilion - Fucking Noise
12. Excision & Datsik - Swagga
13. Joker & Ginz - Purple City
14. Grand Puba - Get It (12th Planet Remix)
15. Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)
16. Caspa - Marmite (Cable VIP Re-edit)
17. Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U

Feedback is always welcomed, so please feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you think!

erm... Tuesday Mixtapes Anyone?

Okay we know these are a day late but then again if we had the Monday mixtapes up to listen to then maybe it wouldn't have seemed like such a struggle to get them up in time, it's a vicious cycle. Then again we've heard all the fashionistas saying that in fact Tuesday is the new Monday, M Kat is the new black and Tropical Tech is the new religion, so who are we to argue.

First up Mumdance just sent through this mix he did for Redlight's show on BBC 1Xtra last week. A 30 minutes journey that takes us from his more grimey mind, with the help of MCs Jammer, C Gritz & Diesel into the deeper instrumental depths of his new productions and latest loves; next up the 'post apartheid, post Hip-hop poster boy' Spoek Mathambo, who is possibly the most prolific emcee of the moment, jumping on more bass bouncing beats than just about anyone else, serves up a slice of what he's been up to and what he's been into recently. He's also been blogging hard over at 2faced1; finally we celebrate a new collective of DJ’s, producers, artists and promoters called Get Hype Collective. The members are Jeuce, Pond Life, Toast, Yoghurt Warrior and Dave Verne and the producers of the group have all collaborated in a sick little mix which is waiting patiently for you down below. Also incase you haven't picked it up yet, our boys Monkey and Curtamos have provided remixes for the new Toast single Shipwreck, which is out on Robox-Neotech now. Pick it up here.


Download: Mumdance - BBC 1Xtra Mix ft Jammer, C Gritz & Diesel

Tracklisting:

01. Mumdance - Kerplunk Part 1
02. Shazam & Slater Brockman - Forward March
03. Silencer - Dirtbag
04. P Money - Left The Room
05. Wiley - Wot U Call It? (Tease)
06. Terror Danjah - Bipolar
07. Plastician - Cha (Switch)
08. Drop The Lime - Set Me Free (Zombie Disco Squad Rmx)
09. El Guincho - Kalise (Mumdance Rmx Ft Jammer)
10. Egyptrixx - Everybody Bleeding
11. Agent X - Decoy
12. Mums Of Death (Mumdance & Drums Of Death) - Golden Axe
13. Mumdance, Shortstuff & Brackles - Sick in a Bag
15. Mumdance Ft Badness - Sacrifice Riddim


Download: Spoek - Ghosts Of Bones Mix

Tracklisting:

PRELUDE - SPIKIRI KING DON FATHER
DARK NOERD - SMOKING TUSKS (AMAPHOYISA FIXUP)
SPOEK + SEKTA - PETER PAN
DJ MUJAVA - TUMI GWANGWA
DJ MENACE - YON’INDODA ENHLE
DJ SKHOKHO - DASHBOARD LOVE
SPOEK + DOUSTER - PUNANI
M-TECH - ANGIGCENGI
SPOEK + URCHINS - TICKETS (KID KAIO REMIX)
SWEAT.X + DJ WOOL - RED FOR DANGER
MUMDANCE + BRODINSKI - eUROSTARR (SHARKSLAYER REMIX)
SWEAT.X - JACK
SPOEK + SCHLACHTHOFBRONX - TOO HIGH (PINYIZA FIXUP)
SPOEK + XRABIT + DMG$ - BOOTY CALL
SWEAT.X - PEAS AND LEAVES
SPOEK + JUAN HUEVOS + BUGATI FORCE - wHAT WHAT WHAT
PLAYDOE + TOXIC AVENGER + CEREBRAL VORTEX - DOUCHEBAG
SPOEK + DJEDJOTRONIC - DIRTY AND HARD (KEATCH REMIX)


Download: Get Hype Collective – Get Hype Vol. 1

Tracklisting:

Ellie Goulding – Under The Sheets (Jeuce Rework)
Pond Life – Obsidian
Toast – Only One
Toast - Trouble
Synth Girl - Hurricane (Jeuce Rework)
Pond Life – Rinsed Out Rasta
Jacob Plant – Basslines In (Jeuce Rework) / Toast - Bag
Pond Life – Diamond Girl
Toast – Daft Step
Pony Pony Run Run – Hey You (Jeuce Rework)
Pond Life - Creep
Robot Disaster – Boy (Jeuce Rework)
Rafffertie – Antisocial (Toast remix)
Toast - Capsule
Pond Life – Space Marines
Toast - Bag

Sunday Sorting

Now at the risk of sounding like a bunch of sentimentalists, sometimes you need to stop, breathe and assess what's around you to fully appreciate exactly what you've got and how that can help you move forwards. Sunday for most people is a great time to do this, so bearing that in mind we've spent the day going through our inbox and have realised that we've got some monstrous frickin' tunes and so we're going to use those to move forward in the manner of a deranged gang of cyber loons on a ruthless mission to infect the eardrums of the planet and turn you all into bass junkies. It really does help too, we feel zen as f**k, you should try it.


As well as a bunch of new tracks set to drop, Thrills is ready to kick start his new label Sub Philo Music Group with offerings from the likes of DZ & XI, Dev79, Vaski, Bombaman and Blood Shake all on the cards. Not only that but he's hooked us up some killer remixes of DJ DJ from Zion I, flipping it from Bay Area Baile Funk into some brutal Bassline jump up bizness with the help of Tony Rocky Horror.

Download: Zion I - DJ DJ (Thrills & Tony Rocky Horror Bassline Remix) / alt link

Download: Zion I - DJ DJ (Thrills & Tony Rocky Horror Dubstep Remix) / alt link


Anybody remember the R'n'B track Pony from Ginuwine? It's crazy to think it was released back in 1996 when you listen to the incredible Timbaland production on that track, even crazier when you know it was recorded 3 years earlier back in 1993. He was not only 16 years ahead of his time but positively light years. We recently had this Dubstep remix of the track through from Boson that thankfully makes full use of the original beat and helps to highlight our point here.

Download: Ginuwine - Pony (Boson Dubstep Remix) / alt link


It's easy to take you're eye off the ball when you're in the middle of a ball pool and so we haven't been keeping a close an eye as we should be on Run Riot Records. If we had been we'd have noticed this dope remix of a Gouseion track posted a couple of months back. Luckily Graintable gave as a heads up recently when he sent us a video of him performing the track on his APC 40.

Download: Gouseion - We're in High School (Graintable Remix) / alt link

Can also listen to / download the track here.


Couple of beautifully deep floatsome Dubstep remixes from Grevious Angel and Demon of Macabre Unit. The track is called Drift by A Bridge Far Away and features vocalist Indi Kaur whom some might remember from DJ Pinch's Underwater Dancehall album. The original can be found on the forthcoming Enchanted which drops on Methodology Recordings in the new year and has already been getting support from the likes of Pathaan, Jus Wan and Bobby Friction.

Download: A Bridge Far Away feat. Indi Kaur - Drift (Demon Remix)
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Download: A Bridge Far Away feat. Indi Kaur - Drift (Grievous Angel Remix) / alt link

Robot Koch - Gorom Sen

robot koch - gorom sen from robot koch on Vimeo.

Elucid On Elucid

As you might have expected we have been loving the new Elucid album. But we wanted to know if our feelings and thoughts on the Sub Bass Diet had any correlation to the feelings and thoughts that went behind making it, so we asked Elucid to break the spirit of the album down for us, turns out we are definitely on the same page.

Here's what he had to say...

The Sub Bass Diet is relevant because of its fearlessness. The old model of selling music has all but vanished and NOW is the time for artists to experiment and be bold enough to not really give a fuck about popular opinion. That spirit of rebellion has always informed my music and I stuck to my guns here with The Sub Bass Diet. I set out recording SBD without any sense of nostalgia for the past (and a thorough disgust for the present) I looked ahead and tried to make music I felt was a foundation for the future. Dubstep and other digital bass heavy rhythms only matched the vibes I was bringing across lyrically.

With the title playing on The South Beach Diet I imagined the music as a method to shedding the dead weight of life and stepping into new consciousness for myself. This is reflected throughout the project. Messages of self love, vision, purpose and determination are there for those who need it. But where there's love, trust there's destruction around the corner. Destruction of outdated ways of thinking,interaction, egomania, class/race/gender inequalities and all that separate us from truth.

"Dis poem is knives. Bombs. Guns. Blood. Fire blazing for freedom" - Mutabaruka

Download: Elucid - The Sub Bass Diet


If you love the album as much as we do then it's highly recommended you head over and show some support by grabbing his new double headed single Cheap Suit / Pandemonium, available from Bandcamp for just $2.