Victim of the Ghetto2. Interlude 1: Radio Fusion Radio3. Hollywood Paradox4.
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Politics of a Gangster5. Underground Blues6. Interlude 2: The Homeless7. Interlude 3: After These Messages9. Interlude 4: Peter Pump10.
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Interlude 5: I Gotcha11. Interlude 6: Phone Sex13. College Boyz in the House14. Interlude 7: Concerned Parent15. Interlude 8: Highroller Parade17. How Ta Act18.
Interlude 9: Tips of the Day19. Funky Quartet of the Day20. Interlude 10: Who The F.ck Is This?!21.
Politics of a Gangster Dub. Best Kept Secret3. Sally Got A One Track Mind4. Shut The F.k Up6. F.k What U Heard7. I'm Outta Here8.
A Day In The Life9. Last Car On The 2 Train10. Red Light, Green Light11. I Went For Mine12. Comments From Big 'L' & Showbiz13.
Check One, Two14. What You Seek15. Lunchroom Chatter16. Pass Dat S.T18.
Freestyle (Yo, That's That Sh.)19. (Keep It Simple Stupid)20. Stunts, Blunts, & Hip Hop21. Wuffman Stressed Out22. Feel The Vibe23. A View From The Underground.
Naughty By Nature - Uptown Anthem2. Eric B & Rakim - Juice (Know the Ledge)3. Teddy Riley & Tammy Lucas - Is It Good to You4. MC Pooh - Sex, Money & Murder5. Big Daddy Kane - Nuff Respect6. Too $hort - So You Want to Be a Gangster7.
EPMD - It's Going Down8. Aaron Hall - Don't Be Afraid9. Salt-N-Pepa - He's Gamin' on Ya'10.
Cypress Hill - Shoot 'Em Up11. Juvenile Committee - Flipside12. Son of Bazerk - What Could Be Better Bitch13. Rahiem - Does Your Man Know About Me14. Brand New Heavies & N'Dea Davenport. 2 Hard 4 The F.kin' Radio2.
All Damn Day3. 2 The Double R 'Wit Coolio'4. Get Some Get Right6. Young Playah'7. California Livin8.
This Is The Mac9. I'm N Motion10. Nothin' Correctable - (interlude)11. They Don't Understand 'Wit Ray Luv'12. Young Black Brotha13.
Romp Ya'll, The14. My Chevy 'Wit Mac Mall'15. M.A.C.& MAC D.R.E. 'Wit The Mac', The16.
Young Mac Dre17. Much Love 4 The Mac18.
Gift 2 Gab19. Piece From Khayree, A20. U Still Punk Police21.
Out The Water - (Interlude). RIP Mac Dre.1970 - 2004. Mo' Money Allstars - Mo' Money Groove2.
Interlude - For You Free3. Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson - The Best Things In Life Are Free4. Interlude - Gimme My 2 Dollars5.
MC Lyte - Ice Cream Dream6. Interlude - Amber, Let's Go7. Johnny Gill - Let's Just Run Away8.
Interlude - Don't Throw That Away9. Caron Wheeler - I Adore You10. Public Enemy - Get Off My Back11. Color Me Badd - Forever Love12. Interlude - Fun And Games With The Mail Boy13. Ralph Tresvant - Money Can't Buy You Love14.
Interlude - Hi Johnny Baby15. Krush - Let's Get Together (So Groovy Now)16. Sounds Of Blackness - Joy17. Interlude - A Sister Just Like Her18. Jam & Lewis - The New Style19. Interlude - I Think I Mightta Gotta Job20. Big Daddy Kane - A Job Ain't Nuthin'But Work21.
Interlude - My Dreams Need Detail22. Mint Condition - My Dear23. Interlude - Big Time24. The Harlem Yacht Club - Brother Will. Success N Tha House3.Cinfrontation In Mosley Park4. Bucking On Dope N.z5. Bullsh.t Views6.
Raised From Depression7. Brainwashed N.z8.
Real Black Souljas9. Ultimatedrive By11. Police Brutality12. F.ck 1 Time13. Wblk (We Be Black)14. Black Radio Aint Black15.
Pimps And Players16. Out Ta Get Rich17. Forty Aces And A Mule19. F.ck The System20. Voice Of A Black Revolutionist22.
The Other Levell23. Change The Dial24.
Surgeon remains one of electronic music's most consistently thrilling performers. We've been trying to squeeze a mix from Lawrence (aka agent2) of London's Rebel Intelligence collective for some time now. Le Orme (meaning footprints) rocks out the kind of lush electronic tackle you'd expect from this exceptional connoisseur of early Chicago house, Detroit techno and deep dancefloor electro. If you've ever caught one of Lawrence's flawlessly programmed DJ sets, you'll be all over this.The fledgling Rebel Intelligence label has a couple of great electro 12's out by Matt Whitehead. Snap them up if you haven't already.Tracklisting:Submersible Machines - Blue HoleSteve Summers - Dreaming in ColorDJ Sprinkles (Kink & Neville Watson Remix) - MasturjakorPerseus Traxx - Remake 508Murphy Jax Featuring Mike Dunn - It’s the MusicSteve Summers - Lucid FingersKink & Neville Watson - The Long WaitElec Pt.1 - Sky 13Risque Rythum Team - 122 HouseKink & Neville Watson - City 2 CityVirgo Four - In a VisionSnuff Crew - Slam itSurburban Knight - The GrooveConforce - Black Stroke. Ralph Cumbers describes his latest release as 'an open love letter to underground dance music culture'.
Out earlier this month on Magic and Dreams, Inner Space Break Free harks back to ye olde days of hardcore and rave, with influences not so much worn on its sleeve as emblazoned across the back of a friggin' great fluoro jacket.The album is available on cassette only ('I’m releasing it on tape because I adore them, and all my music is made on a cassette 4-track, so it feels kind of right'), and is dedicated to 'the tunes, DJs, soundsystems, noisy neighbours and pirate stations that have inspired me and repeatedly turned my head inside out over the last two decades', says Cumbers. Rave on, we say.' Inner Space Influences' mixes up many of the classic dance tracks that influenced Inner Space. If you've not checked out Mr Clef's other mixes on Spannered, we recommend you seek out his excellent dub mixes here and here, and last year's tremendous African mix here. Put together by Bomb Diggy's mix monkey for a lousy two crates of bananas, some pineapple juice, and a bottle of Dominican rum, this roaring selection of dancefloor scorchers originally aired last month on Holland's DJBroadcast site.The Bomb Diggy crew are purveyors of the most tropical party nights in Holland, with resident DJs Mataklap, Makks, Ru-D and Tommy Tequila plus guests spinning global bass music spanning kuduro, booty, soca, dancehall, ragga, cumbia and baile funk — with plenty of jungle bounce thrown in. Head over to their site for info on upcoming Bomb Diggy gigs and radio shows, and to check out their splendid Bombcast mix series. Tracklisting:Bomb Diggy IntroMexican Dubwiser ft.
Candice Cannabis - Cumbia of the GreatDJ Dus - Por VidaAniceto Molina - El Campanero (Krunk Kumbias Remix)Sabo - Soundboy CumbiaSuper Guachin - CumbianderoAlvaro -Make it Funky (Dj Punish Remix) (Max le Daron RaveCumbiaTon Refix)Zonora Point - Huachita Rica (Douster remix)Sonido del Principe vs Zomby - Shake that Strange FruitSuckafish P. Jones - Cloak and Dagger EmpireMunchi - Metele BellacoVilla Diamante - Frikstailers vs Calle 13Uproot Andy - Brooklyn Cumbia (ODB Mix)Uproot Andy - Brooklyn CumbiaChief Boima - Techno Rumba (Uproot Andy Remix)The Very Best - NsokotoMyd - Train To BamakoDouster - King of AfricaWILDLIFE! - Jumbie (Original Mix)The Count & Sinden - Mega (Original Mix)MJ Cole - AO Feat. Serocee (Zed Bias Wind Up Mix)Major Lazer, Harold Faltermeyer - Pon De Foley (Ludachrist Remix)Sam Tiba - Barbie WeedDiamond Bass - SerumaOrion - Sueltala (Orion Edit)DJ Dus - CumbiosoSwappi - Dis Gyal (Nah Go Play)Skeat - DumelangMujava - Mugwanti (Schlachthofbronx Remix)Debruit - Nigeria What?Ku Bo - Sumanita Feat. Daniecell (Daniel Haaksman Remix)Radioclit - Secousse All-StarsOcta Push - Ai Nadia12th Planet & Juakali - ReasonsBlaxx Feat. Wendell Manwarren - ZombieRicky T - Pressure BoomOlantunji Yearwood - Get WildGhislain Poirier ft.
Mc Slaughter - Get WildGhislain Poirier ft. Face-T - Wha-La-La-Leng (Uproot Andy RMX)Shaggy - Mr.
BoombasticMykol Orthodox - Im The Roughest Rmx (Cocoa Tea). That's right, here's a brand new mix from arch beatfreak and master of mischievous melody, Bogdan Raczynski.Many of you will know Bogdan from his slew of releases on Rephlex over the past decade (if not, head straight to 1999's seminal Samurai Math Beats). Those who have listened to the latest album by Ralph Cumbers will know something of his huge love for the rhythms of Africa. Earlier this year Ralph ripped and re-edited a number of his favourite vinyls from the motherland. The resulting mix — released as part of Fact Magazine's consistently excellent podcast series — is the most colourful and crazed selection of music we've heard so far this year.
If you missed it (Fact's podcasts are available for three weeks only), don't fear as Ralph recently asked Spannered to give the mix a permanent home.Mr Clef talks about the mix, his current African obsessions and the recent album in an interview over at the Fact site. Those new to his work may also want to check Spannered's interview with him back in 2006. Tracklisting:Segun Adewale - Yo Pop MusicSusan Mapfumo - DzvokoZani Diabete - Super DjataFede Lawu - Cherie CocoEdikanfo - Da Da EdikanfoNyboma - Double DoubleBibi Den’s Tshibayi - The Best AmbianceD.O. Misiani & Shirati Jazz - Sister Mary LucyKing Sunny Ade - Synchro FeelingsChief Dr Sikuru Ayinde Barrister - Ffuji Garbage Series IIKing Sunny Ade - Sunny Ti De AriyaGeorge Mukabi - Bibi Mama Ngani Mzuri^ Listen to Bass Clef's other mixes on Spannered here and here^ May the Bridges I Burn Light the Way is out now on Blank Tapes.
Back in 2007, Kid Kameleon dropped an excellent pair of mixes for Spannered and Mashit exploring, as he put it, 'the weirder end of the dubstep spectrum'.Well, Matt's racked up another double-drop of current picks from the bass music panoramic, with the first installment landing here on Spannered and part two surfacing over at the Mashit camp. As with Aim High/Aim Low, the Kid eschews clubland's big hitters in favour of the fringe elements, packing out both new mixes with some super-deep dubstep/techno hybrids and plenty of mutant 2-step stylings. Tracklisting:Invasion Vs Shackleton - Wizards In Dub Part 1Martyn - Is This Insanity ft Spaceape (Ben Klock mix)Teleseen - Black Monday feat. Jah SightHizatron - Telescope DopeDeadboy - Brock Lee Riddimxxxy - Blue Flashing LightsInstra:mental - ForbiddenAl Tourettes - DodgemPlanetary Assualt Systems - X Speaks To X (Al Tourettes & Appleblim remix)Millie & Andrea - Black HammerKontext - Convex Curved MirrorSigha - Hold Your Heart Up To The LightWedge & Aesoteric - Detached RealityLV - Kowton Metronome (LV Rmx)Untold - Beacon (W/D Franklin)Scuba - Poppies (Substance dub version)^ Check part two over on the Mashit site^ Listen to Kid Kameleon's Aim Low on Spannered here. Another year, another Bloc. Paul Blackford, one of the UK's foremost electro artists, established his Militant Science imprint in 2009 in a bid 'to bridge the gap between electro and drum'n'bass'. Operating solely in the digital realm, the label has already notched up a healthy discography, with new releases soon out from Robokid, Sound Synthesis, Oort Cloud, Vadz, Melogik and Blackford himself.This bruising 38-minute mix by recent Militant Science signing Mossman collates new and forthcoming material from the catalogue.
Emptyset was born in 2005 when James 'Ginz' Ginzburg (30Hz, Joker collaborator, and co-founder of Tectonic Recordings) met art curator and DJ Paul Purgas (the man behind last year's excellent We Can Elude Control release) through Bristol's music scene.The duo embarked on a production project to explore their musical commonalities, such as low frequencies, sound design and rhythm. The results — a nervous-sounding strain of minimal techno, fortified by bone-rattling subbass — first surfaced in 2007 with a pair of sought-after EPs for Future Days. A third EP appeared on Julian Smith's Caravan Recordings in 2008, paving the way for the label to release Emptyset's eponymously titled debut album last month. Clocking in at just over 37 minutes, the album is a buzzing opus of lumbering rhythms, creeping distortion, bleeps, hums and warm bass tones.
Portuguese brothers Leo (Dizzycutter) and Bruno (Mushug) have been working on their respective musical projects for over a decade, but it was only last year when they were asked play a show in their home city of Lisbon for local crew Conspira that they joined forces to form live/production outfit Octo Push. Since then the duo have found themselves increasingly in demand, remixing the likes of Jahcoozi, Buraka Som Sistema and DJ C, gigging from Glade Festival to Fabric, and even catching the ear of Thom Yorke with their highly kinetic blend of garage, techno, IDM, Afrobeat and bashment.Octa Push made their vinyl debut this summer, launching Monkey Steak's Steak House imprint by way of a split EP with fellow Lisbon resident Mr Gasparov. This month sees the release of a white-hot three-tracker for Lisbon/Barcelona-based Iberian Records featuring the vocal talents of Cape Verde's Toni Clean and Panamanian-born MC Zulu, as well as the inclusion of their track Quebu Sabe on Soul Jazz Record's Steppa's Delight 2 compilation.
They're also due to feature on Fabric's forthcoming release Elevator Music Vol I.This live set was recorded on the Overkill stage at Glade 2009 as part of a showcase for Bristol's Ruffnek Diskotek (Octa Push appearing alongside Heatwave, Monkey Steak, Ghislain Poirier and MC Zulu, and Tim Dub Boy). Leo and Bruno tell us that their live act will undergo something of a transformation over the coming months, so track them down if they're playing a gig near you and find out what they've got in store. ^ Deixa by Octa Push is out now on Iberian Records. 'Burning Man 2008 saw over 49,000 participants revelling in the Black Rock Desert, working together to create the magic metropolis that is Black Rock City. The week was bookended by vicious dust storms, between which Mother Nature graced our encampment with gorgeously placid weather, allowing participants to enjoy the artwork, community and broad expanses of the playa. The Man, standing atop an obelisk bedecked with the flags of all nations, spoke of our American Dream, which is truly a global dream. Saturday's dust storms broke their stranglehold on the city in time to allow the community to gather to watch the Man burn late that night. On Sunday evening, Shrine and Tuktuk's 'Basura Sagrada' temple burned before a silently reverent audience, taking with it our community's missives to the great beyond.
All told, it was a very successful Burning Man event, however, trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been is a bit like trying to explain what a particular colour looks like to someone who is blind. For me this is the festival of all festivals.
If you get the chance, go!' Orson Bramley aka Transparent SoundLA, 2009- Orson Bramley and Martin Brown have been making music under the name Transparent Sound since the mid-nineties and have established themselves as one of the UK's leading electro acts. They have released tracks on their own imprints, Transparent Sound and Orson Records, and labels such as Electrix, Exceptional, Mass Transit and Satamile. The third member of London's Adverse Camber crew to contribute to Spannered's Radio section (alongside El Kano and Randomoidz), Scheme Boy delivers a steamroller of a mix that oscillates between mangled 'n' mentalist breaks and squashy pumping techno (with a cupful of fidgety funk thrown in for good measure).Scheme Boy's music has recently appeared on rambunctious record labels such as Bang-A-Rang and Ninja Columbo. When he's not scheming on his own he plays in acid 'n' break(core) duo Boep (with Randomoidz) and post-rock outfit Agent Elf.
This set of new material, originally broadcast at the end of 2008 on Scanone's Ill FM show, The Lost Tapes, is evidence of some seriously productive studio time since Point B made his debut contribution to Spannered just over a year ago. Not content with honing his dark dubstep/electro sound, Rich Bultitude has also been fleshing out two other projects from opposing ends of the rhythmic spectrum: Planes and Xammatu.And if you haven't already grabbed it, there's a free EP of Point B tracks awaiting you over at his site. Tracklisting:Creepy SteepleSomeone Else's PastSaw DustIstocity MeterDay TensionThree Colour VisionNo SmokesFigitGymedeSide EffectsMineralsTo Follow You.
Clocking in at just over 45 minutes, this vinyl selection from Uberdog swims through various aquatic electronic styles before coming to a rather murky end in a dubwise trench.You can also check out his Blah Blah Mix from 2005 here, and his more recently recorded Oddcast for Spannered here.Tracklisting:TV Pow - Friendship Patrol (Sutekh's Guitar Heroes mix) (Bottrop Boy)Ditone - A2 (Heatray)Slaughter Mob - No Big Deal (Hot Flush)Flying Lotus - Melt! (Warp)Neil Landstrumm & Si Begg - Lung Dub (Planet Mu)SP:MC - Future (feat. In homage to the music he suckled on as a youth, badass beat junkie Bobby Corridor has put together this colossal hip hop megamix, shoeshorning an obscene 600+ tracks into 90 minutes.In what he describes as 'a blip in the matrix', Mr Corridor has been nominated for best hip hop DJ in this year's DJ Awards.
If you'd like to help Bobby on his way to sipping a mojito around the pool as Cox and Tong lord it about in their g-strings, head over there and give your support! 'Mutating bass beats are infecting the planet!!!' , writes DJ Flack of his sick new mix for Radio Spannered.Antony Flackett, aka DJ Flack, is a DJ, producer and multimedia artist living in the Boston area. Together with Wayne 'Wayne and Wax' Marshall, Antony co-hosts the genre-mashing Beat Research parties in Cambridge, Massachusetts — a weekly colision of wobbly world flavours taking in dubstep, 2-step, bhangra, grime, jungle, bashment, hip hop and ragga. As a recording artist he has released music on Mashit, Bliss and Beat Research's own label project; he also performs alongside Mashit head honcho DJ C as DuoTone. Here he blazes across continents with a 43-minute mix of his current bassline fixes. '.a throwback to the days of the old boom bap, when tracks just made you want to bang your head and break your neck', says Laurent Fintoni, aka Kper, of his current hip hop fixes: beatheads such as Flying Lotus and edIT in LA, Dabrye and Waajeed in Detroit, and Rustie and Hudson Mohawke in Scotland.Laurent has been interviewing some of the aforementioned artists for articles coming out in the August issue of Serie B magazine.
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This mix, featuring snippets of the interviews (taken from www.samurai.fm), showcases many of the crucial players in this globally evolving hip hop sound. DubConscious is the alter ego for Bristol-based DJ Merkazoid, a young selector currently pushing the laptop reggae sound in the southwest of England. A convert from hip hop to bone-rattling Bristol bass and future dub, Mr Merkazoid tells us he's been busily knocking out six-hour reggae, ska and dub sets about the city. Stuffed to the hilt with tracks from Spannered faves such as Disrupt and Mungo's Hi Fi, this selection is pretty damn smokin', we reckon. Japanese musician Quarta330, promoter of Tokyo's Lo-Bit Playground party, twisted plenty of heads on the dubstep scene last year with his immense 8-bit refix of Kode9's towering 9 Samurai track.
He recently performed at Tokyo's Back To Chill night alongside other Japanese artists such as Goth Trad and T2R, armed with nothing more than two Game Boys, an interface and some effects pedals. Hosted both here and on Laurent Fintoni's blog, the set has a few jumpy levels and even a little technical down-time midway through; but don't let that put you off — along with the essential styles currently blasting out of the Jahtari camp, this really is some of the heaviest, most off-the-hook 8-bit music out there at the moment.No tracklisting.^ More recordings from Back To Chill's end of year party can be found here. Since launching in 2004, Combat Recordings hasn't so much carved a niche in London’s bass music scene as hacked a gaping hole in it with a heffing great katana. Oscillating between brooding breakbeats, brutalist electro and rough-edged 2-step/dubstep flavours, label releases have been dropping thick and fast from respected bass technicians such as Ardisson, Blackmass Plastics, Point B, Scanone and, most recently, the mighty Scorn. Featuring highlights from the Combat back catalogue alongside unreleased goodies (such as Threnody's dubplate-only remix of Unnatural Causes by Paradox — a track you'll never hear again in any other form), this mix was recorded late last year by label boss Stormfield. Jamaican producers may be pressing less and less vinyl but the island still churned out around two thousand 7' singles last year and these are our favourite rowdy ones. In the words of a Heatwave regular who got a sneak preview of the mix:'Who am I?
The dancehall king'A look back at 2007 enables you to go from the filthy, nasty but undeniably inspirational sex talk of Beenie Man, Chamelion and 'Sweet' C to the sparse vocal angriness of that old Elephant bloke and then surrender to the leg-lifting power of the Matterhorn man. And you're just getting started.' Everybody start tek way yourself. Follow the riddim and tek way yourself'What jumps out when you listen to these tracks all together is the control each artist commands. You feel at their mercy, and they're merciless. Whether it's the riddims coming in that you know you know - but you don't know you know until you hear the drop, and then you're shaking your shit so hard you're not sure what you know any more - or the fierceness of the lyrics that are flying at you like you're in a video game and you can't move quick enough so you just start letting them hit you. Have you heard about that little boy in Jamaica?'
Militaristic beats dropping left, right and centre make you feel like you're a kind of bashment brigadier going over the top of the trench. It's weird when you've hated so much of what Shaggy has put out in the past to hear him rip the arsehole out of the Heathen riddim. I thought there were no lyrics that could excuse Angel.' Return of the Indian.
Truths and rights weh we come to tell the nation'Like most years, 2007 leaves you with the perplexing problem of Sean Paul. It basically comes down to the fact that your legs and hips and arse have more respect for his voice than your brain. It's a bit like when Elephant Man provides the sting in the tail of the whole mix with Three Step on the Madness riddim. Chris Wood from the goodie-packed Word the Cat blog recently dropped us a line about the splendid new mix he's concocted.
It brought to mind Hanuman's and El Kano's playlists (two of our fave DJs here at Spannered) — a slew of moods from the grime and dubstep worlds, liberally sprinkled with flavas stretching from bassline house, bumpy ragga and old skool to 8-bit dub, Nepali lok pop, frosty minimalism and chiptune breakcore; he's even managed to slide in a few words of hillwalking wisdom from the late, great Alfred Wainwright.Chris has kindly let us host the mix here in Spannered's radio archive. He asked it we'd link listeners up to the 8bitcollective site — 'the first completely open chiptune-related media repository and file sharing community'. The electronicMESS track is available there for use under a Creative Commons License, along with a stack of other great 8-bit jams.
Go check it. Tracklisting: BBC Field Recording - The SkuasCaspa vs Art of Noise - Moments in Love (White)Squeezer f/ Nature - Yote Ni Yale Yale (WTC Screw)Matt Shadetek - Warm Heart Turns Cold (mp3)Joker - J. The grandmaster of wonky techno sees in the festive season by recording an exclusive mix for Spannered, chock-full of spazzed-out dance music and questionable humour. The set, recorded in a north London cheese factory in honour of the late, great Leonard Rossiter (we shit you not), is probably now the stupidest radio set on the entire site — an accolade we're sure Jerome will be pleased with.Comes complete with special edition hand-scrawled tracklisting! Check out Jerome's new radio show on uncut.fm, every Wednesday starting 25/02/09! If you're not familiar with the sound of London's Combat Recordings, this recent live set from label artist Point B should serve as a fine introduction — a 24-minute blowout of dubby, grimey electronica and plucky 2-step flavours, featuring unreleased tunes alongside two tracks from his latest Combat EP.Richard Bultitude's music has also found its way onto SCSI AV, Erratica, Colony Productions and Orson Records. This live mix was recorded for Boomnoise and Pokes' Sub FM show. Sub FM is an excellent web radio station, whose archive features an absurd amount of shows spanning grime, breaks, dub, dubstep and garage — go check it out. You can catch Point B next playing on the 22 December, in London, when Combat Recordings teams up with local filth merchants Plex and Yardcore for a Christmas knees-up at the A10 Bar on Kingsland Road (complete with mistletoe and grime, and poledancing in the basement). More info here. Tracklisting:Point B — CorneredPoint B — Gymede (Combat Recordings)Point B — Saw DustPoint B — Angular RoundedPoint B — Out Side InPoint B — Embryonic (Combat Recordings)^ Cinder Cones and Animal Bones is out now on Combat Recordings.
Bobby cut his teeth in the big bad hip hop scene of Cambridge, before moving on to provide the scratches for Earthling where Geoff Barrow left off. More recently he's been vomiting mixes onto the internet at an astonishing rate, covering as many musical bases as humanely possible.Despite having an unhealthy obsession with rappers whose names begin in “S”, Bobby is probably best known for Melancholy Flowers, the big girl's blouse of the mix world, but has also made mixes for Solid Steel, the Cactus Island label, and (mainly) his own head. In this, his latest mix, he revisits some classic dancehall and lays it on a crispy bed of hip hop, drum 'n' bass and dubstep.
South London-based Kim Sampson, aka Skim, has been crafting some great DJ mixes over the last few years, so we figured it was high time we asked her to put one together for Spannered. Scottish techno pioneer, Spannered associate and owner of one very fine hat, Neil Landstrumm last graced these pages when the site launched back in December 2006. Well, he's back with a splendid new live recording, put together in Edinburgh this month as a promo for his current Subs & Steel tour. Few Japanese music producers are pushing the envelope as much as Takeaki Maruyama aka Goth Trad.
An avid collector of vinyl and CDs since his early years, Takeaki has been making electronic music since the age of 19, releasing on prestigious labels in his own country and, more recently, on UK-based dubstep imprints. Indeed, the current incarnation of his sound has found great affinity with the fast-growing global dubstep audience — and his place within the scene's higher ranks is set to be cemented this coming weekend when he becomes the first artist to perform live (ie a non-vinyl set) at the legendary DMZ night in Brixton, London.To accompany Laurent Fintoni's lengthy interview with Goth Trad, we're chuffed as chips to host this blistering live set, recorded on Resonance FM on 21 September 2006 for the station's Clear Spot show. Jan Gleichmar, aka Disrupt, and partner in crime Rootah are leading the way in laptop dub reggae with their mighty fine web label Jahtari. Operated out of Jan's flat in Leipzig, Germany, the Jahtari site is a goldmine of free music from Jan and fellow subscribers to the label's theory. There's tons of cool writing too, about reggae history, the Commodore 64, old bits of music kit. And plenty more besides.In anticipation of Spannered's forthcoming interview with Jan, we suggest you fill your ears with this hour-long Disrupt set, recorded live in Glasgow on 31 March of this year, when he played for the city's Mungo's Hi Fi crew. And remember, Spannered is hosting a great studio mix from the Mungo's guys too, chock full of goodies from their Scotch Bonnet imprint. ^ Photo credit: Mungo's Hi Fi^ Read Spannered's interview with Disrupt.
Since 2002, Mungo's Hi Fi Soundsystem have been showing big love for all things reggae, dub, ska and dancehall by releasing some seriously high-grade music — not to mention regularly shaking Glasgow's foundations with their lofty speaker stacks.Following three outings on London's Dubhead label, the lads decided to set up their own imprint in 2005 — the wonderfully titled Scotch Bonnet Records. There's been a slew of 7's and 10's so far, all as hot as the label name suggests, with their unstoppable Belly Ska Riddim blazing its way across the UK, America, Germany and Poland. And there's no let up in pressure; next month sees their huge Mary Jane Riddim unleashed on a series of singles that feature vocals from Top Cat, Carl Meeks, Kenny Knots, Mikey Murka, Soom T and El Fata. There's also a Mungo's Hi Fi album on the way, due out on Scotch Bonnet in the not-to-distant future. In fact, they tell us they're sitting on so much new material that they don't know what to do with it all! For those unable to catch Mungo's Hi Fi on their European travels in the coming months, they've kindly supplied Spannered with this killer studio mix, packed full of unreleased Scotch Bonnet goodness. As you can tell, they've been feeling the current dubstep flavours too — hold tight for releases later in the year!
DJ /rupture came up with a swiftly executed and devastatingly effective musical counterstrike against the re-election of the world's least favourite leader in 2004. Previously hosted on Musicalbear, the mix combines more commercial US productions (opening with Baby Boy and finding room for Terror Squad's anthemic Lean Back) with the usual /rupture mash-up of breakcore, gabba, jungle and general intense, nose-bleeding noise.
As a gesture to US Army interrogation techniques, someone really ought to shut George Bush in a steel container and play this to him at full volume until his head explodes or he experiences a sudden conversion to grime and breakcore. A crazed scream interrupts the most laid-back, downtempo part of the mix: don't relax or the Republicans might get away with even more than they already have.The breakbeats are interspersed with evocative classics (like the Honeydrippers Impeach The President) and snatches of lyrics – 'I'm not your typical American' intones one MC, just before the music breaks down into distortion and frantic hardcore. Perhaps the most heartening thing for the UK listener is the number of British productions and MCs involved in the mix. Highlights from the UK side of the pond include the Bizzle's Forward Riddim (someone should bring the arms house to George Bush's mum's house), Lady Sovereign doing her excellent 'Ch Ching' thing and the crazy Deathsucker release Murder Dem which twists a dancehall version of Israelites into manic ragga jungle. Jamaican sounds are well represented with /rupture's own Sister Nancy collaboration Little More Oil coming through strongly, and there's also room for the all-time reggae classic, Willie Williams Armagideon Time. We hope the apocalypse isn't really imminent but, in the circumstances, it's a fair point – the battle is getting hotter and a lot of people won't get no justice tonight.No tracklisting.^ This mix was first played out on London's alternative radio station Resonance FM.
Gabriel's December 2004 Musical Bare Dancehall Mix was downloaded thousands of times from the Musicalbear site. Twelve months on the DJ from the Heatwave collective returned with another selection of some of the hottest dancehall tunes around at the time.The mix opens with a few of Gabriel's own blends on the massive, funked-up Doosra riddim, a production from Manchester's Spybase. The instrumental is blended with some classic 90s ragga vocals and a single from Ms Thing, plus the acapella from Sunshine, the first release on Heatwave’s own label, Scandal Bag.Following on are extended version excursions on one of the latest Dave Kelly productions, Bad Gal and the Coolie Dance-esque Kopa riddim.
Other featured rhythms include the squelchy, electro sounds of Phantom and Strip Tease, the dark 'n' dirty Dancehall Rock and the decidedly non-dancehall funk of Money Juggling, plus a bit of soca niceness, sizzling ska from Sizzla and a Heatwave remix on the collective's own bootleg label, Punchline.Mixed by Gabriel on two Technics 1210s & a Numark mixerMastered by Daddy Henry @ Dub Studio, BristolIntro by Quality Diamond ^ Full tracklisting available on request. Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, Todd Osborn aka Soundmurderer has gained a reputation as one of most exciting junglists to emerge from the US. Owner of the sought-after Rewind Records imprint, Todd set up the first ever drum 'n' bass store in Detroit, Dubplate Pressure. He was finally given the props he deserves through his colossal Wired For Sound mix CD, released on Tigerbeat6 sub-label Violent Turd in 2003, and has spent recent years dropping ballistic ragga-charged jungle sets from his laptop to crowds pretty much all over the place. Anyone following his musical trajectory will also know of his acid, house, booty, Detroit techno and experimental works on labels such as Spectral, Throw, TNT, Databass and scape.This set was recorded at Bashout in Bristol on 9 December 2006, when Soundmurderer played alongside DJ Hidden, Parasite and a host of other acts.
Rising from the ashes of Bristol's mentalist Toxic Dancehall jams, Bashout dishes out a thunderous dose of bottom end therapy every few months at the city's legendary Black Swan venue. For details of forthcoming parties, visit their website.No tracklisting.^ Photo credit: Soundmurderer at Toxic Dancehall IV, by Dan Gusset.
Tracklisting:Disrupt — Events Occur In Realtime (Jahtari.org)Specialist 'N' Tru-Skool — Saukhi Ki KammairANdOMoiDz — CubassSociety Suckers - Toxic (Society Suckers Remix)Hey-o-hansen - Fire (Radio Edit) (Hey Rec)Rustie — DregsTego Calderon — Elegante De BoutiqueDJ C — Seaga Face (Shockout)Daddy Yankee & Calle 13 — Machucando RemixKnifehandchop — Not For Tha Ladies Bastardized Oldstylin V1 (Irritant)Too $hort — Blow The Whistle (Instrumental)DJ /rupture — High Resolution (Koolpop)Mutamassik — Immigrants On Course (Very Friendly)The Bug ft. Cutty Ranks — Gun Disease (Rephlex)Parasite – Big Up Yourself (Monkey Steak Remix ft. Scorpio) (Death$ucker)DJ Shadow — 3 Freaks ft. Tracklisting:Vex'd - Bombardment Of SaturnVex'd - ThunderVex'd - 3rd ChoiceToasty - Candyfloss (Loefah remix)Loefah - RootSkream - TraitorTrim n Scratch - Trim n Scratch InstrumentalVex'd - VenusWiley - Colder remixBruza - Ave Some Of ThatSkream - Ball ForwardVex'd - FireVex'd - AngelsSearch & Destroy - Wavescape (Vex'd remix)Vex'd - Smart BombVex'd - Killing FloorToasty - Knowledge (Vex'd remix)Vex'd - GunmanDistance - TraffikVex'd - Lion VIPRemarc - Ricky VIP^ Read Musicalbear's review of Degenerate by Vex'd^ Download flyer for Adverse Camber's 4th Birthday Rites. UK MC Doc Brown here trades in the whimsical universality of the Tears For Fears lyrics for a stark but affecting account of why exactly his world is going crazy and adds a lilting hip hop beat to the catchy piano hook of the original.
A coherent social consciousness – he alludes to 'the tramp with his change cup' – underpins the fierce brutalism of his account of why we're going nowhere: 'It's a disgrace / this place is like a whorehouse / the crooked system's the pimp / that's got us working till we're worn out'. An unnamed collaborator comes in on the second verse to give an account of his education which is so much more detailed and evocative than the original's assertion that 'I was very nervous / no one knew me'. Doc Brown's idea that insanity is to do with being 'a rat trapped in the system / of capitalism' is compelling and his powerful delivery contrasts perfectly with Gary Jules' ethereal vocal.
This version deserves to displace the original in the public consciousness – it would be a mad world if it didn't.
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