What up dirty dancers?! The weekend’s off to a flyer and we have some brand new beats to assist you with the next 36 hours of mayhem, before a massive week in music kicks off. May 4th is a big day for the dance, seeing the release of Rusko‘s hotly anticipated ‘O.M.G.!’ record on MadDecent (you can stream it from their site here), not to mention the follow up to 2009′s ‘Los Angeles LP’ from the Brainfeeder label’s Flying Lotus, entitled ‘Cosmogramma’. On Tuesday, Scion Audio Visual are also set to drop a new EP from Dub Police‘s veteran MC Rod Azlan, and the guys over at Scion were kind enough to send us over a promo for a first glimpse.
The record sees Azlan team up with his buddies
The Others,
Rusko and
Markomen, who have produced some vibin’ mellow dubs for Azlan to spit over.
Starkey‘s remix of ‘Jah Live’ is filled with glitchy synths and distorted basslines; replacing the roots dub feel of the Rusko produced original mix. Meanwhile,
Unitz take the keys of original of ‘Selektah!’ (produced by The Others) up to a major key – If the original was made for smoking zoots in underground clubs, the Unitz track takes things above ground for some beach blazin’.
One guy I’ve been paying a lot of attention to lately is
Audio Phreaks artist
Bar 9, from the UK. His dubs have been kicking up a lot of heat lately and his sets are annihilation on a small scale.
Example‘s ‘Kickstarts’ EP is set to drop at the beginning of June, featuring remixes from the expected dutch house crowd, but this for me, is the reason you’ll want to purchase the EP on
Beatport – it blows the other tracks out of the water. Bar 9 is definitely one to be keeping an eye out for in 2010, so watch this space.
One of the latest signings to the
Trouble & Bass label,
The Boogaloo Crew have been putting out some big tracks recently. Their remix of
DRT‘s ‘Rising Sun’ was what put me onto them at the end of 2009, and this new bootleg of
Jose Gonzalez ‘Crosses’ is pretty dank. From the UK, these boys have an awesome work ethic, also playing out as side-project
Dark Sky, which has recently been picked up by the Bristol based
Black Acre label. Dark Sky produce some sick UK Garage, keep your eyes and ears peeled for their remix of
The xx ‘Crystalised’, a blitz track that’s due to drop sometime soon.
From one
Trouble & Bass artist to another,
AC Slater‘s just been remixed by
Doorly, who
GDD featured a few weeks ago. Just when I was confidently bigging up his move from dubstep to more of a funky sound, he goes and puts out another electro-dub track. Not sure what to make of this effort though, I dropped it last night into
Doctor P‘s ‘Sweet Shop’; not a fan of the spin-backs, they kind of do my nut in, but take those guys out and you’ve got a pretty clean track.
photo cred: elasticartists.net
Big ups to Palms Out Sounds for this next one, I picked it out of their Remix Sunday zipper last week and meant to post it sooner. Jazz and soul into dubstep; full marks for innovation. With dubs raining out of all genres, I was pretty surprised this hadn’t been done to death yet.
High Rankin, a sickeningly good dubstep producer from Brighton, UK has teamed up again with Evolve or Die to produce a huge tune.
BONUS:
I’d describe this one as Baltimore House-step. Buying into the insanity of
Gorillaz‘s nonsensical new single featuring
De La Soul;
Toddla slams out a melee of 2-step, wonky bass and the well know
Lyn Collins B’more House sample. Well worth a look.
This track is the kind of noisy, clamorous stuff you pretend you're far too old for, but, deep down, you love it. Yes there's fuzzy rave bass horns, but also some sparse tribal hits and a wavering soul sample that's incredible infectious. Tipanic is a side-project from dancehall
