If you’re in Calgary, then you’ve definitely heard about the pK Sound Crew. For the rest of you, pK is responsible for anything that involves BASS within the bulk of western Canada. Their soundsystems have been the backbone of multiple festivals (including Shambhalla) and their custom made speakers have been installed in multiple clubs.

To show their appreciation for all that is BASS, they are throwing a party of epic proportions alongside Rottun and Contagious.

I present to you…..BASS CANNON!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVnsDXuN1Ng

EXCISION
CUT CHEMIST
AC SLATER
TIPPER
BOY 8-BIT
DIESEL BOY
SUBVERT
SMASH GORDON
Ill Esha
Mark Instinct & Slim Pickins
DJ Wakcutt
Drama Diablos
WomKat

2 Rooms of HUGE PK Sound & Lights and a line up of today’s best in Electronic Music. The main room will feature the largest PK sound system that has ever been built in one spot!

Manalogue will be on site taking pictures and talking with DJs to give you the inside scoop on what’s current with Bass Culture. Look forward to the photos!

If you haven’t picked up your ticket yet, you can get them online from Zoobis or Ticketmaster.

Now for the Tunes…

EXCISION
Excision Shambhala 2010 Mix by Excision

CUT CHEMIST
Cut Chemist - Hip Hop Lives (1985-1996) by Cut Chemist

AC SLATER
AC Slater - In The Mix by acslater

TIPPER
Broken Soul Jamboree - Album Revue by tippermusic

BOY 8-BIT
Boy 8-Bit “21 Minutes to Know” - Kissy Sell out 18 Jan 2008 by Boy 8-Bit

I put on my second newest pair of jeans today – I haven’t worn these in months. You see, I don’t go shopping often so this pair of denim pants are almost a year old and I forgot how tight they are in the legs. Tight jeans are kinda funny for me because I’m a small guy, but I can practically never find jeans that fit properly all over. They’re always too big in the waist and too tight in the thighs. I don’t get it, I’d generally consider myself fit but it’s not like my muscles bulge outa my body or anything.

Oh right, this is a music blog. There is a connection and it’s this. Like the jeans I’m wearing, this track is tight. Keeping with the metaphor above, there hasn’t been much chainsaw electro on these pages in some time either so turn it up and loosen your pants.

THE TING TINGS – HANDS (SKITSNYGG REMIX) by skitsnygg

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This is a bit mental and the track is worth hearing in the player below just for the live footage. BASSNECTAR knows how to pound bass like frat boys pound beer. Well, actually, he does this much, much better.

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Stream: Bassnectar – Wildstyle Method feat 40 Love (Radio Edit)

Catch him live!
Fri 12-Nov-10 @ Fabric, London UK
Sat 13-Nov-10 @ Institute, Birmingham UK
Tue 16-Nov-10 @ Tuesday Club, Sheffield UK
Thu 18-Nov-10 @ Ifor Bach, Cardiff UK
Fri 19-Nov-10 @ Crawdaddy, Dublin IR
Sat 20-Nov-10 @ Café Leopold, Vienna AT

As it turns out, JESSE JAMZ is an assistant to DESIGNER DRUGS, or so I read on twitter earlier today. I’m not exactly sure how that relationship works but his remix of “Drop Down” is diced quite nicely, leaving chunks to chew under the flash of a strobe.

MP3: Designer Drugs – Drop Down (Jesse Jamz remix)

You can grab the whole single from somewhere like beatport.

Make sure to check out the Designer Drugs latest Datamix too!

Several months back now, Elite Force ran a little competition on his facebook page asking for suggestions on new tracks to Revamp, with the winner grabbing one of the top-end  ‘Revamped’ packages from the Elite Force site and the winning entry came from Ivano Knight who suggested Midnight Juggernauts’ ‘Tombstone’. Well, grab the result below.

Honestly, the theme tonight is completely coincidental. That last post was quite something, hey?

Here’s a heavy bootleg from THE SEXINVADERS who add their own maximal flavour to BOYS NOIZE.

Boys Noize – Kontact Me (The Sexinvaders remix) by the sexinvaders

I have to admit, I don’t think I’ve heard the original DRAKE tune, but it doesn’t matter when there are bootlegs like these sent our way.

First, here’s a bootie remix from a local dj / promoter who has exploded in Winnipeg. RIC HARD has his finger in every party pie. The thing that makes this remix stand out is the piano that compliments the solitaire melancholic message in the track. It’s all juxtaposed with maximal punching bag of drums and synth targeting this is one both for the dancefloor and the bedroom.

MP3: Drake – Over (Ric Hard remixxx)

LA’s HYPER CRUSH take a slightly different approach. They take the sadness and smash it in the teeth with their dancefloor laser beams, transforming the tune into a sleazy electro banger. To top it off, they add their own rhymes.

MP3: Drake – Over (Hyper Crush remix)

MP3:Tex Taiwan – Labyrinth

MP3:Tex Taiwan – Labyrinth (You Love Her Coz She’s Dead Remix)

The Montreal producers have been on top of things for a while, and I’ll be completely honest here, since “Droplet” and “Miam Miam” were let loose in the summer, I’ve been trigger happy with every track with their name on it. There’s enough nostalgia in each of these tunes for a thirty-something-once-upon-a-time-raver (that’s me by the way) to, excuse me, fucking lose it. Add some of the best production of 2009 to the mix and well, it seems as though there are a million reasons to hail this release the best ever. Really, ever.

Wait.

On Friday, February 5, 2010 the single gets an official release on PLANT MUSIC with remixes from FELIX CARTAL and AUTOEROTIQUE, and well, I gushed all over the place. Basically, I died and somehow living off of the single’s perpetual beat.

NROTB – DROPLET E.P. SAMPLER by Plant Music

Grab the entire release on beatport. You won’t regret it.

One of the reasons (honestly, there are many!) there have been fewer posts is because a mate and I started a weekly. (LOTEK and MANALOGUE have been tag-teaming as THE SHAKE for a few years now.) I feel as though I’m only putting in half the amount of time needed to get this night off the ground, but that’s all I can give at the moment considering other commitments that are a bit more pressing, paying the mortgage for example. If you’re wondering, blogging doesn’t really make any money, well I haven’t figured out exactly how to do it anyway. (Tips are welcome.)

Back to the post. This week I’m pumped to host JAMALL KNIGHT and BERBS. Winnipeg is saturated with djs, and I’d be hard pressed to find any jock in this city I like more than the former. Perhaps it’s because Jamall Knight plays like I/we do – which is a bit all over the place, and every time I’ve seen him behind the decks he consistently drifts to the likes of Proxy, and other noisy producers. Also, big thanks to our freshly minted vj, MRGHOSTY who gives everyone something interesting to look at when they’re dancing or not. This guy’s incredible. I’m totally looking forward to tomorrow!

Like every week though, I have no idea what I’ll lay down but perhaps it might include a schmorasborg like the one below.

MP3: Groove Armada – I Won’t Kneel (Treasure Fingers Epicwave Radio Edit)

MP3: Midnight Oil – Beds are Burning (Dj Red and Josh Dupont Club Mix)

MP3: C-Mon and Kypski – Turn Of The Tides (Estaw remix)

MP3: Cassian – Final Round

MP3: 10 Rapid  – It’s Not Right

MP3: Quiet Riot – Cum On Feel the Noize (KIDS AT THE BAR Remix)

MP3: Pony Pony Run Run – Hey You (ALGERONICS Remix)

Wolfmother – White Feather (BURNS Remix)
Grab this one from RCRDLBL