Category: dubstep

J Period Dancehall Soundclash Vol 2 Part 2 boyee

Well, one day we’ll be back in the sizzling hot sun of summer – stoop parties, hoards at every ice cream parlor, hanging out in parks with boom boxes blaring a boisterous roughneck soundtrack. Well, here in SF we’re still not quite there yet, but let’s start getting in the mood.
I originally posted part 1 [...]

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Posted by harry covert on February 28, 2010
Rock and roll meets techno and dubstep on Jason Forrest mix

We start in rock fringes with raw fuzzed out guitar chords leading to Nick Cave’s bastard punk croonings. Before we know it, we’re up to our ears in fringe dance, or as the man Forrest puts it:
“it’s like dubstep finally embraced it’s suburban IDM roots and the result is a freedom of sound that only [...]

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Posted by harry covert on February 20, 2010
Strange love in Moscow

Well, it all started with this remix of the MJ track ‘Stranger in Moscow’ which was unfamiliar to me as by the time History came out, I’d largely lost interest. Well, that track didn’t even make it onto this mix in the end. I ended venturing a little further leftfield into more tribal territory. Don’t [...]

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Posted by kiterae on February 12, 2010
Best of the blogs for 2009

Here it is – getting on the 2009 teary nostalgia tip like a bunch of other Poprounders (thug wife, doc and yari, who covered the whole noughties).
Most of these tracks have been hacked off the blogs I monitor. Definitely veering on the side of taught electronic production, and me like all the other bloggers is [...]

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Posted by kiterae on January 23, 2010
Long faded shine of summer

So, this mix started some months back under the glow of an Indian summer. Finally it sees the light of day – just in time for what these Americans call The Holidays.
I’ve been digging back into the past with wisps of drum and bass and old skool trance (303 workouts), mixed up with some new [...]

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Posted by kiterae on December 18, 2009
Deep tribal house from L-Vis 1990

Well, this was the mi-summer mix from L-Vis 1990. But hang on – I’m in San Francisco. We’re actually half way through the second summer of the year. San Franciscans are treated to dense fog May through August so the halcyon days come in Spring and Autumn.
Blah, blah, blah. Back to the mix. This time [...]

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Posted by harry covert on September 19, 2009
Matty from Glock’N'Spiel – fast and loose with minimal

Thanks to Tim from theargus.co.uk for pointing me in the direction of this mix from Brighton’s own Matty, a graphic designer who doubles up as a house DJ involved with the free underground movement that is Glock’N’Spiel.
This is a tight little mix that really get’s going about 15 minutes in. A jacking undercurrent keeps the [...]

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Posted by harry covert on September 13, 2009
Better days ahead

So said Jimi Polo all the way back in 1989 over the top of one of dance music’s most memorable piano riffs. But then house music in those days was all about gay black kids coming up with funky piano snippets on their Utopian search. Oh, how far we’ve come.
So, here it is, my [...]

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Posted by kiterae on August 22, 2009
Drop the Lime picks up the bass

Brooklyn’s Drop the Lime is a busy bee. Aside from performing on Institubes as Curses!, he’s remixed everyone from Armand Van Helden to Rex the Dog.
Prior to ingesting this mix for the wonderful XLR8R mag, I’d have labelled DTL as a fine purveyor of seriiious basslines. Now, for the first 15 mins or so of [...]

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Posted by harry covert on August 2, 2009
Toddla T’s rambunctious debut mix on BBC Radio 1

The UK’s BBC Radio 1 has been supporting and promoting emerging dance music since the early days of rave (when the public-funded organ attracted some ire for forging links with a ‘drug-addled’ sub culture). Back in the day, I had no way of getting out into the fields where the raves where happening, so I [...]

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Posted by harry covert on July 6, 2009