Category: dubstep
Amazing what happens when you get together 4 fingers and the new Akai Ableton controller with aesthetics borrowed from a ’seventies dancefloor.
“The APC40 Ableton Performance Controller in action!” screams the headline. More wrist action than a spotty teen during rainy summer hols.
After an hour with Dan Deacon it’s easy to forget which way up is normal. This guy just does not follow the rules. Don’t believe me? Just look at this blatant disregard of the way things work on the indie/dance/rock scene:
Rule #1
Let someone else build your stage. Following the support acts, a crowd of groupies [...]
This time Harry Covert picks up the reigns for the latest in the Best of the Blogs series. Keeping things on a more chilled plane than Kiterae’s offering, this mix is part indie, part hip hop, part Xmas eulogy.Sorry, I’m afraid I couldn’t track down all the original links for these tracks, but take my [...]
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Back once again with another roundup of what’s been rocking my boat on the blog front. Big tracks this time from Santogold, Underworld (haven’t heard from them in a while) and the Get Physical crew, among others.
So, as Thanksgiving and the holiday season approaches here’s some party numbers for you.
The Black ghosts – Some Way [...]
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As always happens, one search on the web dragged me further than I initially anticipated. In this case, it all turned out OK in the end: I wondered across some wonderful tracks that the UK’s Heatwave posse have shrewdly made available.
A veritable cornucopia of official remixes and “cheeky party-starting bashment/hip hop refixes or mashups”. Pulling [...]
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A UK-based A&R guy is looking for dubstep artists and producers. Apparently sound engineers and studio space is there for the taking.
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Electrorash, a brashly designed muso blog features these six tracks with neat, compact reviews:
Burial – Shell of Light
The Others – Bushido
Zomby – Mush
Ikonika – Simulacrum – Original Mix
Darkstar – Need You
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I haven’t had a chance to check this out, but if you are interested in picking up some guilt-free Creative Commons dubstep, check out this offering from Mechant.
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I guess it does make sense, but not exactly what I expected. The Bomb Squad, the original production team behind Public Enemy’s seminal output in the late-eighties showed up in Dublin and rocked the bass bins with an hour-long dubstep mix. Vue Weekly does a great job of explaining the link between early hip hop [...]
Every time I visit this site I end up leaving with a wry smile. Not sure if it is the puffy clouds or the cartoon impressions of the cast. Kicking off with the ‘Strong on ya’ dubby number that really seems to be doing the rounds at the moment.
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