Category: dubstep
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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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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 – [...]
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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”. [...]
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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. Read more
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 Read more
