Category: freebee

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
All shades of funk in latest Sparkletone mix

It’s surprising that in this day and age there are some artists that you just can’t find on the web. Sparkletone is one.
I checked Myspace – nothing there.
Next the personal website – lovely design with a bunch of remixes, and that’s about it.
Coming full circle back to the mix that originally triggered the Sparkletone hunt, [...]

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Posted by harry covert on July 15, 2009
New Jamie Lidell track

I’m afraid I don’t have much information on this one, but a live version of a track from the new Jamie Lidell album has surfaced on the web.
The UK artist seems to have stuck to his tried and tested formula: angular electronic funk.
Apparently his live shows are meant to be worth taking in.

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Posted by harry covert on March 28, 2008
xlr8r music downloads

every week the seminal US dance mag xlr8r puts out some free mp3 tasters. across the board, although leaning in favour of the indie dance scene, this is a great way to get access to some of the more eccentric releases coming out of the US.
check out xlr8r downloads
check out the xlr8r podcast

Posted by harry covert on April 1, 2007
chocolate industries

ok, at the bequest of thuggy, i went out and got myself something to wake up that dusty old vinyl sitting around… they’ve finally come up with a usb turntable that plugs straight into a home pc. time for old records to be new mp3’s.
did get me digging through and found an excellent leftfield [...]

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Posted by harry covert on October 25, 2006
free downloads from giant step

can you dig it?
stateside site giant step offer some choice downloads. great if you want to try out the likes of the strange fruit project or an odd dr octagon number.

Posted by harry covert on August 3, 2006
dj l’embrouille netlabel mix

over a year ago, a mix by dataman opened me up to a fair portion of the netlabel catalogue which at that time i had just started to explore. since then i have continued to follow the netlabels, building my own netlabel mixes and dipping into this rich source of electronic music whenever i felt [...]

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Posted by kiterae on June 12, 2006
matmos madness

just when your getting disillusioned about how pigeon-holed everything sounds these days along comes something that floors you.
the US arthouse duo of matmos have been getting coverage here on the electronic scene in the likes of trax mag and given their high-fallutin roots and penchant for dropping references to wittgenstein i thought i could be [...]

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Posted by kiterae on June 7, 2006