PREMIERE: Cypress Hill x Rusko - Lez Go (Mustard Pimp Remix)
Are they even kidding with this? Cypress Hill and Rusko are putting out an EP? This is dangerous, man. I don’t know if the world can handle this kind of Chernobyl-grade mind-melting. Old school psychotic hip-hop and dubstep landmines make for some raw, scratchy, scary stuff. Especially on this Mustard Pimp refit of “Lez Go,” which is guaranteed to drop a few IQ points with each listen (something’s gotta give between all the shaking beats and tweaks and dance torture porn). We say, so worth it. June 4 is when you can get the rest, though the lead video (complete with footage from the team's 2012 SmokeOut performance with Travis Barker on the drums) is already available here.
STREAM: Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans (feat. Azealia Banks) (Smims&Belle Extended Remix)
If self-proclaimed ‘gangster Nancy Sinatra’ Lana Del Rey really wants to know what throwing down is all about, then here's her 101 in Smims&Belle’s (two Foster The Peoples!) hard house-cum-dubstep revise of “Blue Jeans,” featuring Azealia Banks cutting anything that gets in her way. (Seriously, have you read her Twitter lately? Taking down T.I.? Girl don’t give a what.) Anyway, this edit keeps only the lusty stylings of Miss Del Rey moaning “gangster” over and over, stripping the song of the rest in favor of hyped-up bass, deck swipes, tech taps and dub builds. Weekend music (and gangster), for sure.
PREMIERE: Seye - White Noise (Baxta Remix) + Original Stream
The recipe for Seye’s “White Noise” via dupstepper Baxta probably goes like a little something like this: in one steel drum pour two heaping scoops of club filter, ten ounces of island autotune and a dash of booyaka booyaka. Bake in a ninety-degree basement for about four minutes, during which you are required to shout at least once, “Chef, cook it for me!” Ingest until your brain vomits. Oh man, we totally should write a cookbook. While we go sell that up the chain, download the goods and stream the original after that.
DOWNLOAD: Rusko - Somebody To Love
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Unless you're a nihilist, "Somebody To Love" is likely officially on your to-do list. Rusko taps into this feeling with sputtering beats, wigged house vocals and bass so deep that listening on headphones is akin to getting a scalp massage. Hear more on his new album Songs, which comes March 27 via Mad Decent and Downtown. You can also catch Rusko touring this fine country (aka the U.S.) throughout February. Go dance!
DOWNLOAD: Scion A/V Presents: Skream & Benga
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When Scion A/V’s Skream & Benga EP came my way, I knew I loved it. I just didn’t know which London dubsteppers' track to gift. The vicious, viscous flow of Skream’s aptly-named “Nefariousa”? The vaguely sexual and ultimately disabling electro flop of Benga’s “Any Steppers”? Whatever the hell “Ice Cream Jelly Roll” is supposed to be? In the end, I did what was most in the spirit of the season (and, of course, what was easiest). I’m giving them all, and letting you choose.
DOWNLOAD: Bird Peterson and Ocelot - Soul Survivor (Trowa + RUN DMT Remixes)
From the moment I heard RCRD LBL mainstays Bird Peterson and Ocelot’s scary, amazing, dance drill “Soul Survivor” on an unnamed mixtape earlier this year, I went into research mode. First, I needed to know when I could buy it. Second, I had to find out from whence the cutting refrain “There was a real mean killing…and the wrong guy died…they buried his body…but his soul survived…” which echoed ‘soul survived’ into teeth-gnashing, arm-flailing infinity, came. Alas, I’ve only solved the question of the date. Out since early this month on T&A (DJ Ayres and Tittsworth’s label) is the original, along with a slew of remixes including these dubstep takes by screechmasters Trowa and bass perversionists RUN DMT. Check them out, and if you know the movie sampled, email me stat.
PREMIERE: Soso - Who's Gonna Love Me (Ghost Remix) + Original
Soso is Swedish superpower composed of Monica Belluci’s face, Robyn’s voice and Adele’s heartbreak. She also has an army of twinkling synths, bells, and electropop mandolins at her disposal in “Who’s Gonna Love Me.” But they’re no help to her in this Ghost remix, where she is a hyperventilating dub’n’bass prisoner running from baby drops and freaky theramins. The two different, though equally lonesome dance dips, are after the jump.
PREMIERE: Star Eyes - The Night (Deathface Remix)
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Star Eyes, member of heavy bass inventors Trouble And Bass and reigning haunted house queen, has a new single called “The Night,” which won’t come out until the end of this year. So, we can’t yet tell how true to the original this Deathface bruiser stays. What we can assert is that this redux is pretty much a hard-as-diamonds nightmare, blowing up huge, screeching dubstep landmines any time the sing-song vocals, fairytale synths or theramin-inspired mist tries to settle. The result is super fun and awfully cruel, like tying a dove to a chain and yanking it every time it attempts to fly.
Star Eyes - The Night (Deathface Remix)
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