EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Little Boots - Remedy (A1 Bassline Get Hype Remix)
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A1 Bassline takes no prisoner. The Londoner's remix of Little Boots' "Remedy" finds the femme actuelle whirring and beleaguered within a maelstrom of Hardcore, Speed Garage, Bassline and Acid House. It sounds like someone in London tuned infinite hi-fis to pirate radio in about 1985 and then wrapped them around the moon, so that when the bow returned you could hear the birth of every UK bass sound of the last 20 years all at the same time. Vicious, twisted, time-compressing club music. Get Friday hype!
Sounds Like: Hot City, T2, Delinquent
Little Boots - Remedy (A1 Bassline Get Hype Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Magic Wands - Black Magic (Crystal Fighters Remix)
A few weeks ago we introduced you to Magic Wands, the met-via-Internet Nashville duo who strutted their way onto these pages with the glam-pop nugget "Black Magic." Today we're offering a remix of that tune from Spain's Kitsune-signed Crystal Fighters, who turned out a "Township Funk"-indebted bassline house version. A bit less sex and a lot more epilepsy-inducing synth. Take your pick.
Sounds like: DJ Mujava, Santigold, The Kills
Magic Wands - Black Magic (Crystal Fighters Remix)
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Jahdan Blakkamoore - Go Round Payola (Matt Shadetek Bye Haters Remix)
Dancehall's moves into dance music are rarely unawesome, so we're not surprised that Jahdan Blakkamoore, man about town and one of Brooklyn's finest dancehall vocalists, caught a bassline bug after recording with 77Klash on their underground dance smash "Brooklyn Anthem." Since then, he's been putting together a new album with DJ /Rupture, Buzzrock Warrior, which he's preceding with an EP called We Are Raiders, the first release on the new Dutty Artz imprint (you might know them from our blogroll-->). Both records feature production work from Matt Shadetek, who's also gone and done a really upbeat, peak-time bassline remix of the tune "Go Round Payloa," available for download below. Is drum and bass finally doing something in America thanks to some hybridized offspring? Yes. WE ARE INTO IT.
Blakkamore and Shadetek also just dropped a new podcast for XLR8R today, you can pick that up right here.
Sounds like: T2, 77Klash, Wiley
Jahdan Blakkamoore - Go Round Payola (Matt Shadetek Bye Haters Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Herve - Ghetto Bass Minimix + Herve - Jungle Steppers (feat. The Count Of Monte Cristal)
Posted 2/19/2009 11:20 AM by Kev Kharas
Tags: grime, drum n bass, dubstep, electro, club, bassline, house
Released into the wild this week, Ghetto Bass is being billed as Hervé's "inaugural" mix compilation. It's an interesting choice of word - an inauguration comes, of course, at the beginning of a leader's reign, a traditional ceremony used to herald a new direction. A 2-CD, 35-track romp through the last 20 years of bass music - the kind heard surging through British clubland in particular - the compilation also sounds like the best house parties you've ever been to coalescing into one unified moment of delirious abandon, cutting a path backwards through bassline, dubstep, grime, electro, drum n' bass and house. To this end, dance heroes like Zomby, Benga, Justice and The Chemical Brothers are caught in the mix, but cuts from guitar-wielding outfits like The Kills and Bloc Party are also co-opted, re-shaped, hammered into dance floor eligibility.
RCRD LBL has a twenty minute teaser for your glad ears, Ghetto Bass minimixed, as well as a track, "Jungle Steppers", pulled fully-formed from the record. Like we said, it's out now, so check it.
Sounds Like: an English Girl Talk, millionaire pirate radio, Plastician
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: N.A.S.A. - Money (The Count Of Monte Cristal 'Dungeon' Remix)
N.A.S.A began when DJ's and producers Sam Spiegel (Squeak E Clean) and Ze Gonzales (DJ Zegon) met at a studio party in Brazil, bonding over a shared devotion to American hip-hop and Brazilian funk. Pairing up to experiment on some tracks the following day, they found themselves forming what would become N.A.S.A. (North America/South America), and began piecing together The Spirit Of Apollo, their five-years-in-the-making debut album for Anti- that features guest appearances from the likes of Nick Zinner, David Byrne, E-40, Tom Waits, Karen O, Sizzla, and a bevy of others. Hell of a Rolodex, right? The folks at Anti- were kind of enough to shoot over an exclusive remix of lead single "Money" from The Count Of Monte Cristal aka Machines Don't Care aka Hervé, who eschews a lot of the guest appearances on the track (that would be David Byrne, Chuck D, Seu Jorge, Ras Congo and Z-Trip) for some skittish bassline house breaks and effected soul drops. It's loaded with those distinctly Northern, almost drum n bass-ish rhythms, but the original's global, sampladelic vibe hasn't been lost in translation.
Sounds like: The Count & Sinden, Buraka Som Sistema, Radioclit
DOWNLOAD: Frankmusik - 3 Little Words (A1 Bassline + The Heaths remixes)
The origins of bedroom pop music probably stretch back much further than this, but for my money the man ultimately responsible for the success of Lily Allen, Jamie T and every other homespun ‘MySpace sensation’ is none other than Jyoti Mishra, who – under his White Town guise – scored a Number One in the UK singles charts back in 1997. This contemporary interview from Wired tells how “Your Woman”, Mishra’s one and only hit, was produced in his bedroom using a Tascam 668 multi-track tape recorder and an Atari ST. It’s debatable, to say the least, whether or not the song’s rise from lair to the daytime playlists of BBC Radio 1 signalled the start of the end for major labels, but in 2008 Vincent Frank’s pop music sounds like a lament, anyway, for the lost glamour of off-limits sound stars and the room the teenage imagination had to manoeuvre around them. A bedroom pop star in the making himself, one of the two remixes of Frankmusik below comes from Christian of Croydon pals Party Shank, the other from Vincent himself. You’d think pop would be full from eating itself by now, but what one man gets up to in the comfort of his own bedroom isn’t anything to do with us.
Sounds like: A-Ha, Simian Mobile Disco, T2
Download: Frankmusik - 3 Little Words (A1 Bassline Remix)
Download: Frankmusik - 3 Little Words (The Heaths Remix)
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VIDEO: T2 - Heartbroken
This doesn't really constitute a THRWBCK because this video came out last year, but this week out friends in Night Slugs re-introduced us to "Heartbroken" by British garage/bassline producer T2. It peaked at #2 on the UK charts 8 months ago, and it's totally addictive. Somehow it didn't really break America, which is weird because it's AWESOME.
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