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
DOWNLOAD: FreQ Nasty - Peacemaker (DUB) (feat. Propa Tingz)
FreQ Nasty, aka Fiji-born, New Zealand-raised Darin McFayden, was the producer behind "Creator," Santogold's supersonic swingbomb single that detonated many a dancefloor in '08 and just might be the best track on one of the year's most extremely well-received albums. While that beat was arguably his big break, Nasty has been making moves in the drum and bass and breaks scenes for over a decade, producing and deejaying an impressive amount of diverse, subsonic material that not only informed his work on "Creator" but also the labyrinthine, genre-hopping mix he made for Fabric this year, Fabriclive.42. "Peacemaker" appears in its original form in the early minutes of that mix, but this dub version--a grinding amalgam of dancehall, breaks, fidget-house, and high-energy dubstep--is tipped to appear on his pending new artist album, due sometime this year but still lacking an unconfirmed tracklisting, release date, or label. If "Creator" and his Fabric mix are anything to go by, he'll be shattering enough basebins and year-end lists to make us forget those gnarly white dude dreads.
Sounds like: Santogold, Diplo, Switch
Download: Trifonic
A couple years back we discovered a great site called ccMixter, a legal remix-sharing community where great artists a la the Beastie Boys, Christopher Willits, DJ Vadim, etc. serve up stems of their music for up and coming producers to mess around with, then post for the community to download for free. By far the best remixes were courtesy of Trifonic, a production team of two brothers (Laurence & Brian Trifon) up in the bay area whose passion for hip hop, drum n bass, and Dust Brothers-esque sampling informed some nasty remixes with a sound all their own. Check this to download "The Next Step" from cc Mixter for a taste.
Upon reaching out to them we found out they wrote with BT, were composing great ads for Nike and placing their music in CSI. Very recently Trifonic completed their debut artist album called "Emergence" which is available in all digital stores including iTunes and amazon. It's vicious, yet still carries their signature cinematic sound which makes them so ripe for licensing. They've also added the welcome element of vocals on the new album. The brothers Trifon have graciously allowed SEEN readers to download "Vacuum Tree" here, a drum n bass anthem for the next generation. Listen through headphones.
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