Archive for the ‘Dubstep’ tag
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Hybrids can be dangerous things. Take the horrid sub-category of rap/rock: for every “Walk This Way” resulting from a Run DMC/Aerosmith collaboration, you have hundreds of Linkin Park/Jay Z combos. It’s painful, dammit, and it takes two perfectly good things (although Linkin Park doesn’t get even that nod…) and makes something far, far worse. It’s like vegan soul food. Yes, yes it is.
On that note, when someone starts talking about putting emcees over dubstep tracks, that raises my bad taste threat level to orange. It could so easily go terribly, terribly wrong.
Luckily, Dutch group Zwart Licht seem to be doing it right. They’ve been collaborating since 2007, developing as dubstep has gone through its ascendancy, and while they have been more traditionally hip hop sounding, they’re making new forays into the crossover gray zone. Numbering two emcees and one dj/producer, the group actually brings the good parts of both genres to bear, giving you all the neck-breaking bass and synth action of dubstep and combining it with street-inflected rhymes.
It’s good times, and it piques my curiosity to see what comes next, and if this particular shark will be jumped.
Download: Zwart Licht – Dubtrip (Fs Green Remix)
Videos after the jump.
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Damn! Mix Master Mike calls in a dirty, dirty dubstep “combat strike”. The self proclaimed serial wax killer submits an onslaught of choice samples to his surgical scratching and mixing. Sure shot party-rock factor high. Face melt threat level – red. ‘Nuff sed. Click here to download Napalm Rockets.
I happened upon these two shiny little gems titled Oscillations parts 1 & 2 yesterday afternoon. Between the two free albums there are 41 tracks of dope-ass hip hop, dubstep, neosoul, and downtempo electronica from a few known, but mostly obscure, producers. Brought to us by the quality music blogs Jus Like Music and Apple Juice Break, this project was put together with the simple purpose of putting out good music and introducing some relatively unknown artists to the world.
Really, these are the kinds of albums I can only hope to find. You know, the kind that have enough familiar names in the tracklist to grab your attention, but then they introduce you to a bunch of new artists. Each zip file even contains a little pdf booklet with a little biographic information on each of the artists, who hail from all over the freakin globe. This album series has definitely opened up new doors to dopeness for me. I hope y’all feel the same.
Stream both albums in their entirety and/or follow the links to download below.
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Hola! What a beautiful Sunday ’twas in the 206! You know what puts the sugar in my Sunday coffee? Palms Out Sounds dope blog – that’s what. Honestly I love visiting this site. It feels like these folks keep a finely tuned ear to all that’s good and forward-thinking in the intermingling worlds of house, techno, dubstep, dancehall, electro-hop etc. etc.
Each Sunday Palms Out also posts up a new “Remix Sunday” compilation/mix that’s guaranteed get it percolating. Tasteful selectahs transform cuts from artists as diverse as Busy Signal, Cherish, Prodigy, Massive Attack to Bill Withers, Blaqstarr, Debruit, Band of Horses, Udachi and yes -Jefferson Airplane.
Step your electronic game up with some grown folks techno – download these mixes and hit up the site – Peace.
Download Remix Sunday-Feb 21,2010 #143
image: Jelle Martens
Download Djuna – “Hippie not Hippie_3 – the heroin edition” Tracklisting after the jump
Good evening fair LxNxM denizens. In addition to being a prolific local beatmaker, WD40 also holds down a nightly called Grey Area a the local bar/artspace Grey Gallery. If experimentaldubglitchbreakhopstep is what you seek – or if it sounds compelling Grey area is the spot.
Here is the first ever Grey Area Podcast to give you taste of what you might hear. Kicking it off with resident blapster Dead Noise and a bunch of his original tracks, mixed with some of his favorite tunes of the day. Rounding things out, Ill Cosby (Car/Crash/Set) brings a fine selection of glitchy, wonky sounds from the future!
If you can make it out to Grey Area this Friday, Feb.12 – you can catch LxNxM’s very own Toast and Tang on the decks as special guests. Peace.
siiiiiick. that’s what this song is. i heard this track on the FACT mix that guido (obligatory jersey shore link) did, which is so sick it’s got the swine flu and pneumonia. and meningitis. yeah. anyway, you can grab that mix here.
darkstar – the dubstep group not the skate company – are, like every other hot-ass dubstep artist, on the hyperdub label (which put together what seems to be the most praised compilation record of the year in 5 years of hyperdub, and yes, the praise is well deserved. keeping this parenthetical going, y’all should definitely check out this benji b 1xtra show from february, which features hyperdub creator kode9, and a big showcase of hyperdub artists). anyway, here is an exclusive mixtape (click that link, and scroll down a bit until you see the mix; while awesome, xxjfg won’t let anyone link directly to their tracks) that darkstar did for the awesome UK blog 20jazzfunkgreats. finally, check out this FUCKING AWESOME track from darkstar called lilyliver:
Here’s a nice mix for your Sunday evening, brought to you by Belgian DJ extraordinaire LeFtO. Check his blog out for some more fire and exclusive material. Stream below.
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If Rusko trusts, so do I. The gentleman from London Town brings a heavy hitting new mix of Dubstep to the fore, celebrating the BBC’s stalwart station for beats of all flavors, 1Xtra. Also includes a set by Stenchman, who should seriously reconsider his nom de Disq Jockey, and definitely worth a download – but be forewarned: at three hours of music, it’s no slouch in the size department.
Dubby dub dubsteppy.
Rusko – In New 1Xtra DJs We Trust
Full tracklisting after the jump.
French beat maker dÉbruit is about to drop a new EP, Spatio Temporel, on December 7th. I must admit, this guy is new to me – apparently, he’s been killin it for a minute now in Europe. But if what I continue to hear sounds like these gems here, especially “Nigeria What?,” you can put me in the “big fan” category.
Spatio Temporel is a diverse and engaging journey through dÉbruit’s incredible array of rhythms and influences. Armed with his synths he’s takes his beats to Africa via LA, France, Persia and the future. Combining African Yoruba, Nigerian Highlife, Persian Funk, Congolese Electronics, Vocoded Ouest Coast vocals and international Thoroughbred Synths with dÉbruit’s jack-knifing riddims, booby trapped syncopation and bass heavy collisions.
More dÉbruit after dÉ jump. Read the rest of this entry »
