Débruit datatransmission podcast

Débruit is a busy man, just dropped his reaction to the devestation on Haiti with an impressiv EP (if you haven’t bought it yet do it!). Next to that he moved last summer from Britagne to London and has been performing so much…!
The people of datatransmission invited Débruit to make a mixtape and did an nice short interview with him.

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DEBRUIT Heart Beats For Haiti

February 9th 2010 by SIMcommander | Tags: , | Tweet this post

All profits go to the Haiti appeal !! Our man Dé aka Debruit wanted to make a contribution to the suffering after the earth quake in Haiti. He has made a digital EP created from samples taken from Haitian music. As you can expect from tracks by Debruit its funky, cruncky, hip hop-ish electro. It’s in the line of work we recognize from his previous EPs. Snippets:

Changement

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Battement

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It’s Bigger Than Kom-Pa

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Souvenir

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Buy at Boomkat or Juno! Don’t wait, DO IT. All profits go to the Haiti appeal !!

GHISLAIN POIRIER Low Ceiling

February 4th 2010 by SIMcommander | Tags: , , , | Tweet this post

We have been writing off and on about Ghislain Poirier. His musical focus is in a constant flow moving precisely between hypes and trends. His riddim series on Ninja Tune and on soundcloud is very intrueging and cool. I love it because he adds always this typical thing called Poirier to it even when he touches Soca or dancehall, Hip hop or electro. So we gonna keep posting till the whole world loves the Poirier sound! This new release is so good against the winter that’s still around, pure vitamins! The tunes are moving in-between 8bit, electro, soca, kwaito and house in a perfect smooth way like a pure basement party on fire! This energy bomb is the overture for his forthcoming Running High 2CD set (compiling EP’s, new tracks, versions, and remixes).

BOSS KITE Clef Bassett EP

January 17th 2010 by SIMcommander | Tags: , , | Tweet this post

The man Boss Kite has been realy active lately on soundcloud droppin’ new tracks. The album is full of pleasant surprises. The sound is surprisingly fresh, open and funky. The opener CMYK has this funky wobbling bassline and will be found in a lot of peoples setlist fur sure. Boss Kite is some one to keep an eye on. hit the download people!

1000names – Paradise Rings

The men, Casio Blaster, 99 Mistakes are from Sofia, Bulgaria and called 1000names and are about to release a green 10 inch on the famous Black Acre label, home of another friend Akira Kiteshi! We know the 1000names from their great releases on Eklektik and their performance at LowridersDropp last year. They have a certain view on hip hop and making beats that’s fresh and original. The debut on Black Acre is no different. The tracks inspiration seems to come from  70ies S-F movies and early 80ies disco and are created around 8bit mayhem, movies samples, stuttering beats, shifting patterns and stunning basslines. Other then the Skweee people their sound-output not electro but hip hop based, the opposite direction from the same roots.
Paradise Rings is using cheesy pitched samples over a pushy straight beat which reminds me why I used to be a 4×4 hater but then immediatly everything shifts accept the straight beat which keeps you to the floor because everything else is shifting in a timemachine vortex. Read more »

Congorock – Babylon

January 9th 2010 by SIMcommander | Tags: , | Tweet this post


HOVATRON Let’s get wet

January 9th 2010 by SIMcommander | Tags: , , | Tweet this post

Our man Hovatron just dropped his Lo-fi Funk release. We already reported you the first with HYBAKUSHA and the second with Rekordah just the other day! Hovatron was at lowriders early last year and he was back with Lunice at Raw Rhythm. If you were there you might remember the energetic show the both of them pulled off!
Hovatron makes a wild one with Let’s get wet. Your slammed all over the dancefloor with this amazing track, imagine skweed crunk,  that builts up to a heavy climax and then brings it subtle back! You’ll hear heavy tweaks dirty voices, claps twirling basslines.
With Gold Star Radiation you have to be prepared for the massive synth pulsing bass (like you know from early electro) covered with nice claps, as simple as effective! It takes you on the dancefloor and makes you do things you wasn’t supposed to do in public (popping Travoltas, please….!!!) Another skweee wonder!

Lets get wet

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Gold Star Radiation

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PETER DIGITAL ORCHESTRA Local Hero

Peter Digital Orchestra is the clubby out fit of Fulgeance. In this slick fluorestic costume he is a party animal pure sang: here to please you with smooth quirky sounds to which you smile, dance and party all night long! The sound is somewhere between disco and electro, cheesy but never boring. Full of 8 bit wonders, arcade fires, hand claps and hisses and easy bass synths. Pure dance floor fun. Born in 1980 is this pure electro-funk track with its over-the-top synth build-up. With titles like Bubblegirl you can only feel happy. Red & White and Jeux de Langues are put on this especially for peops like me who also want a bit phat bass so Peter Digital makes also REAL bass tracks with a heavy nod and a too corny chorus, I love it! Would fit perfectly in a wonky set. Banging Booties seems to find his inspiration in Motor (Sebastian) but then it shifts into a disco slammer from the future with the hand on the pitch so it becomes a totally immediate banger! Out on Eklektik.
Red & White

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Jeux de Langues

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Banging Booties

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SWEAT.X SAVIOUR & MESSIAH EP

January 3rd 2010 by SIMcommander | Tags: , , | Tweet this post

The great Sweat.X has put out a free EP. I can say it’s a strate-up banger! download!

SIMcommander 2009 list

As allways making lists is asking for trouble. I really try to keep up during the year   (I even have a file on my desktop the whole year on named toplist!!). What do I listen to, what stays on my turntables, ipod. Sometimes I listen to a track to long so I bore myself (stupid) and some tracks stay in my head forever.
This year was great for the abstract beats and everything that developed from this. Dubstep as a genre is becoming problematic: to harsh, not subtle, to much copying formulas and then again people like Kryptic Minds (just didn’t get my list, place 21) and some others like Akira Kiteshi were amazing but Skweee really did it for me. The adventure is great, going from funk to idm-ish to dubstep-ish! But the most amazing track was Sluga’s rework of Pharoah Monchs Simon Says. All lists in no order…! Read more »