HOVATRON Lowriders Mixtape 003

Think Canada, lasers, fluorescent colors, synth funk, science fiction, explosions and you’ve roughly got an idea of what to expect. The third installment of our mixtape series comes from Montréal’s Hovatron. As one of the co-initiators of the Turbo Crunk nights, Hovatron brings crunked up acid infected beats dripped in skweeeing synths with an hint of techno and pop music. Doesn’t make much sense? Well… it doesn’t! His sound is that unique!  The mix consists of solely his own tunes and remixes. Lots of new stuff in here which have never been heard outside of the club. Interview and Tracklist can be found after the jump.

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GONJASUFI A Sufi and A Killer

Part of the Los Angeles music scene (Brainfeeder ao), and aided and abetted here by producers The Gaslamp Killer, Mainframe and Flying Lotus, Gonjasufi stands strong despite his impressive helping hands. His dominant voice and ditto sound ideas are (lucky for him and us) all over the record. He moves music wise, somewhere between freak-folk, retro-hippie, orientalism, and abstract beats and it is tempting and dearing as hell. The electro-acoustic dominance together with the treated voices makes it kinda vintage but through the drums and bass it stays within the present. The sounds and songstructures stroll between psychedelic hypnotizing near madness which places him in the centre of his influences: San Fransisco seventies; Beatles; 22Pistepirkko; all these Mush kinda west-coast folk-hip-hop and as last: dub.
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ROBOT KOCH Death Star Droid Remixes

Robot Koch released a while a go his debut album Death Star Droid, a very exiting and diverse album. Robot Koch asked some people to remix tracks of the album. My personal favorite Gorem Sen is remixed by Loops Haunt, Shlohmo, Body Language, Talen, Phono O, Beat Laden but there are also remixes from other tracks by fLako and Blue Daisy. As you see it covers our fav artists quite well! It contains also two brand new tracks, one called Blind (feat Grace) with a nice wobble over a soulful track. The other one is New Day which is a collab with Body Language. The Loops Haunt cover is my fav. Last week he played it during his live set and I was blown away, ran into him and was like I need that hip hop ish track. Turned out I have it, it was Gorem Sen…. The video-clip of Blind contains sampled material from Maya Deren, Man Ray and Luis Buñuel.
Gorom Sen (Loops Haunt remix)

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Gorom Sen (Shlohmo remix)

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I​.​D. & BAOBINGA Bass Music Sessions

March 6th 2010 by Yang | Tags: , , , , | Tweet this post

We’re a little late on posting this one but we’ll do it now because we support the cause. Very nice FREE album from I.D. and Baobinga from the Bass Music Blog which is repped by a lot artists. You can download the album right here and read about the story behind the experiment, production and promotion here.

OFFSHORE Sonic Router Mix

Offshore is on our radar ever since his debut on Stuff a few months ago. He did an mix for the Sonic Router with a great interview to go along with it. Very divers mix it became. Download

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COCO BRYCE La Mixette 27

March 1st 2010 by CocoBryce | Tags: , , , | Tweet this post

So here we go again with some more shameless self promotion. Another Coco Bryce mixtape, this time for our beloved French pals over at Musique Large. Click this linky here to go to the ML blog,  download this baby and read some kind words from mr Fulgeance himself. Tracklist after the jump. Read more »

PIXELORD Lucid Freaks Remix Ep

March 1st 2010 by CocoBryce | Tags: , , , | Tweet this post


No less than 11 remixes of Pixelord’s Lucid Freaks Ep. And they’re free! Just click here to go to the Error Broadcast site, register and download.

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JNEIRO JAREL new track!

March 1st 2010 by SIMcommander | Tags: , | Tweet this post

Here is a preview on the new Jneiro Jarel (aka Dr Who Dat?) Android Love Mayhem about to be released on his label Who! You might have heard it pass by in mixes by Samiyam or Ras G. Maybe you heard it on Mary Anne Hobbs radio show! Listen up….

1000NAMES EE mix

February 27th 2010 by Yang | Tags: , , | Tweet this post

Our friends 1000names are stepping up their game. The latest mix they did is for the incredible Electronic Explorations and it’s banging!

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IVAN ICE & EMAY Sounds Like

February 23rd 2010 by SIMcommander | Tags: , , | Tweet this post

Ivan Ice is part of our local BMU crew (with fellow members J’83, Bluntspeakers en Festa to name some). He released an EP on bandcamp together with Canadian underground MC Emay. I was surprised by how good this is. You hear in the beats the ghost of J Dilla but mutating towards something own. The Voice of Emay is great, lazy but precise in timing.
Over 10 tracks we hear and feel the skills of two very promising artists. The beats and sounds are impressive creative, not everything is as tempting (some tracks are to standard for my taste) but it proves that there is enough talent to beat the international competition! The short Stupid Shit says it all, a perfect play between rapper, voices, sounds and beats!
Wanna hear more from this.