Hot City‘s latest single just hit the stores. Their tracks seem to be getting cheesier and cheesier but that just causes me to love them more and more. And if you don’t like the music you can always jawdrop over the awesome video.
One of my favorite records at the moment that will drop the shops soon is astro:dynamics compiled by Rekordah. We already announced this one and were totally blown away by the soundbites alone.
Now having the record in my ipod for more then some time, I must admit it’s so fitting the weather it has become the soundtrack of my summer mood.
Allthough the record is very diverse, shifting from pure summer beach madness to freaky stuttering funky slammers it’s as coherent as can be. Read more »
Russian glitch prince Pixelord delivers his 2nd ep in a very short time span and there’s more in the pipelines; he’s currently working on his first vinyl ep which is to be released on Error Broadcast pretty soon. This one, the Love Is ep, is released digi only through Car Crash Set and contains 3 new gems by The Lord Of Pixels plus 3 remixes all covered in neon shine. The title tune gets 2 rewerks; one by himself, giving the original upbeat dancehall riddim a half tempo treatment resulting in a dubbed out digi stoner vibe and another remix by Coco Bryce who takes us back in time about 15 years for some breakbeat rave proper. Daly City’s MusSck turns up the glitch dial another notch on his Pxlr7 remix. You can cop it over at Junodownload and Addictech.
What is going on? Eprom drops another banger, after his Humanoid (Rwina), Never (Surefire), Lands & Bones (with Eskmo on Warp) and the collab with Profisee: Zoning (all btw reviewed on this blog!)
Shoplifter is this rave-ish acid-electro hip hop bumper, mad on the tweak driven by a pulsing dancehall-ish bassline and dito hi-hates and then the arcade fire…. WOW. Feels like late nineties when dancehall was digital hardcore. The remix by madman Slugabed is as allways over all hills taking only casualties: wounded and tormented.
Must add this to your collection!
Bubble at first feels like a rework of Shoplifter but then the nobs on the machines and the mad neighbour reworks your wall with his full equipted toolshed. Acid mayhem.
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One of the interesting names of the grime scene that makes the cross-over to bigger other scenes is Terror Danjah. After his triple LP Gremlinz last year a bigger audience came to know of this amazingly skilled producer. His sound is deep, overwhelming and subtle at the same time. This new on Butterz (grime stage number one) is deeeeep. Bipolar title track is raw, blunt and some heavy dubstep mayhem. Airbubble is funky grime with some 2 step reference but the timing, paste together with the massive bass and the layers of tweaks is so next level production… But the one that kills it is the final one Sidechain (D.O.K. Remix). It so (g)ravy, combining anthem vocal, pushy rave-techo, dirty grime bass and so ascending that, you before you know it, you have your hands up and are shouting if I’m going to have it, I’m going to have it large…
Bipolar
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Airbubble
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Sidechain (D.O.K.-Remix)
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Ever since his impressive set at Lowriders we have an eye on Kenji Kinetic. His blunt melting pot of Garage, bassline, dubstep, and oldskool breakbeat makes it already stand out in the releases that are produced.
His New Era title track is a fine example of this madness. Starting with this bombastic opener voiced with a SF movie sample and then shifting into pure mayhem. It sounds like a dark rave (including loads of breaks and dito climax builts) mixed with 16bit’s over-the-top chainsaws. What can we say: a slammin’ pit guarantee!
The Earthbound is as heavy full of metal flics, like a scrape yard turned upside down by transformers…. This fits perfect in the already immense catalog of Kid 606s TigerBeat6 label The Zombies track completes it all. Seldomly reviewed such mayhem…
Om Unit recently released a 7 inch on All City‘s second 7×7 series called Lightgrids / Lavender. Illum Sphere did a more then impressive remix of it. Somewhere between breaks, early D&B, rave in the blender with hip hop and IDM. This sounds weird or so late 90ies that it might be ignored but do yourself a favor and don’t sleep on this!
Over the past few months we’ve seen scarcely the sound of Acid influencing the dubstep scene. The other day we had the new Terror Danjah with its heavy analog acid sounds. Now we have Ceephax moving skillfully between the currents of dubstep grime and Funky. If you ever heard his sound before you know his rave electro acid sound. Still these styles are dominant on this release, Thicker Train with its arcade fire, rave-ish beat, a pure acid stomper, but on Soulfully Man we hear how the combination of dubstep and his sound merge perfectly. Electric Transit is funky as hell, pure acid for the floor but in a 2010 setting. Bacardi Breeze on the other hand is a pure house crowd pleaser: cheesy as hell with it’s synth melody the hand claps. With this record you can please every crowd.
Soulfly Man
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Electric Transit
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Bacardi Breezer
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Deep grime is what goes on at the Hyperdub headquarters. After the massiv Scratcha DVA release this is a new impressive release. Who recalls the Gremlinz release just recently on Planet Mu by Terror Danjah knows what his sound is like: elementary, blunt and highly seductive. We hear on Acid an old skool garage influence through the simple and effective set-up covered with a ruff analog synths, like a classic raver. Pro Plus has a similar treat but with an even more rave-ish pulsing synth over a stumblin-all-over-again-nagging-bass with ditto kinda drums. Terror Danjah creates a heavy heave dancefloor push.
Acid
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Pro Plus
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Dead Fader, as the name might indicate, is uncompromising, rude, dark, raw, blunt, ruthless, ear damaging, loud, dirty and delicious mercilessly. Out soon on 3×3, the label run by CLOAKS. They are a Brighton-based duo who create a crunched-up collision of dubstep, hiphop and electronica, encased in beautiful, crystalline distortion with detritus dripping from it’s pores (promo talk by the label). Autumn Rot will be the first 12″ on 3×3, after that Corrupt My Examiner the album will be released. Here are some tasters….enjoy.
