Back after much too short holidays and hungry for some heavy-bass beats. Mark Baker, a.k.a. A Baker's Dozen, hailing from Melbourne (AUS), serves exactly what I need this morning. Mid-tempo glitchy trips with infectious melody lines. I LIKE!
YES! Let's start another calendar year of DK's blogging with eclectic and ass-kicking mix Moral Panic! by Tom Encore, one of the best and versatile producers / DJ's on the dubstep / glitch / twisted 'wot u call it' scene in Poland. Just look at the tracklist, from B.Bravo and Dimlite thrugh Skrillex (!!) and Nero to Slugabed and NastyNasty. Ear candy par excellence. Great for boosting your mental skills at boring work.
Fizyk - Overcontrolled (Intro)
B.Bravo - Midnite (Broken Haze Version)
K-Theory & Frost Raven - 18th Century Gangster
Opiuo - Robo Booty
Break & Die - Slow Down VIP
DCarls - Flavorhythm
DCarls - All In
Marek Biliński - Ucieczka z Tropiku (Temat)
Skrillex - Kill Everybody (Koan Sound Remix)
Magnetic Man - Fire (feat. Ms. Dynamite)
Opiuo - Patchouli Dump Truck
Take - Paper Garden (Low Limit Remix)
AK Kids - Rock On (feat. Argyle Pimps)
Opiuo - Monkey Crunk (ill Gates & Samples Crunky Monk Remix)
Freestylers & Pendulum feat. MC Sirreal - Painkiller (Kouncilhouse Remix)
Freestylers & Pendulum feat. MC Sirreal - Painkiller (Noisia Remix)
Camo & Krooked - Breezeblock
Nero - My Eyes
Knife Party - Destroy Them With Lazers
Instra:Mental - User
DJ Wildchild - Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix)
Noisia - Red Heat
Dimlite - Can't Get Used To Those (Afterlude)
Wolfgang Gartner & Skrillex - The Devil's Den
Drums of Death - Cold Lazarus
Chemical Brothers - It Doesn't Matter
Drums of Death - Cold Lazarus (Starkey Remix)
J:Kenzo - Therapy
Dark Sky - Be Myself
Benga - Baltimore Clap
Chuckie - Who Is Ready To Jump (Dillon Francis Remix)
Benga - Buzzin'
Phrantic - God Of Terror
Wolfgang Gartner - Forever (16bit Remix)
12th Planet, Kill The Noise & Skrillex - Right On Time
Muffler - Controller (Tom Encore Remix)
SebastiAn feat. M.I.A - C.T.F.O. (Nero Remix)
Rob D - Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Variation)
John Creamer & Stephane K - Forget The World (Acappella Mix)
Syrebral - Broken Angels
TC Crew feat. Eddie, Mike Dunn & Tyree - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Flux Pavillion - Got 2 Know (Squnto Remix)
Tom Encore & Paszczak - Lazer Fetish (feat. Kaspa)
Dakosa & Anile - Settle The Score
NastyNasty - Jelly
Kromestar - In 2 Minds
Slugabed - The System
One of my favorite providers of fresh music in 2011, a Canadian based label King Deluxe celebrates one year with the release of Year One compilation (in two parts). It includes a few highlights of quite a fruitful 12 months along with new interpretations by forward-thinking beatshmiths from across the globe including Fancy Mike, Ghost Mutt, Alphabets Heaven, I.D., Subp Yao, Option Command, Muta, Vaetxh, Acre and others. Stylistically this release offers diverse and wide-ranging beatz aesthetics with producers freely experimenting with sound, often quite successfully. This is not your typical easy-listening, ump ump sub sub UKG, Dubstep or Future Garage ting. Which is good, cause at the moment I'm really fed up with all this UK* scene. These tracks require some effort on the part of the listener, but trust me - you will be rewarded in the end :) If I am to name a few higlights I'd include: a fantastic Subp Yao's remix of equally great Aether by I.D., Zack Christ's angry, off-kilter refix of Aleph's Sulphozinum orGhost Mutt's uplifting remix of Alphabets Heaven's Woman. Don't hesitate peeps, grab this nice package, you won't be disappointed.
Ha! A very, very nice Christmas gift from my personal Label of the Year. Saturate Records has just released the second V.A. compilation showcasing the works by talented producers from across the globe (though mainly from the Old Continent) under one common denominator - Super Quality Beatz in Abundance. If you are wondering what directions, paths or angles the nu beatz / twisted hip-hop / experimental dance music scene will follow next year, in Saturated! VOL 2 you'll find fine examples. Just listen to the tracks on this compilation and you'll catch the vibe. My personal highlights include, among others, mind-bending tunes by oneone, Subp Yao & Bios, Racoon X, Phokus & Grapes, Microburst or Kijk Een Ster. Never heard of them ?? Time to catch up with the names, 2012 will belong to them. Definitely, one of the best releases this year!!!! Highly recommended by Doktor Krank.
Grab it on Pay-What-You-Want basis through bandcamp.
Robox Neotech has been a constant vendor of top-notch future robotic beats full of dark, deep and heavy artificial life. Here are a few latest releases worth checking. 2011 was great, guys. Keep up the good work in the year of final Armageddon!
P-Fang in his The Crypt EP offers Halloween experience like no other. I have been a fan of this mysterious producer hailing from SF since the first time I've heard his mixtape. I've been waiting for this release anxiously and I have not been disappointed a bit. This is the perfect music to enter the (apparantely) apocalyptic 2012. My personal highlights of this EP - Midnight, Devil and Graveyard2010 are full of totally unique, dark vibe which goes so well with my neurons and emotions. Hightly recommended by Doktor Krank! Grab this release on Beatport, Digital Tunes and at other digital retailers.
Then comes an old homie + Verb from US, the owner of supersexy lazer bass, in another winning Fragments EP for Robox Neotech. I've been his fan for years and as usual I'm totally impressed with the groovy, warm, bleepy heavens he creates on his machines doing his fantastic button work. Perfect music for home parties in any robot universe. The title track is a slowed-down, mutated robotic juke, a great tool for cerebral exercises in contemporary electronic music. The rest rides on a super solid hyper-bass and great synth improvisations with lots of action in the background plus great vocal samples. Impecabbly produced this is the music I hope hearing more and more in the future. Grab it exclusively on Beatportand elsewhere in a few weeks.
As a pre-Christmas gift Robox Neotech has recently released a nice package of 4 free downloads by the artists from their rooster. Ghetto Robots includes four juke ghetto-tech bombs by Damscray, Stagga, Doshy and + Verb. Smack a Blackbird boasts a fantastic melody line and Damscray becomes more and more The Juke Champion of 2011 in my ears :) It is a fu fu fuc fuck fu fuc fucking banger! I'd really like to smack a few heads with dat tjun! + Verb in Godzilla is again at the forefront of the music scene, applying his great skills quite successfully to a new Juke'ish territory. All his typical elements are there, but sped up and cut up a bit more than usual :) Good job man! Doshy's Shunt sounds quite ok, whereas the track by Stagga somehow did not convince me at all. Anyway, the package that cannot be missed!
Finally, next great release from Robox Neotech in which, Giallo meets Wij in the nasty collab project by Italian Planet Soap and a Russian whizz-kid Damscray. Planet Terror will terrorize your speakers and torment your soul with four merciless, stomping, heavy-bass booms. It's even hard to highlight one tune, this unholoy package should be consumed in full with all their smacking gory details. Highly recommended by Doktor Krank.
I'm drowning with nasty, ugly, boring loan/legal work. I wouldn't have survived this horrible week without incjections of nasty global bass and similar. Here is absolutely fantastic Middle Eastern global bass mix by a DJ from Israel - Ido Wido. By Internet standards this stuff is old (one month he he) and has been already posted to a few sites, but it is so daaaaaamn good I have to give props to this guy mixing beautiful arabic melodies with hip hop / dancehall / cumbia / moombathon and whatnot. I really really dig this selection. Eh, all those arabic tambourines, drums, violins and vocals I definitely miss them.
Kosmos run by a producer and promoter Maceo Wyro is the best radio show in Poland, where the host always serves refreshing and eclectic selection of future twisted hip hop beats, heavy bass and whatnot :) Vol. 36 even brings a couple of ass-kicking Moombathon tunes!! The absolutely smashing highlight of this volume are howerver live recorded sets by Oddisee - an East Coast rapper hailing from Washington and TOKiMONSTA - representing mighty Brainfeeder, lady of beats best known for her crazy live sets. They f...g delivered even more than I expected. I'm kicking myself in the shins for not attending their performance from a week back. They visited my hometown and I was out of town :( What a shame.
Don't hesitate, load diz beatz to your player and enjoy the ride.
Po przeanalizowaniu odpowiedzi w konkursie związanym z drugimi urodzinami klubu 1500m2 do wynajęcia, nagrody, czyli wejściówki (nazwisko na liście gości) + podpisane stickery Son of Kick (do odbioru przy wejściu) otrzymują: Małgorzata Nowicka, Daniel Sowik i Ula Siromska. Gratuluję!!
Son of Kick comes from West London and has become a permanent feature on a map of London heavy bass scene. His crazy live performances and multi-instrumentalist skills made him famous across the globe. Fans in Poland had a chance to experience his absolutely stunning live set at this year's Audioriver Festival in Płock. Thousands of people in Hybrid Tent went totally mental! He has released a few singles and great videos like e.g. Guacha, Playing the Villain or Revolution Bfor Way Way, Muti or Botchit and Scarper, plus several sick remixes. If you are looking for a good crossover between dubstep and hip hop as well as other bass hybrids - Son of Kick is the MAN :))
Next Thursday November, 10 Son of Kick will be a special guest of the 2nd Bday Bash of one of the best venues in Warsaw - 1500m2 do wynajęcia. Read the rest of this post to check how to win tickets to this show!!
W przyszły czwartek, 10 listopada, Son of Kick będzie specjalnym gościem 2nd Bday Bash jednej z najznamienitszych miejscówek w Warszawie - czyli 1500m2 do wynajęcia. Czytajcie dalej, aby dowiedzieć się jak wygrać bilety na tą wyjątkową balangę!!
A few days ago Son of Kick released another killing EP - From Here featuring psychic vocals of a Polish emcee RQM (currently residing in Berlin and a part of the infamous Berlin's Bass Maffia) and a set of heavy-weight remixers including: Pixelord, Rose Ryot and Night Drugs. The original From Here is a beautiful hybrid of psycho lyrical vocalizations by RQM, heavy drops, sick synths and whatnot happening in the background of this crowd-pleasing anthem. Rose Ryot offers an off-kilter, low-key refix with seriously distorted voice samples and quite weird, slow-burning beat accompanied by sick drums. Really mental tune. One of my favorite producer, Pixelord is more merciful changing the original into uplifting 2-step / future garage trip, with his trademark 8-bit synths hitting hard in the middle of the track. Dreamy and enchanting. Night Drugs definitely aims at peak of the night dancefloor experience in his smoothly rolling, party-oriented, heavy bass remix with stomping beat and talking synths. All in all From Here is a kind of release I'd like to see coming more from heavy bass / dubstep camp - superbly produced, versatile, open-minded, very catchy and entertaining. Highly recommended by Doktor Krank!!
Buy From Here on Juno, Boomkat of elsewhere in the interweb.
On 10th of November Son of Kick will be one of the headliners at the 2nd Bday Bash of 1500m2 do wynajęcia. The party you simply cannot miss, 3 stages of great music experience. Check all the details at the Facebook Event Page
Son of Kick was nice enough to offer 3 tickets to this party + signed stickers to the winners of the contest on my blog and facebook page. If you allow me, I'll switch to Polish as this contest is addressed to local fans from Warsaw.
KONKURS SON OF KICK - 2nd Bday Bash 1500m2 do wynajęcia 10 listopada 2011r.
Son of Kick zaoferował 3 pojedyncze wejściówki + podpisane przez niego stkickery na imprezę 2nd Bday Bash do 1500m2 do wynajęcia do wygrania dla czytelników tego bloga. Nagrody będą do odebrania przy wejściu w trakcie imprezy.
Waszym zadaniem jest odsłuchanie najnowszej EP-ki Son of Kick - From Here (linki do odsłuchu w poście powyżej) i wybranie ulubionego utworu a następnie opisanie (oczywiście po polsku) w kilku zdaniach (max 5) dlaczego ten konkretny numer Wam się podoba. Liczę na Waszą kreatywność :) Odpowiedzi można zamieszczać w komentarzach do niniejszego posta, lub w odpowiednim wątku na moim FACEBOOKu. Autorzy najciekawszych wypowiedzi zostaną nagrodzeni wejściówkami i stickerami. UWAGA: konieczne będzie podanie imienia i nazwiska, które zostaną dopisane do listy gości przy wejściu. Istnieje też możliwość przesłania odpowiedzi na adres e-mail fnord_at_wp_dot_pl ale ze względu na przejrzystość całego procesu wolałbym odpowiedzi na blogu lub facebooku.
Konkurs trwa do 23.59 w niedzielę 6 listopada. Ogłoszenie wyników na początku przyszłego tygodnia.
I would not call myself a fan of UK funky, house or RnB, though I am quite open to juke, ghetto booty and tropical experiments, provided they have some bass embedded. Steppin Up by French producer Raziek is a fucking BANGER with crispy clean sound, great vocals and super funky, cold beat. What else do you need to move your ass! Finally the tune which made my body step up a bit from traumatically boring corpo day at work. Highly recommended by Doktor Krank!!
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